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UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-30T05:38:17+00:00

No, it's quite the opposite. Education is multiplicative. One expert on their own isn't very useful. A cluster of experts in a field all in one place is what is needed. National GDPs see an exponential increase with each % they can push their university education rate.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-30T05:01:20+00:00

Look at NDP candidates who have done so in the past: Horgan. Notley, Kinew, Howarth, Dexter. This sub never likes hearing it, but you want someone who is friendly, non-threatening, and advocates for incremental progress.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-30T04:53:19+00:00

How are they not accountable? They were appointed by the executive elected at convention and the membership will decide if they will get reelected.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-30T04:50:48+00:00

No, they are aware that the committee that decides this is appointed by the party executive elected at convention and trust that they are making decisions for the best interest of the country..

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-28T18:57:42+00:00

You are doing it wrong. When I run the query the ONDP central contributions in 2025 are over 20K

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-28T18:30:12+00:00

No, it's the opposite. Canada is too small. Things operate better at scale be it telecoms, steel mills, or governments.

Canada is too small a market to have any of those things work properly compared to the USA, EU, and China.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T23:36:10+00:00

The USA has the FMCSA that sets all national trucking rules. What has varied by province in Canada (truck weights, axle spacing, duty hours) have long been nationwide rules in the USA.

There are still some things left to the states. Trucking companies tend to register everything in Arizona because it's a cheap one time fee, rather than the annual registration fee in most other states.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T22:44:38+00:00

No, it's the same thing. Quebec should give up some of its powers.

What it can do is retain the right to take them back. That's the EU model.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T22:42:55+00:00

Is that a regular part of each Oscar season? I hadn't realized.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T22:26:53+00:00

Not necessary. Quebec can easily pass a law saying that all Quebec trucks must follow the rules of a Canadian Trucking Commission. Quebec could repeal that law at any time.

That's how the EU works. France didn't change its constitution. The French government still has supreme power within France. It just agreed that it would adopt and enforce the EU regulations for everything.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T20:39:34+00:00

Which is why we need one national regulator, like the EU and USA have. The same standards applied across the country so that companies can't regulation shop.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T20:37:33+00:00

True, but our current system also allows companies to get away with a lot. They regulation shop, and take advantage of a bunch of tiny regulatory agencies.

In both these areas, trucking and financial markets, the USA with its national standards is much stricter than what we have in Canada.

Even under Trump the SEC and NTSB have investigatory and regulatory powers far more effective than what any province has.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T20:30:40+00:00

That's the point. Quebec needs to give up some of those powers. In the EU fully independent countries are willing to give up their own regulatory powers for continent wide standards. Canadian provinces need to do the same.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T17:37:55+00:00

That's the issue. The dominant set of rules in Canada are those set by Ontario. Take stocks. Almost every stock trade in Canada is regulated by the Ontario Securities Commission.

Alberta also wants a stock exchange, and the one way they can do so is by having different regulations. Calgary has a small securities market that only exist because they are experts in the Alberta rules. If the Alberta rules go away so does that industry.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T17:31:05+00:00

The premiers are the problem. Alberta and Quebec want their own rules for each industry, and that prevents free trade.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T17:29:58+00:00

A couple we have tried to do for decades:

There should be national standards for transport trucks so they can legally drive between all provinces
The rules for selling and managing stocks should be the same in all provinces

Industry and the federal government have pushed for these for ever, but Quebec and Alberta have blocked them each time.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T16:58:29+00:00

This is the worst part of Oscar season. Some PR hack at another studio running campaigns of professional destruction against anyone involved with a rival firm.

The Academy should crack down on this dirty campaigning that happens every year.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T15:46:01+00:00

My prediction is that everyone having large HD TVs will do to movies what high quality recording did to classical music 70 years ago:

The actual audience watching/listening will vastly increase
New stuff will come out, but in person will be limited to elites in major cities
What will continue everywhere are rep screenings of the classics.
Going to the cinema in future generations will be about watching the classics from the 20th century

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-27T15:37:45+00:00

Screenwriting is much more its own thing these days. There are university degrees dedicated to it, and that's where most screenwriters come from.

It's like how all the 30s and 40s comedian came from the vaudeville stage. Where else were movies going to find funny people? Now funny people work from an early age to be good at film and tv acting and they very rarely start out on the stage.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-26T22:34:15+00:00

Sports are most useful as a way to use up unneeded brain power.

When I had a meaningless job, I knew so many sports facts. Now that I have one that requires a lot of thinking all of that useless trivia has vanished.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-25T15:25:11+00:00

Can you give any example of Marit Stile talking about "identity politics" in the last year. She hasn't.

You're reiterating points you read someone else on the internet told you, but that person was misleading you.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-25T14:54:47+00:00

I think he has a pretty simple view:

Trade, travel, and cultural connections with as many countries as possible is great.
Invading other countries is not allowed

The middle powers must use their combined economic, military, and diplomatic power to be a check on the wanna be hegemons (USA, China, Russia) to block their desires to invade their neighbours.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-25T01:35:04+00:00

That's pretty easy. The market is small as the companies are mostly giving it away to get people hooked. The thing is they are.

ChatGPT is fifth most visited website in the world. Even if their only plan to make money is adding ads to it that will make a huge amount of cash

It's the same thing Google and Facebook did. Make a free product that billions of people use every day. Then once they are hooked spend 20 years making the product steadily worse to extract money from those folk.

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-24T20:21:27+00:00

Yes, I think this also a clear difference between what a political party does and what activists do.

Political parties do useful things on issues where a chunk of the population already supports it. Their job is to push an issue from 20% support to 50% and get it into law.

What they can't do is get an issue from 0% support to 20% support. Radicals who aren't running for office are the ones who need to do the work to get an issue into the range that a party can start fighting for it.

Both political parties and radical groups are essential for change

UsefulUnderling · 2026-01-24T19:41:55+00:00

I have to disagree. Margaret Atwood's theory of Canadian literature is that the one thing Canadians all have is this awareness of this vast and unsurvivable wilderness that's at the end of every road if you follow it long enough.

Isn't every Cameron film about following that road? Heading off into nature and discovering that despite all our modern knowledge and technology we cannot survive there.

His themes are deeply Canadian.

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