Not sure where you’re getting that from—this isn’t about anyone helping radio stations. The idea is that the government would impose laws and taxes on large streaming services operating in Canada that are somewhat similar to those currently imposed on radio stations in Canada.
Yeah, if that’s what the footage shows then she appears to be at fault here, and a liar to boot. “Assault with a weapon” may be a little too heavy to stick, but hopefully some lesser charge will.
For those unable to read the article, and who haven’t heard about this through other channels . . .
The issue is that Quebec is actively throwing Francophone minorities in other parts of Canada under the bus, which goes beyond them being “reluctant to defend” them. The Quebec government doesn’t seem to care that the weapons it’s using against its Anglophone linguistic minority can be turned around to attack Francophones in the rest of the country. What they do doesn’t necesarily stop at their borders.
It’s been a while since I had any reason to talk to a Franco-Ontarian about Quebec politics, but Quebec used to be considered snooty, obnoxious, and out of touch at best.
I would have been more amused if they had “mined” the gold from old tailings piles (the ones around Kirkland Lake used to have enough gold still in them to make that feasible, although I don’t know whether that’s the case anymore), or at least some mine with an associated settlement, rather than one located way out in the wilderness.
In other words, the article specifically says that they don’t know (or at least, the RCMP won’t say) what led to most of these firearms being reported as lost (we have external invormation in a few cases, like the trailer theft mentioned by another commenter, but not for most). There isn’t even enough information there for us to be able to tell whether all detachments use the same criteria in deciding whether a firearm qualifies as lost.
The article isn’t clear on what is categorized as “lost” in this context. Are these all “we know for sure they were stolen” or are some of them “we couldn’t find them when we did inventory, but they might just have ended up in an incorrectly-labeled box”? While neither of those is good, one is clearly worse than the other.
Even if only 5% of cops are dicks, that’s way too many for people in a position of power. Ask the two in your family what they did the last time they saw a fellow officer pulling some kind of icky crap (this, racism against someone Indigenous, whatever). Maybe they’re genuinely good people and called their fellow cops out, I don’t know. If not, I’m sorry to say that they’re part of the problem.
People involved in law enforcement have a higher obligation than the average citizen to follow the rules, except where specific affordances are made for them so that they can do their jobs. This is not one of those places.
When was the last time a federal government managed to balance a budget? Trudeau-the-elder landed a smallish surplus once, back in the late 1970s, I think. I’m not aware of anyone having pulled it off since.
Air Canada is not a vital service (some of the little bush airlines that are the only way in or out of remote communities might be, but not them). Believing that the government should intervene on their behalf is such excessive hubris that I can’t even.
Someone overreacted here, but it wasn’t just the police. Who calls the cops over a water gun, for crying out loud?!
Even if Singh were just in it for the pension (which I don’t believe), he has never shown an interest in dismantling public health care or building unnecessary additional highways, which makes him a better person than Ford. I wish Ford were just in it for the pension.
The issue is how to rejigger the universities’ income streams so that they can keep themselves afloat without that. We can start by looking into why some seem to be having more trouble than others.
Problem is that the prices were originally arranged to that first-class lettermail subsidized the rest of the services. Then the amount of lettermail tanked, and the pricing structure never quite straightened itself out afterwards. Someone has to sit down and rethink it from scratch, and so far no one’s been willing to do that.
We still need the postal service, though—it serves smaller and remote communities that the couriers would prefer not to deal with.
Loss of consciousness is not a normal symptom of migraine or cluster headaches (even if some sufferers wish it would be). The moment the ambulance brought him in unconscious, the doctors should have started testing for meningitis, tumours, etc. The fact that they apparently didn’t suggests that they were either incompetent . . . or severely overworked and so exhausted that they couldn’t tell a zebra from a horse even when it shoved its stripy butt in their faces. This kid is lucky that his mom kept fighting for him, and lucky that they were close enough to a major city that “bring him straight down” was only a matter of a couple of hours of driving.
If by that you mean “headquartered in Canada and manufacturing in Canada for the Canadian market” then the answer is no, I’m pretty sure the last ones vanished no later than the middle of the 20th century. Some US and other foreign companies do have manufacturing and assembly plants here, but I wouldn’t call them Canadian. (Ford Canada used to be semi-independent and produced some own-model vehicles early on, but they’re nothing more than a subsidiary of the US company now.)
Mostly T and T-adjacent, to be exact—some of the other letters seem to have become too mainstream to generate enough hate to be useful to them.
Short-term vs long-term. People are currently worried about short-term costs to the exclusion of long-term ones. You’re correct that not investing in green solutions has a high long-term cost, but people who are struggling to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table don’t have the mental resources to worry about the condition of the world and its influence on prices a year or a decade or a century from now. And that may not be right, but it’s the way things are.
Hopefully we at least took away his passport after he pulled this.
Certain provincial governments have developed a tendency to scream “but jurisdiction!” about any federal policy that might affect them, whether or not it’s useful or justified to do so and regardless of what other stimuli are applied.
The actual relevant source document appears to be this: https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2024/2024-121.htm. Judging from that, some of the money will go to funds that subsidize the production of local news programs in any medium (including radio), and there’s a small amount earmarked for community radio. It’s supposed to encourage the stations to create and broadcast content that’s beneficial to the general public but not as profitable as what they might otherwise air in its place. If you consider that to be “helping” radio stations, then fine, I concede, but to be honest, the specific details of where the money ends up aren’t the major point here, and will probably change over time.
I expect domestic radio stations pay into many of the same funds, although to be honest I’ve never checked. If we actually had a Canadian-owned streaming service that was willing to produce news programs or one of the other categories the government wants to encourage, they might get some money too. Including some of what’s coming from the radio stations, because no one is making an attempt to keep the revenue streams coming from different sources separate . . . and really, why should they? It’s extra administrative overhead to no real benefit.