Probably with “The founders only wanted what I think they wanted, despite their explicit instructions”

I’m still not forgetting all the things he’s said.

That he can unilaterally threaten this and be cavalier about breaking our critical trade agreements means we have no option but to divest ourselves of American trade. Similarly his comments on annexing Canada are too plausible and consistent to ignore.

That doesn’t mean not to trade, but to build up our own independent industry and finally vertically integrate instead of exporting our raw materials for the US to draw all the value on (steel, crude oil, lumber, pharma, manufacturing).

We should also be building up our own defence sector, both as a jobs program and to increase independence – Canadian sovereignty in this century requires that we should be able to build our own aircraft, submarines, and have a nuclear arsenal of our own.

I know we do sell arms, but we should be able to stand firm if our allies ever turn their backs on us.

I think now might be the time you don’t want to balance the budget, when you’re expecting a brutal trade war and lots of layoffs.

But the last few years we should have been rebuilding that war chest.

Looks like the article you linked to is no longer at the linked url

There are two in the top corners at least

I need to set my own instances…

That actually seems attractive to me, but I’m unsure where I stand yet. It’s pricey, I just want a box I can put in the basement and then connect everything to over wifi.

I did not know that. She was trying to track them down for weeks with no luck

Can I just take a minute to vent about this data viz

They have used a spline like a hobby spline and not a smoothing spline on that chart. It is a major pet peeve of mine when people use these curves to “interpolate” and make data look prettier. If you are interpolating points on a chart you need to choose a curve that actually fits through all the points, and is smooth.

There are points on this chart where the data inverts by over 90° and goes backwards, so you have more than one y point on the same x axis. You can’t tell where the data points are and these curves absolutely cannot represent voting sentiment. A scatter plot, or regular line plot would have worked perfectly fine, but instead EKOS who should be good with data has created these mangled to fuck charts…

Another downfall of these types of curves is they can create bends where no data is, which means they tell a story that has zero basis in reality, but it makes the first derivative smooth. That same effect can create curves which extend outside of the data range, but that’s not an issue on this particular chart.

My wife once drove 2 hours to buy these based on a rumour that a store had them, I’d never heard of them. Her family loves them.

Sad to see them go, a lot of modern candy is just way too sweet for my palate these days.

I won’t argue the government intervenes with businesses. I’d argue now more than ever Canada having an aerospace company (which almost failed entirely) is a strategic need.

But I think that’s all tangential to the point at large that this feels like a dumb move.

Yeah

I always start hostile negotiations by saying what would hurt me the most and not committing to back up my own interests.

But Poilievre, who polls suggest could become prime minister in the next federal election, repeatedly refused Thursday to say whether Canada’s energy exports should be part of a Canadian retaliatory strategy. Poilievre’s dodge came after Alberta’s leader broke ranks with her provincial counterparts and Trudeau and refused to support any plan that did not have a carve-out for oil and gas.

Hey, Pollievre said something definitive? Hopefully people are listening that he cares more about oil and gas than the entirety of the country.

Ontario can lose all its manufacturing jobs, but we have to protect oil and gas. BC can burn and flood, but we have to protect oil and gas.

Poilievre at one point challenged a question on energy tariffs, saying he didn’t understand it because “we don’t import almost any oil and gas from the Americans, at least raw oil and gas. We mostly export it.” Canada’s energy regulator says the U.S. remains the top destination for Canadian crude oil, but also says the U.S. is the largest source of Canada’s imported crude oil, with 72.4 per cent of Canada’s oil imports originating from the U.S. that same year.

That’s quite a title…

An election where Carney roasts Pollievre on his tenure as finance critic is perfect.

Should one expect the daily show or Jordan Peterson to press their feet to the coals?

I’d assume these are just softball campaign stump events.

They don’t have to police the whole internet, just their kids. Frankly children that age shouldn’t be on social media especially unsupervised.

Parents should be using device level controls to monitor their kids internet habits. All of this should be built into the device and browser, and parents need to take basic accountability.

The joy cons were awful for that.

Party outsider with strong financial background, executive experience, and he’s going to be against two very unpopular party leaders.

Yeah, I think he’s got a shot.

Is that not also shutting down?