Sir, we call that a “nation building project” around here.

People here in Vancouver talk a lot more about how terrible the “heat dome” summer was than any of the atmospheric river rainfall events from the last few years. Canada’s no stranger to the negative warming effects of climate change.

Are they going to make special rules for the G7 summit too?

Sweet response that addressed almost nothing they said and only chose to condescend to them. Are cigarettes unflavored? Because I sure preferred that taste and only continue to not smoke because I enjoy vaping fruity flavours, and know that it’s better for me than smoking. And hell yeah, let’s get rid of one use devices and bring back RDAs, RDTAs and all the other stuff that initially helped me quit smoking, and then let’s further legislate and ban the sale of vapes from gas stations and crack down on vape shops who sell to minors. Bet you that works a lot better than anything you’d suggest.

Instead of demanding that the peers get vaccinated they could just stay away from the peers.

Sounds like an idiot got the consequences of being an idiot

It would be rough but we’d find new partners and the provincial restrictions are already being lifted. It would suck, but we can wait it out.

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@otter@lemmy.ca @mp3@lemmy.ca @dwazou@jlai.lu I’m pretty sure I viewed this post when it still had the original CBC link, with the CBC headline preserved in the post title. I think this poster is getting tripped up by the Lemmy issue whereby adding a post image deletes the URL. Maybe the user then supplies their own title instead of the ‘copy suggested title’

Only cuz you asked so nicely. I now give you permission to pay for my extensive debts from trying to steal my neighbor’s yard.

Here’s the link they probably tried to link: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/the-dose-noise-health-1.6889724 It’s from the same news source as the image they linked, and it contains the line “If you live in a big city in Canada, chances are you regularly hear noises that are harmful to your health.” But, I am suspect of this poster. That URL for the picture seems sketchy, and using a sentence from a 2-year-old news story is also odd as hell.

Canada’s about to be BEGGING America to be the 51st State after THIS Socialism! WHY would you want your TAXES to pay for YOUR Healthy TEETH when INSTEAD you can Pay a CEO MORE to DENY you the Ability to have Healthy TEETH!

First of all, how were the “specific Republican states” chosen as targets by Canada? Are these the states where data shows the greatest malice for Canada to be focussed? Is Canada trying to target individuals in fairness. No, it has nothing to do with that. The retaliatory tariffs are chosen to cause pain in the US without too much pain for Canadians (where Canadians can easily find substitutes). Mostly, they were chosen in the hopes that the individual States will apply pressure on the US administration to change policy. In other words, the most effective tariff targets will be States that actually like Canada and hope federal tariffs get dropped but where Canada can do immediate economic harm too. It is not Canada targeting only the bad guys like you seem to be implying. Do we target individual States to drive changes in their individual policy? No. Talk about an “overly simplistic take”. Trump did not win because of his popularity. He won with the support of 31% of the voters. It is largely a story of people not bothering to show up to stop him. So, while I do not vilify any particular individual American and do claim to know their mind, I also don’t have a lot of sympathy for the “it is not the people” talk either. This shit has a real impact in my world and 2 out 3 Americans are directly implicated in the result. As a group, they are absolutely culpable. In addition, saying “people did not understand” is a weak argument. Trump was pretty vocal and explicit. At best, this is just a “I could not be bothered” argument. I could not be bothered to be informed means “I could not be bothered to defend my democracy”. Not a great defence. But that is not even what matters. What matters is that they are, collectively, attacking me and mine. I am supposed to ignore that? If you go to war and you find yourself engaged with enemy troops, you do not pause to consider the possible philosophical positions of each individual enemy soldier. The opposing military is either at war with you or it isn’t. It is attacking you or it is not. It does not matter if it is composed of hundreds of thousands of human beings. You need to treat it as a singular entity with the strategic, tactical, and policy goals of the leadership. You do not choose targets based on the ideology of the people being targeted. You choose targets that do damage to the enemy, to apply leverage against them in the hopes of driving them to capitulation. This is not some sort of “simplistic take”. I am not writing an academic paper identifying underlying causes. I am defending against aggression. A real attack. One with consequences. Many of my friends in America do not like Trump and did not vote for them. That is nice. They can come visit me and some have. Good people. That does nothing to protect me from the government that acts in their name. So, I will absolutely boycott and act in opposition to their economy and their county at every opportunity. If the administration changes or radically changes their current policy of aggression, my position could change. Until then, it is not that complicated. Should I let my country fall to the invaders because some of them might not agree with the invasion? In my view, that would be the truly naive position.

City bylaw officials, however, say the regulations aren’t new and should have been enforced all along. That’s totally reasonable. So now that the oversight has been corrected and the social impact identified, carve out a fucking exception and make it legal. The volunteers have been operating like that long enough that clearly their system is working without causing bigger problems.

Good news, but sad it took until 2025 for us to get here. And I hope its not actually limited to just 4 parents. These arbitrary limits need to end.

There exists no coherent notion of what AI is or could be, and no meaningful effort to coalesce around a set of practices, because to do so would be to reduce the opportunity for grift. What AI is is an ideology—a system of ideas that has swept up not only the tech industry but huge parts of government on both sides of the aisle, a supermajority of everyone with assets in the millions and up, and a seemingly growing sector of the journalism class. The ideology itself is nothing new—it is the age-old system of supremacy, granting care and comfort to some while relegating others to servitude and penury—but the wrappings have been updated for the late capital, late digital age, a gaudy new cloak for today’s would-be emperors.

It’s so emblematic of the moment we’re in, the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore.

I’m not a fan of the British empire and all that they’ve done, but I still appreciate their ceremonial role.

It is sad to see this post get downvoted. I know in Ontario Ford has lifted pages from the fascist handbook and is leaving thousands of disabled people adults and kids with no help, therapy or promised funds for ABA. Some kids have never gotten therapy in their lives. Are we becoming so much like the american fascists that we should just blot them all out by putting them in “wellness” camps or worse. Canadians need to make a decision to either help the disabled or not. Do not leave them in limbo. It is inhumane.

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