Maybe not PR. But ranked choice voting sure would have!

Yeah, this might actually be convincing to those in power now. The eternal problem with electoral reform is: why would you change a system which you just won with?

Thanks for the explanation! I’m familiar with the voting reform issue (and still salty Trudeau didn’t carry through on it), but some other readers might not be.

That reminds me - what the heck is up with the candidates in Carlton? Who are all these independents?

I had a past employer tell employees in a group meeting that you should stay home when sick, because coming to work just spreads it around and has a worse impact on the whole team, and therefore the business. We all stood there thinking, “OK, that makes sense… so why are you not paying for sick days, again?”

That’s not an answer. Why do you want Poilievre sitting across from Trump? What is the upside you see to that scenario?

Except when asked point-blank what his position is on his party wearing MAGA gear, Poilievre refuses to address it. Silence is complicity, plus Poilievre has been doing everything he can over the past several years to ape Trump.

Kind of splitting hairs, but a company that can let go of “scores” of employees and still exist is not a small business.

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2030/

As a software developer, it perfectly summarizes my position.

Yoga is correct - the average riding is 100-120k people. The smallest riding in BC currently is 89k, so unless they were going to give BC more ridings it makes sense.

The only ridings which are significantly below that mark are:

• Labrador, it’s an entire island
• The territories, with 1 riding each

Labrador is perhaps debatable because Newfoundland has other ridings it could join, but I think the case for having a riding cross a strait is much weaker than splitting a city in a remote area. This is not unique to Prince George, and sharing a riding with people 600km away is just reality when you’re talking about remote, sparsely populated areas.

Yes, you’re anthropomorphizing far too much. An LLM can’t understand, or recall (in the common sense of the word, i.e. have a memory), and is not aware.

Those are all things that intelligent, thinking things do. LLMs are none of that. They are a giant black box of math that predicts text. It doesn’t even understand what a word is, orthe meaning of anything it vomits out. All it knows is what is the statistically most likely text to come next, with a little randomization to add “creativity”.

Trump has been fabricating victim stories since the start of this whole saga - trade deficit, fentanyl are both not actually problems big enough to warrant his actions, but were provided as the reasons.

If the US wasn’t Canada’s friend, then the US had no friends. We’ve been each others’ closest allies for a century, if that doesn’t count, what does?

I’m quite sure the actual transaction is between private American utility companies and their counterparts across the border. There likely is a contract in place between the two companies which agrees on pricing, which would either spell out how rates are calculated, require a guaranteed warning period before rate increases, or disallow rate changes until the contract expires and is renewed.

However, Ford isn’t talking about a rate change between the companies. Even though it’s not a physical good, it’s cross-border trade which means it happens at the pleasure of the governments on both sides. Ford is talking about applying a tax to the electricity, which I assume his government has the power to do. Contracts between private entities cannot stop the government from levying a tax if it chooses.

For reference, most of Saskatchewan has been below -30 for all of February. Hit -40 on Tuesday. Finally warmed up yesterday. That’s a little colder for longer than we usually get, but not by very much. Large parts of Alberta are similar.

The central provinces have pretty extreme temperature swings between winter and summer. BC, southern Ontario and QC, and the maritimes are less extreme.

I didn’t test other values but they’re probably OK.

Excellent work, thanks for the laugh.

I would actually argue that a large part of Canada’s issues in this regard is leakage from our southern border. Not all of it, of course. But a large part. Media is dominated by US perspectives, including all your garbage.

Yeah, I don’t know why you’re getting so many down votes. That is what Hitler’s party was called, so technically Poilievre isn’t lying. He’s still a dumbass for seriously stating that position and purposefully spreading confusion for his own benefit, but it’s technically not a lie.

Your first paragraph assumes that labour costs are the same in both markets and that there is little development or tooling cost to setting up that manufacturing base locally. Both are false, and both of those are really the reason overseas manufacturing is a thing in the first place.

I find it difficult to lay the blame with VSCode when the terminology belongs to git, which (even 7 years ago) was an industry standard technology.

People using tools they don’t understand and plowing ahead through scary warnings will always encounter problems.