This is a top tier thread. Amazing.

Somehow the thread itself has “just one more thing” energy.

Tom Cruise in a drone?

Duane Bratt: Gerrymandering electoral map will erode Alberta democracy Thursday was a bad day for democracy, and possibly setting up an even worse day for democracy.

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Could Canada join the European Union? Changes required to join EU would be huge and possibly insurmountable, including withdrawing from USMCA

The more pertinent question that would merit some attention outside academic debates in the current situation:

Is there anything Canada can learn from the EU? Thinking about the design of industrial strategy and intergovernmental coordination, for example.

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The fundamental problem with transportation policy debates is that too much road space is viewed as a virtue and too much transit a sin.

Look, I'm a user-pays guy. But we've got nothing close to that. If people are getting free highways because...reasons, then I want my damn trains.

I've played peek-a-boo games that were less predictable than this.

Feature, not bug.

The thing about tropical north Queensland is that it is hot. Remarkably hot.

Peter Magyar model.

Your Australianism for the day: anyone who is accomplishing a task without regard for distractions or objections is said to be 'not here to fuck spiders.' And the (centre-left) administration following Trump had better be all that.

We were a terrific team all the way through the first sentence and then the second sentence caused a serious break that can never be undone. Sad.

Five alarm fire for democracy in Canada.

Not just Alberta.

The whole country.

Not hyperbole. When we take away effective representation, we no longer have a real claim to being a liberal democracy. If Alberta gets away with this, other provinces will follow.

May need a better reference point. A 17 year old Honda is still a Honda and almost certainly runs better than a 4 year old Ford.

They are literally making it up as they go along. When they don't like the outcome, the Smith government rigs the process.

It's a worrisome pattern for those who care about procedural fairness and institutional forebearance.

You know, real conservatives.

Thanks, I hate it.

It is a new experience for me.

I mean, don't worry about him too much. He won't stop whining. He also makes up and lies about a lot of things to fuel the whining. His act is 100% sustainable and runs on pure bile.

Poilievre saying that carbon capture & storage is a scam.

Difficult times for PP; his main skill for 25 years has been to whine incessantly about every liberal policy. But Mark Carney stole all his policies & now the only things PP has left to complain about are Danielle Smith & the oil industry.

Correct except about the foreign oil since we export far more than we import and consume. But since the domestic price is related to the export market, our domestic producers are benefiting from the high prices caused by US chaos in the Middle East.

Not so.
"The federal excise tax currently applies at a rate of 10 cents per litre on gasoline and unleaded aviation gasoline, and 4 cents per litre on diesel fuel and aviation fuel, other than aviation gasoline."
They are still collecting the GST/HSTs.

www.canada.ca/en/departmen...

Should be going to those least able to afford the increase, similar to the GST rebate.
While no one likes paying for more expensive fuel, the millionaires driving gas guzzlers do not NEED the relief like low wage earners might.
100 better ways to ease the burden, this one is the dumb popular option.

While Scheer was praising Brexit, Carney was warning about its economic consequences. Guess which one was right?

Son of a...
Also accessibility issues (which I assumed would have been a priority!)

I really like stumbling upon a short thread that makes something obvious and reverses the opinions & preferences I've had for decades. Experts and diverse deep thinking FTW when we listen.

FFS.
There are probably 100 other ways to address this issue more effectively. Can the liberals please do something the CPC wouldn't. Good grief this country lacks vision.

Unfortunately, I've seen a surprisingly large & depressing number of people collecting & signing this deranged fever dream petition.

They're always dumbfounded to hear anyone tell them they are traitors & loons. They live in a bubble disconnected from reality. Popping the bubble is a public service

Alberta’s Premier Claims Immigrants Are a Burden. Where’s the Proof? | The Tyee Danielle Smith’s referendum pitch ignores tax revenues and reliance on temporary foreign workers.

"Since 2022, Alberta’s population has gone up by 11 per cent. That population growth has driven a 34 per cent increase in revenue from both personal & corporate income taxes.

Health-care and education expenses... rose by only 12 and 16 per cent"

#abpoli

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Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture. 1890-1996 (Kanien’kehá:ka): Denied nurse training in Canada because of the Indian Act and that she was a Status Indian, Monture determinedly went to the United States and trained as a nurse in Philadelphia. After graduation, she served 18 months overseas in France in the US Army Nurse Corps during WWI. Monture was sent to Buffalo Base Hospital 23 in Vittel, France and where she was responsible for treating soldiers who were shot or gassed. Monture wrote in her diary about the long hours she had to work, and the badly injured soldiers she took care of. She was sometimes asked to help other medical centers near the front, or travel through the battlegrounds looking for hurt soldiers. After armistice in 1918, she returned to the Six Nations Reserve in Canada. She continued to work as a nurse and a midwife at a hospital in her community, among a lifetime of other community activities. She was a well-respected Elder on the Six Nations reserve in Ontario. She lived to be a 106.

Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture. 1890-1996 (Kanien’kehá:ka): Denied nurse training in Canada because of the Indian Act and that she was a Status Indian, Monture determinedly went to the United States and trained as a nurse in Philadelphia. After graduation, she served 18 months overseas in France in the US Army Nurse Corps during WWI. Monture was sent to Buffalo Base Hospital 23 in Vittel, France and where she was responsible for treating soldiers who were shot or gassed. Monture wrote in her diary about the long hours she had to work, and the badly injured soldiers she took care of. She was sometimes asked to help other medical centers near the front, or travel through the battlegrounds looking for hurt soldiers. After armistice in 1918, she returned to the Six Nations Reserve in Canada. She continued to work as a nurse and a midwife at a hospital in her community, among a lifetime of other community activities. She was a well-respected Elder on the Six Nations reserve in Ontario. She lived to be a 106.

Charlotte Edith Anderson Monture. 1890-1996 (Kanien’kehá:ka): Denied nurse training in Canada because of the Indian Act and that she was a Status Indian, Monture determinedly went to the United States and trained as a nurse in Philadelphia. After graduation, she served 18 months

I don't think a dress policy can do that much lifting. Even the fanciest dress can only hide the clown underneath so much.

Maybe the clown government the State Department serves could help them out a little with a credible policy or two instead of just fashion advice from fools, felons, & fascists?

You say that like leaving a mark on one's life journey is a not something to be admired.

I'm pretty sure this is significant stuff for anyone that knows about p-values.

Some of the world's greatest scientific minds have been working for years on solving space navigation for the lunar crew. This is called the modified Hansel and Gretel technique.

How else were they going to find the path home?

Meanwhile in Canada, consistency reigns, just your typical April snow storm.