To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can't be reprimanded they use them.

This isn't the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and build a fund to support FOSS projects. Gimp has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.

To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can’t be reprimanded if they use them.

This isn’t the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and build a fund to support FOSS projects. GIMP has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.

Imagine if Microsoft banned Windows users from downloading software outside the Microsoft store.

Imagine if Microsoft required all Software developers to give them 30% of their income or be banned from Windows

This is nothing but pure extortion.

Thank god for the EU, which forced Apple to back down:

Fortnite, one of the world's biggest video games, is available as an iPhone app for the first time in four years. However, it will only be available to players in the European Union. This is because EU law requires Apple to allow third-party app stores on its devices - other parts of the world do not have comparable legislation. The game was removed from the App Store in 2020 following a payments row between Apple and Epic.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70j5rx72yvo

As for canadians/americans, they are in jail.

Imagine your friend in Europe sends you a phone invite to play .

-"Oh. I'm sorry but I am not allowed to do that 😢"

Installing Linux was a good decision.

I have not gone back to Microsoft Windows.

Don't listen to people telling you it's hard. I don't have any IT degree or engineering degree

Installing it was easy. Linux is elegant, secure and powerful. I love it.

Understanding the politics.

After the last 2021 election, Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party didn't have enough seats in Parliament.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Canadian_federal_election#Results

Jagmeet Singh (NDP) asked Justin Trudeau for 3 laws:

• A law creating Dental Care

• A law creating Pharma Care

• A law protecting striking workers against scabs.

In exchange for these 3 laws, the NDP signed an agreement where they promised to not bring-down the minority Liberal Government.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60837941

The 3 laws were voted by Parliament.

Liberals agree to launch dental care program in exchange for NDP support

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trudeu-jagmeet-singh-deal-government-1.6393021

Liberal, NDP bill to cover diabetes and birth control medication receives royal assent

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/pharmacare-bill-passes-senate-1.7349433

Liberals table bill to ban replacement workers, fulfilling a key NDP demand

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/anti-scab-labour-federally-regulated-workplaces-1.7023020

The agreement between Justin Trudeau and the NDP ended prematurely in 2024. Singh noticed that Trudeau was becoming politically toxic. But Dental Care was adopted. Pharmacare was adopted. That's what's important.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jagmeet-singh-ndp-ending-agreement-1.7312910

This is why I love multiparty politics. It forces governments to be more responsive.

Countries with proportional representation often end up with better governments than country with 2-party politics. My dream is for Canada to change the first-past-the-post voting system. The First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) voting system is the reason why some countries only have 2 powerful political parties.

I have my fair share of criticism with Jagmeet Singh. But I'm very happy about what the NDP parliament members achieved. Politics can be very ungrateful and brutal.

In this election, the NDP was crushed.

To quote this recent article:

A bitterness is emerging from the results of that agreement which the NDP undertook to get solid benefits for Canadians The NDP were propping up Trudeau’s minority government as the tradeoff for getting those results for Canadians. But for the most part that commitment and effort is falling short of recognition and did not produce electoral results for the NDP in the April 28, 2025 election.

https://islandsocialtrends.ca/ndp-made-canadas-dental-plan-possible-now-carney-promotes-it/

https://islandsocialtrends.ca/ndp-made-canadas-dental-plan-possible-now-carney-promotes-it/

(Alistair MacGregor is an NDP MP who just lost his seat)

Most Canadian voters may not be aware of it - sadly - but you guys made Canada a better nation.

Thank you so much.

Why are you saying all this?

Results are important. But it's also very important people understand how we got there.

So. What now ?

Children under the age of 18 are now covered by the recently created Canadian Dental Care plan.

https://www.mcgill.ca/channels/channels/news/expert-canadas-dental-plan-expands-cover-children-people-disabilities-357790

This month, the Dental Care Plan is expanding again.

Citizens earning less than $70,000 are eligible for coverage:

https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/news/2025/03/canadian-dental-care-plan-expands-to-include-millions-of-new-eligible-canadians.html

The Canadian Labor Unions have called Mark Carney to expand Pharmacare immediately:

https://canadianlabour.ca/canadas-unions-call-for-immediate-expansion-of-universal-pharmacare/

I urge people to resist any propaganda from insurance companies like Sun Life. For these corporations, this is a direct threat to their business :

https://www.sunlife.ca/sl/cdcp/en/

The Canadian Insurance Companies publically called Canadian lawmakers to NOT vote Pharmacare :

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/ca/news/life-insurance/clhia-governments-pharmacare-plan-set-to-be-more-burdensome-479479.aspx

They did it anyway.

The campaign finance system isn't as corrupt as the US (thank god), but they still have allies and friends. They can pay youtube influencers to lie. They can buy ads in newspapers. They can pay shady "think-tanks" that don't disclose their source of funding. So be on your guard. If you can afford it, please support quality journalism. We need it more than ever.

The hard thing is going to be managing DentalCare and Pharmacare properly. It will require honest and determined leadership. It will also require funding. Hopefully, the Carney government will keep rolling them out.

Mark Carney tried to politically capitalize on them during the election. This means they will hopefully be safe.

A vial of insulin costs far more in the U.S. than it does in Canada.

Drug prices are set by Canada’s Patented Medicine Prices Review Board which sets price caps by comparing drug prices across a group of 11 countries. The U.S. used to be included in the formula, but was removed from the group in 2022 — because U.S. drug prices are an insane global outlier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patented_Medicine_Prices_Review_Board

A group of Pharma companies including Pfizer and Merck have asked the Trump administration to put pressure on Canada. They are accusing the country of unfair trade practices.

To be clear. This is a government agency endorsing the software as safe and effective. So bureaucrats and employees can't be reprimanded if they use them.

This isn't the French Prime Minister announcing the country will cancel Microsoft Office subscriptions and build a fund to support FOSS projects. Gimp has nowhere near the ressources they actually need.

Yes, we all need to collectively eat less red meat to reduce emissions enough so Felon musk can eat lunch in Paris 3 times a week

Actually, eating less red meat would also be great for our health:

https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2021-07-21-red-and-processed-meat-linked-increased-risk-heart-disease-oxford-study-shows

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/study-sheds-light-on-link-between-colorectal-cancer-and-diet-high-in-red-meat/

We need to tax criminal oligarchs AND eat a bit less red meat.

It's not one or the other.

They were prosecuted for money laundering.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68930465

The problem is that the legal punishment was too mild. The CEO spent 4 months in a luxury prison for white collar criminals. Basically a social club for the rich.

So now he is doing the same thing all over again.

China is a dictatorship country with many flaws.

But for too long, Canadians have ignored the vicious American Gorilla standing up at their door.

Justin Trudeau is a decent man. In a world where many leaders are thugs. He has done a lot of good things such as assisted dying, legal marijuana, strengthening competition law or that bill against greenwashing.

However, the single biggest failure of Trudeau was immigration.

Justin Trudeau's immigration policies were absolutely extreme. Under his leadership, the Canadian population increased by 3% a year. This is far more than France, Britain, the United States, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil or Saudi Arabia. In fact, the only region of the world where you see a 3% annual population growth is Africa.

This extreme population growth triggered an unprecedented housing crisis. Visible homelessness is rising in every single canadian city, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. People are scared to end up homeless. New migrants are viciously exploited by unethical landlords.

You can't tell people from around the world "Come to Canada" and think it will have no consequences on housing.

In december 2023, Reuters found Tesla systematically lied to customers about the range of their cars

👉 https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

In 2023, the New York Times exposed how Tesla lied about the safety of his self-driving mode. Engineers told Musk the system wasn't safe. He told them to shut up. As a result of his lies, several people were killed:

👉 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magazine/tesla-autopilot-self-driving-elon-musk.html

Guess how Elon Musk reacted ? Did he resign? Nope. He went on the offensive.

He tells people to avoid "legacy media" (news organizations doing real journalism) and trust shady podcasters. He also ensured links to Reuters and the New York Times articles can't go viral on X

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/27/musk-x-throttle-links-threads-bluesky/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/15/x-formerly-twitter-slows-down-access-to-threads-the-new-york-times-bluesky-and-more/

Elon Musk's greatest skill is his ability to lie without absolutely any shame.

Tesla was created by Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard. Elon Musk joined the company, took over. Then he sued them both. He bought the title "cofounder" with a secret legal settlement. Now, he calls himself the cofounder.

https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk

He's also "Chief Engineer" at Space X. That's another title he bought too, as he owns the company. He's actually not a real engineer. He has a degree in finance.

Just like he is the co-founder of PayPal by most publications. When in reality his company merged with the company that created PayPal. He only worked for the company for a few months after they merged before being fired.

He has a habit of smearing innocent people. He once called an innocent man a pedophile and hired investigators to dig dirt on him.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ignores-tesla-board-and-keeps-tweeting

He did the same thing when taking over Twitter. He called twitter executives “scum”, “dishonest” and “thieves”.

He described USAID as a criminal organization. Yet, not a single USAID worker will be prosecuted. Because there is absolutely no evidence that USAID workers misappropriated any money. This is just how Elon Musk operates. Lying. Smearing innocent people. Because, unfortunately, some gullible fools believe him.

This dude just lies shamelessly. Even his video game performance is based on cheating.

How are Boeing planes?

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/737-max-plane-was-built-by-clowns-and-monkeys-claim-boeing-workers-czk3txqq2?region=global

After multiple plane crashes and 700 deaths, the CEO was rewarded with $33 million dollars:

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/departing-boeing-ceo-gets-nearly-33-million-2023-total-compensation-2024-04-05/

If you crash several planes in China, you face death penalty.

Recently, a factory exploded in Tianjin. At least 20 people were hanged. The owner of the factory, the director of the factory, the managers of the factory, the city safety inspectors. That's the Chinese quality insurance system. This is how they keep businessmen in check.

I normally don't support bypassing paywalls for newspapers.

Quality journalism has a price. We should all support it. I lived in a country where all great newspapers collapsed, because no one wanted to subscribe (cultural reason). Only clickbait trash survived. I can assure you it's really not a nice country.

However, I'll make an exception for The Times, which is owned by Rupert Murdoch.

The same Rupert Murdoch who owns The Sun, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal, and many other media organizations. He also owned News of the World, a newspaper which illegally hacked crime victims and broke into the homes of UK politicians.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/apr/26/gordon-brown-criminal-complaint-rupert-murdoch-news-group-newspapers

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-68615789

Rupert Murdoch once attempted to blackmail the British Prime Minister

https://www.channel4.com/news/major-denies-sun-editor-abused-him-after-black-wednesday

He is also a huge climate change denier:

https://time.com/5765304/rupert-murdoch-son-climate/

This man has done more damage to democracy than any other Australian.

Fuck Rupert Murdoch.

He is the President of the United States

American influence is the worst thing that ever happened to Canada.

Take for instance Opioids.

Canadians are now the second highest per capita users of opioids on the planet, only behind the USA.

Opioid sales in Canada have increased by +3000% since the 1980s.

https://www.mironline.ca/the-opioid-crisis-a-canadian-perspective/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31845436/

According to a recent study, Canadian and American doctors are 7 times more likely than European doctors to prescribe Opioids after a surgery:

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2019/september/patients-in-the-us-and-canada-are-seven-times-as-likely-as-sweden-to-receive-opioids--surgery

How did it happen? English-Canada doctors go to conferences with their american colleagues. They liked them. They socialized. They trusted them.

• "Wow, we are so similar haha"!

• "It was nice attending this conference with you. See you next year !!"

Health Canada is also responsible for this disaster.

A number of studies have pointed out Health Canada’s failures to control the promotion of opioids in Canada, allowing Purdue to spread misinformation about OxyContin in particular and opioids in general

Based on little evidence, in 1996 Health Canada approved the drug for the management of moderate pain, ignored the risk of addiction, and allowed the statement in the product monograph that the risk of misuse is low. In addition, the product monograph provided no recommended maximum dose, allowing the drug to be marketed and prescribed with no upper dose limit.

It also took Health Canada more than ten years to revise misleading claims that appeared in the OxyContin product monograph

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10310031/

Again. Health Canada largely trusts the US FDA. They attend the same conferences every single year. They socialize. If the americans say something is safe, the Health Canada officials largely trust them.

The Opioid Mess is exactly what happens when you trust the most institutionally corrupt nation in the West because they sound friendly and speak English. Thank god Quebec doctors kept reading french newspapers and listening to french regulators. They largely avoided this Opioid plague.