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It's pure demographics, it's happening everywhere regardless of the government of the day's stripes. Probably should have means-tested user fees on end of life care and/or death panels or something. (Means-tested equals "charge everyone, take it out of the estate then walk away from any remaining debt")
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yes im sure ER overcrowding has nothing to do with the fact the government has closed 3 ERs since taking power 3 years ago
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littleorv posted:Yeah but we are saving the money on our kitchen tables. Out of everything Pallister did this one still pisses me off because those credits I planned into my post school budget and would be debt free by now. Thanks to that rear end in a top hat it will still be another 2 years.
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DariusLikewise posted:yes im sure ER overcrowding has nothing to do with the fact the government has closed 3 ERs since taking power 3 years ago Imo its due to a lack of personal responsibility. Just dont get sick ???
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do the right thing bernie. endorse jagmeet.
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God... one of my former students and his parents were among those killed in the Iranian plane crash.
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James Baud posted:It's pure demographics, it's happening everywhere regardless of the government of the day's stripes. its happening everywhere not because people are getting old but because every government in the developed world sucks rear end and would rather close hospitals than tax billionaires
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Jan posted:Aren't you looking forward to a PM Charest majority government!? A reminder that Charest was so bad a PM he woke the usually apathetic Quebec voters into the worst protests the Province had seen in decades.
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James Baud posted:It's pure demographics, it's happening everywhere regardless of the government of the day's stripes. Lol how can policy effect infrastructure??
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CrcleSqreSanchz posted:Out of everything Pallister did this one still pisses me off because those credits I planned into my post school budget and would be debt free by now. Thanks to that rear end in a top hat it will still be another 2 years. Yah that hosed over like all of my friends
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vyelkin posted:its happening everywhere not because people are getting old but because every government in the developed world sucks rear end and would rather close hospitals than tax billionaires So, with four seconds on Wikipedia to back me up... In Ontario alone, the health sector apparently had 61.3b in total capital plus operating expenditures in 2018-19. I'm not going to cross reference the Forbes billionaire list but I'm pretty sure that seizing 100% of assets from every billionaire in Canada would only "fund" a small incremental increase there (5% or so? Less than 10%), and precious few of even the early boomers are barely hitting the expensive years. Whether through taxes or fees, we have to pay a lot more for ourselves or accept the perpetual decline of the system. (And nobody wants to pay.)
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90 families in Canada own as much wealth as three provinces.
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James Baud posted:So, with four seconds on Wikipedia to back me up... In Ontario alone, the health sector apparently had 61.3b in total capital plus operating expenditures in 2018-19. the 10 richest canadians on their own have over US$90B between them so if we actually seized 100% of their assets that alone would "fund" an over 150% increase in the arbitrary number you picked, also eric ciaramella posted:well we'd tax the multimillionaires too
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to the surprise of everyone lord durham's report and aftermath did not resolve the family compact issue
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ARACHTION posted:God... one of my former students and his parents were among those killed in the Iranian plane crash. Oh no 
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ARACHTION posted:God... one of my former students and his parents were among those killed in the Iranian plane crash. That's awful. 60+ Canadians killed, tons of them students.
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vyelkin posted:the 10 richest canadians on their own have over US$90B between them so if we actually seized 100% of their assets that alone would "fund" an over 150% increase in the arbitrary number you picked, also I was figuring 100B equals (a generous) 5B/year in perpetuity, you don't get to budget a one time windfall as if you get to spend the full amount every year.
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StarMinstrel posted:A reminder that Charest was so bad a PM he woke the usually apathetic Quebec voters into the worst protests the Province had seen in decades. Then his equally-bad crew got back in power after a year. And now we've got someone even dumber in charge.
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In another universe the PQ might not have squandered their chance and offered meaningful progressive change. shame we get hellworld where Bernard Drainville keeps slamming the racism button.
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James Baud posted:I was figuring 100B equals (a generous) 5B/year in perpetuity, you don't get to budget a one time windfall as if you get to spend the full amount every year. i bothered to add up the 41 billionaires on this list: https://dailyhive.com/edmonton/richest-people-canada-billionaires combined total wealth: $163.6b USD, or $213.6b in Canadian dollars that means if you bothered to get your 5% return out of just those 41 people and no one else it would be around $11b a year which, using ontario health spending which you chose as our metric, would more than make up for the projected cuts in health spending over the next 3 years because the ontario government chose to balance the budget without raising taxes:  (from here) oh no boo hoo those 41 billionaires might have to sell one of their yachts in order for the rest of us to have funded hospitals and clinics,  add in increased taxation of our many more multimillionaires and millionaires, yes including boomer parents with million-dollar homes, and we could have a relatively stable and healthily-funded social system but we choose not to so again, i stand by my original claim that the real problem is that our governments suck rear end and would rather close hospitals than tax billionaires [and millionaires] vyelkin has issued a correction as of 16:45 on Jan 9, 2020 |
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Nine of Eight posted:In another universe the PQ might not have squandered their chance and offered meaningful progressive change. shame we get hellworld where Bernard Drainville keeps slamming the racism button. https://twitter.com/dril/status/841892608788041732
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StarMinstrel posted:A reminder that Charest was so bad a PM he woke the usually apathetic Quebec voters into the worst protests the Province had seen in decades. and yet, he'll probably be the least destructive choice on offer in the cpc race like at least the charest liberals took climate change semi-seriously
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Haha, I guess it does make sense that my estimate was a bit low because holy crap the last few years of market returns. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1215299143066947584?s=19
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https://twitter.com/TorontoStar/status/1215288386904305666 You heard the lady, thread. Stop being such a bunch of poseurs and pretending you don't care!
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doesnt he know a beard makes it much harder to wash off blackface
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i dont know if i like this edgier reboot of pmjt
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eric ciaramella posted:doesnt he know a beard makes it much harder to wash off blackface On the other hand, less surface area to cover when he feels like dressing up again.
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trudeau is going to start smoking captain blacks at summits and celebrating press conferences with a shot of whiskey
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No quarter for old white men: (It only did head to heads with Trudeau, Freeland, Charest, Ambrose, and MacKay.)
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qanon followers seem to think trudeau is going to implicated in something soon lol
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DariusLikewise posted:qanon followers seem to think trudeau is going to implicated in something soon lol It makes me sad that we import our crazy when there's plenty of perfectly good crazy that's 100% Canadian fake edit: do we say crazy anymore or is that word cancelled, and if so what's an acceptable synonym in this context
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Another Bill posted:It makes me sad that we import our crazy when there's plenty of perfectly good crazy that's 100% Canadian loony as a dollar coin?
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Another Bill posted:It makes me sad that we import our crazy when there's plenty of perfectly good crazy that's 100% Canadian The game-store near where I work took down its Qanon sign. Hopefully it will be replaced with some CanCon compliant crazy.
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Qu'anon
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