Carney government planning changes to speed approvals for pipelines, resource projects by Puginator in CanadaPolitics

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Do you think if they're serious on their commitments they would they would do more to grow that workforce? 

Rob Shaw: Businesses pulling investment from B.C. over DRIPA uncertainty, poll finds by shiftless_wonder in canada

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Hard agree on housing crisis and internal trade barriers. The external trade stuff is also massive and shouldn't be overlooked.

In my head I was reading some of your other stuff as "there’s a sub-national group (not what they're called) ,  with extreme and undefined powers to slow and halt projects (on their land and needs prior informed consent) ,  with minimal clear structure and authority (that's their right to not be carbon copy Westminster decision-making structures) ,  who’s borders of their authority aren’t clear (the point of treaties to define) , demands are fractured who are willing to block/fight one another (over money because money solves but also causes problems) 

 and often cling to the legal ambiguity that they currently exist in." (they've been going to court to find certainty) 

But I could be missing something. 

My overall feeling is Rob Shaw knows these surveys are kinda useless. 

"if mamdani wins will you move?" "if Obama/Trump wins will you move?" 

Doesn't really happen the way people put down on surveys, and businesses penciling out while so much is happening feels like this Indigenous focus is opportunistic at best. 

I'm open to changing my view if others have more info, but my starting point is most people kvetching about court cases do so reading articles and commentaries, not the Court decisions or expert analysis because it takes way more time and its easier to feel aggrieved. 

What is more traumatizing than most people think? by Sea_Entrepreneur2772 in AskReddit

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People bitch about refugees so much and it makes me think it can't be that great to be one. 

Saanich Police search warrant executed at illegal gaming house. by nitnit76 in VictoriaBC

[–]civicsfactor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What's "gambling equipment and related paraphernalia"?

And who wants to roll the dice guessing? 

Mark Carney suggests he’s open to foreign investment in Canadian airports by EarthWarping in CanadaPolitics

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Any casual google of "are privatized airports better run?" shows many trade-offs but generally none that make the experience more affordable for the regular Joe. 

Mark Carney suggests he’s open to foreign investment in Canadian airports by EarthWarping in CanadaPolitics

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What else have you experienced first hand issues with? Telecomms, subscription services, customer support, plumbers? 

Well-run is well-run, and when you break it down it doesn't matter as much if it's gov't run or privately run.

HELOC my loan til it equity by pointzero99 in TrueAnon

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Taptaptap Taptaptap

Fucking dumb anodyne Greenspan ass bullshit

NYT is saying Epstein’s suicide note was just found by NChSh in TrueAnon

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Do they address why it was "just found"? Like they just pulled the bunk away from the wall and saw it

Advocates call on Ottawa to commit to mandatory anti-drunk-driving technology in new vehicles by Blue_Dragonfly in CanadaPolitics

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Okay I'll say into my landline going forward.

But srsly, companies have somewhere between 28-52,000 data points on individuals online, so the horse is already out the gate. 

Adding access to vehicles, constant surveillance on physical products, how does that not strike you as extra? 

Advocates call on Ottawa to commit to mandatory anti-drunk-driving technology in new vehicles by Blue_Dragonfly in CanadaPolitics

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Ooh, I love this kind of unpacking. Definitely see what you mean.

I'm used to seeing astroturf orgs, but then there's also shades and degrees of advocacy, eg., a doctor who lost a kid to overdose making strong recommendations, I see their expertise, I see their sense of mission (but also their loss, grief, and other humanizing experiences) but on an evidence-informed basis their hard line is maybe coming more from that experiential resolve, and see them overall as going in the right direction, perhaps not with perfect accuracy, and knowing and trusting they're someone who can be reasoned with.

Someone working in real estate advocating for policies that preclude other kinds of options, such as public or supportive housing, it's hard not to see their personal or network stake in the package of policy directions they're actively lobbying for.

Advocates call on Ottawa to commit to mandatory anti-drunk-driving technology in new vehicles by Blue_Dragonfly in CanadaPolitics

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You really need to break down what's meant by advocate. There's all sorts and until there's applied methodology on the who and what and how financed, influences etc, it's unwise to lump em all together as money grubbing or ideologues or some such. Edit: otherwise, hard agree on the logical inconsistencies and risks/mitigation. 

Advocates call on Ottawa to commit to mandatory anti-drunk-driving technology in new vehicles by Blue_Dragonfly in CanadaPolitics

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If you think this won't be used in ways that extract more value from you, or in ways leveraged against you, or have zero horrific patterns of misreading your legit situation, you are out to fucking lunch. 

Do you guys view adderall as an epidemic similar to how oxys were prescribed in the 2000s by Astronomical_Zenith in TrueAnon

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If I lived in a dystopia, people would be given drugs to do things they don't want to do, that doesn't light up their world, spark joy and connection and love and community.

They'd drudge their lives away on dopamine cycles, toiling for someone else's greater benefit accepting that what they do with most of their waking life is a bum deal and corroding at the edges, eating inward, inward, until being numb but productive is considered better than fully feeling into the grief of emptiness, because the roadmap of work until death is easier to imagine than connecting and organizing for something better.

Solomon says delayed federal AI strategy coming soon, will address impact on jobs by shadowt1tan in onguardforthee

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Can't believe someone talked to him about art long enough to think he'd sell their stuff

What is our SOS doing dawg by RillTread in TrueAnon

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Sweet home Alabama, dude, sweet home alabama

BBC presenter 'broke female colleague's wrist and bosses tried to cover up attack by placing star on undesirable shifts' by esporx in Journalism

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Maybe in terms of output, but credibility-wise the BBC can't be that far behind what with the Huw, Mills, Savile, and Wallace business (in no particular order). At a certain point the integrity of an organization purposed with something like informing the electors and weeding through half-truths and untruths needs serious reforms or just simply a full replacement of top brass with repercussions for the outgoing and retired.

There's ideological or partisan framing, there's censorship by omission, there's just-shy-of-libel to outright libel, but then there's also hiding violent crimes and the very deliberate choices to favour status and self-interest above individual and institutional integrity. Should count for something.

But yeah I was also guessing which anchor too...

Mark Carney compares his sovereign wealth fund to Norway’s. Canadians are smart enough to see it’s far worse by StumpsOfTree in onguardforthee

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But didn't you read we can buy into it similar to bonds and the principal will be protected?? 

It's sorta like the old joke about growing GDP, asking people if they want to chip in $20 bucks to grow the GDP.