I’m watching on cpac.

Good speech from Chrétien, considering he’s 90 years old although the people yelling “woooo!” after every other sentence should maybe calm down a bit.

Post title: “ban X” — an insane idea that is not going to happen.

The petition: “stop using X” — a good idea that they should’ve done already.

Yeah I haven’t watched much TV since twenty years ago, forgot for a moment how tightly regulated broadcasting is. By contrast, nobody has even talked about banning the RT web site. For the most part, banning the use of foreign websites is something only autocratic censorship-heavy states are in the business of doing. Canada’s one attempt to block some random for-profit pirate streaming site that almost nobody had heard of was dangerous enough.

Would you ban the broadcast of CBS News as well?

Canada should not ban individual social media services one at a time. It can’t be justified, constitutionally or morally. Canada should instead pass a privacy law that prohibits the surveillance capitalist dirty tricks that make them profitable, and design regulations that require interoperability.

Of course that would require a government capable of designing good tech regulation, which we don’t seem to have much chance of seeing around here any time soon.

“President Trump will work with any ally or partner who understands the dangerous world inherited after the disastrous Biden years”

a whiff of Führerprinzip coming from the White House

https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/weve-solved-the-housing-crisis-before-we-can-do-it-again

It may seem like a small thing but it’s nicely symbolic of America losing its international reputation and standing. At this rate its its soft power will be demolished within the year, and its economic and military might will soon follow.

Also that we might otherwise stop doing some of those things.

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Drop the tariffs and we’ll allow US banks to operate in Canada, allow American cars to be sold here, ban all exports of fentanyl, and stop booing your national anthem.

A fight with Canada will have no winners.

Cui bono? As with many of Trump’s actions, it’s obviously not the USA. It’s not as if they don’t know that it will hurt the American people. It’s not being done for their benefit.

Looking at the Firefox Librewolf “print preview” it does actually look quite easy to read.

I wonder how many of my stupid comments on lemmy have been converted to PDF, printed on paper, and stored in a filing cabinet.

Harper should probably hesitate before reminding everyone too much of his own actions during the financial crisis.

The only way to win the game of “Bot, or troll?” is not to play and hit the block button instead. Which I will go ahead and do now.

Like Chrystia Freeland?

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“We protect Canada, but it’s not fair.”

The idea that any military attack on Canada is most likely to come from directly across the southern border is not a new one. It’s one of the main reasons we need an army at all. Many years ago I mentioned this theory to some people in the military and was slightly surprised that they all took it seriously and said yeah, we do have plans for that possibility of course. I don’t know to what extent they were serious about it then or whether they’ve all gone soft and forgotten about it in the decades that have since passed, but unlikely as we thought it that an invasion would come from the USA it’s even more unlikely that it’d come from anywhere else.

How can they be undocumented if they’re registered?

Pointing people to reddit, as if that’s an alternative. When a VPN provider makes such bad choices it’s tempting to imagine that the decision was influenced by somebody who wants to secretly get the message out that the company is no longer to be trusted, because it’s hard to see any other logic in it.