I’m sorry but I just don’t buy that. Canada built its original rail system coast to coast in the 19th century with a population of 4 million and a highway coast to coast in the 60’s with a population of 20 million. We can make HSR happen today with a population of 40 million. We just need some vision.

The north should be embracing ultra high density urban planning more than anywhere else. It makes sense to minimize travel times as much as possible with temperatures like that (or even lower). You could make it work if you plan the city around making it work.

And very fast trains.

It’s difficult to overstate how good this video is. Absolutely worth the running time, and it doesn’t feel nearly as long as it is.

These governments would presumably need this software for a lot of the same uses and could even pool their resources to improve it for all were it open source.

Maybe they do. The questions in the survey are pretty loaded.

‘Unleashing Canada’s natural resource sector potential’

Couldn’t think of a more neutral way to word that, huh?

I wouldn’t care about this at all if either A) It was a Canadian company that made good coffee/food and actually represented us well.

Or

B) Took that maple leaf off their stand. There is nothing Canadian in this picture to be putting the maple leaf on.

Preserving life at all costs isn’t an admirable goal. Demanding a life spent miserable and in pain be lived to it’s natural end is not ethical, it’s selfish.

The Liberals don’t necessarily need Conservative MP’s votes to pass legislation. What the government needs to enact its plans is cooperation from Conservative led provinces, Ford.

While not elaborating on the issue, the union said in a statement provided to CBC News that “unpaid work is over.”

Good work.

I wonder how dumb the Liberals are feeling having rushed in so quickly to step on worker’s rights to end a strike that wasn’t going to last all that long anyways, haha. Letting the mask slip for nothing.

A worker friendly government would amend the labour code to close whatever loophole allows for unpaid labour. Unions shouldn’t even have to spend resources fighting such an obviously unfair practice.

If only we had such a thing.

Absolutely not. You can’t just look at the end results of one strike. The Liberals have forced strike action after strike action into binding arbitration, weakening labour’s right to strike and overall weakening labour power generally. Under the modern Liberal party we do not have a right to strike. Employers can bank on the government intervening and forcing workers back to work every time at this point. If you think this is good for labour you need to give your head a shake.

I’m more of a Brainstorm guy but I feel you.

The US state department is not in a position to criticize anybody about press freedoms. Or to be releasing human rights reports of any nature except perhaps one congratulating themselves on the rate at which they are eroding in the USA.

I find that stat is used to suggest that around 65% of Canadians benefit from and would support maintaining housing prices, but a lot of people covered in that 65% are still in extractive rental situations, or are children of the homeowner (adult or otherwise) who would presumably like to move out at some point.

Yeah, Alberta produces a lot of canola. I’m honestly still surprised that the farming lobby beat out the oil lobby, though. She really does need those rural votes, I suppose.

about 65% of residential properties are owned by the family that lives in them.

The actual stat is about 65% of Canadians live in an owner occupied home. This would cover situations like an adult renting a room, or someone renting a basement suite where the owner lives above.

No, that’s how we escape the dystopia.

Okay, but Carney is not going to tax the ultra wealthy. His track record so far is cutting taxes, including one targeting the wealthy specifically. People talk about raising military spending without considering that that money is going to have to come at the expense of something else. We talk about the cost in terms of percentage of GDP because it makes a nice small non-scary percentage like 5%. But that represents just shy of a third of the national budget, over double what we just recently raised our spending to. That money is not going to come from new taxes on the wealthy, it’s going to come from cuts to services. Health care being the meatiest place to make those cuts.

That doesn’t justify spending more as a percentage of our GDP on the military than the USA who spends more than the next 10 or something states combined. I’m not giving up nationalized health care because Donald fucking Trump wants to shake down NATO and make Canada spend 30% of it’s national budget on American arms.