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[Article] Google to pay $100M a year to Canadian news publishers (www.cp24.com)

Google hits a paywall. On the heels of a deal struck last week between Ottawa and Google, the search behemoth will pay Canadian news publishers $100 million/year for the privilege of hosting their content. Is that a win for Ottawa? Well, on one hand, Canada is now one of the first countries to compel digital platforms to pay...

grte,

“We’re”? Are we all Google shareholders now?

grte,

Yeah, it’s like the reverse of the national situation where there are two competing conservative parties and the NDP to soak up everyone who can’t stand either of them. Except the BC NDP are currently, if I recall correctly, quite a bit more popular than the CPC is nationally so that bodes even worse for our two other, uh, “contenders.”

grte,

You wanna know something else? The majority of the world economy is already centrally planned. Not on the national level, on the corporate level. Business is dominated by a relatively few giant corporations with internal economies the size of some nations. None of them run free markets internally. Sears experimented with it, to their demise. Central planning is already the primary way that our economic lives are driven. It’s just we let unaccountable billionaires do the planning instead of an elected body.

grte,

That was definitely sarcastic. OP posted a very anti-private industry meme, I doubt they are like, “except roads, though, I love toll roads.”

grte,

That’s exactly it, though. All that infrastructure got built when the government would directly build infrastructure. The Interstate System, the Transcontinental Railroad, these got built because the government got them done. It’s only since the birth of neoliberalism during Carter’s presidency, and supercharged during Reagan’s, where infrastructure only gets done through public private partnerships that things stopped being built.

grte,

Look into the United Conservative Party’s corporate donors if you don’t believe this.

grte,

I wouldn’t be surprised that they removed it based on not being a link to certain news sources that they seem to require. Permaban, though? That’s not rules related.

grte, (edited )

Despite the funny headline I guess there is a real issue here in that breast implants are subject to occasional manufacturing defects that can pose serious health risks to the owner. That said,

The committee report recommends the registry be implemented through a mandatory “checklist” form signed by surgeons and patients. It said that patients would be offered “the possibility of opting out.”

I think making this mandatory with the option to opt out rather than the reverse maybe crosses a privacy line.

grte,

Mixed commercial/housing. Instead of offices, give the first couple floors to commerce and the higher floors to housing. We have the perfect opportunity to build nice integrated cities where people live near the resources they need to live, within walking distance of the places they work.

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