The policy rate is sitting right around where it was prior to 2008. In the years that followed, the economy went nuts, and a big part of that insanity was masked by the essentially free money capital was able to get from lenders. Venture Capitalists managed to gain immense influence over so much of our daily lives, and employers masked their ever growing share of the pie with ever cheaper and lower quality consumer goods that got cheaper relative to overall inflation.

Rather than fix the underlying problems, they’re signalling that they want to go back to sweeping them under the rug.

Fun.

No, they’re happy to pay their friends from the public purse, too. They’re just not also above throwing those friends under the bus when they think it’s politically advantageous.

Especially if they were someone else’s friend.

“Are 13 year olds too young to exploit monetarily?”

“Are 13 year olds too young to take on the glorious privilege of earning their own money?”

Hey look, it’s propaganda in action, right there on the CBC.

Yes, that’s how leverage works. I think they know that when they themselves are negotiating from a place of power.

Depends on what kind of input logging your employer is doing. Some of them are monitoring keystrokes and mouse activity, not just whether your system is locked or asleep.

I’ve been saying this for a while now, but AI articles read like bad high school essays. “State your thesis. Write a paragraph that echos your thesis. Say something that may or may not be related to your thesis. Finish by repeating your thesis.”

BC doesn’t exist, as far as the Cons are concerned. Western Canada is Alberta (and sometimes Saskatchewan), and Eastern Canada is Ontario.

Hey, if we don’t have any cargo to transport, maybe it’s just… not a factor worth discussing for the vast majority of us?

Same. My car’s turning 18 this year. It’ still in good shape. I should be able to get a few more years out of it. After that? Who knows?

I feel like you’ve misread me in every way possible.

They’re way more ok with the CPC taking power today and getting it back tomorrow than they are with potentially having to broker compromise dels to maintain government in hung parliaments forever going forward.

The potential for regaining total control down the road is way more important than things like the poor suffering, and minority populations losing rights and standing.

It’s Press Progress. This is less a “poor farmer” article, and more a seat at a wrestling match where everyone hates both guys.

It’s totally a “remote communities” thing, likely by someone who has never been to the remote communities. You want to meet people where they are and work within the context they live in.

This is meeting people where you imagine them to be.

It’s really, really difficult to get small business owners to see how they personally benefit from social goods. They spend too much time grinding and struggling during the establishment phase. I think it’s something of a traumatizing experience.

Like, trying to get those who primarily sell to working class folks to see how raising the minimum wage actually benefits them, because it means that all of their customers have more money to spend is nigh impossible. All they see is that they’ll have to raise prices, and it makes them even more hostile toward their employees.

And the kicker is, they have no reason to trust in any of the social benefits, because we’ve lived in a society that bas spent the last 45 years dismantling them. And one of our two parties that actually makes government now explicitly runs on destroying social services of every kind.

There’s no way it’s not a pricing error. Likely supposed to be $80.

I wonder if they’ll notice and cancel orders

The term that’s causing my alarm bells to ring here is “Canadian interests”. The interests of the state often do not align with the interests of the people, and it’s not terribly difficult to tie behaviour that interferes with the state’s interests to the benefit of foreign entities that may oppose the state.

Oh fun! Another website for me to blacklist.

we have an actual leftist party that has legitimate chances

We do not. The NDP may have actual leftists among its membership, but it hasn’t been a leftist party in 2 decades now. It’s a neo-liberal party focused on courting an urban professional class and denying any and all claims that they are “socialist”.

They’ve not handled the transition from conservatives-on-bikes to protestors-in-suits very well.

We’ve spent a century+ pretending carbon pollution has no cost, and the entire history of capitalism – if not our species – pretending all other pollutions had no cost right up until that cost was undeniable.

So, not surprising that we’re treating CO2 the exact same way. Only this time around, the polluters realized they could get ahead of the issue and convince enough of the general population that carbon pollution is harmless to prevent it from becoming publicly undeniable.