enjoy the recessions that come with balanced budgets and surpluses... everyone will be sending in extra taxes to balance that budget.

The Canadian govt is the primary creator of Canadian dollars.

When the federal govt runs a deficit of say $1B, that's a surplus of $1B in the private sector. $1B more spent into industry than collected in taxes. Good times for the private sector.

When the federal govt runs a surplus of $1B, that is a deficit of $1B in the private sector. $1B more collected in taxes than spent. This is an absolute disaster for the economy.

When you consider the above, you can see how ridiculous it is for the federal govt to run a balanced budget or surplus. A balanced budget is a strongly recessionary position, choking off economic growth in the private sector.

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instead of a long complicated process to pre-empt corruption, just have an automatic and detailed post-award review for corruption. Corruption discovered in the review is referred for criminal prosecution.

After the first 500 or so corporate CEOs and executives are jailed, the rest will get the point. Offer your best price, compete with your competitors, sell your offer on its merits in the open bid, and stay away from the bid evaluators and other potential or actual bidders.

you never want your heart, liver and cervical spine going into your shoulder...

it's to stop attempts to leave and commit terrorism from lawless jurisdictions. I think it's fairly new and related to the short period of time when ISIS held territory in Syria & Iraq. Odd to see it used for the US, but why not.

just wait until Poilievre's CPC takes away even more union rights.

from every possible thing that can happen to you while smoking...

cancer while smoking COVID while smoking caught in fascist riots while smoking hit by bus while smoking bear attack while smoking container dropped from a plane while smoking etc

Smoking puts you out in the world which increases a lot of risks you wouldn't otherwise have.

I'm hoping for a What We Do In The Shadows / Star Trek crossover.

Baron Afanas and Saru surely have some weird dreams? The Baron also faces a series of extreme transformations.

anon's Dad is dropping shrooms

I was lucky enough to witness his jumps in 1988. Later, driving down the highway in Calgary, we pulled up behind the Jamaican bobsled team, with their sled, riding in the back of a pickup. Took a picture. Mostly forgot about it.

It was neat at the time, but had no idea how famous they would both become.

OP says it has regular Marvel characters ☹️

Cut our taxes! Don't make ugly utilitarian structures! Typical ignorant whinging.

I hope they mount a nice speed camera on it.

Global MS Azure outage...

car thieves aren't slipping away in car chases. The car is in a box on a ship in the ocean before the cops know anything about it.

If the cops start digging a bit into longstanding organized crime groups, the judge will jail them for a long time. Police aren't bringing those cases.

which version of which bible?

"Yeet" wins IMO

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the problem with the 407 is that the Ontario taxpayer paid to build it and then gave it away for nothing when nobody really wanted to drive on it. The P3 model is shit.

maybe some business taxes need to increase to de-incentivize commercial overuse of public roads. Surely the free market can provide a solution like a profitably tolled tunnel running right under the Gardiner?

Mitch has done more to ensure those mistakes are repeated than almost anyone else. Does he have no memory of his actions over the past 20 years?

and Canada, Mexico, Japan, Australia, almost all of central & South America.

why do Republicans care, since the US and Israel don't recognize the court's jurisdiction anyway?

I think both would likely be found guilty by any reasonable court. I don't think Gaza has one, but I think Netanyahu's legal troubles are going to get a lot worse in Israeli courts.

it's right wing bullshit.

The UK is never limited in the amount of £ it can issue to cover govt deficits. Read a textbook. Issuers of currency do not borrow i that currecy. Debt and deficits have economic impacts, but there is no hard limit.

The only reason for austerity is that rich twats want austerity so they can continue their insatiable greed.

Hamas. Pretty evil. Netanyahu's govt. Also pretty evil.

Both had alternatives. Both chose the most violent and hateful paths.

I don't think the ICC has any chance of success, but they are right to try.

I thought pride came before the fall.

have to work in some lyrics about throwing the VCR in the emptied grave.

Brian Lilley can fuck off. 6 pages of text for a a veiled anti-immigrant attack.

Far from his worst too.

Rae would advise on the options and consequences. I expect he did a good job advising Trudeau.

You don't just suddenly hork in your friend's face at a party. You try to work things out and move them in a direction and keeping it mutually acceptable.

take him to the vet, the vet can make his passage more comfortable.

also, do not put salt in your eyes

still waiting for the part of the reports where they get to all the interference from closer to home. Like Canadians exposure to toxic far right US news media and commercial propaganda. These are massive machines that dwarf the activities of a handful of sloppy agents from China, India, etc.

Canada's foreign owned media openly endorse conservatives every election, and freely promote their lies during and between elections .

yep. Mine flower in the summer, a few different types, all look about the same until then.

some sort of Iris

never put salt in your eyes

omg, yes! Accessing your own banking data for automatic accounting is hellish in Canada. Even more powerful will be the ability to start marking up your transaction data with your own metadata.

it's a terrible system, paying the wealthy elevated interest on risk-free govt bonds to bribe them into not hiring people.

right on time

Space Avalanche. Sadly stopped after a few years, it was great, although I didn't care much for this one.

must've been a real advantage with all those whales right around frickin' Winnipeg