Absolutely, first thing we need is to stop the bleeding. It’s easier and cheaper for companies to harvest and sell raw product. Same as our LNG, coal, and any other natural resource.

Stop facilitating the pillaging of our land for quick easy profit. Once the government says ‘company, you have no access to the resource unless you process it within 200km of where you found it.’ then we will see a shift.

More jobs, better quality, improvements to infrastructure and medical etc.

What tax? I think too many focus on throwing money at a problem. For generations we had logs processed at local mills. The big shift was the pine beetle, there was heavy investment into pumping as much through the mill as fast as possible. They created super mills. They closed down smaller community based mills to ship logs to bigger centers. Now it costs too much to bring the logs from their closed down communities to their high cost super mills. So they dump that cost on another country who will process without following our safety, pay, or quality standards.

Go back to community managed forests, improve shipping and highways.

Agreed. Keep the logs in their community. Ship a finished product.

Man… This brought me back. I remember Mininiva, demonoid, isohunt. Wow. Now I usually just use one of the 1337x mirrors.

This was the expected result for anyone watching this from inside labour. The majority of their collective agreement has been agreed to, including some kind of compensation for stand by. The only outstanding issue is the wage, which both sides agreed to leave in the hands of an impartial arbitrator. Most likely each side will make an argument about why they are right. Depending on whether they go with an arbitrator or a mediator, that person could choose either sides argument as the better one. Or they could implement their own.

So if they go the path that allows only one side to be chosen, they need to be the most reasonable. If they go the other way and allow some middle ground to be put in place it’s more about the argument and the reason behind the wage increase.

I don’t know the timelines on federal contracts but I don’t imagine it’ll be much different than provincial, which has very tight timelines to meet, present and have a decision made.

I’ve got a few to work, but I find gog releases work much better than anything else because there are no cracks.

Once you learn things like prefix=virtual machine (more or less) it gets easier.

I’ve been monitoring it. I like to have options and if I can convince older family members to get off Facebook I’ll take it.

That’s where I’m at too. Most of my family is still on FB. But for actual engagement with the rest of the world, it is useless. That’s why I’m here and ok bluesky. I’ll probably hop on this platform to hold a spot and post there when I post on bluesky and Lemmy. See where I get the best conversation. Not about the number of comments. It’s about the quality. Lots of good questions brought up here.

I’ve subscribed for years. So much of my content is already Canadian. There needs to be seperate rules when playing 'your content’s (like your music collection) and the ‘radio’ (DJ, recommendations etc)