· Letter Mail Delivery Standards: Canada Post will introduce flexibilities to reflect today’s lower volumes. The average household receives just two letters per week, yet operations remain designed for far higher volumes. By adjusting standards so that non-urgent mail can move by ground instead of air, the corporation will save more than $20 million per year.

· Community Mailbox Conversions: The government is lifting the moratorium on community mailbox conversions. Currently, three-quarters of Canadians already receive mail through community, apartment, or rural mailboxes, while one-quarter still receive door-to-door delivery. Canada Post will be authorized to convert the remaining 4 million addresses to community mailboxes, generating close to $400 million in annual savings.

· Postal Network Modernization: The moratorium on rural post offices, in place since 1994, will also be lifted. The rural moratorium was imposed in 1994 and covers close to 4000 locations. It has not evolved in 30 years, but Canada has changed. This means that areas that used to be rural may now be suburban or even urban, but are still required to operate as rural post offices. Canada Post must return to the government with a plan to modernize and right-size its network.

Happened last week and didn't see it posted here since none of the legacy outlets really reported on it and more evidence that Conservative has pivoted from low effort to no effort rage baiting for politics.

On Tue Sept.16th a Conservative MP made a post of them sitting in a empty room complaining that the Liberals were no shows for Justice meeting to discuss bail reform. For the record there is also 1 Bloc member on the committee.

He was outed pretty quickly for the fact that there was no actual meeting scheduled for that night as per the official site listing the meetings.

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/JUST/Meetings?parl=45&session=1

Full Video of the rage bait: https://files.catbox.moe/v647q9.mp4

There was some subsequent retorts about how there's always meetings Tue and Thu, but it clearly shown the last one was Tue Jun 17 before they took a their summer break.

Had a tab open of Pierre's twitter from last week and saw he actually posted some data instead of a slogan.

Conservative supporters has gotten so stupid lately it's actually kind of concerning. The chart clearly shows Harper was terrible and by far the best for that metric was Chrétien.

In case anyone forgot the dates.

https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/primeMinisters

Pierre and Scheer has a lot to say about freedom of speech but get real quiet when Canadians get threatened.

Since it become a bit of a thing to post National Post stories here these days.

The National Post systematically rewrites wire stories to include loaded anti-Palestinian language, omit the context of occupation, and frame stories around Israeli viewpoints, a comprehensive data analysis shows.

The groups Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) and The Media Bias Project of Tech for Palestine (T4P) analyzed 197 Canadian Press (CP) news stories about Palestine and compared them to the version published by the National Post. The data gathered drew from articles published between October 9, 2023, to September 18, 2024.

There has been no sources that has released details of the motive of the person that shot Charlie Kirk. However Pierre and Scheer seems to know exactly why it happened.

Pierre and Scheer had nothing to say about other school shooting that involved kids.

Seems like they're setting up for the same rhetoric as last time.

Danielle Smith sees a political language problem when she looks in one direction

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/analysis-danielle-smith-trump-shooting-ndp-liberals-dangerous-1.7264543

The chart from this article just posting it as the main link since it by far the best representation of the data I've seen.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/most-retaliatory-tariffs-removed-1.7620036

Who and how much:

Consider an annual tax on the net wealth of families with rates of one per cent above $10 million, two per cent above $50 million and three per cent above $100 million.

This means the first $10 million of any family’s wealth is entirely unaffected by the wealth tax. Based on modelling of the first year of this wealth tax, the bottom 99.4 per cent of Canadians would pay nothing, while only the richest 0.6 per cent would pay any amount. This means that only about 100,000 families across the country would pay any amount under the wealth tax, with 10,000 wealthy enough to fall into the second-highest bracket and 3,700 in the highest bracket.

This narrow tax on the wealthiest few would raise an estimated $39 billion in its first year, $62 billion by its 10th year and $495 billion cumulatively over a 10-year window.

How:

an effective wealth tax must make use of extensive third-party reporting of assets, particularly from financial institutions, rather than relying too heavily on self-reporting as in the case of some older wealth taxes.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/64597842