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Jam Band Death Cult posted:I have seen this film, a few times actually. I think it's Obomsawin's best, moreso even than the one on Kanesatake. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in Indigenous sovereignty and the political economy of resource extraction. Kevin Vickers (the sergeant-at-arms who shot Zehaf-Bibeau in parliament, and just ran and lost for the premiership of NB as the Liberal Party head) was the managing superintendent for the police interventions during the Burnt Church crisis, which form the events at the heart of this documentary. He has at least one talking head interview in it where he comes off like the stupid fucker he is. Truly a human bobblehead. Pathetic effort by the Libs in this last election. I guess we're stuck with Blaine Higgs for now (who won against this cop, and is... the former CFO of Irving). From what little I know of the lobster fishery, I understand that a lot of the licenses are stitched up and held in the family, so you're not getting in on it without marrying in (my brother did this). Having visitted the little NS village he lives in now, I wouldn't say people are making lots of money off lobster fishing. Maybe some people, but nobody I met or saw around town gave off the impression of wealth. Apparently covid kicked the poo poo out of demand this year though. A significant amount of lobster gets served up in casinos, hotels, restaraunts, and on cruise ships. That all evaporated overnight. Not a lot of people around the world buying lobster to cook at home, or as takeout. This is just what I hear from family. I live on the other side of the country, and don't talk with them much. Grain of salt, etc.
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B33rChiller posted:From what little I know of the lobster fishery, I understand that a lot of the licenses are stitched up and held in the family, so you're not getting in on it without marrying in (my brother did this). Having visitted the little NS village he lives in now, I wouldn't say people are making lots of money off lobster fishing. Maybe some people, but nobody I met or saw around town gave off the impression of wealth. I went to buy some lobster a couple months ago because I cook lobster at home once a year and it was just as expensive as always. If demand is down, drop the price to bring it back up. That's literally the fundamentals of markets. I loving adore lobster and if the price came down I'd have it a lot more than once a year.
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Pretty typical Ottawa protest out front of the Senate. Green Recovery had the big group out front shouting at trudeau. At least four separate anti mask groups around the hill and chateau Laurier. One pro life group, one anti cop/military group and one pro cop/military group. Basically a lot of people milling around shouting at cars.
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Jimbozig posted:I went to buy some lobster a couple months ago because I cook lobster at home once a year and it was just as expensive as always. If demand is down, drop the price to bring it back up. That's literally the fundamentals of markets. I loving adore lobster and if the price came down I'd have it a lot more than once a year. My guess is wholesale price is down, but the middle is capturing more profit. Like when oil prices tank, but gas pump prices don't move.
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pizzaclown posted:Yeah, none of this is binding until an official N12 has been filed with the LTB. Once that is done, your options are fairly limited beyond challenging it and going as far as you can. It’s not exactly free to file an N12 and go through the motions at the LTB, so the landlord is looking at potentially many months and extra costs while waiting for this stuff to go through. You could also make clear that any potential sale within a year is something you’d definitely monitor and report at significant cost to the landlord. All of this information is correct. You can also negotiate cash for keys. Most people seem to request ~$10k to $20k to cover increased cost at new rental, cost of moving and inconvenience. If you do this you have no recourse if the landlord doesn't use the unit for personal use for the full 12 months. Facebook is bad but I highly recommend the Ontario Tenant Rights Facebook group for all things Ontario tenancy related. The group is actively moderated and filled with knowledgeable people. Posters who provide incorrect information get banned. Obviously a lawyer or paralegal is the best bet but this group can give you really clear information on what your next steps are and let you know when you should be reaching out to a paralegal.
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Another Bill posted:Shot: Holy poo poo thats bad - they gonna rely on cheaper LPNs??
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Vintersorg posted:Holy poo poo thats bad - they gonna rely on cheaper LPNs?? Some RPNs but not a full replacement of the numbers and there's a whole lot of poo poo that RPNs can't do so it'll require the model of care to change (i.e get shittier). It's been poo poo like this all over since the Cons were elected. They hit healthcare funding hard.
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Mr Luxury Yacht posted:Some RPNs but not a full replacement of the numbers and there's a whole lot of poo poo that RPNs can't do so it'll require the model of care to change (i.e get shittier). Pretty much this:  It's extremely frustrating to see the same thing happen over and over. Same with education funding. Hey, let's put all these kids back in schools without hiring more teaching staff to spread them out! What could go wrong?
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B33rChiller posted:From what little I know of the lobster fishery, I understand that a lot of the licenses are stitched up and held in the family, so you're not getting in on it without marrying in (my brother did this). Having visitted the little NS village he lives in now, I wouldn't say people are making lots of money off lobster fishing. Maybe some people, but nobody I met or saw around town gave off the impression of wealth. You know, I keep seeing two demonstrably false pictures being projected : one where most fishermen drive fancy trucks and spend six months of the year in their fully automated luxury nouveau riche hot tubs, and another where most make a good but all-told modest living, stuck between the tightly controlled licensing system, the vagaries of the market, the costs of doing business and being trapped into seasonal EI. One complicating factor is that most lobster fishermen harvest other species during the lobster off-season to varying degrees. I'm skeptical of either version of this depiction, although I tend to find more truth (but not the whole truth) in the latter - I ultimately am sure that the reality on the ground has nothing to do with outward displays of wealth (or its reverse). I get the feeling, as a previous poster was saying, that no matter what, it is in fact the shellfish processing companies that make a killing at everyone else's expense. But I'd love to see some probing stats to get a systemic picture. The trouble is that I don't really trust the DFO or the unions to collect and display those statistics, and Mikmaq conservation organizations (of which there are a surprising amount) have too much at stake to compile accusatory stats against other stakeholders - my feeling for the past several years is that the First Nations that do want in have tread extremely carefully (and I thought, smartly) so as to avoid exactly the type of incendiary reaction by commercial fishermen that has occurred over the past week. My gripe, all-told, is mostly with the bad faith resource management argument against the Mikmaq fishery. It just doesn't hold water, given the scale of the indigenous fishery. Lastly, the willingness of unions and individual fishermen to align themselves (unwittingly? I doubt it) with corporate interests is scary at best. Jam Band Death Cult fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Sep 24, 2020 |
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The Zombie Guy posted:Pretty much this: That’s the whole point, though. Tear down government structures so they can be replaced with private options.
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Certified B Corporations, like Hootsuite, are businesses that meet the highest standard of verified social and environmental performance . . . to redefine success in business and build a more inclusive and sustai https://twitter.com/samelaanderson/status/1308917007438483457 Just kidding, they're there to get paid and if a few migrants get interned and forcibly sterilized by someone who's probably a doctor maybe, well that's just the price someone else has to pay.
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Re: Dug's plan to have pharmacies do testing for asymptomatic people https://twitter.com/jameswattie/status/1308851141086769153 And they're doing a real hash of trying to explain what they actually intend to have done by pharmacies, and for whom those tests would be intended. Not really a robust well thought-out plan, imo
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MNIMWA posted:Re: Dug's plan to have pharmacies do testing for asymptomatic people Wow a Public Private Partnership that benefits big business but doesn't seem to deliver on its promises for the citizenry? Colour me shocked!
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It just seems so slapdash, like there's a communications plan "in the works" and they're only now (today) saying that tests are or should be restricted just to people without symptoms. They've had months since the schools closed to figure out a way to ramp up testing, instead they're privatizing it and reducing access. But apparently Doug has stepped up!!
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Last I heard asymptomatic and presymptomatic tests throw up a lot of false negatives, has that changed? This seems like a stupid idea overall instead of increasing testing centre/lab capacity
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Tippecanoe posted:Last I heard asymptomatic and presymptomatic tests throw up a lot of false negatives, has that changed? This seems like a stupid idea overall instead of increasing testing centre/lab capacity Depends on the test you're using and how often you're testing people, probably.
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Tippecanoe posted:Last I heard asymptomatic and presymptomatic tests throw up a lot of false negatives, has that changed? This seems like a stupid idea overall instead of increasing testing centre/lab capacity No--it's the same test. That's why they keep saying that a negative test is not a reason to forgo other public health protocols, like keeping your distance and wearing a mask. NEJM posted:Two studies from Wuhan, China, arouse concern about false negative RT-PCR tests in patients with apparent Covid-19 illness. In a preprint, Yang et al. described 213 patients hospitalized with Covid-19, of whom 37 were critically ill.2 They collected 205 throat swabs, 490 nasal swabs, and 142 sputum samples (median, 3 per patient) and used an RT-PCR test approved by the Chinese regulator. In days 1 through 7 after onset of illness, 11% of sputum, 27% of nasal, and 40% of throat samples were deemed falsely negative. Zhao et al. studied 173 hospitalized patients with acute respiratory symptoms and a chest CT “typical” of Covid-19, or SARS-CoV-2 detected in at least one respiratory specimen. Antibody seroconversion was observed in 93%.3 RT-PCR testing of respiratory samples taken on days 1 through 7 of hospitalization were SARS-CoV-2–positive in at least one sample from 67% of patients. Neither study reported using an independent panel, unaware of index-test results, to establish a final diagnosis of Covid-19 illness, which may have biased the researchers toward overestimating sensitivity. Full article here.
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Jordan7hm posted:the bar is low, but better to do that than to fire the whistleblowers. There's plenty of time to fire the whistleblower once the attention moves elsewhere.
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Scorchy posted:https://twitter.com/hootsuite/status/1309154928863121411
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You use a cutout, the same way everyone else who promises not to do business with the gestapo does it.
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infernal machines posted:Oh yeah, she is for sure fired. At minimum, she will be encouraged to find employment elsewhere. Maybe, it didn't sound like she wanted to leave though, management to save face might be more understanding than not at all. Personally, if it was me and I felt like I had to blow a whistle on my own company, I would probably have secured another job long before posting up on twitter.
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Jam Band Death Cult posted:You know, I keep seeing two demonstrably false pictures being projected : --snip-- What you've said here seems like it could be consistent with what I've seen and heard. I agree, especially with your last point. Nothing unites like a shared enemy of otherised people.
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Elections B.C. is up to 160,000 requests for mail in ballot packages. They're speculating we might have as many as 800,000 voting by mail this election. So, nominations close Oct. 2, and mail in ballots must be received by 8:00 pm Oct. 24. Which leaves (lessee, where's that calculator key, 2,4 minus...) 22 days to print the ballots, mail them out, then have them mailed back and received by the deadline. Would I be going out on a limb to predict a bit of a clusterfuck shaping up here? Hope there's no overtime ban in place at Elections BC. Furnaceface posted:Im just so tired of all this stupidity. Amen. If 2020 is teaching us anything, there's always more and it's always worse. ed: Wait, didn't Ford say the private sector was riding over the hill like the cavalry to save Ontarians? Oh, right, speaking of incipient clusterfucks. Hexigrammus fucked around with this message at 05:37 on Sep 25, 2020 |
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Furnaceface posted:That article is covering only half of the stupid and crazy poo poo in Dougies idiotic plan. Ask me what working in a pharmacy in Ontario is like right now. Gimme my flu shot bich! I know you got the good stuff hiding back there somewhere
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lol As of an Aug 4 poll, 33% of Sk says they would get a COVID vaccine when it come out, with another 31% saying they’d get it eventually. Lowest in Canada!!!!!
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Hexigrammus posted:Elections B.C. is up to 160,000 requests for mail in ballot packages. They're speculating we might have as many as 800,000 voting by mail this election. That doesn't sound unreasonable. I'm sure they've already planned for the increase in ballots. Scaling things like this up isn't actually that difficult. In person voting is much more labour intensive and complicated, it involves venue planning, verifying all the equipment, staffing the stations, training them, security, moving equipment to all the venues, etc.. Mail voting is much easier to scale up. All the infrastructure is already in place to handle it. Just involves more printing, moving more skids, which is relatively easy.
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Aaaaand there’s the polls suggesting mask compliance and support is lowest in Saskatchewan. I’m going to go lie down now.
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Stickarts posted:Aaaaand there’s the polls suggesting mask compliance and support is lowest in Saskatchewan. I’m going to go lie down now. Take solace in this fact - who among your group of friends and family are the most likely to go out of their way and respond to polls? It's not the people who typically are doing better, more productive things in their life.
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qhat posted:Maybe, it didn't sound like she wanted to leave though, management to save face might be more understanding than not at all. Personally, if it was me and I felt like I had to blow a whistle on my own company, I would probably have secured another job long before posting up on twitter. Yeah, honestly being a whistleblower is terrifying. Anybody she ever goes to work for in the future will do a quick google of her name and this will likely pop up. Who knowingly hires a whistleblower unless it's one of those rare corporations that has somehow managed to actually have moral decision-making as part of policy (and actually follows through on that policy)? Whistleblower protections will (maybe) protect you while you're at the same company, but not afterwards.
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RBC posted:That doesn't sound unreasonable. I'm sure they've already planned for the increase in ballots. Scaling things like this up isn't actually that difficult. In person voting is much more labour intensive and complicated, it involves venue planning, verifying all the equipment, staffing the stations, training them, security, moving equipment to all the venues, etc.. I hope. My biggest concern is the mail. I haven't used the post much in the last few years. When I did it wasn't uncommon for things to take five days to get from here to Victoria, a two hour drive. otoh there's not much in the mail these days except real estate catalogs and U.S. municipal bond scams so they probably have some excess capacity in the system.
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