John Francis 🇨🇦🦫🍁🫎

Independent #Softitute #Java #developer #cloud #architect since 1997 He/Him/His. Married to a lovely lady. #ottawa #cats #dogs #fishing #hunting #onpoli #cdnpoli #ottawa #barrhaven #aquarium #geology #onstorm #antihate #gardening #MMT #canada #NoWarButClassWar

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2026-06-27 02:35:57 CEST

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why is there a cat picture? Does the Intimacy Coordinator spray them with the squirt bottle if they get too spicy?

2026-05-26 20:43:13 CEST

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why the redactions? Perhaps an evolved trait by the book, to get itself thrown out a window, where it can be picked up and partially read by a new host?

2026-05-24 22:20:30 CEST

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...someone willing to travel to the US... it's not me...

2026-05-24 21:04:18 CEST

Have not found any temperature readings or other updates about the MMA tank in Garden Grove. Some of.yesterday's updates made it sound like material in the tank valves and fittings had already set, preventing injection of chemicals to halt the exothermic runaway polymerization. Unclear to my why MMA to PMMA would increase the tank pressure, outside of the slight thermal expansion from 25C to 32C.

2026-05-17 16:09:45 CEST

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simple guide to the armed groups in the area.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/590/305/019/685/311/original/977adfc8d20c5238.png

2026-05-17 14:21:59 CEST

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FAQ - will there be a raw bar serving bat tartare? Can I participate in any regional ethnopolitical conflicts where I couldn't identify any of the groups or their grievances, culture, language, history?

2026-05-17 13:40:06 CEST

There's a real chocolate + peanut butter situation going on with Hantavirus + Ebolavirus outbreaks, with the possibility of catching both and experiencing a complete set of viral systems at the same time before dying. 😐😭

2026-05-16 23:56:15 CEST

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🤬

2026-05-16 17:05:27 CEST

RE: https://spore.social/@russellmcormond/116584575299778626
Fun read. Provinces are severable under the same rules and principles that Canada is severable.
#note1j8p…9d8l

2026-05-06 22:55:46 CEST

Canadian privacy entities of federal and provincial govts find that OpenAI has been breaking the laws, but they believe that a gentle slap has set them on the right path.
Basically they broke every privacy law.
This fills me with dread about the ability of current govts to protect Canadians from commercial abuses.
#cdnpoli
PIPEDA Findings #2026-002: Joint Investigation of OpenAI OpCo, LLC - Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/opc-actions-and-decisions/investigations/investigations-into-businesses/2026/pipeda-2026-002/#toc6

2026-05-06 17:49:18 CEST

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the "fuel" cost is a easy decision. The overall costs are more complicated.
If you compare nearly equivalent ICE and EV models, how long does it take for the operating savings to offset the higher acquisition cost of the EV?

2026-05-06 17:33:13 CEST

A temporary gas price cap would make sense for Canada about now, as an alternative to windfall taxes. In my area, something like $1.85/L would make sense. High enough to reduce consumption, low enough to reduce profits and check inflationary pass-thru to everything else (like food).

2026-05-06 14:42:32 CEST

In the Canadian Championships...
#OttawaAtletico #OttawaAtlético, normally playing in tier-2 pro Canadian Premier League (#CPL), beat Toronto FC, normally playing in tier-1 Major League Soccer (#MLS)
Toronto weakened by missing a couple of veterans to injury, but shows how close the tiers are, and that execution really matters. Atlético currently 2nd last in the CPL as well.
Go #Ottawa!
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/toronto-fc-atletico-ottawa-canadian-championship-2026-9.7188280

2026-04-26 23:32:26 CEST

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a lot of gap has closed. I'm seeing big jumps in the quality of shooting,shot blocking, intensity, and judgement/positional play. I think those will continue to improve as the talent pool and coaching quality improves.
Some things are just going to stay different. The size & reach of women players is going to remain smaller...a lot more room on the ice, and that makes for different tactics.
I'm totally OK with that. The NHL should be playing on Olympic ice anyway.

2026-04-22 14:54:28 CEST

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can you zoom in and show the details of attachment to the siding? I have relevant ornamentation that I need to attach. I've done some lightweight stuff with hooks that slide into the joints between pieces of siding, but I have something more substantial to attach.

2026-04-15 17:11:51 CEST

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every dead student is 1/30th fewer teachers.

2026-04-15 15:23:19 CEST

Refollowed a lump of #ottawa accounts that had been caught in my regular purges of monthly-inactive follows/followers, but have been active on Ottawa topics more recently.
It's a balancing act. Mastodon is a small network with about 800k-1.1M monthly active users, and the Ottawa community is quite small.

2026-04-15 15:11:00 CEST

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she's not dead! 😂

2026-04-14 03:05:19 CEST

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I'll take "pneumatic, mechanical, and other non-electric espresso makers"

2026-04-10 19:50:44 CEST

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that number is about 10T. Feeling it. I'm thinking I won't be done before I have to leave in 70min

2026-04-10 19:47:29 CEST

Renewing my driver's license at disService #Ontario. Very busy. I think there's 13 drivers licenses ahead of me. And piles and piles of other crap.
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/381/648/026/148/533/original/cdc722ebd7505122.mp4

2026-04-09 15:33:16 CEST

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huh, an Egret I think. Not terribly common here, compared to herons

2026-04-09 01:05:56 CEST

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Barrheron

2026-04-08 14:52:47 CEST

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I've heard it's not real, that they just fish all of that stuff out of the Rideau near Montreal Road. But most people can't tell the difference anyway.

2026-04-06 20:48:33 CEST

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firewood, the original UPS.

2026-03-30 16:06:25 CEST

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*David Attenborough voice*
"Shackleton's photographer dragged a sled of glass plates 2200km across the Antarctic ice to capture these images of ancient meteorites embedded in the ice cap. Later, the photographer was eaten by his shipmates, who in turn were eaten by a seal, which escaped before the surviving shipmates could eat it."

2026-03-27 20:38:19 CET

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now your dining companion will be identified during the heist. Also, I think wool is indigestible.

2026-03-24 22:22:42 CET

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that looks great, where did you find it? I am all for pub+turkish breakfast fusion...

2026-03-23 23:37:42 CET

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tipped the cart and spilled about 100L of sap on the road! 😱😭🤬
Using a new cart this year and loaded 100kg all in one end and it wheelied.
Oh well, I don't think I had room for it all, huge run of sap in past 24h. I have 24h worth of boiling to make more room.

2026-03-23 22:48:04 CET

First boiling sap for 2026. #canada #ottawa #maplesyrup
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/116/280/684/861/776/706/original/6f8c9b3bce444836.mp4

2026-03-22 19:14:53 CET

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you should nag the Senate IT to start up an official instance for official accounts of Senators.

2026-03-15 23:26:32 CET

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watch your step, hope it goes better than you than in the Sublime song.
https://tidal.com/track/62096429/u

2026-03-14 18:02:13 CET

😂🤔😮😍
AI job losses free up time for unemployed mobs to burn down tech CEO‘s houses - The Beaverton
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/03/ai-job-losses-free-up-time-for-unemployed-mobs-to-burn-down-tech-ceos-houses/

2026-03-11 04:06:14 CET

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when I was 18.1 years old, we would make fun of "old" people who went hiking with poles. Anything up to 55deg incline was "just walk".

2026-03-07 20:59:22 CET

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tbe perfect place to drop in after 9 pints of lager alternating with 9 pints of cider

2026-03-05 18:41:33 CET

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oh, I thought you had HighT at the Chateau Laurier. Probably normal thieving levels where you are.
Hopefully it was just a misunderstanding for that guy and they aren't too hard on him.

2026-03-05 16:40:57 CET

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Don't leave any photos lying around there, that place has a bad reputation for thievery.

2026-03-04 16:33:20 CET

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it could be that the crashing software has created a large volume of information, for example by a non-terminating regression or loop.
Since mass, energy, and information are all equivalent, a large blob of information causes time dilation just like a large mass.

2026-02-19 17:13:40 CET

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"The Classic" is indeed the tail with the best nutritional profile, having relatively little added fat/sat-fat/sugar from desert toppings.
Not a champion's breakfast unless you're looking to weight up for the sumo or cannonball championships.
For anything else, you'd be better off eating the beaver's diet of tree bark.

2026-02-18 19:27:30 CET

Baskets are good for catching heads.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/doug-ford-osap-cuts-9.7094009

2026-02-16 05:09:25 CET

Go kiss Kissinger, Thatcher and Kirk's asses in hell Green. #ottawa
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/longtime-ottawa-radio-host-lowell-green-dead-at-89-9.7091476

2026-02-09 23:15:28 CET

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FT also has a paywall

2026-02-09 17:38:54 CET

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I wonder how the self-driving cars are doing out there in the self-driving car test area. It was supposed to be part of Ottawa's economic supercluster, repeatedly announced but never apparently causing any real-world activity. And a movie studio too!

2026-02-09 17:34:36 CET

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get up there with the snow brush

2026-02-03 21:26:20 CET

The RAMpocalypse has jacked the price of a basic 64GB used server by 60%. RAM is now half the cost ($700 of $1400). #homelab
I can probably just out wait the RAMPocalypse and overload the stuff I already have, as I work to replace US cloud services with self-hosted options.

2026-01-29 18:21:40 CET

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how was your presentation received by the Digital Govt Leaders?
I'm one of the 6138 that pushed back on C11 and other Canadian DCMA legislation. What a mess!

2026-01-26 01:31:44 CET

Legislation advanced by @npub12j4…vque, Canada's political Mastodon pioneer, is in the news.
Getting Canadians out of Nexus for non-US travel seems like a great idea.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-trusted-traveller-program-airport-security-9.7058664
#cdnpoli

2026-01-14 20:10:12 CET

800 vulnerability notification emails/day, all for systems and hosts I don't and can't work on?
Is that how we're doing this now?
#IT

2026-01-14 19:06:53 CET

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I hope they were using a better package photo than the commercial section of Grenfell Dr. (or whever that is)
Maybe the Spanish don't want their weed to taste like it was grown within 500m of 27 auto repair and tuner shops.

2026-01-14 18:56:24 CET

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legal grow op?

2026-01-12 22:07:49 CET

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"I will transcend matter to avoid being left alone"

2026-01-12 04:06:07 CET

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you can drill a hole in the roof later. It won't matter in the end.

2026-01-07 20:05:11 CET

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can't decide if St. Laurent or Rideau, but I know it's not Bayshore, since Bayshore was built before they started with the deliberately confusing angled layouts. It's all 90deg corners.
Maybe you can straighten it out with a set of special mirrors and lenses.

2026-01-02 17:53:21 CET

Straight up lies in the CBC article about Canada's finances.
Canada does not "borrow cash" - it creates cash. There is no fundamental debt limit. No "debt wall" exists, and the "credit rating" for Canada in Canadian-dollar debt is meaningless. These are all weasel words to advocate for austerity, to put more wealth in the hands of the wealthy.
Canada's "debt" is all in Canadian dollars and the bondholders could be paid in full tomorrow.
So why do these bonds exist?
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/115/826/538/246/198/686/original/abdde260cf7a7098.png

2025-12-29 04:50:51 CET

Take care not to scratch your goggles with your hand crampons if you're going out tonight in Ottawa

2025-12-26 11:41:32 CET

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530am...is your neighbour blasting kareoke too?

2025-12-24 05:49:10 CET

The suspected flu continues. I might be hiding out in the garage while our guests are here tomorrow.
Super annoying timing, but what can you do.
It came on slow. I'd call this day 3 or 4, but had only very minor throat horseness until late yesterday. Today, a broad selection of symptoms, more in the sinuses than in the throat or lungs.

2025-12-20 04:30:50 CET

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gnomon/115749015911513360
In the 1980 constitutional negotiations lead by Trudeau Sr. There was bargaining about trading the federal disallowance for the notwithstanding clause. It failed, NWC and disallowance went ahead.
Disallowance is not some ancient loophole that should never be used, it was retained exactly for this possibility, where provinces abuse the NWC to attack minority rights.
This is a petition calling for disallowance to be used to counter the NWC abuse that provs are using to attack trans people.
#note13us…5lzc

2025-12-19 20:27:23 CET

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I hope not, that's my daughter's phone!

2025-12-19 18:06:45 CET

What TH is "access specified by the device's manufacturer"?
#android
https://m.f-h.co/cosocial-ca/media_attachments/files/115/747/321/653/159/683/original/f9f588bf2f5cfcd8.png

2025-12-18 18:28:46 CET

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Red Santa brings toys to good children
Dark Santa, Santa's cousin, drives a black van and will go smash toys of any asshole kids if Santa made a mistake...
This should be Green Santa.

2025-12-18 03:50:04 CET

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SaunaCar(tm)

2025-12-04 18:38:56 CET

😂
Poilievre asks BC Conservative leader for tips on just refusing to leave - The Beaverton
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2025/12/poilievre-asks-bc-conservative-leader-for-tips-on-just-refusing-to-leave/

2025-12-03 15:53:44 CET

Is this why ham is associated to some Christmas traditions?
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/656/201/274/533/604/original/1b4c4368aa2523a1.jpg

2025-12-03 12:49:55 CET

Wednesday December 3, 2025 – mackaycartoons
https://mackaycartoons.net/2025/12/03/wednesday-december-3-2025/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=wednesday-december-3-2025

2025-12-02 23:19:17 CET

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when I first moved to Nepean, PP was a young MP under Harper and my first exposure was him speaking in the House about allowing a mine in Quebec to export asbestos to developing countries where it was still legal to install, where it would be certain to kill thousands of people.
So yeah.

2025-12-02 14:00:26 CET

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my hunch was completely wrong. They'll need to achieve a market cap of $700B 2025 dollars to reclaim that 2000 peak valuation.
Maybe the accumulated dividends help, but if one bought at $82 in 2000, they'll be waiting quite a while yet to turn that around.

2025-12-02 13:54:55 CET

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how does a chart of inflation-adjusted market cap compare? With 25 years of dilution and inflation, they would've crossed the valuation ATH long ago. Maybe around when they started paying dividends in 2011?

2025-12-01 03:26:21 CET

Doing some shopping at AliExpress and found this fleece "sleeping helmet".
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/641/934/187/296/913/original/8f4aa3a9288cf1b8.png

2025-11-26 01:17:32 CET

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if only there was some photography technique that could help

2025-11-23 20:10:15 CET

The Voldemort of crocheted snowmen is back and stalking the forests.
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/600/586/304/870/281/original/e92eb225cf503031.jpg

2025-11-21 21:32:04 CET

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is @npub1cds…8luu into broad swathes of radar coverage or good conditions for astronomical observations? Why else would he want to get so high?

2025-11-20 01:46:30 CET

A fine deAdder
Trump and the media
https://deadder.substack.com/p/trump-and-the-media

2025-11-19 19:19:34 CET

A few unfamiliar names in here. #ontario
This group of Ontario's richest people have a combined wealth of over $200 billion
https://www.blogto.com/city/2025/11/ontarios-richest-people-combined-wealth-over-200b/

2025-11-16 21:59:25 CET

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nice cigarette lighter, do the fans run slower when it's heating up?

2025-11-11 01:42:02 CET

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don't agree with this assumption that AI-generated music isn't copying/stealing from artists. It's just doing it at a scale and with a technique that makes it untraceable. The program is trained on a vast library of unlicensed, copyrighted music, arrangements, lyrics, voice characteristics.
Of course, human artists have been doing the same forever, which puts it in a strange place.

2025-11-09 23:38:52 CET

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goalkeeper helping out
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/522/134/802/149/914/original/c908d4de344ac8e2.jpg

2025-11-09 23:35:48 CET

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Canadian Premier League final. Game is paused so that they can clear the lines.

2025-11-09 23:33:56 CET

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no white kits and they have an orange ball. Snowing at 5cm/h

2025-11-09 23:32:06 CET

Proper soccer game underway in #ottawa
https://media.cosocial.ca/media_attachments/files/115/522/109/596/280/410/original/49d5975a101517c5.jpg

2025-11-09 22:38:35 CET

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always find all lacrosse variants interesting with their allowance of stick blows to the upper body and head, provided it's while attacking the ball carrier.

2025-11-06 17:49:10 CET

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so French books don't count against the packing total?

2025-11-01 00:08:30 CET

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I've been trying to figure out how to do an air-gapped update, to get latest firmware with bettebr SFP compatibility and it's not straightforward. Not just downloading a package and updating via webui.
Experiments are suspended for the Jays game. Don't want to knock out my own internet tonight!

2025-10-31 16:04:14 CET

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hard to manage without WAN, and I don't want cloud management anyway... that's asking for trouble. I'm not sure it could be setup without WiFi, they don't make the default IP obvious. And the default IP conflicts with the existing gateway, which is necessary to use WiFi.
Eventually I managed to change the IP and get into the local webui to manage it.
Not loving it so far.

2025-10-31 16:00:49 CET

After fiddling with a Mikrotik HexS for a while, I decided to get a Ubiquiti Cloud Gateway Fiber, which actually has the processing guts to effectively route my 1.5Gbps service.
I wasn't successful getting the HexS to run the SFP ONT in 2.5G mode, but I think I would be eventually.
I expected the CGF would be easier, but I was wrong. It did manage to connect once to my ISP, but quickly dropped it. Generally no light on the SFP+ slot. The management approach is a mess.

2025-10-29 18:51:06 CET

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are you sure it wasn't a dream?

2025-10-27 03:20:01 CET

A bit sad today, our 18 year old cat is on the way out. Has been living with some managed chronic diseases for a couple of years...just slowly declining physically and mentally. We don't want to push it any further into the bitter end stage of kidney disease.
Tomorrow will be her last day. Had a long and full life. 🥲

2025-10-23 20:54:21 CEST

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banks definitely count mortgage principal as an asset

2025-10-23 17:55:07 CEST

Heard today the most grumpy old man complaint ever: "Who keeps moving the shoe horn?!?", from d13 🤣

2025-10-22 20:28:15 CEST

Excellent report by Canadians for Tax Fairness on the economics of the western oil industry, since 2021. 60% US owned, 26% Canadian. Over 3x more taken in profit than paid to AB labour. Minimal investment of $15B in recent years.
Why should Canadians accept grand national scale projects to make this situation even worse? Why should only US and Chinese companies be getting the sweet deals?
https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/reports/exporting-profits
#cdnpoli

2025-10-21 23:09:04 CEST

Cory Doctorow is coming to #Ottawa and pushing out the #enshittification content on the 25th.

2025-10-04 18:07:44 CEST

There is already a pipeline from Edmonton to southern BC. What's the point of a northern route where nobody wants it?
If more capacity is needed, find a way expand the existing route. It's not like there are any customers further north.
It just seems like Smith trying to fan the embers of her dying separatist movement. Pick the worst ideas and blame federalism when nobody agrees.
In a few years, it will all be even more uneconomic, Smith will be gone.

2025-09-16 18:08:19 CEST

Filed my first complaint to the CBC ombudsman about The Current spreading disinformation in recent days. #canada

2025-08-29 21:21:15 CEST

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how much of $1.1B went to KPMG? How much went to Quebec govt executives unqualified for any involvement with software delivery?

2025-08-27 22:14:56 CEST

Hi @npub1was…gh5g, why can I not see the instance's list of blocked domains at https://cosocial.ca/about ? I think it was visible before?

2025-08-26 22:11:23 CEST

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collective agreements, duty to accommodate ergonomics, managers who'd rather have work completed instead of a war with their staff.
They're still sucking and blowing both RTO and "we're closing and selling off office space to save $" too.

2025-08-26 21:59:35 CEST

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wrong building, wrong floor, wrong room, wrong desk, that's 4 days, then take Friday off/sick.
The feds have a little problem of some collective agreements they signed....

2025-08-25 18:39:47 CEST

Interesting theories circulating about the #Ottawa parade cancellation.
The Day Mayor forced the parade organizers to remove any pro-Palestinian statements last year.
Then the main parade group, when confronted en-route by Queers for Palestine agreed to shut the whole thing down, rather than give the Day Mayor and corporate sponsors a successful pinkwashing event.
It makes sense to me for the reality of the conflict to be between the Day Mayor and the community, not intra-community.

2025-08-22 19:26:24 CEST

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goods are peanuts. Canada can easily produce all the digital services purchased in the US. We can even bring in the same people, who are being attacked and are unemployed in the US..

2025-08-22 16:18:27 CEST

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they want it to be ineffective at dealing with complex tax cases and audits involving multinationals, trust conglomerates, financial firms, and the very wealthy. Fighting against the tax-specialist lawyers and accountants of these entities, that act to minimize their taxes greatly.
The average Canadian's taxes are all easily calculated and verified by machine...employment or pension income, a few retirement investments. All data easily verifiable...