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Yours is the funniest, most creative post I've seen on Lemmy in a while. Thank you for the laugh :D

Great article. The less competition the corporate-controlled news monopolies have, the better for corporate-controlled PP, and that informs his policy here. The appeals to 'free speech' and 'how things have been done for 3,000 years' are obviously dumb to me, but many (already inclined to believe him) will clap their hands at such sensational but meaningless speaking points.

I'm happy for our friends south of the border and a little jealous of them over Harris/Walz. Those two and their campaign are punching down right-wing stupidity in ways average people understand and nod their heads in agreement with. I have a little deja vu with the Obama/Harper era around this feeling of looking over the border for more inspiring (or something like that) politics

You raise a great point. That's @#$%ing absurd. It sounds like the "an arbitrator with the province’s Residential Tenancy Branch" was unqualified to work on this case if they do not understand that economic point

The press should definitely be allowed in. It's wild to me how little coverage of wildfires there's been in Canadian news this summer (by design). What climate change? /s

As a renter, this is deeply disturbing. Their rent is going up 7.7x the previously stated legal limit so that "Two B.C. landlords" who didn't properly anticipate the consequences of their borrowing can be bailed out of financial losses?! WTF are these "two B.C. landlords"? Corporations, probably, right? Modern-day capitalism is such a fucking grift: if you're not rich, you're on your own; if you're rich, you get bailed out. The renters did nothing wrong here: they were fiscally responsible. But the laws will be bent to extract (steal) unforeseen amounts from them in order to bail out wealthier people who chose to take on the risk they did to satisfy their greed. If you're not rich, standing on your own two feet isn't good enough. If you are rich, don't worry about standing on your own two feet--keep taking on risk to make more money and we'll protect you if you incur losses

I think we agree: privatization means stealing from the public so that a few rich people can get richer

Already partly privatized is not sufficient justification to increase privatization - It should have become less privatized, not more

For his rich investor buddies? Lots! Greenbelt development scandal, Ontario Science Centre scandal, privatization of Service Ontario to Staples, giving Brewer's Retail some absurd amount of money to get out of a contract 1 year early and privatize alcohol sales, scrapped paid sick days, inked a new contract with Enbridge to lock us into natural gas for many more years to come, the list goes on. Ontario is "Open for business"

I'd say the point is having your cake and eating it too if you're a political party. To the public, you can say "we did all of these things in the public interest" and you can present some misleading data, because they still would have collected millions. And to the sacred oil and gas industry recklessly endangering a whole planet for the profit of a very small group of people, you can wink and say "you're good; don't worry, the rules created for you don't actually apply to you"

Germany seems to be doing 2 things with its energy generation: increasing renewables, and pivoting to coal while it gets off nuclear. The progress in the charts is presumably because its increasing share of renewables is outpacing its pivot to coal. People are still entitled to think the nuclear to renewables via coal transition in 2024 is dumb. Like most important things, there are many different ways to measure things, and the approach matters a lot to what the results look like. These charts aren't intended to compare pollution across countries, but to compare countries' progress on reducing emissions relative to their own 1990s baseline. So, where each country started from matters a lot to the slopes.

Believe me, many Canadians wish we weren't a petrostate, but the oil and gas industry basically control politics and the media. When we had record wildfires last year, I started seeing the word "wildfire" censored in the news in favour of "air quality issues." This year, there is very little wildfire-related news, because it's taboo to corporate interests.

Great question, unfortunately I don't know and can't take a look right now, but I believe the energy report cited and linked to is open access

Friendly reminder: Tim Hortons hasn't been Canadian-owned since 1995