Or, in other words, if a business requires workers to be subsidized in order to remain in business, it has an exceedingly shitty business plan and should be allowed to fail.

Maybe said owners need to put off that Yacht or Maserati purchase for a few weeks and use that to make wages attractive and liveable?

The entire Canadian economy would be negatively effected in the long-term by such a move.

TIL a higher standard of living is a “negative effect”.

This would be a bad deal for Canada.

Point out even a single Canadian-made EV that would be affected by this.

There are no negative effects, so long as the vehicles pass safety standards. Bonus if we can enter into partnerships that would see those EVs assembled here.

And the low cost of these EVs would make vehicle ownership far easier for our young people, who already have an environment 8× more expensive (compared to their median wage) than their parents experienced at the same age.

Why do we need to burn billions of dollars a year, in funds that could be better allocated to health care, building hospitals, education, whatever else, fighting opioid addictions, crime, green infrastructure investment, I could go on and on.

Zero-sum arguments are the Overton window that the wealthy and powerful have permitted you to debate within. The premise you bring forth here is both ridiculous and intellectually insulting, not the least because it wouldn’t even be an issue if the wealthy just paid their fair share.

Do better.

Grandma is going to have to figure out how to get her bills electronically

With what? No computer, no clue how to use one, no real ability to learn, requiring dozens of hours of professional instruction to get the simplest workflows which are forgotten within a few days of non-use, constantly at risk of scams and phishing because she has absolutely no experience with the Internet, and absolutely no interest in learning when she’s already 95% done her lifespan and has difficulty even remembering what day of the week it is.

It’s like you being forced to spend outrageous amounts of money on an electric car simply because someone else decided to stop all gasoline production and distribution in Canada.

Fact is, everyone deserves to have access to all traditional communication, be it phones (you pay for that) or Internet (you also pay for that), or snail mail (also, paid for). We need a fundamental mode of communication that is not restricted to a privileged class simply because they can afford it, and whom everyone can make use of with almost zero resources.

That’s the written word, on paper, passed along via a public service that exists to enrich everyone, and not just those who are already fantastically wealthy.

A postal service is a service. As in, it exists to benefit the citizenry, and for no other reason. A profit margin was never meant to be a part of that.

Bring Canada Post back into being 100% a crown corporation again. Make its mandate to be a service centre, and not a profit/revenue centre.

You need only to look at his ideology to realize that Charlie Kirk was 100% in support of his own assassination.

And that he would have also been 100% in favour of this professor’s right to speak her mind.

This, exactly. They’re letting the violent bullies dictate the terms.

And that never ends well.

I kept reading about people having trouble during the restore process.

It is Duplicati, and IMHO restores work best if they aren’t restores-in-place. As in, dump the restores in a central location then drag-and-drop the data into place. Most of the issues I have heard of involve restoring data and settings back to where it originally was backed up from, and restoring directly back to those places - other than fully user-controlled directories, such as Documents or Photos - seems to be problematic.

Other than that, I have been using it for nearly a decade and have done a number of restores - after total drive deaths, so not just accidentally deleted files - to great success.

The downside is that tweaking backups from within the hidden C:\Users\[username]\AppData\ directory involves many days of whack-a-mole to exclude untouchable normally-in-use files so you don’t get scads of errors in the backup process. Plus, there are a fair number of entries in there that don’t really need backing up. But once you get that to settle down, it’s largely smooth it’s-set-so-forget-it sailing.

About the same point that the Americans figured it out. Some of them haven’t yet.

MAGA farmers voted that shit in because they thought all the bad shit would happen to someone else.

Problem is, Fascism/Authoritarianism doesn’t give a shit who it hurts, only that the ultra-wealthy benefit.

And so, all working class voters must be hurt, even those who voted the Fascists/Authoritarianists into power.

And yet, almost 100% of Orchardists and Farmers have and will continue to vote for him, despite the entire industry absolutely requiring foreign workers in order to exist.

I wonder how long it would take for those people to hit the FO part of FAFO, if this were to ever pass?

How can we expect kids to mature and learn responsibly and citical thinking if we remove challenging material?

Conservatism requires an un-educated/under-educated electorate that can be trivially manipulated using alternative facts. It just cannot survive otherwise.

That’s not to say conservatism doesn’t have its fair share of intelligent people. But they’re the ones at the top or using money to manipulate the party from the shadows, trying to get the working class to vote against their own best interests.

For every C-Suite salary that you bring down to a professor’s wages, you free up enough money to hire about 3-4 more professors, and up to 6 more at places like UBC.

There is more than enough money at these institutions to keep all the staff gainfully employed, you just have to start economizing from the top.

Seconded. I watch CBC precisely because of their unbiased, unvarnished reporting of the horrors that the Palestinian people are suffering from.

And the title of this video - which I can only assume was fake and has been taken down, because it is currently inaccessible - is somewhat unbelievable. Why would oppressed natives, themselves victims of genocidal colonizers, support the genocidal colonizers of another place?

And what happened with Waco? A lot of the top morons died. And then nothing more happened. No grand uprising, no wider movement against the government.

They are killing people for not being able to afford basic healthcare

It’s up to you to prove that statement. Provide us with the records that highlight these reasons.

But you can’t. Because they don’t exist. They never have. You’ve been brainwashed into believing anti-reality fantasies.

But I hear the Canadian government abuses it for eugenics purposes.

The problem with this is that it is trivially disprovable.

Of all the cases that allow MAiD to proceed, less than 2% are for non-terminal diseases or afflictions. The other 98% are for cases where recovery will be impossible, pain tends to be immense and untreatable, and any continuing “life” will be an increasing torture for the subject.

Allowing the subjects to choose their own deaths is a blessing. it allows them to go out on their own terms, instead of being kept alive as a near-corpse on life support, or screaming in pain all the way until their hearts seize up from the stress.

The people for whom MAiD most benefits would be utterly unserved by “better healthcare”. By the time they need it, no amount of “better healthcare” can help.

They just want people to die

And you just want unnecessary, torturous cruelty. Cruelty by forcing people to linger on in abject pain and confusion and non-life for your own selfish reasons.

Quit being a bigot.

Edit: do you know what doctor’s Hippocratic Oath says?

It says “Do No Harm.”

And forcing a person with an incurable, painful, lingering death is not just horrifically harmful, it is Satan-levels of harm in most cases. It is hell on Earth.

You want to be as cruel and evil as Satan? Do that for yourself. Just stay TF away from everyone else.

TL;DR: just like the old saying goes, if you don’t like assisted suicide, don’t use that method yourself. Stay the hell out of other people’s lives.

I’m sure that would immediately put my father’s untreatable dementia into immediate remission. /s

I’m sure my father’s untreatable dementia will just self-cure upon hearing your obscenely ignorant statement.

And for the record, non-terminal/non-disease reasons account for less than 2% of people reaching for this service. It’s practically a rounding error.

a photo of the man has been released to the public as investigators urge more people with information to contact them.

Okay, so why does CHEK News not include this photo?

Like, jeez. My parents could have used the guy. They’re live in the same city of West Kelowna. They’re not his target demographic, but still.