Keith.js

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[Keith.js @keithjs]

Separatists: “Why would you vote to remain? Can’t you see the Canadian federal government is incompetent and untrustworthy?”
Also: “We don’t have a plan for government but trust us. And don’t judge prospects based on crazy things proponents of independence say”

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

This is yet another example of how little Americans understand us.

Being blamed for swinging a U.S. midterm would instantly rocket to the top of the Best-Ever Canadian Achievements chart.

1. Fucked Trump.
2. Vimy Ridge.
3. Juno Beach.
4. Peacekeeping.
5. The railway.

[Millennial Moron @Mill_Moron]

I agree that the home price bubble was not driven by immigration, it was mostly a result of cheap lending and government-insured mortgages.

However, the immigration surge is correlated with an increase in rent prices, which is a more straightforward supply-and-demand effect.

[Arthur Dent @ArthurCDent]

We used to go to an acquaintance of my wife for haircuts at her home. Her husband had quit his job to do technical day trading. I would get detailed updates on his passion-project. He was surprisingly frank and kept careful records…

He made ~ -$50k over the course of 3 years.

[Dan Arnold @calgarygrit]

"Never before had an Alberta government rejected the riding map drawn by a boundaries body."

[Morgan Laidler 🇨🇦 @MorganLaidler]

Gerrymandering is alive in Alberta.

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

If it turns out that Edmonton and Calgary residents are under-represented vs the rest of Alberta by 14% (# of residents per seat), that's far larger than the degree to which Alberta residents are under-represented relative to Quebeckers in the House of Commons.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

Man discovers that when you make it illegal to express an opinion, no one expresses that opinion.

[Stewart Prest @StewartPrest]

Let me be clear: BC did not veer sharply right in this election. Doerkson carefully campaigned as a moderate, which was crucial to his success. Even so, the BC Conservatives still lost votes in absolute terms compared with 2024!

NDPers stayed home in droves—that's the story.

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

REFERENDUM? WHAT REFERENDUM? I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT!

[Kent Fellows @GK_Fellows]

SHAMBLES!

A large and growing portion of the American political commentariate is SO incurious about the rest of the world that they assume their domestic context applies everywhere.

[spencer @techspence]

I feel bad for this person. We need sysadmins now MORE THAN EVER. They are like the last adults left in a room full of crazed AI lunatics...

[SwiftOnSecurity @SwiftOnSecurity]

The future is looking a lot like a few who can responsibly mentally employ the capabilities of AI, an increasingly behind luddite class, and a massive psychosis life-neutering chasm between them. Like the people who cannot master cocaine, and those who can.

[Justin @JustinEdward87]

They always assign the toughest jobs to the folks that miss the meetings.

[Ken Boessenkool @KenBoessenkool]

The MAGA party in BC was called One BC.

They got 1.5 percent of the vote. Likely higher than Trump would get.

[Rob Silver @RobSilver]

How rare is an interim leader winning an election?

I could only find one precedent.

Not just in Canada - in all Westminster countries at the national or provincial/state levels.

Searched UK, Australia, NZ.

Just found one.

British Columbia in 1952

[Millennial Moron @Mill_Moron]

The only party to blame for the NDP's loss is the NDP. Even if all Green voters, plus everyone who voted CWP, CentreBC, CHP, Communist, Freedom, Libertarian, OneBC, Independent and Unaffiliated all voted NDP instead, the Conservatives still would have won a majority.

[Kent Fellows @GK_Fellows]

Evergreen

[JOSΞPH 🌳 @CupOJoseph]

I can’t force my AirBnB guests to patch my php servers anymore?? wtf???

[Two Mooches @TwoMooches]

@thedimitri I flag all the emails telling me I am due to take a cybersecurity course as phishing.

Then my cybersecurity team has to review their own message and email me to tell me it’s not phishing.

I also flag that second email as phishing.