Most people are in favor, a minority aren’t. Population inversion should scare people more than it does, but right now the current dominant fear for people is housing costs, which immigration rates are being (very incorrectly) blamed for.

If you ask the average person, they probably would reply “immigration is fine as long as we can provide for everyone”. The average left-leaning person would be more likely to drop the conditional, and the average right leaning person would say “verb the noun” and ask why we’re letting immigrants take out 300k loans from banks and then leave the country with the cash[1].

It’s a mixed bag, as with anywhere.

[1] this is not happening in any meaningful capacity and most immigrants can’t secure any credit at all without collateral, but this is nonetheless a very real conversation I’ve had with a post-secondary educated semi-friend who really should know better

Generally, in cities you won’t have really any problems. My fiancee is Turkish and we live in the prairies and she’s never had anything happen. Folks stumble on her name sometimes but it’s not really racism.

If you go rural, you always up your chances of encountering more racism. Rural PEI/NB will be accidentally racist, rural AB/SK will not care if they’re racist. Generally this is true unless you’re camping/hiking, when you wrap back around to people who are generally just happy to see fellow outdoorsmen.

Much of North American racism isn’t from individual people but in systems. My fiancee’s experience is that European systems are more likely to be equitable but the people will be racist. In general, if you visit Canadian cities from Vancouver to Montreal, I wouldn’t expect you to have any racist encounters.

I’ve been selfhosting Synapse on Docker Compose for… maybe 1.5 years now? I’m also running bridges. I’ve never had to do monthly maintenance. I have around 20 users (my friends) active daily, a few federated rooms. I have message retention on and it “just worked” for me (not sure why OP had to do extra config)

I only find two of the critiques to be true in my experience:

1. Onboarding can be confusing for non-technical users. I use SSO so no registration, but the average person doesn’t know what an encryption key is, and they probably don’t want to either.
2. Synapse is written in python and as such isn’t super kind to memory/cpu. I’m doing fine on my cheap Hetzner box though.

Overall synpase for me has been very much “set it and forget it”. I can’t remember when I last did server maintenance.

claude performs acceptably at repetitive tasks when I have an existing pattern for it to follow. “Replicate PR 123, but to add support for object Bar instead of Foo”. If I get some of this busy work in my queue I typically just have claude do it while I’m in a meeting.

I’d never let it do refactors or design work, but as a code generation tool that can use existing code as a template, it’s useful. I wouldn’t pay an arm and a leg for it, but burning $2 while I’m in a meeting to kill chore tasks is worth it to me.

Neither do I - I use either my phone, or my smart TV, or my fire stick. SSO works fine there, or you can use the QR based session transfer to SSO on your phone and then “sign in on another device” or whatever by scanning the QR your other device is showing. I think they call it quick connect or something.

It does what you want.

And if you think Grandma can’t figure out scanning a QR code, Grandma is also not gonna figure out MFA lol.

You can run the OIDC version and use SSO and implement MFA on the IdP. I use Keycloak for SSO w/ MFA and users sign into my Jellyfin via Keycloak. Just disable username/password auth and leave it SSO only.

The only benefit Plex really has is the relaying, but I was able to sync watch with 3 people basically as far across North America as you can get from me and it worked without issue so…

Per essentially every source referenced in the article, there is no correlation either.

I was the same way, under thr assumption he’d bring it back by a new name as promised. So far disappointed… hopefully when something actually happens (instead of just discussions) it won’t be so bad but my hopes are lowering.

Nice! Happy to see us start the process of decoupling from the US, even if it’s going to be a long slow process.

Drops 20 cents of 146 against JPY, currency must be kill

I honestly do expect this path leads to dedollarization in the long run but truly an absurd graph to make that claim lmao

Yea we’ll see what happens with arbitration. Disappointed they intervened so quickly but I highly doubt any arbitration agreement won’t get rid of unpaid OT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lq-Y7crQo44

This is a really neat video about algorithmic redistricting. It doesn’t really make any claims about the politics around drawing maps but it does a great job of showing how easily the maps can be manipulated to give set results. It’s really neat to see how the different things we can optimize for may or may not produce “fair” results.

Really worth a watch imo!

Well NORAD is more than just missiles, same with this proposed “Golden Dome” thing. NORAD is radars, missiles, interceptors, and protocols. I’m not sure it would be prudent for us to bail on NORAD at this time - it costs us very little, doesn’t materially impact our readiness against US pressure or invasion, and ultimately does provide at least security theater against non-continental aggressors such as Russia.

Golden Dome is a new thing, involving satellites, space-based missiles, kinetic interceptors, etc. By all accounts it appears to be a boondoggle in the making.

NORAD modernization could be anything from updating protocols or hardware for drone interception, updated training, modernization packages for existing hardware, software updates, etc. - NORAD modernization is probably a good cost/benefit ratio for us in aggregate for our defense, depending on details. If we’re relaxing some form of restrictions around missile defense, this could also plausibly mean the Canadian military stepping up and running more of our own hardware. This would be a good thing.

Golden Dome would be a net-new level of integration for us, and would likely represent closer ties with Americans for a number of different agencies.

I think they’re quite different, at least from a technical standpoint. Political interpretations may vary.

This particular article is not super worrying in my opinion, but it’s not stellar. It’s kind of scant on details and relies heavily on interpreting the defense minister’s response about missile defense to mean they’re seriously contemplating joining this Golden Dome initiative. I wish they had included the exact question posed. If you remove the context provided by the article, the response itself is relatively sensible:

“The threat environment has drastically changed and Canada needs to be prepared,” McGuinty explained in an email to the Ottawa Citizen. “By removing outdated restrictions on our air and missile defence policies, Canada is taking another necessary step to strengthen the safety and security of Canadians, and the sovereignty of Canada.”

I’m guessing the question posed was something along the lines of “what’s going on with the removal of restrictions on missile defense?”, but we’ll never know unless they publish the email itself. Also, the article heavily implies the original statement,

McGuinty noted the government “removed all restrictions on air and missile defence of Canada” but specific details were not provided at the time.

is with respect to Golden Dome, but I don’t think it is. See https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/news/2025/07/minister-mcguinty-visits-norad.html, wherein the context of the statement is said to be about NORAD and Canadian missile defense in general, which is again, quite sane even in the context of a potentially hostile neighbor.

Minister McGuinty reiterated Canada’s commitment to NORAD modernization, Arctic security, and initiatives such as Arctic Over the Horizon Radar (A-OTHR) and Integrated Air and Missile Defence. Consistent with the Prime Minister’s commitments to supporting NORAD and strengthening Canada’s air and missile defences, Minister McGuinty also confirmed that the Government has removed all restrictions on air and missile defence of Canada. This will enable Canada to strengthen its defence capabilities and better deter and defend against threats to our country’s sovereignty, population, and critical infrastructure.

Overall I don’t know that I find this specific article hugely problematic but it relies heavily on structural implications about Canada’s intent to join the Golden Dome, but reading the primary sources I don’t believe that is the correct interpretation. I wish they included the full question asked, and response, and I wish they didn’t put McGuinty’s statement at NORAD along with Golden Dome stuff when that doesn’t appear to be what he’s discussing.

I’m not willing to take these allusions at face value, especially not when they’re suffixed with “but we have no details at this time”. There may be something here, but as long as the only source saying this is this article (and its children across the internet), I’m not sold on the fear.

That’s my personal read of this.

I make no judgement on this particular article or any claims within - that may be true. Just trying to ensure everyone has their critical thinking cap on around the American billionaires :)

Ottawa Citizen is a Poat Media outlet owned by the US - read and trust with caution!

Wait, their what? Is that real? That’s gotta be a meme, right?

Don’t forget the enormously successful and equally maligned Carbon Tax which put money in the hands of less wealthy people while actually reducing our carbon emissions for the first time ever. Still waiting on Carney to implement his “market based carbon pricing” thing that was just the carbon tax by another name.

What? There’s absolutely no way we can interpret intent in this case - this could genuinely be a fair question asked in good faith.

“What about US tech?” could be interpreted a number of ways, from “are Canadians also divesting from US tech?” to “But Canadians aren’t divesting from US tech, what about that?”. There’s no reason to believe this person is going after the latter case here when “ok that’s retail, how’s tech doing?” is equally likely and imminently reasonable.

I’m fine to get dog piled here but I think you’ve assumed bad faith where there is no reason to make that assumption, especially after the user attempted to disambiguate in exactly the way I’ve described.

I’m also curious to see how Canadian usage of American tech companies has changed. I wonder if it got more people to quit Twitter finally.

Postmedia has a bunch of “* Star” papers and the Toronto Sun but notably not the Toronto Star.