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.

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.