I suspect it has to do with being a sort of household appliance. Similar to the fridge, the TV, the bathtub, etc. People think about it in that sense most frequently and it becomes the common parlance.
Alongside banners commemorating missing and murdered Indigenous women and the victims of Canada’s residential school system, Confederate flags flap gently in the wind.
Wow, I hate everything about that.
With a little research these culture vultures could have used an actual local "rebel" flag, this one:
But of course they appropriate a white supremacist flag from American history.
You are putting the responsibility for those murders entirely on Hamas rather than the government currently perpetrating them, thus justifying that government's actions. You could have just as easily made your opening comment, "Man, if only Israel cared about international law." Please stop insulting my intelligence.
You are literally justifying their actions. Justifying the murder of well over 30 thousand.
"Mr. President, the terrorists have taken hostages. What should we do?" "Bomb the building." -A psychopath
Strange take. Presumably if Israel was replaced with a non-ethnostate, Jewish citizens of that state would get the same rights and treatment as every other citizen.
Emphasis on the sometimes. If you regularly put 80+ hours a week in even doing something you enjoy, eventually you will burn yourself out and there's a good chance you won't enjoy the thing anymore on the other side of that. Not for a long while, at any rate. Burnout is no joke.
As are most Americans.
18+ mosquitoes sucking my blood is pretty awful even without a phobia.
Despite significant obstruction by the Conservative party over the last year, the Act is now on its way to the Senate for consideration before it can pass into law.
![Sustainable Jobs Act finally passes!](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b878fd3c-2543-44af-a056-7b767ccdcc47.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Bruske: We want concrete action, not pretty words
![Canada’s unions are united: Want our votes? Enhance our rights! | Canadian Labour Congress](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/bda53ba3-89be-415a-8512-aa4addb40b6e.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Yeah, all that housing in Vienna appeared from nowhere.
But sure, you have a great day as well.
Yes, of course. Banning short term rentals for example is a regulation that would put downward pressure on housing prices. Banning investment companies such as Blackrock, Blackstone, etc from purchasing single family homes, duplexes, 4-plexes and the like would do the same. Whereas the lack of regulation around these things has contributed to home price inflation. The idea that people are unable to afford homes because there is too much regulation holds water like a sieve.
Our current economic situation is the product of decades of regulation cutting supply side (aka neoclassical) economics championed by the likes of Thatcher and Reagan, which still dominates today. You know where housing is not unaffordable? Vienna, Austria. A place where better than half the residents live in social housing. The product of a strong government and regulation.
In fact, minimum wage earners tend to put a greater portion of their earnings back into the local economy vs. savings and increases help or at least don't impact particularly negatively small business. Neoclassical economics is a joke.
Regulations help protect people from corporations. This libertarian take is total nonsense. What makes competition difficult for new entrants is the overwhelming size of modern day multinational corporations and the capital investment required to wage any sort of real competition which is something that is only going to be fronted by other extremely wealthy interests. So, yes, we do need bigger, stronger governments in relation to those very powerful corporations, specifically strong enough to break them up. Or ideally nationalize them entirely.
The United Steelworkers (USW) union recently announced that this is the first step in acquiring other Toronto locations. However, some have raised concerns it may affect the store's ability to remain open.
![Pape and Danforth Starbucks becomes the first Toronto location to unionize - The Toronto Observer](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/07fdb69a-09a1-4973-be26-34fc8bda172f.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Housing Minister Sean Fraser says he is willing to negotiate with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, who plans to adopt the Quebec model of federal-provincial relations when it comes to issues like housing.
!['I'll take that call': Housing minister open to negotiating with Alberta](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/4b63f9b8-bd79-42d7-a194-29f6bcdfeb10.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
MONTREAL – Members of a union representing more than 80,000 health care workers in Quebec have decisively rejected a tentative collective agreement with the province that was endorsed by the lab...
![Members of Quebec health care workers union vote against tentative deal with province](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/a212c839-919e-40ac-9688-a078768c04f3.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
OTTAWA – With Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland promising to keep the federal deficit from ballooning in Tuesday’s federal budget, all eyes will be on the Liberals’ plan to pay for...
![After countrywide pre-budget tour, Liberals reveal Tuesday how they'll pay for it all](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/5cfbd5a8-16eb-4017-8374-6a25f1fa8331.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Hospital corporation says next step is implementing the agreement
![Hospital unions ratify, Yukon Hospital Corporation approves collective deal](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/0414f75c-18f9-4b3b-930e-f7ab3db526bd.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Canada and other G7 countries are expected to hold a meeting today to discuss a potential response to Iran’s Saturday attack on Israel. U.S. President Joe Biden said he would convene the meeting of the Group of Seven advanced democracies today to coordinate a united diplomatic response to an attack ...
![G7 countries to convene to discuss Iran's attack on Israel](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/50c8ef31-bad2-4d51-8d64-e4e8f9cb74ec.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
SAINT-JÉRÔME, Que. – Quebec officials have reported flooding on a handful rivers north of Montreal and in Quebec City after heavy downpours fell on parts of the province this week. In St-Jérôme,...
![Heavy rainfall triggers flood conditions on several Quebec rivers](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/bfea09ff-fc10-481b-9a51-666b17d59281.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
The USA is the largest source of foreign interference in Canadian politics by far, but sure, those guys as well.
WHITEHORSE, YT – With the support of the United Steelworkers union (USW) and the Yukon Federation of Labour, workers at Parsons Inc. at the Faro Rehabilitation Mine Project have been certified by the Canadian Industrial Relations Board to join the USW. The workers are set to begin the process of neg...
![Yukon workers at Parsons Inc. in Faro join the United Steelworkers union - USW Canada](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/b4dda863-30d6-4e7c-91be-4ee819eb709e.png?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Here's what we learned over the past 10 days of fact-finding hearings, which ended Friday and included testimony from politicians, bureaucrats and representatives from several intelligence and security agencies:
![What we learned from the inquiry into foreign meddling in Canada's elections](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/36f2372f-6635-4bc1-8f51-c95d8795061d.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
A new report from Nova Scotia's information and privacy commissioner is telling Halifax police to disclose more details about a 1996 incident that saw dozens of crew members from the film 'Titanic' fed soup laced with the hallucinogenic drug PCP.
!['Titanic' film crew drugged in 1996, Halifax police told to release more details](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/2c5939be-6401-4144-966a-32aef8a14d9f.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
OTTAWA – Canada’s largest labour organization is urging unions to hold politicians to account when they profess to champion the country’s working class. Bea Bruske, president of the...
![When leaders speak of workers and their rights, hold them to it, CLC urges unions](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/5d1ba363-d42d-40fe-97e0-ea01924ce46a.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
OTTAWA – Canadians are being told to avoid all travel to Israel and the West Bank because of the “unpredictable security situation” in the region. Global Affairs Canada says there is...
![Canada advises against all travel to Israel, West Bank due to heightened risk](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/da23692a-9a9d-46f1-a983-e1f55cf0e338.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
Canada stands at a crossroads. For many Canadians, access to health care—the lack of family doctors, backlogs of surgeries, and long waits in emergency rooms—are all evidence of something deeply tr…
![profit is not the cure](https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/0072336e-2bd8-4e5d-887b-61afb8c346f5.jpeg?format=webp&thumbnail=256)
I don't know who they are, but they are most likely carrying a ceremonial mace.
The federal carbon price is not the “be-all, end-all” of climate policy, and New Democrats are open to alternative plans presented by premiers, NDP environment critic Laurel Collins said Wednesday.
I mean, okay, but when those alternatives are developing LNG extraction and exporting, maybe those aren't good faith proposals.
“We believe that the province’s commitment to fiscal discipline and stability has wavered in recent years as B.C. has materially increased its spending for both operations and capital investment to unparalleled levels, while economic growth is slowing,” S&P said in its analysis.
So, punishment for Keynesianism? Is this that foreign interference I've been hearing about?
Surely Moody's would never utilize it's credit ratings dishonestly.