TIL. I thought PostMedia is an all-Canadian propi.

Do you mean this - “… Chatham Asset Management LLC is an American hedge fund…”?

Look at the recent poll that tested Canadian opinions of Trump. Nearly half of conservatives had a positive opinion and thought he’d be good for Canada. This puts the number at 15-20% of Canadians.

Except the criticism is quite different from the different sides. For example simple bigotry vs arguments about the abuse of the TFW program.

foreigndomestic influence campaigns

Canada Proud, NatPo and Post Media in general, etc.

As far as I can tell either the National Post added Trudeau to the equation or Canada Proud, which they cite. It’s sacks of rotten sphincters all the way down.

In 2008 I bought a W500, I used it until 2018 and replaced 2 screen backs, a keyboard, a battery, an HDD, and added more RAM in those 10 years. Coming out to about $160 per year if you spread out the cost.

Nice. I used a T430s from 2013 till 2021. Still have it. I sort of bought a Framework because I had the means and I felt I should support this in the early stages to help make it successful. Gotta say the parts situation with Framework is much better than ThinkPad, even way back when. The parts are available straight from Framework so you know you’re buying a quality part, and the prices are low. Batteries are $50-80 whereas getting a genuine ThinkPad battery has typically been >$100 for a while.

Have one, can confirm. I’ve already replaced a damaged chassis. Just a cheap aluminum stamping.

Did you know they did the report that said Alberta is owed half of the CPP?

Do it. If it sucks too hard, Telus will give you a win-back plan off the books. I’ve been on Freedom since around 2010 in Ontario. Their network has always been worse than ROBeLUS but boy does it feel good to not be paying the oligopoly.

Informative, still very small compared to Telus who’s now entering healthcare and farming among other things.

In the video, where he says how much they’ve spent.

I have one in my family. It’s truly deranged shit. This is why campaigns should focus on talking to the rest of us and getting us out to vote.

With that said, the Liberal status quo hasn’t done nearly enough for regular Canadians. Superficial measures pre-NDP deal. Half-measures after that. They’ve let provincial governments sabotage their flagship policies. Now they’re letting dentist orgs do the same for the dental care program. Shamefully superficial action on housing. They’ve let all levels of governments to mop the floors with unions. Unlike Biden’s government, it seems like the LPC is still largely stuck in the confines of neoliberal economics with the exception of debt, which is a positive development but it’s not enough. They have to get bold and begin deploying nonmarket solutions where the market doesn’t do what’s needed. For example, get the CMHC to mass build housing again.

My point is that if there was significant action on these points their effects would be obvious to point out to the Trumper and they’d obviously get the benefit to themselves. Then it would be easy to communicate the message that Pipsqueak is gonna take all of this away.

Oh that was a nice slip there. Wow.

Good stuff. I hope the workers got most of what they wanted.

Firmly onto the anti-truck train but at least they’ll be made by Canadian union labor. 🥹 We’re not stopping them from hitting the streets if someone else makes 'em. We need regulation or higher gas prices for that.

The majority of Canadians generally land on the neoliberal part of the political compass right now.

Totally aware and I think you’re right.

Anecdotally, most people I know are ABC voters who’d love to vote NDP if that didn’t mean a CPC MP in their riding.

Best I can do is high frequency rail (HFR). 🥹

If you’d like to take an action, here’s the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) campaign web site - https://sofundme.ca. It’s got a letter form and a few other resources. I did customize the message a bit before sending.