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Idk about you guys, but I love Cobie Smulders’s voice so I’m at least gonna watch the pilot.

There was and will be federal healthcare funding that Trudeau is not attached to. It’s disingenuous to claim that the federal government has no tools available to achieve its goals if it so chose to make healthcare spending official policy. Historically, these things often start at the provincial level, but that doesn’t mean that they have to or that federal funding wouldn’t help a province already moving towards improving their existing system.

It’s not beyond them to invent a new program with specific funding requirements, they’ve done it many time. If voters are made more acutely aware that provinces are leaving money on the table due to corporate lobbying and partisanship while healthcare languishes and nurses exit the field, that could go very poorly for some Premiers (like Smith, whose administration is showing their ass in the middle of a healthcare spending scandal).

And yet provinces have accepted federal funding that is contingent on meeting certain requirements that are in line with federal policy goals. There is still a federal role in healthcare no matter how many people tell me it’s impossible for the feds to do anything helpful in this sector.

Don’t you think your energy would be better spent emailing MPs than making low-effort excuses on part of the feds that I’ve been hearing for years?

You might get some use out of this Steam randomizer, I’ve used it before when I can’t pick what to play. You can apply filters too.

One cool thing they could do that would benefit women and workers would be to mandate better staffing policies for nurses at hospitals, clinics, and long-term care homes. These places receive provincial and federal funding, so hiring more nurses and medical aides (roles which are predominately filled by women) would be a great step in growing the number of healthcare workers and improving access to medical care.

The “nurse shortage” is entirely manufactured by medical groups that deliberately underpay and under-fund their own personnel and facilities. Just look at their books: they’ve got record profits almost across the board.

Bombardier has had an “opportunity” for decades. I’m sick of the feds letting it have my and other taxpayers’ money so that its executives can pop more champagne in some hidden room. Simping for corporations just means fetishizing being screwed over.

I’m not giving up on our manufacturing sector, I’m just giving up on Bombardier. Someone fucking has to.

Given their track record, Bombardier will probably not seize the reigns and will instead lobby for a government bailout. When it receives it, it will forget that it happened, decide it owes nothing to the Canadian government or populace, and not use the money to improve its products or strategies whatsoever.

I feel confident in saying that it doesn’t really deserve to survive. If continuing business was so important, it shouldn’t have fucked up so badly for so long. I was living in Kitchener when the GRT’s first LRT line was constructed and finished; Bombardier was wholly incompetent and that was a relatively small-scale transit project. There are many more examples of shitty product and business deals across industries in Canada and around the world.

“Cancelling the F-35s might be a good idea, but we need to think about it,” Bombardier Chief Executive Officer Eric Martel told a business audience in Montreal. “We have contracts with the Pentagon. Will there be reciprocity there?”

“Trump isn’t wrong on everything,” Martel said. “We’ve been hiding behind our big brother for a while, and we’re completely dependent on him militarily.”

The CEO seems like he’s on Trump’s side here. Why bother helping him out when he thinks we deserve the poor treatment from Trump? Let it die. If it’s really such an important company with important connections, sell their assets and transfer non-executive personnel to a (preferably nationalized) company that actually deserves a chance.

It’s crazy that, on one hand, we have the Red Seal program, which allows tradespeople in certain trades to have their qualifications recognized across Canada, and on the other hand, we have nothing for any type of healthcare worker.

My last doctor before my current one (who I am literally lucky to have, getting on her roster was a complete fluke) was from BC and he said that the hoops he had to jump through to practice in ON were exhausting.

Reminds me of Bethesda’s storefront for paid mods that they tried out for Skyrim’s special edition in 2023. Hopefully they don’t pull a bait-and-switch on their players and it’s just a platform for free mods.

When was the last time CAD was stronger than USD? Oh, 2013, about 12 years ago? Hmm.

About 900,000 Canadians are US snowbirds; that’s 2.25% of our population. Canadians overall spend almost $21 billion USD per year on tourism of the USA. If even 1/4 of travelers choose another country instead, that’s $5 billion vanishing from their economy. Trump is so stupid.

I would think that not reporting a student that is threatening another to police is probably a violation of the legal requirement that schools must act in loco parentis since they obviously didn’t do anything to protect that student from threats and perpetration of violence.

They should have reasonably known that the other students were a threat due to the numerous complaints. Not involving police at that stage is negligent.

Alright, this is it, I’m fucking pissed. America is an enemy state now, full stop, no take-backsies. I can never look at that country the same ever again.

“We’re revoking your work visa because you don’t have a proper letterhead.” Fuck this bullshit. Fascists.

It would be funny/interesting if, in an effort to grow the player base, they brought back the same settings implemented for COVID (when the game was super popular) and made it accessible to disabled people again.

I know a few people that had to quit the game when Niantic reverted back to “normal” gameplay after lockdowns ended. Idk, maybe this won’t be entirely crap; probably will be, but it would be nice if it weren’t and improved things instead.