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.
Ford was bluffing about Starlink; he was trying to show pre-election how much he stands up for Ontario.
Tariffs or not Elon Musk is enough of a reason to cancel the deal.
For anyone who blinked and missed it, Marit Stiles and Bonnie Crombie both stated on Monday morning that they were in agreement with each other on cancelling the Starlink deal.
So Doug slaps on a ball cap, gets his face in the cameras and says he’d tear up the contract IF the tariffs go through. And rogers/bell/murdoch news said or implied in their headlines that he DID tear up the contract. Headline commentators yesterday seemed convinced it’s something he’d already done. Or it was his idea alone.
Now he gets to be Canada’s defender - without him actually having to talk to or (god forbid) work with any of our other elected reps during this snap election he chose to call during an international crisis.
(To my fellow Ontarians: Ignore the neverending polls. Ignore the online commentary telling you the alternatives aren’t doing enough in exactly the right way. Ignore the pages of discourse on how our Democracy just isn’t good enough. Doug took electoral reform away from municipalities that voted for it. Please, show up and vote with your neighbours.)
So many people who should know better are just eating it up. Even in this thread.
Ford’s media team creating narratives. One headline at a time. It’s too easy.
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.
If I understand correctly mostly for rural communities and up north one.
Yea, but that doesn’t account for the cost in the slightest. Any city is better served by getting local providers to upgrade their physical lines, leaving only rural areas to use satellite, which is only in the thousands, maybe tens of thousands of households. Even if it was to buy them all starlinks, as it was mentioned, the cost is many times that to just buying the dishes and pay for their normal fees, as I the monthly cost was only around $100 or so.
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.
And his brother died being the Toronto mayor, he was famous for doing crack
Well if you want to go down that road then it is also important to point out that Doug Ford was famous for being a drug dealer before he was famous for being premier. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/globe-investigation-the-ford-familys-history-with-drug-dealing/article12153014/
Forgot about that one thanks for reminding me. Clearly the Ford are great people
We do not negotiate with terrorists.
i get such whiplash from this guy. yes, i dislike him. but then again, he appears to be one of the people who are sticking up for our country the most.
and then he backs down, so it’s like back to square one, “what are you doing?”
Theater. Just as a snap election is called. Certainly a coincidence.
