I want this as a bumper sticker

This is the best thing I’ve read all week

The gap was driven by the top 20 per cent of income earners, who saw the largest increase in their share of disposable income, the report said. That increase was driven largely by investment gains, which the statistics agency attributed to high interest rates.

This is true for me. About 40% of my income came from investments.

The Statistics Canada report said that in the second quarter, the top 20 per cent of Canadians held more than two-thirds of the country’s wealth, averaging $3.4 million per household. By comparison, the bottom 40 per cent of Canadians accounted for only 2.8 per cent of Canada’s wealth.

This is massively skewed, probably well beyond what most people think and would intuitively envision. I’ve done some work studying businesses and their wealth distributions, what you see is the top 1% is 10x higher than the top 10%, 0.1% is 10x higher than 1%, etc.

Wealth generally creates power law distributions, as the factors that increase wealth multiply wealth, not add to wealth.

I don’t think our government can stop this, as most of my investments are US based. What we can do is try and drive better results for that middle 60% of households who are seeing lifestyle eroded by inflation and stagnant wages (while the floor of minimum wage shifts upwards).

We need to encourage more investment in Canada, and we need to encourage Canadian companies to pay more on-par with US companies. The fact that 60% of CS grads leave and Canadian companies are generally living 20 years in the past is a huge problem for our productivity. We really need bring back manufacturing and high tech work that improves productivity with high leverage.

Singh is only 2 points higher in net favourability than Pollievre.

Right now the NDP are forecast to get far fewer seats than liberals. Calling an election will effectively end Singhs tenure as it will become clear how unpopular he is.

I appreciate you bringing facts into the discussion

Only weird given the context you mentioned!

This is such a weird picture

That dude definitely fucks

I think it’s a great move for them. They’re actually in the running for official opposition right now, with a 42% chance of becoming opposition (using pre-Freeland resignation stats)

The saucer section is a giant spinner

If you can read this

We have not violated the treaty of Algeron

Same here. Npbody should have to submit their identity for that.

An alternative would be a device local authentication system that validates your age from your browser in a privacy preserving way. I’d much prefer that method if we had to go down that route.

Steamed is my default method of cooking broccoli.

I cut the stalk up for soup and pasta. Then I lightly steam the florets and I like it.

I hate that those all use those damn switches instead of the default checkbox UI.

There’s no clear on or off state with the switches. They’re not accessible at all. They require extra code instead of a few lines of CSS and zero JavaScript.

They’re a scourge.

A majority of Canadians, 55%, say they have a negative opinion of Poilievre.

How are we in a situation where ALL of the federal party leaders are extremely unpopular going into an election.

Pollieve is at -18 net favourability, Singh is at -16, Trudeau is at -40%.

“Pierre Poilievre’s net favourability in Quebec sits at -45%.”

Vive la Quebec. Outside of some of the cultural stuff, I feel I align a lot with Quebec politically.

To their credit, they did in fact make a pretty great truck

Thanks, that’s really cool

I’m not in favour of that law, but I could abide it if the age verification is done in a reasonable and secure way. Even the secure ways don’t protect against a kid borrowing an unrestricted device.

I have no faith that will happen though. More likely what will happen is you’ll have to send your id to the porn websites and they’ll send it to a third party company with nebulous privacy requirements and your porn browsing history will be available to anyone with money.

Do they dump it into space when they’re done or do they have to ship the piss back to earth?

It seems reasonable to me that under so much financial criticism and a 50% budget overrun they want to bring in someone with strong finance background. Carney leads two central banks, I don’t think it gets more qualified than that.

But also I don’t know how much Freeland fought the stupid cheques amid such a large deficit, and I don’t know how much Trudeau was trying to protect himself or the party.

CBC reporting this does point to his gender record yesterday

I know they’re quoting but you do not have to publish every scoop.

I was annoyed when they posted this, this clearly had nothing to do with gender. I’d he’d only hired men this wouldn’t have happened, so this actually just hurts feminism to push that narrative.

That’s probably why Sisko punched Q