August1991

Weird? Taft was a US president - then sat on the federal US Supreme Court. Imagine Macdonald, Trudeau (either) or Charles III on our federal Supreme Court. Even the term itself: "Supreme Court". This is not British. We copied it from the American constitution. ===== Let me return to my OP: -the fundamental difference between Canada and the US is money, our monetary history is amazingly different

Herbie, This issue may break federal Canada as we know it: https://nationalpost.com/news/senate-passes-bill-to-protect-supply-management-from-any-future-trade-deals International Trade? Let's see. IMHO, federal institutions are unanimously passing a law to favour one region (while the law hurts all other regions). When Pierre Trudeau managed to pass his 1968 Bilingual Act, it was not unanimous.

Pause? Canada (like Australia) is a country of large spaces - with few people. Compare a new born child in Canada vs an immigrant. -With the newborn, we are facing costs for the next 15 years (at least) before the kid produces anything useful (in a minimum wage job). Heck, we have to teach kids how to tie their shoelaces. -With an immigrant, we receive a ready-formed person - who at least knows how to tie their shoelaces.

Tesla and Waymo have self-driving cars on the road. These cars rely on AI to decide what to do. If I understand properly, here's the difference: -Tesla has zillions of vehicles on the road (self-driving or otherwise) and collects a huge amount of data from all vehicles to try to train/predict what is best to do. -Waymo has far fewer vehicles on the road but its software engineers/AI focus on what works. if you're curious, here's the link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08228 Or to understand better, you can google: waymo scale laws ========= Education? The two methods intrigue me. Around the world, most countries have about 1 in 6 people educating others. Second question: If we had Artificial Intelligence in 1890, how would it have responded to the dilemma of the Michelson-Morley experiment? Heck, if Artificial Intelligence had existed in 1630, would we have discovered calculus?

Sarcasm is saying the opposite of what you mean. But if you blink, it becomes irony: An inside joke. ====== I recently watched an interview with Eric Idle. (He's still alive, as well as John Cleese - they both live in California.) Idle hates Trump. Irony.

Bump. ==== In Canada, we cannot reduce federal taxes = except in Quebec.

Clueless. ===== In Quebec, because of glaciers, we have moraines and natural dams.

I suspect that "British" Columbia is in fact a large place.

Legato, with that post, I'm going to assume that you are an AI, CGI, robot. I am a real person.

Huh? From what I understand (I live in Montreal , the Vancouver Island has three federal ridings.) ==== Alberta has access to the ocean through northern BC, or Alaska.

Missed chance for federalists in Quebec.

Deng made this possible. ==== OP? I was wrong.

Some people were here first. Others later. In America, some people were forced to be here. In Canada, we get along. And we still have two languages. ===== Cuba and Brazil are remarkable; skin colour doesn't matter. In Jamaica (and the US), skin color matters.

If I understand properly, ordinary Iranians can use SMS.

Trump is a Nationalist - but he's no Hitler.

Michael, I have no patience for this "foundational" nonsense. Trudeau Snr wanted a Charter: an individual's clear protection against the power of the State. Trudeau Snr was forced to compromise.

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/iran-israel-attack-updates-elon-musks-starlink-activates-satellite-internet-service-in-iran-amid-israel-tensions-8674452

I am not so certain that simply killing a Hitler will change a regime. ==== The British bombed/destroyed Dresden and Russian soldiers raped German women. Konigsberg is now Kaliningrad.

No. Not at all. My older neigbour still receives two printed newspapers. She likes the crosswords.

This guy Rodriguez will never be PM of Quebec. The PQ will win in 2026. I'm curious what this guy Pierre St-Pierre Plamondon (PSPP) will do.

I want to be clear about this - Americans can correct me. In America, a person can declare/reduce federal taxes with state/local taxes paid. If you pay state/local tax, you do not pay federal tax on the amount (SALT). This means that state/local government bureaucrats can spend money from other states. Amazing.

To me, this is NOT like 1870 and the Franco-Prussian War or 1912 and the Balkan Wars.

From what I understand, Israel killed several key Irani leaders - and destroyed several nuclear sites. The Israelis used drones.

Strongly disagree. We Canadians have our own currency. We borrow and lend in Canadian dollars. And we Canadians are largely equal/fair in all our dealings. ==== True, foreigners like our Canadian commercial paper. But we like their warm beaches.