TL;DR - The document discusses the results of a universal basic income (UBI) trial in Canada, which was conducted in Southern Ontario between 2017 and 2019. The trial, which was cancelled prematurely, showed that participants experienced improvements in mental health, housing stability, and social relationships, as well as reduced visits to hospitals and doctors. The UBI payments, which were designed to reduce poverty and encourage work, were found to have a positive impact on participants’ physical and mental well-being, with many reporting decreased use of alcohol and tobacco. The trial also dispelled concerns that UBI would lead to unemployment, with only 17% of participants leaving their jobs and nearly half of those who stopped working returning to school or university to up-skill. The report suggests that UBI could be a useful public health strategy and that the safety net provided by the UBI project helped participants find better jobs with higher wages and improved working conditions. [AI Summary]

I would love to have a Canadian alternative to Amazon.

You know what else is unlikely? Me buying American products.

Good on you! I have been cancelling everything American and moving my digital services to Europe.

There better be a fucking explanation. To roll over, especially after the most recent 51st state bullshit? You better have a good goddamn reason.

Honestly, it’s simply futile to seek compromises with this tyrannical government. Like all bullies, nothing is enough for them. They will keep on taking from you until you clap back.

One side sees urgency, while the other wants to push on the breaks. It can’t just be one or the other, they need to meet somewhere in the middle.

Go jump in a lake

Maybe too much fluoride, that’s why they’re so developmentally challenged over there.

A little longer and it will be more than just a sentiment. It will be a way of life.

Good luck to all who are trying to escape that shit hole of a country.

I always believed that nationalism stemmed from the idea of the innate superiority of your nation over the others. Which I find incredibly problematic for obvious reasons. Now patriotism, on the other hand, I believe is something that we all should strive for.

True. I was a bit disappointed myself. I get that no press was present at the event and that CBC got the photos from the NDP, but they could have helped us out by labeling MLAs in the group photo.

We used to visit US multiple times a year in the past, but no more. It’s always been a tense experience, but now I don’t even want to subject myself to this treatment - even if the chances of being detained are negligible. As far as I’m concerned, US is a hostile nation and I have no desire to contribute to their economy or tacitly support their aggression by visiting them.

Absolutely hateful, ignorant, and punitive. Truly shameful.

That’s pathetic. Hell, a ficus plant could win that electoral district if you put a “F🍁ck Carney” flag next to it.

What a colossal piece of shit.

How can we? We can’t even tolerate to pay an extra 17 cents per litre.

…because the only thing that Albertans were missing was more money in the politics. They really want to be just like the US.

Pretty incredible stuff