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mpjgregoire

@mpjgregoire@cosocial.ca

ingénieur, tory canadien, citoyen du Grand Montréal

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mpjgregoire, to internet
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Réseaux sociaux interdits avant 16 ans, envisage Québec: https://lp.ca/sDSOsD?sharing=true


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"Menzies said the fundamental problem with the CBC is that it’s not so much a public broadcaster as it is a publicly funded commercial broadcaster that is competing with private news organizations for eyeballs and advertising dollars."

https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/liberals-cbc-advisory-panel-may-be-too-late

Here's my plan for the in the age of streaming. Keep as is. Keep the news. becomes the home for funding new video; the produces videos in house and CBC TV becomes the distributer.

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Take away advertising from #CBC TV, but also stop making video shows in house (other than news) and stop paying for new shows. Make Telefilm funding conditional on the right for CBC to screen shows after a certain period of time. CBC TV and Internet then become places where you can watch episodes of old CBC shows like the Beachcombers, but also three year old episodes of shows created for CTV (for instance).

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Do the OSM, the ROM or UBC want to produce videos? They can apply to Telefilm for funding and stream the videos on their own websites, but ultimately the CBC will have the right to broadcast or stream those videos as well.

A Hollywood studio or an independent wants some money from Telefilm? They can apply, but they get no money unless the CBC will have the right to stream what they make in ten years.

The new CBC wouldn't care so much about ratings, but it wouldn't cost so much either.

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mpjgregoire, (edited )
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as is; as is; CBC News as is [0]; TV as a repertory broadcaster, more like ; CBC Internet as a repository of Canadian taxpayer-subsidised videos.

No more direct competition with private networks for viewers and advertising; no more US game shows; no more CBC Sports; no quest to create a new hit show that also vaunts the Canadian identity.

[0] Maybe a few minutes on the hour every hour on CBC TV, similar to CBC Radio?

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evan, (edited ) to random
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"The consensus opinion on the fediverse is more representative of public opinion than the consensus on siloed social networks."

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@wjmaggos @evan
There was a poll on Fedi a year ago in which (as I recall) around 5% of the respondents said they were conservative and 1% very conservative. In the US, about a third of the public identifies as conservative https://news.gallup.com/poll/388988/political-ideology-steady-conservatives-moderates-tie.aspx . [0]

Thus politics on Fedi is highly out of sync with public opinion.

As for Twitter, I don't think there is a consensus at all. People stay in their own silos.

[0] In Canada, polling for "Conservative" makes search for similar data difficult.

sundogplanets, to random
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Here's my interview from this morning on my local CBC radio station talking about SpaceX space junk discovered by a farmer in his field in Saskatchewan: https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-66-the-morning-edition-sask/clip/16067265-sask.-farmer-finds-space-junk-field

mpjgregoire,
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@sundogplanets I heard you on "Your World Tonight", the six o'clock news. Good work!

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Not a big fan of the NY Times but they have some good ongoing features. Subscriber replies to articles are sometimes numerous and pretty good.

mpjgregoire,
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@wjmaggos @tinfoiling I enjoy the #NYTimes crossword puzzle. Also #RossDouthat.

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@wjmaggos Unfortunately so. Not a heavy poster either.

cogdog, to random
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Hey, this tech is cool! Unicodeit https://github.com/svenkreiss/unicodeit/blob/main/README.md

From my stuff tagged "cooltech" bookmarked in pinboard https://pinboard.in/u:cogdog/t:cooltech/

mpjgregoire,
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@dnorman @cogdog This is interesting, but the best solution — as usual — is #Emacs.

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mpjgregoire, to random
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Canada Post loses $750M. Taxpayers may be on the hook
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/canada-post-bleeding-money-will-need-big-change

"During the 2015 election, the Liberals promised to end a Canada Post program, which was then underway, converting addresses from door-to-door home delivery to community mailboxes." A bad — but politically popular — decision of the Trudeau ministry.

For more radical change, @acoyne proposed many years ago that we give to the postal union and let them find solutions.


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Canada's 100 Best Restaurants list 2024
https://nationalpost.com/life/food/canadas-100-best-restaurants-2024

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If you oppose stock buybacks, how do you feel about dividends?

Stock buybacks and dividends are essentially the same thing, methods for corporations to transfer money to their shareholders.

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@wjmaggos People buy and sell stocks; making all issued stocks more valuable by reducing the number that have been issued puts more money in the pockets of shareholders just as dividends do, but as capital gains (which normally are treated differently by taxes).

As for your article, I think its major point is that corporations borrowing money to send to shareholders is a bad idea. I agree.

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@tobiaspatton Well, accumulating the money for a buyback is a sign the company's done something right in the past.

clacke, to random

On Saturday, the Fediverse is celebrating it's 16th anniversary!

How are you celebrating?

mpjgregoire,
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@clacke
I wonder if we'll see identi.ca became compatible with ActivityPub one of these days, eh @evan ?

mpjgregoire, to Economics
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#GlennLoury's new memoir will be published tomorrow! I've been waiting years, listening to him recount anecdotes as he's worked on the book. Quite the life he's led, going from the South Side of Chicago to youngest member of the Harvard Economics Department, offered a position in the Reagan Administration and author of a book opposing mass incarceration...

Here's an interview with #RussRoberts : https://www.econtalk.org/glenn-loury-tells-all/

#econtalk #economics #uspol #racism

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All, something to be aware of this morning - Biden's trailing Trump in five key states in a new NYT/Siena Research poll.

https://t.co/YDLKlKUbS3

Please consider this a reminder as a lateral move - if you haven't already, adopt a Senator, adopt a House member, and get involved this cycle.

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@Celeste_pewter It's not too late for President Biden to step down in favour of someone who would continue his policies but wouldn't be accused of being too old.

#uspol

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@barney @Celeste_pewter
It may be untrue, it may be unfair, but it's simply a fact that many Americans think Pres. Biden is too old (e.g., https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/poll-americans-on-biden-age/story?id=107126589 ). It's a severe political liability for him, eating away at his support even though the economy isn't bad at the moment.

It also means there's serious risk that he will do something while the public eye is upon him that will strengthen that impression in popular opinion — even if it's something that could happen to anyone.

#uspol

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@barney
I'm sure you're right about some of the voters in the 86% in the article I linked to. And I don't know who among Democrats has the best chance of defeating Mr. Trump — maybe Pres. Biden really is the best of the lot. But I look at the polls and I worry.

@Celeste_pewter

#uspol

mpjgregoire,
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@barney Dragging people to reality is a great idea, but it's hard to know how to achieve it. Antihistamines, on the other hand, I know where to buy them.

serge, to news
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I'm quite frustrated with the liberal news agencies.

I went to check on the report about the UN reducing the number of reported Gazan casualties. They reduced the number by half, half, and yet I only see this reported in Conservative news sources.... From a UN report!

Any casualty is tragic, but the idea that the number of women and children who have died is half the number they previously released is a huge deal, and brings the number of casualties to be much lower than we've seen discussed in this unprecedented, highly urban war.

I complained about Conservatives courting Jews, but I must emphasize once again that this is not on Jews to be courted, it's on Liberals and the Left to court Jews, and if they lose a generation or two of Jews to the right, I will be sad but it will be obvious why...

Left, DO BETTER. Report the news even if it challenges your narrative.

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@serge I understand why you complain about the Left being unfair to the Israeli side in the war with Hamas, but I don't see why you're complaining about conservatives courting Jews — fine, you don't share other conservative values, so you shouldn't support conservative parties or policies then. But it's not a bad thing if conservatives would like to have more Jewish support, or if they oppose Hamas out of general principle.

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WhatsApp has blocked me "due to spam" which (needless to say) is nonsense or some glitch on their end.
I know people will find it annoying/pretentious if I fully switch over to #signal but can you blame me after losing my primary means of communication? This fucking sucks and if it doesn't get resolved is going to mess up the next few months like i lost a wallet.

mpjgregoire,
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@paige Fifteen years ago I had a local #Montréal phone number through a VoIP service called Gizmo. Google bought the company, then shut down its services. My lesson was to stick to free software whenever possible.

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"I think I speak for many when I say I hope for a day when more Canadians can live up to the kinder, gentler reputation we think we have — but increasingly don’t demonstrate." — @spaikin https://www.tvo.org/article/politicians-and-the-public-need-to-pick-up-their-game-on-civility

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@theagendatvo Yes, our society has become more vulgar and less courteous. It's a decline.

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Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

We are working on a solution to ensure our continued presence on your feeds, taking full advantage of Mastodon's identity portability.

And we are even growing the team behind our Mastodon presence, increasing efforts to engage with your comments on our posts.

We are fully committed to being a real part of the conversation in the fediverse.

Interested in our next steps? Follow us as we take on this new chapter.

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@EU_Commission Vous devriez publier en français aussi.

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