Are there even cases where trans women are creating issues?
Pretty sure that’s purely a right-wing boogeyman. And, let’s face it: a man who wants to spy on women in a washroom just needs a janitor’s coverall and some small cameras they can plant while “cleaning” or “performing repairs”.
We’ve mostly grown used to being ignored—why change now?
It says something about the state of politics in this country that Trudeau’s ability to sometimes admit that the dead fish he’s just been slapped across the face with is a dead fish and not some fiendish rubber weapon created by the opposition in order to distract people from [insert unpopular Conservative thing here] makes me think more highly of him.
Hmm. “Couldn’t rule out” ≠ “does”. I can understand wanting to hold a claim of damage to a slightly higher standard of proof. I can also understand wanting to err on the side of caution.
On trhe one hand, this looks like a nothingburger to me—likely this stuff is no more dangerous than, say, table salt (which no one expects to completely remove from processed foods even though it has known medical risks associated with it).
On the other hand, titanium dioxide is just a colourant, so taking it out doesn’t alter the food in any way that matters.
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Historically, there have been cases where a single large steam-heat or hot water system served multiple buildings on a corporate or university campus, or even several ciy blocks (I think that was in New York). No reason you couldn’t do the same with a heat pump.
The people who should be working on the appointments have other responsibilities that they consider more urgent? Obsolete or otherwise problematic requirements make it difficult to find suitable candidates? Candidates who are suitable refuse the positions when offered?
(More than likely it’s just the usual combination of outright screwups with childish bureacratic infighting, though.)
There are plenty of them still around—much of the Boomer generation was in elementary school before widespread administration of MMR and polio vaccines, or at least knew people a few years older who were. Thing is, they’re not the ones making the decisions about whether to vaccinate youngsters these days. Their own kids—GenX like me (and I suspect you as well), and some early Millenials—all got the vaccines.
If no investigator his completed all the required courses, then either the requirements are unreasonable, or the agency is so incompetently administered that it should implode into a black hole. I knew it was probably bad, but I wasn’t expecting this.
Next-easiest target after LGBTQ+ people would be non-white immigrants, or has she gone after them already? I find it difficult to remember which individual right-wingers have publicly admitted to embracing all the bigoted drivel their political siblings push, and which are trying to stay in the closet.
In the end, they’re all of a piece.
Wait, is it supposed to be winter?
This seems to happen most often with newish stuff whose original source was a dollar store or similar really low-end retailer. But, yeah, while you may stumble across the occasional 20th century item being sold for less than it’s worth, there are many better places to buy cheap used stuff. Caveat emptor.
(You’d think they’d at least have the brains to remove or black out the old price tags.)
Charge any company in posession of a shipping container believed to contain stolen vehicles with posession of stolen property or something to that effect if they don’t immediately set it aside to be checked by law enforcement, and tighten up the paperwork required for shipping used vehicles generally. Make the corporations perform due diligence, and it will suddenly be a lot harder to get stolen vehicles out of the country. If that means each shipping company has to hire someone to stand there and check VINs against a list while some other company is loading cars into containers, so be it.
In the meanwhile, buy compact cars rather than SUVs or pickups, because they seem to be less-desirable theft targets.
At what point does a child become autonomous enough to make their own decisions about their values?
Middle school-ish. It might make sense to tie it to the age of criminal responsibility (that is, the age at which you’re assumed to have enough understanding of right and wrong to be charged with a crime in your own right), which, in Canada, is 12.
Good. This is the sort of thing tax money is supposed to be for: ensuring that workers who render services to the public on behalf of the government collect a living wage for their efforts. (Things it isn’t supposed to be for include paying lawyers to appeal perfectly reasonable court rulings, providing tax refunds to people who don’t really need them, and paying down a deficit that no one really cares much about.)
I don’t know much about the political landscape in France, but in the US you have to be wealthy to achieve political office above a certain level. When’s the last time a poor person became their President?
The problem is that the Boomer generation is now getting hit with all the normal age-related degenerative diseases, including those that cause dementia. The demographics mean that we just don’t have enough younger people to look after them, and it’s going to get worse before it gets better. ☹️
You willing to pay $100 per burger? How about $1000? A cow isn’t sterile. You’re starting with contaminated source, so you have to decontaminate it, test it to make sure it really is decontaminated, and seal it medical-grade sterile to ensure no contaminants are reintroduced. And it all goes out the window the moment someone screws up, which happens even with food that absolutely must be sterile, as proven by the shenanigans with baby formula over the past few years. It simply isn’t worth it when cooking ground beef thoroughly is so much easier and cheaper, and most of the population is okay with it.
While the CANDU heavy-water plants that power half of Ontario have proven themselves safe, they’re slow and expensive to build (and not cheap to operate, either). If Alberta started building one right now, it would be years before they would see any benefit. Hard to make that work in the current political climate.
Other plant types are, by my understanding, less safe, less proven, or continually five years in the future.
As far as I can tell, there are two real problems with Quebec’s language policies in general:
Too many sticks and not enough carrots: the Quebec government can’t seem to find a way to make anyone want to learn French for its own sake. They can only force people to learn it against their will.
They’re solving the wrong problem: Whether adults arriving from outside of Quebec learn French doesn’t actually matter much. You measure the health of a language by seeing how many children are learning it as a first language, or one of their first languages. French is not in danger in Quebec by that measure. French is not in danger in Ontario by that measure, even though the Ontario government’s policies regarding the French language for at least the past fifty years have wobbled back and forth between “lukewarm tolerant” and “weakly supportive”.
Thing is, I’d bet the politicians in Quebec know they’re solving the wrong problem. Like ultraconservatives, they’re playing to a fear that they’ve carefully instilled into their base.
It’s unfortunate, but the people most harmed by this will first need aircraft to get to the corporate headquarters so they can use the torches, since a lot of these places have no other easy way in or out. (Burning individual stores just means that there will be nowhere in that community to buy food at all.)
Isolated northern communities have always gotten the short end of the stick. For everything. Made even worse when the ice roads don’t do well, which I don’t think they did this year.