Poverty is more strongly correlated with criminality than any other factor. If you want a world where everyone can feel safe leaving their door unlocked then you need a world where no one is left behind.

The problem with liberalism is that it is an individualistic ideology and the further we have gone down that road (now, neo-liberalism) with austerity and cost-cutting measures, the social safety net is bad and only getting worse.

What we need is socialism.

https://xkcd.com/927/

(Although, admittedly, mutual fund MERs have dropped substantially with the rise of low-cost ETFs...)

MPP Lisa Thompson defends new Ontario licence plates. Video clip from Question Period, she calls previous license plates "Liberal plates".

https://www.reddit.com/r/ontario/comments/f5xbtt/mpp_lisa_th...

* The CBC is not a "branch of government", it's a crown corporation. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_corporations_of_Canada)

* FOIA is American, ATIP is Canadian. Anyhow, of course they aren't "free", no one said they were. It's (at best) incoherent to make straw-man arguments against the wrong thing...

* Just because there are worse things in the world doesn't mean we can't consider lesser ones. It's not like journalists are all only ever allowed to write about whatever you consider to be the single most pressing topic at the time.

* Just because this article doesn't interest you, personally (it obviously interests other HNers, considering it's on the front page) doesn't mean that it's a "Buzzfeed-tier piece of shit article".

* Not all government spending is bad, as you seem to imply, and some oversight is absolutely necessary to prevent corruption.

* This ATIP request resulted in an interesting article that covered Canadian culture, geo-location games and trespassing issues, the health of the ATIP program, as well as humourous anecdotes on how military policy discovered and handled the issue of PokemonGo.

Canada does not have such a system. Canada has taxpayer-funded healthcare. Therefore you have the liberty to quit your job and find more favourable employment without having to deal with the risk of one surprise hospitalization from bankrupting you.

GP is saying Canada did that right. The confusion arises because GP said "here" right after praising Canada, possibly misleading you to think they were referring again to Canada, which they were not.

In my opinion it did feel superficial because a lot of the decision paths collapsed or dead-ended immediately.

It's like saying you use Hermeticism's Principle of Rhythm to build a pendulum-powered clock...

And unlike both Flat-Earth theory and Hermetics, Newton was actually demonstrably right. Flat-earthers and Hermeticists spin their theories out of whole cloth.