The official called the new side deal with the U.S. a parallel agreement to the 2012 Canada-Michigan agreement and said it stipulates that an amount equal to half the net revenues from the bridge will be paid into a U.S.-run economic development fund. The mandate of the fund would be to increase economic development and trade between Canada and the U.S., but it will be up to the U.S. how the money is spent, the official said. The official emphasized that the money paid to the United States would not come directly from the toll revenues but would come from Canadian government coffers in an amount equal to half the net revenues from tolls.

Absolutely insane disregard for human life. What a failure on multiple levels.

I mean, they are both round, sweet fruits that have seeds and grow on a tree. Pretty comparable, honestly.

Just a little treat from life to us in these trying times. Thank you life, I accept gratefully.

They livestreamed the thing. We didn’t need to attend.

Alternate title: Canada attends fascism summit.

“This is a distinctive and unique evil. It has always been driven by a hatred, above all else, a hatred for civilization itself. It is a revolt of the worst against the best, a revolt of the weak and the cowardly against the strong and the good. It is perpetrated by those who cannot build, who cannot create, who cannot achieve great things, and take their revenge upon the world for their own inadequacy by seeking to destroy those who can. This is what radical leftism is.”

Definitely not beating the allegations.

Sense of wonder from discovering how different people from different places think similarly or differently of the same experiences, or different experiences you never thought about.

I mean, I’m sure some percentage of people who learn a language do so for that reason. But the vast, vast majority of time someone learns another language it’s going to be because they expect to use it, I imagine.

Lethbridge is another prairie city with an exceptional river valley, in my opinion. It seems like their downtown renewal program was going well when I was last there in 2024, as well. I had some really great carnitas which I was not expecting to find in that part of the country.

This will technically do what it says on the tin but there are definitely better diets to achieve the same, haha.

And if you’re anything like me, counting calories will be going out the window pretty shortly after polishing off that daily bottle.

I think there are as many people who placed false hope in him as there were clear eyed people who saw him for what he was.

100% agreed. I don’t hold any negative feelings towards people who voted for Carney and now feel betrayed because I’ve always maintained that Carney seriously misrepresented himself before and during the election. Really, right up until he secured his majority. I remember when “Build Canada Homes” was first announced and people thought it was going to be a government run home builder building public housing rather than a public bank feeding money to private developers, for example.

That’s right, I expect all his tweets to be put across my desk for approval. A totally serious, good faith suggestion from you. All criticisms of Carney here are obviously demands that Carney personally ask the critic for permission before doing anything rather than discussion on a discussion board.

Well Carney could at least design a statement that appeals to Canada instead of Donald Trump. That would sure be nice. He was elected to represent us, after all.

Pandering to us? What, you mean Canadians? Who would presumably like not being invaded by the USA? Should Carney not pander to his constituents over dead US senators?

Let us also recall that what you are calling pandering here, is just not saying anything.

You know what absolutely did not convince Trump to keep supporting Ukraine? This stupid ass fucking tweet.

Also, guess what. Carney doesn’t need Lindsey Graham’s vote or Donald Trump’s vote to keep his position. He needs our votes, so maybe praising someone who wanted the USA to invade Canada is actually really stupid politics.

Lindsey Graham has called for the invasion of Canada. You know what else is good politics? Knowing when to shut the fuck up.

Thanks for your perspective. A lot of people like to point to his experience as governor of the Bank of England as an asset without really ever going into what he actually did in that position. It’s nice to get some context.

I wanted to highlight this passage in particular:

By June 2018 Palantir had won its first seven-figure UK contract: a pilot project for a naval personnel management system for the Ministry of Defence. But Palantir, and Global Counsel, had a much bigger target. ‘The NHS was the holy grail,’ according to a former Global Counsel employee. At this point, the UK’s health data was held in thousands of places – doctor’s surgeries, NHS trusts, pharmacies, third-party providers – and in a variety of file formats. Creating a single digital system for NHS data had been a government objective for decades, but previous efforts had ended badly. Blair’s National Programme for Information Technology, launched in 2002, aimed to create a single electronic record for every patient. It was shut down nine years later, ‘having mostly failed to achieve its goals’, according to an independent report commissioned by the government, and hugely overrun its budget, at a total cost of £12.4 billion. In 2013 the Public Accounts Committee called the programme ‘one of the worst and most expensive contracting fiascos in the history of the public sector’. ‘We wasted a lot of money on big shiny American solutions that didn’t really work,’ a senior IT director in the NPfIT, Joe McDonald, who was fired after raising concerns about overspending on tech contractors, told us. A second attempt to centralise and share patient records electronically, known as care.data, collapsed in 2014 after it was revealed that the Department of Health and Social Care had sold the records of 47 million patients to an insurer.

Other initiatives have been more successful. NHS Spine, which was built using low-cost open-source tools and has been in use since 2014, enables 26,000 organisations including hospitals, GP practices and pharmacies to access patient data quickly and safely and to exchange information. But in the age of big data and AI, there remained much to be done. Joining up information and making it easily accessible to the right people could save resources and facilitate new research.

Despite having no real history of working with health data, Palantir began positioning itself as the go-to expert and Global Counsel started hiring Westminster insiders who had contacts in healthcare. Nicola Blackwood, a former Conservative health minister focused on NHS innovation, joined as a part-time adviser in 2018. She left the firm the following year when she returned to the Ministry of Health as a Tory peer, but after becoming chair of Genomics England in 2020 received payments from Global Counsel to attend events where the guests included Palantir.

During 2019 Palantir’s lobbying was persistent, but the company was careful to avoid triggering disclosure rules. That July, the evening before the launch of the NHS’s new technology arm, NHSX, Mosley hosted a meal attended by David Prior, chair of NHS England. Documents obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism show that Mosley emailed Prior the next day, thanking him for coming. Prior replied that evening: ‘Louis, Thank you for hosting such an interesting dinner and also for the water melon cocktails! If you can see ways where you could help us structure and curate our data so that it helps us deliver better care and provides a more insightful data base for medical research do be in touch.’ A couple of weeks later, the former head of MI6, John Sawers – one of dozens of former politicians and senior civil servants hired as advisers by Palantir – facilitated a meeting between Karp and John Manzoni, permanent secretary at the Cabinet Office. In subsequent correspondence with the department, Sawers hailed the benefits of Palantir’s ‘unique software’. A year later the Cabinet Office gave Palantir a £27 million contract.

Hey, is any of this sounding familiar? Get ready to have your health data fed to Peter Thiel.

People have been calling Carney a “red Tory” but I think he’s actually a 2000s era neoconservative. We’ve more or less made David fucking Frum our prime minister.

Let us also not forget that Lindsey Graham called for the invasion of Canada at least once. That is apparently what the “right, honourable” Mark Carney considers to be a resolute defender of democracy.

Another winner from the “No u” school of foreign policy.

There can’t be a shortage of it. Our capacity can be limited.

Yes, we are finite beings in a finite world. The idea of infinite wealth in that context is absurd. I understand what you are saying, I just think it is stupid.

You seem to think your field of study is based on study of the natural world rather than founded on assumptions. As though what you are saying is natural law. It isn’t.