n2burns @ n2burns @lemmy.ca

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My dad is a veteran and he said it was hurtful to see young Canadians hating the country for its past.

This feels like it's downplaying the horrors in our history.

I don't think there's many "young Canadians hating the country for its past." I do think younger people feel shame for some of our collective past actions and guilty for how they may benefit from those actions. Personally, think reconciliation is important, and that issues like residential schools are not done and gone because they're in the past, they continue to affect people in the present, and potentially for generations to come.

The mistake at a Queensland fertility clinic has been blamed on human error.

In most cases, "human error" is just "processes weren't in place to prevent human error." We all make mistakes, but not have mechanisms in place to catch these mistakes is the problem.

TekSavvy and other TPIA (Third-Party Internet Access) providers are not a reseller, presumably including Park Power. They only use incumbent last-mile infrastructure. Once it's out of your neighborhood, it's their infrastructure.

TekSavvy has expressed interest in selling (it's owned by Marc Gaudrault and was previously co-owned with his brother, Rocky), but has not been sold yet.

TekSavvy is not a reseller. They only use incumbent last-mile infrastructure. Once it's out of your neighborhood, it's their infrastructure.

I have TekSavvy internet (unless you're in their small fiber network, yes you're still using Bell/Rogers/Cogeco/Telus local lines) and my cell phone is with Fizz (flanker brand of VideoTron, which also owns Freedom, which is all owned by Quebecor).

You don't need your voting card to vote.

So if you neglected your paperwork for something, you wouldn’t help one of your family? Seems incredibly callous.

I'm not sure what you are trying to say here?

Stuff happens. Life happens. Paperwork is forgotten, sometimes id is lost , stolen, etc. What happened to that woman isn’t illegal for her, something could have been done to help.

And she's in the country she has citizenship for. They can help.

Put yourself in that woman’s shoes for just one second.

I'm having a hard time with this, because I don't know how I'd end up in her situation. She says Canada is her home, but hasn't apply for citizenship for over 2 decades (it's legal to have dual UK & Canadian citizenship). She goes on an overseas trip, but only brings 3 extra days of lifesaving medication. She's offered a loophole to get home(enter through a land border), but doesn't take it. She is a specialist in crisis management, but can't manage this crisis.

I did. Twice, so I could make that comment. What makes you think I didn't read the article?

I have empathy for people who are put in awful situations, not people who taking risky actions. Some people just can't be helped. For example:

The Ottawa resident planned to be in England for five days in mid-March to make arrangements for her ailing mother, bringing along eight days worth of drugs to manage her diabetes and auto-immune disease.

I've seen advice that you should take up to 30-60 extra days of medication when traveling abroad, just in case.

She's in the country of her sole-citizenship. This is part of the process when you put off finalizing paperwork for 2+ decades. Both the UK and Canada allow for dual citizenship.

I downvoted it because someone living in Canada for 25 years and not getting their citizenship, it's their fault. They should understand the risks of leaving Canada if they don't have full citizenship.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre insisted Wednesday that his promised three-strikes law wouldn’t run afoul of the Constitution, after several justice experts said some of his crime policies are likely to get struck down by the courts.

Sure, I'll trust the guy with a BA in international relations over literal experts in the law!

A few points:

1. LiberuxNexx sounds like a medication's marketing name.
2. It says "2TB storage" then in the details it's actually 256GB + microSD support, which IMHO is very different.
3. To me, this just sounds like a new version of the PinePhone Pro or Librem 5. Yes, it's got newer & better hardware, but there's no release date or even price.

When they say "recession," they are talking about a very specific definition:

Declines in real gross national income (GNI) for two consecutive quarters

This can only be confirmed once we have the data. So, you are likely right, we are probably already in a recession. However, it's not "They just don’t want to acknowledge it’s happening," it's that they can't confirm it's happening until 6 months after a recession has started.

We do not have "northern provinces", those are territories.

For a less pedantic answer:

• the territories are administered differently, with much more control from the Federal government
• they have <120K in population which make statistical data difficult
• they have very unique sociocultural circumstances (remoteness, high percentage of Inuit people, many "fly in" industries, etc) that make them hard to compare to the rest of Canada.

While this is probably a good long-term direction for Canada, I'm curious if this is going to be an excuse to continue relying on our aging CF-18s for another generation.

Your comment is very short, so I may be reading too much into it. However, most people who deny Residential Schools were part of genocide, simply don't know the definition. From the UN:

genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

1. Killing members of the group;
2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Many people assume genocide can is only something like the Holocaust, where there's an attempt to exterminate a group, but it can be more subtle, such as, "killing the indian in the child."

Sure, that's completely true but unrelated to what you said in your original comment. I quote:

Why would anyone with that much money want to come here permanently

You were not talking about non-resident citizens, so stop moving the goalposts.

Plus, the US has one of the lowest tax rates of any of those "large countries" you talked about. So unless a US citizen resided in a country without a tax treaty with the US (there's not many of them), they're almost certainly being charged enough tax in their resident country that they pay $0 to the IRS on non-USA income.

The US is the only large country that taxes its citizens on their worldwide income.

That’s untrue. As a Canadian, I know we do, and I believe we’re far from alone. I don’t know why people keep perpetuating this myth.

It's not like that doesn't happen too.

EDIT Fixed a typo

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