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  Canada, Following the Rules, Agreements, borrowing Europe's better ideas <- we're supposed to be good at this? Instead of privatize airports to build Canada, make affordable housing public. Follow Finland's Munifin and subsidize/ guarantee housing finance. No shortage of demand in Canada. Make financing housing less risky than privatizing airports and building pipelines. Follow Austria and Vienna's housing association legislation Have municipalities, worker organizations...

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  Tumbler Ridge School shooting "Van Rootselaar [the shooter] told ChatGPT about the account ban, noting she had specified “a famous real-world mall as the target” and herself as the perpetrator, but also claiming the scenario hadn’t been real. In response, ChatGPT explained why such violent content would be flagged—and then offered tips on how to evade its own safeguards.. If local authorities already concerned about her behavior and mental health had been alerted to the chats, the strong...

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  David Eby drops election writ as B.C.'s centre-right continues to eat itself alive #bcpoli https://provincialtimes.ca/david-eby-drops-election-writ-as-b-c-s-centre-right-continues-to-eat-itself-alive

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  Kerry-Lynne Findlay has announced she’s stepping down as leader of the B.C. Conservatives. She posted a statement to social media Sunday afternoon (Sept. 20). It came hours after another defection from her party when Surrey Serpentine MLA Linda Hepner quit caucus. #bcpoli #cdnpoli https://campbellrivermirror.com/2026/09/20/kerry-lynne-findlay-steps-down-as-leader-of-b-c-conservatives/

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  AI killing people? It already contributed to the death of 9 people in a rare Canadian school shooting. (Tumbler Ridge Feb 10, 2026) OpenAI is desperate to avoid any US legal precedents being set and is seeking to dismiss all the lawsuits it faces, arguing they should be held in British Columbia https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/openai-shooting-court-dismiss-9.7348748

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  Airport public private partnerships (PPP)? Every Canadian has to look how school PPP projects massively inflated the cost of building and maintaining schools. Do we the same for the countries 4 biggest airports? " P3 schools fail to make the grade All evidence shows P3s are more expensive, less accountable and transparent than traditional ways of building public infrastructure.. KPMG Value for Money report on the Saskatchewan P3 schools shows the traditional build model is less expensi...

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  “Since the 1970s, Vancouver has tripled its total number of housing units. If adding housing supply and new density to a city leads to affordable housing as many now contend, Vancouver should have the lowest housing prices in North America. It has the highest!” Every policy that suggests just build more houses, just remove zoning restrictions, just reduce municipal development fees, just cut taxes, to solve the housing cost crisis will fail. The problem is housing as a vehicle for profit limi...

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  “Canada, as a country familiar with Trump’s economic extortion, needs to step up. We are a rich country watching a poorer country in our hemisphere face imperial aggression from a common foe. We helped build many of the institutions of international law and global diplomacy that should avert this kind of bullying. We are awash in political capital which we seem unwilling to spend. We have a capable navy and ample oil. And, most relevant, we have a 66 year record of defying American blockades aga...

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  Who is Carney worried about being reliable to? The foreign shareholders who own most of Canada’s oil industry, the ever declining number of Canadian oil workers, or Canada’s banks and their exposure to the oil industry? https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-trump-oil-tariffs-negotiations-9.7289518 https://www.theenergymix.com/no-new-jobs-came-from-albertas-4b-job-creation-tax-cut-for-big-oil/ https://influencemap.org/briefing/Canada-s-Big-Five-Banks-Fueling-Fossil-Risk-33753

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  The Staple Trap "Canada has become a rich country and a middle power, but one with consistent underlying vulnerability and lack of sovereignty.. Canada’s political economy is characterized by a longstanding struggle to develop systems of complementary technology and industries against the pull of resource extraction lock-in, referred to as the “staple trap.”1 The trap is set by resource extraction developments that require large, fixed cost infrastructures and the installation of other “r...

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  @JEmphatically@mstdn.ca A critical summary of data centre cooling math. Thermodynamics that can’t be ignored no matter how hard the marketing is done. https://youtu.be/8bbe-Ev-Yns?si=rm0KHeW2mjkVmqx3

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  Electoral Reform, FPTP, Trudeau’s proportional rep = radical extreme? “(UK) Reform is everything that Trudeau claimed to have feared, but apparently didn’t believe could actually be a material concern under the FPTP system. However, Reform is currently polling NEAR MAJORITY TERRITORY.. This isn’t just a case of a radical party holding the balance of power—which was Trudeau’s criticism of PR—Reform has a real shot at holding all the power. Ireland (with proportional rep) are fueling political...

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  "Recall campaign against Vancouver-Quilchena MLA Dallas Brodie fails Elections B.C. says petition collected less than a quarter of the number of signatures required to remove her" Vancouver-Quilchena is satisfied with Dallas Brodie? #bcpoli https://www.bcafn.ca/news/bcafn-condemns-mla-dallas-brodies-stance-challenging-presence-unmarked-graves-former https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/recall-campaign-against-mla-dallas-brodie-fails-9.7277370

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  “Trump has signed an executive order that will impose tariffs of 50 per cent on a wide range of Canadian exports … products that until now have been allowed into the U.S. tariff-free under terms of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) would be hit.. is five times higher than the current duty imposed on the small portion of Canada's exports to the U.S. that don't comply with CUSMA” #cdnpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/trump-canada-us-trade-tariffs-cusma-usmca-9.7276973

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  "Pat King, a key figure in the 2022 convoy protests, will be re-sentenced after the Ontario Court of Appeal sided with Crown prosecutors who argued his original punishment was too lenient.. The appeal ruling could have broader implications for other Freedom Convoy cases. Tamara Lich and Chris Barber" >1 "King lost because the evidence showed he helped orchestrate a deliberate effort to paralyze downtown Ottawa, using noise, blockades, and relentless pressure to bend the coun...

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  @nikolas@journa.host Just in case not known “Canada”’s oil and gas industry is in reality America’s oil industry operating in Canada. American shareholders hold far more power on what the oil industry in Canada does than Canadian politicians. The last time Canada’s federal govt tried policy to direct the industry not to pursue the most profitable, the national energy program, it decimated support of Canada’s Liberal party in western Canada. https://energi.media/news/foreign-owned-oil-compan...

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  “The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) has passed an emergency resolution that calls on Canada to criminalize residential school denialism.” https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/afn-aga-resolution-residential-school-denialism-9.7271197

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  “The personal and professional bank accounts of lawyer Jeff Rath, one of the leaders of Alberta’s separatist movement, were temporarily frozen as part of a legal dispute over millions of dollars in trust funds that a First Nation alleges were misappropriated.” #abpoli https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/jeff-rath-tallcree-first-nation-court-9.7270118

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  Health IT position, Nanaimo, Vancouver Island, Canada Specialist, Clinical Informatics #tech #it #healthcare #patientrecords https://islandhealth.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/227690

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  Canada is now “Elbows down” on international justice? Canada was instrumental in the formation of the International criminal court https://justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/08/canada-helped-build-the-icc-now-its-silence-is-helping-destroy-it/ https://www.international.gc.ca/world-monde/international_relations-relations_internationales/icc-cpi/index.aspx?lang=eng

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  Canada should wait until carbon capture proves it can work before any subsidies. SK’s Boundary Dam capture cost $1B and still only captures only 57% carbon emissions “Large-scale public investment in CCS is misguided. The technology has struggled to achieve meaningful emissions reductions or prove its long-term viability. The lack of demonstrated success and heightened financial risks indicate public investments are unlikely to yield the desired environmental or economic benefits.. IEEFA ha...

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  The Oud, ancestor of guitar https://youtu.be/ZLbQcs3W0Bs?si=zxxJKrhuuf51KFcG

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  When is significant offshore wind coming to Canada? 3 oceans, but the country is focused on pipeline to server foreign shareholders? Baltic Power, a 76-turbine offshore wind farm being developed in the Baltic Sea by Orlen, Poland’s state-controlled energy company, and Canadian renewable energy firm Northland Power. https://tvpworld.com/94273846/baltic-power-polands-first-offshore-wind-farm-now-feeding-power-to-grid

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  Canada's bank face the biggest risk? "Canadian banks apart from their global peers, and appears to expose them to elevated financial risks associated with the energy transition" Is this why Canda's banker led government is willing to provide yet another taxpayer funded pipeline, while the $30B cost of the previous one remains unpaid, requiring how many generations of taxpayer support? "Canada" s oil industry in foreign owned. Supprting it suports foreign sharehold...

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@trevortombe/116892078810474103 a piece from one of AtlasNetwork’s Canadian branches McDonald Laurier Institute, dismissing equalization #atlasnetwork https://web.archive.org/web/20200812092125/https://www.atlasnetwork.org/partners/global-directory/macdonald-laurier-institute-for-public-policy

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  BC gov’t Condo purchase? “a direct subsidy to developers and a protective shield for land speculators who locked in elevated gains when the market was white hot.. Those who profit from building should help pay for the infrastructure their projects demand. This has been the normal way development has proceeded for decades.. Reducing or eliminating development charges simply increases what developers can bid for land, delivering a direct subsidy to whoever sold the parcel” #bcpoli https://the...

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  Tamara Lich can apparently escape her house arrest by working as a “journalist” for Rebel Media. Can Canadian justice get its crap together? #cdnpoli https://pressprogress.ca/us-ambassador-pete-hoekstra-hosts-far-right-activists-and-right-wing-media-personalities-at-fourth-of-july-party-in-ottawa/

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  @JEmphatically@mstdn.ca Has there been any analysis of how competitive the Chinese, Kazakhstan, Asian oil fields are to Canadian produced oil? China produces as much oil as Canada. China invests and subsidizes. Is Canada prepared to compete against this? For a foreign dominated industry? Just because oil could be shipped to Asia how much would actually be bought? Asia buying significant Canadian oil is just a Daniel Smith mirage? Canada Energy Regulator says the oil exports that didn't...

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  Canadians and our politicians seem to have forgotten that the oil industry in Canada is American owned. A new pipeline will do far more for American investors than Canadians. For an ever declining number of service jobs taxpayers will subsidize a pipeline for a foreign dominated industry? Hewers of bitumen and haulers of oil? “From 2021-2023, the oil and gas industry made $135.2B in operating profits while paying workers only $43B. That’s $3.14 in profits for every dollar paid to workers” ht...

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  “the prime minister concluded that if the two most urgent tasks at this moment in history are saving the country and saving the planet, his priority must be saving the country. Someone else will have to save the planet, and if that turns out to be China, it does not bode well for the future of a pipeline full of diluted bitumen from Alberta.” https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026/07/03/Inside-Carney-Pipeline-Deal-Alberta-BC/