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by qwedf 4y ago
During its ascendency as a global capital, Montreal was a decidedly multicultural and multicultural metropolis. One that native Montrealers (read: those with deep roots here) try to cultivate. But today's Montreal is the result of heav
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by qwedf 4y ago
Racism plays a major role here [1,2], and it's certainly a motivation for Bill 21 at least. Remember, this is the ultimate culmination of a village writing a handbook for immigrants that included not eating babies, like they do in thei
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by qwedf 4y ago
I AM THE HOST COMMUNITY. Born in Montreal, fully bilingual, lived here for majority of my life - came back 8 or so years ago to a peaceful situation that was broken apart because nationalist extremists freaked out when greeted with "Bo
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by qwedf 4y ago
Last I checked, Montreal is in Canada and Canada has two official languages. It's my right
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by qwedf 4y ago
In no case am I grafting Americanism onto Canadian politics. I'm using an analogy to illustrate to non-Canadians how outsiders (nationalist extremists from the ROQ) are able to impose their values and views on the multicultural, multil
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by qwedf 4y ago
To be clear I'm upset about these policies because they stamped out the ideals of Montreal and have strangled the city, turning it from a truly global capital to a provincial backwater that's now more renowned as a great place for
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by qwedf 4y ago
Because: [3] exclusively targets non-Christian symbols and came after a campaign of primarily non-city folk freaking out because immigrants are different - most infamously Herouxville where the town published a manifesto warning immigrants
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by qwedf 4y ago
Everything but the former Crown corporations like Air Canada and Bell moved their HQs. And the ones that stayed only did so because the federal government made sure they stayed
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by qwedf 4y ago
It's not about power with Canada, it's about power within the borders to ensure the "pure wool" is not just preserved but any contaminating factors eliminated
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by qwedf 4y ago
The only reason I see this relevant to HN is because lots of tech companies have been opening Montreal offices over the past 20 years. We have 4 universities and most educated people are bilingual in spite of the officialdom. However the dr
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by qwedf 4y ago
I've been at OPAL-RT for about a year now, providing real-time simulation tools for power electronics. So clients include electric vehicle manufacturers, renewables companies, grid operators... pretty much everyone who is involved in e
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by qwedf 4y ago
The latest Doomberg does a great job in pointing out the practical flaws. https://doomberg.substack.com/p/20000-volts-under-the-sea "The Xlinks project is a pretty good concept, and yet…it needs access to material
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by qwedf 4y ago
I worked with a hole digger in HI. The deepest he got in his yard was about 10 feet. Says his record was 20 when he was a teen at his parents' house in LA. Really cool dude
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by qwedf 4y ago
Can't argue against that. Although to be fair, the MBAification of the leadership class is turning most places into Ponzis or client-hating Monopolies
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by qwedf 4y ago
Industries that actually run the world and won't be disrupted by whatever VC-funded "Uber of X" whose business model is ultimately a Ponzi scheme. Think banking, engineering firms like Schneider/ABB, tools that are actua
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by qwedf 5y ago
You know what would be an awesome user setting? -Under no circumstances do I want your update unless it's to circumvent a genuine security threat or addresses a genuine pain point that real users complain about on HN, Reddit or, if it