MrFlagg

joined 1 year ago
sorted by: new top controversial old
Ontario spending $134M on 5 new police helicopters in c/ontario@lemmy.ca
[–] MrFlagg@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

hovering drones don't have the range. airplane type drones can cost 100k and have their own limitations

40
Posthaste: Canada could face two more decades of stagnant growth, report warns (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
Doug Ford's change to booze sales could cost far more than $225M in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] MrFlagg@lemmy.ca -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The Ontario Liberal Party (the people who did the gas plant accounting) came up with a number favourable for them gee surprise

Poilievre won't commit to keeping new social programs like pharmacare in c/canada@lemmy.ca
Alberta’s New Policies: Anti-trans, Anti-evidence in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] MrFlagg@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

ah yes. The "its not happening and you wanting to ban it is fascism" crowd

Is it time to ditch sick note requirements? Doctors and patients are tired of them in c/canada@lemmy.ca
Defund the police yesterday in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] MrFlagg@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 months ago

ya cuz Portland is doing so well with that

Trudeau government's use of Emergencies Act during 'Freedom Convoy' violated Canadians' Charter rights: federal court in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] MrFlagg@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 months ago

like all jobs the contract comes up for review. Its worth noting that the current boss is not the one that Rob wanted.

Trudeau government's use of Emergencies Act during 'Freedom Convoy' violated Canadians' Charter rights: federal court in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] MrFlagg@lemmy.ca 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

ya i don't get this. Ford does not and no premier should give the OPP orders. They can pass laws and expect the OPP to enforce them but elected members are not the boss of our police force.

TIL: Canada was involved in the creation of the current windchill reporting standard which is used internationally in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] MrFlagg@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

aren't we also responsible for DST

CBC Opinion - There are no simple answers to the immigration and housing question in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] MrFlagg@lemmy.ca -1 points 7 months ago (3 children)

one simple answer might be don't import people who need housing without first making sure the housing is available

Canada needs hundreds of thousands of public EV charging ports. Who is going to build them? in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] MrFlagg@lemmy.ca 0 points 8 months ago

people seem to forget about all that stuff before the charging port.

Nanos Research poll shows that more than 8 in 10 Canadians say they support or somewhat support investing in new affordable housing. in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] MrFlagg@lemmy.ca -2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

20% of people know there isn't anything that govt can't make worse

-1
Jewish group demands apology after MPs honoured man who fought for Nazis (www.ctvnews.ca)
-1
What Ontario's rising high school grades mean for university admissions (www.cbc.ca)
 

Long-term trend of higher marks plus pandemic spike sees more top students competing for coveted programs

-1
‘There’s some merit to the criticism that CBC has a left-leaning bias’: Expert panel sees a murky future for the CBC - The Hub (thehub.ca)
 
With competition from streaming services, a quickly-changing broadcast and news landscape, and diminished trust in the public broadcaster, the future of the CBC is as murky as ever.
Tara Henley, a former CBC producer who now runs a popular Substack, said the CBC lost trust when Canadians started to see it as overly politicized.
Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre made defunding the CBC a centrepiece of his leadership campaign, sparking raucous chants in support of the idea at his rallies across the country.
view more: next ›