johnefrancis

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[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

that's only a count of the first tier shawarma shops, it doesn't count the ones that are located inside another business.

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca -5 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Thankfully I live on Ottawa, where we have 10x more shwarma shops than Lenanon does. 120,000 shops in a city of 1M, that's 1 for every 8 residents.

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

should be rolling out the Ebola vaccine to those areas asap.

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 weeks ago

SSM police have clamped up to "protect the identity of the victim(s)". I'd say its a criminal matter.

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 weeks ago

not going to fix anything by increasing direct and indirect subsidies to property developers. They are the core of the existing problem.

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

Housing is Canada's biggest problem and this announcement is half what the oil industry gets every year, not counting the $100B+ in recently announced subsidies.

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 month ago (5 children)

this has been happening for decades in Canadian and other western countries. Canada's financial sector firms are a c-suite, reserve accounts at the BoC, and a giant pile of services purchased from the US, India, Colombia etc.

The cancelled digital services tax was the lightest of scratches at the fixing the problems of trade in services.

All the noise about resources and goods tarrifs? Trade in services is larger, and services are a vastly larger share of the non-trade economy.

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

even for schools, some have pointed out that the protest laws would ban the teacher's unions from picketing their own school.

So it has to be done carefully to permit reasonable protests like labour action and prohibit unreasonable protests and intimidation.

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"carbon capture", more like money capture for foreign carbon majors.

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

a bit thin. pretty short. kinda dumb. kinda poor. youngish. single. no pets. far right. unemployed. illiterate. bad with computers. homeless. lesbian woman. shoeless. naked. long hair and pretty much zero body hair.

Doesn't sound great but I could make it work.

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

I'd be less disappointed if the companies building cars in Canada were Canadian and building cars for the Canadian or global market. They aren't. They are US companies building cars for export to the US. Why should every Canadian be paying to protect them while the US tarrifs its own companies?

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

the Conservatives are not a solution, especially under Poilievre.

 

Domain is up for auction, would make a nice domain for a fedi instance

 

Sleepin on the couch

 

Looks like a great way to stop getting donations.

 

Is there a C-Suite series?

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Mastodon.social is down. Pretty rare. What do now?

 

not many details at this point.

 

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