Daryl

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[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Operative word 'competent'. Apparently, following the links in the article, potentially hundreds of millions of dollars have been diverted to North Korea using this scam.There are a LOT of Fortune 500 companies that are incompetent.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

It really begs the issue as to whether China has the right idea about religious faith groups. All religions are welcome in China, as long as they do not infringe on the right of the people to preserve the dominant Chinese cultural values, nor threaten the ability of the people themselves to determine their governance. The Catholic church (not the Roman Catholic Empire-Church) is welcome in China, as long as all of the church 'leaders' (bishops and such) are loyal to China and the Chinese people, not a foreign 'pope' that has no connection to the thousands of years old cultural traditions of China.

This group clearly wants authoritarian fascist control over all people, disguised as some authority given by a 'supreme beyond-human power' or 'supreme divinity'. The Divine Right of Kings. There is absolutely no difference between what this group wants and the government in Iran. Only the name of the 'religion' is changed. The goal is the same.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As soon as the home prices hit rock bottom, far below the supply-demand level, people will buy cheap, then raise the price way back up because there will be a bidding war and those with money will still bid the prices way up. House prices are where they should be. The market decides. Only way around this is a pure socialist country where the 'government' owns all the land, and rents it out on a perpetual basis to those who want it. They can never sell it, so land prices can never go stratosphere. The government is always owns it. The rent is in lieu of property taxes.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

They are trying to solve the wrong problem.

Mainstream big developers will never build 'affordable housing' when they can sell every single 'non-affordable house' they can build, at huge profits. They have no competition. There are just too many people who CAN afford the expensive houses on the market. That is why the housing prices are so high - the demand is there.

The 'affordable housing' crisis will never go away until huge amounts of pre-development money are made available to not-for-profit housing developers. Big developers have absolutely no problem coming up with the initial development start-up money needed to get the housing developments through the land acquisition, planning, and pre-construction phases, but this money just isn't available to affordable housing developers.

Unless the initial funding bottleneck is solved, all of the downstream measures (subsidized mortgages, help with initial payments, and such) are fruitless, The units are not going to be built in the first place, so making it easier to purchase a non-existent unit is just meaningless.

One potential solution would be for the various levels of governments to introduce a new type of 'government-backed' bond, that people could buy like they used to be able to buy Canada Savings Bonds or War Bonds. The government would guarantee the interest, and the payout, like they guarantee bank deposits. The money would be made available to not-for-profit developers like Habitat for Humanity and community housing co-ops, as seed money to pay for the initial pre-construction costs of building affordable housing. Since they are government-backed, they could be included in tax free and RRSP plans. At the same time, it is not government money or a government hand-out, so it would not affect government budgets or taxes. It would all still be private money that bought the bonds. The bonds, along with interest, would be repaid when the units sold.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I really do not think the population as depicted in the movie would really care. Nutrition is nutrition. Protein is protein. Only someone who has never suffered long-term food insecurity would ever be moved to action, and in the movie, they were a small minority that was quite happy with the way things were going.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago (3 children)

And exactly how do you handle the situation where mortgages are now higher than the value of the house itself? The banks are certainly not going to let the mortgages just 'go away'.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago

I wonder, what are the changes to the out-of-country coverage terms of the American health care plans? They are not covered by Canadian schemes, and any American coverage is entirely up to the plan providers. It would be an easy way for them to cut costs.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

With the direction the US is heading, you might get your wish. Soon only second-generation-American-born White Male Landowners will be allowed back in the country. Check the original US Constitution on who was an unencumbered American Citizen.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

Bill S-233 was previously introduced in 2021 and reached consideration by the Senate’s Standing Committee on National Finance before Parliament was prorogued.

What struck me most about the article is that, a Bill first introduced to the Senate in 1921, and then buried, could be resurrected by the Senate acting independently of the HoC, after some 4 years had passed and a brand new government, new leader.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

Here is my point. We either go gangbusters in Canada into pouring investment dollars into exploring for white hydrogen, or America is going to do it and get there ahead of us.

https://koloma.com/resource/726/

Koloma is an American company.

It is people like you who absolutely insist because of their dogma, in proselytizing against Canada getting ahead of the game and being front and center in white hydrogen production. 'Oh. let's not do it, let's let America get ahead, because, well, the oil and gas industry are conspiring to side track Canada's efforts for their own interests."

Always, for the anti-development proselytizers, they use the Oil and Gas conspiracy as an excuse not to do anything.

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

"As far as I am aware,"

Like I stated, you are just not aware of the facts, now by your own admission. You just do not know anything except your own dogmatic proselytizing. There is a facility in Mali that has been going hydrogen extraction since 2012.

https://hydrogen-central.com/first-kind-discovery-mali-vast-reservoirs-clean-hydrogen-gas/

[–] Daryl@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

No, the main geological resources of hydrogen are NOT from oil and gas. Read the links. Natural occurring geological sources of unbound hydrogen gas (not in association with oil and gas) are plentiful enough to provide our energy needs for hundreds of years, and Canada has the appropriate geology to have a substantial amount of these deposits. Also, you keep completely ignoring that the ammonia sent to Europe from the Maritime provinces is primarily from the electrolysis of water using non-fossil-fuel energy. You WANT it to be from gas and oil wells only because that is what fits your narrative, your dogma, and your proselytizing.

 

Another news article I am not sure what to make of. There are just so many levels of complexity to this.

Since the carbon tax comes off one time only, for a one time price reduction. and thus only offset price increases this time only, will we see inflation resuming its normal limb next report?

And will we see price reductions in the supermarket to reflect this? Or was in mainly gasoline for transportation and heating that led the offset?

 

Housing crisis? There ain't no stinkn' housing crisis.

There is, however, an 'overabundance of stupid' crisis.

 

Any excuse for Loblaws to raise their prices even higher than they have been.

 

Can anyone make sense of this article? Seems absolutely full of contradictions.

Trump threatens to increase imports of pharmaceuticals into America. Trump threatens increased tariffs on pharmaceuticals. Somehow, American pharmaceutical companies will export drugs cheaply to Canada and then import them back to America and sell them cheaper than they can sell the drugs kept back in America. The world is seemingly dependent on American pharmaceutical firms. India makes most of the world's generic drugs. Canadian drug plans are, by and large, really pushing for the substitution of generics for brand names for reimbursement purposes. Drugs are a lot cheaper in Canada. Somehow, Canada is supposed to import the drugs made in India through American channels, paying American tariffs, instead of directly from India. So Americans can buy them back cheaper than Canadians pay. The ''free enterprise' system, as exemplified by the American drug producers, will always result in the lower price. No American government, Republican or Democrat, has been remotely successful in bringing down American drug costs. There are too many rich people who can afford to pay absurdly high costs for drugs. The top 10% of American income earners is still equal to the entire population of Canada. That is a LOT of demand for drugs-at-any-cost. The Republican "Keep government out of private enterprise" party wants the American federal government to be more like our Canadian government in being able to regulate pharmaceutical profits and drug costs. Instead of wanting Canada to join America, several States want to join Canada when it comes to securing lower drug costs. Trump wants Canadians to pay more for drugs so Americans can get them cheaper. Somehow, wait for it, according to Trump's non-logic America is subsidizing the costs of drugs in the rest of the world, and 'The National Security of America' is at risk.

 

Have you noticed how many AMERICAN owed corporations are now claiming Canadian connections?

McDonalds is claiming Canadian ownership, because their franchises are owned by Canadians.

Lazyboy, which has no manufacturing or assembly n Canada, is claiming a 'buy Canadian' slant because the Lazyboy stores in Ontario are licensed to Canadian owners.

Even saw an add where ESSO is claiming Canadian roots, for over half a century.

Next, Walmart will be touting that it has Canadian roots.

 

For better or for worse, what better indicator is there that this government is defining itself to be very, very different than anything we have had before.

A complete break from the American state department.

Right up there with Canada and Cuban relations.

 

This is an idea that needs to be revisited. A shorter marine route from the prairies to export markets.

It would open up the West to greater trade with Europe.

 

Is that even possible? If so, it is an eye opener for what is happening in the American economy and what is causing the MAGA movement.

Let's follow the evidence.

According to this article https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5375146/trump-tariffs-factory-jobs-nostalgia?

there are 12.7 million manufacturing jobs in America, down from an all-time high of 19.6 million in 1979.

According to this data base,

https://www.statista.com/statistics/437763/employment-level-in-canada-by-industry/

there are 1.8 million manufacturing jobs in Canada. Applying the standard 1-to-10 ratio (population ratio) that means scaled up proportionate to population Canada would have the equivalent of 18 million manufacturing jobs, just short of America's all time high of almost 50 years ago, let alone the current US job rate.

That caught me completely off guard. Puts a whole new perspective on what Trump is saying about the dire state of the US. Even compared to Canada, the US is in the pits.

Here is another data bomb. One quarter of those US manufacturing jobs are held by immigrants. Not sure WHAT to make of that one.

America does have a problem regarding manufacturing jobs. But tariffs certainly are NOT the solution. If Canada can out-perform the US per capita without the trade barriers of tariffs, exactly what does that say about the condition America is in?

 

Canada once had an 'at the time' super-modern steel industry. Stelco and Dofasco were on the leading edge of steel making tech, using the most advanced for-the-time automated systems. But they fell behind European and Asian technology, became inefficient, and essentially closed up shop. If Canada us to be competitive, we need to completely rethink how we do things. For instance, here is an example of the newest steel making technology that is carbon-friendly, and Canada needs to take a serious look at it.

This is the type of investment needed in Canada.

https://interestingengineering.com/innovation/sweden-green-hydrogen-powered-steel

 

I never knew Canada was even in this game.

Seems this company lost a substantial part of their American investment money (Bezos), and is in danger of shutting down completely. Time for our federal government to come to the plate.

Or maybe China will fill the funding shortfall, and share the prize. Unlimited fusion power in a decade or so.

 

Basic Privacy Protection 101.

Chapter 1.

Never, ever store the personal data in the same place as the person's name.

Store the data using a numeric ID tag,and the actual name in another database, heavily encrypted, that links the name to the ID tag. The two files are not in the same database, not even in the same place (server farm). It takes two different access methods to connect the data to the name, and can only be done on the destination computer.

 

The best thing that could happen to the world is for the Cardinals to out-do their previous record of three years to select a new Pope.

Imagine three years without a foreigner telling us what we should think, what we should believe, what we should do, how we should run our lives, how we should vote.

Maybe we will learn how to take back our own lives from the influence of foreign powers.

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