ValueSubtracted

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The government will also remove the "non-partisan criterion" that previously defined the appointments process under Justin Trudeau.

 

I'm under no illusions that this will change any minds, or even that people will actually watch the thing, but this is a good debate between both sides of the "Carney's playing 3-D chess" argument.

 

The Manitoba government has refused to join the project

Stay safe out there, Albertans.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

People don't talk about it much, but a significant chunk of the NDP base (~10%, if I remember correctly) jumped to the Conservatives, not the Liberals, in the last election. Some of these numbers might be them returning?

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's not a great comparison, really - the Manitoba Orange Team more strongly resembles the Federal Red Team in most respects.

Winnipeg suburbs breaking NDP in a federal election is far from a sure thing.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Fuck you, Carney.

The expanded birthright citizenship rules were brought about as a result of a 2023 court ruling, very solidly in the Trudeau era.

I'm not completely opposed to hosting these mega-events, or subsidizing them to a degree. Whatever you might think about the "prestige" factor, they can be a good excuse to ram through valuable infrastructure projects.

But the devil's in the details (and FIFA in this instance is a literal devil), and it's madness to expect an actual profit.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 11 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think it's more about shoddy training and oversight of the staff.

I guess I'll add a more moderate take of "this is probably intended for absolute emergencies like a Biblical plague of locusts or something," but in the name of the Prophets, put guardrails on your emergency measures.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It will be interesting to see what the Senate does with it - they're not as predictable as they used to be.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I only recently discovered this channel, but I find their economics-based energy and climate discussions pretty interesting.

In this episode in particular, they talk a lot about what they think Carney is getting right in his approach to climate (though I wish they would have given more details), as well as something they think he might be getting very, very wrong.

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If they can show that Sylvestre et al have committedntreason, then 46.2(e) might be applicable.

Maybe. Is there any credible reason to think that they have access to military or scientific secrets that threaten the government?

As for sedition, it is the use of force as a means of accomplishing governmental change, or advocacy thereof. I don't think that line has been crossed yet.

But as I said, go ahead and investigate. I just doubt there's anything there. Yet.

Yeah, I guess there's some provision somewhere that doesn't require them to amend the entire criminal code every time there's a change in the monarchy?

[–] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This is not an article about amending the criminal code, nor is it an article about having the RCMP investigate people for future crimes (at least, I hope not).

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