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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

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    Just the market regulating itself

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  • It would be a far more compelling argument if gas prices were only rising in Canada, where taxes been lifted. But that ain't the case.

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  • I mean, it's still 10 cents per litre less than it would have been had the tax not been lifted...unless the implication is that the price wouldn't have gone up without the tax reduction (which is pretty obviously not true).

    I don't like the tax being lifted - I think it's largely populist nonsense - but it's at least a little dishonest to say there's no difference at all.

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  • The suggestion here is that the prices rose because the tax was lifted? That seems pretty easily refuted by looking at international news.

  • Canada to create powerful financial crimes agency as US weakens its approach

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  • The RCMP is rife with structural problems. From the CBC's article on this agency:

    Davis said it's hard not to see the Liberals' move to create this agency as a comment on the RCMP.

    "This is very much a reaction to the RCMP's inability to do this job," she said.

    Some of that comes down to the RCMP'S structure, Davis said. On top of its federal policing obligations, the RCMP is also responsible for boots-on-the-ground policing across the country, which has drained its resources over the last decades.

    A 2023 report from the National Security and Intelligence Committee of Parliamentarians called on Ottawa to create a stand-alone federal policing organization. It found the RCMP's sprawling mandate is undermining its investigations into files such as national security and financial crime.

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  • The article notes that the RCMP is kind of terrible at this sort of thing.

  • Coming in '27: A CFL season built for summer long weekends; CFL and CFLPA champion a new era of playoff football - CFL.ca

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  • My understanding is that Quebec City is a more likely candidate than Halifax - I think they have better existing facilities?

    But either way, we need that tenth team ASAP.

  • Star fleet academy taking one per year.

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  • I don't think "Coming of Age" is very clear on this topic. It's probably best to assume that only one candidate from that small group will be selected, and that there are many similar groups throughout the Federation. A pretty silly way to run things, but... 🤷

  • AI data centre going into shuttered protein plant just outside Winnipeg

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  • Probably not, if their estimate of 5.5 MW is accurate - less than a thousandth of the MB Hydro capacity.

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    Carney government eyes privatizing airports

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  • I'll offer up one, with the caveat that I don't actually know much about it, and I'd love to be proven wrong. It's even in the aviation industry.

    In 1996, air navigation services were privatized, and Nav Canada was created. They're a private non-profit (that bit is probably very important).

    As near as I can tell, it was a success by most measures. Employee salaries went up, and airline ticket prices went marginally down. I think there were layoffs as they cut layers of bureaucratic bloat, though.

    And again, I'm very open to being proven wrong on this.

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  • Eight teams in a league of nine making the playoffs is...kind of hilarious.

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  • Global News has a non-paywalled article on this.

    When asked if the government was considering privatizing airports and if so, how many, MacKinnon told reporters that the government was talking with airport authorities.

    “We’re in the early stages of a process with airport authorities and other partners to determine the best way forward. The ultimate goal, of course, is to improve the passenger experience, to improve the efficiency of our air transport system,” MacKinnon said.

    “Indeed, they are a public good and I don’t think that spirit or that philosophy will change,” he said.

  • Thousands of US hockey fans sing Canadian anthem amid tensions between neighbor countries

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  • It’s the Americas edition, so they localized it. /s

    I think this might actually be the correct answer, strange as it is. They also use the Americanized version when they quote Buffalo as the "City of Good Neighbors".

  • ABC Station Owners and Advertisers Have Not Clamored to Fire Jimmy Kimmel This Time

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  • That's Colbert, over at CBS. "Retiring" isn't exactly the right word, though...

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  • Yeah, "because it's dumb" doesn't hold much weight when it was dumb the first time.

  • State of 24 Sussex 'an embarrassment,' says Carney

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  • Best to remember that it wouldn't really be a house - it would be a high-security government facility that the PM happens to live in.

  • I have the feeling most of the Star Trek viewers aren't exactly the target of the producers. (Do writers in general has this problem?)

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  • And the movie still made nearly $2.8 billion.

    Don't get me wrong, I think it's important to foster healthy online spaces that are free of that sort of nonsense - I wouldn't be here if I didn't - but that crowd is a drop in the bucket when it comes to the actual audience.

    They're just loud, obnoxious, and spurred on by grifters.

  • I have the feeling most of the Star Trek viewers aren't exactly the target of the producers. (Do writers in general has this problem?)

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  • If there's one thing people need to realize about the "anti-woke" crowd, it's that outside of poisoning online spaces, they don't matter.

    They are very loud, but at the end of the day, there's not actually that many of them. The box office numbers speak for themselves.

    And it's an anecdote, but the single biggest F&F fan I know is a woman.

  • I have the feeling most of the Star Trek viewers aren't exactly the target of the producers. (Do writers in general has this problem?)

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  • Can there be stories that anyone—regardless of gender, ethnicity, or country—can enjoy?

    Sure - there are plenty of global mega-hits, from the MCU to Star Wars to The Fast and the Furious.

    But I don't think you can (or should, really) separate a work from the cultural context that led to its creation.

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  • These are the projects that have been officially acknowledged so far, per the CBC:

    The Sisson Mine, for critical minerals, in New Brunswick.

    The Crawford Nickel project in Ontario.

    The Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia.

    An Iqaluit hydro project.

    The Nouveau Monde Graphite Phase 2 project in Quebec.

    The Northwest Critical Conservation Corridor in northwest B.C. and Yukon., which could include critical minerals and clean power transmission developments in the area.

    The North Coast Transmission Line in northwest B.C.

    Certainly all industrial infrastructure, but not necessarily for fossil fuels.