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softcat@lemmy.cato CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca•Can’t do ‘CSIS background checks’ on donors, Poilievre responds to ‘friends’ of Modi reportEnglish11·7 hours agoThe reports all bear notes of caution about the summaries being possibly uncorroborated, single-sourced or incomplete. CSIS Director David Vigneault told the public inquiry that intelligence is not necessarily fact and it may require further investigation.
Actual facts on election interference are, hard to come by, but conjecture from unidentified interests isn’t good enough. Blindly trusting intelligence agencies without proof is how you end up invading Iraq.
The “critic” in question was a supporter and fundraiser for the Khalistani rebel movement, on and off no fly lists and wanted by Interpol. Arms training programs in the BC interior seemed to have spooked Modi into action, can’t imagine why after the Air India bombing and the trial the RCMP fumbled. Most Canadians are content to forget the event after all.
softcat@lemmy.cato CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca•Can’t do ‘CSIS background checks’ on donors, Poilievre responds to ‘friends’ of Modi reportEnglish11·10 hours agoIt’s hardly the same situation, given that one country is trying to annex Canada and the other isn’t.
softcat@lemmy.cato CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca•The Modi ‘friends’ who helped finance Poilievre’s leadership campaign | Globalnews.caEnglish23·20 hours agoThese guys aren’t the Stronachs, Westons, Irvings or Sobeys pumping money into parties, who the leaders have to know. I’m not going to put it past PP to not remember the name of a brown person who he didn’t meet for breakfast either.
softcat@lemmy.cato CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca•Can’t do ‘CSIS background checks’ on donors, Poilievre responds to ‘friends’ of Modi reportEnglish210·21 hours agoThe report found that a handful of people donated about $10,000 of their own money. No one broke the law. What’s the issue here, exactly?
softcat@lemmy.cato CanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca•The Modi ‘friends’ who helped finance Poilievre’s leadership campaign | Globalnews.caEnglish12·21 hours agoI’ve gone through this and nothing was actually illegal or questionable. I’m not really sure what the contention is.
softcat@lemmy.cato Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What is you opinion on the parents who tell their kids to "keep your head down" and "don't cause troubles" such as "being a dissident" or "going to protests"?English5·21 hours agoDepends on the extent of how much you’d do and if you’d get noticed, really. Leverage being applied against you or your parents could occur, particularly to or via relatives in China, but only if you’re deemed worth the effort. I wouldn’t take that risk, personally, but that’s a very specific, individual decision.
The US is another matter. Sure you’ll go on a list but everyone’s on a list of one kind or another, we’re both on one for using Lemmy most likely.
Would there be any validity in your parents thinking your concerns about this are getting in the way of improving your own life?
softcat@lemmy.cato Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Vice president of Bikers Against Child Abuse chapter arrested for sex crimes against childrenEnglish143·21 hours agoJust when you thought it was safe to trust a biker, something like this happens. Now where will I get my crank and human trafficking?
softcat@lemmy.cato News@lemmy.world•Donald Trump explains his 90-day tariff pause: People were getting "yippy"English11·1 day agodeleted by creator
softcat@lemmy.cato Electric Vehicles@slrpnk.net•Canada’s answer to Tesla showcased at global trade fair in GermanyEnglish8·2 days agoTo clarify, this isn’t intended to ever be a mass production vehicle, but a limited run set of prototypes to showcase parts built or designed by firms in Canada to foreign auto makers.
https://driving.ca/auto-news/industry/project-arrow-2-0-automotive-parts-manufacturers-association
softcat@lemmy.cato Android@lemmy.world•How to start using the new Linux terminal on your Android deviceEnglish10·2 days agoIs this not just…termux?
We’ll throw you into a Syrian CIA black site to torture, just ask Maher Arar 🇨🇦
softcat@lemmy.cato Europe@feddit.org•Ukraine captures Chinese nationals fighting for Russia, says ZelenskyEnglish1635·2 days agoRussia could demand that every country with a foreign volunteer for Ukraine answer for them, they’d rightly get the same brush-off.
Two guys (who knows, maybe even three) who are Chinese nationals serving in the Russian Army and not PLA soldiers doesn’t mean “Chinese troops”, it’s Russian troops.
I’ve used EaseUS’s free partition manager to clone Windows 10, in order to move from an hdd to an empty SSD. It handled setting up a place for itself to boot into while cloning, and managed to get the partition table etc right as well. There are alternatives for sure, but the nice UI put me at ease(…) for some reason.
You’ll probably be fine with the proprietary Nvidia driver aside from minor annoyances, assuming you have a relatively new card- on one PC with a legacy card waking from suspend doesn’t work, on a relatively new 960gtx waking results in glitched fonts until I log out of the user. Steam under Wayland occasionally has UI glitches with the top drop down menu for me, though a) supposedly it’s better under flatpak b) supposedly it was fixed recently broadly, waiting to get that update.
And remember to back things up before making changes!
Continued the tradition of hollowing out the middle class for wealthy donors like any other politician. The man represented Delaware for God’s sake. Economy got “better” while people continued to get gradually poorer, materially.
I guess that’s better than having every index in the world crater because chatgpt said tariffs on everyone though, so.
he looks very determined
softcat@lemmy.cato Telecom Canada@lemmy.ca•Rogers, Fido slap $3 fee on 3G users starting next monthEnglish8·3 days agoCRTC: no, don’t use the lube
This seems completely uncritical of Carney and Canada for that matter. The future isn’t going to be lead without force because a middle power elects a prime minister with some good ideas about markets.
We don’t need to rely on wars? We rely on exploitation even without it- ask any country where our mining firms operate with lax regulation. Hell, we’ve participated in “coalitions of the willing” in invasions and aerial bombings for corporate giants too. Most of this country is content to think the first Nations just decided to give us the land.
I’m happy to vote for more years of basically Trudeau lite and I have no illusions about it.
Superpower? Alright no need to chug the Kool aid this hard, let’s wait until you find a chapter where he wants to develop a nuclear triad.
He’s a traditional liberal which means not all that progressive beyond what’s popular socially. Good for the wealthy fiscally, and maintained decline for everyone else. If you want to see what it’ll be, look at the UK while he was heading up BoE. Or any Canadian Liberal government through the 90s-00s.
Despite all this he and his party obviously remain the superior choice to PP, but let’s not kid ourselves. He’s not going to neolib us into utopia.
Too bad unglues your panels