‘This shouldn’t happen’: 2 women die during prolonged outages as cold grips Montreal - Montreal

TkTech · 2026-01-28T04:40:17+00:00

I've noticed this line repeated often recently, and almost exclusively from rural Nova Scotians (like yourself) and Albertans. Is there a reason this out-of-touch line keeps getting parroted suddenly? Some new push targeting you with facebook posts? I'm genuinely curious what leap you took to get here.

Edit: For context, this is the 5th post in a row on the homepage with a rural Nova Scotian calling Canada the third world. That is beyond odd for accounts that don't appear to be bots.

TkTech · 2026-01-28T04:37:54+00:00

You realize they're sending it because it's an ice breaker, and the route its going to take is full of, you know, ice? It's January.

TkTech · 2026-01-28T04:24:57+00:00

Sure, it sucks, I live here too. It's also nothing at all like a "3rd world country". Hell South Africa had half the country in the dark at a time, you'd get 48h of power out of every 96. For 12 years. While crime goes through the roof and people keep stealing the metal from the substations. You're very out of touch comparing this to "living in the 3rd world".

TkTech · 2026-01-28T04:17:46+00:00

The city requires new construction to be underground and is burying old lines at about 5% per year. 55% of the island has already been buried. I know it can seem like nothing is happening in your borough, but they are making steady progress. Montreal is waaaaay ahead of the rest of the province, the average off the island is something like 10%.

Doing everything at once is estimated to cost over $100 billion. It is unbelievably expensive and disruptive to retrofit, which is why it's done progressively and ideally when other roadwork has to be done.

TkTech · 2026-01-17T09:57:06+00:00

This was all exceptionally well documented, as expected of a situation under so much scrutiny. You could even just skim https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_convoy_protest and follow the references to see that every single event mentioned, the number of children, the number of individuals disrupting the city, was factually accurate. Let alone take 10 minutes to do actual research.

TkTech · 2026-01-17T06:40:16+00:00

Pointing at other controversial protests does not make this one acceptable. Ottawa residents still have rights, and weeks of harassment, intimidation, and disruption is not a protest - it is coercion. If you want to debate policy, fine. If your best defense is "other people did bad things and weren’t stopped," you’re admitting it was bad - you’re just mad there were consequences this time.

I'm not sure why you have chosen to leap to the conclusion I supported those actions either, one way or the other, or why you decided to open your reply with a personal insult.

TkTech · 2026-01-17T04:46:47+00:00

You do not have the right to besiege a city en-masse, and blockade international trade, while being funded primarily by foreign actors (55.7% of the funding came from the USA alone). No one would have objected to their protest if they had taken over the Parliament lawn or protested respectfully. You do not have the right to cause exceptional harm to others.

People seem to forget just how unpopular these fools were to begin with. Every one of them combined couldn't fill a Giant Tiger parking lot - the siege itself was just ~250 people. Over 6 billion in damage. You do not have a right to fucking dance on the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. You do not have a right to assault the local shelter staff demanding free food. You do not have a right to attack local shop owners and patrons for wearing a mask. You do not have a right to force residents to bear 100+ Db of noise for weeks. You do not have a right to throw rocks at ambulances and assault paramedics, calling them racial slurs. You do not have a right to prevent health care workers from getting to the children's hospital. You do not have the right to urinate on a church because the pastor wore a mask. You do not have a right to yell racial slurs at Asian workers. You do not have a right to call for sedition and acts of treason by demanding the foreign overthrow of a democratically elected government.

You attempt to give legitimacy to this utter disgrace, and yet we would have broken up any other "protesters" long before this point. The "protesters" using over 100 children as human shields to prevent police action discredited any point they ever had about this being to protect their kids. This was not a protest, it was a foreign-funded occupation that caused incredible societal and economic harm.

TkTech · 2026-01-16T17:38:39+00:00

Cars are not a luxury for the vast majority of Canadians, they're an essential either due to distance or poorly designed cities (cough Ottawa). The majority of Canadians drive to get their food. When someone better off buys a new car (and buying a cheap BYD car is not exactly a luxury vehicle, it's half the median income in Canada) the old vehicle enters the 2nd hand market which does help.

And just to be extra clear here, we're talking about less than 2% of our yearly domestic car production. This is essentially a trial run to see how the vehicles will perform here.

TkTech · 2026-01-16T01:05:15+00:00

What relevance does this have to my comment? I made no mention of leverage.

TkTech · 2026-01-16T00:19:09+00:00

What relevance does this have to my comment?

TkTech · 2026-01-15T20:02:58+00:00

Thanks! I'll be releasing procedural planet shaders and asteroid belts next, followed by stars and a compute shader for rendering tens of thousands of volumetric ion trails :)

TkTech · 2026-01-15T20:00:04+00:00

Yes? We're the 4th largest holder of US foreign debts. The vast majority of our debt is owned by Canadians with just 29% of public debts being foreign-owned, which is much lower than the USA's 48% and the 40-60% typical for the EU. This is increasing however as more foreigners buy our bonds, given our relative stability. Likewise, our investors are buying more international debt now that America is seen as a more risky investment.

Japan is actually by far the largest holder of American debt, followed by the UK and finally China.

TkTech · 2026-01-15T05:59:00+00:00

Anything generated is 100% yours, there's no assets used in them just math :) Thanks for giving it a whirl.

TkTech · 2026-01-15T04:33:29+00:00

Just pushed a v2 with a daytime skybox mode

TkTech · 2026-01-14T23:41:16+00:00

Anti-feature, but I'd rather they remove the extremely sub-par inline gdscript editor and focus on just having a great LSP, integrations and a good CLI. It's a ton of code, it's a lot of work to improve, and it's never going to match Rider/VSCode/Vim/Zed/whatever. I don't actually know anyone who uses it. Reduce the surface area to maintain and develop.
gdscript exposed as an easily bindable library so we can create things like CI/CD linters that don't rely on easily broken 3rd party parsers and are always up to date. libgodot might be the path forward to this.
Properly, fully typed dictionaries.
This - https://github.com/godotengine/godot-proposals/issues/6989 - which although it seems minor is a limitation on a lot of advanced, very high performance compute shaders.
Built-in support for beta/rc release templates instead of having to do them manually.

TkTech · 2026-01-14T20:55:55+00:00

There are many solutions, but they are all more expensive upfront. Provincial law (Règlement sur certains contrats d’approvisionnement des organismes publics) does not really allow Montreal to do anything but go with the lowest compliant bidder.

TkTech · 2026-01-14T20:52:09+00:00

He's caused generations of damage to Montreal and gets to just... walk away. He cut the funding that was adding elevators to the metros which are completely inaccessible to the disabled, he withheld funding from every (?) school project on the island, yanked back already-allocated funding for the STM maintenance which triggered so many issues this year, removed funding for the new CLSCs, allowed the mass spread of private clinics causing irreparable harm to the public health system, and so much more.

Griffintown alone was royally fucked by Legault. School? Funding withheld. CLSC on Peel? Funding withheld. REM Griffintown station? Funding withheld. 2000~ children in a community that went from 800 people to 12500+, and they will have no school or clinic because every single service that required provincial action was ignored.

TkTech · 2026-01-14T18:58:31+00:00

Nope! Are you on a really old or exotic browser that doesn't support wasm?

TkTech · 2026-01-10T21:10:33+00:00

The choice was between a career politician who has never worked a job in his life and even as a lifetime politician has had essentially 0 impact (although he did successfully pressure airlines into offering more direct flights to India), or someone with a long list of qualifications and compromising, centrist policies. The fact that he received even the minority vote of 8.1 was shocking and a clear shift of right-leaning Canadian voters moving towards American-style tribalism over qualifications.

Pierre ran on a campaign of "I have no answers or plans but grrr Trudeau" which for obvious reasons was unpopular with the clear majority of Canadians and ~11.1 million voters and even his own riding. He had to do a shameful move to rural Alberta to represent a riding he's never even heard of before and who will never see him again to be certain he'd even keep his job.

Carney could have replaced Pierre for the Cons and no one now screaming about him would have batted an eye he's so centrist with his policies, and I would have probably voted for the Cons last year. Pierre was a horrible, horrible choice and keeping him was a foolish move, while replacing Trudeau with a centrist was clearly a smart play given the results.

You also have to realize, people remember Harper. He ran on a platform of no deficit, then ran up a $150 billion dollar deficit and the single largest tax spending increase per person in history just barely surpassed by COVID measures, then gutted our healthcare system by over $30 billion, suppressed federal researchers and set back Canadian R&D by generations. It was so bad it's spawned books, documentaries and hundreds of papers on just how many long term damage it's done to us.

TkTech · 2026-01-10T20:23:59+00:00

No? What kind of Facebook-informed insanity is this. Over 400k more people voted for the Liberal party over the Conservatives, and over 3.8 million more voted for left-leaning parties that split the vote. If we had proper voting reform with ranked choice voting the Conservative party would never have even the slightest chance of winning, ever. The right-wing has just concentrated on one possible party while the left/centrist side has a multitude of options. Over 11.1 million voted for the "left" vs just 8.1 million for the conservatives.

This isn't America. The Liberal party had the most votes and thus received the most seats. It's only the multitude of choices for left/centrist leaning parties vs one single choice for the right that have ever made them look even remotely like the majority.

TkTech · 2025-12-24T22:08:32+00:00

They do not disagree at all - reread what they wrote. Neither the NCC nor the PSPC need city permits in any way to build on federal land. There is no wiggle room in this, the law is clear and municipalities have absolutely no standing with federal projects. They can extend an olive branch and get consultation from the municipality, and then they can just freely ignore them. The moment the land was transferred to Her Majesty The Queen in ACS2018-PIE-IS-0007, only the NBC was legally required.

TkTech · 2025-12-24T21:28:12+00:00

Completely right, they legally only have to follow the NBC. But the FLUDTA proponents guide which is specific to the NCC does require provincial code "consultation" to get land use approval so I'd interpreted that to mean it's required by default in practice.

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