We’ve got a “range” but most fall into friendly category. People will stop to help you when you’re stuck.

alberta politics is awkward but people are friendly in larger communities. Some remote small communities may be awkward but not always.

will we be going back to Sheer? I mean their past several generations of leaders were all with Carisma in sub-zero territory, I think Harper kind of set the trend there.

drone fleet can do wonders on “superior force”. Luckily China is still stuck in bigger-meaner-better mentality so pivoting to more agile warfare methodology would work… except most drone components are made in china

so after reading another article where Europeans discovered that Chinese EV bus can be remotely “switched off”. Concern is real. Did anyone try the same with US vehicles? This whole “Software defined vehicle” is a security nightmare. Car manufacturers care very little about cybersecurity …so the only difference with China, is that manufacturers have deep ties with government so control of vehicles can serve political goals as much as economical.

identity politics is the easiest way to give populous something they didn’t ask for but feel like they always needed it

funny that QAnon stuff circled around Dems having pedo-leanings and that was an OUTRAGE yet now it turns out to be OK, Humane even… wtf? Their morals exist only to stick it to anyone opposing them and they evaporate the second one of their own is caught doing exact thing

no. greens always suffered from identity crisis oscillating between libertarian and socialist values. Not to say that NDP didn’t completely lost their social democratic way etc. but to save the province we’d need an entity with core values unshakable and guided by firm principals,not flip-floping in the wind. I will vote for progressive candidate under any banner provided their party allows free voting for them which is rare in today’s politics.

agreed

CoOp, CanCo and… Costoco? Those seem to be relatively “Canadian” options.

interesting. thanks for the references.

Federal government has lead the way with complete ghosting and forced back to work legislation, so UCP are happy to be just like the Libs the hate so much.

Chomsky has made several wrong calls recently seems to be seeking approval. My respect to his opinions has been declining steadily recently

one of the references

https://blazetrends.com/eu-mandates-android-bootloader-lock-ending-custom-roms-from-august-2025/

EU regulation demanding locked phones and virtually prohibiting jail-brraking etc.

betweek the pricetag and capabilities I’m lost. Those are both capabilities and pricetag from previous era. I get the “no AI” vibes and like those, but the rest of fluff about zero trust etc… what?!?

“Government for sale” going cheap…

those are the same folks who are virtually killing OSS ecosystem in Android…

funny thing, they found correlation,not causation between advise and drop. no study done on other factors that may have contributed… media on the other hand took liberty of shortening that down to causation…

next on the docket: serfdom!