GodofLies @ GodofLies @lemmy.ca

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"Those that trade privacy for security deserve neither."

How about they start addressing the actual problem rather than half-measures from think tanks. If it was truly about children, they should be passing policies from a macro standpoint that encourage people to have a family and kids. Right now, it's economically grim and has been sliding that way for many decades. The rise of fascist and surveillance state policies is only going to make it worse. Say bye-bye to your birthrate and we're right back where we started again with the gov trying to pump the numbers via mass immigration.

What does all this have to do with this bill? The intent may be framed as protecting/preventing kids from adult material, but it's also about making it desirable to have kids because "big brother is watching you/protecting you" (SMH here on how stupid this all is). These legislators are out of touch. We as a society need to address the root of the problem - why do we have a CSAM problem in the first place? It's a horrific thing to have, and to be honest, those that turn to it likely have a mental illness.

As for kids accessing adult material online - why is the government being a nanny state? This is the parent's job.

I have zero confidence that they can keep everyone's data private and safe given how many breaches there are.

Yikes. Enshittification every turn of the way huh.

I'm sure people have counter talking points that point fingers at government run companies that are money pits, yet there are many that have historically run a profit only to get used as a government piggy bank during con/neo-liberal years and then left to die. ICBC in BC is a prime example.

If privatization always ran a profit, then why can't the Canadian government make it happen? What makes private capital human beings so capable that our collective powers can't? Something stinks.

I have no problem if he's trying to sell things on his channel. As a matter of fact, trying to sort through the best, economical of something these days have become a nightmare. Try searching online for the 'best' of anything and you're bombarded with so many choices. He's done the heavy lifting for you already.

Keep it up with the quality content and promoting good products!

Now excuse my ignorance here, but does the act actually say they explicitly can't generate revenue outside of its mandate? From a cursory search I do not believe so. Which then they cannot reasonably claim they couldn't. The Liberals knew Canada Post was in trouble during 2020, and now they've thrown a 37 year old minister at the problem? I'm in the same age range and it seems like all he can come up with is read the spreadsheets and decide to slash services because they're 'insolvent' and losing 10 million a day after giving it 1 billion to 'fix' their issues. I'm sorry, but they've tried nothing but throw money at it and are already out of ideas. I mean what's the Canadian government going to do if Canada Post goes out of its way to generate more revenue to keep it in the black? How is that in any way 'bad' if its benefits Canadians as a whole?

Canada Post's union has been trying to tell its management there are other ways to generate revenue (I do not think they've publicly said how yet) but it's C-suite is bullheaded from what I can tell. Hired to run the company, but not hired to do extraordinary work despite a 500k / year salary CEO. Their management should be on the hook more than the union and the rest of us Canadians paying for this so called 'essential' service.

Lol...leave? Leaving billions on the table overnight? Yeah, I would call the duopoly's bluff. You said it yourself, someone else will fill the void to take advantage of market conditions and provide the good/service that was there before. It just means Liberals and Cons lean corporate heavy.

Canada Post rested on its laurels for far too long and did not manage to make any big headways to improve from the management level - they like to keep blaming the government mandate - what a scapegoat. Their management needs a hard look. Our public dollars are being wasted on these people because they can't even think beyond just mail/parcel services.

If only Joel Lightbound and the C-suite of Canada Post knew that! Alas, they're incompetent and taking the easy way out of simply slashing services and layoffs instead of expanding goods and services to attempt to fill up the gap. Enshittification anyone? Liberals have become Con-lite and just drags out the timeline towards total privatization.

Even the new budget caters towards the private sector. Gee, without a good competitive Canada Post that delivers to all Canadians, small businesses are arguably less competitive now compared to companies that are paying for private delivery services. The Liberals can't have it both ways saying they back businesses while slashing the services that these businesses may use to be competitive relative to mega-cap companies.

Canada on a whole from the federal level down to the municipal level is anti-business. Starting up a business often requires a deep pocket with red tape every step of the way. If the Liberals want to really galvanize collective action from Canadians, they need to be providing business centric services that are easy to access, affordable and competitive. Where's the business starter kit from the government? Oh wait, there isn't one. Better spend a few grand and loads of time on a business degree huh?

"I'll say/do anything to get in/stay in power to have it my way because you're all too busy to find out what I did. And even if you did find out, what you going to do about it?" -your typical politician

Everyone is over thinking this. By having this ban in place, we ensure that people that live in the area have a stable priced supply of electricity. How would you feel when you woke up one day and the bill for your electricity was going to go up because some AI data centre was gobbling up all the supply that is available?

Some will argue..."but they're paying customers too and we can make a profit!". Perverse incentives. Electricity is an utility. Not a service. Get that in your heads. Why would we even want tech companies have any say in our utilities when they could possibly become the biggest customer to the power company? What? Are you thinking that those in government will "protect" you? We have all seen what lobbying can do.

While BC has a lot of renewables, but they are still not without a cost (hydro for example floods huge areas). If Alberta was smart (lol), this is where they could transition away from oil over time, alas, they have a plant.

All of you should go do some research on how much electricity these AI data centres are using. The amount is staggering. What's even crazier is the amount of capital these tech companies have and are willing to deploy to "have it their way" - both physically and politically.

What's Canada going to do when Stellantis is likely going to talk to the orange man to keep whatever legal action they may face at bay. It's all boiling down to business deals, despite kickbacks, contracts, incentives etc.

Here's a wild idea - maybe the feds should be massively transitioning to renewables (batteries, renewable energy, charging stations etc all need workers) and give current autoworkers jobs in that field or something that they can transfer their skills to? Make the transition seamless. But I'm sure no one in the federal government is willing to even begin thinking about that because, I believe politicians aren't willing to do the hard work to make it happen. They'd rather throw money at it to make the problem go away via corporate deals.

Framing it as "helpful" is stupid and irrelevant. Where you spend your hard earned money is a form of voting. Buying a product isn't just a simple trade of goods and services anymore - it hasn't been in a long time as long capitalism is the dominant form of monetary policy of the governments around the world.

Again people, keep voting with your wallets. It's actually more effective than what many governments at many levels can do!

Lol - about time they imploded.

Anyone who voted for them in the last election clearly didn't pay attention to what kind of crazy these people are. The last provincial election results were gross. Too close. They are the "fuck you, got mine and going to kick you down even more" party. I seriously question the integrity of anyone who supports these crazies.

Anyone blaming unions are a fool. Sure you can keep pointing at the bad unions of this and that with abusive power. The overall calculus of it all is that it is good for the worker and good for the economy. The boomer middle class got to where it was is because of unions. Full stop.

Section 107 when used should trigger something like dissolving the C-suite and the board if government intervention is needed to resolve the dispute. After all, they are asking the government to do THEIR jobs because they made it worse due to THEIR poor management. But hey, people love blaming unions and the worker drone below trying to do the jobs they were hired for right? Right?

There will be people saying about "free market" - don't kid yourself - in Canada and many countries, there's no such thing. Government subsidies, incentives, tax credits etc all go against that concept. I'm not for a full blown "free market". That would be disastrous all around in this current reality.

I would like to remind everyone that we don't have a court of justice. We have a court of law. Even the very terminology of 'court' is severely outdated. We don't go to 'court' of a ruler to make our case anymore. We go to 'court' because you're dissatisfied, or charged with something and the case is brought before a judge. The whole system is archaic - which is also why it is slow. The NDP rep should be thinking bigger (ie reform) when you're already at the provincial level of government rather than screeching that the system is 'too slow' which leads to 'lawlessness'. Just another day of government I guess huh?

That aside, anyone who gets behind the wheel should remind themselves that a few seconds in lapse of judgment could cause you to be charged end up in said court. Just that tiny few seconds. What should happen is a change in road design and in this day and age of 2025, more auto safety technology should be integrated and required by law. That would reduce the burden overall throughout the entire system. Of course that won't rule out the intentionally bad actors which will always exist no matter what you do.

You would think that after 6-7 six of straight losses they would have gotten an idea that their referenced "tried and true" methods didn't work? Geez, did they, the management, c-suite and board just wait another quarter, got their pay cheques, and said "it wasn't my problem/job". Union employees have absolutely no say on how Canada Post is managed and operated on the big picture level - so who's job IS it then? Why aren't any of these people in management getting fired/let go?

'Transformation'. More like getting gutted like what you see typically from failing companies run by fools and those seeking an easy way out.

Oh I am aware that they don't really need to turn a profit. Net zero / cost recovery is more than good enough. And I am in no way implying using government legislation to regulate that market. We need Canada Post to change their business model where they can still retain their currently hired employees. Are they seriously not able to make significant changes to their existing model to be more competitive? It reeks of a non-innovative c-suite and board (and government officials) unwilling to take the hard road of actually working with the employees to make complex organizational changes. They are taking the easy way out via 'standard accounting/business practices' by slashing services and worker layoffs. That's the easy way out.

What does the hard way look like? How about sitting down with union employees down to the lowest worker level and actually find ways for cost savings and new business opportunities to patch the shortfall? I don't to believe that CP management truly has tried other than finger-pointing at external private businesses stealing their lunch from underneath them or government legislation that's unwilling to change (because the fed gov is really the one in control here - so again, I'm saying they're just taking the easy way out. You think an elected federal government employee is going to sit down and do the hard work to go around talking to a large number of union employees to find a way through all this? My bet is no - they'll take the easy way out.)

Exactly, we should all be outraged at the other expenditures that the federal government is pushing. What good does a VW battery plant do for us as Canadians as a whole when it's for a private foreign company???

I will also say, you can't compare a battery plant to a postage service. The model to fund CP used to work until it didn't.

We should be asking what went wrong? Why is that so? Why aren't their executives being fired and the board changed? Did they even ask their own union employees for real feedback on what can be changed other than the tidbits we hear in the news? Because it seems like these days a lot of upper to mid management seem to be trying real hard to justify their own existences - elected government officials included (which we should always keep them to the fire and expect a high level of competence for handling our taxpayer money and good governance for us all equally).

I think the angle people aren't looking at more is the financial side of things and actually calculating it out. [https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/financial-and-sustainability-reports/2024-annual-report/our-financial-picture.page](Canada Post's Financials - See the first chart yourselves)

So it seems like 2018 they invested a little and the loss reduced. COVID happened so the big loss there isn't surprising. However, in between the reduced service, someone ate their lunch or their upper management / c-suite / board no longer has the qualifications to lead it's own team. Change the management already.

The monetary part of how much this subscription to Canada Post is going to be..: 841 million/41 million (current Canadian population) ~= $20.51 cents (rough math of ~$52.56 dollars per household based on 16 million addresses in Canada Post's system) Canadian to have delivery/mailbox/post offices/parcel pickups. Now go compare the rates that Canada Post offers versus FedDex, DHL etc. Ask yourself, would you still use Canada Post?

So yeah, let's all be outraged about $52.56 dollars for this service.

The tree atrium area is tiny - especially the area that you can walk on - it's probably like only the size of a small office room. YVR is only good when compared to North American airports, which is a low bar. Also, airport vending machines and shops price gouge compared asian international airports.

Good. Now open public washrooms at all stations, employ janitors to keep it clean, then hire staff attendants at all stations during operation hours, not attendants that walk around and move around stations. That's just the bare minimum standard for a fully fledged public transit system. Then maybe you can start justifying the high prices of public transit relative to other countries.

But honestly, the c-suite and the board of Translink are non-innovative - they should be financializing the Compass Card with its own network of merchants and stores that take it as payment, ability to load and offer slight incentives to use it over credit cards - which we know ultimately only goes to enrich banks and American companies. All I see is Translink trying to 'wash' itself with a positive image by spending money on 'community outreach'. What? You have a captive audience - what outreach do you actually need? Waste of money.