Canadian politics thread

[snowball]

Originally Posted by underscore

It seems more likely that you can't find it because most search engines are a lot shittier than they used to be, rather than someone intentionally trying to bury it.

man im not sure wtf happened but you try to google any news you heard about on social media (that links to legit news websites like bbc, ctv, whatever) and you cant find shit about it on google. You might see a related article about it from years ago but not from yesterday. Something sketchy is definitely going on there...

[Mikoyan]

I heard a news podcast talking about Google and its monopoly on search. Backa few years ago, at the point when Google bought/paid to be THE search engine for everyone, they ran into plateauing ad revenue.

The solution?

Making search shittier, so you'd have to search multiple times to increase the ads that load, increasing ad exposure.

[bcrdukes]

Originally Posted by snowball

man im not sure wtf happened but you try to google any news you heard about on social media (that links to legit news websites like bbc, ctv, whatever) and you cant find shit about it on google. You might see a related article about it from years ago but not from yesterday. Something sketchy is definitely going on there...

I think this had to do with the fact that Google did not want to pay news providers in Canada thanks to the Online News Act.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/goo...news-1.6892879

[snowball]

Originally Posted by bcrdukes

I think this had to do with the fact that Google did not want to pay news providers in Canada thanks to the Online News Act.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/goo...news-1.6892879

I was searching for American news, tho, weird stuff

[Jason00S2000]

Originally Posted by Mikoyan

Making search shittier, so you'd have to search multiple times to increase the ads that load, increasing ad exposure.

ChatGPT is best for 99% of questions that aren't "pizza delivery near me"

[BIC_BAWS]

Originally Posted by Jason00S2000

ChatGPT is best for 99% of questions that aren't "pizza delivery near me"

For a self proclaimed expert on AI (which I'm not disputing), I'm astonished that you think ChatGPT is actually good lol.

I've had issues with hallucinations, it making changes I didn't ask for in image generation (it made my round face square lol), long convos lose memory, it forgets instructions you give it, and on multiple revisions, it can't build on V1/V2, it just regenerates.. and I use GPT Pro too (the paid ver).

Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

[westopher]

Originally Posted by Jason00S2000

ChatGPT is best for 99% of questions that aren't "pizza delivery near me"

I don't know what google uses for AI, but 99% of the time it's wrong, and not like missing a detail wrong, egregiously wrong.

[bcrdukes]

i think Google uses their own Gemini AI.

[Hondaracer]

His first day, first interaction with the media Gregor puts his foot in his mouth

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/0...r-home-prices/

I don’t disagree with what he is saying as it’s cheaper to house boomers in their decript hoarder shack than push them to the streets, however you’d think a guy at his first day on the job would be more weighted in his comments. He then goes on to Twitter to clarify it and says we need to drive down all costs.

Good start.

[Qmx323]

Originally Posted by BIC_BAWS

For a self proclaimed expert on AI (which I'm not disputing), I'm astonished that you think ChatGPT is actually good lol.

I've had issues with hallucinations, it making changes I didn't ask for in image generation (it made my round face square lol), long convos lose memory, it forgets instructions you give it, and on multiple revisions, it can't build on V1/V2, it just regenerates.. and I use GPT Pro too (the paid ver).

Sent from my SM-G781W using Tapatalk

Google AI told me a 2006 ES330 uses a timing chain and the first link on the right was "ES330 timing belt kit"

[Tapioca]

The boomers voted (i.e. homeowners with paid off mortgages or who have massive HELOCs) for the Liberals in massive numbers. Of course they don't want home prices to go down.

Neither do any of you detached home owners, even if you're millennial and can somewhat empathize with the plight of your less fortunate colleagues and friends.

This type of gaffe is par for the course for Robertson, but he has a lot more political savvy than most give him credit for.

Not sure if supply is going to do anything quite frankly because the only supply we can reasonable build in places where young people want to live (e.g.cities) is condos. And no one is buying condos these days because young people don't want them.

[Eff-1]

He's not wrong. If existing housing prices go down significantly, existing owner are gonna be real unhappy.

[Eff-1]

These are the kinds of things that make me shake my head and have no faith in government and the associated bureaucracy.

Eby is talking about a vehicle levy because Translink badly needs more funding.

https://www.biv.com/news/commentary/...slink-10659333

Meanwhile, ICBC is handing out $110 rebates.

Just give the rebate to Translink! Why is this not possible??

[Great68]

ICBC serves the entire province.

Translink serves only Metro Vancouver. (I don't live in Metro Vancouver, my ICBC rebate should not go to Translink)

It's probably an easier procedure to just give out ICBC rebates to everyone, and then just make those in translink areas pay separate levies than it would be to figure out all the conditions of who lives in what area/ who's registered out of area etc.

[Eff-1]

Originally Posted by Great68

ICBC serves the entire province.

Translink serves only Metro Vancouver. (I don't live in Metro Vancouver, my ICBC rebate should not go to Translink)

It's probably an easier procedure to just give out ICBC rebates to everyone, and then just make those in translink areas pay separate levies than it would be to figure out all the conditions of who lives in what area/ who's registered out of area etc.

Yeah, that's a fair point. To play devil's advocate though, I don't think it would be hard for ICBC to identify drivers within Translink's area. It's based on the registered's owner's address. But I guess then some people would complain why do people on the Island get money and I have to give mine to Translink, etc.....

Still, I just think these rebates are so dumb, at the very least keep the money and use it to hold off future rate increases.

[Great68]

Then you have exceptions like territory Z where the vehicle's usage area does not match the owner's residential address.
Yeah, still something you can filter for, but that's just extra procedure.

To your point about why do translink people have to pay extra while island don't, I mean, your transit infrastructure is 50 times bigger.
We don't have skytrains, we don't have seabuses. We have shitty BC Transit.

[Gumby]

Originally Posted by Eff-1

Yeah, that's a fair point. To play devil's advocate though, I don't think it would be hard for ICBC to identify drivers within Translink's area. It's based on the registered's owner's address. But I guess then some people would complain why do people on the Island get money and I have to give mine to Translink, etc.....

Still, I just think these rebates are so dumb, at the very least keep the money and use it to hold off future rate increases.

Don't give ICBC that much credit... I remember back in 2022 ICBC gave gas relief rebates to all policy holders, including EVs. I don't think their system can differentiate between ICE/BEV/EV etc. Identifying drivers within Translink's area might be too hard!

[Hondaracer]

Just add $10 to everyone’s property tax again and be done with it

This fucking endless cycle of looking for funding in places is absolutely insane. Just deal with it once and shut up about it.

[!LittleDragon]

Originally Posted by Hondaracer

His first day, first interaction with the media Gregor puts his foot in his mouth

https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2025/0...r-home-prices/

I don’t disagree with what he is saying as it’s cheaper to house boomers in their decript hoarder shack than push them to the streets, however you’d think a guy at his first day on the job would be more weighted in his comments. He then goes on to Twitter to clarify it and says we need to drive down all costs.

Good start.

This is a guy who said he would end homelessness by 2015... cut him some slack... LOL

Disclaimer, didn't vote for him... lol

[quasi]

Lol, you really have to watch your words when your a politician, unlike the rest of us who can get away with saying the dumbest shit their words matter.

It would be like being the US Secretary of Health and Human services and saying "people shouldn't take health advice from me". That would be purely idiotic.

[BIC_BAWS]

Originally Posted by Qmx323

Google AI told me a 2006 ES330 uses a timing chain and the first link on the right was "ES330 timing belt kit"

Welcome to AI Hallucinations.. confidently retarded, like some of our hard-lined conservative voters (or in another perspective hard-lined liberal voters).

[BIC_BAWS]

Originally Posted by Hondaracer

Just add $10 to everyone’s property tax again and be done with it

This fucking endless cycle of looking for funding in places is absolutely insane. Just deal with it once and shut up about it.

Is this a fixed rate for everyone? Just got my prop tax bill. $431.58 for Translink lol

[68style]

Originally Posted by Tapioca

The boomers voted (i.e. homeowners with paid off mortgages or who have massive HELOCs) for the Liberals in massive numbers. Of course they don't want home prices to go down.

Neither do any of you detached home owners, even if you're millennial and can somewhat empathize with the plight of your less fortunate colleagues and friends.

This type of gaffe is par for the course for Robertson, but he has a lot more political savvy than most give him credit for.

Not sure if supply is going to do anything quite frankly because the only supply we can reasonable build in places where young people want to live (e.g.cities) is condos. And no one is buying condos these days because young people don't want them.

??? I don't understand this post, starts out by accusing boomers of entitlememt and ends with saying young people are entitled because they don't want condos?

Do Gen X and MIllennials also want their property values to go down after they already bought them, which they likely have? Crazy talk.

I'm so sorry kids don't want condos... fuck whatever lol, I lived in one from 25-45 boohoo cry me a river, when I decided to get a house I looked around Van and said forget it, not worth it and moved to Calgary.

If people want to wait for the government to fix everything for them instead of making adjustments themselves, it's on them when they're still unhappy 10 20 30 years later which they almost certainly will be because the government is not a personal valet to everyone's life.

I guess I could be still sitting in Richmond crying on forums about house prices and figuring out how to work 20 years longer to afford a house... but is that going to change anything? Nope. People who believe otherwise are delusional. Either make a move or don't and if people don't like something, something about the situation needs to change becuase nobody is going to give you your time back and they're certainly not going to give you a free house or even a 20% discount off one (still totally unaffordable for most of the population).

[Hondaracer]

Originally Posted by BIC_BAWS

Is this a fixed rate for everyone? Just got my prop tax bill. $431.58 for Translink lol

That’s the regular levy but they recently added $20 to everyone after like 2 years about crying about funding shortfalls. So the 2+ years of arguing, studies, and threats of cancelling or limiting service was resolved by an additional $20.

[unit]

is "GVTA" translink?