I’d prefer a very slim minority but I’m about to repeat email my MP about forcing voting reform through now that they’re in majority territory. Perhaps they’ll Trudeau it, perhaps not.

Neat

Worse, they proactively passed legislation authorizing the invasion of The Hague in case a US official was ever brought there for war crimes. Thank dubya and the 2002 congress.

Oh I agree. When the tracks on Osborne by the Leg poke out I find it very symbolic.

Super cool post.

I wish we hadn’t paved over our streetcar lines. 120 years later and Winnipeg feels less like a city and more like a village.

I wouldn’t complain about more activity. Sadly I’m exclusively a commentor, I essentially never post anything. I’ll sub here and I think I’m already subbed to the manitoba one.

Yep, that’s the one.

Damn we have 4 Winnipeggers on various federated apps, that’s more than I thought there would be.

Yes.

Joy’s was my primary store for like 6 years. The older Korean couple who own it are lovely people.

God, this tax cut just keeps getting dumber and dumber. I don’t know how people who supported high sugar beverage taxes, etc. could possibly justify this other than pandering to the North American anti-tax mentality. The original CBC article’s example of a “win” under this tax cut was a man who paid about $6.50 of PST on about $300 of groceries. What a waste of everyone’s time and money.

Put the PST back up the 1% the PC cut off and stop begging for federal funds.

Your 20s suck. No one talks about this. 22-26 were the worst years of my life. I just turned 30 and while I “regret” losing some time of my youth and wish I had more of it, my life is only getting better.

In my 20s I thought I knew what my life was gonna look like, but really there’s so much that you’re still experiencing for the first time. 20s are tumultuous and chaotic, you’re typically low on money, unsure of what you want out of life, unsure of what you’re capable of, and at least for me, I wasn’t sure anything good could possibly come from the mess I felt I created.

Sometime around 27-28 the absurdity of it all kinda hit me, and I realized that I actually am kind of capable of handling my affairs, the people around me also generally stopped acting like chaotic idiots, and I kind of “found my groove” so to speak. So far I have more money and stability than I thought was possible (partially by learning what I didn’t actually want to spend money on), my work life is much less chaotic, and considering myself to be capable has resulted in my workplace taking me more seriously as well.

It can get better. I think everyone’s 20s suck. It’s a time when you have the minimum money you realistically ever will, with all of the responsibilities of a real adult but none of the authority or stability of one. Everyone around you is dumb as shit and figuring themselves out too, so even if you have yourself largely figured out, you’re still somewhat at the mercy of your social group’s stability.

Hang in there friend.

Yes, I hope the NDP are able to kill the existing ones. Generally I like Wab and the NDP, he was my MLA for a great number of years. I just wish our politics broadly wasn’t so focused on cutting taxes. The gas tax “vacation” hurt my soul, we need to be doubling down on transit and active transportation, not encouraging every family go buy a 2nd F150 to take the kids to work.

I’ll firmly vote NDP again, I’ll never let perfect be the enemy of good.

No tax - only cut!

Of all the things to cut tax on, this is probably the best… way better than the gas tax perma-vacation Wab gave us. But I’m not gonna lie, I’d rather we target the rampant supply chain monopolies, retailer monopolies, etc. I mean shit, Safeway has an agreement with the City of Winnipeg to disallow other grocery stores within 1km or something like that. It’s illegal to open competition! Go after that! But no, North Americans can only conceptualize tax cuts.

Uh, vaguely, yes. They’re essentially pinned to 0% because they need to get their inflation up, but that’s not really caused by their national debt. They’re definitely not in an enviable position overall, but their 260%+ debt:gdp ratio isn’t really why.

Because so far the fed has remained independent, and national debt matters far less than most people think it does. Take a look at Japan - theoretically in debt WAY over their head, but the Bank of Japan is actually trillions of yen in the black and mostly invested in the Japanese economy, getting yields of 6-7% on their holdings far above their debt service. Their pension fund is a majority stakeholder in basically all internal infrastructure, and despite stagnant “growth”, Japan’s real wage growth is like 4-5% YOY.

As with anything economics, a single metric usually tells a bad story. Whether we like it or not, the US economy is pretty robust and even a moron like Trump can’t really kill it totally in 4 years without messing with the currency directly. The downfall will be long and drawn out.

It literally cannot. It prints the currency they owe debt in. Worst case is they print a shitload of money and devalue the USD heavily and lose its status as global reserve currency, but at this rate they’re heading that way anyways…

Yeah I mean Canada overall just doesn’t have good launch spots… still, having a smaller sovereign site for small sats, cubesats and stuff like that is probably worthwhile. I would imagine this launch site will be limited to relatively small payloads.

Plus, lots of that $200 mill is gonna go directly to Magellan and other Canadian jobs.

Are you running gluetun on docker desktop for windows by chance?

If so, the networking layer for DD is fucked and every new release fucks it further and differently. Make sure you’re not running any other VPNs on the host, restart the docker daemon and pray. And then move off windows before it’s too late.

Source: made the mistake of starting an *arr stack on DD for Windows cause I didn’t wanna figure out GPU pass-through on VMs, and I suffered with this for a year.

Yes, I’m aware that “did not vote” wins every US election. But that doesn’t change the fact that the plurality of US voters chose Trump, and enough of them still do that it doesn’t matter. The system is reflecting the will of the people accurately… if Republicans wanted, they could primary every single MAGA shithead and elect Republicans willing to impeach him. They won’t. Because they still believe.

Because their voters want them to. People love to act like 40% of Americans wouldn’t vote for Trump right now if asked to, but they would. He could rape a baby live on TV and the evangelicals would tell their congregations that at least he’s not a Democrat. The system isn’t broken, it’s giving the American population what they want. They just want stupid shit and more dead brown people.

Everyone’s acting like Trump is a fluke but he’s not. Republican voters would never primary their candidates to be less MAGA nor will they ever vote D. The best we can hope for is them going silent and not voting.

More or less productive than not reading the article and then commenting blatantly incorrect statements while leading with “the article is wrong”?

Like if you didn’t read it that’s fine, but then why comment? And why comment on the facts of the article? The $160 number and $260 number are in the same sentence, how do you read one and not the other?

It’s even one thing to be wrong, but to be wrong and confidently assert that the article is wrong? Just wild behavior imo.

It’s going up to 164 for a 10 year within Canada, 260 something from outside Canada. $164/$160 != “a much bigger increase than 2.7%”. God I wish people could read sometimes.