I’d also point out for those wondering if a Public Corp can be seeded in the way I describe, I think there’s a deep potential across Canada.

“Edmonton looks to sell, demolish old buildings due to $3-billion gap”

https://edmonton.citynews.ca/video/2026/04/08/edmonton-looks-to-sell-demolish-old-buildings-due-to-3-billion-gap/

TL;DR - Crown Corps don’t go far enough, get raided by politicians, and sometimes aren’t juiced enough to repel private interests.

I have some reservations about this in the sense that it doesn’t go far enough to solve some of the issues that are evergreen, but now are critical. I’m sure most would agree that there’s a lot of logic to have a public corp operate what are accepted Public Goods (transportation, healthcare, utilities). But simply creating a Crown Corps that holds the status of 100% state owned doesn’t solve some of the more prominent issues with these corporate vehicles.

I’ve said as much before, but I believe that the politician is both the most flexible and the weakest unit in the chain. Politicians are lobbied (possibly to the point of corruption), corporations with global shareholders have interests that go beyond the jurisdiction, and public corporations (Crown Corps) that become successful are targets of acquisition via…the Politician.

Drawing inspiration from the experience of Danielle Smith’s CorruptCare in Alberta, and the so-called “War Room” of Premier Jason Kenny’s years, I would want a fully autonomous Public Corp that is completely divorced from the politician, and focused solely on the provision of the Public Good in question with some hard baked fiduciary requirements: to focus on the targeted jurisdiction, to include stakeholder consultations (community, municipalities, interest groups), to have quarterly reports to a multidisciplinary committee of experts (economics, health, social workers, lawyers, emergency response, military, engineers, agriculture, aviation, environment, accountants etc.), and to respond to these stakeholders and experts in semi-regular town hall styled discussions. In this environment, the Office of the Ethics Commissioner would be free to engage in all discussions, and publicly weigh in on any issues that arise.

The government in question would simply seed the Public Corp by handing over property and be on a list of preferred service providers on the understanding that the Public Corp would operate in the public interest, and at a preferential rate like as if the property in question is completely undeveloped. In turn, the Public Corp would be essentially unbound, and allowed to develop property, invest, grow, make loans, and create other corporate entities, unfettered by the threat of hard baked backdoors where the politician may be tempted to raid the cookie jars of successful Crown Corps for money, install cronies, and peddle influence.

In exchange for this unusual arrangement, because the Politician is normally the interface for the public, the Public Corp makes some binding vows. Off the top of my head to never sell out to foreign interference or designated opposing forces should be an easy one. Another example is Hong Kong’s MTR Corporation. Besides the most elementary focuses on providing safe, reliable public transportation, MTR is bound to only make investments that are expected to bring returns on investment. We could also build in some kind of mechanism of greater punishment for anyone involved with the Public Corp that later is found to be stealing or involved in corruption.

We can also use the Scandinavian Model by basically having the Public Corp aim for 51% of the market.

Alberta nearly had that with its Alberta Health Services, but the UCP and Danielle Smith have destroyed it.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/edmonton/article/alberta-doctors-say-leadership-lacking-amid-crisis-of-overcrowding-in-hospitals/

BC had something similar with its ICBC, but I understand some of ICBC’s success was just too tempting over the years.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/icbc-proposed-class-action-lawsuit-1.5483879

I think part of the problem is the “West” is behind, and the Americans are basically having sleep terror attacks.

https://carnewschina.com/2026/01/29/europe-lags-20-years-behind-china-in-battery-technology-auto-expert-warns/

“In the battery sector, Europe is 20 years behind China,” Dudenhöffer stated, emphasizing that cooperation with Chinese suppliers has become essential for European manufacturers to remain competitive. This technological gap has created a situation where over 70% of batteries in electric vehicles sold in Europe by 2025 will be supplied by Chinese companies.

https://www.cleanenergywire.org/news/cooperation-china-needed-achieve-germanys-2030-ev-target-analysis

Germany’s goal of having 15 million electric cars on roads by 2030 could be missed by up to 6 million cars without cooperation with China and improved regulations and incentives, said transport policy think tank Agora Verkehrswende. An analysis commissioned by the think tank and conducted by consultancy BCG found that a joint effort of domestic policy changes and the inclusion of Chinese carmakers is needed to achieve the target. High tariffs on Chinese imports, on the other hand, would lead to higher prices for customers and negatively impact the competitiveness of German carmakers.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/cff/2021/09/13/ask-the-experts-is-china-winning-the-electric-vehicle-race/

To sum up: In the first six months of 2021, China sold 912,000 full electric vehicles. This equals to 55% of worldwide sold battery-electric vehicles. For the full year, we expect 1.8 million BEV-sales in China. So the question is not whether China can win the race, but who will be second behind China – Europe or the USA?

Surely another sign that the US has everything under control and knows what they’re doing in Iran. /s

I don’t believe hallucination is the correct word when the AI is using algorithms to keep customers addicted and happy. I suggest this is the very same problem that Cambridge Analytica, Zuckerberg, and others have been doing from the start. AI is just branding, and the same addictive algorithms are applied to the public in unregulated fashion. Only difference is the branding is selling a story that AI is actually some kind of entity with the expectation of fantastic competence.

I’m sorry to say, it’s incredibly competent at making fools of us.

In all, ShinyHunters claims to have stolen close to 1 petabyte of data belonging to the company and many of its customers, many of whom use Telus Digital as a BPO provider for customer support operations. BleepingComputer has not been able to independently confirm the total size of the stolen data.

The threat actor shared the names of 28 well-known companies allegedly impacted by the breach. However, BleepingComputer will not disclose the names of these companies, as we have been unable to independently confirm whether they were impacted.

The threat actor says that much of the data for these customers relates to BPO services provided by Telus Digital, including customer support and call center outsourcing, agent performance ratings, AI-powered customer support tools, fraud detection and prevention, and content moderation solutions.

I believe Telus also handles healthcare data for Alberta and beyond. Do we know if that’s impacted?

Agreed, there’s a confusion between “balance” and “clout”. When media just invite people based on right or left clout, audiences lose in terms of quality information. We end up receiving echo chambers on the airwaves because these clout chasers repeat talking points at us. Clout chasers in turn just want to maintain their own reputation and this loop turns into a toxic signals circle.

Is that a back handed way of suggesting that the US and Israel are one and the same?

I’ll walk that comment back. I’ve only heard of suspicions or allegations of the use of hypersonic missiles. But so far I haven’t come across anything more concrete.

Also another point to make, in cynical fashion, Trump remains in power as because he brings profit to all of the correct gate keepers in American politics. If enough disruption to that petro-state to US loop occurs to shake the rattle the US economy, will the US voter finally awaken to its own self-interest and engage the system of checks and balances that the Americans are so fond of mentioning? Even outside readers can see that the US Justice system is corrupted, the use of dark money and the rise of the US billionaires are uncontrollable, and the power within that country is out of balance.

I’ll point out the obvious that the “average” American voter is actually poor, lower class, and on the verge of financial ruin on a day-to-day basis. Will a multipolar world order, a group of states, have the audacity to re-ignite this mentally beat down US public. I think the world, and even Iran, can benefit from that scenario.

Can they succeed?

If the status quo continues, US dysfunction with its out of control billionaire classes will continue to lash at the world itself with their excesses.

From a logical view, the US has every reason to stop the conflict and declare an end to the war. As others pointed out the war math doesn’t add up because modern 21st Century drone warfare can produce effective drones at 5 figures a unit and US interceptor technology produces missiles at 7 figures a unit. A child can already decide who will run out first. Readers will also know there are hypersonic missiles, and a combination of technologies that have already defeated the so called Iron Dome.

Iran on the other hand has operated with mostly a “tit-for-tat” approach, responding in kind to aggression and then de-escalating. And this pattern is simple enough for the world public to make out and appreciate. With the US potentially disrupting the economy and daily life of Iran and Iranians in general, I think the logic follows that Iran will simply do the very same thing to the US.

Trump has shifted a great deal of US wealth into the petro-states as a deposit box of sorts, and in turn, the petro-states have turned a lot of that money back into the US by way of investment. Iran is clearly aware of this - as would be casual readers - and they’re just disrupting that loop with devastating awareness.

I suspect that the US and others may have operated on the assumption that Iran was weak or on the verge of collapse. But, I also believe that the truth is coming out that Iran is actually much more prepared and robust than the US wishes to admit.

At this rate, the petro-states may end up suffering massive losses, creating knock-on impacts on the US economy. Everyone should be moving with urgency. This is actually a consequential war not in the bogus religious sense with references to “Armageddon”, but rather a power shifting moment from the age of superpowers to multipolarity. Only trouble is…no one advertised how destructive and violent that age shift would be.

Wow…what a way to divorce the US military from reality and play into a fantasy conspiracy that Israel is somehow central to some scheme by the Illuminati, the Jesuits, the Freemasons, and the Zionists.

Western leaders folks…these champions are losing their marbles all over the floor.

Jon Stewart did an excellent interview with Maria Ressa of the Philippines, and they outlined how her country modelled itself with the US system of government. Unfortunately, the Philippines was used as a testing ground for American social media platforms, proving that the collapse of one branch of government did not engage any checks to balance the loss.

In her opinion, the collapse of one branch essentially meant the full collapse of government.

China alone is pushing the world into the renewables age. For the rest of us, we just follow the wave.

Nuclear does not have similar issues. Nuclear is a super long game that basically leaves a few states left to explore and invest in this area. Nuclear power is basically a bespoke option that needs to be developed like an art piece and an investment. Any nuclear power installation requires massive budgets, massive budget overruns, and over 10 years of development and installation which will overrun as well. By the time a nuclear project breaks ground, only the next generation will possibly enjoy whatever power is generated.

Nuclear also requires massive investments of teams of specialists. They basically need teams to operate over huge periods of time to retain the institutional knowledge of building, maintaining, and improving upon these installations. In that sense nuclear is similar to rail companies in that we want teams with over 100 years of experience in this business to maintain a certain level of competence.

Nuclear is fun to drop like in SimCity or Civilzation, but it is completely, seriously inaccessible for many.

What’s the show called?

So police did not have to flag the file as AI generated, and don’t prioritize the review of these allegations by an actual human?

Did anyone tell that man he was unlawfully detained and has a civil claim against the government who knowingly and recklessly detained an innocent person?

I thought Panasonic makes those infrared ovens still. They’re still around!

Productivity gains are not across the board, and is a subject of scrutiny and debate.

But what AI really has done is basically redistributed American wealth to a smaller group of people, and therefore a smaller pool for the US politicians to focus on satisfying. If there is an AI bubble pop, what market watchers suspect is there’s actually no other American sector to mitigate what is otherwise a recession.

Canada is harming its relationship with the US?

Are we talking about the Americans electing a criminal felon as President, who appears to be facing allegations of decades long pedophilia, and seems to be part of a global scale honey pot and blackmail operation that targeted people around the world? Did that damage trust and credibility? And did we mention the Americans who seem involved in the debauchery, death, trauma, and abuse from trafficking vulnerable underaged girls around the world for this operation for decades are also not facing any justice? Instead, they all appear to be closing ranks and maintaining an iron curtain of silence?

Oh, and world leaders and dignitaries have to grapple with the knowledge that these same Americans remain in positions of power and gatekeeping positions throughout the US government system?

Plus this same US President is extracting wealth for his billionaire friends? Wealth that the Western powers created a rules based order together to generate?

By the time the Americans manage to uncollapse their justice system, and maybe codify some laws to avoid the total collapse of their society in their legislative branch, it will be decades.

Canada is not throwing a hissy fit, we’re literally working around a gasping goon where an ally should be, and we’re trying to keep the lights and the heat on for the rest of us until this blows over.