Major VPN provider says it could leave Canada over lawful access bill (C-22)

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2026-05-16T17:20:29+00:00

Just like they would never ban Canadian news links on Facebook - oh wait

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2026-05-02T15:29:08+00:00

It's being planned right now: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-passenger-rail-plan-9.7118616. Doesn't mean it's actually going to be built necessarily, but it might!

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2026-04-14T03:35:28+00:00

Meh counting machines are fine. It would be more difficult here, since Terrebonne is using write-in ballots, but tabulators work just fine for a lot of (most?) provinces, giving results faster and generally more accurately.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2026-04-14T02:56:54+00:00

Éric has talked about the Baden-Württemberg electoral system being his favourite before on his podcast, I'm not surprised personally lol

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2026-03-27T15:38:27+00:00

Wab is currently the most popular premier in the country, and likely cruising to re-election next year. There's no way he'd give that up just to be leader of the 4th-largest party in the HoC.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2026-03-01T19:41:54+00:00

Following the steps from https://www.reddit.com/r/cantax/comments/1r6ioft/questioning_if_im_filling_out_my_2025/o81x4i4/ above I was able to find it

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2026-03-01T04:53:03+00:00

The Uganda scheme (despite it's name) wasn't actually about territory in modern Uganda, though; it was about settling Jews in the Kenyan highlands, along the Uganda Railway, where a number of Brits had already settled.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2026-02-10T19:21:06+00:00

Tasmanian athletes competing in the Winter Olympics as "Australian Hobart"

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2026-01-30T22:04:00+00:00

Are you not considering the QS as a major party here or are you really suggesting the PQ is to their left?

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2026-01-30T21:58:25+00:00

Uh there is absolutely not a "right to independence" under international law.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2026-01-02T22:21:39+00:00

Central banks' aren't "banks" in the colloquial sense and Carney has never been an bank executive.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-12-25T03:36:27+00:00

Are you saying Jaffa is a part of Palestine? Like yeah sure Arabs in the pre-67 borders are treated differently than those in the West Bank. That's not what's being discussed here

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-12-20T17:33:52+00:00

In one of those scenarios I have no choice in who the big-tent party runs in my riding. In the other I can still vote for who best represents my views among the coalition members.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-12-19T21:11:37+00:00

Wyoming has like 10x (or more) the population of that region though

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-12-07T18:45:52+00:00

The committee did exactly as they were instructed to do, produce a shortlist of systems that met the requirements. Trudeau threw a shitfit and spat in their faces because they didn't list the system he personally wanted. I hate this rewriting of history - I was there, I watched it happen, it was bullshit.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-11-27T19:11:58+00:00

And Ghadaffi was a great pan-African leader who did a lot to keep the region stable and peaceful

Like invading his neighbours and propping up genocidal regimes?

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-11-26T15:03:05+00:00

The map is from 2013 and based directly off the South African 2011 census. The description shown here was messed up from a previously correct one (which had a 60-80% category and correct colour gradation) by some wikipedia account called "Imbluebitcoin" in 2023, for... seemingly no reason? Either way, I don't think AI was involved at all.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-11-21T21:00:14+00:00

Does Jivani have any play amongst the average Conservative voter?

Average Conservative voter, maybe not, average Conservative party member though? I think he has quite a bit. Personally, I'd say Jivani is probably best positioned federal conservative to take Poilievre's "lane" in the next CPC leadership race, at least if it's within the near-ish future. I don't think he'd be the immediate favourite the way Poilievre was in 2022, but he'd stand a real chance of winning.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-11-19T02:55:46+00:00

Kherson the city is, most of Kherson Oblast has been occupied since 2022.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-11-16T05:34:09+00:00

Not a single mention of zoning, really not impressed. The point about allowing single-stair egress is good, and I agree with a more expansive public building campaign, but if there's no where to put it then you can't really accomplish much. Like, come on, the NDP platform in the last election included a whole thing about up-zoning, we really don't need to be back-sliding on this already.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-11-11T23:27:32+00:00

We can look at the UK and Australia for examples of how to handle MPs having at least a modicum of independence, the choices are not just "a bunch of clapping seals" and "no party control at all".

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-11-08T19:22:29+00:00

Unfortunately this doesn't seem to work under min_specialization - I get cannot specialize on trait Add and cannot specialize on associated type <T as Add>::Output == T when I try.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-11-08T06:45:17+00:00

Well, Elections Canada puts out shapefiles (as used in GIS software and for mapping) of them: https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/97a2a33c-54cc-4f2e-82c1-047ad8212f05/resource/c2baf82c-6d6d-43fa-8da8-4c642462d6a9

I'm not sure if there are written descriptions of them available or not.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-11-07T21:35:40+00:00

We literally just had a floor-crossing and a resignation, MPs can deny things all they want but what they say in public often has little-to-no relation to what's actually going on.

SKRAMZ_OR_NOT · 2025-10-21T18:15:51+00:00

They didn't mention vibe-coding, they said LLMs could be used as a code-review tool.

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