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johnefrancis
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Canada's not as enthusiastic about that military spending because little of that money goes to Canadian companies. Even for things like shipbuilding, the rules are unfavorable to Canadian industry and a lot of the industrial benefits go to US companies. Canada tried to negotiate industrial benefits on the F-35 program, but it didn't go well, and Canada entirely withdrew for many years.
A GOP Senator is just a mouthpiece for US industry, they just want more Canadian spend, they don't GAF about actual defense of Canada.
hmmm...I was on Cyberus? Can't remember if Magma bought Cyberus or vice versa. For a while. Then... dsl.ca...mixed in with Bell dialup... everyone jumped to "Rogers Wave" for a while when cable was king.
Looking forward to the day when wholesale competition comes to Bell's GPON Fibe(r).
we good there Vincent?
yeah, we good.
it was obsolete as a shelter by 1960, it's just buried under a bunch of dirt.
Later shelters like for NORAD in North Bay were deeper, and in hard rock. But they aren't expected to survive a large h-bomb either, and those shelter locations are well known.
seems like it will continue to be slow-rolled. The Conservatives will promise to do both the same, and the opposite.
very recently Industry Canada was trumpeting Canada's advantages in AI. Many key researchers were at Canadian universities, so there was a pretty good R & D lead at one point.
Canada even has a "Scale AI" industrial supercluster.
Doesn't really seem to be stimulating much public noise.
smells like another attack on sugar substitutes from the sugar industry via the WHO.
Sugar in the quantities that the sugar industry would like to sell is extremely unhealthy.
option 3 is my choice
that's how they control inflation - by killing the economy, increasing unemployment, thus disciplining labour and suppressing wage increases and consumer demand. Instead of govt spending on programs, it gives money to bondholders, who hoard it until interest rates come down.
Australia has leading scholars on MMT, which explains exactly what is going on, a very different story than you'll hear in the Murdoch media.
it's pointless to throw a long term number out without considering what contributes to it. Canada's growth, population growth, economic growth, and other factors cause the public service to grow. In 2006 - 2015, it also had come through some periods of suppressed growth as the conservatives slashed services provided.
those kids throwing rocks at the train are getting off easy