| blog post in No Food for Thought | 100 years of brokanadian promises 2021 is the 100 year anniversary of the first Canadian federal government elected on a promise to introduce proportional representation. On a |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | A proposal for a populist party in Canada Competition matters . In Canada, the Competition Act aims to promote competition. Unfortunately, the Competition Bureau (the government agency tasked with applying the l |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Bill C-18, Canada's Foreign Link Tax: A Threat to the Free Market AND Free Information For more than a year now, Canada's Online News Act , known as Bill C-18 , has been... in the news. Unfortunately, not for the right reasons. On paper , the act require |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | British Columbia's Provincial Liberals Announce Their Top Priority: British Columbia's Provincial Liberals In the fall of 2018, British Columbia voters will be voting in a referendum on proportional representation. This is of course a threat for members of parties favored by |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Canada's "healthcare" system: |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Canada's ongoing per capita recession The important inflation affecting Canadians has been well-known for years. What I wasn't aware of was our individual income has been decreasing for a long time, even though GDP is growing. Indeed, |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Chronic inflation: still insufficient to deflate short-termist illusions? In April 2001, I was still 15 and knew very little about USA politics. Yet it took a single misleading and high-stakes declaration from its then-president brushing off the Kyoto Protocol to put him at |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Complicating complications: TFSA contribution limit {REMARKSBOX(type="information")}In the early 21st century, some Canadian politicians were worried that the federal government's debt was only a few hundreds of billions of CAD-s. The conservatives—p |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | CVE-2017-5638, the Heartbleed Virus and Quality at CBC Taxes are very important. So much so that I learned about 2 critical security vulnerabilities in important free software components, namely CVE-2014-0160 (Heartbleed) and more recently CVE-2017-5638, |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Electoral reform coming to Canada? After the last election, I wrote about the federal electoral reform promised. Nothing has really changed since then, which is why I am writing a new pos |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | False Majorities - Sadly Doubly True for a Majority of Canadians As British Columbia is about to get a rare opportunity to get rid of FPTP , Fair Vote Canada shows just how relevant the topic is : {img type="fileId" fileId="85" |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | From Ashes to Ashes to Pharce No Food for Thought wouldn't be complete without a rant against Canada's Phoenix pay system . This week I worked with an unfortunate former government employee who's been |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | From Climatic Disruption to Ashes to Further Climatic Disruption The ongoing wildfire season in Canada has been unprecedented. Even though the worse has been in the West for a while, this week, we're seeing smoke in Quebec city again, and there's a new smog warning |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Germany and Canada: A sharp contrast in what democracy can be If your tracking of Canadian politics focuses on the Parliament's composition, you might not have noticed anything particular in September. If you also pay attention to the budget though, you may have |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Germany to achieve full eID By 2022 According to Associated Press, Germans should be able to store their identity on PC-s this Fall! Meanwhile, in Cana |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Go Go Canada, Goooose! In these tense eco-geo-political times, Canadians may enjoy [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-bald-eagle-canadian-goose-battle-photographer-1.5958964|undeniable proof of their s |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Imcaration and Canada's alternative to incarceration How much would it cost someone to be caught driving a vehicle with a fake license plate? When you ask people, their answers vary widely. As [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/snow-licence-plate- |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Inflation in Canada: François-Philippe Champagne and the PLC's grocery stunt Last year, grocery prices were inflating at a ridiculous speed in Canada, just as support for the LPC was crashing. Nothing which François-Philippe Champagne, our dear Minister of In tervention nov |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Integrity and openness - values to better distribute It might seems strange for someone who was part of Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party of Canada government for 7 years to teach about integrity. It's nevertheless interesting to see how ((wp:Marc Garne |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | L'Actualité décoré L'Actualité est le magazine que j'ai le plus lu. En partie parce que mes parents me l'ont mis à portée de main, mais bien sur surtout pour son contenu. C'est mon magazine préféré. Je suis heureu |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | La décarbonisation du carbone, ou l'écoblanchiment de l'énergie fossile Quelle stratégie un pays comme le Canada, devant des précipices démocratiques, environnementaux et économiques, devrait-il choisir? Simplement adopter le ((wpf:Principe pollueur-payeur|principe po |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Liberal Party of Canada responds to petition e-616 After the liberals announced they would break their promise to get rid of FPTP |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Méta-promesse Il y a quelques semaines, j'ai eu le privilège d'assister à une promesse électorale plus grande que nature. Une promesse de la taille d'un rhinocéros en chef. En effet, j'assistais au discours |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | More debt on Canada's credit cards: The "Working Canadians Rebate" What do you do when you're governing a country with a debt surpassing a trillion CAD (over 20 000 €/citizen) , after [https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/understanding |
| blog post in No Food for Thought | Mountain Equipment Coop, les feux à DEL Turtle et la censure En tant que propriétaire de 2 feux à DEL Turtle, j'ai publié une évaluation du [https://www.mec.ca/fr/product/5006-706/Feu-arri%C3%A8re-%C3%A0-DEL-rouge-Turtle|feu arrière à DEL rouge Turtle de |
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