a man in a suit and tie with the words i 'm going to the one place below him Alt: Tim Curry dressed as a Russian premier from Red Alert 3 doing the over the top cutscene where he declares that he’s withdrawing to the one place not corrupted by capitalism: space

Which Canadian politician is going to hijack the C-28 space launch capability to reenact this classic piece of cinema?

And for Poilievre, of course, returning to the idea that Canada is broken and the US blameless and innocent is a very comfortable place to be. Especially since that fits very neatly into the narrative that journalists want to be true.

But a lot of Canadian news media outlets have a hard time selling that story - whether because they can’t adopt “US bad” or because it requires admitting there’s things the PM can’t achieve through a combination of sheer will and clever speeches.

Right - well that’s where the media coverage around all this gets messy. IMO Carney has been quite clear, especially since Davos, that the Americans are gonna do what they’re gonna do, and right now that means tariffs, so we’ve gotta do our own thing, whatever that means.

Sure, declaring that a majority hasn’t done enough is definitely how you fight against one but it seems like it’s a bad gamble that the post-US midterms environment won’t be more favourable for action

I love that Poilievre implicitly buys in here to the American perspective that everything that isn’t the USA is subreal and imaginary; that other places ultimately don’t exist and have agency in the way the USA does.

I have heard of this “focus”. Our best researchers believe it is a mythical mental state, like astral projection or a vision trance.

I think it’s expectedly corporate heavy but with some reasonable union, regional political, and academic representation.

Never mind the incoherent comparisons of our tax systems or court processes!

I think the comparison with urbanism is a good one. In both cases we’re starting with a big lead - there’s nothing in Canada that’s as dysfunctional as Houston or Atlanta - but we’ve been mostly standing still while a lot of American cities have been improving.

It’s also a problem because Canadians tend to import American political discourse even when it doesn’t apply to us! We don’t have the same problems, lazily recycling American policy proposals or diagnoses is harmful for our ability to deal with the problems we do have.

The future of electricity is wind and solar, new report says. Canada is lagging is behind | CBC News Renewable energy met all new demand for electricity in 2025, according to a new review of global power generation, preventing any increase in the burning of fossil fuels to produce electricity and hig...

www.cbc.ca/news/science... - glad to see actual news coverage that acknowledges Canada’s severe deficit here, though it’s frustratingly vague on the timeline. Canada’s new renewable installs stagnated in the late 2010s as everywhere else accelerated.

Canada has a United States problem. Being on the periphery of an imperial power is always a tricky balancing act. The American system is uniquely poorly designed among democratic peers, prone to both deadlock and instability.

There’s also an astonishing variety of rules on offer. While professionals often don’t have much choice beyond “this is what we use here”, there’s a vast spread of ways to express instructions.

The lack of interest most programmers have in the “language” element of our profession is depressing.

Or poetry! “Every block has to begin with a { and end with a }” is tame compared to the rules some poetic forms demand.

Yes - but the structure of the program itself, or even its tests, is also expressive and communicates your idea about the problem to a reader. Not every program needs this, but for long-lived software it’s essential.

When supply of a good is lower than demand for that good, its price increases. Surprising but true!

“Writing a computer program isn’t creative because programming languages have syntax and rules” is possibly the most wrong thing I’ve read on this website today. Whoever taught the person who wrote that taught them wrong, as a joke.

I have seen a take so bad it makes me go to sleep.

“All junior software engineers learn on open source projects where their contributions are both public and foundational, and they have to learn to plan and collaborate” is actually maybe the equivalent answer for how to fix the preexisting and post-LLM problems with that discipline so … maybe?

oh no they’ve discovered the retcon we’ve got to stop them before they go mad with power

(climbs up on soapbox) modest inflation, even above “target”, is often preferable for workers because of the benefits for savings rates and debt repayment, and “unlimited rising cost of living” discourse is counterproductive and reactionary.

Mmmmm probably a stretch to drop a fresh MP into Housing but that's some good heckling.

Does the Liberal backbencher's name rhyme with Fate Blerskine-Fifth?

From Hansard on Feb. 2, 2004.

Does this count as floor crossing?

(stares in California) yeah ... that would be good ... yeah ... 😭

Prices rise for fresh vegetables year over year Prices for food purchased from stores rose 4.4% on a yearly basis in March, after increasing 4.1% in February. On a year-over-year basis, prices for fresh vegetables increased 7.8% in March, the largest increase since August 2023 (+8.7%), after rising 0.5% in February. Cucumbers, peppers and celery all had notable price growth in March, due in part to tighter supplies related to adverse growing conditions in producing countries.

In advance of today's #QP and the inevitable wailing and gnashing of teeth about food price inflation, here is what StatsCan said the biggest driver was last month.
Spoiler: It's still climate.
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

Never mind the Teamsters going full Team Trump and never looking back.

People feel a lot of ways about the economy right now, but the Bank of Canada getting inflation under control without triggering a full-blown recession is actually pretty impressive and good.

CPI in March 2.4% year-over-year. Right in the BoC target range.

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

I mean I can explain the pro-life / anti-vax overlap but it’s absolutely disgusting

I think it’s $5B annually so a six month suspension is $2.5B.