…sorry did you think I was a journalist?

That statistic isn’t odd at all, it’s what I would expect. I think it’s only newsworthy because it might be surprising to some people.

You’re suggesting that it’s obvious why world cup-related travel would result in a larger fraction of visa applications denied than other travel? It’s not to me.

Compared with normal times, the world cup sees a much bigger proportion of people applying for tourist TRVs compared to work and study permits, and perhaps these have a higher rejection rate, which leads to a higher rejection rate overall. There is also the fact that the demographics of who is applying for world cup visitor visas may be a higher risk population than those who usually apply. In terms of the disparity between different countries themselves, this is quite normal that countries with higher risk of visa overstays, illegal work, etc, will have higher rejection rates.

Refusing visas and determining admissibility is an act of sovereignty, I don’t really see anything here worthy of an investigation.

I love nuclear. I also love solar and wind. Let’s keep building more of everything.

I’m in Tokyo and pay $55 for 10 gigabit symmetric with unlimited bandwidth… wth Canada

I don’t expect Canada to have the fastest speeds way out in the countryside, but for the major cities there are no excuses.

The Carney government is responsible for Ontario court decisions in response to a case brought against one of Doug Ford’s provincial laws?

Well, sure, okay, sorry my wording was bad. I wanted to clarify because your comment might sound to readers like it’s not possible. The law doesn’t provide for revocation today, but it easily could do tomorrow, if parliament wills it.

There is no real legal mechanism for revocation.

There is. Parliament has the right to control how citizenship is obtained and lost, it’s governed by federal law. If Alberta actually passes a referendum and gets it past the clarity act, you can expect that Canada will be looking into updating the Citizenship Act. They can create whatever legal mechanism they want as long as they don’t leave people stateless or apply it in a way that is unjust (according to the supreme court and constitution).

It would be a huge legal battle but it’s something that the federal government will hold over the province in a secession negotiation, and the final settlement between Canada and Alberta would include an agreement about how to handle citizenships.

I don’t think so - the only time citizenship can be revoked is if it was fraudulently acquired, as far as I know.

We can revoke citizenship if parliament changes the Citizenship Act as part of a secession negotiation. The supreme court will put constitutional guardrails on it but it’s absolutely possible.

The boring answer is that if a province is going to seceed, it will require a negotiated settlement between the said province and Canada, and such a settlement will absolutely contain agreements around what happens with the citizenships of that province’s residents.

This is pretty much how Canadian regulations and regulators work in general. Weak, ineffective, toothless. Canada won’t do anything if it would inconvenience business and land owners. And Canadians, despite saying how much they care, won’t vote for anything that actually costs money.

If you care about the sunlight then you don’t care what the clock says, you wake up with the sun.

Scientists are pretty consistent that changing the clocks is an idiotic idea, but Canadians (like many others) are just stubborn and resist change, and seek out excuses to continue resisting change.

I live in Asia now where they do not change clocks and it is so much better this way.

Oh if that’s that case we should ignore NY and just do it.

Ontario also has this law in place just waiting for Quebec and New York to make the move too.

Who said his mind changed? This “news” is just Ford advising Carney he should do something.

Canada is very welcoming and people are friendly. After living abroad for a decade I can say it pretty confidently. Nowhere is perfect but the level of racism in Canada is very low compared to the things I’ve seen in Europe and Asia.

Not sure how it is where you’re from but don’t get caught thinking because Canada is safe that you can be careless with your stuff, don’t let your guard down with personal belongings. Don’t leave your things unattended in cafes or shops, don’t leave your mobile phone on the table, and especially don’t leave anything in your car if rent a car. Canada is safe but there is still a lot of petty theft… you won’t get mugged but someone might try to swipe your backpack at a cafe when you aren’t looking.

Gating should be done either by ZKP (zero-knowledge proofs, which don’t expose any information to any party other than “I’m at least x years old” – look this up if this is a new concept to you) or device-side by standardizing and streamlining child safety locks.

100%. If a government is truly serious about the issue, then verification can be solved quite easily with ZKPs in a way that preserves privacy.

Such databases already exist in the government, in order to provide services to everyone like healthcare, pension, elections, etc…

I don’t feel it’s elaborate at all. I like these solutions because they are actually quite simple. It’s just signing and verifying requests using asymmetric key cryptography, techniques which are known to be robust and secure. The government never knows which web services you are verifying for, and the web services never know your identity or any more information than they need to. They don’t even learn your precise age, just that you’re over 16/18/21 whatever.

This is just how he tries to make deals. Spook people into freaking out and hastily agreeing to a bad deal. This is one of those moments where I’m glad it’s Carney at the helm. I don’t need him to be perfect I just need him to steer our country through this mess so we can come out the other side intact.

If there is an other side.

Ten years ago, twenty years ago, Tim’s was always rubbish. The coffee is battery acid and the food is unfit for human consumption. I can’t remember a time when it wasn’t shit.

I don’t get the point of these stupid articles. Canada needs to spend a lot more on military. A lot more. The only question is whether tagging it to GDP is enough or we need to do more.

We just need to be smarter about how we spend it. Canada has a huge territory with a small population, so efficiency is key.