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▲ 59 r/CanadianVisaReform

Canada is realistically powerless in controlling illegal immigration - the best we can do is whine.

The immigration enforcement and administrative loop functions as a fragmented system characterized by severe structural disconnects:

  • Siloed Bureaucracy: Core agencies—such as IRCC (permits), CBSA (enforcement), Service Canada (SINs), and provincial health authorities—operate independently with minimal real-time data integration, preventing automated cross-departmental enforcement. If my permit expires, my SIN should theoretically expire on the same day. But CRA never actually closes any stale SIN numbered accounts. Why? because taxes are still coming in. The provinces don't check neither for SIN or immigration status - so if you're here, you can get a healthcare card and driver's license without a valid status. POINT 1: No one gives a shit.
  • Toothless Adjudication: Administrative tribunals like the IRB possess no independent enforcement capacity, relying instead on passive administrative requests rather than active judicial commands. You can issue as many immigration warrants as you want, nothing in the law compels the individual to show up. Same with removal orders, unless CBSA actually enforces the removal, toss it in the trash. POINT 2: The people who makes the decision are paper tigers. They care, but they can't do shit.
  • The Enforcement Void: Law enforcement and border agencies lack the resources or mandate to track routine overstays, while local police remain focused on criminal matters rather than administrative immigration infractions. The people who have the legal authority to detain undocumented individuals are too busy fighting crimes, and the people who are supposed to be doing the illegal detention (CBSA) have no judicial authority to do so. POINT 3: Even if you are decisive, there's no way for you to do shit about the situation because no one has the proper authority do shit = finger pointing.
  • The Practical Honor System: Because institutional guardrails fail to close the loop on exits, expired credentials, and ongoing access to social systems, overstaying effectively defaults to a self-managed, consequence-free loophole. POINT 4: It's too late. Short of serious parliamentary action to overhaul the entire system, getting the provinces on board - Canadians have lost control of the country.
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u/Active_Procedure_864 — 6 days ago
▲ 0 r/AskAnAmerican

I'm in Canada - What would it take to convince more American restaurant chains like Golden Corral, In-and-Out Burger, Cracker Barrel, HuHot Mongolian Grill to set up shop up North?

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u/Active_Procedure_864 — 8 days ago
▲ 14 r/MicroSlop

MSN start page promoting obvious phishing ads

Apparently "Sponsored" ad on MSN start page, forced onto Microsoft Edge browsers - points to obvious phishing site set up as fake CBC news.

u/Active_Procedure_864 — 9 days ago
▲ 0 r/AlbertaNow

Not much of a politics follower - Question about ANDP and voting

Long story short - last time I voted for ANDP under Rachel Notley I think she did an OK job. I just didn't like that she pre-emptively put on the carbon tax and if I vote for the ANDP again in the next election (correct me if I'm wrong) I'll have to pay 2 carbon taxes - federal and provincial? That's a no-go zone for me. You don't need to be paying 2 of the same thing to different entities accomplishing the same goal. Or am I mistaken?

So maybe I want to attend an ANDP event to get to know them better about what they do....Or would that be pointless now that our voter information is out there and anyone could probably impersonate and vote as anyone else so the whole system is done for at this point?

Basically

  • Should I vote in the next provincial election or it's already a done deal, and
  • Should I consider the ANDP

Edit:

I guess I should outline my issues:

  1. I don't wanna be an American. There's a reason we chose Canada because it's a much more laid back country. Also it would suck to lose my house because suddenly you wake up in a different country.
  2. The healthcare system here is shit. For the taxes we're paying towards whatever "free" or "public" healthcare. I could pay 1/10th the cost in Mexico and get better access to specialists.
  3. Which party should I vote that will calm the rednecks here so they don't pre-emptively attack or spit at visible minorities? We get spat at by white guys so many times in this place it's almost like it's an Alberta thing and not a politics thing.

I want to be voting for the NDP, but I live in a predominantly white neighborhood out in the country and I don't want to piss off my neighbors.

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u/Active_Procedure_864 — 1 month ago
▲ 2 r/NoRulesCalgary

Fruit Flies

We're seeing a huge increase in fruit flies. We live out in rocky view county, south of Calgary. We have a bug zapper going but that just litters dead carcasses all over the porch. Any other alternatives? Like chemical scent repellent we can hang or something.

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u/Active_Procedure_864 — 1 month ago
▲ 61 r/NoRulesCalgary

Ex-Tech Worker here. I fully support whoever is outside the Alberta Legislature to protest the AI datacenters ("hey ho, hey ho, AI has got to go!")

Reference - Anti-data centre protest held at the Alberta legislature - YouTube

"Hey hey, ho ho! AI has got to go!"

I used to work in tech and its partner/consulting ecosystem. Seeing folks finally stepping up and exercising their democratic rights to protest and make their voices heard is very refreshing.

Here are some truths to AI and cloud in general.

  1. Tech companies have absolutely no clue as to what they're doing with AI or how they can monetize it as a long-term free cash flow capability. They're in an infinite chasing loop. More LM parameters = more RAM = more chips = more heat generation = more electricity usage.
  2. To work-around this, they've gone on a massive marketing/sales/outreach campaign to any and all of their customers to try and pull all your data onto their cloud storage services. Their belief is that "more data will mean customers will eventually be forced to consume and integrate AI sooner rather than later".
  3. You'd be actually INSANE as a Canadian company, government agency, or any public sector agency to use any American hyper-scaler or AI foundry during these politically volatile times. Why?

3a) US CLOUD ACT - allows the US government to seize your data hosted with any company whose headquarters is based in the US OR is listed on US stock exchanges.

3b) The Anthropic/White-house/AWS spat resulting in Mythos and Fable being pulled from commercially available platforms. One minute you have your crown jewel data and training data sitting happily on AWS, Azure, and GCP - the next minute your workloads go offline and you have no way to repatriate your data back.

3c) All cloud pricing is based against USD. If Trump takes the US economy into a recession good luck for your cloud bill.

  1. You and your kids still need fresh air, electricity, water and food to live. In the US, hyperscalers are displacing entire farmlands to build datacenters. These farmlands grow wheat, grain, other essential food you need to eat. That's why food prices are soaring.

  2. They don't give a shit about you. Their objective is to beat "Cloud growth %" and "Adoption rate growth %" over the next earnings quarter so everyone in the company can cash out on their vesting stocks. All that ESG campaign they so appeared to be supporting during the Biden years were tossed out just to please Trump.

  3. Business consumption capacity of AI in general is limited and highly specialized. You can't just deploy a generic LLM and expect it to become your holy grail. AI can replace your lower level staff like admin assistants and receptionist but will never replace a senior geophysicist or a doctor. To the people who actually know their stuff, AI is a convenience not a necessity nor a transformative technology.

  4. I'm deeply concerned about Kevin O'Leary's proposition. Not only would you displace indigenous land, you'd be destroying ENTIRE ecosystems, hogging all the water and electricity and pushing basic costs up for EVERYONE. My profits, our losses, and you're not getting any of the profits.

  5. The same chatbot shit they're pitching to you. With SLM - small language models - you can easily run them off your existing hardware. There is no need to go greatest and latest. What big tech won't tell you is the quality of your AI solution is going to be highly dependent on the quality and organization of the data to which that AI solution has been trained on.

Stop selling out your country. Stop the exploitation. Stop the hyper-scalers.

For businesses actually wanting to try this out. Go buy a (used) Dell blade or workstation. Put Ubuntu and try Ollama / Llama 3 / Mistral on a limited scale first. If your dataset/params are small enough, you could easily run this off a dell workstation at the office.

Edit:

One more point:

If you think these datacenters are going to create jobs, you'd be sorely disappointed. These buildings are meant to be dark. The blades are plug-and-play. They're pre-loaded with images and any kid on a scooter can plug them in and it auto-boots and joins the clusters. You're not creating any high-value jobs out of these datacenters.

u/Active_Procedure_864 — 2 months ago
▲ 0 r/NoRulesCalgary

The affordability crisis is a lie told by big media, and one demographic that isn't impact by economic crises in Canada.

The affordability, inflation, and cost of living crisis is a lie. Everywhere I go in Calgary, people are still eating out, still partying, drinking like its the good old times. It's because of one thing - the economy is working JUST FINE.

I've been to Starbucks, Lululemon, Goodlife Fitness, and upscale nightclubs and I can tell you one thing for sure, this is a fact, from empirical observation. If there is one demographic that is absolutely not impacted by the cost of living crisis, immune to recessionary pressures and price inflation. It's this group.

White Women.

The data shows it. Just look at the stock market. We have an index that tracks the companies loved by the average white woman, the $BECKY portfolio. Brands consisting of Lululemon, Starbucks, Etsy, Planet Fitness, Apple. We're talking about brands that command a premium for the consumer - most, if not all of these companies - are proving to be the most resilient - even if they're consumer discretionary.

Empirical evidence shows it. Just go out to any high end restaurants. Who do you see? White women friend groups. Go out to nightclubs like Rated Ultra Lounge, PAPI bar, Infinity, hell - just go to Cowboys - who do you mostly see....white women.

Back to the big picture. The rest of Calgary.

Next time you drive around the streets of Calgary, observe the high end car brands. Lexus, BMW, Audi, Porsche, Ford F-150 XLT.....people are still driving it even though those brands cost an arm and a leg to maintain.

So in my opinion, despite the bitching and whining on mainstream media and social media, as far as Alberta is concerned, there is no affordability or cost of living crisis. Don't get caught up in the hype everybody! People are probably just whining because they only have C$2000 left at the end of the month to go on vacation rather than C$4000.

Reference - Gain +1,000% with Becky ETF? | Trackinsight

u/Active_Procedure_864 — 2 months ago