Pretty much. There’s a strong argument that “eliminating barriers” may be synonymous with “deregulation,” which…could go badly.

This was a decent explainer. In a nutshell…

• There are four categories of trade barriers in Canada: natural barriers such as geography, prohibitive barriers such as restrictions on the sale of alcohol, technical barriers such as vehicle weight standards and regulatory barriers such as licensing and paperwork requirements.

• The 2017 CFTA was intended to cut down on some of these barriers, but all provinces and territories negotiated exemptions for various reasons, ranging from different safety regulations across provinces, to different language requirements, to industry protectionism.

It’s not clear right now which barriers the feds can unilaterally eliminate (and whether we agree with all of them), but I guess we’ll find out within the next week or so.

I don’t know if I agree with that assessment, but they do seem to have one writer who does nothing but write about how bad Carney is, and another who does nothing but write about how bad Freeland is.

From what I can tell, he would have to have acquired the citizenship fraudulently, and he didn’t.

There used to be a mechanism for the citizenship of people convicted of treason, spying, and terrorism offences to be revoked, but it was repealed in 2018.

I would like to think the rule of law still applies here.

That seems like a weird whatabout. How is your job related to how much funding the CBC gets?

In the end, funding the Ukraine-Russia war instead of promoting the peaceful settlement that was being negotiated between Ukraine and Russia in April 2022 has been a disaster for Ukraine and for Europe.

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The Fediverse is about to get a lot weirder…

I either missed this, or is has been added to the article:

Audio recording from Pearson’s air traffic control tower shows that Delta Air Lines Flight 4819 was cleared to land shortly after 2 p.m. and that the tower warned the pilots of a possible air flow “bump” in the glide path from an aircraft in front of it, according to a report from The Canadian Press.

So wake turbulence could be a factor.

For a plane to completely go over like that, I would have to think it was significantly overspeed…

To say nothing of,

[Cindy] Blackstock said Canada has never provided supporting documentation for its claims of misuse, and that there is no evidence of how widespread the problem is.

For sure, I get it. I wish .world federation was more reliable, but we seem to run into challenges a couple times per year. We’re always looking to improve stuff like that.

dunking on how our instance is a ghost town

Not really your point, but I can’t help but have some thoughts on this:

1. Ultimately, the instance is exactly as active as its users want it to be, for better or worse.

2. If we were overly concerned about size, we’d have stayed on Reddit.

I was able to find a couple of things I found interesting about Section 31, but I had to dig pretty deep to do it.

I don’t think there’s any question that it was well-liked by the fandom.

However, I used to check in with Parrot Analytics fairly frequently - they’re a site that purports to measure the overall “demand” of a series through a variety of means that I don’t fully understand…but the industry uses their metrics.

“Lower Decks” was typically the second-lowest “in demand” new series - only “Prodigy” had a lower score.

That said, the demand for all of the new series was categorized as “outstanding.”

Oh good, my map edits were accepted!

I’ve seen a few episodes here and there. It’s charming, and doesn’t take itself too seriously (or, honestly, very seriously at all).

I will say that S4 gets better as it goes along, and a lot of people would cite it as their favourite.

I honestly think season three is one of the best overall seasons of any Trek series. It’s got good energy, and I’ve talked pretty extensively about why I think the ending is pretty great, actually.

killing Book’s family was kind of idiotic

The poor species was doomed once they were revealed to be spore drive-compatible. They were never going to take away the lead ship’s unique feature.

Also, background character development feels a bit weak.

I’ve probably talked about this before as well, but I think Disco was pretty experimental with the extended cast - they essentially gave what would have been wordless extras on other shows and gave them a bit more to do.

Ultimately, I think it was a bit of a failed experiment, but at least some talented Canadian actors were able to pad their resumes.

Time will tell on that one.

I think I read that Giamatti’s character has a connection to one of the leads, so I’m kind of hoping he’s someone’s Bad Dad.

That is not what this article is about.