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Register to get on the voting list whenever you want; once you’re registered, you’ll be notified of any municipal, provincial or federal elections via a card in the mail.

Options will differ depending on your riding, as we vote for our representative, not the PM/Premier etc.

Check online to see what your riding is for provincial/federal elections, and who won last time. Decide if you agree with their platform, and if you don’t, look at what the other representatives in your riding had as a platform (their websites should all still be up). Check Wikipedia to learn more about the people.

All that should take about 20-30 minutes, after which you’ll be decently informed before the next election comes around.

Likewise, wealth shouldn’t be a barrier to entry to becoming a doctor. We need to re-think education.

To throw one more into the mix:

“Left” and “Right” came from the UK parliamentary system where the representatives of the two major parties sat on the left and right side of the speaker of the house in the House of Commons.

It just so happened that the ones on the right had conservative values (keep things as they are, don’t spend what we don’t have, local economy first, preserve traditional values) while those seated on the left had liberal values (let’s make things even better, spend for the future, improve the global economy, make life better for all our constituents).

That was the starting point for what it’s all morphed into today.

Already seen it multiple times in Africa. First thing China does is sets up a local Chinese enclave to run the port. The enclave has its own security. If the victim nation tries to do anything about it, the port shuts down until they relent. If they try to take the port by force, it gets seized and held by the security forces, and may refuse to do any local shipping until the nation caves.

Does anyone actually see Russia joining? The only belt and road candidate I can imagine from BRICS is South Africa.

However. There’s quite a few second-tier BRICS hangers on (Indonesia, Myanmar, Kazakhstan, Sudan, etc) that I can imagine could be quite excited about belt and road, at least in the short term.

Good news is: CBC is planning to focus more on local news, finally giving PostMedia some competition.

There’s always the option to vote NDP.

Maybe they watch it as a comedy or an instructional video?

Well… that’s one way to do things. For the past 20 years, I’ve refused all shipments via UPS from the US. I always ask sellers who they plan to ship through, and if it’s UPS, I tell them that’s a deal breaker. I also encourage others not to accept shipments via UPS from the US.

I’d switch to this method but it’s just such a headache to go through the dispute process.

I did have one parcel that arrived via UPS in 2020. They dropped it at the door without ringing, and sent the bill for their customs processing in the mail. I called them up and demanded they drop the fees because a) I don’t accept international packages from UPS (as the local UPS guy knows), and b) they have no evidence I ever received the package. When they investigated the signature, it wasn’t mine, but was the delivery person’s.

They dropped the charges.

So… you’re telling him not to communicate? Are you the embodiment of critical theory?

So… internment camps and deportations to keep foreigners off US soil, and tariffs to keep foreigners from working remotely.

Have fun having to do ALL the jobs….

As the days go by….

As someone who pre-dates the public Internet and spent a lot of time dialling in to BBSes when most people thought personal computers were for nerds…

The Internet will fracture, but not break down. What would happen is balkanization of the Internet, with physical areas running their own networks, and a bunch of poor “dark” areas. Some of those networks would likely have low bandwidth interconnections, such that digest data could still spread, much like the early days of usenet and fidonet.

Local culture and tribalism would increase, and information would skyrocket in value. The rich would still have access to, and control, the information. The poor would be left out completely.

I’m waiting for the catch. They already name washed themselves; I expect them to be exploiting some new market that isn’t aware of who they are and what they do.

Agreed; after using various running and other gloves, I settled on a set of work gloves that are thin nylon weave on the back and dipped in nitrile on the front, similar to gardening gloves.

They let the steam out while keeping my hands from getting too cold in -10 weather, AND I can use my phone with them on (although I don’t recommend doing that below freezing).

I do 3 hour trail runs through the winter and they’ve worked better than my running gloves or my merino wool cutoffs. And they’re $3 a pair.

Who says that was me?

Here’s one: where do you put things like The Long Earth where it’s not time you step through per-se, but all the possible futures starting from the beginning of the universe?

I really want to see someone make that series into a movie.

I try to blend in and avoid posting my main privacy activities in public.

Despite what they say, while obfuscation may not be secure, it sure helps with privacy.

MS actually developed a really good Zero Trust strategy around 2013-2016.

The problem is, nobody, including Microsoft, has ever successfully fully implemented it.