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Rishi Maharaj
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Rishi Maharaj
@9x19
Electrical engineer. Tries to climb mountains but not very good at it. Toronto exile. Professional (wind) farmer.
Powell River, BC Katılım Nisan 2009
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@KenCunn77721220 What I make of everyone from Eby to Ford to Trudeau giving out cheques is that our political class is collectively out of ideas. It’s pathetic.
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@9x19 I honestly can’t remember a time when 🇨🇦 3 principle parties were all utter shite nearly all the time. Gives u a nice warm glow when u try to imagine how they’ll collectively square up to Trump 2.0
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Liberals: we are giving everyone popcorn and beer for their votes
NDP: we are fighting for Canadians by demanding Chicago mix
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@cselley Don’t worry, he only wants us to pretend to try and that’s Canada's superpower
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Ironically, we are incapable of doing any of the things Trump wants us to do to avoid a 25% tariff without Washington's help.
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Every party could find ideologically-aligned low hanging fruit to tackle affordability with policy. None have even tried.
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The NDP promised election cheques to everyone in BC (twice). The PCs are doing the same in Ontario. The Liberals are doing it federally.
All parties agree - we’re totally out of ideas.
What a deeply unserious country. We have 3 parties fighting to see who can be dumber.
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If the feds wanted to give people a break at Xmas they should have sent out a one-time GST rebate cheque: system is in place to do it; it's universal but means tested; no burden on retailers; no adverse impact on shopping patterns; no impact on provincial finances.
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The best plan to tackle the "vibecession" is to find a time machine, travel back to 2021-2023, and allow wages to grow in line with the tight labour market rather than trying to suppress those wages at the request of the business lobby.
National Newswatch@natnewswatch
Freeland says the two-month GST holiday is meant to tackle the 'vibecession' nationalnewswatch.com/2024/11/25/fre…
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What kind of progressive vision of the state is anchored by "let's just give everyone their money back because there's nothing government can do with it to improve their lives"?
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Liberals: we have a nakedly opportunistic policy to buy some votes rather than investing in literally any policy priority
NDP: can we have some more please?
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If you needed any more proof that the NDP are utterly spent as a progressive force, here is their tantrum for more handouts to the rich.
theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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@RyanMorasiewicz Don't know the answer but thanks for turning me on to what seems to be a much better resource for backcountry weather than Garmin's forecasts. No more messaging friends from my InReach and asking them to summarize a good forecast and send it back.
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A rather specific question... has anyone tried BoltWx (boltwx.com) using Apple IPhone's satellite texting capability (not a satellite specific communicator like InReach, Zoleo, etc.)? Does it work?
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It wasn’t their fault. They didn’t know handing $50,000 in a brown paper bag to an unlicensed immigration consultant isn’t how you apply for college.
theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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@BramRecorder That principle was sound but the big mistakes were allowing unlimited off campus work (effectively making study permits work visas for sale) and allowing non degree granting institutions to apply for an unlimited number of study permits.
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@9x19 While it has been heavily Liberal driven, the Harper government deliberately created a path to permanent residency due to influence from a big consulting firm, which pointed out it was silly to not give Canadian educated foreigners in important fields permanent residency.
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What’s at stake here is whether our government actually has control of immigration policy or if this becomes another area where the policy levers simply don’t work.
It’s dangerous for Canada and our politics if we continue to tolerate widespread fraud.
theglobeandmail.com/canada/article…
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Come off it. Being broke or embarrassed isn’t grounds for asylum. Filing fraudulent claims disadvantages legitimate asylum seekers who face persecution by co-opting the system intended to help them stay alive so that kids can keep their jobs at Tim’s.
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Yes, Liberals, in tandem with provinces seeing dollar signs for their colleges, opened up student permits as a backdoor route to PR. That doesn’t mean we have to allow fake refugee claims from people who have no legal right to stay in Canada permanently because we feel bad now.
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@joshuahind You’d be run over then the police would arrest your corpse for blocking traffic.
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@RyanMorasiewicz I wonder what capabilities it will offer for geolocation, both for rescue and to connect with the geographically correct 911 centre. I don’t think conventional sat phones can dial 911? But absolutely a game changer for SAR.
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Potential gamechanger for SAR (where cell phone dead zones in the backcountry render comms with a lost/injured subject impossible unless they have a satellite messaging device (or newer IPhone)).
Elon Musk@elonmusk
After thinking it through, SpaceX Starlink will provide emergency services access for mobile phones for people in distress for free. This applies worldwide, subject to approval by country governments. Can’t have a situation where someone dies because they forgot or were unable to pay for it.
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One reason I think Toronto has poor municipal governance is this is actually all Councillors do - it gets them face time with voters and is nonstop campaigning. Adjudicating petty disputes between residents and/or the City in their neighborhood replaces governing the entire City.
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You could imagine a system where parks would be managed by staff according to consistent City wide policy and Councillors would only be able to vote on policy, not personally intervene in all manner of minor City business in their fief, um I mean ward. One day!
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One of the incredible things about Toronto’s political system is that each councillor acts as a de facto mini-governor of their ward and is generally allowed to, um, manage the affairs of the local dog park according to their whims.
John Michael McGrath@jm_mcgrath
Carville wanted to be reincarnated as the bond market, I want to be reincarnated as an aggrieved Toronto landlord toronto.ctvnews.ca/this-is-our-li…
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