In addition I feel like google allows for like manipulation by the US gov.

We got receipts, for example: Mexico sues Google over changing Gulf of Mexico’s name for US users

That’s pretty chilling to hear. But great info, thanks for sharing!

Is this populism? Is this Trumpism? Instead of running the province well and communicating that to the electorate, you make up the idea of a referendum on an asinine idea and then market it as “listening to the people.” Irresponsible and effortless

You are correct. I’m not really much of a casual conversation person myself, so I don’t think I’m the best person to moderate it. I moderate other communities and actively contribute to Lemmy. Someone else might see my comment and think, “hey I’d like to do that”

Posts like this are an indication we need a casual conversation community on lemmy.ca. This isn’t a c/Canada post imo

There’s a consumer industry that Canadians are getting screwed in?! /s

The longer I spend in the Fediverse the more obviously fake reddit is when I occasionally look at it (through an anonymous front-end)

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Shucks. I must have missed that part ;P

I think it’s still under- stated/recognized how much COVID spread was (and is?) an urban phenomenon. In Toronto, on subways, I’d say at least 10% of people mask. It’s a pretty large group. I feel like there’s pretty widespread acceptance of masking here too, in recognition that the city is close quarters at times (eg, subways). I would be really surprised if I saw someone critiquing another person for wearing a COVID mask in public - and I might even approach the aggressor lol. From Senator Simons’ article, it sounds like there are more mask trolls - a euphemism ‘mask troll’ to be sure’ - in Alberta. Shame.

I don’t mask regularly in public places currently, but I think about it. I sometimes mask if I “can’t get sick” for something coming up in the next few days. I also mask when I’m transitioning from sick to healthy and out of isolation when I’ve had a respiratory sickness.

Thankfully, I haven’t been sick for a while, which I credit partly to keeping up with my flu and COVID vaccinations better this year or two. I’m a bigger believer in the shots being a good personal investment than I was years ago (they are also a very good investment for public health - but I always knew that :)

Bloc as official opposition would be pretty wild, but it sure is in the realm of possibilities.

I have a pet theory that Quebec plays a larger than recognized role in determining the balance of power federally between Conservatives and Liberals, because Quebec will elect some number of Liberals but practically no Conservatives (against AB, SK and the Maritimes which lean Conservative).

At the risk of sounding like the densest person you’ve encountered today, what’s your pet theory? That Quebec voters hold LPC’s feet to the fire with the threat that they’ll leave the Liberals and doom the Liberals as a result?

I appreciate the explanation, thank you! That’s an interesting outcome to think about. As an Ontarian/Canadian, I selfishly hope Québec doesn’t leave because Canada would be much more CPC-heavy without Québec

I don’t understand (like who’s PSPP?) but I’d like to, if you feel like paraphrasing more plainly

In 2027, when the people of Canada are weary after a few years of PP’s ‘leadership’, an early 2020s CPC “Fuck Trudeau” sign will hit hard

Your points are very much in line with the author of the article.

It’s supposed to be a steering tax. It should be progressive (i.e., if you’re wealthier you pay more) and the focus should be on steering the behaviours of the rich and of industry, not Joe Canadian

We should be looking at (disincentivizing) plane trips, cruise ship trips, gas plants, etc - not fixating on the price at the gas pumps. We have PP and other bad actors to thank for that malicious association

As a monolingual anglophone, I think many anglophones demonstrate low awareness of English-as-a-first-language privilege (which is how privilege operates) and of the negative effects of English-language hegemony. Ergo, their opinions on reasonable French language/culture protectionism are of little value. I think it’s more privilege than hypocrisy because I don’t think anglophones opposing French-language laws in Québec typically champion efforts to promote Indigenous or other not English or French languages

I can’t comment on the mutation risk, but about 1% of people can’t get vaccinated for medical reasons. So, persons declining measles and polio vaccines for conspiracy reasons put immunologically susceptible people at greater risk of contracting these previously eliminated diseases. Also, I think we have some obligation to protect children from conspiracy-crazed parents who fail to get their kids immunized. The effects of polio contracted in childhood are lifelong

The case was brought by seven young people who argue Ontario’s weakened emissions target violated the Charter.

They allege the target violated their right to life in part by committing Ontario to dangerously high levels of planet-warming emissions and discriminated against them as youth who will bear the brunt of the impacts.

Fraser Thomson, a lawyer representing the young people, says Ontario’s application “opens the door to a generation-defining hearing before Canada’s highest court.”

The case dates back to when Premier Doug Ford’s then-newly elected Progressive Conservative government repealed the law underpinning Ontario’s cap-and-trade system for lowering emissions.

The government scrapped the system in 2018 and replaced the emissions target in that law — 37 per cent below 1990 levels by 2030 — with a new target of 30 per cent below 2005 levels.

The young people suggest the revised target allows for additional annual emissions equivalent to about seven million passenger vehicles.