Em Adespoton

Just to clarify that it’s the increase that’s $5.

For example, for those applying within Canada, the price of a five-year passport would rise to $123.24 and the cost of a 10 year passport would increase to $164.32. For those who apply from outside Canada, a 10-year passport would cost $267.02.

However, in an impact statementaccompanying the move, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada says that’s just the first step.

“The passport program’s base fee structure alone can no longer support the cost of program operations,” the department wrote. "Since the last time inflation was accounted for in program fees, the CPI increased by 14.5 per cent, leading to expenditures outpacing revenues by approximately $121 million in fiscal year 2024-25.

I remember when a passport was $35 and you could walk into a passport office with no appointment and walk out 15 minutes later, with the passport arriving at your home within 2 weeks.

The service has not kept track with inflation either.

If it tries, yes.

I highly doubt it will, despite the efforts of a few MPs and MLAs.

So they’re fined the amount I pay them annually? What about fines for all the other Canadians they’ve defrauded?

None of them until there’s infrastructure in place for domestic repair and parts replacement, also at a reasonable cost.

South Korea managed it; China should be able to as well.

(Yeah, I know you put it in the disclaimer, but I’m not even willing to consider the vehicles until there’s local support in place).

I thankfully can still afford food.

However, what’s changed is that my food options have shrunk dramatically, and where I used to be able to choose between high nutrient chemically boosted produce and organic, now I have a sparse selection of “naturally imperfect” produce that doesn’t even indicate how it was farmed.

Essentially, back to where things were at in the 1950s but taking a significantly larger chunk out of the paycheque.

Are people really getting government updates through LinkedIn?

Government employment and employee updates.

This just gave me an idea: someone should make a mastodon instance that is purely website RSS feeds.

Government websites amazingly often still support RSS.

All Canadian government orgs should have migrated to self-hosted Mastodon instances years ago.

You can help the masses via importing cheaply made EVs, or you can help the masses by employing them to build EVs they can afford.

Only one of those options really gives them a break in the long run.

And if they argue that it’s about the land… they’d probably be shocked to discover how little land the Province of Alberta actually has control over.

RTO initiatives don’t just hurt taxpayers and the employees; it also clogs up the roadways and increases traffic incidents.

Sure there are downsides to WFH, but they’re far outweighed by the downsides of WFO.

If they’d only dug in BC instead of Alberta, they’d have zero decommissioning costs; they’re could just shut down their shell companies and leave with no repercussions.

https://sh.itjust.works/post/54661228

So extraction companies can still buy the land for cheap, turn it into a toxic wasteland, and then leave with no repercussions.

Leaving us to clean up the mess.

Why, exactly? Lobbying?

I’m just trying to figure out how the charges make sense; they’re charged with unlawful possession of explosives even though it’s not illegal to possess explosive substances, and they didn’t actually HAVE any explosive substances on the premises — just substances that could be combined.

The only argument I can see is that they had them in volume, and the chemicals in question were volatile enough how they were stored to be a safety threat.

Was the gun legal? Were there reasonable explanations for the chemicals? Could they also be used in a grow op or drug lab?

There’s been many times when I’ve had chemicals that could be used to make explosives in my home. I’ve even made and detonated explosives on occasion. But I didn’t do so after stealing the ingredients from a local university.

How are they being penalized? They’re allowed to do it? If they do it unsafely, that’s always going to be on them.

It costs more for a flight to Mexico than a retest. Something is off here.

I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t provide funding without seeing a business plan and a prototype.

In this case though, Fedican already provides a Canadian alternative, and all the structure is volunteered.

Other side of the country, and I haven’t witnessed that. Regulations might be different here though.

Generally, policy in a SD is set by the managing pharmacist, so policy will likely differ store to store.

I doubt Loblaw’s has much say at that point, although they definitely plan out the store itself to pressure pharmacy and post office patrons into spending money in the rest of the store. And that goes beyond product placement and physical design to having salespeople intercept customers to encourage buying something.

UBI for seniors makes a lot of sense. Of course, baby boomers (and later large population waves) may put a strain on such a system.