There's a political concept south of the border called IOKIYAR (It's okay if you are a Republican).
The same is at play here: Corruption and nepotism? It's okay if you're a conservative. Wasting public funds? Okay if you're a conservative? Drawing a pension? Being a shameless hypocrite? You get the idea.
Yes.
They're hoping for a Reichstag Fire moment where they can win control during the chaos.
What a craven, gaslighting piece of shit.
Ah, the Oracle clause.
One of the nice things about Costco is that, because you scan your membership when you buy, they'll know if you bought these and you'll get a personal letter very shortly.
I'm not a fan of Canadian grocery in general, but they're the best by a wiiiiiiide margin.
Compared to almost anyone.
Canada rolled over and allowed the one sector it had any hope in--resource extraction--to be sold off to foreign investors, first from government control and then from domestic hands. Then it allowed rampant consolidation in the "captive" industries it does have (telecomm, food). Other countries did the same, but Canada rolled over faster and harder than any other western nation.
Now we're at the stage where our primary industry is skimming the cream off of the housing market. After that, what? Strip-mining south Asian immigrants for value? Whoops, we're already doing that, too.
It's a sad tale of governments, Liberal or Conservative, selling everything not nailed down in hopes that the magical market fairy would make it better, and then steadfastly refusing to do anything at all, sacrificing current donors' profits for everyone's future. Everyone saw this as an issue at least as far back as 1995, but no one was willing to admit that the Reagan/Thatcher (and in our case, Mulroney and Chretien) era of neoliberalism would eventually present a bill. So it was more tax cuts, more service cuts, more selling assets, more emphasis on cash hoarding and more disincentives for investing in business.
Been banned twice for almost exactly this, so yes.
I can’t catch quite the drift what x86/x64 chips are good for anymore, other than gaming, nostalgia and spec boasting.
Probably two things:
All those fancy "CoPilot ready" Qualcomm machines? They're following the same path as ARM-based smartphones have, where every single machine is bespoke and you're looking for specific boot images on whatever the equivalent of xda-developers is, or (and this is more likely) just scrapping them when they're used up, which will probably happen a lot faster, given Qualcomm's history with support.
I'd love to see a replacement for x86/amd64 that isn't a power suck, but has an open interface to BIOS.
If you're lucky. You could have a Sun parent.
Well, they are owned by the richest family in Canada.
This is regrettably true, and driving a lot of the red meat for "tough on crime" talk from right-wing politicians.
Our saving grace is that being tough on crime takes effort and money, and the CPC is just as cheap and lazy as the LPC. They'll just talk tougher and do nothing, as compared to the Liberals smiling and waving flags...and doing nothing.