[–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A better title: Alberta on par with QC and SK in opposing separation.

As much as I would love to deride this minority on their position, I'd rather prefer we

  1. try to understand if there is anything they see that the rest doesn't
  2. inform them about the fallacy of separation, its cost, how it impacts the international leverage, etc.
  3. every province would build their own equivalent of the Bloc, to defend provincial interests, and to be better at being a federation of provinces.
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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Well, I'm not sure who has the worst plan for housing between PP which wants to cut sales taxes [1] and Blanchet which doesn't seem to understand you don't get more supply by simply letting people pay more [2].

    Sorry, but I mostly remember those infuriating quotes from the french debate. They appeared a bit more careful the next day.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Honestly, I'd like everyone to take back the road. Enforce lower speeds in streets AND in bike lanes. I don't mind bikes in the streets and runners in bike lanes, so long as we limit speeding on both so they can safely coexist.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Some Lemmy, to get the hot takes and the latest Beaverton gossip.

    But I get most of the info from my local newspaper (which does a beautiful job of curating a mix of local and international news). With time, I got exhausted of how everything on social media is just polarized headlines and opinion pieces. When I went back to the old media, things felt more manageable, less about grabbing my attention, somewhat boring ; pretty nice overall.

    Local news orgs are struggling, so if you can afford subscribing they could use it. (while this is the season: many news subscriptions are tax-deductible; look it up)

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Sadly, longer jail time is purely placebo. Plenty of studies show jail time has no incidence on crime rate. Sure, locking people for longer would delay recidivism, but we could do better than that.

    It's not about logic though. Longer jail time proponents do lean on the emotional argument of a few anecdotal cases or recidivism. This tend to make flashy headlines and stick with the population.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    I don't have confidence in any majority government. The elected party doing as they want and ignoring part of the electorate is a failure of democracy. Every motion should be evaluated on its merit, not through agreements of party support. In that sense, the likelihood of a majority Conservative after an election would be a bad thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The opinion of Linux desktop users (or any users really) do not count in the enterprise world. Somehow, if management bought in on the Crowdstrike rootkit bandwagon, you'll see it on corporate hardware. It doesn't matter if it's a bad plan; it doesn't matter if it gives an American company a backdoor to all you infrastructure; if the CISO decides everyone gets it, everyone get it.

    The only thing you can really do as a lowly employee is keep any such device away from any personal info or network as if it's infected by malware (which I would argue is exactly what it is).

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