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  • Ford really took advantage of fptp last time too. He called a snap election claiming he needed a mandate to deal with Trump. Turnout was even worse than usual because it was February.

    He timed it carefully, often Ontario will flip parties provincially (i.e. vote Tory when Liberals are in power and vise versa) so he wanted to lock in four years when it looked like Trudeau was on the way out.







  • “What they’re effectively saying is that they want data retained on every single Canadian that subscribes to a wireless provider or an internet provider so that they can search the haystack for the needle so to speak, if the need arises,” he said.

    He gave the example of someone who carries their cell phone everywhere they go, “which is pretty typical.”

    “Every time they move with the cell phone, all that information is being retained. It is not being retained right now. The government would require its retention,” he said.

    “It’s very, very problematic.”

    And I’m sure that information will never be abused or leaked or otherwise misused, right? Right?




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    2 months ago

    Many years ago I worked tech support for a software company. I had one caller who could not conceive that our software couldn’t print to two printers at once. She didn’t want to print to one then the other. She just kept repeating “this is the 21st century” whenever I tried to explain.

    Eventually I told her it was a question for her IT and she went away.