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grte,

“have to be”

grte,

In the video, a man wearing what appears to be a commissionaire’s jacket sits dimly lit behind the wheel of vehicle.

He speaks of his “mission” to fight tyranny and corruption in society. The four-minute speech, delivered calmly and dispassionately, criticizes inflation, expensive housing, multiculturalism, “wokeism,” the fighting in Gaza, immigration, bullying, racism and genocide.

That’s quite the grab bag. It’s like he’s fully bought into the reactionary nativist politics some sectors are selling, but can’t see the direct correlation between that and his last three complaints.

grte,

spoilerChart showing Canada’s wealth distribution by income level

I feel like this chart tells a pretty clear story about where all our affordability issues are coming from.

I also suspect if the top quintile were separated out into it’s own graph of this nature, it would probably have a similar look where the majority of the wealth held by that 20% is held by the top few percent of the group.

grte,

You elected Justin Trudeau, and he seized the bank accounts. You’re just fucking pathetic. And the fact that you have no fucking backbone, and have him shut down your country and seize fucking bank accounts

This is the distilled propaganda line US right wing media is pushing about Canada since the convoy, by the way. To the extent that we get mentioned, this is the image that’s being crafted about us for about 35-45% of the US.

grte,

I find it strange that Canada could complete the Canada Pacific Railway in 1881 with a population of 4 million and the Trans Canada Highway in 1962 with a population of 18 million but such a national project in 2024 with a population of 40 million is impossible. More like, ever since the funding strategy for infrastructure moved over to the P3 model primarily, infrastructure investments can only happen if a private organization can profit from them in the relatively short term. And this makes the investment costs of such mega projects too high for private interests to want to take on. But no one points at the CPR or the Trans Canada Highway and frets about the costs now. The value of the investments are apparent. They built the country we live in. A trans national hsr network would do the same.

grte,

That of course is a sad fact of our history. However, the productivity of the average worker is also much greater than it was back then. We aren’t exactly laying down large infrastructure projects with gangs of guys using hand tools anymore, or at least not nearly to the same degree. So I think we can keep production costs down (relative to inflationary differences between then and now) minus the racial oppression and awful working conditions.

grte,

Doesn’t seem like a believable motivation to me. You don’t need to literally light things on fire to tell when forest conditions are like a tinderbox, let alone do it 14 times. I figure this guy knew in his gut that the government was setting those fires, and if he could just find some evidence then he could crack the whole case open and people would stop calling him crazy. Of course he can’t find any such evidence (because it doesn’t exist) but he knows in his heart what’s happening so what’s the harm with creating some ‘evidence’ to move things along?

grte,

Those fried eggs were premade and came from a case in the freezer. 100%.

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Hasbro is a terribly run company which is currently in the process of butchering the couple golden geese it has.

grte,

The notwithstanding clause is only ever used to suppress the rights of groups a given provincial government doesn’t like. It’s inclusion in the Charter was a mistake and as long as it remains all of our ‘rights’ are merely privileges.

BBC is starting its own Mastodon instance. The CBC should do the same.

As it says in the title, the BBC is starting its own Mastodon instance. I think the CBC (and other news networks) should do similar. Particularly with the recent passing of Bill C-18 it seems like a world where the links we share are crossposts to news organization’s own content is the perfect resolution to that whole issue.

grte,

They will. My experience community building thus far is that if you can build up one anchor community to the point where people are organically sharing content and commenting, other adjacent communities will start to generate the same sorts of things with smaller subscriber bases because that anchor community is keeping people’s eyes here. Just a question of time.

grte,

Or the instruction manual when those were a thing.

grte,

As someone who’s been put through the wringer by a job before a lot of what this employee is saying is familiar to me. There’s a couple details of the story I’d like to focus on, though.

His doctor diagnosed severe burnout and prescribed time off work and psychotherapy.

But when he applied for short-term disability to take that break, Manulife — which provides insurance benefits for RBC — rejected the claim.

Why is this even a thing? The guy got his prescription, who is a private company to tell the guy his doctor’s prescription is wrong?

Manulife initially rejected the employee’s request for short-term disability because because the company doesn’t recognize it as a condition that’s covered.

When he returned to his doctor for further medical testing, he was also diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder and major depressive episode — not uncommon, according to Alani-Verjee.

“Burnout kind of becomes an umbrella term for those major depressive symptoms and those anxiety symptoms,” she said.

Armed with that diagnosis, the employee tried again to get short-term disability coverage. But again, Manulife declined.

In a letter to him, which Go Public translated from French, the insurance giant outlined its reasons.

Among other things, Manulife said his condition was not severe because he was not prescribed medication, only therapy — an argument which frustrates Alani-Verjee, who says using psychotherapy as a first line of treatment is common and recommended.

This is why we must fight against the privatization of our healthcare. Financial arguments aside, is this really the future anyone wants? Where the treatment prescribed by our doctor is unavailable to us because a private entity who’s primary motivation is profit will do whatever they can to weasel out of having to provide that treatment?

The financial planner says when he told his manager that his mental health was suffering and he needed time off, she didn’t listen.

Instead, he says, she encouraged him to get back on track, saying she had confidence he could do the job.

“She would tell me she cared, but I wouldn’t see any real concrete action from her part,” he said. “They talk about mental health, but I’ve seen no help whatsoever.”

Back to the topic of the article, this is about what you can expect to hear if you do get into a burnout situation. For all that mental health gets talked about in this day and age, the reality is, your health is only of interest to the extent that you’re able to be at work and do the job. In terms of your long term health, most bosses aren’t going to care about that. Whatever it takes to get you back on the floor so they can squeeze those last drops of juice from you.

grte,

Let's hope so. Let's have less merging and more breaking up.

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