Maybe now I can splurge and buy butter.

I have to applaud these mental gymnasts. It must be exhausting to shift your identity from cult to cult.

15 year olds should absolutely not be legally allowed to drink and smoke. Knowing the detriments of vices does not shield one from the immense peer pressure young people need to deal with. Not to mention that the long term financial burden of supporting sick or hospitalized people is on an older, ideally healthier, generation.

Adults already fall prey to team politics, so it’s a bit of a weak argument—I know.

I think it would still be interesting to get an official youth vote, even if it did not count, to quantify the issues as they see it.

I bring up life experience because most 16 year olds are starting to take a Civics class in high school and are balancing this out while discovering their own social identity. Do I think that young people, on average, make good decisions? Not necessarily, but I also think adults aren’t perfect decision makers either.

I’ve since learned that political party members as young as 14 years old are allowed to vote in party leadership elections, so there is precedence in reducing the voting age minimum.

If young people continue to show engagement in politics, however, I could see the conversation being taken more seriously and the voting age being reduced (to 16 or 17) before the end of the decade.

I think 18 is low enough. I don’t think most 16 year olds have enough life experience yet to make informed decisions about government and politics.

Makes sense when you lay out the steps like that.

[…] the department said in its letter that it has decided to cancel her citizenship because Townsend’s mother didn’t take her oath before Townsend was born.

What triggers are in place for the government to review ancestral citizenship history?

Oh geeze, you’re right. Changed!

How about campaigning for better healthcare access and mandatory maximum hospital wait times? Maybe controlling grocery profitability? Housing developer profits?

*checks notes*

Ok, just mad about a rebate.

I can’t even fathom the problems someone with a $400K salary has to deal with.

She said she was then advised to withdraw money from her bank accounts and deposit it through a Bitcoin machine, where it would remain in an account for safekeeping until the investigation was over.

That poor woman. Even if she hadn’t seen all the other red flags, this was the flare gun shot in the night sky.

During that committee, the Conservatives proposed 19,600 amendments to the 18-page bill. That number decreased to 200 once the bill left committee and headed back to the House of Commons.

Government House leader Steven MacKinnon said Thursday those amendments were “robo-amendments created by AI.”

[Conservative Leader Pierre] Poilievre now will have to have his members come here and vote for as long as it takes on a couple of hundred amendments that survived that robo-amendment process that they admitted was undertaken by artificial intelligence, by robot caucus members and robot parliamentarians," he said.

99% of the amendments were actual GPT-fluff.

Why does this necessitate being a televised event? Sounds like this is just going to be a set-up to dunk on climate policy for sound bites without accomplishing anything meaningful.

Guy basically said, I don’t want to live on this planet anymore. Incredibly sad how things have deteriorated.

For the love of god, won’t someone please think of the parking garages!

These salaries are so out of touch with our current reality.

Last November, Henry said he saw a YouTube video where it appeared the prime minister was recommending a cryptocurrency exchange.

This is when my headache started.

Do you eat cereal with water?