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As part of the supports for businesses, the government is providing $5 billion over two years for exporters to help them find new markets beyond the U.S. and a $500-million loan program through the Business Development Bank of Canada for businesses directly impacted by the tariffs.

The "finding other markets" thing sounds great.

Best housing policy is to have government compete with private sector building "market affordable" (small) homes that are meant to break even, and so costs nothing.

Maybe even at a loss.

Not even cities propose this, though they can do it independently.

Cities can't levy taxes so they are least able to do it - and they tend to have a lot of responsibilities. The feds and provinces can raise money through taxes, so they are the most logical actor to take it on.

I want to be among people who interact as equals, who share ideas, who cooperate in a genuine way.

I think online journalism might be a good example of influencers and users interacting as equals. Users provide extra information, ask questions, reify, and help highlight where the journalist can focus. The journalist does the leg work to produce novel news.

If we try a shortcut to more users through money, what is the point?

To build an interesting, self sustaining network, where people can express themselves fully, and understand each other.

The features I'm suggesting would benefit everyone: a decent view of trending topics/posts/tags; mod-controlled tags; stuff like that. Most users would find them helpful, but a few could use it to build a livelihood that others value.

The unix surrealism Lemmite is awesome. They deserve my donations. Saying that people shouldn't be able to use the platform to express themselves rejects a whole bunch of people.

Now, I also think that the monymaker needing to serve millions of people can go and do that elsewhere.

That's the issue. If we're gonna get evil tech bros out of our human interactions, we need to build a platform that doesn't reject people who like to eat.

Journalists need to get access to sources, and want to see when events are happening.

Documentary creators want a way to create interesting and useful videos that will earn them a living.

Streamers want a platform that can serve a bunch of users with near-realtime (okay, just fast) interactions.

That's what OP's link is missing: being able to use a platform to do your preferred job is one of the things that makes a platform compelling. Until we have that, we're rejecting a big part of our audience.

Their housing plan says they want to build 500,000 rental units in the next ten years (with 250k in five years)?

I appreciate the 20% tax on foreign buyers, and mentioning money laundering, but damn. That is sparse.

Is there a link to the plan? That looks like a press release.

The fediverse won’t succeed just because it’s better. It will succeed if and only if people choose it.

Part of that is making it monetizable. Influencers can build huge followings (and make some cash) because existing platforms recommend their content to other users.

Mastodon devs have chosen not to provide recommendations and quote posts. That's reasonable, but it reduces the utility of the platform, and it cedes space to Twitter & co.

To my knowledge, the only creator that's exclusive to Lemmy is the unix surrealism author. Until it's easy to monetize content, we're gonna have a hard time attracting creators, and a hard time attracting users.

Saxe-Coburg and Gotha playing the long game

But perhaps the most revolutionary idea to emerge from Nato's Nordic expansion is the region's "Total Defence" concept.

Also applied by Norway and Denmark, it considers national infrastructure such as the internet and telephony, energy generation and distribution, road networks, and secure supplies of food, medicine as parts of a total defence system.

Much of this may not be registered as defence spending in the statistics, but at the same time, none of it is free.

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B A S E D

Despite no clear sources of income, they spent $153,000 on pro-oil and anti-regulation social media advertising, focused on eight postal code regions in just one month. This is an amount far greater than most genuine grassroots environmental causes have to spend on operations in a given year, let alone advertising.

It's how they roll.

It'd be interesting to see how Carney's proposed policies compare to the Conservatives.

new cyberdeck. who dis?

You're right. It says it right there.

Maybe? Tradespeople are aging out, and there aren't enough people entering the trades.

Mobility would be great, and I'm all for it, but that probably isn't enough to build the 3+ million homes necessary to improve affordability.

Patrick Brazeau is an extreme illustration of why we need to be able to remove Senators more easily, and evolve the Senate out of its current form.

Beats turning it off. I feel like this is escalation, which we probably don't want, but hey, what's the worst that'll happen?