Break it then privatize it … that’s her plan.

Exactly. Consider it like family X making $220,000 combined income, but paying $44,000 in federal taxes. The remaining $176 is the family’s money to spent (at least before the provincial tax slice). Edit: and to be clear, $440B is federal taxes. Some of the things you mentioned are paid for by provincial or municipal taxes.

Chidi Nwagbo says he made a “stupid” decision paying human smugglers to get him into Canada that left him permanently scarred and in the hands of the very U.S. immigration authorities he was trying to flee. The 57-year-old says he paid $2,000 US in cash to a human smuggling organization in New Jersey to escape the immigration raids sweeping the U.S. He says the smugglers lied to him about the dangers of the journey that almost killed him along the borderlands between New York State and Quebec in February of this year. “If I had known that this would have been the outcome, I don’t think I would have done it,” said Nwagbo in a phone interview with CBC News from the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre in Batavia, N.Y.

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OK, and who appoints the Board? And who sets government policy and tables a budget that determines what the CMHC can realistically do? This is absolutely the responsibility of the federal government, even if they don’t author these reports.

Im corpo whore and not golfing has stifled my progression but I’ll be damned if I learn to golf.

Is the lesson that conservatives are idiots and scum, and under no circumstances should they be allowed to make decisions of import?

They can make the environment livable for every animal in BC except for humans.

Yep,and people are loving the ai slop. It’s horrible as well… when each instrument is isolated… oof. The future is not looking good.

“It’s almost certain that even after the 2026 deadline passes, many parents in five provinces will be paying more than $10 a day for child care,” Macdonald said.

Any military is inherently an authoritarian organization, which means that it is far more right than left, and that it works constantly to preserve its traditions and hierarchy. It has to resist change that compromises the authority of orders. Otherwise it’s a gang. In order to succeed, military people must be trained to be obedient, and to believe their cause is just, and lawful. The CAF needs to guard against acts and attitudes that are outside of law, while maintaining the necessary ethos. The incidence of “far right” attitudes and activities is low in my opinion but has been dealt with harshly. It ain’t easy being green.

there’s a big strategic hole in this article. The federal govt. spends first, taxes later. So spending isn’t constrained by taxes collected. The debt/deficit argument is ONLY used against social spending. When it comes to pro-capital spending, the argument vanishes. $40B for pipelines? $150B in military spending? $80B in annual subsidies to give big investors risk-free bonds to buy? These are also all deficit spending. Progessives should avoid reinforcing the debt/deficit spending myth, since it’s only used against progressive spending.

Zionist organizations cannot credibly address the full spectrum of hate in Canada, and should not shape how it’s prosecuted In May, the Manitoba government announced through a news release that it, along with the federal government, was partnering with the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) to “provide specialized training to Crown attorneys on prosecuting hate crimes.” Antisemitism is a real and pernicious problem in Canada, and prosecutors should be equipped to combat it. However, antisemitism is not the only form hate crimes can take, and CIJA cannot credibly claim expertise on Islamophobia, anti-Indigenous racism, or other manifestations of hate. The organization’s demonstrable anti-Palestinian politics should in fact disqualify it from being considered by both levels of governments as an authority on hate crime.

In our case there was no observation. We didn’t have a pediatrician. Yay Canadian healthcare. We went to a medical clinic with a nurse practitioner who did that and circumcisions. That would make me tend to believe it was considered a medical procedure in that province and not dental. Regardless it’s very inefficient and a good reason our healthcare systems are falling apart. There is a dental clinic in most hospitals. In large centers it’s staffed like an ER. There certainly was in the hospital we were in. Having worked in EMS I had been in that clinic before. We fed our baby through a tube for a month for no good reason at the very start of his life when he could have been feeding from his mother or a bottle. Further increasing his chances of needing more healthcare in the future. I don’t know. it’s frustrating that we have all the science and studies to tell us what is good and bad for us but the very providers of our healthcare don’t follow that information in many circumstances.

A dentist friend says the administrator for the national program (Sun Life?) is much pickier and harder to work with than private insurers. Is that a bad thing? I dunno. I assume they don’t want to rubber stamp public expenditures, but it seems weird to be picky about cleanings for the poor.

I like multi unit buildings like this but I sorta wish they required them to have flat accessible roof gardens, or at least any new ones that are made.

Negotiations behind the scenes are probably tough. Canada is not letting the US push them around. So, Trump acts tough and applies pressure publicly. 1 - maybe it works and Canada caves 2 - if Canada does not cave, he can sign whatever and simply announce that it is the best deal ever (like he did with NAFTA / USMCA). He has already shown his supporters how hard he fought. 3 - if anybody makes a big deal that he got a bad deal, he can always break the agreement (like he did with USMCA)

When they are talking about hsr, they are referring to the Windsor Quebec corridor, where most of the people actually live.

It’s climate denial dressed up. The US lawmakers wanted a chance to get their “forest managemt” narrative in front of people again.

It’s much more than that, it’s a decades old problem of slowing population growth and the impact from it. North America’s least favorite economicbsuccess story is the population boom after WW2. We tell ourselves tales of ingenuity and hard work but the fact is we owe much economic success to growing the population whole other countries needed to rebuild. In the context of colleges and schools, we see a decade long period of increasing domestic demand as population and education requirements grow. But, as population growth slows the colleges find themselves with enough capacity for a generation that already graduated, with no new domestic students coming. So they fill the capacity with international students, who also help fill the missing economic capacity. The recent changes leave colleges with the original problem, capacity built for boomers and their children being far too much for the children of millennials. So they’re shrinking now. The colleges are a kind of microcosm of our entire economy. Population growth is slowing long term, and economic fallout will follow. I wish I had solutions to our problems that didn’t involve a time machine. We needed to not stop building public housing 40 years ago, we put ourselves in a housing trap that’s going to be hard to get out off. Colleges are just a prominent example.