“vouchers could be made available to help Canadians pay for costs such as long-term care or home care services”

This was how the conservative provincial government tried to sneak in privatization of long term care and home and community care in my province. (Source: I was one of the consultants brought in to assess the viability of the plan, and my contract was abruptly cancelled after I explicitly pointed out this was what they were doing)

Fortunately, COVID derailed the program, and a new government came in before it could be restarted. But, as a result, I am extra cautious and thorough anytime analysts mention voucher programs.

We should be making sure older people know Poilievre will try to take away their CPP and OAS. And privatize as much of their health care as he can.

This might sound naive, but what ads? I don’t get ads on my phone, I have functioning adblockers on my browsers, and I use alternate front ends for the occasions I have to access normie social media.

I don’t watch TV or listen tp the radio, I read books and research papers primarily, and my actual social media use is on the federated options using apps that don’t have ads. I have my phone pretty tightly locked down, so even the apps I use don’t have ads.

Aside from the occasional product placements in something, I don’t get much exposure to advertising. And before anyone goes there, I work from home and don’t even see billboards. I don’t even get flyers.

Would I have to change a lot of that to run these tests?

It might be good to know their names, and the names of their backers. If this goes sideways we should know whom to hold responsible.

They don’t have the mental capacity to hold anything remotely ambiguous or undefined in their rigid minds. So they try to force reality to conform to their overly simplistic little mental landscape.

And the Chinese can buy from the Americans, just like anyone else, because America’s only loyalty is to profit.

Regardless of how you voted, as OP put it, if you cross into our country with the intent of invading, it’s a round through the brain, or a blade to the femoral or carotid arteries, or, optimally, an axe to your achilles, forcing you to waste manpower on treating the wounded. And we won’t be providing your wounded with free health care.

The way it looks, though, soon the US military will be primarily racist white men on the combat front, so it will be a service to humanity to correct that evolutionary cul de sac of attitudes.

Of course, we’ll have to infiltrate and sabotage your country as well, taking out your supply chains, messing up your comms, and disrupting your mechanization. We’ll probably burn down a white house or something like that, too, just for tradition’s sake.

Ideally, what I’d much rather see is you guys fight it out, take out your oligarchs, and split into more manageable, less fanatical subgroups of states. Maybe some of them can even eventually join us as Canadian territories.

MLs?

Unless something happens to her as a result, she probably will get away with it. It’s not like Albertans have the balls to get rid of her, force a leadership change, or take any socially positive action related to their political leadership. Do they?

Given the timing, I’m curious, who are the major funding sources for the group?

Very slim, I’m 178cm and 100kg. About 24% bodyfat.

My preference would be to scorch their earth, though, not Canadian.

Maybe PP is the one with ties to Epstein. Maybe that’s why he’s afraid to get clearance.

Yep

Wasn’t Old Yeller rabid? Not that the farting Cheeto might not also be, of course.

If you’re going to keep talking like this, then get it really correct, dumbass. No human group is indigenous to North or South America, every single group immigrated here. Some did so 30,000 years ago, 20,000 or so years before the Levantine fairy tales claim the world began, and people have been coming here since then. And things were pretty decent in most parts until the religious nutcases arrived. And then the mercantile types came along and made things exponentially worse. As someone who was born on these lands, and grew up with many First Nations friends, I have the utmost respect for them and their cultures. It sounds like you’re more of a troll than anything else.

The article makes a statement, “governments are not good at big yech projects.” What’s ironic is I have seen government departments do outstanding work on tech projects, except for when they hire it out to private firms. Then the costs run over, things are late, and all sorts of mistakes happen. When they let their own subject matter experts do the work, it tends to work better.

To be fair, this is from personal observation, but I gave worked on almost 60 technical projects over the last three decades, and a decent percentage of thosd have been government projects. And, to be clear, I worked for the outside private organizations brought in. The government teams were extremely good at what they do.

An excellent question. The American-based consulting and IT firms I’ve worked for did it through their US-based bank accounts. I don’t know about other industries.

I’ve heard reports it’s already ramping up on the Meta platforms.

How about passing laws allowing Canada to seize and nationalize the assets and infrastructure of any corporation found participating in disinformation that favours a hostile foreign power? Forced “Canadianization” of American corporations operating in Canada in the event of any attempts at economic annexation. Asset, infrastructure, and operations seizure and nationalization for foreign corporations who violate Canadian labour standards (e.g., Amazon), as well as immediate claw-back of any incentives provided for those corporations.

I’m sure Canadian teams could be used to run those seized operations either in the interim until hostilities are verifiably over, or permanently, for the betterment of the Canadian economy.