I do my best to check as I’m putting things into my cart, but also double-check at the checkout. I caught a few things that had ‘Canada’ on the front of the box (“#1 brand in Canada!”) that was actually made in the USA. I put it aside at the checkout. Putting it aside at the checkout and demonstrating to others that you won’t buy American is encouragement for others to do the same.
So courts will dismiss criminal cases where the person charged can’t obtain legal representation, right?
Or will they just go directly to prison?
Alberta: Winning the race to the bottom every day!
Yeah, because students… THEY’RE the ones with all the money.
Yup, first thought was, “Then I guess you’d better pay the mechanics what they’re asking for, fuckers.”
That was possibly the most disturbing part of the pandemic… People in ICUs about to be intubated, insisting that COVID was a hoax with their last words.
That sort of purposeful disinformation crosses the line into having been weaponized for the purpose of tearing the fabric of society apart – even worse still is the fact that education has been eviscerated so much over the past 50+ years that such a large percentage of people will fall for it.
… but let’s keep expanding the oilsands!
These people are Nazis, and should be treated as such. Fashies get the bashies.
Story time…
On the way home from work I stepped off a bus and turned in the direction of home. A young woman who was a few steps ahead of me was being verbally harassed with overtly sexual language by a man. I stepped between them, facing the dude, and told him to fuck off and walk away. Some words were exchanged, and eventually he turned around and walked away. I watch him for a minute or two, then turned around and walked home. The woman he was harassing was long gone.
When I got home and relayed this story to my girlfriend, she said this sort of interaction was COMMON. She’d never mentioned it in the nearly 10 years we’d been dating. It was normal to her. My response was “What the actual fuck? That’s bullshit.” But it was her reality, and the reality of the woman I saw, and probably dozens or hundreds more, every day.
We collectively need to do better. We need to stop doing it ourselves, and stop our friends, family, co-workers, acquaintances, and even strangers from doing it. We need to raise the average and be better.
lobbying, I guess
No, it’s absolutely lobbying and regulatory capture. When I worked in the telco space, back when long distance competition came to Canada, the CRTC was a constant revolving door of lawyers and company VPs from the telcos. The running gag in our office was that if a decision didn’t go our way, that the C-Suite would have to fire someone for the failure, so they could go work at the CRTC and influence the next decision in our favour.
But it wasn’t a gag. Three of my co-workers from that time ended up taking their turns at the CRTC as analysts and commissioners.
Goose… Geese.
Moose… Meese.