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  • Calgary restaurant owners jailed for financial abuse of temporary foreign workers

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  • Probably because jailing them completely means their business closes and puts the rest of their employees out of work.

    I don’t love it but i understand it. The best way to punish these people isn’t to jail them but to make them as poor as the people they mistreated.

    The court should be imposing penalties severe enough not just to repay what they stole but to enrich their victims. Not just $44,000 but everything over the absolute minimum for basic food and lodging for a year or two.

  • Opinion: We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada

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  • Why do you think they’d spend the time and money coming here? Resources? You make it painfully expensive and time consuming to get anything of value until he’s overthrown at home.

    It’s how every other country has beat the US time and again after WWII. They haven’t won a single long term battle since.

  • Opinion: We need to prepare for the possibility that the U.S. uses military coercion against Canada

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  • lol. That’s just silly. You don’t fight the US with weapons. You bleed their money dry. They come into Canada and you knock out power and infrastructure here that they need to rebuild at great expense if they want to hang around and get anything of value.

    Sure it will suck to live here like that but sucks even more and weakens invaders who would also be fighting a battle at home.

  • In the Age of the Absurd Casus Belli, no Country is Safe -- [Opinion]

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  • This. You don’t take on their military directly. You make it so unpalatable to be here they leave on their own as costs skyrocket. Sabotage resource extraction, the energy grid, transportation, etc. Make being in Canada painful logistically and financially.

    It’s not about beating their military, just a continual drain on their resources until it’s unsustainable.

  • Trump is laying the groundwork for a destructive relationship with Mexico and Canada in 2026: Mexico could be next, and "plenty (of drugs) come through Canada too."

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  • Because it’s one thing to annex a country with people who may look visibly different to average Americans.

    But when you try and annex a country that looks very much the same, resistance will be everywhere and invisible.

    That guy working next to Americans in the critical infrastructure project? Ya, he’s Canadian and pissed so he’s gonna do something about it.

  • Are memory cards a reliable medium for mid to long time media storage?

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  • Your best bet is to use the 3-2-1 backup system and update your backup medium periodically to stay current with technology.

    3 copies 2 on different medium 1 stored off-site

    There are others that are variants of this but this is pretty secure other than a world apocalypse event when you’ll have bigger concerns.

  • Canada pushes back on Chinese military drills in Taiwan Strait

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  • Your opinion and “vote” is irrelevant.

    The occupants of Taiwan have declared they are not subject to the mainlanders.

    If China decides to invade, I hope Taiwanese burn the entire country to the ground. Make sure there is no high tech manufacturing or infrastructure left for invaders to use. I wonder if China would want it so badly then…

  • Canada's grocery code of conduct kicks in today, with buy-in from 5 major grocers

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  • Let me know when this makes prices drop.

    I’m doing as much shopping as possible at Costco now. Their deals on bulk goods are the only thing that’s affordable now.

  • Alberta’s assault on trans youth has federalism problems the notwithstanding clause can’t avoid

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  • Here you go courtesy of ChatGPT.

    Summary

    Alberta’s United Conservative government has repeatedly invoked the notwithstanding clause to shield controversial laws from Charter scrutiny—first to end teachers’ strikes, then to restrict transgender youth’s access to gender-affirming care, limit social transition in schools, and bar trans women and girls from sports. Critics argue these moves reflect an authoritarian trend that sidelines constitutional checks and balances and limits judicial review.

    Despite the notwithstanding clause blocking most Charter challenges, legal advocates see a new path through federalism. Organizations challenging Alberta’s ban on gender-affirming care plan to argue the law is ultra vires (outside provincial authority) because it functions as criminal law, a domain reserved exclusively for the federal government under the Constitution Act, 1867—something the notwithstanding clause cannot override.

    Applying Supreme Court precedent, particularly R v Morgentaler (1993), the argument is that Alberta’s law, in its pith and substance, seeks to prohibit a morally disfavoured medical practice, imposes penalties (including fines and imprisonment), and arises from moral panic rather than health regulation. Such features align with criminal law, not provincial health regulation.

    If courts accept this analysis, Alberta’s gender-affirming care ban could be struck down on federalism grounds—showing that even aggressive use of the notwithstanding clause does not place provincial legislation beyond constitutional limits.

  • Why Canada should avoid Australia’s teen social media ban: A call for better solutions -- [Opinion]

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  • Yup, the intelligent people, who need to parent the kids and old folks.

  • Why Canada should avoid Australia’s teen social media ban: A call for better solutions -- [Opinion]

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  • Speaking for myself, social media can go fuck itself. I wouldn’t shed a tear if all of this bullshit was banned entirely in Canada. Wishful thinking though.

  • "Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help"

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  • I use cloud services but I also have everything vital backed up in 3 places. It would suck to get locked out but I won’t lose everything because I don’t trust anyone that much.

  • Local man would be angrier about Liberal's undemocratic floor-crossing scheme if it wasn't so funny to imagine Poilievre's face

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  • Ignorance is no excuse.

  • Air Canada wins court battle to quash $2,000 payout to passenger for delayed luggage

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  • I thought the payout was a compensation for not getting your bag on time, not “funding to tide you over until your stuff appears” so you can hit the dollar store for clothing on your vacation or business trip.

  • Why Canada should avoid Australia’s teen social media ban: A call for better solutions -- [Opinion]

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  • I’d love a ban in Canada. There’s nothing compelling in these arguments, protecting kids from online garbage is more important than any of them.

    I’d also like to see it banned for those over 60.

  • [OPINION] Canada’s age-verification bill for porn is a slippery slope to a restrictive internet

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  • Well no child I know could’ve ever found porn if an adult had only blocked access....lol. The more forbidden it is, the bigger the thrill/reward of getting it.

    When I was a kid, my parents always had big summer parties at our house and there was alcohol all over the place. I could try whatever I wanted (with lots of adults around - if not supervising, at least being nearby). I never cared about alcohol because casual “sampling” was never prohibited so who cares?

    My kids (both under 10) have both tried mild alcoholic drinks.

    When they get older into their teens, I'm making sure that as long as they are supervised, they can try any legal substance they want.

  • John Rustad removed as B.C. Conservatives leader, party says

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  • lol. Cons eating their own. Figures.

  • Maya, 17, got mental health records by FOI, then killed herself. Her mom wants reform | Politics | thecanadianpressnews.ca

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  • The FOI wasn’t the issue, it was the contents. Doctors should understand that patients can get this info and always be very careful about what they include.

  • Cyclists may be right to run stop signs and red lights. Here’s why

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  • Bike how you want, but if you fail to follow the established rules for vehicles on the road and get injured, it’s totally on you.