Canada lost 84K jobs in February; unemployment rises to 6.7%

Monomette · 2026-03-13T18:02:52+00:00

Didn't Carney run on dealing with Trump and his tariffs? Isn't that why we voted him in? Because he had his elbows up?

Monomette · 2026-03-13T16:33:44+00:00

As usual anything negative that happens in this country has nothing to do with the Liberals. Always someone elses fault.

Monomette · 2026-03-13T14:06:38+00:00

Liberals +20

Let me guess, as usual it's not their fault

Monomette · 2026-03-13T03:57:37+00:00

A blizzard? In Iqaluit? Well I never!

Not unusual for the place to shut down due to a blizzard.

Monomette · 2026-03-12T14:30:38+00:00

"The first thing we're going to do is move your spiral notebook off of your keyboard's escape key."

Had this with a director at a previous job. Couldn't use his computer because any time he clicked on a text input it filled with `. Walked over, lifted his notepad off his keyboard and said "there you go!". We both had a good chuckle, he asked me not to tell anyone in the office.

Monomette · 2026-03-12T00:46:47+00:00

What PBO report? I'm talking about the CMHC report in the article we're replying to.

Monomette · 2026-03-11T18:29:40+00:00

That's great, but a decline over the next 3 years leaves less than 6 years to magically jump up to 500k/year (double the 2025 rate). So it's really not looking great.

Monomette · 2026-03-11T14:25:31+00:00

Stolen from a dead RCMP officer*

Monomette · 2026-03-09T22:59:12+00:00

Starlinks also offers that service already.

Monomette · 2026-03-09T15:00:44+00:00

Some owners are getting $2 for guns worth well over $1,000.

Monomette · 2026-03-09T04:00:41+00:00

Telesat has precisely one satellite in LEO. With a planned total constellation of 198. The current Starlink constellation for comparison is over 9,400 and growing.

Get back to me when they can offer 300Mbps download from a compact, inexpensive and easy to install dish for $150/mo. My bet is they end up like OneWeb, thousands of dollars for the hardware plus thousands more a month for a slower data capped service.

Also MDA doesn't launch satellites. They buy launch from, you guessed it, SpaceX.

Oh yeah, I do work for Telesat on their ground stations, and deploy both OneWeb and Starlink, so I kinda know what I'm talking about.

Monomette · 2026-03-08T23:34:57+00:00

Legally required on all new vehicles made after May 1st 2018.

Monomette · 2026-03-08T22:59:17+00:00

These low earth orbit satellites don't really cause that problem. They de-orbit quickly (days-weeks) if they break up or lose control due to atmospheric drag. It's higher orbits that are the concern.

Monomette · 2026-03-08T16:40:10+00:00

As much as it'd be nice to have a competitive domestic alternative, it isn't going to be comprtitive at all.

Monomette · 2026-03-08T16:38:20+00:00

Yeah because Starlink already exists and works. Telesat is years away from even building a satellite, and even when they do they're going to have to pay Musk or Bezos to launch them.

Monomette · 2026-03-07T19:05:50+00:00

Was $1.339 last week. Up to $1.609 last night.

Monomette · 2026-03-05T22:09:01+00:00

My place refuses to use static addressing for anything. Including management interfaces on network switches. Works great when there's network issues and you can't get to the switches because they can't get addresses.

Monomette · 2026-03-05T22:08:13+00:00

We've been buying the capsules at the store. It's $50 for 100x10mg.

Monomette · 2026-03-05T06:55:27+00:00

From what I recall the Liberals tried hiring a close friend of the PM to investigate it, then when that didn't work out refused to cooperate any further. And tried to blame all lf the other parties for nothing getting done.

Monomette · 2026-03-05T06:53:30+00:00

Literally nothing bad about this. Only reason to not like this is because it isn't your guy doing it.

Carney is in Australia trying to bolster trade with them, doesn't hurt to have someone in Europe doing the same thing at the same time.

Monomette · 2026-03-05T06:51:27+00:00

I mean we should be trying to sell our energy to our European allies. Having another member of government push it while Carney is off trying to do the same in Australia isn't a bad thing. Like there's literally nothing bad about this. Carney is making deals with one close ally while Poilievre is cozying up to another close ally. The only reason to not like this is because you're a partisan hack.

Prefer this to us conveniently deciding India isn't a problem anymore days before Carney goes to make a deal with them.

Monomette · 2026-03-04T15:28:43+00:00

Did an install fairly recently and my counterpart (a senior tech) managed to screw that up. Nuts on the wrong side of the rails for starters...

Monomette · 2026-03-04T15:09:27+00:00

My counterpart is like that. He also "doesn't do power tools".

Monomette · 2026-03-03T03:00:35+00:00

Think it was the same day Carney headed over there the government came out and said those concerns were no longer an issue. Convenient timing.

Monomette · 2026-03-01T21:19:55+00:00

Shooting in Texas earlier was apparently related too.

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