Very cool - I honestly had never considered the logistics of these sorts of operations, but seeing the host of these videos work out the fuel stops along the way just to make it out to the ships they’re evacuating people from has been incredible.

I’m adding this as a sub comment cause I think this would be extra points, but I guess it might be interesting for some, if they’ve never really read or thought about it. But do first note that I’m no expert of governments or foreign trade relations. I’m just an observer. You might be wondering if tariffs is the only way for governments to protect local industries, and you’re most probably thinking that that shouldn’t be the case. And you’re right. That said though, keep in mind that a tariff is a pretty simple tool for governments to use, and fairly good too: you fork out some money upfront to set up the tariff and all its supporting processes, and you get to earn money for the country. What actually happens is that you’ll tax any imports on the exporter, but what ends up happening is that exporters just add that to their cost and thus increase their prices, so it is typically like a tax on your own citizens. There are exporters who do just sort of eat that cost themselves, but that’s not common afaik. Another option you could support a local industry is by providing subsidies, which can be done in a myriad of ways: materials, procurement, research, labour, etc, and you can even mix and match some of them. The problem here, though, is that the government has to fork out that money — that’s why it’s a subsidy. The Chinese government loves doing this for any industry that they deem strategic, and they can do so a lot more freely than most democratic countries, because, well, they just don’t have to worry about an election if people aren’t happy with where the investment went. Here in Canada though, people do get mad when subsidies are offered for industries that they don’t like, and that affects the polls. You could also outright ban the import of certain products from certain countries, but that usually triggers very negative reactions from the affected countries, unless you have a clear law that literally bans the consumption or use of that product; people want to make money after all, and you’re literally making it impossible to do so. Examples of “okay” bans that most countries have over Canada are like cannabis, cause that’s deemed illegal in their country, and Canada doesn’t really have the desire to make those exports. It’s definitely a strong tool though, with potentially negative consequences.

lol you’re right. that’s probably the latter.

I am in Saskatchewan and have been fully vaccinated but I am sure Saskatchewan is not far behind.

The Canadian government fucking over first nations, a tale as old as time

They should be used to having smoke blown up their asses.

So much for “never again” Nothing against Jewish people, but what the state of Israel is doing is wrong. The swaths of innocents is wrong, the plans I’ve heard about to “migrate” gazans is wrong.

With the added bonus of “voters who are drunk more often are easier to manage”. See “online gambling”.

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indeed the beaverton is a satire website. however the story is real, and this is a “riff” on the real story.

While I agree with you that there can be a risk of skinny people missing diagnosis because they’re “healthy”, I think you’re overestimating how well fat people are treated in healthcare. If a patient is fat, there is no further testing done. They’re told to lose weight whether healthy or not, and regardless of whether it’s relevant to their concerns or not. Obesity is still used as a cutoff to deny access to surgeries that will measurably improve their health, despite there often being no increased risk of complication. As I said, I don’t disagree with your issue about skinny causing medical neglect: the way our society, including medicine, blindly follows weight as the only thing that matters (examples above for fat individuals, telling skinny people with terminal illnesses they look great for having lost weight, amputating functional organs to cause malnourishment and by extension weight loss, even to folks who are arguably healthy and in a mid to low BMI range…) Is detrimental to everyone’s well being.

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Conservative religious groups, and Mennonites are part of that, already have a strong distrust of government. that’s not true. many governments around the world are substantially controlled by people who are members of conservative religions. and lots of conservative religious organizations are well integrated into their relevant governments. to the point of theocracies, which don’t tend towards being extremely progressive. If you hear about a place that the Catholic Church is controlling party of the government, you don’t think “Oh I bet it’s some wild Liberation Theology situation where the women are free and there are land reforms to redistribute the land equally”. You know it’ll be some regressive, repressive backwards ass shit show. there were Amish people (a related group) who were charged for not getting a covid vaccine passport Where? Where has a “vaccine passport” even been implemented?

I think we’ve exhausted any good will to make concessions! The experiment is over! It’s time to move on and do all necessary reciprocal actions and focus on our economy. Time to replace the US economy and increase trade with our true allies.

I had a gut reaction when reading this headline. The covid conspiracy crowd has often abused injury program forms and statistics to create disinformation, and that is a part of this story, but there’s more to this story than just that. Summary: A five-month-long Global News investigation of the Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP), involving more than 30 interviews with current and former Oxaro employees, injured claimants and their attorneys, uncovered allegations that the company was unequipped to deliver fully on the program’s mission, questions about why the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) chose this company over others, and internal documents that suggest poor planning from the start. Other excerpts are copied below, please see the original article in case I introduced any biases while picking out excerpts: The federal government has launched a compliance audit to determine if an Ottawa consulting company is mismanaging the Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP), and Public Health Agency of Canada officials made a surprise visit to the firm’s offices in mid-June, Global News reported on July 3. There have been 11,702 reports of serious adverse events following a COVID-19 vaccination, according to Health Canada. That’s equal to 0.011 per cent of the 105,015,456 doses administered as of December 2023. Note the “per cent”. So that is 11702/105015456 = 0.0001114... “The government stepped in and gave Canadians an assurance that any injuries or death, as a matter of fact, that were caused by the vaccines would be fully compensated by a program that was accessible. I would say that the program that the Liberal government did finally implement is failing Canadians utterly,” said interim NDP Leader Don Davies. Then-prime minister Justin Trudeau announced the Vaccine Injury Support Program (VISP) in December 2020. The effort, which began six months later, aimed to support people who have been seriously and permanently injured by any Health Canada-authorized vaccine administered in the country on or after Dec. 8, 2020. Approved claimants could receive lump sum injury or death payouts, ongoing income replacement, and reimbursement of medical expenses. But instead of the government operating VISP, as is done with similar programs in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany, Canada elected to outsource the work. In March 2021, the government hired Raymond Chabot Grant Thornton Consulting Inc. — now called Oxaro Inc. — to administer the program. The challenges began soon after it launched. In response to a 15-page list of questions, the company said, “The VISP is a new and demand-based program with an unknown and fluctuating number of applications and appeals submitted by claimants.” “The program processes, procedures and staffing were adapted to face the challenges linked to receiving substantially more applications than originally planned,” Oxaro added. “Timelines for a determination of eligibility and support will depend on the nature and complexity of the claim. All claims will be individually assessed by medical experts. The process will include a review of all required and relevant medical documentation, as well as current medical evidence, to determine if there is a probable link between the injury and the vaccine.” [Kerry] Bowman [(bioethicist at the University of Toronto)] said the situation would only make vaccine hesitancy worse. “The public will see, not only are some people pushing back on vaccines, but even if something goes wrong, you’re not going to get support I would argue that it’s going to feed into growing trends of vaccine hesitancy. That’s very problematic for all of us,” he said. Both Strauss and Davies drew comparisons to the ArriveCan app program, which has faced scrutiny over the costs and contracting for the pandemic-era app. Davies also cited the ArriveCan app as an example of what he described as a larger problem. “I think this is part of a much broader problem that we’ve seen with the Liberal government over the last decade, really, which is an explosion in the use of outside consultants,” he said. “I’d like to see the ministry take over this program. They’re at least accountable directly to the minister and to taxpayers. If the outside consultants can’t do it properly, it should be done by public servants who are in the ministry of health.”

Can we petition community mods to banish links to PostMedia content from Canadian subs somehow?

I mean I believe you because obviously something unusual has happened.

The same is true for many other countries. (Some people might find this post in their All feed) It’s an easy thing to do from the criminal’s perspective. Set up a phishing website and print some QR stickers to put over the original ones.

At least here in BC, every time you get a DUI the temporary suspension, breathalyser requirement, fines/fees (including a yearly fee that has to be paid before your can renew insurance based on total infraction points) and AA meetings all get increased. The first DUI costs $3000 and 3-6 months without a license, the 5th would likely cost over $15000, 18-24 months without a license, with a yearly fee of $4000 for 5 years. You would also have to do a road test if you didn’t have a valid license over (I think?) 2 years.

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