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Cake day: January 26th, 2025
  • SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.workstoCanada@lemmy.ca•It’s Been Canada’s Weirdest Federal ElectionEnglish
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    7 days ago

    For many years places like the Fraser Insistute would point to the USA larger economy and more competitive salaries as why Canada should be copying their policies.

    As usual the progressive arguments needed context like higher proverty rates or underlying social issues which to people that can barely make it past a article title is a largely lost cause. But in 2025 we can pretty just point to the flaming turd that is America and unless people are a special flavor of nuts they just kinda nod.

  • SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.workstoCanada@lemmy.ca•Build Canada Is Not DOGE, Says SpokespersonEnglish
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    12 days ago

    As usual they’re our version of it. Canada seems to always be a few years behind American garbage like this and it’s essentially what was palatable for America 2020ish.

    Although there’s this:

    Some of Build Canada’s supporters have also expressed interest in the ideas of Balaji Srinivasan, a tech entrepreneur who has become a proponent of an idea called the “network state.” Parrish interviewed Srinivasan twice on his podcast The Knowledge Project, once in 2020 and once in 2022. Shopify CEO Tobias Lütke and COO Kaz Nejatian were guests on the second episode of Srinivasan’s The Network State podcast in 2023. On that episode, Srinivasan suggested that Shopify had grown to have “a country-sized economy.”

    The idea behind the network state is that companies could operate and govern city states.

  • SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksOPtoCanada@lemmy.ca•French-language leaders’ debate: Greens disinvited to federal faceoff; Rebel News wins fight to send five reporters as other outlets limited to one [Toronto Star]English
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    12 days ago

    In past years, fringe outlets like Rebel News have protested being excluded from the debate facilities and, thus, the post-debate scrums. Things have really changes this year. The debate commission had tried to limit news outlets to sending just a single reporter each into the post-debate scrums — this year, that includes Rebel. But, according to Rebel News founded Ezra Levant (who is also conducting conspiratorial anti-Liberal advertising across the country) that wasn’t good enough. Levant says they are sending 16 people to the debates and they demanded access to the scrums for all 16, even threatening to sue. Levant, yesterday, announced they won. “They wrote back to us, at the last minute, calling off our lawsuit, by agreeing to allow not one, not two, not three, not four, but five Rebels to ask questions.”

    The debate commission responded to me this morning, confirming the news: “Rebel News’ legal representation has identified to the Commission that Rebel News has five distinct divisions.” As such, the conspiratorial right-wing fringe outlet gets five spots, while everyone else just gets one.

  • SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.workstoCanada@lemmy.ca•With 8.7m birds dead, B.C. farmers assess avian flu toll, and worry about what's nextEnglish
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    21 days ago

    Burns said all influenzas mutate and the H5N1 strain that emerged in 2021 is “significantly worse than other strains that we’ve had historically.”

    She said the hope is that wild birds develop more immunity and the virus mutates into a less damaging strain.

    Pandemic researchers worry that avian flu could mutate into a widespread human illness, and Bourque noted human transmission is “always a concern because these viruses can infect mammals, including humans, which is another reason why we don’t want it in our domestic bird population — because it is a threat to humans.”