Why the hell is the government paying for a service that is directed towards individual households at a price that few households would find difficult to pay for in the first place?
This is frankly not only a waste of taxpayer money, but also a blatant attempt to buddy up with an American oligarch.
Once again, Ford is selling this province to his oligarch buddies.
I don’t think the contract has even been made public but apparently there was some stuff in there to have starlink upgrade local infrastructure. Idk why you would hire starlink for that and without the full contract it’s really hard to know wtf this contract is even about because as you said the per unit cost way exceeds just going to Costco and buying starlink.
Booooooo
Fucking spineless prick.
If they didn’t want contracts cancelled they shouldn’t have threatened us. Don’t back down, cancel them anyway.
The fact that the Starlink contact enriches a Nazi who isn’t afraid to salute in public is more than enough reason to cancel any contract we have with him.
Right? It just shows they will be a threat to Canada later. Time to protect Canada by less reliance on US crap
Boooo. Shut that shit down. We don’t need to be validating Elon’s space junk.
Ford was bluffing about Starlink; he was trying to show pre-election how much he stands up for Ontario.
We do not negotiate with terrorists.
I know people that use Starlink because they have nothing else except Xplore (formerly Xplornet), which sucks ass. I like that they have the choice to avoid Xplore. That said, I would love to see Dougie shoot himself in the foot and go through with something like this so that he loses the rural vote.
I knew it was way too good to be true.
The guy in the thumbnail is like the president of Canada or something right?
He’s the premier of Ontario, our most populated province. Basically our version of a governor by USA standards. He also has more in common with Trump than not. There are a few political factors here that will make it very hard for him to win an election when the next one was scheduled, so he’s pulled a snap election early as a desperate attempt to stay in power. Expect to see more of his dumb ass until we vote at the end of the month, longer if this tariff bullshit continues.
Ya bunch a nimrods! The few hundreds of thousands of people who don’t live within 300 km of Toronto or the lakes need StarLink to get decent Internet. How can they watch the Leafs lose another fantastic season without good Internet? The cost of those contracts doesn’t cross the attention threshold of guys like leon. So cmon, ease up on that one.
Canada should be investing in and expanding it’s own infrastructure; not becoming more reliant on the US and it’s private enterprises owned and operated by nazis.
No. We need a sasktel equivalent in every province.
I recently found out about Saskatel the other day while I was looking at other Canadian telecoms… Good stuff. I agree with you, and wish other provinces followed suit.
