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SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Infrastructure Minister Robertson says he asked the Canada Infrastructure Bank to cancel $1-billion loan for Chinese-made ships, but deal had been inked in MarchEnglish133·3 days agoTo this day Carney hasn’t done anything to justify why I voted for him aside from not being Pierre. This cabinet has been embarrassing.
Robertson as the Housing minister has been nothing but embarrassing sound bites on top of this stuff.
Though Robertson said he had asked the bank to reverse course on its decision, the bank’s CEO testified, “to the best of my recollection,” cancelling the loan was not discussed in their conversations.
Rather, Corey said, he explained to Robertson the logic of why the Canada Infrastructure Bank made the loan. He said its mandate is to invest in infrastructure across the country and to benefit Canadians.
What about people trying to get home. If they cut this loan off and it becomes a substantial delay for the new ferries the Liberals is going to pay for it in BC seats.
Freeland rejected that her responses were flippant, and said as minister of transport and internal trade, “I am doing everything that I can do within my jurisdiction to prioritize Canadian workers, and particularly workers in the steel, aluminum, and lumber industries.”
Also as usual even when given the opportunity to actually be helpful the Canadian’s the Conservative go out of their way to shit the bed.
Conservative MP Leslyn Lewis (Haldimand-Norfolk, Ont.) pointed out the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s mandate also includes promoting the Canadian economy, and said it should be disbanded.
Conservative MP Dan Albas (Okanagan Lake West—South Kelowna), a vice-chair of the House Transport Committee, used a maritime metaphor to describe the disconnect between Freeland’s letter and the loan.
“You’re like a ship sailing at night, seeing another one sail by, except those are our jobs, going to China, to a shipyard that’s owned and managed by the state,” he said. “Minister, why aren’t you saying, ‘No I won’t support this loan. It’s contrary to what the government’s intentions are and what Canadians are asking for.’”
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•We asked: How are you boycotting the U.S.?English1·4 days agohttps://www.instagram.com/irwinfitnesssystems/ - All over Charlie Kirk’s crap https://www.instagram.com/biosteelsports/ - The new owner is pretty well known podcast bro conspiracy theorist.
Off the top of my head. Would have to admit that I’m around the fitness stuff a lot and that industry went from mostly scammers to outright nut jobs since COVID.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•We asked: How are you boycotting the U.S.?English4·5 days agoI just want to point out that people have been going out of their way to support the biggest Canadian Trumpers while not “buying American”.
And lot of these companies ain’t very shy about their support on social media.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•'That model is dead:' BC Premier, housing minister rebuff developers' request for foreign real estate investmentEnglish4·5 days agoTo add the Opinion articles is extra terrible.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•Ontario photographer receives box of staples instead of $2,577 camera lens they orderedEnglish6·7 days agoYou can look up Best Buy bricks tablets. It happens with brick and mortar places as well.
Really the biggest problem is getting presents for people. Assuming you want them to be able to completely open it.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•Inside the Bill C-5 First Nations summitEnglish7·7 days agoThat was what the election dwindled down to Pierre wasn’t the incumbent party and Carney wasn’t Pierre. Nothing much inspiring was happening.
I’ll also point out I mostly soured on Carney when he said Trudeau catered to much to the “far left”.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•Ontario photographer receives box of staples instead of $2,577 camera lens they orderedEnglish35·7 days agoSeems like that happened after the news got involved.
Shkel claimed the box of staples weighed the same as what the camera lens would. But, following an internal investigation by Canon Canada, she was told she would not be getting a refund.
In any case this happens enough where people should consider opening packages at the post office with cameras or maybe recording yourself opening packages at home.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•3 people dead in Maple Ridge following ‘neighbourhood dispute’English4·11 days agoIt was snow shoveling, although specifically it was people who got shot antagonizing the shooter.
The video shows that the Goys shoveled snow from their parking spots, pushed it across the street and threw it onto Spaide’s property. After Spaide asked the couple to stop throwing snow onto his property, the neighbors got into an argument where they appear to have exchanged obscene gestures and expletives.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada needs its own credit card payment method. English11·11 days agoThe discounting part isn’t really true as of 2022.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/credit-card-surcharge-faq-1.6610356
The only significant revenue streams for most credit card issuers is Interchange fees, Annual fees and Interest. As only a lower flat network fee exist for Interact, merchants are the only ones that would logically offer anything for customers using them. But the difference really doesn’t seem to be worth them bothering giving people 2-3 tier level pricing.
To put it into numbers at $100 transaction it’s like 6 cents for a interact and $1.5-2 fee for a credit card.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•Trump Officials Discussed $500M Alberta Independence Loan, Separatist ClaimsEnglish25·12 days agoJust the reminder that
A) These people don’t have the numbers:
B) The Vast majority of Alberta is treaty/crown land which they don’t have rights to take with them.
The only way these people are seperating from Canada is committing treason and working with Trump. It’s unbelievable after what happened to Ukraine in 2022 these people are dumb enough to give Trump a reason for a invasion.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Old people in Japan should commit mass suicide says Yale professorEnglish19·13 days agoThe article is from 2023 and the source is a anti abortion site. The big red flag for me was the tweet from Pierre Pollievre saying how Conservatives are there to help people.
From what I’ve seen when Japanese people saw the footage and context of the conversation they do believe it was more about older generation moving on.
Dr Narita has now told The New York Times his comments were “taken out of context”, and the paper reported that he added “they related to demands for older people in leadership positions to make way for the younger generation”.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Online misogyny seeping into classrooms in 'frightening' ways, teachers and experts sayEnglish22·15 days agoI agree that the parents could pick up some slack but as a society we should make things easier for parents.
In itself while the article is about children but I think at this point it’s clear there’s a large if not larger segment of adults falling for this stuff. e.g. Conservative who despise taxes but they love Trump who with tariffs is taxing the hell out of people.
We’re really talking about children and people who have the mental capacity of children.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Online misogyny seeping into classrooms in 'frightening' ways, teachers and experts sayEnglish61·16 days agoIt’s unbelievable how little we’ve done to regulate social media and allowed it to damage society.
Dalhousie researcher says social media influencers like Andrew Tate affecting student behaviour
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•In an extraordinary move, the Premier of Nova Scotia will use his powers to block bike lanes in HalifaxEnglish10·18 days agoHouston said he remains hopeful that “common sense will prevail,” and asked council to reverse their decision by Aug. 6. Council’s next regular meeting is scheduled for Aug. 5
Conservative have really just become cookie cutter clones of each other parroting the same phrases without ever saying anything of substance.
Canadians and people around the world could save so much money by replacing these people a set of dice.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•Alberta's oil production is at a record high. Many Canadians don't understand why Albertan oil workers are so angry and talk about separatism. Reuters explains what's going onEnglish24·19 days agoA lot of Albertans complain about the equalization payments and also been gloating about multi billion provincial surplus.
They can’t seem to put things to together enough to realize even with all that oil money it still doesn’t make their life better.
It’s just this modern day Conservative thing of them being miserable cunts and everyone needs to be miserable with them.
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•Jordan Peterson's house in Toronto up for sale as he and his wife relocate to the U.S.English8·20 days agoAs usual I’ll provide an example of why the Postmedia is a joke.
Article titled:
Indigenous leaders call for cancellation of Kneecap concerts over alleged support for Hamas, Hezbollah
The indigenous people in question:
The signatories are largely involved with Indigenous Embassy Jerusalem, an international group of Indigenous people from various countries that expresses Indigenous solidarity with Israel.
I think having a nationalized media funding like we do now is probably the best option for journalists to earn a living whithout having to chase views or dubious sources.
They should also have a somewhat open process where people make complaints about places like Postmedia which would result in loss of those funds.
Funding a organization the regularly makes things up or just posts tabloid level stuff is just awful.
Postmedia Tells Shareholders $35 Million in Federal Government Handouts is Now a ‘Key Pillar’ of Its Business Strategy
SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksto Canada@lemmy.ca•Conservative interim leader Andrew Sheer calls BC Premier David Eby a 'radical' for not supporting another oil pipelineEnglish5·30 days agoJust to be clear since it’s not in the article. This once failed Conservative leader is making things up again for a theoretical pipeline that Eby did NOT turn down.
And also unless the Conservatives who have a tantrum every time money is spent is suggesting we spends 10’s of billions of our tax dollars on a pipeline that doesn’t seem like it could even turn a profit. There isn’t going to be one built.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/eby-northern-bc-pipeline-1.7568135
As Alberta Premier Danielle Smith pushes for a crude oil pipeline to British Columbia’s north coast, B.C. Premier David Eby says he’s not simply saying no.
Instead, Eby said he’s against the public funding of such a pipeline.
“What I don’t support is tens of billions of dollars in federal subsidy going to build this new pipeline when we already own a pipeline that empties into British Columbia and has significant additional capacity — 200,000 barrels,” Eby said on Sunday, referring to the Trans Mountain pipeline
He added there’s no company currently advocating for Smith’s pipeline propos
I agree their mandates don’t even support them.
I’m genuinely baffled at why the Liberals keep digging at this.
The procurement process was substantially opaque to the public if they actually found a problem within the undisclosed details then it would be fair game.
This is just the equivalent of someone reading a title of a article then going on a 1hr podcast rant about it.