China was considered a developing country with cheaper rates for a long time by the Universal Postal Union, an international agreement that sets the rates for postage. The agreement was renegotiated recently so maybe that will change.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/costofliving/shipping-canada-china-1.6950967

This is true for Québec to a lesser extent too

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You can always reach out to the maintainers to see. Some of them might have behind the scenes work going on, others might consider the crate complete if it’s already hit 1.0.0.

I don’t think you’ll find a one size fits all answer here, it depends the crate.

Mandating cyber insurance coverage could help as well and help align financial interests with cybersecurity ones

Because of competition

We don’t do that well in Canada

BBC coverage. Looks like this is getting global attention.

You might be interested in Nate Eskine-Smith.

https://www.meetnate.ca/policy/housing/

He did an AMA on Reddit 2 days ago, and discussed proportional voting among other things.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/16dq9tv/hi_im_nate_erskinesmith_and_im_running_to_be_the/

If the sorry state of city finances and infrastructure are a problem and priority, then building and maintaining pedestrian, bike, and rail infrastructure are potential solutions.

Take a look at this study detailing the cost benefit analysis of bike infrastructure in Portland, Oregon. Millions of dollars can be saved. https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/43289/8/Gotschi1.pdf

Another study concluded that “creating or improving active travel facilities generally has positive or non-significant economic impacts on retail and food service businesses abutting or within a short distance of the facilities”. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/01441647.2021.1912849

“Building a new roadway for automobiles can cost tens of millions of dollars to construct, and many of the pedestrian and bicycle infrastructure projects and facilities are extremely low-cost in comparison. This infrastructure can also serve to improve safety for all road users, while also promoting healthier lifestyles through more bicycling and walking.” https://www.pedbikeinfo.org/cms/downloads/Countermeasure%20Costs_Report_Nov20131.pdf

mstdn.ca has a partnership with CIRA https://www.cira.ca/en/resources/news/about/cira-teams-mastodon-canada-support-canadian-digital-communities/

The Rust community has usually favoured more permissive licenses for some reason

I’m using the vscode extension called Thunderclient