I have good and free healthcare, probably because I’m not in Ontario

“making oneself difficult to invade” is quite an understatement of pursuing nuclear weapons but point taken

OK stupid Trump comments aside, I do think it’s a diplomatic blunder for Trudeau to say that the tariff would kill the Canadian economy. Even if it would, better not to admit it, because pleading with a demon is guaranteed loss while at least a bluff could get some result. So I just hope this is hearsay and not really how things went down during those talks.

If to protect ourselves from our enemies we have to become like them, I prefer to give up on Canada and go somewhere else.

So how are those two asset types tied so closely?

For 1 bd condos specifically prices did go down, because developers overshot the supply aiming for investors. But larger units are still very much underserved and there’s too much demand.

Houses aren’t expensive just because they’re houses. They’re expensive mostly because there’s a big plot of land underneath, land that eventually will be required for a big tower that will sell like hot cakes. It’s the same market because Canada has a market of land speculation.

plus paying condo fees forever

Isn’t it the norm for a property to generate fees forever? It’s a passive depreciating asset, just like a house

“good idea” is subjective and unspecific language so it doesn’t make sense to find sources for it. Can you just quote specific sentence I said that you would like to refute as “nonsense”?

Interesting. Which claim would you be interested in reading the sources?

As i said take it from people who actually write software as a career.

As I do… but I’d rather not take it from software engineers because we are not experts. I’d rather listen to real experts, the folks who research this topic as their career.

We’re literally telling you to not pay us to do that

Noted.

the loss of the paper audit trail would be catastrophic for verification

Which is why researchers of electronic voting defend the use of Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT).

But anyway, “this isn’t a discussion” is consistent with statements like “there is absolutely zero reason to expose voting systems to a digital threat vector” so I guess there are things we seem to agree on.

Trust the engineers.in the actual software domain then

Yes, which I am. Though who I’d trust the most here are the cryptography researchers that dedicate their life to researching electronic voting systems.

As an engineer, you should know that no system is perfect and there are several trade-offs and threat models to consider. And electronic voting can’t be discussed in a vacuum, but measured against existing voting systems which are also full of their own kinds of issues and risks.

Beyond insane. Every time Doug Ford comes back to mind I’m triple thankful for being represented by David Eby.

especially Canada can and will freeze bank accounts as a back channel way to control people that they disagree with

lol indeed cash is very fit for the tinfoil hat crowd

One of the modern mysteries I can’t quite get is people caring so much about paying stuff with cash. Are people out there paying for gas using cash as well? How many people have a car and don’t have a credit card or smartphone? So many questions…