Reince Penis posted:

JJ McCullough has some garbage piece in the Washington Post today called 'I'm Canadian and Trump is right about trade'

I didn't read it and I'm not linking it but I am going to cancel my online subscription I'm not paying for this poo poo

EvidenceBasedQuack posted:

Step 1- Aggressively maintain the status quo and find efficiencies.

Step 2- Jobs will start pouring once they take anal sex out of the curriculum.

Step 3- Reopening the abortion debate will stimulate the economy.

Edit: What would be steps 4 and 5?

infernal machines posted:

barbaric cultural practices

Helsing posted:

So apparently Trudeau got the Trans Pacific Partnership renamed the Comprehensive and Progressive Trade-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Helsing posted:

So apparently Trudeau got the Trans Pacific Partnership renamed the Comprehensive and Progressive Trade-Pacific Partnership Agreement

Helsing posted:

vyelkin posted:

Strip mine downtown Toronto, fill all subways with concrete

James Baud posted:

So, the Globe and Mail today has results from a nearly annual survey on Canadian attitudes regarding immigration, with some long term response history shown.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadian-attitudes-toward-immigrants-refugees-remain-positive-study/

I can't copy the graph right now, but what happened to totally flip the "Yay, immigrants" result starting in 1997ish?

Aftermath of Quebec referendum, rise of Reform, whose leadership tried really hard to purge the racists... The Hong Kong handover? The Lewinsky scandal? People getting on the internet en masse and actually interacting with the dread foreigner?

Immigration levels too high:
Yes, by year:
1977 to 1997: consistently 60-70%
1998: 54%
2000: 45%
2002: 44%
2003: 38%
2005: 33%
(30s since, currently 35%)

In other results, that photo of the drowned Syrian boy briefly made refugee claimants "legitimate" everywhere but Alberta, however nationwide support for that notion is possibly dropping again.

James Baud posted:

In other results, that photo of the drowned Syrian boy briefly made refugee claimants "legitimate" everywhere but Alberta, however nationwide support for that notion is possibly dropping again.

pfizerman posted:

I think so long as immigrants continue to be unpopular in Alberta and Quebec they will remain popular in the rest of Canada

Reality Loser posted:

Quebec only takes the 'good kind' of immigrants i.e. those who speak French.

vyelkin posted:

daily reminder that this man wants to be premier of ontario

vyelkin posted:

daily reminder that this man wants to be premier of ontario

Reince Penis posted:

Immigrants are popular in Quebec? So popular in fact Quebec has it's own special accord with Canada to recruit or select it's own immigrants.

quote:

I got interested in universal child care when Michael Baker came to Queen’s and presented his joint work with Kevin Milligan and Jon Gruber, which found that the Quebec childcare program, the access to universal, subsidized child care there, led to declines in a host of child developmental outcomes as well as family outcomes.

I’ll be quite honest: I didn’t believe the results. I thought they would come out the other way.

[...so he had a grad student try to replicate it and found a lot of success there ...]

The main result we found was that Baker, Gruber and Milligan’s work is 100 per cent correct. It’s robust. If anything, in our own work, including a paper that came out in Canadian Public Policy and won “best paper award” for that year, it actually finds the effects get larger over time, on average.

A lot of the critics say, “this is the effect of access to child care, it’s not really the effect of child care itself.” We did some analysis that makes strong assumptions, and we find that the effects of attending childcare are also negative.

quote:

The Liberal government tabled a major bill to reform Canada's criminal justice system today with measures designed to close gaps in the system and speed up court proceedings, including an end to preliminary inquiries except for the most serious crimes that carry a life sentence.

Changes also include an end to peremptory challenges in jury selection, which became a flashpoint during the trial of Gerald Stanley, who was found not guilty of second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old Indigenous man Colten Boushie.

Some observers said the process was biased because the defence team excluded five potential jurors who appeared to be Indigenous. CBC News has not independently determined the reason for their exclusion.

Another proposed reform in the bill will put a reverse onus on bail for people who have a history of domestic abuse, which would require them to justify why they should be released after a charge.

James Baud posted:

Here's some surface discussion with a bunch of deeper links on the numbers not really adding up for cheap universal daycare, based on Quebec data.

https://www.convivium.ca/articles/daycare-demands-diversity

quote:

... We find that theQuebec policy had a lasting negative impact on the non-cognitive skills of exposed children. At older ages, program exposure is associated with worsened health and life satisfaction, and increased rates of criminal activity. Increases in aggression and hyperactivity are concentrated in boys, as is the rise in the crime rates. In contrast, we find no consistent impact on their cognitive skills.