Raise it’s people out of poverty, right after starving the entire country almost into oblivion you mean? Rural Chinese aren’t even that much better than where they were a hundred years ago. Hell, parts of rural China is far worse than it was back then since at least there wasn’t any government interference beyond taxation back during the previous government.

Emperor Xi is not doing a single thing for the benefit of the Chinese people. Every single metric that can be backed up with physical evidence shows that China is in a serious decline right now, and it’s entirely caused by their government. You say that China is justified in doing what it is doing, then you say that their aggression towards their neighbours in the South China Seas is justified? Ramming their fishing boats against coast guards? Sending thousands of fishing boats just outside of the EEZ of Argentina? Performing highly aggressive and potentially lethal stunts to harass neighbouring patrol planes doing completely legal and globally standard regional patrols because China decided to enact territorial laws that haven’t been enforced the entire time the CCP had existed?

You are making completely bad-faith arguments. I’m not the one being racist here. Especially since I am a pure-blooded East Asian myself.

I don’t think this is Carney’s intent at all. I think this is done fully expecting PP to be just as petulant as he’s been all this time. It’s to show that he’s just as terrible as everybody who voted against him knows him to be, and to make his supporters start to really think about who they voted for. Not to mention that PP will accomplish absolutely nothing as the official opposition leader, since Carney only needs three seats to vote for anything, and he can get that from the NDP that’s most closely aligned to the Liberals, or even the Bloc that have openly stated to form a ceasefire as long as Trump continues to attack Canada.

It’s far better than risking the Conservatives getting an actually competent leader that can rally their constituency when they’re already looking like they’re breaking at the seams. By allowing PP to have a seat and be official opposition leader, it makes it harder for the Conservatives to remove PP and put someone else in, which puts further strain on their cohesion.

I feel like Carney’s move is an attempt to make the Conservatives break apart with the realization that this election was the best chance they had at gaining power in a long time, and things will look worse because it’s almost impossible for Carney to screw up in ways that’ll make his support weaker the next election as long as he continues to play hardball against Trump.

At the very worst, he can treat the guy like a mild annoyance, since no matter how loudly he yells, it’s easy to ignore him when the Conservative vote means nothing in this virtual majority government.

To extend to this, the rest of the British Empire at the time did massive contributions. The Aussies did real work during the Africa Campaign, even holding a town that single-handedly crippled the Afrika Corps’s advance towards Egypt (also Egyptions doing some great work supporting Commonwealth troops as they prepared for the counterattack), countless Indian sacrifices all over the place despite Churchill causing more Indian deaths than the Germans at the same time, New Zealand giving a good show despite basically not having an economy or a population at the time. Frankly, you can point at almost any part of the commonwealth, and they all punched way above their weights for this war, and that doesn’t even start talking about the British homefront.

And outside of the colonies, Poland really carried hard on several ways, from volunteers flying during the Battle for Britain, to a single small destroyer soloing the Bismark for an entire hour screaming at the battleship dozens times larger than it (the full story of the Piorun is insane).

Either way, tons of recognition is deserved all around, not just pointing at the UK, Russia, and the US.

Nothing constructive? Like a hundred billion tunnel under Toronto to bypass the 401? Or how about a hundred million to remove some Toronto bike lanes on some streets that isn’t even anywhere near capacity instead of worrying about streets that have actual gridlock? Or selling off important farmland to make only a few thousand homes in the middle of nowhere instead of actually building homes that are close to things like actual stores or work places? Or building a bypass for a bypass that isn’t anywhere near capacity over the same farmland because the courts blocked the previous sale of them? Or the hundred million he was going to give to Musk to give free internet to a handful of rural communities when they could just buy it themselves if they wanted internet? Or how about selling the Ontario Place to a spa company when Toronto spas doesn’t even make a decent profit already, or that they didn’t even operate an actual chain of spas that they said they did when they bid for the spot? Or how he’s tearing down the Ontario Science Center because of ‘leaky roofs’ to make parking lots when Torontonians managed to fundraise enough money to permanently fix the roofs at zero cost to the government? Or how about the province-wide bribe he made just this winter right before the Ontario election? Or how about his trip to the states where he spent most of his time on CNN complaining to Americans about random crap on the taxpayer’s dime? Or how he had one decent idea in surcharging electricity to the US, only to fold when an American offered to talk about talking about the Trump tariffs?

Exactly where has Ford done anything that wasn’t a massive waste of money since he was first elected?

It certainly is possible. Most people have shitty memories for anything that they’re not passionate about, and very few people are passionate about politics or how things change around them. Just the latest outrage article more often than not.

But I do think that there is also a connection to the fact that the left is sorely underrepresented in social media as well. And I don’t just mean in terms of content creators, but platform owners as well. After all, even if most tech bros that started up all our favourite online media giants, once they reach the top, every single force in the capatalistic world that let them get on top is now a force that drives them hard to the right. Legislation makes it harder to earn more money when you’ve already squeezed out the easy and legal opportunities. The left is all about change and democratizing things, where the corporate giants have already consolidated so much of the economy that this is a legitimate threat to their power. Not to mention that making it easier for entrepreneurs to start up new companies without relying on venture capital influence to avoid the risk of personal bankruptcy is a direct threat that may topple their empire if they can’t buy them out (or will be bought by someone else who already is a direct threat).

And then there’s the fact that advertising money flock towards right wing content creators because not only are they more commercially safe since they are far less likely to call out corporations doing bad things, but they’re also more willing to take money from unethical sources. I mean, how often does right wing youtubers advertise energy drinks and protein powders? Or what about supplements or “muscle enhancers”?

The double whammy of right wing media giants and right wing content creators make it really hard for the left to get their voice out at all, especially to the young who exclusively get their news from these sources.

I mean, imagine how many think that the stuff they hear on facebook is actual legitimate news despite them officially not allowing Canadian news to be advertised on their services?

As an Ontarian, I can list dozens of projects that suffered this way, from plan changes, alterations during construction, to outright cancellations right before being completed. We probably waste half our budget this way.

There’s hope that this might not have aged as badly as some think.

After all, PP might actually get fired as the Cons leader for not doing his job. (Though honestly, I’m rooting for the party to break up. A far right party and extreme right party splitting the votes will only show just how terrible each side is, and with a split, the animosity between them means that neither will gain traction for decades, and hopefully make Canadians realize just how terrible the parties they’ve been voting for really are)

Frankly I find it amazing that Albertans aren’t the most acutely aware how fragile their economy is. They’ve suffered several oil crashes, even two in the last decade or so, and yet they feel like they’ll do better without Ontario and Quebec to prevent a total economic crash any time oil prices dip?

And this is at a time when oil prices are already starting to fall, with pretty much every forecast blaring out that oil will become nearly worthless by the end of the century, if not within the next two decades?

Oh, and this is even before considering that the only other province that has a snowball’s chance in hell to give Alberta a hand once there’s no federal government to force the provinces to work together (even marginally), is Saskatchewan. I strongly doubt that BC would allow Albertan oil to pass through their province if the Feds wasn’t there to make them play nice together. Maybe natural gas, but definitely not oil. And in such a case, the only significant buyer of Albertan oil will be the the US, and I would bet actual money that the first thing they’d do would be to ask for a discount on oil, because they know it is litterally the only thing preventing Alberta from becoming a 3rd world economy.

These numbers are really encouraging. Voter participation has been a serious issue on all levels of government for a long time, and hopefully this is the beginning of a reverse in trends. Canadians need to at least pay a minimum of attention to what their leaders are doing or else they’ll just do whatever they think they can get away with.

So many Canadian leaders sneak in absurd laws and policies and Canadians just don’t notice or say anything, and I say this in regards to all parties. Not saying anything, especially during elections, is a tacit approval. Because showing disapproval is the only way to make governments know that they can’t get away with ignoring the public good in favour of personal agendas.

I think even worse than voting for fear and resentment, they voted for actual fascism. The guy openly stated that he was going to try to ignore Canadian rights and freedoms without any ambiguity. It’s not like him twisting turning Canada into a 3rd world resource economy as a great boost to the economy, or that saving the 1% billions in taxes as a way for the average Canadian to save their money.

One of PP’s mandates was to use the notwithstanding clause to bypass Canadian rights and freedoms to jail people without a trial. It was one of his platforms, and there was zero ambiguity that he intended to do it exactly as he stated.

The fact that this wasn’t a red flag for over 40% of Canadians and an immediate reason to distance themselves from him, it honestly scares me. Because this is how Hitler and Mussolini came into power, along with many other of history’s worst leaders. They sounded reasonable at first, with only one or two shady bits to their mandates, only for those shady bits to be the core that started the greatest evils in the world.

Once, I thought that conservatism was about small governments and capitalist agendas and thought it was bad.

To think that I now dream for that to actually be true, rather than being actual fascists and dictatorships. That calling the Cons neo-Nazis might be bordering on a compliment compared to the shit they’re actually pulling.

Okay, I had to double check, because I thought this was a Beaverton article for a sec.

I mean, seriously? “Anti-liberal wipes, now with extra logic”? “Anti-liberal rash cream”? I’m sorry, but do the Cons pay for their shit by selling overpriced weirdly labeled crap to their supporters like some pyramid scheme or something?

I really thought this was satire until I double checked the link address.

I do hope that the government won’t let them have a by-election to put PP on board anytime soon. If the Cons are determined to make it happen, it will no matter what eventually, but I hope that they won’t be able to get a special exception for it. And there’s no way he’ll lose since he’ll pick a riding that’s got at least 70% support already.

Though it would be hilarious if he loses twice in a row.

Yup. Him and his pension he’s been building up since his 20s.

Don’t forget the Canadian oligarchs that are doing “god’s work” in Canada as well. Most of the private Canadian news outlets are owned by these billionaires that actively squeeze out every cent from their own base while convincing them that it’s for their benefit with unabashedly one-sided reporting.

It really reminds me that all the stuff I say that what the US reminds me of 1930s Germany or Italy actually applies to Canada as well to a frighten degree.

It’s pretty bad. I was talking to someone who voted Cons yesterday and he was saying how Trump was actually doing the US economy a ton of good and that all the numbers from the stock markets to the bonds, trade numbers and all else were either temporary bumps or unimportant.

While it’s true that stock numbers don’t reflect the actual markets, they do reflect market confidence and has a high tendency to match what the market actually ends up being several months down the line.

I’ve come to realize that Cons rely on the fact that their supporters simply listen to their messages without paying any attention to other signs of what’s going on, which is why they can flatly lie about whatever they want and people actually believe them. Because they don’t want to internalize anything that suggests that they are wrong.

As someone who voted Liberals this time, I do strongly believe Carney is wrong and misguided on many points, but voted for him anyways. Because someone who is wrong a part of the time is far better than someone who is wrong most of the time. That a partially bad direction is better than someone who will run full steam ahead into the biggest ditch he can find while running over the average Canadian on the way.

The very definition of left and right has changed from your own France that first came up with the term. It’s one thing to say that you don’t agree with the definition used in Canada, but another to say that my statement is as delusional as flat earthers. They are words, and words change meaning over time. Especially ones that are used vaguely or deliberately misinterpreted by certain groups, like Woke or Nazi. Even the word “gay” has changed to mean something different from a half century ago.

Yes, AIs are they are do need oversight. But it’s not possible to do this in real time without AIs. And corrections afterwards when AIs make mistakes is far better than just letting politicians get away with blatant lying. Also, as long as they’re supervised, any lines can be vetoed out if the supervisor things they may be off, leaving the corrections and source statements conservative since it’s obviously better to be silent than to be wrong for this sort of things.

And the earlier such projects start, the more we can learn to do it better as AIs get better, as well as recognize signs of the AI hallucinating.

Real-time fact-checking should be implemented as standard. With the advances in AI lately, it isn’t a difficult thing to be added, especially to political speeches being the first avenue for this. Anytime a politician makes a speech, all their statements can be fact-checked with sources in real time as subtitles.

Someone makes a claim, it shows what data supports and what data contradicts it. Show both sides as evenly as possible to reduce claims of bias if it’s contested information, but if it’s a quote, then show context. Make it mandatory on all news broadcasts first, and let independents and other news sources decide on their own whether to follow this trend or not at first.

Making huge, radical and wide-sweeping change opens up for potential problems, especially when it comes to enforcing others. But start with government funded news (or even just the CBC at first, but make the software available for free (or cheap) for anyone else who wants to use it) so that people get used to it and it can be more finely tweaked to work best while minimizing complaints of bias.

By showing sources and supporting/conflicting data for all statements, rather than just blatantly false ones, we can set a new standard based on facts, not persuasive power.

By your definition, 70% of the world should be locked up in asylums. This isn’t an illness, it’s ideals and values incompatible with those that you personally hold. From their perspective, you who have no problems condemning an entire nation to the block is the one with mental illness by your own definition.