And alt-right conservatives continue to openly demonstrate why Canada so desperately needs a well-funded, nation-wide network of mental health sanitariums that can thoroughly protect the wider public from them.

I would take the top-5 languages spoken in Canada and make the country multilingual based off of that.

If that just so happens to include Cantonese and Hindi, so be it.

If it includes Cree and/or Inuktitut, even better.

Sure, have English as the baseline. A baseline should always be the most spoken common language. But having an few other languages as “official” - and supporting numerous others in the way Europe does - would make Canada far more inclusive and intellectually robust.

We don’t have a drug crisis. It just doesn’t exist.

We have a trauma crisis which goes utterly unaddressed by policy makers, arising out of food insecurity, housing insecurity, massive economic inequality and lack of sufficient social safety nets.

This trauma, when left unaddressed, drives people to self-anesthetize said trauma with anything readily available… and with said “toxic drugs” simply being the most effective and efficient at that job.

Drugs are a symptom, not a cause, of our problems. You don’t band-aid a symptom unless you are perfectly fine with letting the problem get only worse. You leverage a symptom to identify and heal the underlying cause, because that is how problems get solved. Solve the problem, and the symptoms vanish.

It’s not the chemicals, it’s your cage.

the rest will retire in Kelowna.

Fuck, no! Not my home town! We have enough jacked-up and lifted pavement princesses with red license plates as it is!

our telecom infrastructure is privately owned.

This is the crux of the matter.

You look at Norway, Sweden and Finland, and you will find geography on-par with BC’s west coast and then some. And yet, they have full wired Internet access and LTE data throughout the region.

So geography is not a viable excuse.

OpenBSD does not have a docker engine. Can this be installed without docker?

Even if we limit ourselves to homes within city limits (so we aren’t talking about backwoods cabins, here), Canada has about 6 empty homes for every homeless person.

The problem isn’t a lack of homes, the problem is an excess of “investors” looking for a labour-free income stream parasitized off of the backs of the working class.

I am getting so sick of alt-right nutcases making up stories that they themselves would rather have a leading role in.

We all know most of the alt-right is just itching to unalive anyone not like them.

This is shameful. We should all be questioning Canada’s participation - or lack of action - in the genocide happening in Palestine. To have that kind of pro-genocide intimidation happening to anyone, much less legal scholars…

Involuntary detention is the unnecessarily cruel answer. It’s punishing people for the crime of being traumatized, and does so by healing even more trauma onto them, making them even less capable of recovering.

Involuntary detention the answer of choice by idiots and the ignorant, and by those for whom abject cruelty is the entire point.

Utterly shocking that this came from the NDP and not any Conservative Party - this is straight up the conservative’s alley, as the NDP tend to be far more science-aware and science-accepting than this.

including most income taxes.

Conditionally agree, except for the immediate effect of income taxes themselves: they are deducted straight from payroll, every time payroll happens, so they are taken on a much more frequent basis and before the paycheque is ever received by the worker.

This means that the worker does not need to allocate anything out of their paycheque towards those taxes because in most cases those taxes have already been fully paid. This dramatically lowers the cognitive load for the worker, who already has significant cognitive loads by virtue of their socioeconomic status.

So there is a downside to that method that I would seek to eliminate or dramatically smooth over so that the working class don’t have yet another brick to trip over in their lives.

This could be ameliorated by having “payroll” (and if need be, even time cards themselves) run through a CRA server that does all calculations and demands a certain amount of money from the employer such that wage theft (aside from tips and a few other things) is almost completely eliminated.

Any employer wanting to dispute when an employee clocked in needs to provide evidence that the employee lied about when they walked in. Government-provided time clocks could then accept standard-issue ID as evidence that the employee clocked in, as any normal person wouldn’t want to just give away their ID, and the employee could track everything through the CRA’s website. Even employee scheduling could be run through this, allowing the CRA to ding employers seeking to game the system for financial gain.

There are many options possible, we just need to engineer the entire system to benefit the working class and (rightly!) treat the employers as the adversarial and untrustworthy belligerents that they are. We could even engineer an entire “worker resources” division which protects the worker against employer depredations, instead of protecting the company at the expense of the worker.

Plus, a lot of property taxes and other local/regional usage income can be rolled up into the lease payments. What matters is how those leases are calculated, such that small/cheap properties for the working poor lease for almost nothing, but a McMansion (or actual mansion) would lease for a massive amount.

And an FN-P90 without the muzzle extension is also much more appropriate in an urban-warfare situation than any handgun.

150 rounds in 50-round magazines and in-stock storage for two magazines, UN ammunition that has limited range to avoid secondary fatalities, extremely short bullpup length for tight environments, two-handed use so it isn’t easily ripped from your grasp… the list goes on and on.

The working class is the class most likely to be negatively impacted or even die from climate change.

The working class is the class that has the least ability to make any effective changes to combat climate change.

In fact, many of the “actions” we are encouraged to do are explicit greenwashing and attempts by the Parasite Class to shift the burden of responsibility off of them (where almost all culpability originate from) and onto the working class (who cannot do anything about it).

So yeah, is it really surprising that anxiety is sky-high when the consequences are so severe but the primary instigators and generators are simultaneously blaming those who can do nothing about it and taking any legitimate powers away from us?

Now there is a chance for closure with that community. Let’s hope justice gets properly served.

Canada has plenty of room for new immigrants. What matters is acclimatization, education, and cultural harmonization, which takes time and cannot be rushed. We cannot just throw open our borders and accept anyone who applies… it needs to start slowly with good systems and workflows in place, and we currently don’t even have that with our now-reduced volumes.

Now granted, much of our northern regions are - currently! - uninhabitable. But if we were to target the same population density as Germany, we could hold 2.4B people.

That’s a quarter of the current human population, and a shitton of unused potential. We could easily become a global superpower with that amount of talent.

But in this car it’s metal, which makes me wonder if it’s a semi-structural component and therefore the zip ties wouldn’t hold,

Even if it isn’t structural in the least, the massively increased stiffness of metal over even thick plastic means that even pretty minimal flexing of the vehicle’s chassis would eagerly shear any size of plastic zip ties off.

This is very much a consequence of paying technicians among the lowest wage in the industry and failing to mentor them effectively. Not to mention being ignored, unsupported, and abused by Manglement.

I love Canadian Tire for its breadth of products, and have almost always found the staff there to be eager and helpful, but I don’t make use of their vehicle services for a damn good reason.

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.