Daryl

I never knew Canada was even in this game.

Seems this company lost a substantial part of their American investment money (Bezos), and is in danger of shutting down completely. Time for our federal government to come to the plate.

Or maybe China will fill the funding shortfall, and share the prize. Unlimited fusion power in a decade or so.

Basic Privacy Protection 101.

Chapter 1.

Never, ever store the personal data in the same place as the person's name.

Store the data using a numeric ID tag,and the actual name in another database, heavily encrypted, that links the name to the ID tag. The two files are not in the same database, not even in the same place (server farm). It takes two different access methods to connect the data to the name, and can only be done on the destination computer.

The best thing that could happen to the world is for the Cardinals to out-do their previous record of three years to select a new Pope.

Imagine three years without a foreigner telling us what we should think, what we should believe, what we should do, how we should run our lives, how we should vote.

Maybe we will learn how to take back our own lives from the influence of foreign powers.

Wow. A new 'politicized' and 'sanitized' term for 'severe budget deficit spending' - "a new path to budget balance'. At least they could be half-truthful and include 'a new LONGER path to balanced budgets'.

We are not in a 'deficit budget' position. we are just in a 'new path to a balanced budget'.

So it is no longer just stupidity n the CPC ranks, it is back to Scheer stupidity.

Fascism is alive and well in the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church

The events around the selection of the next Pope epitomize the fascist win-lose adversarial winner-take-all zeitgeist of Western culture.

I want to emphasize that I am referring to the governance of the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church, not the actual Christian theology, which are quite different. The ‘Empire’ part, not the ‘church’ (lower case ‘c’) part. The Pope leads the Church as if it were an Empire, not a religious theology. In fact, the Roman Catholic Church IS a direct descendant of the Roman Empire, not the church founded by Jesus.

For the selection of the Pope to be decided purely by adversarial politics and intimidation, misinformation, deliberate lies, and outright corrupted morality and ethics and not by theology, says everything that is needed to know about the true purpose of the Roman Catholic (Empire) Church - power to dominate and control the people. Fascism at its finest.

Can you imagine the PM and leading political party of Canada being as deeply committed to Canadian sovereignty and Canadian identity as the BQ and particularly Jacques Parizeau is to Quebec sovereignty and identity?

Whatever your feelings towards the BQ are, it can not be doubted that they are tremendously effective in advocating for laws and legislation that protect cultural identity and sovereignty.