They’re setting up to verify identities online I presume?

To track online activities.

To ensure nobody is doing anything the government (or its corporate funders) don’t like.

Look at the Project2025 manifesto and see how much they want people’s activities to be controlled.

Android and Apple both.

Hopefully his union can provide some counseling services. We know his employer won’t do anything useful - they’re the reason he was on shift alone.

Also all the best to the passengers on the plane who survived and will have some trauma to deal with.

The Manitoba cons were getting in on that game too before we voted them into oblivion and elected an NDP government.

Depends how these new laws are written.

No prime minister wants to be seen as investing in their own residence.

And no opposition leader will let them do even the most basic maintenance repairs without labeling it as self-serving government waste.

No patient care should be affected by their ability to pay

That’s literally the underlying concept behind the Canadia medical system.

The problem has been successive governments chipping away at the ability to live up to those noble ideals.

You like many Americans are trying to solve cultural rot by putting in more rules. “If only we had a rule that ___” this wouldn’t have happened.

That also doesn’t fix the problem of an administration that freely ignores the rules with complete impunity.

“He was a Democrat liberal darling,”

And then he suffered literal brain damage and has completely flipped his position on pretty much everything he previously stood for.

Is it fair to say: The field is benign

It is benign if it is optional, remains 100% local and under the user’s control and doesn’t prevent other software from functioning as expected.

Those are also entirely optional and not having them filled in doesn’t cause other software to stop doing what the user wants.

So… if the law interferes with your goals, apparently it is now perfectly fine to just ignore it.

That seems to be the approach the US government is taking.

The options are run or fight.

And your scenario seems to eliminate run as an available option.

We don’t need the Euro and we definitely don’t need the European Stability and Growth Pact.

But the GPDR would be nice to be part of.

It’s easy to “pack the room” when you rent a small room.

According to the article, they’re already hiding out (9000km away) in another country.

the three Canadians behind Entropy — Emmanuel and Rachel Constantinidis and David Bell — have been in Tbilisi, Georgia, since 2022, while maintaining a registered corporation in Alberta.

If what they are doing is really “their best” then they are truly fucked.

And, frustratingly, they’ll take the rest of us down with them.

but the number of vehicles in the ditch still seems to have been a lot lower.

For a signifigant portion of the highway between Thunder Bay and the Manitoba border, there isn’t really a ditch at the side of the road.

It is either vertical rock wall on one side, or vertical drop-off down a rocky cliff (or into a lake) on the other side.

Very little margin for error if you skid off the road.

but some individual countries might – there are a lot of reich-wing governments over on this side of the pond.

Maybe, but how many of them have fired all their military strategists and historians?

It should be obvious to most moderately intelligent people that this is a no win situation, unless they’re prepared to genocide an entire country. And if they go down that route, they’ll become a pariah nation.