HellsBelle
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada Says Its Gold Is Traceable and Clean. So We Traced It. | We ended up in a Colombian mine controlled by a drug cartel.English
41·4 months agoIt’s really in South America tho.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Canada Says Its Gold Is Traceable and Clean. So We Traced It. | We ended up in a Colombian mine controlled by a drug cartel.English
432·4 months agoBut unlike the Americans, who have gone decades without tracking their gold supplies, the Canadians have known that they were getting it from a country where cocaine trafficking, paramilitary violence and the gold trade are intertwined.
Yet they continued to call it North American gold.
They did so, officials explained, because before the Colombian gold arrives in Canada, a Texas intermediary mixes it with American gold. In the Mint’s eyes, the resulting mix is entirely North American.
This fiction, and the fact that perpetuating it is completely legal, is an example of how even the world’s most credible dealers allow tainted gold into the mainstream market.
Jfc. When did the idea of lying become the government-approved way of things??
Nevermind … I know.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Prediction Markets Are Coming to Canada. Are We Ready to Bet on War? | The WalrusEnglish
21·4 months agoOn par with private equity.
HellsBelle@sh.itjust.worksOPto
Canada@lemmy.ca•When my sons with autism are sent home from school, they've learned the problem is them — not the systemEnglish
95·4 months agoIt is up to the provincial government to properly fund the education of ALL children whether or not there are learning challenges or difficulties.
If the provincial government doesn’t want to do its job properly they should step down from office.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Edmonton history buffs consider impact of looming dissolution of historical boardEnglish
31·4 months agoThose who forget history are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Toronto man's HIV no longer detectable after bone marrow transplantEnglish
41·4 months agoFrom the article …
If he remains in remission for about two and a half years, the 36-year-old will join 10 people in the world currently considered cured of HIV.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Toronto man's HIV no longer detectable after bone marrow transplantEnglish
51·4 months agoThis is how it works (from the article) …
The search began to find the best bone marrow match. The ideal donor would also have a CCR5 gene mutation resistant to HIV.
CCR5 is a protein on the surface of an immune cell that acts as the door that HIV enters to infect the body, but about one per cent of the population, primarily of northern European descent, are deficient of this gene.
That means there is no door for the virus to enter, “and so the virus can’t get into the cells,” said Dr. Mario Ostrowski, a clinician-scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital who co-led the case with Walmsley. The new donor cells could also attack and eliminate the reservoir of virus-infected cells.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•After autistic child's wandering from school, experts say Ontario's special education needs more supportEnglish
31·4 months agoI have a friend who adopted an FASD child in Ontario. The family tried using the regular school system but the hoops they had to jump through, and the lack of funding for 1-on-1 care, became too much to deal with.
They finally decided to place the child in a religious private school where he had the freedom (and monitoring) that he needed, ie: when he became frustrated he was able to go outside and race around the church.
Maybe Drug Fraud could better fund 1-on-1 care in schools with that $29M he was going to spend on a private fucking jet.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Question for Canadians - do you say "zi" or "zed"?English
82·4 months agoZed.
Dunno who decided zee was a thing, but they were wrong.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Federal court judge grants last-minute delay for driver in Humboldt Broncos bus crash | Globalnews.caEnglish
163·4 months agoHe paid his dues according to our laws.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Experts report a surge in interest among American academics looking to move to CanadaEnglish
11·4 months agoYeah. I’m old now but have moved about a hundred times in my life. I hate it.
The one good thing about moving so often is I don’t have a ton of stuff to pack.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Experts report a surge in interest among American academics looking to move to CanadaEnglish
62·4 months agoHonestly I don’t think a lot of them would go back right away. It’s like that old saying, “Once bit, twice shy.”
If anything I think they’d be holding back moving so they could verify any positive changes in how the USA would operate would be permanent, and not just lip-service.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Kevin O'Leary pins water licence for $70-billion data centre project on a small Alberta municipalityEnglish
341·4 months agoHey Kev. Who was really driving the boat?
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Our old ambassador to the US is now the President of Palantir CanadaEnglish
101·4 months agoOfc he is. 😡
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Toronto police seize 'SMS blasters,' a cybercrime weapon never before seen in CanadaEnglish
31·4 months agoDamn. That sucks.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Toronto police seize 'SMS blasters,' a cybercrime weapon never before seen in CanadaEnglish
111·4 months agoMy bank (RBC) does, but luckily they also give me other options to choose from.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Dutch YouTube creators behind Alberta separatist videos getting millions of viewsEnglish
281·4 months agoThey should be reported on and arrested by Netherlands law enforcement.
Either that or hire a hacker to shut their ignorant asses down.
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Toronto's condo market 'hits bottom' with some developers looking at selling units below costEnglish
61·4 months agoGlad to help. ;)
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Canada@lemmy.ca•Prime minister should be required to divest assets, says committeeEnglish
112·4 months agoIt’s insuffient because …
" … the prime minister, as a reporting public office holder, is fully divested from their controlled assets through sale, since placement in a blind trust does not constitute true divestment."
The committe is also advising revisions that will affect other officials and cabinet ministers …
The committee also wants the law amended to require public disclosure of “high-level holdings categories placed in a blind trust by reporting public office holders (sector/asset class, and whether the holdings are Canadian-market concentrated),” a recommendation that could shed new light on the financial interests of a number of top officials and cabinet ministers.
It’s all in the very short article link.








Jfc. :/