“Those that trade privacy for security deserve neither.”

How about they start addressing the actual problem rather than half-measures from think tanks. If it was truly about children, they should be passing policies from a macro standpoint that encourage people to have a family and kids. Right now, it’s economically grim and has been sliding that way for many decades. The rise of fascist and surveillance state policies is only going to make it worse. Say bye-bye to your birthrate and we’re right back where we started again with the gov trying to pump the numbers via mass immigration.

What does all this have to do with this bill? The intent may be framed as protecting/preventing kids from adult material, but it’s also about making it desirable to have kids because “big brother is watching you/protecting you” (SMH here on how stupid this all is). These legislators are out of touch. We as a society need to address the root of the problem - why do we have a CSAM problem in the first place? It’s a horrific thing to have, and to be honest, those that turn to it likely have a mental illness.

As for kids accessing adult material online - why is the government being a nanny state? This is the parent’s job.

I have zero confidence that they can keep everyone’s data private and safe given how many breaches there are.

I think we’re arguing over a subset of people who might not even be enough to move the needle unless it’s a very special riding with a specific type of immigrant make up. Early voting and mail-in ballots can 100% be done overseas and over online as long there is an embassy or trade office in said countries. How do I know? I’ve done it. Even without a steady address, you can vote literally at the embassy/office and they will mail it in for you which can bypass foreign country public postal services.

As for the postal service strikes, that’s another issue altogether.

It’s not idealistic - it’s called put some effort in making your vote count - or don’t. I mean look at the stats of voter turnout even on a regular schedule. Abysmal.

This comment itself speaks volumes about how people perceive their right to vote. I’m going to make another assumption that these people who go on vacation likely also moan about how the government ‘isn’t working for them’ and how they’re being ‘taxed unfairly’ so their vote ‘wouldn’t matter’. Voting is the most basic, minimal civic duty that comes around once in a while in a democratic style society.

Pandering to the idea of ‘because it’s holiday time’ isn’t a valid reason - its a scapegoat excuse. The real reason that this budget passed the way it did is because the current way MP’s campaign require loads of money (a problem in itself), and a good number of them have nothing to show for it while party coffers are looking really empty.

That’s a step in the right direction, but I think people should also consider banning political parties and force these adults to work together as proper representatives from their ridings. Far too often do MLA’s, MP’s vote along party lines for various reasons (often against the best interests of their own supposed represented constituents). Or even put a cap on how big a party can be. It’s actually strange how we keep voting in career politicians rather than the best and brightest fit for the job. Money in politics in general needs to be reformed.

Yikes. Enshittification every turn of the way huh.

I’m sure people have counter talking points that point fingers at government run companies that are money pits, yet there are many that have historically run a profit only to get used as a government piggy bank during con/neo-liberal years and then left to die. ICBC in BC is a prime example.

If privatization always ran a profit, then why can’t the Canadian government make it happen? What makes private capital human beings so capable that our collective powers can’t? Something stinks.

I have no problem if he’s trying to sell things on his channel. As a matter of fact, trying to sort through the best, economical of something these days have become a nightmare. Try searching online for the ‘best’ of anything and you’re bombarded with so many choices. He’s done the heavy lifting for you already.

Keep it up with the quality content and promoting good products!

Now excuse my ignorance here, but does the act actually say they explicitly can’t generate revenue outside of its mandate? From a cursory search I do not believe so. Which then they cannot reasonably claim they couldn’t. The Liberals knew Canada Post was in trouble during 2020, and now they’ve thrown a 37 year old minister at the problem? I’m in the same age range and it seems like all he can come up with is read the spreadsheets and decide to slash services because they’re ‘insolvent’ and losing 10 million a day after giving it 1 billion to ‘fix’ their issues. I’m sorry, but they’ve tried nothing but throw money at it and are already out of ideas. I mean what’s the Canadian government going to do if Canada Post goes out of its way to generate more revenue to keep it in the black? How is that in any way ‘bad’ if its benefits Canadians as a whole?

Canada Post’s union has been trying to tell its management there are other ways to generate revenue (I do not think they’ve publicly said how yet) but it’s C-suite is bullheaded from what I can tell. Hired to run the company, but not hired to do extraordinary work despite a 500k / year salary CEO. Their management should be on the hook more than the union and the rest of us Canadians paying for this so called ‘essential’ service.

Lol…leave? Leaving billions on the table overnight? Yeah, I would call the duopoly’s bluff. You said it yourself, someone else will fill the void to take advantage of market conditions and provide the good/service that was there before. It just means Liberals and Cons lean corporate heavy.

Canada Post rested on its laurels for far too long and did not manage to make any big headways to improve from the management level - they like to keep blaming the government mandate - what a scapegoat. Their management needs a hard look. Our public dollars are being wasted on these people because they can’t even think beyond just mail/parcel services.

If only Joel Lightbound and the C-suite of Canada Post knew that! Alas, they’re incompetent and taking the easy way out of simply slashing services and layoffs instead of expanding goods and services to attempt to fill up the gap. Enshittification anyone? Liberals have become Con-lite and just drags out the timeline towards total privatization.

Even the new budget caters towards the private sector. Gee, without a good competitive Canada Post that delivers to all Canadians, small businesses are arguably less competitive now compared to companies that are paying for private delivery services. The Liberals can’t have it both ways saying they back businesses while slashing the services that these businesses may use to be competitive relative to mega-cap companies.

Canada on a whole from the federal level down to the municipal level is anti-business. Starting up a business often requires a deep pocket with red tape every step of the way. If the Liberals want to really galvanize collective action from Canadians, they need to be providing business centric services that are easy to access, affordable and competitive. Where’s the business starter kit from the government? Oh wait, there isn’t one. Better spend a few grand and loads of time on a business degree huh?

“I’ll say/do anything to get in/stay in power to have it my way because you’re all too busy to find out what I did. And even if you did find out, what you going to do about it?” -your typical politician

Don’t know why this has so much downvotes, but clearly people do love to hate something they don’t understand.

The M series chips that Apple has is hands down amazing. Low power usage, fast, and doesn’t heat up like any other PC chip. This translates to low fan noise, no laptop/surface burn, long battery life. It’s also somewhat of a contender for light local AI use. To put the cherry on top, the build quality supersedes any other brands on the market by scale and price. One would be foolish to not get a Mac laptop if you don’t want to dabble with Linux.

Everyone is over thinking this. By having this ban in place, we ensure that people that live in the area have a stable priced supply of electricity. How would you feel when you woke up one day and the bill for your electricity was going to go up because some AI data centre was gobbling up all the supply that is available?

Some will argue…“but they’re paying customers too and we can make a profit!”. Perverse incentives. Electricity is an utility. Not a service. Get that in your heads. Why would we even want tech companies have any say in our utilities when they could possibly become the biggest customer to the power company? What? Are you thinking that those in government will “protect” you? We have all seen what lobbying can do.

While BC has a lot of renewables, but they are still not without a cost (hydro for example floods huge areas). If Alberta was smart (lol), this is where they could transition away from oil over time, alas, they have a plant.

All of you should go do some research on how much electricity these AI data centres are using. The amount is staggering. What’s even crazier is the amount of capital these tech companies have and are willing to deploy to “have it their way” - both physically and politically.

What’s Canada going to do when Stellantis is likely going to talk to the orange man to keep whatever legal action they may face at bay. It’s all boiling down to business deals, despite kickbacks, contracts, incentives etc.

Here’s a wild idea - maybe the feds should be massively transitioning to renewables (batteries, renewable energy, charging stations etc all need workers) and give current autoworkers jobs in that field or something that they can transfer their skills to? Make the transition seamless. But I’m sure no one in the federal government is willing to even begin thinking about that because, I believe politicians aren’t willing to do the hard work to make it happen. They’d rather throw money at it to make the problem go away via corporate deals.

Framing it as “helpful” is stupid and irrelevant. Where you spend your hard earned money is a form of voting. Buying a product isn’t just a simple trade of goods and services anymore - it hasn’t been in a long time as long capitalism is the dominant form of monetary policy of the governments around the world.

Again people, keep voting with your wallets. It’s actually more effective than what many governments at many levels can do!

Lol - about time they imploded.

Anyone who voted for them in the last election clearly didn’t pay attention to what kind of crazy these people are. The last provincial election results were gross. Too close. They are the “fuck you, got mine and going to kick you down even more” party. I seriously question the integrity of anyone who supports these crazies.

Anyone blaming unions are a fool. Sure you can keep pointing at the bad unions of this and that with abusive power. The overall calculus of it all is that it is good for the worker and good for the economy. The boomer middle class got to where it was is because of unions. Full stop.

Section 107 when used should trigger something like dissolving the C-suite and the board if government intervention is needed to resolve the dispute. After all, they are asking the government to do THEIR jobs because they made it worse due to THEIR poor management. But hey, people love blaming unions and the worker drone below trying to do the jobs they were hired for right? Right?

There will be people saying about “free market” - don’t kid yourself - in Canada and many countries, there’s no such thing. Government subsidies, incentives, tax credits etc all go against that concept. I’m not for a full blown “free market”. That would be disastrous all around in this current reality.

I would like to remind everyone that we don’t have a court of justice. We have a court of law. Even the very terminology of ‘court’ is severely outdated. We don’t go to ‘court’ of a ruler to make our case anymore. We go to ‘court’ because you’re dissatisfied, or charged with something and the case is brought before a judge. The whole system is archaic - which is also why it is slow. The NDP rep should be thinking bigger (ie reform) when you’re already at the provincial level of government rather than screeching that the system is ‘too slow’ which leads to ‘lawlessness’. Just another day of government I guess huh?

That aside, anyone who gets behind the wheel should remind themselves that a few seconds in lapse of judgment could cause you to be charged end up in said court. Just that tiny few seconds. What should happen is a change in road design and in this day and age of 2025, more auto safety technology should be integrated and required by law. That would reduce the burden overall throughout the entire system. Of course that won’t rule out the intentionally bad actors which will always exist no matter what you do.

We’re all being misled here raging over CP’s reform and its losses because ‘all I get is trash mail’. Why isn’t the management of Canada Post on the hook for this? Yet we’re here blaming the union of their mismanagement? After all, they’re the ones that are making the big bucks, so they know what they’re doing right? Right? Why aren’t any of these c-suite or board stepping down/let go from doing such a terrible job? 6 straight years, 24 financial quarters. Who let this ‘experiment’ run for so long? Did this never make a blip in some federal minister’s portfolio? Well at least we know who to blame for inaction during this time for this policy failure.

• As many other have pointed out, it’s a service, not a for-profit.
• The corpro Amazon contractor-undercutting wages problem
• The Libs aren’t willing to do the hard work to actually transform CP into a cost-recovery model and fix the point above. They’d rather just do the classic ‘cut services’ while only looking at a spreadsheet without really carefully considering what they are really doing. It’s a cut to peoples jobs which means less money flowing into the economy as a whole - especially given CP’s reach. Plus, wages paid out, the federal government still taxes it. You see what I’m seeing? The ditch isn’t as big as people make it to be. Again, the Libs are pissing away a crown corp jewel again.
• CP has so much more potential with what it can do with its storage, delivery, network and database without even doing major expenditures.

You would think that after 6-7 six of straight losses they would have gotten an idea that their referenced “tried and true” methods didn’t work? Geez, did they, the management, c-suite and board just wait another quarter, got their pay cheques, and said “it wasn’t my problem/job”. Union employees have absolutely no say on how Canada Post is managed and operated on the big picture level - so who’s job IS it then? Why aren’t any of these people in management getting fired/let go?

Sure, I think we can agree they have lots of employees. What do each of them do? Now, why can’t we have other kinds of jobs for workers instead of straight up layoffs? I’m saying going straight to downsize is the easy solution because no one in upper management etc wants to develop new businesses that CP can do and service and still make money!! Are some jobs obsolete and outdated? Very likely. Is there a lot of redundancy? I’m sure every government run entity has it. Now who made the shots of hiring more and more? Management. Why aren’t they the first to go? Why is the onus on lower level employees?

We can let people go, eliminate jobs all we want about a shrinking business model because they (management) didn’t pivot or come up with new models to effectively retain cost-neutral/profitability. What isn’t the government and CP saying instead of going straight to cuts? Show us what they tried to get out of this deficit. Well turns out from all the reporting, they did very little and the private sector took their lunch. What a disaster.

Postage services can be so much more, they just aren’t willing to try. Why can’t they do basic banking? Financialization. They had the opportunity to but chose not to because they’re dinosaurs with outdated business models. Be a storage depot / warehouse for small businesses. I’m just throwing ideas out there.