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6·5 天前Funny coincidence in timing, I lurk in the onguardforthee subreddit and was just searching to see if it existed on lemmy.ca.
Let’s see how this goes. 🤞
7·22 天前There’s a lot of emotional hot wind coming from the USA. Canada is responding with a cool non-emotional breeze using facts and figures.
821·9 个月前The name prometheus is already in use by an open source monitoring project:
They are both in the computer field so there is some chance for confusion. Especially if the Prometheus monitoring project has some AI capabilities then that would strengthen the case for a trademark naming conflict.
Apple Inc, the computer company, had to settle and pay Apple Corps (the Beatles record label) money to settle trademark rights for the Apple name when Apple got into music business:
This article is well written and provides detailed connections between “Freedom Convoy” protesters, Alberta Separatists and other disgruntled people/organizations. A few highlights from the article:
Bruce Pardy, the executive director for an organization called Rights Probe
“In order to really turn the page here to become not just an independent country, but a new and free country, Alberta has to ditch the things that are Canadian that exist in Alberta right now,” Pardy said. “Let’s just list some. A Westminster system of government. A Crown. Single-payer public health-care system, a managerial state and Aboriginal rights, you have to get rid of all of these things. And of all those things, perhaps the elephant in the room is Aboriginal rights.”
Pardy is the executive director of Rights Probe, and the sole staffer listed with the organization, which warns of “the end of Western liberal civilization” on its website. Pardy is also a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, a conservative think tank.
He has created a video paired with California Governor Gavin Newsome making a friendly wager on the Dodgers/Blue Jays series with both together taking shots against Tariffs:
https://xcancel.com/fordnation/status/1981843665669750995
Cross posted to https://lemmy.ca/c/fuckcars
Doug Ford and his supporters talk about “the war on cars”. So on one side of this war we have cars. Who’s on the other side of this war? I think it’s a war between cars and people and unfortunately Doug is fighting on the cars side against people.
BC Premier David Eby is preparing a digital ad campaign stating exactly that. Canadian lumber has higher tarrifs than Russian lumber imported into the USA:
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/10/24/bc-digital-campaign-american-audience/
A lot has happened today after Trump’s tirade. Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford announced he would be suspending this Ad Campaign after consulting with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney:
Manitoba’s Premier Wab Kinew has a short video in the same style as the ad where he supports this Ontario Ad Campaign. It’s a well done quick response:
https://xcancel.com/WabKinew/status/1981753253055361219
I think the Ontario Ad is very well done and I’m glad to see a NDP Premier supporting a Conservative Premier on this and a Conservative Premier publicly supporting a Liberal Prime Minister. Canada is uniting and Trump is unhappy.
A term for that is underemployment
Statistics Canada collects data about this under the category of “Supplementary unemployment rate”: https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410007801
Their categories of underemployment include:
- discouraged searchers
- waiting group (recall, replies, long-term future starts)
- involuntary part-timers
- discouraged searchers, waiting group, portion of involuntary part-timers
The BC Provincial government has declared a province wide state of emergency:
https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9.7300648