Sure, I think we can agree they have lots of employees. What do each of them do? Now, why can’t we have other kinds of jobs for workers instead of straight up layoffs? I’m saying going straight to downsize is the easy solution because no one in upper management etc wants to develop new businesses that CP can do and service and still make money!! Are some jobs obsolete and outdated? Very likely. Is there a lot of redundancy? I’m sure every government run entity has it. Now who made the shots of hiring more and more? Management. Why aren’t they the first to go? Why is the onus on lower level employees?

We can let people go, eliminate jobs all we want about a shrinking business model because they (management) didn’t pivot or come up with new models to effectively retain cost-neutral/profitability. What isn’t the government and CP saying instead of going straight to cuts? Show us what they tried to get out of this deficit. Well turns out from all the reporting, they did very little and the private sector took their lunch. What a disaster.

Postage services can be so much more, they just aren’t willing to try. Why can’t they do basic banking? Financialization. They had the opportunity to but chose not to because they’re dinosaurs with outdated business models. Be a storage depot / warehouse for small businesses. I’m just throwing ideas out there.

‘Transformation’. More like getting gutted like what you see typically from failing companies run by fools and those seeking an easy way out.

Oh I am aware that they don’t really need to turn a profit. Net zero / cost recovery is more than good enough. And I am in no way implying using government legislation to regulate that market. We need Canada Post to change their business model where they can still retain their currently hired employees. Are they seriously not able to make significant changes to their existing model to be more competitive? It reeks of a non-innovative c-suite and board (and government officials) unwilling to take the hard road of actually working with the employees to make complex organizational changes. They are taking the easy way out via ‘standard accounting/business practices’ by slashing services and worker layoffs. That’s the easy way out.

What does the hard way look like? How about sitting down with union employees down to the lowest worker level and actually find ways for cost savings and new business opportunities to patch the shortfall? I don’t to believe that CP management truly has tried other than finger-pointing at external private businesses stealing their lunch from underneath them or government legislation that’s unwilling to change (because the fed gov is really the one in control here - so again, I’m saying they’re just taking the easy way out. You think an elected federal government employee is going to sit down and do the hard work to go around talking to a large number of union employees to find a way through all this? My bet is no - they’ll take the easy way out.)

Exactly, we should all be outraged at the other expenditures that the federal government is pushing. What good does a VW battery plant do for us as Canadians as a whole when it’s for a private foreign company???

I will also say, you can’t compare a battery plant to a postage service. The model to fund CP used to work until it didn’t.

We should be asking what went wrong? Why is that so? Why aren’t their executives being fired and the board changed? Did they even ask their own union employees for real feedback on what can be changed other than the tidbits we hear in the news? Because it seems like these days a lot of upper to mid management seem to be trying real hard to justify their own existences - elected government officials included (which we should always keep them to the fire and expect a high level of competence for handling our taxpayer money and good governance for us all equally).

I think the angle people aren’t looking at more is the financial side of things and actually calculating it out. [https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/our-company/financial-and-sustainability-reports/2024-annual-report/our-financial-picture.page](Canada Post’s Financials - See the first chart yourselves)

So it seems like 2018 they invested a little and the loss reduced. COVID happened so the big loss there isn’t surprising. However, in between the reduced service, someone ate their lunch or their upper management / c-suite / board no longer has the qualifications to lead it’s own team. Change the management already.

The monetary part of how much this subscription to Canada Post is going to be…: 841 million/41 million (current Canadian population) ~= $20.51 cents (rough math of ~$52.56 dollars per household based on 16 million addresses in Canada Post’s system) Canadian to have delivery/mailbox/post offices/parcel pickups. Now go compare the rates that Canada Post offers versus FedDex, DHL etc. Ask yourself, would you still use Canada Post?

So yeah, let’s all be outraged about $52.56 dollars for this service.

Any car company that relies on only 1 type of sensor or only 1 sensor on a car for autonomous driving is a fool. The key terminology is “sensor fusion”, where you have multiple types of sensors to generate an accurate model of the world around the car which is vastly superior to what a human can perceive. LiDAR is only one sensor. Add in cameras and radar which many cars already have and you’ll have a car that can’t be fooled by just mirrors.

The tree atrium area is tiny - especially the area that you can walk on - it’s probably like only the size of a small office room. YVR is only good when compared to North American airports, which is a low bar. Also, airport vending machines and shops price gouge compared asian international airports.

Good. Now open public washrooms at all stations, employ janitors to keep it clean, then hire staff attendants at all stations during operation hours, not attendants that walk around and move around stations. That’s just the bare minimum standard for a fully fledged public transit system. Then maybe you can start justifying the high prices of public transit relative to other countries.

But honestly, the c-suite and the board of Translink are non-innovative - they should be financializing the Compass Card with its own network of merchants and stores that take it as payment, ability to load and offer slight incentives to use it over credit cards - which we know ultimately only goes to enrich banks and American companies. All I see is Translink trying to ‘wash’ itself with a positive image by spending money on ‘community outreach’. What? You have a captive audience - what outreach do you actually need? Waste of money.

Not quotas. How about the most qualified and competent?

I think the Canadian government can get out of contracts since I believe Microsoft has already told our government they cannot guarantee that our data is not going through US infrastructure. Based on this reason alone I think are grounds to terminate a contract. But hey, I’m no lawyer.

Absolutely agree with this. Politicians and those that are in the management position to make real changes have been having it too good for too long and they just want to take the easy way out by saying “it’s too hard/too expensive” and spending OUR taxpayer dollars. It’s BULLSHIT.

Look around you and see what software these government managers entities actually use? Email/chat clients, MS Word, Excel. What? Why are we still on Microsoft’s ecosystem if at all if that’s what they use most of the time? The cloud infrastructure isn’t even handled by 99% of these politicians and managers. Let the IT people handle it. Any serious IT team should know their in-and-outs of open source software and operating systems.

A lot of other legacy IT mainframes aren’t even compatible with Windows and they’ve only created an UI to ‘talk’ to the underlying system. There’s no reason why it cannot be recreated, if not improved, during the switch. Hell, don’t even switch right way, run the systems in parallel. At the end of the day, the real underlying information are just stored in tables - absolutely no reason why it cannot be ported.

The only expense that would be on-going maintenance, improvements and updates as legislation changes over time. We need data sovereignty otherwise we’re just cucks to US big tech.

I think everyone has the wrong take on this. If this happened to someone on the left, most people will just twiddles their thumbs on their keyboards and goes on about their lives.

What people need to realize is his actions and what he has promoted has consequences.

I’ll leave it at that.

There is no ‘debate’. The program is federal. A premier’s jurisdiction is provincial. He is telling the federal government to fix the problem because the current wording of the law and how it has been executed has allowed these large corporations to abuse it over and over again.

Instead of letting the market decide what a job at Tim Horton’s supposed to be, they have instead allowed them to hire these so called ‘temporary foreign workers’ en masse over the years through a revolving door from poorer countries. It has resulted in stagnant wages, record profits for these companies and now they’re crying foul?

What should be happening is to lower the bar to running a business anywhere in Canada. As of right now, running a small business to compete requires nearly insurmountable levels of red tape (licenses for not only the business, but also signage license, over-the-top fire safety requirements [go ask about how much it will cost to just have a kitchen installed + getting inspected etc. etc.], beyond basic food safe certifications where you’ll have to provide nutritional charts, washroom requirements and more…). Anything that you probably see out there that isn’t looking like this is either grandfathered in or they have deep pockets. This is also why you see places that are renovated and seemingly ready to go, but can’t open because they have to jump through the hoops. This is also why you won’t ever have authentic night markets like the ones in Asia anywhere in Canada. Many large cities themselves are anti-small business on default when you dig into the policies of what you can and can’t do.

Trying to stay relevant much? Humanity as a whole needs to realize that religion is a mental crutch. The community aspect of it is good, but it isn’t exclusive to religion.

Oh geez, I wonder why we can’t afford to lose it now? What was it? The decades of selling out Canadian companies to the US? The decades of shuttering Canadian capabilities because it was deemed ‘unnecessary’ because of US pressure in the past? Huh - thanks to Harper era policies they now have come home to bite. Thanks CON-servatives. They’ve managed to con the populace in voting for them to only have them weaken Canada as a whole for the long term.

The liberals are not much better by bowing to US and corporate demands either.

This isn’t just a federal problem either. Lots of provincial governments, arguably even more influential than the federal government, have done the same in the past and all along the same political spectrum. Short-term gains for long term pain, because to these politicians, they got theirs already and we’re all going to be fucked if we don’t change the way we govern.

Exactly. A logical fallacy.

Sounds like a grace period. However, the union should still threaten to strike if they drag this out otherwise Air Canada is going to do the typical lip service move and see how long they can ‘flip the narrative’ to their advantage.

The correct terminology is people want to be able to express themselves and explore the world without being judged. Finding a purpose in what they want to do in and with their life. After all, no one was chosen to be born.

To ‘spell it out’ for those who still can’t wrap their heads around it:

What Israel is trying to claim (which is a logical fallacy): Any attack/criticism on Israel = attacking Jewish people = attack on Jewish/Judaism religion

The reality: Any criticism Attack on Israel =/= attacking Jewish people =/= attack Jewish/Judaism religion

So what about those that practice Judaism in Gaza? What about those that practice Judaism that has no roots in Israel at all?

Layman’s observation…to anyone who’s been inside old growth forests (forests with trees that are 800+ years old) and it’s surrounding lesser old growth forests, the humidity is on a different level than the ones that these so called ‘reforested’ areas are like. The forestry industry is not sustainable at the amount that we consume at. We will continue to see ‘wildfires’ because we’ve effectively destroyed the ecosystem in the last 100-200 years with mass deforestation and thought that replanting them would be ‘fine’. Turns out these artificially replanted forests aren’t so resilient after all…huh.