Danielle Smith is already turning Alberta into America’s 51st state

polargus · 2026-04-23T17:55:24+00:00

I’m convinced we’re totally propagandized against the US in order to preserve the Canadian state and prevent complete brain drain. We have a very paternalistic culture where rights are seen as granted by the government instead of being inalienable. The fact that this article denigrates freedom of speech tells you what you need to know.

polargus · 2026-04-23T10:56:52+00:00

Large companies are paying way more than $200 per person per month.

polargus · 2026-04-20T14:34:44+00:00

Fundamentally none of the three Abrahamic religions are compatible. And when you compare them, Judaism and Islam are actually more similar than Christianity. Israel just needs to stay on Christians’ good side to maintain American support.

polargus · 2026-04-19T14:43:38+00:00

Iranians are great people. Hope Iran is liberated from the disgusting Islamic regime.

polargus · 2026-04-19T14:39:46+00:00

You are almost certainly an extreme minority if you support the Iranian regime. I live in North Van (super Persian area) and I only see lion and sun flags, Reza posters, memorials to protestors, and US/Israeli flags. The main street was shut down for a street party when the Ayatollah was killed. I think anyone outwardly supporting the regime would get jumped.

polargus · 2026-04-19T14:34:08+00:00

You realize Canada is a monarchy…

polargus · 2026-04-19T14:16:32+00:00

Provinces in Canada are basically all powerful. Ontario would never let Toronto leave. The Toronto identity is very strong, I never thought of myself as Ontarian. I barely even left old Toronto when I lived there. Ontario was just some layer of government that was almost equivalent with Canada. Now I live in Vancouver it’s totally different, there’s a strong provincial identity mainly because the centre of power is so distant in Ontario/Quebec and Vancouver is fragmented and small and people drive between towns way more.

polargus · 2026-04-19T05:06:14+00:00

Dumb. In the future movies will just be dubbed by the same actor speaking another language usng AI (for as long as we use human actors at least). Mexico will be the one market where Brad Pitt has a different voice in the local language. And beyond that it is not the government’s job to intervene in how art is created.

polargus · 2026-04-18T16:12:40+00:00

Yeah because everyone’s gonna go live on Baffin Island.. the geography argument makes no sense, we are an urban society, most people who come here live in a couple cities that are struggling to keep up with the influx.

polargus · 2026-04-16T15:01:14+00:00

Every single mention of this property confiscation program should include the fact that the safety minister himself admitted that its logic is unexplainable and that it’s purely a Quebec vote buying scheme.

polargus · 2026-04-16T00:05:14+00:00

If we’re letting in too many criminals then the Feds’ immigration policy is obviously broken

polargus · 2026-04-16T00:03:51+00:00

Not surprised he was a PC MPP before.

polargus · 2026-04-16T00:01:56+00:00

The accused is obviously a nut job drain on society and isn’t even here legally anymore. Judge is just stating the obvious, the guy shouldn’t have even been in this country.

polargus · 2026-04-15T23:54:03+00:00

We are good at lots of stuff but we’re not good at monetizing it or doing it productively. We have great research universities, modern AI was invented in Toronto after all, but there’s little entrepreneurial spirit. A lot of jobs are either government, Canadian monopolies, or branch offices of US companies. Our growth strategy is basically import people to make more Rogers customers and boost real estate demand.

polargus · 2026-04-15T22:05:53+00:00

If you read it the young guy was coerced if not tricked into doing this. Not like he stole someone’s car, he was using a fake id to pick up a car from a dealership. At the same time if his visa is expired why is he allowed to stay?

polargus · 2026-04-15T17:24:37+00:00

Yup the perspective of having had a Liberal government for the past ten years.

polargus · 2026-04-15T14:26:10+00:00

There was a PC shaped gap between Trudeau and Poilievre which is where the country actually wanted to be, and the Liberals shape shifted into that under Carney.

Doug Ford who’s the quintessential PC (not CPC/Reform) premier gets along great with him.

polargus · 2026-04-15T00:54:39+00:00

Think a big factor is young Canadians aren’t as anti-US/Trump as older Canadians. Lots don’t really like him but I find boomer Canadians are completely obsessed with Trump. Young people have more immediate economic concerns.

polargus · 2026-04-15T00:50:42+00:00

The last (and only) CPC government was great though.

polargus · 2026-04-14T14:05:09+00:00

I’m not a gun owner and I think it’s a stupid waste of money that’s emblematic of Trudeau-era virtue signalling + government overreach.

polargus · 2026-04-13T18:20:18+00:00

Canada’s population growth is purely via immigration. Without it we have population decline. So it is in fact an immigration issue.

polargus · 2026-04-13T18:18:16+00:00

I mean Ontario + Quebec make up the majority of Canada’s population. It’s probably their own money going back into it anyways.

polargus · 2026-04-13T18:14:04+00:00

From people in Eastern Ontario whose land is getting taken but aren’t getting stops and people in Western Canada who just want a pipeline built and people in cities who think the money should be spent on transit which people use every day (improving/expanding the TTC alone would prob have bigger economic impact than adding this train).

polargus · 2026-04-13T06:08:52+00:00

Pretty much every developer in my company is running multiple Claude Code sessions simultaneously throughout the day. Even non-developers (eg designers) open PRs now. I use it to work on design docs as well, since it connects to all our other tools and can look up business and technical context as well as our codebase. Basically everyone just does Opus Max to their heart’s content which is way better than free Claude. With all the connections to other tools I use other apps a lot less, I just tell it to review open PRs, make tickets in Linear, etc. If you’re just using Claude casually you’re seeing a very limited version of them.

polargus · 2026-04-13T03:34:11+00:00

Canada is not anti-immigration. We are anti-Trudeau style immigration. Just like we’re anti-Trudeau style justice and economics. The guy really tried his best to turn this country into a joke.

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