I believe this is the first instance where PP been open about using his weapon against our fundamental rights.
I mean yes we’ve long suspected it would be this way, and he’s hinted at it before.
But this is no time to be smug. Our rights are under attack, and most Canadians don’t even understand it’s happening. So I challenge you to change the attitude, and try to reach out to people who don’t understand section 33 and explain to them what’s at stake and why they must vote to stop this.
Canadian media is busy telling you the most important issue in politics this week is two low-level LPC staffers making a mistake.
But meanwhile, our fundamental rights are under attack. Ostensibly to enact some American-made crime policy that caused widespread harm there and is broadly understood to be a failure.
This is important, and it affects each and every one of you reading this. Your rights are at stake.
Get out there and vote. If you can’t stomach strategic voting to cross party lines, or even if you dislike the choices available at the local or leadership level — go and vote regardless. When Canadians reject this evil and send PP and his MAGA goons to the dumpster, know that you were an active participant in the rejection.
The video doesn’t show evidence of this being a planned out endeavour.
For it to be grift, those people would have had to benefitted from the dip in some way. But that’s not what this shows, it’s just billionaires having their shares go down in value because of trumps idiocy and then back up from the whiplash when he erratically reversed course.
Spraytan is trying to ingratiate himself to these rich assholes by taking credit for their gains by wilfully ignoring their losses were inflicted by him.
This is not to say that no one in the administration is using this for their own gains. It’s entirely likely that some are.
I’m just super sick of this narrative that Trump secretly has some master plan when we have 40+ years of well documented evidence about how stupid this man is.
The burden is on people who understand what the notwithstanding clause means to explain to the less educated how dangerous this game is.
Do any of your friends and family know what this clause means? Every time I bring up the topic outside of politically active circles, I get a blank stare.
This proposal is illustrative to what’s at stake here. I’ll write an opinion piece on this later today.
It’s important to the world to drop the “quietly” bit.
The US administration is behaving erratically and irrationally. This isn’t a punchline to some smug joke, it has important repercussions for world trade and defence needs.
Let’s cut the conspiracy theories about how they are doing this for graft, and the unfounded “4d chess” approaches. Some people in the administration may be trying to steer the government in these ways, but the captain of the ship is an unleashed chaos monkey surrounded by sycophantic yes-men.
The tariffs could double tomorrow or be gone tomorrow. The US could invade Greenland with a military force tomorrow or drop it completely move onto some shiny new idiocy.
We in the rest of the world need to move with urgency in order to be prepared for the worst. This is a tall task, so the longer we keep these admissions quiet the longer we are vulnerable
Yes exactly. A lower total cost of ownership taxi or delivery fleet or long haul trucking could provide the incentive for this type of deployment.
Because as the grandparent comment suggests, for routine use this type of infrastructure is not worth the expense. But once it’s there, that opens up possibilities for broader use cases.
If you're calculating best possible return on investment, nationally or in a more competitive riding would probably be the most useful. The national ads have been pretty high quality so far, such as the Mike Myers one, and many of the competitive ridings are ones that were completely unexpected and have few resources.
But also, life's too short to always just be about the best return on investment. I was happy to help support my friend, she was absolutely tickled pink to be able to tell her fellow volunteers that she brought in a donor. And yes, because doing something petty can feel good too.
In order to support a friend of mine lives in this riding — she’s been braving Ottawa weather going door -to-door for Fanjoy, despite being in her 60s — I donated the max allowed to Fanjoy.
Ok fine. The “in support” is only half true, the other part is that I’m a petty dork who would take tremendous joy in being a small part in seeing PP lose his own seat.
Edit: I just refreshed my Home feed and saw your Fanjoy post there. Great work.
You’re absolutely correct that this is not needed for routine usage. Level 1 charging is sufficient for most routine cases, and level 2 charging is sufficient for the rest.
The main use case for this super-fast technology is for cases where the vehicles are in constant use, such as taxis and long-haul trips. These are doable with level 2/3 but not ideal and are still areas where ICE are dominant.
So while not strictly required, this technology will be useful to make further inroads if we can get the infrastructure to accompany it. Which as the article suggests, is no small feat.
(Unrelated, I have the same car as you. Ioniq gets all the attention but the Kona is such a great EV!)
Hyundai and their sister company Kia make some great EVs! I drive one (Kona EV) and I’m very happy with it.
I’m not sure what you mean by “Electra” though… they have Elantra but that’s only ICE or hybrid as far as I know. Maybe I’m missing an inside joke or something :)
If it was just the Byrne one I’d give it a pass as a bad joke.
But the notion of the CPC undermining the electoral process here — a real threat, considering their maga ideology — is not a joke. We need to discourage those elements who seek to discredit the vote outcome, not stoke those elements for some short-term media cycle.
It’s an irresponsibility dangerous game. If this story is true, those partisans should be immediately fired and permanently barred from political involvement going forward by the party.
I have repeatedly and consistently agreed that Israel uses human shields, because it is true.
You know just as well as I do that Hamas uses their own people as human shields. Their entire operation is to hide amongst their civilian population and infrastructure and use that as cover to attack and kill.
The difference is that you agree with the objectives of Hamas, and so you don’t want to acknowledge the horrors of the tactics they use. Seeing the situation as black and white with “your side” as the unassailable heroes and the “other side” as villains.
But I reject this childish outlook, because it’s not a movie it’s real life. The govt of Israel are indeed villains, but so are Hamas.
I’m blessed because BC grown lettuce is quite plentiful in our stores in Vancouver. And it’s not some specialty boutique product, I was doing that before the boycotts began not just because it was local but because it was good and reasonably priced.
There are several large-scale “vertical” hydroponic farms operating here in BC now, and I bet there are some in Quebec with its plentiful hydro power — or if not there will be more coming because they aren’t crazy hard to setup.
I see this at the grocery stores I frequent — lots more fresh produce coming in from Mexico and South America now.
I certainly haven’t purchased any American produce or meat since the 51st state threats began. I keep expecting that to be difficult but their stuff is becoming increasingly rare o the shelves.
I disagree, I believe that both have well-intentioned people both amongst supporters and candidates. Many of these feel disenfranchised by the CPC and LPC, and have opposing interests and preferences which would otherwise go unheard.
But FPTP frames the voting process as a zero-sum game. In the current system they are incentivized to either abandon hope in an alternative to these or split the vote. They didn’t create the system to be how it is, and they both would very much prefer the system to be different.
So I reject the casual and dismissive nature of your reply here. May is using a cynical political calculus here to get what she wants — and it feels wrong to blame her for this in isolation when you can find the same types of behaviour from other leaders. Hell, even how Carney removed a carbon pricing policy that he assuredly still knew was the best policy — something I just endorsed in the parent comment — is the same sort of political calculus.
Do I wish that May wouldn’t be disengenous here for short-term political gains? Yes. Do I wish that Singh wouldn’t regurgitate CPC talking points he knows to be false? Again, yes. I hate that they are doing this, but it’s not because they are part of some conspiracy it’s because that’s what I assume they feel is the necessary evil to advance the causes they believe in.
TLDR can we just fucking kill FPTP please for just about anything else?
American policy is tearing apart homes, ruining people’s lives, causing harm to vulnerable people, triggering layoffs and upheaval worldwide, normalizing graft and corruption at the highest levels, and is putting an end the democratic process.
So yes, let’s talk about how some rich tourists feel a bit bad. It’s their struggles that we really need to focus on.
I believe this is the first instance where PP been open about using his weapon against our fundamental rights.
I mean yes we’ve long suspected it would be this way, and he’s hinted at it before.
But this is no time to be smug. Our rights are under attack, and most Canadians don’t even understand it’s happening. So I challenge you to change the attitude, and try to reach out to people who don’t understand section 33 and explain to them what’s at stake and why they must vote to stop this.