In all fairness, there are Boomers out there who are tech-literate. Thing is, they only call for help when they have a real problem, so it's the other ones we remember.
Nothing worse than most other administrations in Canadian history (some scandals, some corruption, nothing that I would consider unusual or extreme). Some people are salty because, like most politicians, Trudeau didn't deliver on all of his campaign promises.
The thing is, Prime Ministers (and Premiers) seldom stay in power for more than two consecutive terms in Canada. That's when voters seem to insist on going to look for a new magic wand to fix things (never mind that it's never worked in the past).
In the end, it's all a popularity and media manipulation contest.
Tech startups have long been a gambling game that would make the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission proud. They often underpay their staff and make up the difference in stock options etc., hoping that the company will gain enough momentum that they can cash out before potential investors realize they're a long way from turning a profit. You have to be either young and foolhardy or crazy ambitious to hitch your wagon to that kind of star.
Will this tax change discourage those types of companies a bit? Maybe, but since most of them fail anyway, I don't think much of value is going to be lost.
(I was young and foolhardy once upon a time, but I'm actually not all that salty about it—they paid me a reasonable salary and I wasn't expecting the rest of what they promised to actually materialize. However, I had the advantage of not having picked up any student loan debt, which was rare even then.)
I would not be worried at all about our government wanting to control the Fediverse because they handed over some cash to finance development—at most they'd stop putting in more cash after the next election cycle. It's just not how our government behaves (we have more issues with them being unwilling to take over things when the citizens actually want them to).
In short, we need some option that will allow these corpses to be efficiently cremated without unnecessary trappings (with permission of the next of kin or if no next of kin can be found after a reasonable amount of time). It doesn't seem like that should be that all that difficult, but laws surrounding human remains can be weird.
While the climate crisis is a significant part of what ails the environment, it's far from the only thing. Lowering the human population should mean reduced destruction of surviving animal habitats and populations, for instance. And the greater the genetic diversity in an animal population, the better its chances of adapting to external events like climate change become.
A shame that the pioneering Japanese visual kei band stopped referring to itself as just "X" back in the mid-1990s. That would have been a trademark fight for the ages. (Or at least, the hair and costumes would have been more interesting than what Musk usually sports.)
And your list of allegations points out another problem.
I can understand insulating police officers to some extent from criminal charges incurred in the line of duty while the court process is taking place, because the nature of their job is going to mean that they get hit with more than the average number of charges for things like assault that end up not panning out . . . but there's no way intimate partner violence should be occurring in the line of duty for police, and they should not be protected from it. (Given extra mental health supports in a bid to avoid it, sure, but once it happens they need to be treated like everyone else.)
The real problem is that people automatically believe what they see online, no matter how ridiculous or outrageous, rather than thinking about probability and provenance and supporting evidence and all that stuff.
Unfortunately, this problem is not likely to be solved any time soon, since we've had more than a quarter-century now (since the advent of image editing software) to work on it. Hell, even further back than that, a certain percentage of the population could be fooled into believing in UFOs by a blurry black-and-white photograph of pie plates suspended from fishing line. We're never gonna fix this.
The key word is "little", I think. Corporations come in all sizes, right down to one-man shows that have incorporated to reduce financial liability. If you've got three hundred employees, then yeah, you can probably afford to replace that one tool. If you're a three-man shop that doesn't make enough profit in a year to buy a new car, maybe not so much.
There are also going to be cases where all the possible replacements have the same issue as the original problem tool.
That's because banning Tiktok alone is like trying to hold a gaping wound together with a band-aid. We need to force all social media companies to act like good citizens if they want to remain in the Canadian market. (Yeah, I know, not going to happen.)
The thing is, none of those algorithms have to be black boxes. They could be published—it's just that businesses don't want to, and so far, no government has chosen to force it.
It isn't about which language has the most speakers, it's about acknowledging history. (I mean, if "who has the most speakers" were the only important thing, French wouldn't be allowed either—Ontario is not required by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to provide provincial government services in French, but does so to some extent anyway, for historical and practical reasons.)
How the languages of large immigrant communities should be handled in official contexts is a completely separate matter from this.
I do wonder, though, from a practical standpoint, how difficult it might be to get translators for languages that now have very few speakers, like Oneida or Cayuga.
The official repositories often have no useful oversight either. At least once a year, you'll hear about a malicious package in npm or PyPI getting widespread enough to cause real havoc. Typosquatting runs rampant, and formerly reputable packages end up in the hands of scammers when their original devs try to find someone to hand them over to.
In all fairness, there are Boomers out there who are tech-literate. Thing is, they only call for help when they have a real problem, so it's the other ones we remember.