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Kafka Esq. posted:http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/suicide-rate-alberta-increase-layoffs-mental-health-review-1.3355868 quote:http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/suicide-attempts-health-insurance-plans-1.3355881?cmp=rss Please share this with your friends, especially those out west.
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OSI bean dip posted:Yes. I do not recommend TekSavvy unless you want to spend a few weeks trying to get them to install Internet service correctly. Have Rogers or Shaw for cable Internet and switching to TekSavvy? Expect it to be down for weeks because TSI can only e-mail their last-mile provider to get support. No idea about the DSL side of things, but overall recommending that people switch from Shaw, Rogers, Bell, or TELUS to TekSavvy is like suggesting that someone switches from Windows to Linux. It took me 1-2 business day to get hooked up with Teksavvy (Shaw tech had to come each time) both times I moved, and no issues whatsoever 
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Furnaceface posted:e: vvv I spent 2 months doing a placement at CAMH (and plan on working there once registered) and I found it to be a pretty amazing place that does quite a lot of good work. Its just very understaffed and underfunded. Like most of our health care system. If by amazing place you mean house of horrors serving as an international center for conversion therapy for queer people, sure. The only reason it stopped is because trans activists (including myself) and MPP Cheri DiNovo teamed up this summer to make it illegal. CAMH has been a blight for decades.
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Arivia posted:If by amazing place you mean house of horrors serving as an international center for conversion therapy for queer people, sure. The only reason it stopped is because trans activists (including myself) and MPP Cheri DiNovo teamed up this summer to make it illegal. CAMH has been a blight for decades. Mind sharing a tl;dr on that?
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sitchensis posted:Mind sharing a tl;dr on that? Here's a good article: https://nowtoronto.com/news/is-camh-trying-to-turn-trans-kids-straight/ There's a lot more to the story, but that's a good introduction for lay people. Bill 77 passed in June I think? God, you'd think I'd remember talking to a Queen's Park committee about why I'm suicidal.
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Nardwuar is recovering in hospital after a stroke.
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Arivia posted:Here's a good article: https://nowtoronto.com/news/is-camh-trying-to-turn-trans-kids-straight/ I was expecting an article from like 2001 not 2015.  You didnt hear about or see that stuff in the pharmacy. Just the (typically) friendly regulars showing up for their methadone and blister packs.
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CLAM DOWN posted:It took me 1-2 business day to get hooked up with Teksavvy (Shaw tech had to come each time) both times I moved, and no issues whatsoever Did you have Shaw originally when you first got service or did you move and decided to sign up for TekSavvy since you were at a new address? There is a substantial difference here.
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I feel like camh is kind of like tchc: it's real bad and does a bad job in a sector where there is a huge need. So that still leaves you feeling like "at least it exists at all". Which is real sad.
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OSI bean dip posted:Did you have Shaw originally when you first got service or did you move and decided to sign up for TekSavvy since you were at a new address? There is a substantial difference here. First place I didn't have service when I moved in, it was a new hookup/account for me on Teksavvy, previous ISP was Eastlink. Had to buy the modem from NCIX, and Shaw guy was there the next day to do his thing. Next move I just changed my Teksavvy account to the new address, and the Shaw guy had to come out to the new place to do the thing again. Took 2 days that time. I've never had a Shaw account/service.
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CLAM DOWN posted:First place I didn't have service when I moved in, it was a new hookup/account for me on Teksavvy, previous ISP was Eastlink. Had to buy the modem from NCIX, and Shaw guy was there the next day to do his thing. Next move I just changed my Teksavvy account to the new address, and the Shaw guy had to come out to the new place to do the thing again. Took 2 days that time. I've never had a Shaw account/service. Yeah. That is not what I was going on about. The problem is switching from Shaw to TekSavvy, which leads to problems because Shaw will physically disconnect you and then reconnect you at another point to get the service up and running. Your experience is fine because you don't have anything legacy going on.
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So apparently, according to Global News, the provincial government of Alberta bought 17 flood damaged houses in Calgary for 40 million dollars. Good god, why are we making a bunch of rich people whole because they decided to build a giant loving mansion in a goddamn floodplane?
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PT6A posted:So apparently, according to Global News, the provincial government of Alberta bought 17 flood damaged houses in Calgary for 40 million dollars. Where are these homes?
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PT6A posted:So apparently, according to Global News, the provincial government of Alberta bought 17 flood damaged houses in Calgary for 40 million dollars. Im assuming that was one of the last things the old Conservative government did before getting tossed?
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OSI bean dip posted:Where are these homes? Most of them are in rich-rear end inner-city riverfront neighbourhoods, I believe. EDIT: It turns out that the news is that they're going to be demolished, which I guess makes sense. loving waste of money to buy them in the first place, though. PT6A fucked around with this message at 02:24 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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Telus is over-priced but they've been good to me performance wise over the last two years, I'll give them that.
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El Scotch posted:Telus is over-priced but they've been good to me performance wise over the last two years, I'll give them that. Likewise, Shaw fucks me in the rear end monthly when my bill arrives, but the internet service, cable, and the tech support on the few occasions I've had to use it, have all been top-notch. Rogers cell-phone service has been the shittiest, and Bell has been fine for mobility. VDN and Videotron, each of which I had the extreme displeasure of dealing with when I lived in Montreal, can both go eat a bowl of assholes.
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El Scotch posted:Telus is over-priced but they've been good to me performance wise over the last two years, I'll give them that. Yeah, same. I've been with them for just over two years and never had to call tech support once. Also I forgot to tell them when I moved and called literally two days before and was all like "gently caress I'm not gonna have internet or tv for like two weeks" and they were like "yeah ok we can have a tech over to install the stuff a day after you move in"
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OSI bean dip posted:Hi. I have been beckoned. Any opinion on Lightspeed? I've though about switching from Telus to their cable service for a while now.
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PT6A posted:Likewise, Shaw fucks me in the rear end monthly when my bill arrives, but the internet service, cable, and the tech support on the few occasions I've had to use it, have all been top-notch. Rogers cell-phone service has been the shittiest, and Bell has been fine for mobility. Montreal internet, much like Montreal pizza, is the worst in the country.
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Hey friends, get all the Canadian telecom chat you need in this thread! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3361500
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Gorewar posted:Montreal internet, much like Montreal pizza, is the worst in the country. Shut your whore mouth right now. I'd kill for a Double Pizza out here. I mean, I think Montreal pizza could be improved upon, but it's a lot better than Calgary pizza, and it never caused me food poisoning.
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Incoming food chat/rodeo clown bloviating Great job assholes
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The Big Slice in Toronto gets me every time. Being open at 3AM is nice too. EDIT: gently caress I took the bait... I'm just gonna also add that Zet's Restaurant is totally worth the drive up to the airport.
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Arivia posted:Here's a good article: https://nowtoronto.com/news/is-camh-trying-to-turn-trans-kids-straight/ Speaking of trans rights, guess which bill is back, with its first reading in the new session of parliament? 
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Gorewar posted:Montreal internet, much like Montreal pizza, is the worst in the country. Hey, there's a ton of tiny good pizza places in Montreal. You just gotta find the tiny no-name places instead of the terrible big franchises.
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(x) city has the best (ethnic cuisine) in the country. Nothing better than drinking (some craft beer / spirit) enjoying a meal of (x) and smoking some sort of premium tobacco. cunts
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I was in Canmore last week and went to La Belle Patate because it is my favourite place and oh god it's so good.
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quote:... I was arguing with a lawyer friend of mine the other day about the impact of the new tax raises on high income earners. His position was that it would destroy small businesses as owners wouldn't be able to support the business with less income, but that wasn't making any sense to me as the money needed to support the business should be staying in the business anyway, and people would if anything do the quoted section above, and leave more money in the business. It doesn't seem like a bad thing for more money to be staying in the business. Use that money to hire another lawyer and grow the law firm revenue even more. It just seemed like we were talking past one another and I felt like I wasn't getting something?
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Novus came to my building lobby to flog their service and I filled out a survey and they gave me a McDonald's gift card. Small Fries and a McDouble bitch 
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PT6A posted:Shut your whore mouth right now. I'd kill for a Double Pizza out here. As a current McGill student I can confirm that Double Pizza is the poo poo, especially during exams when there's no time to cook. There's also generally a ton of really good pizza places if you're more adventurous than my American friends here who just order Dominoes all the time.
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PT6A posted:Shut your whore mouth right now. I'd kill for a Double Pizza out here. Gondala Cost 2 Coast Without Papers il cintrio cibo spiros nicks 4th spot kitchen & bar the best way to prevent salmonella is to clean your dishes (and stop blaming the city for your eurocrat lifestyle).
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The Dark One posted:Speaking of trans rights, guess which bill is back, with its first reading in the new session of parliament? I'm not hopeful. Nothing's changed in the Senate, so Don Plett will just turn it into a mockery and kill it again. RBC posted:I feel like camh is kind of like tchc: it's real bad and does a bad job in a sector where there is a huge need. So that still leaves you feeling like "at least it exists at all". Which is real sad. At least for trans care, there are better options, like the Sherbourne in Toronto. It's such an open secret that people keep opening up new trans clinics so they don't have to send people to CAMH. The Ontario government knows it too, since they've now opened up referrals for sexual reassignment surgery. We'll see what CAMH is like after their internal review finishes and Zucker's out, but previously they were very very bad.
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Femtosecond posted:I was arguing with a lawyer friend of mine the other day about the impact of the new tax raises on high income earners. His position was that it would destroy small businesses as owners wouldn't be able to support the business with less income, but that wasn't making any sense to me as the money needed to support the business should be staying in the business anyway, and people would if anything do the quoted section above, and leave more money in the business. It doesn't seem like a bad thing for more money to be staying in the business. Use that money to hire another lawyer and grow the law firm revenue even more. The reply to someone saying something like this is to point out two things: 1 - People who own businesses still pay themselves salaries from their businesses. The tax that is collected on this income doesn't affect the business, just the owner's personal income. The only way this would affect the business would be if the total revenue of the business was also the owner's personal account. But that would be stupid. 2 - The only other real way that this would affect the business is if the owner then ups his own salary to make up the loss. But that's a personal decision on his part as the owner and not as the business as it makes no sense to up your expenditures for no reason.
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Jordan7hm posted:Hello all. I mentioned the video I was involved in about the Ottawa jail / to some extent the Ontario provincial corrections system. We've finished the last of the editing and it's ready for public consumption. If you're interested, the video itself is about 7 minutes long. It is a student doc, not a professional production, just keep that in mind. Now look what you've done, you've gone and caused a strike.
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Hal_2005 posted:Gondala Cost 2 Coast Most of those I can't walk to, and I only got food poisoning from Great Canadian when I ate a slice that I bought and consumed in their restaurant. I have never given myself food poisoning in my own home. EDIT: And you forgot Pulcinella, which has great pizza, but isn't really suitable for delivery. PT6A fucked around with this message at 16:34 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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quote:With his rookie year throne speech clocking in at just 1,750 words, it’s clear that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wanted to get his slim blueprint for government read and done with as fast as possible. Brief as it was, it got a lot of buzz (visionary! ambitious!) from the more easily-impressed members of the pundit chorus.
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flakeloaf posted:Now look what you've done, you've gone and caused a strike. I feel bad for the guards. Even if there are some real shitheads working there they have a real horrible work environment for not that much money. e: Oh, also we're continuing to work on the whole jail reform thing next term and beyond, but we're at something of a loss to figure out what to do going forward. The organization has had some success getting into the news and opening dialogues with people in power, but it really hasn't translated to much change in the actual prisons. It seems like the people in charge know what's wrong, the question is more of there is a real political will to change things. Anyone have experience in this type of grass roots social change (related to corrections reform or not), and if so, what are the things that worked for you? What are some avenues we could explore to learn more? Jordan7hm fucked around with this message at 16:21 on Dec 10, 2015 |
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