Hamish Buchanan

Good to see The Star making the obvious but vital point about Carney's sell-off of airports. (Maybe discouraging flying is part of a completely covert green agenda, which I would support, but I doubt it.) https://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/privatizing-airports-carney-still-needs-to-make-the-case-canadians-won-t-suffer/article_a4aa426f-95a3-4419-a552-bd2f46c15dcd.html

@RealJournalism@mastodon.social inventing a tool to make this process more efficient is amazing.

Yes. The idea that this will "free up" other money is utter BS, especially when he's cutting their tax rate to almost nothing. The government can create all the money it needs. It doesn't need to do this. Doing it is purely ideological. @jrhawley@toot.cafe @mayintoronto@beige.party

Competing in the Lowest Corporate Tax Rate Race is simply insane. And unnecessary, too. @jrhawley@toot.cafe @mayintoronto@beige.party

Such a pity there isn't video of the council members' reactions. @amerpie@social.lol

Yes, things like this and the 'news' channels that run constant chyrons of headlines, stock reports, traffic cams, etc., all add up to the visual equivalent of Bannon's "flood the zone with shit," keeping you feeling overwhelmed and helpless. I hate that they're ubiquitous in waiting rooms (insult upon insult), gyms and other public spaces. @chu@climatejustice.social

This makes it even worse. Burned soil is even less able to support forest recovery. "Since so much of what’s burning lies underground, better managed forests won’t necessarily solve the core problem: only steep cuts to global emissions can..." @CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social

Many cities have these buried uban streams. Toronto, despite it's many ravines, also has them and excessive amounts of paving. The city has made efforts to address the risk but as the climate gets more extreme it's probably only a matter of time before flooding like this happens here, too. @AndrewHenry@mastodon.energy

@MatWright@mastodon.social @crispius@mstdn.fname.ca IIRC there’s a similar problem with general practitioners. Chronic underfunding and too much onerous paperwork and other overhead is driving them out. We can’t continue like this!

So very Stephen Harper-ish of Carney, selling off public assets for temporary gain. He would do well to reflect on the budget hole Harper left behind. And he would do well, too, to go back to managing money rather than trying to run government like a business. @dyckron@cosocial.ca

@crispius@mstdn.fname.ca @VE2UWY@mastodon.radio @TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world Ego-maniacal celebrity PM’s self interest in not having to deal with travelling all the way from Pearson to Bay Street magically becomes “national interest.” Yep.

A somewhat happier addendum in today's Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/24/alan-turing-short-story @gutenberg_org@mastodon.social

75 years later, countless pop songs sound like this. @benroyce@mastodon.social @jd@ottawa.place @Deixis9@beige.party @davep@infosec.exchange

Yes. I just read precisely that in our local Toronto paper this morning in response to a column about new nuclear costs. If there's one thing the nuclear business is very good at, it is getting its workers to churn out propaganda disguised as personal comments. @rainynight65@aus.social @BashStKid@mastodon.online @quixoticgeek@social.v.st

@dyckron@cosocial.ca There’s something funny when vehicles with these free-spirited, kind of rebellious names get recalled for safety reasons. Not that devil-may-care after all, maybe?

@DavidM_yeg@beige.party @RedRobyn@mastodon.nz Desperation and panic bring all kinds of unhelpful reactions. As we are so painfully seeing. I harsh moments I wish we could interview the people who killed the last passenger pigeons, knowing they were going extinct, and still killing them. Or perhaps grill is the word. As in the Inquisition.

@LALegault@newsie.social He’s a great argument for banning STEM and requiring humanities.

My instant reaction to the idea that people are inherently selfish is denial, but of course as babies we are all totally selfish, and the process of "growing up" is one of learning to accept the equal reality of others. Sadly, many never fully achieve this, with the consequences all around us. Indeed, there is much in our society which benefits from and encourages not growing up. @8r3n7@mstdn.ca

@LALegault@newsie.social @c_9@mstdn.ca Calculated as an expendable loss. For now, anyway.

@maxleibman@beige.party Sometimes if I’m offered a modest payment for a single article I’ll pause and think, but usually, with current journalistic style, almost everything I need to know is in the teaser. Or implied, anyway. Of course, teasers can be misleading, but that’s on them, not me.

@LALegault@newsie.social FOX news / MAGA clone? Perfect for a Ford government.

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca Libs just love, love, love those US corporate lobbyists. More than anything.

Unbelievably naive. @MiaMarkTwo@syzito.xyz

Things may be getting worse in the real world but things getting worse for him is not one of them. @Sanderde@mstdn.ca

@davidgerard@circumstances.run Shall we now expect ChatGPT to start speaking with the verbosity of 18th century books of sermons and similar old times? It might be amusing if only to hear its users try to pass it off as their own.

Many of 'the adults in the room' appear to run their politics on vibes, too. @rysiek@mstdn.social

@TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world There’s far too much of dividing full-time jobs into part-time ones to avoid paying benefits, etc.. Whole generations will age with nothing to fall back on. Given how much the labour force and social needs have changed in recent decades, we really need to do a complete re-examination if this system. It’s unlikely, I know, with the current political leaders, but we need it nonetheless.

True. But that shifts the focus to how we tax the rich, and they don't want the attention because they get away with so much right now. @mithriltabby@wandering.shop @mralancooper@hachyderm.io

@GraphicMatt@mastodon.social And they made a bad bet on Billy Bishop hoping that Doug Ford could bully the expansion plan through without having to reveal the business plan. (Which I suspect was to lure in other investors then dump their share and run. There is simply no way to churn that many people through that part of town.)

This stood out for me: "Marxist thinkers have been good at exposing the capitalist mode of production as historical and therefore transformable rather than naturally ordained. They have been less consistent and progressive, in my opinion, in treating the consumer culture created by capitalism as if it were the ‘naturally’ determined form of the ‘good life’ that could and should be endlessly expanded and provided for all in a post-capitalist global order." @markhburton@mstdn.social

With maybe setting up his own fitness business as a side hustle. @fname@kamloops.social

@LALegault@newsie.social The separation of politics and ethics has been a long, sad time coming, but seems very close to complete. Lubricated, of course, by commercial media.

@crispius@mstdn.fname.ca Something, something, commercial confidentiality, mumble, mumble, elbows in mouth. Must pay for more submarines and data centres. Carney & crew seem happy to sacrifice our whole creative sector as if they are not a substantial part of our economy. Perhaps Mr. Economist didn’t notice? So much for diversifying our economy and trade.

Yes. "Reduce" is still the politically and commercially unmentionable one of the environmental Three Rs. But it's the one we need most desperately now. @urlyman@mastodon.social

Podcasts almost always remind me that brevity is the soul of wit. Give me an edited text. @kimlockhartga@beige.party

@thebeeguy@mastodon.ie Work, work, work! They’re amazing.

@gilduran.com Smells like desperation.

@c_9@mstdn.ca I’m waiting for the official wording. Mentions of only Little Norway Park and Hanlan’s Point leave a lot of wiggle room. Of course, they’re determined to go ahead with the partial extention for “safety” reasons (after all these years), so let’s see what else they slip in under that. Cynical? Me? Maybe. Or maybe just experienced.

Comes with, "The trouble with kids these days is..." @taylorsmith@sunny.garden

@DavidM_yeg@beige.party The whole phenomenon is so repellent. That people willingly turn their who lives and identities over to being ads, and that people believe in them and want to follow them, is surely the sickest religion ever.

@dyckron@cosocial.ca Even the Edsel epwas kind of cute in a kitchen curtains kind of way. But the Cybertruck has absolutely zero redeeming qualities. I still see Hummers around town occasionally. I wonder how long it will take Wankpanzers to reach that rarity?

@avilewis@mstdn.ca Typical boss who hasn’t a clue what all the workers actually do but is absolutely sure everything good that happens depends on himself. And maybe a few senior managers. and everything bad is, of course, the front line workers’ fault. In other words, he’s too privileged to be competent.

It fits so well with American exceptionalism. And Master Race ideology. @aral@mastodon.ar.al

@humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world @TrueNorthSpice@mastodon.world @wendinoakland@beige.party Europeans, including the English, have been only too eager to take Russian money while turning a blind eye to where it comes from. Very short-sighted.

@zazzoo@mstdn.ca I read a post somewhere this morning about a new system in NB for making ERs “more efficient.” As if lack of efficiency is the problem. Treating public sector health care professionals like shit is the problem.

Part of the resistance to AI, thus, has to be preparing for the threat of austerity/fascism when the bubble bursts. Instead we must prepare to demand that governments flood the economy with money while taxing the billionaires out of existence. Then comes the work of recovery. @pluralistic@mamot.fr

After 3 terms they should be required to take 2 terms (or at least 1) off before they can run again. A kind of mandatory sabbatical. Stability is one thing, sclerosis is another. @rzaichkowski.bsky.social

For those with the binary "you're for us or against us" mindset, multi-polar politics are too complicated and must be eliminated. Trust between nations, as with people, is hard won, easily lost. No mater how much we trust others, we all have our boundaries and defensive strategies. It's hard to trust people with an "open carry" lifestyle. @2legged@mastodon.ie @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk

And not just human life. Everything. Total mania. @davidaugust

@Snoro@mastodon.social Maybe people’s inability to carry the emotional,weight of reality is what got us into this mess. And what enables and encourages that inability? Perhaps the people at Luxurious magazine are not the best people to ask.