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  • Ontario government recycles oil sands propaganda for Ring of Fire mining development

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  • While I agree that those dynamics can exist, it doesn't have to be that way.

    We could be saying to manufacturers "you are not allowed to sell products that contain materials or parts that are produced in ways that harm people and the environment in the following specific ways: ..."

    and forming agreements with other countries and trading blocs (ideally through institutions like the UN) to that effect.

    This stuff doesn't have to be a race to the bottom.

  • Anyone else feel like Shoppers pharmacies are aggressively trying to charge extra fees?

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  • Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about this story. Interesting bit in that article also, having to do with the additional paperwork burden the MedsChecks cause for family docs. I hadn't realized they needed to sign off on every single one of them!

  • Anyone else feel like Shoppers pharmacies are aggressively trying to charge extra fees?

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  • Manulife

  • Anyone else feel like Shoppers pharmacies are aggressively trying to charge extra fees?

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  • Believe me, I would love to.

    Problem is, I'm low income, I need a couple of moderately expensive medications, and my spouse's insurance is such that I have to pay double if I go to another pharmacy. Honestly it's the only reason I switched to them. I held out for so long, too.

    It should be illegal for insurance to provide a different coverage rate solely based on the pharmacy chain.

  • Anyone else feel like Shoppers pharmacies are aggressively trying to charge extra fees?

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  • Absolutely, yeah. I'm just thinking it might be good to have a specific complaint that could be taken to regulators (or prosecutors)

  • Canada’s elite media wants you to serve in the military

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  • You're the one telling people that the public has no right to question an immediate pivot to spending +$150 Billion/year on warmongering and then telling someone else they're pushing disinfo?

    Go on then, tell me what specifically you're referring to. This oughta be fun

  • Canada’s elite media wants you to serve in the military

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  • The pivot was immediate, let's not rewrite history just because of some personal distaste for criticism of dear leader

  • Canada’s elite media wants you to serve in the military

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  • Carney didn't run on a 5% target. That's the point of calling it out.

    It's not like the already-governing Liberals wouldn't have known about quiet NATO discussions before the election, so this criticism of the article makes zero sense.

  • The Value Of Our Fear: PM Mark Carney is using Canadians’ fear of Trump’s expansionism to quietly sell us out to his true allies - US finance & tech oligarchs

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  • Yes, and the CCLA's brief on this is well worth reading. It looks far more closely at the lack of parliamentary oversight and vague wording (direct link to pdf) https://www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Committee/451/FINA/Brief/BR13838502/br-external/CanadianCivilLibertiesAssociation-e.pdf

    And as I say, I'm not opposed to a thriving economy, but we have rules and regulations for a reason: to try to make sure that this "thriving" doesn't come at someone else's expense. And as we tumble further into climate catastrophe, "growth" often becomes one of those double-edged swords.

    That aside though, sounds like we agree that this concentration of power is really concerning.

  • The Value Of Our Fear: PM Mark Carney is using Canadians’ fear of Trump’s expansionism to quietly sell us out to his true allies - US finance & tech oligarchs

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  • The Value Of Our Fear: PM Mark Carney is using Canadians’ fear of Trump’s expansionism to quietly sell us out to his true allies - US finance & tech oligarchs

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  • Thanks for reading! Unfortunately the WEF took down the pages that showed the 2026 event schedule so that link (in the section about Larry Fink) goes to what is effectively a blank page. archive.is only has the Jan 22nd schedule and not Jan 20th. If anyone knows of another site that lists the full schedule, I'd be extremely grateful!

  • Althia Raj: Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers

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  • The AI industry in Canada has been pushing to essentially 'self-regulate', and (at least in this layperson's opinion) seems like the legislative method for giving them what they want.

  • Althia Raj: Mark Carney is quietly giving sweeping new powers to his ministers

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  • What happened to the rule of law? This is undermining public transparency and the role of parliament in much the same way that Trump has neutered the US Congressional branch and centralized power in the admin. If you're pissed off at Danielle Smith and Doug Ford, this is just as bad!

  • Donald Trump ‘blowing Bubba’ message in Epstein emails under scrutiny

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  • maybe someone made a NFT of it

    /s

  • Left-wing populist Avi Lewis might be the answer to the banker Mark Carney

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  • Avi is honestly really great IMO and it's awesome to have a leadership candidate who understands media

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  • A recent episode of Tech Won't Save Us about cars made a nice point about this stuff:

    if you build near transit and remove rules around minimum levels for parking spots, you can lower the cost of development significantly, since you either need less underground parking, or less land for parking lots.

    Cars make housing less affordable!

  • Mark Carney’s first budget projects $78B deficit, program and civil service cuts

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  • I am pointing to Tankus' blog because he outlines the things Krugman has said.

    Second: would you have not issued CERB and had millions lose housing? Or would you issue CERB and accept some inflationary pressure (keeping in mind that much of the inflation was gouging and supply chain issues)? You had made a blanket statement "issuing currency is drinking bleach" and I gave one of many possible examples for why that is a ridiculous statement.

    And in terms of your arrogance around understanding what you're talking about:

    "Taxes fund services" is flat out wrong from a MMT perspective, quite literally it is the most fundamentally wrong thing one could say about it as an economic framework, so I suggest you develop a better understanding of the thing you claim to understand the critiques of. Or perhaps read critiques from those who actually understand it.

    Cheers

  • Mark Carney’s first budget projects $78B deficit, program and civil service cuts

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  • Tankus has blogged about Krugman's evolution.

    And my "defense of printing money" was not a judgement about the inflationary pressure of doing so, it was a recognition that there are more things to consider - such as the risk of millions of people being evicted from their homes or going hungry.

    You're still trying to put words in my mouth, and you're not engaging earnestly, so, goodbye

    (edit: typo)

  • Mark Carney’s first budget projects $78B deficit, program and civil service cuts

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  • Krugman has come around on it over the last few years actually, through discussions with noted MMT proponents Rohan Grey and Nathan Tankus. So you might want to search for more recent stuff.

    In the MMT, taxes both fund services

    incorrect, in MMT taxes remove money from the economy

    In your CERB example, there are a lot of factors involved. One is that there really were supply chain disruptions as spending shifted from services to material goods, combined with a lot of intentional price gouging as inflation narratives took hold.

    Neither these phenomena nor the disinflationary effect of taxation are immediate or direct in their effects, so I definitely feel for policymakers when crises like these hit.

    But we're now very far from the original point, and you seem to be pointing to an exceptional circumstance to try to prove a generality, as well as trying to claim I'm saying things about that exceptional circumstance that haven't said.

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  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    patatas @sh.itjust.works

    Can a stochastic process be considered 'automation'?

  • Shitty Ask Lemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Did Marx write anything about supporting/critiquing AI? If so, did his inkpen choose the words or did he do it himself?

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/arms-ammunition-shipments-israel-canada-1.7596091
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    Report suggests arms still flow from Canada to Israel despite denials

    www.cbc.ca /news/politics/arms-ammunition-shipments-israel-canada-1.7596091
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    ‘It’s being levelled’: advocates worried about potential 81 per cent cut to Women and Gender Equality Canada’s budget by 2028

    www.hilltimes.com /story/2025/07/25/its-being-levelled-advocates-worried-about-potential-81-per-cent-cut-to-women-and-gender-equality-canadas-budget-by-2028/468551/
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    Opinion: The International Court of Justice’s statement on fossil fuels puts Carney in a tough spot

    www.theglobeandmail.com /opinion/article-international-court-justice-mark-carney-united-nations-fossil-fuels/
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Health advocates shocked as Carney Liberals back away from pharmacare program

    www.cp24.com /news/canada/2025/07/28/advocates-question-fairness-as-federal-government-backs-away-from-pharmacare-program/
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Al Jazeera

    Macron pushed UK, Canada to recognise Palestinian state but they balked: Report

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  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Suggest your own spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail and other Crown corporations

    www.thestar.com /politics/federal/suggest-your-own-spending-cuts-carney-government-tells-cbc-via-rail-and-other-crown-corporations/article_1bb3283e-a3a1-4a5d-bc6e-3405f7b37231.html
  • Canada @lemmy.ml
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    The Carney government, through the CMHC, has quietly redefined "affordable housing" to no longer mean 30% of income, but "perhaps 40-45% ... [and] over 50% of income by 2035"

    www.reic.ca /article-june27-25.html
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Redefining Affordability: Why CMHC’s Benchmark Shift Matters

    www.reic.ca /article-june27-25.html
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Mark Carney's latest LinkedIn post is celebrating the right wing premiers of Alberta and Ontario

    www.linkedin.com /posts/mark-carney-5b9744205_the-premiers-are-right-on-canada-has-what-activity-7348761572107800578-QbsV
  • CanadaPolitics @lemmy.ca
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    Mark Carney's latest LinkedIn post is celebrating the right wing premiers of Alberta and Ontario

    www.linkedin.com /posts/mark-carney-5b9744205_the-premiers-are-right-on-canada-has-what-activity-7348761572107800578-QbsV
  • CanadaPolitics @lemmy.ca
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    Mark Carney is Your Nightmare Boss: a look at his personality-revealing pancake-flipping photo op

    thedabbler.patatas.ca /pages/carney-nightmare-boss.html
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Mark Carney is Your Nightmare Boss: a look at his personality-revealing pancake-flipping photo op

    thedabbler.patatas.ca /pages/carney-nightmare-boss.html
  • Canada @lemmy.ca
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    Is this greenwashing? Asking for our friend Kevin O'Leary ;)

    blundervalley.ca /blog/is-this-greenwashing/
  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
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    guide

    how I set up a VPS as a proxy for my home server, using HAProxy and Tailscale

    thedabbler.patatas.ca /pages/haproxy-tailscale-setup.html
  • Self hosted @sh.itjust.works
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    how I set up a VPS as a proxy for my home server, using HAProxy and Tailscale

    thedabbler.patatas.ca /pages/haproxy-tailscale-setup.html