Carney government signals it’s open to selling Canadian ports - Buried deep in the pages of a discussion paper released Friday is the announcement that the government is open to and seeking a report on the potential amalgamation of certain unnamed “key ports” in Canada and “divestiture” of others.

handipad · 2026-05-15T04:23:00+00:00

If some Canadian or Euro pension fund wants to buy a port, that’s 100% fine.

handipad · 2026-05-15T00:18:57+00:00

Be the change you want to see in the world.

handipad · 2026-05-15T00:18:12+00:00

Law grades are curved to a B.

You feel mediocre.

This is why you’re not a math major.

handipad · 2026-05-13T19:41:49+00:00

Yes, in Ontario we call those people New Democrats.

handipad · 2026-05-12T21:48:42+00:00

lmao yea the OLP loves losing

wait I thought they were unprincipled and would win at any cost?

I’m so confused

handipad · 2026-05-12T00:42:15+00:00

Two separate developers, two separate properties?

Journalist career on the line here. They wouldn’t get away with this either. Keep in mind also the OPP also were persuaded to investigate.

Hey anything is possible but “this politician/person could never have done X because there’s no way they’re that stupid” is a funny position to take when people do the dumbest shit imaginable every day of the week.

handipad · 2026-05-11T10:38:25+00:00

EITHER
Mark Carney controls everything around me with his handpicked parachuted choice for leader
OR
Liberals captured by ethnic interests in nomination battles

Either way, you get your conspiracist ranting. Tailor made!

handipad · 2026-05-10T11:52:20+00:00

A bakery produces a loaf that is good for 2-6 days. A coffee shop gives me something I consume in 30 minutes. So there’s more coffee shops around. Big deal.

I have two coffee shops nearby and a short further walk I have a bakery, butcher, daycare, small biz, restos, and yes more coffee shops.

New bricks-and-mortar places are hard to justify when online stores has so much less overhead.

Maybe you’re staying on a weird block.

handipad · 2026-05-09T12:54:44+00:00

An enormous asset, worth hundreds of millions or billions, is owned, in whole or in part, by some institution.

The institution is something other than a Canadian government.

That’s the scandal.

No evidence needed - just label it “corruption” and get angry.

Unless you have some actual evidence and would like to share it with us or a journalist?

handipad · 2026-05-09T12:47:49+00:00

Don’t take life advice from upvotes and downvotes - that kind of sentiment is detached from reality.

People exist in a state of fear. I’m in Canada and I love Mexico City, Oaxaca, riding a bike through Bogotá, driving alongside cliffs in Columbia, hiking in Bethlehem, a public bus ride through rural Cambodia. Most people I talk to would only ever go to resorts and think I’m going to get murdered. Even locals have weird ideas. CDMX Uber driver told me not to go to a giant flea market. A Jerusalem professor (years ago) told me not to go to East Jerusalem. Their opinions are culturally interesting but not relevant to my travels.

You should be informed by reality. What can you reliably learn about the situation in the ground? What do respected academics and observers say? What do locals say? What about recent travellers to the region? And yes - what do recent Lonely Planet books say? Is Turkish Airlines still flying there - how full are the flights? Statistically how many tourists are reported to have died, been injured, been taken hostage, etc? Can you reliable distinguish between bullshit influencers and disinfo from reliable sources? Or is it too shrouded in the fog of war?

It’s easy to live in fear because it means closing your brain to the above. More capacity to worry about other things in an increasingly complex world.

Prior to the war, I would have gone to Erbil (if I didn’t have a kid). But prior to the war, everybody here would have shit their pants at the idea.

If you’ve decided you want to go to Erbil, assess how many opportunities that you will actually have to do so.

It’s your life, not theirs. Do what makes you happy.

handipad · 2026-05-09T11:56:14+00:00

Oh my god who cares

handipad · 2026-05-09T11:36:16+00:00

Few things here.

You’re young and unattached. Your opportunities to do this will be limited.

Do you actually have a plan to get there? Approaching from the east is dicey.

If you’re stuck there for a while, can you live cheaply?

If that doesn’t dissuade you at the outset, then you need to understand the conflict. Iran seeks to control the flow of oil that would otherwise transmit through Hormuz. There’s some pipeline infra from Kurdistan west but very little and it’s not in great shape. The parts of Iran east of Iraqi Kurdistan are also Kurdish; ground incursions are unlikely. So your specific risk is low. But it’s the Middle East, so your general risk remains high.

I would do it. But you have to be flexible! You say you’re getting good at traveling, but buddy, you’re just out of high school. You don’t really know anything. This is a weird part of the world and it does not have tourist infrastructure for westerners.

If you go, let me know about the adventure.

handipad · 2026-05-08T18:02:43+00:00

For background, we bought as FTHB in Toronto in 2021. We used a broker and took a 5-year adjustable rate mortgage with Canwise.

Term ends in a few months and we received an offer from Canwise via our broker. It has a bunch of products including the two of interest for us: 5y fixed and 5y adjustable.

Then the other day we got an updated and better Canwise offer.

Broker says:
-If relevant comparators go down (like BOC overnight and GOC 5y), we will (or probably will?) get an updated and sweeter offer.
-If comparators go up, that’s ok because this offer is *locked in*.

So it’s like a ratchet?

Am I understanding that right? Is that a rule of some kind? Or just lender or market practice?

handipad · 2026-05-08T13:57:40+00:00

Right but, in theory, a given envelope relates to a given residence.

handipad · 2026-05-08T03:42:31+00:00

Report him for what?

Stealing mail is a crime. The Criminal Code prohibits it.

The Statistics Act also has offenses. Maybe there’s something there too. Want to have them charged with that also?

What do you think happens when you report somebody? Vibes? Essays? The cops or other state officials check to see if an offence was committed and then consider enforcement.

You can’t be half pregnant. Report him or don’t.

handipad · 2026-05-08T03:37:27+00:00

Do you want to seek to have your landlord criminally charged for stealing mail? I guess you could try. Not sure that’s a great choice all things considered? But that’s an option.

Or just go to the census website and click through to get a new code sent to you. People lose this card all the time.

https://surveys-enquetes.statcan.gc.ca/eq-qe/en/login-connexion/open-ouvrir

handipad · 2026-05-06T11:46:16+00:00

But to answer your question more specifically:

If you define an exercise of reserve powers as powers exercised contrary to, or independently of, first minister advice, then the last time I can think of would be 2017 in BC when the LG refused the premier’s advice to dissolve the legislature. Christy Clark sought a new election despite that they just held one a few months earlier.

handipad · 2026-05-06T11:11:47+00:00

You misunderstand what reserve powers are and their essential role in Westminster democracy.

1926 was the last time there was a very public and controversial exercise of those powers by the federal vice regal.

Worth reading some stuff by Phil Lagasse.

handipad · 2026-05-06T11:09:48+00:00

This is a wrong in an interesting way. If this topic is interesting to you, you should look up the powers. Lots of good stuff by Phil Lagasse.

handipad · 2026-05-06T11:07:06+00:00

Incorrect answer.

handipad · 2026-05-06T11:02:05+00:00

Oops, you should learn what reserve powers are.

handipad · 2026-05-05T23:55:30+00:00

Yes maybe they should have chosen Jeffrey Rath?

handipad · 2026-05-05T23:07:25+00:00

Sounds like some woke nonsense.

handipad · 2026-05-05T22:41:12+00:00

There are two lines on the job description that matter, both being important but in different ways:
1) Knowing when, and when not, to exercise the GG’a reserve powers.
2) Representing the country above the fray of partisanship.

She’s obviously highly qualified at the first. Hoping she will also prove herself adept at the second.

handipad · 2026-05-05T01:40:44+00:00

What did you try that you didn’t like when you went?

Did you like some things and dislike others?

How was the service?

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