I don’t think I had thought about Red River since about 1996, damn.

Also, I regret to inform you that the the maker of Red River was sold to US food conglomerate JM Smucker in 2022.

“It is troubling to know that some communities are living in poverty leaving children in precarious conditions and others would use Jordan’s Principle to access services a thousand miles away from the normative standard.”

Gee guys, maybe this happens because you gated the funding by requiring people to apply for it?

Surprise surprise, the people who have the bandwidth to manage applications for funding are the ones who already have more resources.

But nah the problem is just that you didn’t means test hard enough, that’s definitely it.

Does anything in the linked piece claim it’s foreign interference? The only thing I saw approaching that framing was the indication that Musk is based south of the border, and it was only once.

I don’t think most people understand the process financialization, its wider-ranging impacts, or how thoroughly it’s metastasized at this point.

I’d put that failure at the feet of every government of the last 40-some years, and on the fourth estate.

Telecom is critical infrastructure and this country is too geographically large for for-profit companies to bring good, cost-effective service to everyone, especially in rural areas. They charge us some of if not the highest rates in the developed world. Their business practices are predatory. Not to mention Telus’ apparently unchallenged ingress into healthcare services.

Fucking nationalize it.

Can’t take credit for that one, but glad you enjoyed it!

Don’t worry, I’m sure there’s followup legislation in the works to limit disastrous climate events to a 4-day duration.

(This is still better than anything my country will do, of course.)

Well fuck this shit.

Like I want to see Air Canada renationalized, but not under any government that could get elected under FTPT, and sure as fuck not with facial recognition systems.

Not actually a stupid question at all!

We have shitty fake universal healthcare that most of us (myself included) do not fully understand because we are not actually taught how the system works. Currently reading The Social Safety Net by Nora Loreto to try and better educate myself, but it’s fighting with my epub reader so nyehhhhh

Healthcare in Canada is about 70% public and 30% private, but your mileage will vary by province as healthcare is administered at the provincial level.

Some provinces require people to pay premiums.

As other posters have said, most GPs, specialists, and emergency medicine are covered (but not ambulance service, you get a bill for that later).

Without private insurance (which many employers offer if you work full-time hours), you have to pay for anything considered an elective procedure, dental care, and prescription drugs. Also stuff like physiotherapy, massage therapy, and optometry (or vision testing by an optometrist, at least).

If you spend some ridiculous portion of your income on prescription drugs you can get a shitty tax break, assuming you are able to tabulate everything for the CRA.

National pharma and dental care are “in the works”, but I think currently limited to seniors, people who have been approved for the Canadians with Disabilities tax credit (which excludes a large number of Canadians with Disabilities), and children? At this stage I’m pretty sure it’s still mostly hot air and either Bitcoin Milhouse will kill it as soon as he’s elected (likely), or the Liberals will weasel out of it (less likely, but only because they are almost definitely going to lose the election).

I was just playing Powder a few weeks ago! My friend and I used to play on a work laptop during slow periods, and I got nostalgic for it.

Had some good fun with unidentified ring of polymorph, don’t remember that from 2010.