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I don't think it does. I think it's only direct pollution from energy use, but I'm not sure

I understand why you felt violated and I'm sorry that happened to you. I think it's odd you seem to attribute none of the violation to campus security. You describe them as passively compelled to follow up on a complaint about a student's (I'm presuming reasonable) on-campus behaviour by going into the student newspaper office they worked in and reading their work. But they chose to do that. They could have handled things differently, such as talk to you versus snoop like they did or dismiss you as a non-threat

You know what I'd love even more than litigating this issue? Figuring out how we can prevent this from happening in the future. How can we ensure that, going forward, legitimate and transparent competitions for government projects are always held, COI are always disclosed, and failures to deliver on projects or efforts to circumvent legitimate processes are always promptly dealt with using commensurate penalties? It sure would help the federal Liberals' chances of re-election if they could shore up more public trust along these lines

A lot of drum-banging about what we know or many think is wrong, but only a hint at the answer: we need political reform so we're more along the lines of a European democracy (and represent the interests of everyday Canadians), and proportional representation is the key there. But none of the wealthy elite in this country-- the politicians, the globe and mail and many of their readers, O&G, the grocery, bank, and telecomm oligopolies-- want that, and the article doesn't mention it. The current system is profitable for them.

The excesses of superficial progressivism have been laid bare. Cultural virtue-signalling at the expense of substantive economic progress has corroded the values of progressive politics.

I know it's an "opinion" but the article feels like a 'shape up or get shipped out' message to Trudeau from the G&M that is pretty light on leadership and vision itself

Yes. I'm open to a well-informed person telling me I'm wrong and why, but until then: Proportional representation is by and far the greatest thing we can do to increase the quality of our democracy and make our government work for the people and not be highly susceptible to political parties and lobbyists gaming the system to their benefit

I agree it's illogical but I wouldn't be surprised if people thought it. Right-wing arguments appeal to people in large part because of their simplicity, saving people from having to reckon with complex issues. And what if the only checking in to their political system people do is from a biased platform like twitter, because they don't want to take time to read an article and think critically, etc. I say this after having a talk with a family member recently that was disheartening because of some of their views and from my feeling like trying to discuss things with them was pretty fruitless given what their news diet is

Everyone's smashing the like button because they're digging the vibes but Canadians don't have foldable paper bills or dollar bills :)

How do you pronounce the company name? Is it "bid" or B-Y-D?

@droopy4096 In addition to this, it's well-reported now that several American automakers share vehicle acceleration data with insurance companies, so drivers are being monitored without their awareness and could face a hike in insurance fees if they're detected as being a little too reckless in the passive acceleration data monitoring. I haven't heard of any non-American automakers doing this. And while the consequences of the "Chinese government shutting down all EVs in NA via some electronic backdoor" are greater than this, one is speculation about the future and the other's current fact

From my quick search, SimpleFile appears to be a CRA technology as opposed to one leased from an external corporation - so, yay that bit is done within-house. The program focuses on disadvantaged individuals and essentially competes with (predatory) commercial tax preparation services. I don't really mean this as a partisan comment, but this is what good government looks like in my eyes - working for the people to grow the country in a good direction. It sounds very effective too

I think this is more heinous actually. To be sure, the public loses and unfairness reigns when a government assigns a contract to complete a project to a company they're associated with (e.g., owned by a friend of the political leader/minister) without a proper competition. But this - consultancy on major policy projects - undermines things to a much higher degree in my eyes. I think 'democracy' is on life support, and this is yet another example of it. Quality piece from the Walrus, except the line that suggesting that Trudeau's "vowing" to end something unpopular after the public learns about it has any meaning whatsoever. I'll believe it when I see it, because of course we still haven't seen the proportional representation he promised.

Something that's really alarming is that while public-facing politics has become far more about marketing than policy, this article shows that politics 'happens' without the public but with - or perhaps by - these unscrupulous corporate-minded consultancy firms.

Unless the LPC can show that they actually have working Canadians' interests in minds - which this story and the idea of Mark Carney leading the party are very far removed from - they're going to lose a LOT of seats to the Conservatives come next election. I don't have many positive feelings about the Liberals because shit like this is so on-brand for them, but they sure are less destructive than the Conservatives. Here's hoping the LPC gets their heads out of their asses some time soon