Bob Rae on US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's comments about Canada trading with China: "The United States trades with China. That's a fact. They invest in China way more than we do ... we're not a colony of the United States."
It's honestly getting to the point where you can't have a rational conversation with people about the issues of the day because many people are working with a different set of "facts".
Agreed.
It's the democratic equivalent of lead in the drinking water. The longer we wait to remove it, the more lasting the damage will be.
MacKinnon gave notice that tomorrow they are moving the motion to formally appoint the new PBO. #HoC
Fairly good treatment of the (IMHO very dumb) idea of Canada joining the EU. It is important to emphasize BOTH:
a) The transition would be very costly. (e.g. 10 years of 'harmonization' of our law with the EU acquis)
b) the end point would not be good for Canada. (e.g. Euro currency, e.g. CAP)
Whether it's JD Vance telling the Pope not to stick his nose in Theology, or Pierre Poilievre claiming that Mark Carney is bad at Economics, we are truly living through a Golden Age of self-entitled mediocrities whose only move is projecting their own inadequacy upon their critics and opponents.
I say it too often, but: many public policy problems are challenging and involve complex trade-offs and difficult to measure outcomes, but also many of our problems are basically us just slamming our heads into the wall repeatedly at a societal level, and we could stop at literally any time.
Sure, there are some fixes the Raptors need to make offensively against the Cavs, but if the Raptors aren’t their disruptive selves on defense, they got no shot: www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...
Many are saying.
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Banning algorithmic pricing ought to be a no-brainer call for any government: people don’t like to be ripped off, surveilled, or treated differently from their peers.
Algorithm pricing does all three of those things.
ICYMI -- My feature on Ja'Kobe Walter who has taken huge leaps this season and promises to be a key figure vs. Cavs for the Raptors:
Even by Poilievre's standards this is just an absurd misrepresentation of reality.
Carney left the Bank of England in early 2020. Inflation didn't take off in the UK until mid-2021 -- the same as every other economy on earth.
I think it is preferable to have politicians who have, at some point in their lives, lived like a normal person
Today’s Schedule: this is 911 National Public Safety Telecommunicators Week - attending an IES Breakfast, later this morning stating HRP Retirement & Recognition Ceremony and then the Good For Life Mobile Tour - an initiative showcasing innovation in sustainable food production
UCP gerrymandering in Alberta should be scary for all Canadians. We need to stamp this out before it begins. #cdnpoli #abpoli
Nova Scotia’s 2024 greenhouse gas emissions numbers are in; the province likely won’t meet 2030 reduction targets
by Larry Hughes
An Israel-Lebanon ceasefire is a weird thing to tout, since Lebanon isn't a combatant. There is no Lebanese fire for the Lebanese government to cease.
In Question Period, Poilievre and his caucus have flat-out lied and said that the clean fuel standard is just a rebranded carbon tax, when it's not a tax or a charge at all, but a hypothetical estimation of how much it might cost refiners to meet that standard.
You reminder that the Pope is from Chicago
He ain’t taking shit from nobody
Jason Kenney Exactly. This has never been about simply suppressing conservative minded / right leaning perspectives. Traditional centrist liberals have also been pushed out. The irony is that many of the leftists who led this academic purge were originally hired into university faculties by well-intentioned naive liberals on DEI grounds. “La Révolution est comme Saturne : elle dévore ses propres enfants.” Quoting Ian Miller What’s impressive about this is that the education system didn’t just eliminate virtually all conservative thought as it moved toward left wing extremism, they got rid of almost anyone who was in the middle too. Anyone who doesn’t fully comply with the groupthink isn’t welcome.
The guy who pushed the centrist normies out of his new party because they were insufficiently "conservative" in favour of separatists and far-right assholes blames leftist academics for killing centrism.
Zeus wept. I just can't with this asshole.
Max once again out here doing the Lord’s work on factchecking nonsense about pollution pricing for the country’s biggest emitters
Reality check for those Canadians that are hoping for some kind of reasonable CUSMA renegotiation:
Well, maybe now the NBA can punish the Clips for all that salary cap stuff
Almost everything is more accessible and cheaper than 50 years ago. Except housing, which is so much more expensive that it's almost impossible to explain. In 1985, saving a few $ a day would get you a downpayment in 8 years. Now, that would take 30 years and, in that time, prices will rise again!
Yes.
One of the (many) mistakes made by the UK gov is the public focus on the very dubious growth benefits of defence spending. This is the wrong narrative to take.
Defence is about deterrence and protecting the citizens of our nation and our allies. That is the argument that needs to be made.
Similar idea to what I wrote about last summer, Via's Ocean service is bad, and doesn't even try to serve the Maritimes actual population centers
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Drivers really do seem to be getting worse in the past 5-10 years. Or maybe because there are more people on the roads now the X% of problem drivers stick out more? Either way, I've noticed it, for sure. Enforcement in the city seems to be very lax as well. It's a poor combo.
Road violence directed at a Halifax Councillor:
If you sold tickets to a series of debates on the economy between Mark Carney and Andrew Scheer I’m pretty sure you could make a sizeable dent in the federal deficit. #cdnpoli
I see we’re back with the conservative strategy of trying to discredit expertise with basically nothing to back it up. Anyone who thinks that Scheer knows more about economics than Carney is a moron.
