LostWon

Public debate was shut down and turned "private" so there's no public record of what anyone said.

Although my own comment was more about slowing the roll of people who go into politics as a career choice from the get-go (red flag imo), there are arguments for having both minimum and maximum ages. 25-ish to 65-ish sounds reasonable. (I also think there should be baseline and follow-up tests for both empathy and cognitive capacity.

Agreed. And maybe it also shouldn't be someone's first job out of school.

This is also straight up illegal under the Canada Health Act but our federal government isn't doing anything to enforce it.

Journalists and experts (both pro- and anti-war) were citing this months ago when everybody was talking about how expensive the war has been and how much was spent or used up in a day that could take years to replace. Since it's old news now, I'm fuzzy on the details (might be mostly interceptors to stop drones?) but a simple search brings up results like these from major media, independent media, and beyond:

• Report: ​US burned through half or more of critical missile interceptors
• Rebuilding US weapons stockpile may 'take years' post-Iran war

I found this rather amusing:

The form also gathers sensitive answers, including each registrant’s "political leaning,” which Dialog promises “WILL NOT be shared in the app or with other participants, ever.” That data, and the matchmaking responses, were exposed in the leak.

Did you read the original article? Most Canadians don't want health care privatized, even in Alberta.

So we now have one person denying a report that was citing very specific and varied claims affecting multiple MPs. In particular, there's no other explanation for why Carney has so far done nothing to enforce the Canada Health Act to protect our single-payer system from Alberta's Bill 11. I don't see why multiple complainants would come forward with "superficial" complaints.

The slant of this CTV article is unreasonably dismissive, misleadingly reducing everything to nebulous "environmental policy" while also hiding how grave the specific concerns in that area even are. I think keeping protections for animals at risk of extinction is something most Canadians would agree with(!), but Carney's project fast-tracking proposal seeks to deregulate those protections away.

Me too but apparently they won the same suit against Ontario? Not sure how things will go this time. (I don't know if Ontario's lawyers had any evidence on all those cases of rebate fraud at the time, for example.)

Yes, also sea ports. (I'd hoped both were implied in my comment.)

My apologies if the bunkers were always Albanian. I may have seen it misreported. There is history there, though. Here's what I could find on Wikipedia.

During the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, Albania relied heavily on the Soviet Union. During that time, the Soviets built a base for Whiskey-class submarines and a chemical/biological weapons plant on the island and surrounding areas. The island stationed around 3,000 soldiers during this period.[15][16] However, the Soviet-Albanian split in the early 1960s marked the end of the Soviet naval presence on Sazan.[13] After the fall of communism four submarines remained at Pasha Limani port in the bay of Vlore.[17] To this day, many Soviet-era gas masks can still be found scattered around the valley of the island.

The island now is uninhabited but there is a small joint Italian—Albanian naval base, of reportedly two soldiers, used mainly to counter contraband between southern Italy and Albania, as a training field for the British Royal Navy, and as shelter for boats in nearby Albanian waters.[18][17][19][15][16] There are approximately 3,600 nuclear bunkers that were built by Albania during the Cold War.[15] There is also a villa on the island belonging to the former communist defence minister Beqir Balluku. In 2010, the island's surrounding sea waters, and those of adjacent Karaburun Peninsula were proclaimed a National Marine Park by the Albanian government.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sazan#Post%E2%80%93World_War_II

I thought the running joke was that it's the "resort" Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump were planning to build on a Mediterranean island a corrupt leader of Albania let them take illegally (or questionably legally, I can't remember). Not sure if it's a coincidence, but it's said that island even has 3,600 abandoned ~~Soviet~~ bunkers.