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.

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.

• [1] https://www.debates-debats.ca/fr/debats2025/transcription-fra.pdf 18:31:49:25
• [2] https://www.debates-debats.ca/fr/debats2025/transcription-fra.pdf 18:39:16:01

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.

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)

This is fascinating! I couldn’t find much info on that and actually, what I found implies that there were some on Canadian bases not just in Canada, but around the world. That is, from if old letters from the Diefenbaker Center are representative of history.

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.

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.

The EU is basically slapping Canadians with a reciprocal policy. Canada has the eTA (electronic travel authorization) which they have to file and pay 7$ to visit, even if they don’t need a visa. This is the same in reverse.

It seems like they also have a “password grid” multi-factor option that you can print. I hate seeing custom authentication schemes (or insecure ones like SMS) instead of standards like OATH-TOTP, but I do applaud having accessibility options.

This! I see the hype around AI and it’s like everyone has lost their mind. You wouldn’t accept a statistical study without sampling info (dataset size, origin, selection, filtering, bias, reproductibility, etc). Why would we not ask the same with LLM or generative AI? It’s like everyone got so excited about models built on large datasets that they forgot we already had procedures for handling data.

You might be surprised how inefficient banks can be when it comes to tech. As years go by I see an increase of tech workers but a decrease of experienced or competent ones. My view is those competent tech workers tend to be more expensive than Canadian companies are willing to pay, thus end up hiring 10x the staff. The banks simply have more money to waste that way and thus are doing so by hiring a lot of tech workers.