That feels like one of those cases where someone should step in and separate her because that situation sounds uncomfortable for everyone… or even bringing a screen to separate her if they don’t have access to another space for her to change.

There’s not that many trans people, it feels like accommodating this would be easy.

That’s the problem with Pollievre’s language.

And even pre bottom surgery trans people are vulnerable.

It feels like a given that trans people deserve to be able to use public washrooms and change rooms without fear, and I haven’t seen any actual evidence they cause any issues beyond offending some closed minded people.

There are biological female spaces which it makes sense to exclude trans people from, they do have different experiences than cis women when it comes to growing up, periods, giving birth, etc. But bathrooms don’t seem like one them.

I’m not into competitive sports, but I don’t think they’re fine. I’m in favor of gender neutral or weight classed leagues.

On some level though I think it’s okay to tell trans athletes they can’t compete in certain leagues. I’m colourblind and I can never be a firefighter or a pilot or a cop, and I had to back off from my dream of doing art school because I didn’t think I could compete. There are biological restrictions which preclude things we want, and I do think being trans precludes competing in the sex based leagues, but as mentioned earlier we can revise our leagues to make them a better fit on a per sport basis.

Honestly I think this is just a bad take. I didn’t see it on lemmy so I’m posting it (never done this before).

For athletes and competitive sports, realistically that’s a discussion that you need nuance for.

Blocking trans women (and not men for some reason) from change rooms and washrooms? Are there even cases where trans women are creating issues? Lesbians are perfectly capable of ogling women in those spaces anyway.

A lot of attention on this and not on the fact Pollievre just said trans women shouldn’t be able to use women’s washrooms and change rooms.

Moreau has the perfect reply to your comment:

Moreau was called the bar in Alberta in 1980, and served as a lawyer for 14 years. In 1994, she was appointed a judge to the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta. She became the chief justice of the Court of King’s Bench of Alberta in 1997.

During her speech, Moreau recounted how an experience early in her career as a judge shaped her professional beliefs.

She recalled when she first started working as a judge she overheard a senior colleague commenting on her age and professional experience.

“The only reply I could muster was, ‘Well, as my dear mother used to say, the proof is in the pudding.’ And it’s been my motto ever since.”

I’ve been holding cash/GICs so I can pay off as much of my mortgage before renewal as possible. I get better rates in savings and GICs than the mortgage interest, so it makes sense to hold and pay out as much as I can at/before renewal.

It’s too short a term to put in the market, and I’m more worried about securing my home than I am anything else.

Besides, as soon as my boss thinks AI can do my job I’m gone (I have been told as much), regardless of whether it can or not. So there’s a reasonable chance having a cash pillow is going to be important in the next few years.

There’s already a website selling Al generated fake IDs for digital age/kyc verification.

Why is Justin Trudeau Bad - he will often point out SOMETHING JUSTIN TRUDEAU HAS ACTUALLY DONE THAT IS BAD.

Pollievre is not unique in this, but a major pitfall of opposition leaders is they spend all their time saying the current party leader is bad, but they never actually say what they’d do different. Mulcair was awful for this as well.

What does set Pollievre and the conservatives apart lately is what qualifies as a national scandal to them. Lately there’s been a lot of Trudeau took a vacation scandals, which turn out to be Trudeau spent time with people he’s spent time with for his whole privileged life. The bar the PC’s set for scandal is moronic.

On the list of things Trudeau has been called evil for, I find most to be bullshit. Even pinning the WE scandal on hims was bullshit, as the recommendation was made by public servants and Trudeau asked them to try again because the optics were bad, to which they returned with the same plan. You can call me a Trudeau simp for that or whatever but I don’t particularly like him and I would be happier if they ran someone else instead of throwing the next election to a Conservative majority out of pride and hubris like Kathleen Wynn did.

He actually has talked about how to get more housing being built. He has actually talked about things to cut - and why to cut them (like the Carbon tax that has had pretty much zero benefit, but has inflated the cost of heating, transportation, and food in this countries at a time we have an affordability crisis).

What’s actually wrong with the carbon tax other than it being the conservative boogeyman for 5 years running? It’s actually a conservative idea. The heating oil exemption is entirely a shitshow of an idea.

On housing, I think we all agree that there needs to be more done. I actually have listened to what Pollievre has said and it’s not terrible.

I do think playing strong man and calling every barrier to housing NIMBYism will result in a lot side effects like the Ontario greenbelt getting destroyed and houses built on cheap floodplains or other unsuitable land because cities are in a financial bind.

Block Chain being out of control of the Government, means the Government can’t devalue the currency

Pollievre was the finance critic at the time he proposed this! 1 month after he made those comments bitcoin dropped 57%.

If Bitcoin was such a great hedge against inflation, it should be inversely correlated with inflation these last few years. In late 2021 inflation started rising above guidance levels, Bitcoin was jumping between $60k and $30k and back. 2022 we reached peak inflation, and BTC started the year with a drop. Then BoC and US Fed announced rate hikes starting in 2022, and Bitcoin dropped 57%. Now that interest rates are flat and expected to decrease, BTC has been increasing again. Bitcoin isn’t actually an inflation hedge, it is entirely purchased by speculators because it has no utility except for speculation. In theory, sure inflation hedge, in practice, it’s a speculate asset.

Gold hasn’t even had standout performance since inflation started. I think the idea of an inflation free currency sounds great but isn’t possible because inflation was largely driven by supply shortages, government handouts, and speculative greed. Increases in the money supply do play a part, but a Gold standard assumes all inflation is due to monetary inflation, and not fluctuations in demand or supply or assets. The price of gold also jumps a lot, so if we used the gold standard, the price of gold is always fixed, but those fluctuations result in the prices of every other good jumping around inversely, which would make prices a lot less predictable. The value of the dollar would decrease any time anyone mines gold so there’d by inflation anyways, and if China or India decided to dump their gold reserves they could tank our economies whenever they wanted.

Central banking and managing the money supply are incredibly powerful tools. They can be used poorly, or well. After the financial crisis of 2008 when trillions of dollars of value were lost (or rather, it came out they never existed in the first place), managing interest rates and the money supply were the only things that actually caused economies to recover.

Slowing down immigration is really important. We are adding more people than jobs being added to the economy, and more people than houses can be built. We also have an issue with Doctors. If a person already owns a house here - whatever. But we need to slow down on immigration.

I agree that we should require an immigration plan when we set immigration targets.

No. But you have to make sure your Outfit provides a sense of you being competent. I don’t think he has ever said “fellow poor people” But he has certainly pointed out the policies and situations that have driven more people into poverty.

My point here was they had him drop the glasses and tie as part of a makeover because he looked like a dweeb, but he is a dweeb and I don’t think he really relates to the average Canadian.

Car thefts are up

This is 100% the fault of car manufacturers making cars that can be trivially stolen. Car thefts aren’t even at a historically high level if you actually look at the numbers, the only differences now are cars are more expensive and easier to steal than they ever have been.

We have had more Scandals in the last 8 years than in the rest of my lifetime - and they all fall on Trudeau’s Shoulders

Citation needed. As I mentioned earlier, what qualifies for a scandal these days is pathetic and driven largely by conservative owned media.

I feel like I could do Poilievre’s job, watch this:

• If you make me Prime Minister, I will only spend money on the things that are really important. And I’ll cut spending on the things that aren’t! What specifically are those things you ask? Well it’s the wasteful and corrupt things I’ll cut, and the important and good things I’ll fund, of course!
• Justin Trudeau is bad guys
• There’s still time to become the blockchain capital!
• I’ll only allow immigrants into this country if they already own at least one home here!
• Aren’t glasses and ties like, so lame!
• How do you do, fellow poor people (holds up premium brand cup of ramen)

Why does this suddenly keep happening?

The trip came as London police asks for a massive budget increase in the next four years to pay for new officers, drones, a second light-armoured vehicle and a new training centre.

I’m not one of those “All cops are bad” people, but if you want a budget increase, nothing signals fiduciary responsibility like unnecessary work trips without notifying your oversight board…

And that’s to say nothing about attending a joint training exercise with foreign nationals that are currently sanctioned by our government, who for some reason gave them a surprise 90% discount on the whole thing.

Is it officially treason to train military units of foreign countries that we have sanctioned? It’s probably bad I have to ask.

Health Canada published a review of titanium dioxide studies in June 2022, which found there is no conclusive scientific evidence that the food additive is a concern for human health.

After reading the review it does make their code I’m choice make more sense, however I do think the more you add to food the worse it probably is.

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My wife is in that position, but it hasn’t been nearly 6 years.

If that happened in the private sector people would quit.

I’m surprised by this.

Not that the group poses a threat, but that CSIS both bothered to investigate and published this finding.

I lost a lot of faith in them based on their actions during the convoy, and through the grapevine I’ve heard their culture may be sympathetic to that type of cause, but that last part is hearsay I can’t back up at all.

I’m sure there are, a lot of the internet developed that way.

TBH I don’t know much about Bluesky, except that it’s a Twitter one with it’s own federation protocol, and I don’t get what the value of any project adopting their protocol over activity pub is.

I’m very fed up with the “I get treated like shit and so should you” crowd.

If they’re so jealous of public sector workers, then become one. It must be easy right?

I have family that work for the government, the salaries aren’t great and most of their paycheque goes to fees, taxes, and gets put aside to pay for that pension people are so jealous of (gov pensions aren’t just free money). They’ve got fixed sick and vacation amounts with insane fixed times between raises and increases in vacation. And the bureaucracy is next level, if you want a promotion then you have to apply to get into a pool to interview for a higher level role more than a year or from now, maybe. And that’s all after years of working contract to become permanent, and meeting rigid education criteria in the first place.

I work private sector, and if I hadn’t fought my way up by leveraging offers, switching jobs, and demanding promotions, I would still be working low level jobs and I’d make half my salary.

If you’re in the private sector and unhappy, do something about it. The private sector gives you the freedom to do so. Stop tearing down other people pretending if we were all miserable you’d finally be happy.

I kind of agree, Meta’s take of pulling content but no contributing back is clearly bad for the platform, but I don’t see Bluesky as being shady, though I haven’t followed what they do.

I thought the whole point of federation was the open standard allows anyone to be on the same standing as the larger corporations, so from that perspective I think it only works if you also allow large companies to participate.

I can absolutely understand that sentiment, but that’s not quite how the bridge works.

I’ve chosen to put my content on mastodon, and my friend prefers bluesky. The bridge just shares content across so now we can interact.

I think that’s better than mastodon and bluesky each cutting off their bosses to spite their own faces. Fragmenting the between is why X didn’t die a much deserved death after Elon Musk bought it.