ValueSubtracted

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Ottawa added four new organizations to the Criminal Code list of terrorist entities:

Maniac Murder Cult.

Terrorgram Collective.

The Islamic State-Mozambique.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Deadline is actually an American Hollywood/entertainment industry trade outlet, so it's definitely not a Canadian thing.

Weird metaphor to have in your style guide, though.

No, it says Canadian "beer" killed him. It's an immediate signal that it wasn't actually beer.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 11 points 8 months ago (3 children)

...not all low-income people are homeless?

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 20 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I don't think I'd call it a "catch".

Carney said that Canadians who fail to file a return when they earn under the basic personal amount means Canadians “who most need benefits often don’t get them.”

Those benefits include the GST/HST tax credit, the Canada child benefit, the Canada workers benefit, the Canadian disability benefit and the disability tax credit.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 43 points 8 months ago (20 children)

*for low-income citizens who earn less than the basic personal amount

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I agree, but...legally speaking*, I think they have a decent case?

*I'm not a lawyer, just your standard online idiot

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 13 points 8 months ago (2 children)

we don’t have the technology or the expertise to perform the procedure here

I would say this is the part that's unreasonable. Being the only G7 country unable to perform proton beam treatments isn't exactly a point of pride.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's definitely a case of NORAD working as designed. Which is good!

The fact that we're borderline amazed that it's working as designed is much less good.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 0 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Yeah, the most imminent air threat has historically been over the pole, which is why CFB Cold Lake exists.

The squadrons on Vancouver Island are for surveillance and search-and-rescue, which is entirely sensible for the coast.

Despite the move, Canada is still in active discussions with G7 allies to introduce an international tax, with Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne leading that work, the PMO said.

If this ends up happening, it's important context to this decision.

If it ends up not happening...pretty weak shit.

Moving the Coast Guard from Fisheries to DND is a sneaky way to add $2.5 billion to the defense budget without actually spending more money...

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