Ah ok, I stand corrected - thanks for this. Although Carney did say as recently as April that he believed legislation like this was “not necessary”, so I’ll stand by my comment insofar as it reflects/reflected Carney’s position. https://ca.news.yahoo.com/carney-says-law-protecting-canadas-022837900.html

How did GSP make a major difference to Canada exactly? That’s my point. If you think I’m just shitting on him you’re making a lot of assumptions based on the very short and concise post I made. Nothing there is shitting on him.

I promise you being angry makes you less likely to be heard.

Oh totally. It just seems like a really poor choice of words given the circumstances.

Happy Canada day to our northern neighbors, sorry for being the bad eggs over the fence

Kind of misleading to say that shaw.ca has been “shut down,” because it still is resolvable but now redirects to rogers.com. Interesting that Rogers is redirecting everything to “.com” rather than “.ca”, which they also own. I worked at Shaw for 11 years. It started out fantastic, and slowly slowly went downhill. It was only after I got out that I saw how shitty of an experience it had become. Then along came Rogers, and my friends still at Shaw universally said it had gotten immeasurably worse. Toxic work environments, incompetent micromanagement driving everything, a sense of fear and dread carefully cultivated by the executive. Rogers could be the worst company in Canada to work for, if they weren’t competing with BCE. Canadian telecom sucks.

For fucks’ sakes

Today in addition to Canada Day is also Inundation Day, where a controlled explosion destroyed the homes of 12 communities along the St Lawrence Seaway in 1958. The villages disappeared into St Lawrence Lake. This project captures stories of survivors and has aerial photos of what remains.

but do we really say “y’all” now? That’s kinda weird. Yes it’s weird, it is another example of creeping American influence.

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Happy Canada Day guys!!

Unless things have changed since my family left the farm, crop insurance is only enough to cover the lost cost of inputs, it’s not going to be enough to turn a profit. No farmer wants their crop to fail. They want a good harvest that they can earn some profit from.

Didn’t think I’d see support for Citizens United here, but I guess anything is possible… Anyway, publicly traded corporations are subject to incentive structures that the market has created. Corporations are run by a CEO, but the CEO is elected by the board. The board, in turn, is elected by the shareholders. The shareholders are mostly mutual funds, which are funded by ordinary people. If the CEO makes decisions which clearly reduce profitability, then they will be fired by the board. If the board doesn’t fire them, then the mutual fund managers will vote to replace the board. If the mutual funds don’t replace the board members, their funds won’t beat the market, and their investors will pull out and put their money elsewhere. And if none of them do any of that then another grocery store will raise prices as much as demand allows, increasing profits relative to the more “noble” grocery corporation, which will allow them to take on an influx of investment capital which they can then use to expand their market share and gain a competitive advantage over the their competition. So ultimately, the “greedy” one is Bob, a middle manager in a nondescript office park in suburban Iowa who wants to invest his retirement funds somewhere with good returns so that he doesn’t have to work until the day he dies. This is why Citizens United was a bad thing. It expanded the ability of inhuman, profit-maximizing machines to influence politics.

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Right there with you

Signed!🫡 Thanks for sharing

Pretty much where I’m at. We absolutely should do everything we can to minimize the impact of American volatility to our economy, but damaging our economy more than necessary to do so is counterproductive. Stringing on the bullshit until we have a clear exit plan is the smart move, distasteful as that may be.

Karma Co-op almost went out of business in like 2019. Not sure how they survived. The article just sounds like an ad for Karma Co-op, but at least it’s for a good cause.

Conservatives aren’t much better but we would’ve likely seen a different change of approach on how things are ran. You’re right. Poilievre would’ve agreed to Trump’s demands immediately to make them all richer and fuck the rest of us. Carney isn’t good, but the Cons would’ve been much worse. Don’t pull the same old “but Kamala” bullshit argument in here.

Throughout the spring federal election campaign, Mark Carney as Liberal leader repeatedly vowed to “eliminate” interprovincial trade barriers and create “free trade by Canada Day.” But Canada’s internal trade barriers won’t all be eliminated by then — not even all the federal ones. Canada’s supply management system for dairy products, which sets provincial production quotas, will remain. Quebec also has language requirements that will stay in place.