I have NEVER seen anyone in Canada steal groceries.

At least it’s honest.

Yet again, every level of Canadian government proves that it is woefully behind the times and unable to offer the most basic of services.

My gf complained of gal bladder like issues for over a year before a doctor finally stopped telling her it was heartburn and found that it was an inflamed gal bladder. Healthcare in Canada has gone to shit.

A friend of mine moved here from India during covid and told me:

If I wanted to die of preventable disease I would have stayed home.

Moving here is going to be a long term drop in quality of life. Wages are lower, the dollar is weaker, taxes are higher and the “free” health care is not free.

Have you ever worked a union job? If there is something shady going on the union has their fingers in it.

However, unions are a necessary evil given the incredibly disproportionate power employers have over their employees.

Maybe this will (briefly) stop the export of stolen cars.

The Canadian government doesn’t have the power to push around big businesses, they can’t even control our pint sized telecom duopoly. Literally the only thing they do have power over is the physical offices(es).

Banning TikTok all together would also be opening up a fucking massive can of worms. The app can be removed from the Apple/Google repos easily enough but blocking access to the TikTok servers would mean making definite and loud decisions about internet access in Canada.

Would access to TikTok be blocked at the ISP level or would they try to compel TikTok to block connections from Canada? Would bypassing the block come with a penalty, would the use of a VPN constitute bypassing the block? If so will all use of VPNs outside of Canada be under scrutiny, how will VPN use be detected compared to other encrypted communications? Having to give firm answers to any of these questions would create a lot of embarrassing headaches for the government, ISPs and law enforcement.

How long before Canada starts selling blood and organs to the highest bidder? This fucking country.

CRTC, who ever the fuck is supposed to look at oil and gas, groceries, land development…

I’m talking “Electric cars are killing children and poisoning the earth” kinda people.

Good luck, Canada not only tolerates but fosters the idea that vaccines make you sick and electric cars are bad for the environment. Our education system has been gutted for so long it will take decades before a unified theory of health can be sold to Canadians without ignorant protesting.

“Liberal” party.

If you cut a lock and someone gets hurt or killed there is jail time and employers are aware of this. The bigger issue is that so many employees are either not trained or just do not lock out when they should. My personal lock is so worn that it looks like beach glass but the majority I see “in use” are basically new in box condition.

Give it another year and our many layers of government will be banning busses because they “cause traffic” and stopping commuter trains because they interfere with shipping.

I think about it a lot while staring down into ‘The Pit’ on the production floor.

I work at one of those furnaces, if you fall in molten metal it will not be fast. You are EXTREMELY buoyant in liquid rock/metal.

Ah, I misunderstood your meaning.

Personally I’m not a cash guy, I used a debit card for 99% of transactions. If the machine looks sketchy I’ll use a credit card as there is better financial protection at the cost of privacy. But for transient, time sensitive, interactions, like a park I only visit once a year or a fast food place that I may never come back to, I want them to take cash. If there is a problem with their electronic payment system (their site is broken, their cloud provider is broken, their cloud provider’s ISP is down, …all the way to local network trouble) now I am being denied access to physical thing that does not physically rely on electronic infrastructure.

My angry example above of needing to make an account to visit a park actually happened to me this week for an Ontario Provincial Park. It was extremely frustrating because there were no employees present to take payment that day, only a large sign with a QR code instructing everyone to pay online. Now every person in the line of cars a head of me had to scan the code, make an account, fill in their info, etc. Had there been a machine present to take cash (even if it was exact change only), most people could have scraped the coins out of their cup holder in half the time it took to interact with their phone.

But cash exists right now. There is no reason to drop support for it.

When I decide to visit a park and arrive to find that I can’t pay cash, it’s a problem. Visiting a park is a transient event, there does not need to be ANY permanent relation between myself and the park operator. There is no reason to require trusting some random site with payment details, generating another set of account credentials, and installing some mystery app that wants way too many permissions just to visit a park.