Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the federal government will stop investing in new road infrastructure — a comment that immediately drew the ire of the Opposition Conservatives and some premiers who said the climate activist turned politician is out of touch....
The federal government also wants to encourage “active transportation,” which means getting people to walk and cycle.
Don’t just encourage it.
Feds need to incentivize people and invest in programs to support it. Bypass Premiers who oppose, and directly fund municipalities who want to build out their active transportation networks.
“… Canada will be sending wildland firefighting help, also thanking Chile for its “invaluable support” last summer, when Chile helped Canada fight unprecedented wildfires…”
But, yeah. Canada’s forests will likely burn strong again this summer, and the next, and the next. We’ll need help from whoever can offer it.
Half of Canadians are already living paycheck to paycheck, and they are expected to have at least $2 million in the bank in order to not die homeless and hungry when they “retire”?
How grim does our future need to look before society slaps itself in the face and demands to have better wealth distribution?
In its current state, both Loblaw and Walmart Canada have so far refused to sign on to the grocer code of code that has been in development since fall 2021.
Disband these grocery cartels and come up with a better food distribution system that works for the people.
I mean, what the hell is this anyway? Our government has more than enough power to force these companies into the ground if they don’t comply, so move that muscle and work for the taxpayers who are being robbed by these corporations!
Which mental illness would benefit from MAID? Is there a concept of terminal mental illness in a way the patient would … suffer for the rest of their life?
Yes, quite a few, except they just get lumped into suicide cases because they could never find a treatment that helped.
It’s easy to treat “the blues”, seasonal depression, and depression caused by an event.
It’s not nearly as easy to treat major depression, bipolar disorder, major anxiety disorders, and a whole host of other mental illnesses that can cause prolonged suffering spanning decades without relief.
I think its cruel to not offer MAID in these circumstances.
Many of these people will decide to take their own lives with or without the government’s support.
And in those cases, the results are far worse, and considerably more traumatic, for the family of those people.
While browsing the goods at a Value Village store in Toronto, Evan Boyce spotted something he didn’t expect: A used vase for sale with a Value Village price tag of $8.99. Then he realized the original price tag was still on — and to buy it at a Dollarama store would have cost only $3....
Canada’s new 988 suicide prevention helpline has received approximately 1,000 calls and nearly 450 texts per day since its launch in November, according to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), which operators say is consistent with what they expected.
Hypothetically, they would break down when they enter sewers.
I’m not saying they exist, I’m saying big pharma can most certainly invent them with their billions of extra profits they make per year.
It’s more like we need to spend money figuring out better ways to treat sewage to remove substances of concern. That includes medicine but also stuff like PFAS and microplastics.
I don’t disagree, but this puts the onus on taxpayers and municipal water treatment plants, rather than industry.
Industry should be paying for the mess created by the products they manufacturer and sell.
I think billions can accomplish a lot. Installing new water treatment technology isn’t solving the problem. Meds are used in places where this advanced water cleaning tech will never be available.
It needs to start at the drugs, and save us all a lot of grief downstream.
Do I think it’s trivial? Not at all, but I’m sure governments can pressure the industry to do more.
About the same number of Indigenous children are permanently in poverty across Canada and no one ever thinks about doing anything about it.
For the record, Canada has spent tens of billions of dollars over the last decade to support our indigenous people. This is over 150% more than in previous years.
Change doesn’t happen overnight, but significant progress has been made, and continues to be made.
Nearly every municipality that I’m aware of also celebrates our first nation people, and gives a land acknowledgement with every single event, council meeting, public gathering, etc.
I can understand your frustration, but to say that Canada isn’t doing anything about, or that no one ever thinks about it, is not accurate.
it’s always been a joke to me for Canada to say it’s a first world country when a million of it’s people live in third world conditions.
Name one country, just one, where there isn’t a segment of the population that lives in poverty.
It’s unfair to single-out Canada, although I do empathize and want more support for our indigenous populations. I think that many of us do!
it’s still a debate with very stereotypical, short sighted and even racist overtones in many groups, including those in government.
This is very much a shame, and hopefully it’s only a matter of time before those groups/people fade away, because that is not what Canada is about.
I am optimistic that things will continue to change for the better, especially when I see more celebrations of indigenous culture being offered throughout the region I live in.
Even the inclusion of smudging ceremonies at helps to raise more awareness, and I’m seeing more of that, even in events not specifically focused on indigenous culture.
Families Minister Jenna Sudds says provinces and territories signed $10-a-day child care agreements with the federal government with their 'eyes wide open,' and Ottawa now expects them to make the program work.
See if your region or municipality offers subsidies. In Durham Region, there’s no waiting list, and I believe they’ll cover up to half the cost of daycare as a subsidy.
Also, look at local YMCAs, which seem to have low(ish) rates already.
Researchers say 64 people in Quebec donated their organs after receiving medical assistance in dying between 2018 and the end of 2022, representing 14 per cent of all gifted organs in the final year of the study....
… many of the 245 people referred for donation withdrew from the process over concerns about some aspect of it, but there’s no detailed data about their reasons.
We really need to find out what reasons they would have had.
Outside of “religious beliefs”, which would have sent them to hell for suicide anyway, there aren’t any overwhelmingly good reasons to not donate your organs after death.
Such a shame, really. Each person had the potential to save many other lives.
Should someone suffer in hell for 10 years? 25 years? 59 years without any relief?
Medication doesn’t work for everyone, and they come with side effects which can exacerbate mental illness.
Cognitive therapy doesn’t work for everyone either.
It’s easy for them to say “who has not had the opportunity”, but that sounds like arrogance. As if everyone with mental illness can be successfully treated.
People considering maid aren’t just feeling under the weather, their existence is suffering to a level that these doctors could never imagine.
It’s selfish to the extreme, and extreme in its cruelty, to force someone to suffer. Or worse, to force them to take an undignified exit from this world alone.
Alberta's oilsands operations produce far more potentially harmful air pollutants than officially recorded — putting the daily output on par with those from gridlocked megacities like Los Angeles, new research suggests.
Ah, yes. Like the reports that Dupont gave when their toxic chemicals were poisoning an entire town and their own employees, but tHe LeVeLs ArE sAfE.
“Industry reports” like that need to result in some major jail time for everyone important at these companies. Better yet, shut down their entire operation and let them go bankrupt. It’s clear that whatever they are doing is not only destructive to the environment, but to human health. SHUT IT ALL DOWN.
The governments of Manitoba and Saskatchewan say they are concerned about the potential risks of allowing Canadians to seek medical assistance in dying solely on the basis of a mental illness.
Perhaps they don’t know anyone who’s struggled through a lifetime of mental illness that no doctor or medication can help with. Worse, they get no assistance from the government, so they are left struggling to support themselves for decades.
If you can’t help them live, at least help them die. Unending suffering isn’t a way to live.
The results show that wearing a mask led to a reduction of 2.76 cases per 100,000 people, and a 0.19 per cent reduction in the mortality rate worldwide.
And they would have been even more effective if we didn’t have such a large number of idiots who were against wearing masks, against getting vaccines, against lockdowns, against social distancing, against listening to their doctor, and who generally hated their families enough to not care!
A visitor from the U.S. got more than they asked for at a Toronto hotel restaurant when they ordered a cheeseburger on Monday night that was served with a waiver on the side.
After reading the article, I’m on the hotel’s side.
If someone asks for meat to be prepared in a way that Health Canada says is below the optimal temperature to kill pathogens, then the customer is putting themselves at risk and should bare any liability.
If someone asked for unpasteurized milk, raw eggs, or live seafood, I’d expect them to get the same waiver.
The Special Investigation Unit says police did not respond to the scene after an initial 911 domestic disturbance call was made from the residence, or to a follow-up call to “cancel” the first call for service.
They won’t respond to the first call if a second call canceled it.
The question is, did the victim cancel the call or did the person who caused her death?
Same with events that exclude attendance based on sex/gender.
There’s a time and a place.
For example, a “women’s only” group may be for a group of women who are healing from a sexually violent relationship, so they really don’t want to see men there.
But a parent and child group that excludes races? That just a gross kind of bigotry.
I'm getting up to your age, but over the last few years I've been spending less time (nearly no time) playing video games, and I grew up with them! The only exception is if my son and I are playing together, then I don't mind sinking a few hours into it.
Gaming is an investment of time.
Not that I find it unacceptable, especially if that's a pastime or hobby, but the older I get, the more I realize that I don't **want ** to spend any more time than I need to in front of a screen.
My priorities and commitments have also changed over the years, so any "free time" I get is usually spent maintaining the house, fixing something, running errands, being outdoors, or preparing meals for my family.
As a side note, I think some of my feelings have also been caused by the direction the gaming industry has gone.
I simply don't have the patience to be bothered with today's video game business model to really care at all about investing time into it. Microtransactions, "seasons", Gold/Platinum/GOTY/ versions, unnecessary grinds to get non-important stuff, ads in the console dashboard and in games, etc.
I'm more likely to play a retro game off an emulator than I am playing one on my Xbox Series X on a 120Hz, 4K, OLED TV.
Feds will stop investing in new road infrastructure, environment minister says (www.cbc.ca)
Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault says the federal government will stop investing in new road infrastructure — a comment that immediately drew the ire of the Opposition Conservatives and some premiers who said the climate activist turned politician is out of touch....
Dismantling homeless camps violates human rights, says federal housing advocate (vancouver.citynews.ca)
Measles Is Coming Back. We’re Not Prepared | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)
Canada to help Chile battle wildfires (www.ctvnews.ca)
Canadians expect they need $1.7M to retire, BMO survey finds, but it's even more for millennials (ca.finance.yahoo.com)
Bank of Canada says housing affordability is about boosting supply, not lowering interest rates (www.cbc.ca)
Grocery code of conduct ‘will not work’ without Loblaw and Walmart, MPs told (globalnews.ca)
In its current state, both Loblaw and Walmart Canada have so far refused to sign on to the grocer code of code that has been in development since fall 2021.
Alberta’s New Policies: Anti-trans, Anti-evidence (thetyee.ca)
Our crack (head) Premier is at it again. Red meat for the base, harm for everyone else.
Many immigrants leaving Canada within years of arriving: StatCan (www.ctvnews.ca)
Canadians are going into debt to cover out-of-pocket cancer costs: survey (globalnews.ca)
'There was a whole slew of anti-nausea medications that I would have to take ... a lot of these medications were not covered under OHIP.'
Carbon capture tax credit could cost taxpayers $1B more than expected, PBO warns (www.cbc.ca)
Ottawa proposes delaying MAID expansion for patients with mental illness until 2027 (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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Consumers look to Value Village for a bargain. Many are finding 'ridiculous' markups (www.cbc.ca)
While browsing the goods at a Value Village store in Toronto, Evan Boyce spotted something he didn’t expect: A used vase for sale with a Value Village price tag of $8.99. Then he realized the original price tag was still on — and to buy it at a Dollarama store would have cost only $3....
National 988 suicide prevention helpline has received 1,000 calls, 450 texts per day since launch (www.ctvnews.ca)
Canada’s new 988 suicide prevention helpline has received approximately 1,000 calls and nearly 450 texts per day since its launch in November, according to the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), which operators say is consistent with what they expected.
Price increases coming to Metro stores as soon as next week, CEO says (www.cp24.com)
FYI, Metro “reported a first-quarter profit of $228.5 million”.
Medicinal drugs pollute the St. Lawrence River, presenting possible risk to aquatic organisms: Study (phys.org)
Child poverty is on the rise in Canada, putting over 1 million kids at risk of life-long negative effects (theconversation.com)
Provinces knew the deal when they signed on to $10-a-day child care: Liberal minister (www.ctvnews.ca)
Families Minister Jenna Sudds says provinces and territories signed $10-a-day child care agreements with the federal government with their 'eyes wide open,' and Ottawa now expects them to make the program work.
14% of Quebec's organ donors in 2022 were people who chose medically assisted death (www.cbc.ca)
Researchers say 64 people in Quebec donated their organs after receiving medical assistance in dying between 2018 and the end of 2022, representing 14 per cent of all gifted organs in the final year of the study....
Sask raises minimum age to buy tobacco and vape products starting February - Regina | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Opposition parties call for indefinite pause to MAID expansion for mental illness (www.cbc.ca)
Alberta's oilsands pump out more pollutants than industry reports, scientists find (www.cbc.ca)
Alberta's oilsands operations produce far more potentially harmful air pollutants than officially recorded — putting the daily output on par with those from gridlocked megacities like Los Angeles, new research suggests.
Manitoba, Saskatchewan raise concerns about upcoming expansion in assisted-dying eligibility (www.cbc.ca)
The governments of Manitoba and Saskatchewan say they are concerned about the potential risks of allowing Canadians to seek medical assistance in dying solely on the basis of a mental illness.
Canadian study finds COVID measures were effective in reducing cases, hospitalizations, mortality rate (globalnews.ca)
The results show that wearing a mask led to a reduction of 2.76 cases per 100,000 people, and a 0.19 per cent reduction in the mortality rate worldwide.
'I lost my appetite': Cheeseburger served with waiver at Toronto restaurant (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
A visitor from the U.S. got more than they asked for at a Toronto hotel restaurant when they ordered a cheeseburger on Monday night that was served with a waiver on the side.
Tens of thousands of Ukrainians expected to come to Canada in the next few months (halifax.citynews.ca)
Family grieves daughter who died after Thunder Bay police did not respond to 911 call (www.aptnnews.ca)
Posters for 'whites-only' parent-and-child group in Metro Vancouver draw outrage (www.cbc.ca)
What's the age cut off for socially acceptable gaming
So, hear me out....