Big punitive settlements aren’t really a thing in Canada. He probably already has to justify to the court how Google’s action led to him actually losing $1.5m. If his claim for damages was unrealistic the case would just be tossed.

(obligatory IANAL)

You just know some exec is making a bonus from some invented metric that this supports.

They’re not stupid, and it’s dangerous to think that they are. They’re testing the boundaries, seeing what they can get away with, desensitizing for the worse things they have planned.

PEI has one commercial airport, and only like five daily flights only to Toronto, Montreal, and Ottawa. Almost everyone I know here has been on a flight with a premier or a member of Parliament.

Trading primarily with the United States instead of building other trade partnerships has been our weakness since the Avro Arrow was cancelled. It’s about time our leaders started trying to do something about it.

Canada went through this a year ago. Our Liberal government was sinking under controversies of their own making and the right-wing Conservatives were on track for a big win. Then the Americans started blathering on with their 51st state bullshit and completely wiped out the Conservative lead, and their bootlicking leader lost his own seat in the general election.

If you’re using one of the clients that supports piefed (Interstellar does, not sure about others) you can use piefed’s /r/random feature to find new communities. I can’t figure out how to do it in the app, but https://piefed.social/r/random should work.

Many drivers won’t stop unless they’re forced to by a physical barrier, and some still won’t stop. Ever seen those videos from Europe of bus lane bollards that retract when a bus approaches and pop back up again after the bus passes, and the cars wrecked on them? Those are much more solid barriers than these plastic things.