Kevin O’Leary? Is he still considered a Canadian? I thought he had pretty much sold his soul to America.

Quebec actually had a solid plan for post-separation during their referendum. They had their act together much better than the Alberta separatists. But back then, it was not an issue of America, Russia, or China interfering, it was outright flagrant and in-your-face interference by De Gaulle.

‘The auditor general said artificial intelligence had helped with editing and “supporting” her reports — but that they were “by no means written by AI.”’

So the report criticizing AI was in part processed by AI.

But I wonder what the medical qualifications of the auditor general are? It seems to me such a report should be written by someone who brings a strong medical perspective to the issues.

What was implied just after that was that he had absolutely no skills or experience in construction. Seems he is looking in the wrong place. Best bet for him is probably Community College skills upgrading.

A degree does NOT necessarily qualify you. A BA in Psychology is not marketable, for instance.

You go to Community College to get a job, you go to University to get an education, There is a VERY big difference between the two.

“For a couple of years, Mahmoudian worked as a home energy advisor — a self-contractor who says he used to put in 70-hour weeks. However, most of the government incentives that sustained that work, including the Canada Greener Homes Loan program, have ended, and business has dried up”

That paragraph says an awful lot, if you read what is NOT said. Reads like he made his money in the past by sweet talking people into applying for government handouts. Government money dried up, and he has no skills to work at a ‘real’ job.

I really think they picked the wrong person to highlight in the article to make their point.

With an 800 volt battery that is some serious horsepower.

I can’t even imagine the charger that would be needed.

Chins has a cargo ship that can load 11,000 cars. Just four trips with this ship would fill the yearly quota for Canada.

If you read the context, I was thinking more like a jumbo jet flying into the CN tower.

So is Trump. What exactly is the issue?

Ummm, you mean the country that tries to protect their youth from being morally corrupted yet allowing school massacres to run rampant? Almost one school shooting per day.

Porn corrupts, but guns kill.

https://intellisee.com/nearly-one-school-shooting-a-day-in-america/

Enforced individual rights will eventually always cede to enforced collective responsibility. Those who supply services will be forced to collectively ensure their responsibility to protect the rights of the individual.

Now let us find out if indeed they can and will enforce it.

The difference between social policy and fiscal policy. They are not the same kettle.

That facility, it said, would be able to supply 500,000 electric vehicles annually.

That is a lot of batteries.

It is actually probably a GOOD thing this was not done ten years ago. Back then, it would have been bought out by an American firm in short order. Now, there is little stomach for selling out to the Americans. Today, this has a really good chance of remaining Canadian,

Michael Kovrig, when he was arrested by the Chinese, was working for all intenents and purposes under the auspices of the American State Department, for American (not Canadian) interests. One might suggest that he had sold out to America. I suggest that he was more American than Canadian in his ‘politics’. It still seems that he is spouting American State Department propaganda when it comes to his comments on Canada’s relationship with China.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/article/us-administration-treating-spavor-kovrig-cases-as-if-they-were-americans-hillman/

Canada needs a foreign policy stance that reflects Canada’s interests, not the American State Department.

Jails are expensive. A new one with 375 beds under construction in Thunder Bay, Ont., comes with a price tag of $1.2 billion.

That’s $3,200,000 per inmate.

Maybe we SHOULD build hotels for low-risk inmates instead of these prison cells. A 40 story hotel. How are they going to escape from the 20th floor? That is a very long knotted bed sheet rope. Link 4 together, as a horizontal evacuation route, in case of fire or such. No need to evacuate down to ground level.

I am permanently for defending the truth. I can quote very similar examples of American firms operating in Africa and subjecting the workers to similar or worse, and that is in their own country. There have been convictions in Canada where farm labor using immigrants has been subjected to similar conditions. Labor investigators have found similar situations in the construction industry in Canada using immigrant labor fro Eastern European countries. The American news is constantly describing similar conditions among undocumented laborers. Is that ‘forced labor’ or ‘abused labor’ or just plain ‘taking advantage of the disadvantaged’? Without unions, such conditions, even though illegal, would be a lot more common in Canada and America. In Brazil, there are currently 169 other companies in the same blacklist. Bear in mind, the abuses at this construction site, if it in fact they actually happened, were done right under the watch of the Brazilian government. And there is no reliable evidence that this activity, if it actually occurred, was sanctioned by the executives of the company itself, in China. Once BYD was informed of the conditions, it severed its relation with the contractor. And how about all of those American apparel firms that contracted production to firms in Pakistan and Bangladesh that used far worse labor conditions - none of them were ‘locked out’ of the American market.

There is a strong faction within China that has definitely strongly right wing. China is a ‘no party’ system, where factions of all positions form the ruling government. This is very evident in the ruling bodies of many of the provinces, where many ‘Communist party’ governance bodies are very right-wing in many aspects. But overall, the general push in China is to more leisure time and a better work-life balance in the major high wealth cities. Forced labor does not make sense in a country with more workers than jobs available.

But please, explain exactly what your notion is of ‘forced labor’ in China? How is it different from, say, the labor practices of the ‘right to work’ States like Alabama, where the wages in a lot of workplaces are basically poverty-level, there is no State limit on hours worked or State minimum wage, and you have to work to survive? I really do not believe that those shouting ‘forced labor’ really have any concept of what it is, and generally apply the term as a general ‘talking point’ against the opposition. ‘Forced labor’ and ‘poor working conditions’ are not the same. Unions think ALL non-union non-management jobs are ‘forced labor’, because the worker has no say in the working conditions.

In Alabama, if there were no federal labor law, there would be no law at all. https://labor.alabama.gov/Wage_and_Hour_Info.pdf

What about countries where, if you do not work, you do not live unless you either beg, or are a criminal, or you are in a family that can support you (i.e., without a job you are impoverished without a social safety net and starve to death)? Is that ‘forced labor’? Like the typical right-wing talking point “You lazy indigent, either work or starve”? If you are paid, is it ‘forced labor’? Otherwise, it is just ‘slavery’, not ‘forced labor’.