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Mark Carney's latest LinkedIn post is celebrating the right wing premiers of Alberta and Ontario
  • When the Reform Party took over the Cons, the Cons moved to the Liberal Party and the Liberals moved to the NDP. Historical voters of each moved accordingly

    As for the oil plan, it makes no sense; The UCP closed the refineries the ANDP opened to ensure oil has to be traded to the US and bought back by us. A pipeline to Ontario to then sell it to the US and buy it back doesn’t make any sense

  • The Steam controller was ahead of its time
  • But then—here comes the Steam Controller. Suddenly, I was able to reprogram all the inputs. I could take basic keys, like the spacebar, and map them to a button on the controller—like the A button. And once you did that, you could share your controller configuration with the Steam community, or reuse a config someone else already made. It was pretty awesome.

    Reprogramming inputs is how I use my ps4 controller to play RuneScape

  • 53% of Canadians now skip U.S. booze for Canadian or global picks
  • Half the country wants to cosplay as Americans any chance they can. Our society is deeply ingrained with American hand me down values.

    You’re thinking of England

    We thought this would teach you zoomers why everyone older than you hates Americans

  • Drawn Together- Israel
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    (Nat Post) Anthony Koch: The U.K. is ending open-borders immigration. Canada should do the same
    nationalpost.com Anthony Koch: The U.K. is ending open-borders immigration. Canada should do the same

    In Canada, Liberal reaction has been too piecemeal, too little and too late to undo the damage caused by uncontrolled population growth

    Anthony Koch: The U.K. is ending open-borders immigration. Canada should do the same

    So firstly, Canada has never had open border policy. The UK is just adopting what we currently have

    Secondly, the only politician who was advocating for open borders was Pierre Poilievre and he lost his seat

    Which means this article is misplaced

    >In one of the most consequential political shifts in recent memory, Starmer has charted a new and unapologetically realist course on immigration. It is a striking departure not only from his party’s past rhetoric, but from the dominant dogma that has guided western policy-making for the better part of three decades: that mass immigration is always an economic benefit, a social good, and a moral imperative.

    This isn’t journalism; it’s covering your ears, closing your eyes, and shouting “lalala”

    Firstly, it ignores that right wingers are the ones pushing for higher immigration not for moral superiority but for the economic benefit of it keep costs down

    Secondly, the societal good it does is that lower wages meaning billionaires will be more likely to bring business to a place where they can make more money for themselves.

    Thirdly, also for the betterment of society is that it helps boomers because more people paying taxes means they are able to retire, able to receive healthcare, and because they were terrible at saving it allows them to sell their 100k houses for 1m+ so they can afford retirement

    >It is common sense, but in Canada, it still isn’t common currency.

    It is just a rehash of “it’s happening in the UK” until this point but I wanted to pay mention to the term “common sense”

    This is a term politicians and now apparently media use when they can’t justify a position

    What is common sense? Being able to speak English in UK.

    Well obviously it is common currency in Canada because part of getting a work permit is proving that you can speak English or French. To get a study permit you need to show an even higher level of proficiency

    >Even as we face the unmistakable consequences of population-driven pressure on housing, health care, and wages, immigration remains a third rail in Canadian politics. Raising concerns, no matter how grounded in data or lived experience, is still treated as impolite at best and inflammatory at worst.

    As I pointed out in the opening, the only politician to make these big scary claims you say are normal lost his seat

    Now you could focus on Singh being our most anti-immigration leader losing his seat to back up this claim but the author doesn’t mention him

    Instead the author makes claim after claim with nothing to back it up

    >As recently as 2022, Canada was adding more than a million people per year through a combination of permanent immigration, international student intake, temporary worker programs, and asylum claims. This is not coordinated nation-building, it is unmanaged growth.

    Well based on your endorsement of the UK adopting our system you seem to be okay with this and as pointed out we already have language requirements but

    >Raising concerns, no matter how grounded in data or lived experience

    You started with this and still didn’t provide anything

    Where are the stats or experiences that tie 1 million immigrants to unmanaged growth?

    >But the effects are not merely economic. They are social, cultural, and civil as well. On the streets of Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal, diaspora groups now square off over foreign conflicts with disturbing frequency. Protests turn into brawls. Schools become battlegrounds. Religious institutions face threats and vandalism not for what they preach here in Canada, but for the politics of distant homelands.

    I imagine this is about Israel/Palestine but where is the proof that you heralded as having? Where are the references?

    I can reference Canada’s role in WW1, 2, and Vietnam as historical references to show this isn’t caused by immigration and existed beforehand. Canada’s peacekeeping reputation (although fraudulent) rests on us being involved in conflicts we aren’t part of

    >Despite a decade of record population growth, Canada’s real GDP per capita has stagnated. Productivity is declining. Infrastructure lags far behind need. The promise of a growing economy has not translated into growing prosperity for the average Canadian.

    This is a good thing, we added more people and our per capita gdp didn’t go down. That means we grew enough to accommodate these people that the author claims are unmanaged, not just contradicting themselves but still lacking the evidence and facts they claim they have to back up this claim

    >The New Democratic Party offers no meaningful dissent, still clinging to the romanticism of borderless globalism. And the Conservative party, though beginning to voice legitimate concerns about housing supply and integration, has yet to present a coherent and politically confident plan to reform the immigration system.

    Straight up false. The NDP plan was to tie a payment to immigration so if any future government wanted to bring in an immigrant they would have to pay the province that settles them. This vastly reduces the ability of the Federal government to bring immigrants in

    The Cons plan was to remove funding for roads unless the municipality increased it’s population by 5% every year

    >If even Britain’s Labour government, long a standard-bearer of liberal cosmopolitanism, can shift course, what’s stopping Canada’s political class?

    Idiots like you that pretend the UK isn’t just adopting our system

    >The reckoning is coming. If Britain can face it head-on, surely we can too. Better to shape the future on our own terms than to be overwhelmed by its arrival.

    What does this even mean

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    Singh is killing it in a press conference on requesting an emergency parliamentary meeting

    Seriously if you are missing it you should go back and listen. I’m watching on CBCNN which is paid but if anyone has a post conference link that’d be great

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    Ban on Nazi symbols passes at Pickering Council after lengthy debate

    > Councillor Lisa Robinson tried to equate the swastika with the anti-racism Black power raised fist, calling it a “symbol of hate” common to “Communist and Marxist ideologies.”

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    Toronto Jewish School Shot at Again

    Third time this year, overnight when it was empty just like before

    Imagine being so mad at a building

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    Are there gatcha bots I can add to the server? {mudae or fable like}

    Discord bots to give users collection games. Trying to move people off discord but this is a sticking point

    Reference

    https://github.com/ker0olos/fable

    https://top.gg/bot/432610292342587392

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    Why do some cbc videos not have CC?

    For instance this video https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.7170227

    Has closed captions I can put on but this video doesn’t

    https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/1.7064579

    How does that work with accessibility laws? I wish there was just a scribed button I could press to read the whole video instead of having to pause constantly

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    What is the easiest subtitle approach?

    The easiest I found was going to each episode and editing the subtitles then uploading the file (even though they are in the same directory)

    I’m assuming if I named better then it wouldn’t be an issue since the subtitles are named “e1, e2, etc”

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    shitposting @lemmy.ml ILikeBoobies @lemmy.ca
    I don’t think that’s right
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    Why does YouTube keep recommending anti-Korea/Japan stories and pro-China stories from the South China Morning Post

    I never click on them and I don’t consume any other content related to those countries but every so often I’ll see an anti (those countries) headline in my feed and then the next few days will have pro occupied China stories

    It feels like targeted propaganda since I never see good stories about the other countries and it makes me wonder why YouTube hasn’t been broken up if they are too big to monitor that

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