Not a problem. It’s essentially rolled into our taxes for the most part in Canada. You may have health insurance on top of that, but that isn’t a guarantee and usually is a top-up of our universal coverage. This usually covers things like drug prescriptions, glasses, and hospital conveniences such as semi-private or private rooms. I agree with the general idea, though, that we as a group pay for everyone who is covered. My original point at the top of this thread is that removing people’s eligibility simply because of risky behavior can be very tricky and likely harmful to society.

What makes you think that I, posting in a Canadian community about a Canadian article, have a contract with a healthcare insurance company?

Free climbers don’t usually die the first time, either.

Housing can’t really be a free market for a number of reasons: captive market; regional market restrictions; and high barrier to entry, to name a few.

Here’s a link that gives some insight into the situation, courtesy of @avidamoeba@lemmy.ca .

Way to miss the point. It’s a good thing you don’t engage in any risky behavior, or anything that would have a negative impact on your health. I mean, it’s not like you would be a hypocrite, right?

Or subsidized industries.

The total new car market for 2023 was almost $90 billion. Of that, EV sales count for about 10.7%, or about $9.5 billion. Stats Can provides the first number, electricautonomy.ca was the source for the second, although they got their info from Stats Can, too.

There are a number of possible errors with this data, such as the percentage of EV sales being total sales vs. dollar sales, which would increase the amount spent on EVs since they tend to be more expensive.

So I drink more pop than I should. Why should I have to pay more for my healthcare than my buddy who had a habit of timing running green lights as soon as they turned green. That isn’t illegal, either, yet it’s very risky behavior. It didn’t work out for him just one time, and he nearly died. Why should taxpayers have to pay for him?

The answer is because the vast majority of us engage in risky behavior, or just have the bad taste of passing on our poor genetics to the next generation, and the social cost for penalizing people for not agreeing with societal norms are too high. This includes drug use, even legal ones like alcohol. Sure, don’t spend limited resources such as donated livers on people who aren’t willing to make the lifestyle changes required to make it worthwhile, because someone else will probably have to die for that to happen. But if we could make new livers and the price was reasonable, I wouldn’t even be against that.

I’ll give you an upvote just for knowing what type of gem it was. So many South African diamond mine comments smh.

Assuming each view is a unique visitor, which is highly unlikely, it would only be 1% of our population. This is low penetrative. Now, how many of these visitors were passing on this misinformation to their creditors friends, that’s another question.

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…Superstore/Loblaws.

That’s pretty much what they were saying south of the border. I’d prefer a more appealing option, but Pierre isn’t it.

He doesn’t really need to. With the notwithstanding clause, he can just say, “That’s really nice, but we’re still going to do it.” It’s worth noting that it’s only been used 5 times, never at the federal level, and always controversial.

Not everything, and not now. As per the article, these laws have been in place since the 90s, and there are seeds, etc. that aren’t covered.

Thanks for the insight. I’m concerned about regulatory capture, much like in the wireless market. That would absolutely have a negative impact on the royalties for farmers, but producing hybrids still isn’t cheap. I can see where both sides have some valid arguments, and hope the government comes to a reasonable conclusion. If they don’t, I hope the farmers vote with their wallets for the sake of all of us.

Yeah, I get that, but keep in mind the case everyone refers to is a little more complicated than that. More like:

1. Protect the IP protected seeds genomes.

2. Have people save seeds from fields that have experienced blowover.

3. Use pesticides to kill off non-resistaseeplants from those saved seeds.

4. Repeat a few seasons.

5. Get the crap sued out of you for having knowingly bred for the pesticide resistant genes in your IP.

Now, I’m not saying this isn’t shitty of Monsanto, but that still has no bearing on the economics for the farmer. If he can produce a better outcome for the dollar, perhaps it makes sense to go thenroute of buying IP-protected seeds. I can only assume this is true, or a lot more farmers would reject those seeds. Also, if the price gets too high, the non-IP plants will become more financially attractive and farmers would turn to them. Hence why I say I’m not equipped to say what makes more sense for them, but it’s not a place I’d willingly put myself into.

This is primarily targeted towards patented or similarly IP protected seeds, with the intent of making them more profitable for the seed developer so they will produce new varieties. How this will work with commercial farmers is a question I’m not equipped to answer, but on a personal level, this is a good reason to be conscientious about buying heritage and open source seeds.

Chretien did similar to G7 summit protesters decades ago. This isn’t an endorsement of either act, but it certainly isn’t new.

Wow, that’s a read. Conrad was outraged by Chretien thwarting his desire to be a Lord by…pointing out the laws of Canada. Renounced his citizenship out of spite after losing two law suits where he attempts to have the courts say the law doesn’t apply to him. And then, after all this, loses his seat due to non-attendance, after he’s been quoted as saying he wants to restart his political career (and then doesn’t). Every step of the way, he touts his exceptionalism due to the large pile of cash he sits atop. And as a cute aside, gets convicted of fraud in the U.S. and is pardoned by Trump, which is pretty damning in my eyes. A true caricature of humanity.

Streaming is legal in Canada, regardless of the legality if the hosts. Moreover, we have precedent in Canada that tops off your fines for illegal downloading at about $500 for all previous non-commercial infringements of any kind, which means any suits brought against Canadians are at a loss before you even have a meeting with their lawyers.

French or standard?

I don’t know, I don’t think I want the best IT person in the world performing an appendectomy.

Just because you’re an expert in one field doesn’t mean you’re an expert in every field.

This is why r/OnGuardForThee was formed. Not that I’ve been to either in the last year.

I don’t disagree, and I’m pissed that he didn’t institute electoral reform, but not keeping campaign promises is about half of what politicians do. It would be nice to have something done about that, where politicians were fined, oh, 6 month’s salary, for each platform promise they didn’t keep, party and personal, but which politician would vote that in?

It’s worth stating that one of their requirements was for the recently formed government to step down and put their chosen leaders from the “stolen election” in power.

I don’t see a lot of people worrying about their cars devaluing. Except for the recent blip, most cars devalued fast, and the cars that held value before didn’t retain it because of their utility.

I think you mean the 2010 G20 summit. The 2011 summit was in Cannes.

That’s not what “at the root” means. The guy selling himself and his country is the final part, the branch as it were. The root is the source of the money.

As for your reasoning, being able to further track intermediaries and see what else they have their fingers in is good security policy, as is sending back disinformation until such time as it becomes known the subject is compromised. Throwing these guys under the bus is usually the last step in the process.

It’s okay buddy, your definition of exodus was wrong. Just let it go.

As for the rest, I made a sarcastic comment based entirely on fact, they asked for proof of my statement, I gave them everything they needed to verify it. I’m sorry if my comment was too harsh for your sensibilities, but if that’s the worst you’ve heard on Lemmy, them I’m glad for you.

No definition I’ve ever heard requires an exodus to be initiated by the people leaving. Also, if you read the comment that started all this, I was explicit that I didn’t mean employee-led. So thanks for stopping by weeks later to display your ignorance and/or lack of reading comprehension.

I don’t think it’s that complicated. If he has security clearance, there are certain things he can’t say. If he doesn’t have it, he can complain all day long about how the Liberals are hiding information. The guy has been in the public sector since he graduated, there aren’t too many secrets there.

Yeah, this is a real issue. I shouldn’t have to worry about healthcare if I move or travel between provinces. This could be resolved today under the current system, yet it hasn’t. The only realistic reason is the various provinces don’t want to. If the feds could step in and make this go away I would be very happy. This would require a constitutional amendment, so I’m not holding my breath. I’ve heard some rebuttals that the provinces have needs that are too different, but the needs between the north and south of each province are greater than the needs between the provinces and we deal with that (often poorly). Another one I’ve heard is that the feds can’t be trusted to run something like that, but the provinces are doing a pretty poor job in most cases already. All this is besides the redundant administrative costs you mentioned.

Another map that doesn’t show New Zealand!

The value of houses are tied to the value of land, and you can’t make (much) new land. That’s why houses in economically advantaged cities are more expensive than houses in economically disadvantaged cities or out of the way places (unless those places are desirable for being out of the way).

That said, we can do things to get more people per square km in cities, even without going to high rise apartments. And certainly, not promoting more effective housing options hasn’t helped the price of homes, either.

These aren’t the kind of guys who buy McMansions.

Lmao they laid off 1900 from Activision Blizzard last year and shuttered multiple XBox game studios this month! Sure, I suppose they could all just hang around and work as volunteers, but I suspect they’ll be doing that exodus thing.

Been plenty of exoduses from MS lately. Oh! You mean ones led by the employees…

Autocorrect ratting you out.