Pedestrians also take to the streets without having been tested or licensed for traveling on them. Should we license pedestrians too?

Eventually Mastodon will get a standard implementation of quote-toots. At that point I’d think the appropriate way to represent Lemmy comments as toots would be to represent the toots as quote-tooting the root (post) toot. You’d still have to click the toot to see the context of the parent toot, but that’s a client problem - imho clients should always have an easier way to view the parent of a reply-toot than doing a full-page nav to the reply-toot in context of its thread, and the fact that they don’t is a problem on every twitter-style microblogging platform. But you’d have quick context of which article they’re replying to.

They’re talking about Mastodon, where there’s no algorithmic feed and likes are only visible when you focus the toot, and so “likes” are kinda useless, only retoots. Lemmy is different, likes matter here.

Nothing about whether Hussen will be replaced with somebody who actually cares?

I don’t know how much better it is but I’ve been mostly patronizing my local Food Basics, with the occasional trip to Walmart and Costco for things they don’t carry at FB. I avoid the Loblaws’ chains after it became obvious they were doing the biggest price-hikes to drive inflation while Food Basics was raising wages and giving more of their employees full-time benefits.

I realize that Walmart is ethically a damned sight worse, but one battle at a time. Walmart doesn’t give a shit what their Canadian customer-base does they’re a global company. Loblaws lives and dies by it.

Depends on the immigrants. When you’ve got many industries of Canada in critical crisis that’s impacting citizens (eg healthcare and homebuilding), focusing on immigrants with skills that we need more of (eg. nurses and electricians) just makes sense. The problem with that approach is the foot-dragging from certifying bodies in giving these people a pathway to Canadian papers.

I mean, if we don’t have enough food service workers or software developers… well, then more pay for our existing ones (disclaimer: I’m a coder). That mostly impacts the economics of those industries, not public and private services Canadians desperately need.

But if we don’t have enough doctors? Everybody feels that problem very directly.

edit: Personally I’m heavily pro-immigration overall from a human rights & economics perspective (freedom of movement is a good thing! This includes non-refugees!), but when we’re in an ever-deepening crisis about housing that is seriously harming our citizens and refugees it definitely makes sense to start talking about doing it more strategically.

Now, I know the names don’t mean much to non-pol watchers, but as they relate to Canada’s various challenges they matter.

So, the above-the-fold stuff for me:

Hussen is out as Housing. He presided on housing through the abrupt rise in tent-cities here in Ontario, skyrocketing rents, etc. There’s plenty of egg on his face, so it’s nice to see the PMO reacting. Sean Fraser, formerly Min of Immigration, takes it. Hope he can make something of it.

Mendicino is out of Public Safety. Regardless of how you feel about the Bernardo prisoner transfer scandal or the expanded firearms ban that occurred under him, it’s hard to deny that he bungled both.

On firearms, he had broad support for the pistol and assault-weapon ban C-21 until he overreached and had to walk it back after getting pummeled in the press for months. On Bernardo he was asleep at the switch and had no idea what was going on.

Good luck to Dominic LeBlanc, the new Minister of Public Safety.

I mean you’re in SK, that’s kind of an extreme case. Most Canadians live in parts of the country with more moderate weather, where it only goes below -20 on the absolute coldest night of the year, if at all. I mean “backup” could just mean a couple of 1500 watt space heaters in the closet if you find the pump isn’t cutting it - yes you’ll burn through your heating bill but it’s going to be for maybe a couple of nights tops.

I haven’t been following her work in treasury, what’d she do?

If you’re saying a million per year, that means you’re counting international students. By definition, if they’re coming here and paying our very-expensive tuitions, they’re not going to be low-skilled for long.

The number of people who enter through immigration (incl. refugees) is more like 450k (for comparison, 2015 target under Harper was 270k), and about a third of those are refugees. Yes, there are criminals who exploit the refugee system. That’s what it costs to be a decent person.