Sturgist @ Sturgist @lemmy.ca

Stone Mason, Canadian ExPat living in the UK, Hobbyist musician.

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I'm sorry, we misunderstood that these claims were monitored and expected to get away with it!

The issue in my riding is that I usually vote NDP, but their candidate, while having worked in government before, hasn't ever held an elected position...but he was born in the riding, went to elementary and high school in the riding, and I feel like he's probably got his finger more on the pulse than the GP or Lib guys. Now I'm not opposed to voting Green, or strategically Liberal. The Green candidate also hasn't been in an elected position, isn't from the area, and also very young. Could strategically vote Lib, but while the incumbent Lib candidate is semi-local, experienced, hasn't burnt the place to the ground yet... they've been dodging accusations of CCP interference getting them voted in in 2021. Sticky sitch.
I've got to send my mail in ballot soon to make the cut off. Just kinda unsure about what I want to do....

Amazon you're just slightly more removed from it. 90% of the stuff on there is literally made in the same factories, by the same slave/forced/grossly underpaid labour.
And on top you get to enrich Jeff Bozos while supporting slave labour....

in the end, he listens to the smarter guy.

That's how you know it's fiction.

Well....at least he was right when he said it...

I'm too lazy to actually look it up. Was CUSMA the agreement that Trump himself negotiated, then said whoever negotiated it was an idiot?

I'm a stone mason. Before I left Canada to immigrate to the UK, to be with my now wife, I was working exclusively with one guy, business partner and final bits of learning before I was ready to really go out on my own. When he got his start in the late 70s subcontract prices (piece work, so by the sq.ft,) were between $30 and $50 per sq.ft. Since mid 2010 you'd be lucky to get $25, before I left at the end of 2020 we'd have to fight to get $20

I'd put someone like Bernie Sanders in that list.

I'd argue that people like Bernie don't want power, but recognise it as the fastest way to get real and meaningful change. That, in my mind, is the real difference. If things weren't so fucked, for so long, I don't think Bernie would be in politics. Obviously this is purely a personal opinion, and we sadly don't live in that alternate universe. So we'll never know.

@Nouveau_Burnswick@lemmy.world

Up until quite recently, Canada was still a major exporter of asbestos. Wielding what some have called a massive, government sanctioned, corporate run propaganda campaign to continue brisk sales of the stuff. Let's not be doing the same with oil and gas. Asbestos has killed, and continues to kill, a very large number of people. Keeping on with the fossil fuel economy, even if all Canada does is export it, could already be set to kill literally everyone.

"I changed my mind because my views were unpopular" is a terrible reason, and true of many politicians.

This is one of the many reasons I think that anyone who wants political power should probably not have it.

Eh, it happens. If that was an honest attempt to troll....kids these days need to up their fucking game.

slightly less stupid

Which is why that's definitely not what's going to happen....

Big Brother Watch, Open Rights Group and Index on Censorship made a submission to the court, arguing against proceedings taking in place in secret and in favour of open justice. Today, the Tribunal has rejected the Home Office’s application, stating it did not accept “that the revelation of the bare details of the case would be damaging to the public interest or prejudicial to national security”.

Neither myself nor, I'm assuming, the person you're replying to wants to have the government with their grubby little fingers in our data.
What the person you're replying to was saying had literally nothing to do with what you asked. Has to do with the above. It's shocking that a UK court actually made a sane call. In this case, they decided that no, the government wasn't entitled to a closed case. That the proceedings would be open, and the details would be available to the public. Like in a functioning democracy.

Yeah, I definitely feel like that's exactly it. Just wish it didn't take worrying about future profit to get companies on board with this shit.....

Thanks Fam! Could definitely use it....

This is pretty cool. At least they seem to be taking preservation seriously. Hopefully they don't turn into dicks about it.

Tbh. Wasn't you. Been delicate the last few days.

K, all I'm saying is that a large number of small local media outlets are being bought out by American owned conglomerates. No need to live up your name. :(

Keep saying that Onion/Beaverton headlines are becoming more believable than actual headlines. A week or two ago is was looking through my feed while making coffee, and saw a Beaverton post. Something along the lines of US military and Trump advisors accidentally add Ian Hanomansing to Signal group discussing invasion plans.

My sleep addled brain spent nearly 5 minutes in existential crisis trying to remember if the Beaverton was satire. In the end I had to open their About page to reassure myself....I don't like it......
I read satire to laugh, not to worry that they learned from their mistakes and avoided adding Ian Hanomansing to the group chat so we don't have some forewarning....

TL;DW ish:

Wow. Surprisingly this would only benefit some of the richer, and less risk averse, of Canadians who:

1. Invest in TFSAs in the first place, which is a bit less than half of the population (video says ~18m)
2. Already max out their contributions, around 8% of the already less than half of the population do so
3. Are willing to put these new contributions into the Canadian market, which on a 10yr average gets you around 8.5% return Vs S&P at around 12.5% for the same period
4. Either don't understand or don't care that these investments by no means actually directly injects money into the Canadian companies that they're buying stocks for, and mostly it'd be other investors and wealth management firms who benefit directly
5. And are willing to invest in whatever smöl _pp and his goon define as a "Canadian Company". They haven't defined what they mean yet, and it's so nebulous it could mean almost anything

So just like they'd cut taxes on the rich, this is clearly a way to enrich themselves and their oligarch pals. Ça me suprend.....🙄🖕