The eligibility criteria is different province to province. But generally speaking, if you meet the criteria for a prescription in your province, PrEP is covered mostly or entirely by your public health insurance.

To qualify, you have to be having dominantly or exclusively unprotected anal sex, with increased risks - (multiple partners, history of STIs, multiple prescriptions of PEP within 6 months, or sex with an HIV positive person who is not taking treatment/unknown viral load). That, or inject drugs and share injection supplies.

https://bccfe.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/PrEP-Enrolment-Prescription-Request-Form_v2026_06_02.pdf

https://www.prepalberta.ca/accessing-prep

Ontario has no criteria because you have to pay for it with private insurance, or already be so poor or so disabled that you qualify for financial assistance. Not all private insurance plans cover PrEP.

CATIE.ca is a great place to get all kinds of HIV & Hepatitis info, including how to access services.

Right, and what I’m saying is that the back of this package is identical to the photo provided here, except in French.

Considering it’s a Canadian product and there’s no French on this side, the back of the box probably has the same thing, but in French.

Are you looking for the nutrition info?

Do you work for one of those providers? Again, trying to figure out where you’re getting your information from. Not saying you’re incorrect; would just like to know where you sourced that info. It would be useful to reference in the future.

ISDE shows that Bell and Telus (and their sub-brands) also use B12, which is the same band AT&T and T-Mobile use for rural and building penetration. The big 3 also use B17, which I’m not even sure the US providers use. That said, I’m the first to admit my work with cellular mobility wasn’t at the granular level of specific frequency coverage. Hoping your info source can help clear that up.

Telus, Bell, and Freedom all use several other bands, along with B13, 66 and 71.

I’m curious where you got the info of no Telus, Bell, Freedom?

I agree with you. And I get so frustrated knowing the majority of the dimwits who voted for this won’t be the ones to feel the brunt of what they voted for. I wish it could be targeted: “Because you voted for us, you get to experience our “optimised” healthcare system first!”

The first KCD faced criticism for having exclusively white characters in it, and Vávra saying that was historically accurate (spoiler: people from Africa and Asia were in the Roman Empire at that time; generally as merchants or slaves). Vávra supported gamergate, and has always been vocally “anti woke”.

There was a surge in purchases of KCD2 when Vávra claimed Dragon Age Veilguard failed solely because of involving “gender politics” in the game, which gives you a pretty good idea of a large portion of the gamerbase for the KCD games.

You’ve made a good choice in not supporting this dipshit.

Are you reading anything you’re commenting on? Where in anything I’ve posted here, have I mentioned racism?

The NCR charge in relation to the two deaths cannot be appealed.

What is being appealed is the charge of driving without a license, and endangerment: the charges placed by the police when he was originally pulled over. His lawyer is appealing those charges because that’s what defence lawyers do. The lawyer is literally doing his job.

Al Jamoud was found Not Criminally Responsible. The article you linked, and most mainstream media hype this as “a criminal getting away scott free” I addressed the fact he was found NCR, and what that actually means, the safety measures put in place, and how they are assessed.

But sure, bud, whatever you say.

I agree, it is horrible that it takes people dying for some of these folks to get help. I do think that your focus on the trauma of refugees is slightly misplaced. Refugees and immigrants are not over-represented in the NCR population. There are more elderly Canadian-born men, Rich Canadian-born women, and Canadian-born college students than there are refugees who are NCR - just like there are more of those demographics at the macro level in Canada. This indicates it has less to do with habits and cultural baggage, and much more to do with Canada’s lack of accessible mental health support for all residents. We have no insights into this particular individual, however, most people deemed NCR have prior history of accessing mental health support; or attempting, but failing, to access those supports. Our healthcare systems are not set up to ensure people with mental health difficulties have access to the level of care that would be needed to proactively intervene, or keep communities safe.

It’s also troubling that this incident happened immediately after engaging with Law enforcement. This indicates a lack of training and/or investment in the person they were engaging: The officers stopped this individual, who was driving erratically with no license, and did not recognize that this person was unsafe to drive. It’s disheartening that lives could have been saved if these officers had picked up on this person entering a PTSD attack. It unfortunately reflects a larger issue of law enforcement being ill prepared/ill supported (be that burnout/compassion fatigue, or just not having access to social workers/community deescalation supports) and it resulting in people being hurt/killed when mental health is a factor.

There is pearl clutching every time an article about an NCR determination is shared here, and it shows how much the average person doesn’t know about our legal system. So here’s an overview of Not Criminally Responsible:

The 6 months mentioned in this article was the time taken to assess them, ensure they’re fit to stand trial, and the trial itself. It’s not a standard time, these cases usually take forever.

Assuming the person is found fit to stand trial, the judge will remand them to the forensic psychiatry department where they will be assessed 24/7 by a team of senior psychiatric professionals. No one working here is fresh out of school; they all have years of experience, and have expertise in symptoms and treatments of mental health issues. They can dell the difference between a personality disorder and psychosis, and because there is always a team of professionals around, they figure out if someone is trying to fake an illness pretty damn quickly.

The unit staff are tasked with many things, including stabilising the individual prior to their court appointment whenever possible. More central to the main NCR conversation is them determining whether the person was aware of their actions, and the consequences of their actions at the time they committed the crime. If they were aware of both or either, they are not considered NCR. Once the assessment is complete, the lead psychiatrist will be summoned to court to present their findings and expert testimony. With that information, the judge will determine whether the individual is NCR or not.

Assuming they are found NCR, they are then under the purview of a board which consists of 5 people: the chair; who has a legal background (judge/lawyer), a medical doctor, a psychiatrist, a layperson, and one other individual who can be a second of any of the other 4 roles.

The board determines the requirements to keep the community safe, as well as what is needed to keep the individual healthy. This means the board decides where this person can live, who they must live with (someone responsible for them), where they can go, who they can see, what they can do, what they may purchase (if relevant to their charge), what they may own, what medications and treatments they must undergo, how often they must be in contact with forensic psychiatry supports, their lawyer, and the board. None of that is optional, and if they fail to comply, either by choice or illness, the police will bring them back to remand.

Unlike a guilty charge, there is no end date for being NCR. This will be this person’s life for the foreseeable future, until the board determines that they have been mentally stable, compliant, and self-managing for a long enough time as to no longer be considered a risk. For anyone who has experience with the illnesses/conditions that tend to contribute to these situations (psychosis, dementia, certain types of brain damage, etc.), they can attest that these illnesses do not -do- stability. This means most people who are NCR have their lives controlled by a board for a very, very long time. Much longer than the jail term would have been, had they not been found NCR.

This isn’t the “get out of jail free” card media has portrayed it to be. And if you made it to the bottom of this essay, congrats: you now know a crap tonne more about how our legal system works than the average Canadian.

100%. And if we’re actually trying to keep these folks from relapsing we need additional supports past the acute detox stage. Additional essential care (low cost/free food, clothing, health insurance, etc.) mental health supports, OT supports because adulting is fucking hard, and social supports.

In my area, we’ve lost a huge number of our free/low cost third spaces, which isolates the folks who need that social safety net the most. It also means the spaces available that don’t involve alcohol, which can be a gateway back to other substances, are dwindling.

Anyway, we can’t just release people into the world and go “you’re cured!” There’s a reason they turned to substance use in the first place.

There are other sports that penalise the offending fans’ team for fan misbehaviour, delays to game, etc. Lacrosse, and soccer, do at least. It’s an effective way to get fans to settle down when their actions cost their team possession, a penalty shot, etc. So maybe don’t remove the team, but I don’t see why they can’t do something similar.

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.

I wish we had a Canadian option. In the meantime, I’ll use Steam for reference, and buy on GOG.

Covid-19 causes permanent damage, and immune dysregulation in every person who is infected, each time they are infected, so it’s no surprise other viruses are now having larger impacts.

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/beyond-long-covid-1.7485888

Nope, measles is up to six times more contagious (UNICEF measures it as only two times more infectious). It doesn’t help that the world in general has gotten really lax about how dangerous Covid is, particularly with the latest variants, so our baseline is off.

https://www.med.ubc.ca/news/5-things-you-didnt-but-should-know-about-measles/

https://www.unicef.org/uzbekistan/en/stories/how-dangerous-measles

Agreed; it’s not worth the rhetoric and actions. And while there’s definitely merit in assessing trans athletes to try and keep things as fair as possible (though they never stopped Phelps from competing, so “fair” is kind of a joke), it’s far more complex than a simple “there was testosterone so they have an advantage!”

For the “nonathletic” groups - think community-level sport - based on what data is available, there is effectively no statistical difference between cis and trans women’s physical performance after 2+ years on hormone therapy.

When it comes to elite athletes, trans women outperformed cis women in Fat-free mass index, Absolute hand grip strength, and Absolute Vo2Max, but under-performed in Relative VO2Max to mass, Ratio of expiratory volume to vital lung capacity, and Absolute countermovement jump (lower body power). The lower Relative VO2Max, and Expiratory volume can lead to disadvantages in terms of speed, recovery and endurance.

While hand grip strength is considered an indicator of overall muscle strength, to quote the first article linked:

The correlations between hand grip strength and individual sports are reviewed comprehensively in Cronin et al. Though maximum hand grip strength has a strong relationship with maximum upper or body strength in some movement patterns such as in powerlifting strength, there are weaker relationships with other movement patterns. There is evidence that hand grip strength is a poor correlate of knee flexion or extension strength and is far more reliable as a marker of physical function if used together with lower limb strength. Hand grip strength is more relevant for some physical performance activities such as rotational movements that transfer force and torque to the hand (ie, ball throwing), but shows poor correlation to movement patterns that require technical ability, physical capacity, aerobic fitness or tactical ability (ie, tennis stroke placement or cricket fielding performance)

It will require a lot more information before any athletics group would be able to make a truly informed decision, and it’s going to have to be sport by sport. Elite athletes are all outliers in their genetic makeup (Phelps, The average height of a WNBA player, etc). We know athletes have different hormone levels depending on the sport they play, but it’s chicken vs. egg on whether the hormones or elite performance came first. So trying to decide what is an acceptable advantage re: “pro athlete genetics”, vs. an unacceptable advantage re: “transgender genetics” is little more than opinions and politics at this point.

/info dump

Missed the sarcasm, I see.