Should read as Zionist community, not Jewish community.

How reduced is what matters. The full fleet order was 88, and the article reports various sources as saying we will still be ordering between 72 to 88. So, if the reporting is accurate, it’s not anything like the extent of reduced fleet order many Canadians were expecting.

According to various sources, the federal government would still be looking at a fleet of 72 to 88 F-35s, even if it moves forward with the Gripen.

Jfc… still 72 to 88 F-35s?

I’ll probably enjoy the atmosphere around the city during the WC, but I’m not enthusiastic about the event itself. As a kid, it would have felt like a dream to have the WC going on in Canada. Now, I’m just too cynical about FIFA. They’re just awful.

Althea Raj had been dancing around this for a long time. She clearly was hearing things like this from inside caucus since not long after Carney got the job but she wasn’t so direct about it in her reporting. I guess she finally just got what she needed to feel confident writing the article, but it’s hardly lightning in blue skies. There’s been no shortage of preceding rumbles.

I don’t have a problem with floor crossing if it’s being done by an MP in the interest of best serving the will and priorities of their constituents as an elected representative. That said, if they ran on one platform and now are going to be loyal to another, I’m okay with them having to get a renewed mandate from their constituents. Floor crossing itself can be part of the democratic process. Getting a renewed mandate also seems to strengthen the democratic process.

I like Jenny Kwan. I haven’t agreed with 100% of her positions, but I agree with a lot and she is an actually principled MP who is really active as an elected representative.

Canada’s small population to serve inference to is an advantage to some extent in such a capex heavy space, but the money being committed federally is pretty tiny. I look at $3.3 billion committed for AI over 5 years when compared with $60B for new subs, $3B for Arctic patrol ships, and up to $27B on F-35s if we go through with that order and don’t think we’re being serious about sovereign AI at all. We don’t have to be an OpenAI spending half a trillion on data centers for training and inference to reach a market of a billion+ people, but $3.3B over 5 years is not being serious about carving out our own independence from hyperscalers.

I’m waiting to see what comes as a final version of the national AI strategy, but what my feeling for a while is that what we’re seeing with AI in Canada is very reminiscent of what we’ve seen in O&G, but even more lopsided. Lots of US ownership, raw material (both mineral and data) coming from Canada but with value-added processes owned by US companies, revenue that will flow south, and lock-in to their systems.

I can only think that these plans, and sharing the info about them, is intended to drive a wedge between two provinces. The northern pipeline routes are the most obvious no for people in BC.

Doesn’t seem like much protection at all. Put together some very long Terms of Service document that hardly anyone will read but which is required for full use of your vehicle and an open interpretation of “reasonable” and companies basically have free rein.

The BCNDP aren’t “very left-wing.”

Good, but it doesn’t read as though they were responding to the Canadian electorate.

Bad look for the person who submitted it. Considering she’s the staff lawyer and director of nature programs, you would kind of expect her to be more than capable of expressing her sentiments in her own words. It’s not like she’s in a roll where you might expect her to need some help to write coherently. Comes across as lack of concern for her own professional image and her message.

Gotta say, that article reads an awful lot like LLM output, which is especially ironic given the topic.

Did the Israeli ambassador to Canada ever respond to Anand’s summons on the 19th, or is she still waiting to hear back from him?

I didn’t ask about the yellow ribbon generally. I asked about it specifically in relation to Israel.

The ethics of the caring professions may not have political intent in that they are not concerned with pursuit of power, but they cannot help becoming political in circumstances where politics and pursuit of power threaten people deserving of care.

I’m actually kind of shocked how many people are saying they’re unaware. Not judging, just surprised people haven’t been exposed to it with everything going on over the last three years. Are you familiar with the yellow ribbon in association with Israel?

That’s a problem not just in SK. We are set to see energy demand skyrocket, and it’s a bonanza for whichever industry ends up feeding it. The industry players with the political clout and the capacity to rapidly scale if there’s little environmental impact consideration are in O&G. Tim Hodgson was down in Texas not long ago talking about how in order to win the AI race the US needs to catch up to China’s 400MW/year lead in new energy capacity and how that must be achieved using Canadian natural gas. There’s an enormous amount of money to be made in filling that demand, consequences be damned for everyone who isn’t either in on the bonanza or getting their re-election or post-politics career funded via it.