Scott

Doesn't the US-Canada tax treaty alienate the worst of the double taxation problems?

The fact that this will royally piss off Adam Vaughn isnt a reason to support it, but it's a nice silver lining.

Becoming a 'turn the world into Coruscant' person out of sheer contempt for all the people who seem to think it'd be progressive if we all lived in the same village as the previous 16 generations of our families and did subsistence farming forever

How do they intend to supply an army a 1000km from their border?

Or are they just wanting to piggy back on US logistics?

This is anti-railroad propaganda

Many people really want the laws of war to make war not bad, but war is bad that’s why aggressive war is illegal. The laws governing conduct in war can’t make war not bad

Canada shouldn't give a crap about him. The freedom of navigation steel man is at most about helping out Europe and our pacific allies to not get screwed on their energy supply.

And even that is high risk deployment because although they have some air and CWIS defense, they aren't going to be the most survivable in that threat environment and will be in range of a lot of shore based fires and drones.

It's far from clear its worth risking Canadian lives for that.

The best case scenario I could see is sending a Halifax frigate or two to do escort for civilian traffic through the strait as part of an international freedom of navigation operation. But so far that kind of joint mission doesnt seem to be in the offing.

Even if this was a good idea, and its not, what could we even contribute? We have no air defense systems, the military isnt equipped to protect itself, nevermind others from drones and we'd have trouble sustaining the deployment of a half dozen CF-18. There is no ability to effect the war's outcome.

We used to be a proper country.

That seems like a stretch

I missed the bit about perfidy. What is being alleged?

Congrats!

If video games/The Battle of the Atlantic have taught me anything its that escort missions are easy

Eby has been a pretty mid premier. Just kind fo fine. But for this he should get a statue

You do not have to under any circumstances got to hand it to the guy with the nazi tattoos

I think bluesky would be roughly 300% better if people here were capable of reading “this is an assessment of the empirical reality of a situation” without assuming it comes with an implicit “and therefore I endorse the reality of that situation”

Deep canpoli/Canadian media lore

Rule of law for land use remains stubbornly non-existent in Canada

Its 24hr to go 16km. A person could walk that with time to spare

For example, most of Vancouver's west end was built pre modern seismic codes and have flaws like soft stories that modern codes prohibit.

That post also misses that our understanding of both earthquakes and the structural responses to seismic events has developed significantly in the past several decades.

There’s a certain type of person who sees this as evidence that planning practice drives scarcity and a certain type of person who sees this as evidence that you could make housing cheaper if you never let anyone have a building permit

The cynical answer is that "look jobs!" is easy while making tough and uncomfortable choices that might piss of the states isn’t.

Why did Canada release a defense industrial strategy before a defense strategy? Shouldn't we figure out what we want to build and buy before we get to work on the how?

Supreme Court cancels result from federal election in Terrebonne riding The Supreme Court of Canada has annulled the result in the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne from last spring’s federal election.

I don't have a strong opinion on whether the result should stand or not (slightly towards new elections because it was Elections Canada's error) but doing this 10 months later is insane and no way to run a country
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Not even willing to build new government institutions. Where is a dedicated foreign intelligence agency so Canada isnt as dependent on the good will of allies to share intelligence?

One issue with our ability to adapt to crisis that Paul Wells recently noted is that we are intensely reluctant to consider physical solutions to urgent problems.

Everything happens within a comfort zone of legislation, litigation, and negotiation.