Em Adespoton

With the limited size of our domestic population, it always blows me away that there are enough Canadians living in countries like Lebanon to populate a small city.

Has UW never met Barbara Streisand before?

Rock bottom is a 32% approval rating with at least a year before elections and a likelihood of a minority government?

I was with you up until the “so fast under Modi” bit.

Modi was chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and has been PM since then — a decade.

It’s been a slow and predictable train wreck with a lot of momentum.

Meanwhile, he dismantled the caste system but it’s still going strong with only the exceptions being celebrated.

Young Canadians don’t hate Canada; they hate the boneheaded ideas thought up in Parliament and they hate that they’ve been priced out of owning a part of Canada.

If you don’t have a voice or land, and see no hope that you ever will, why would you be happy with how things are?

If you think modern Zionism is about religion in anything but name, or that Palestinian nationalism is about Islam in anything but name, what you believe is even more questionable than what they believe.

If all religion vanished overnight, the same people would be fighting over the same land with many of the same arguments, but something else substituted for the religion.

Tribalism knows no borders.

I’m currently using my 2008 MacBook Pro. For basic web browsing, text editing and music playing, it works great. And for other stuff it handles remote desktop sessions just fine.

On the original topic, I can’t say that I’ve seen any Chinese vehicles on the road or for sale… is the government trying to get out in front of that one?

The big issue is bicycles — every bicycle (especially the electric ones) has a bunch of components only available from China, with other manufacturers priced out of the market years ago.

They may need to rename The Progress Report at this rate….

I’ll be interested to find out when the intrusion happened and what the target was. So far all we know is when the intrusion was discovered and when it was announced to whom.

(Im)plausible deniability.

If a crack squad flies in, kills him, and flies home, that’s a pretty good indication India was involved.

By convincing a local group to do it, India can pretend they had nothing to do with it.

Indeed. What about returning to Tims being a Canadian company and serving actual freshly made donuts? And as others have said, why not bring back mugs? And maybe sell travel mugs from the counter and allow discounted refills, and do away with travel lids altogether? It’s not like those plastic single use lids were a part of the original Tim’s experience.

While we’re at it, we can close down the drive through; that’s not original Tim’s either.

Man thinking about the Roman empire clock now reset to 0 (again).

“We don’t have a contract with our customers. They can choose to shop elsewhere tomorrow if they don’t like the offer that we’re giving,” he said.

Interesting choice of words. I spend over $500 a shopping trip, and am a PC Express member (which means I have a contract with them).

I haven’t been shopping with them already for a few weeks because of some issues I experienced at my local store. I don’t blame the store either; I directly blame management at head office who have been methodically stripping power away from local managers over the past four years.

Since most people are woefully uninformed about what MAiD is and isn’t, I’ll post this here:

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/services/health-services-benefits/medical-assistance-dying.html

Indeed; it doesn’t matter how hard those Albertans are working; most of that money came from selling off a national resource that happens to be in Alberta. Albertans just get to benefit from it.

Wait… AI has its own sector now?

Another one? Or is this just the rest of the country catching up with GTA and Metro Vancouver?

So this is saying we’ve been growing the employable workforce faster than we’ve been creating jobs. Or is it saying that we’ve net lost jobs? It’s hard to tell from the way it was phrased.

It also seems to be implying that existing jobs were lost while new jobs were created for immigrants. It’s being very careful to imply that without directly saying it, which makes me question whether that’s actually going on.

It’s about time. This is something that should have been enacted 50 years ago.

The biggest things that happened are media hubris and corporate consolidation. Secondary things are population increase and offshore investment.