Not a Sheep. Do the right thing. Be Kind. You have more in common with your enemy than the person who tells you who your enemy is.
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Young teenagers are less likely to identify as lesbian, gay or bisexual than a few years ago, according to a new analysis.
“It really does look like a free fall,” Jean Twenge, a professor of psychology, said. “But what’s causing it is unclear.” wapo.st/4dtMSyQ
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This posting lists a restaurant manager role at a wage that exceeds typical compensation for the position. It raises the question of whether the employer has adequately demonstrated that no Canadian workers are available for this role, given the compensation offered. It also invites consideration of how the LMIA process verified the labour market need in this case. Canadians who are interested in restaurant management positions should be made aware of this opportunity, and sharing the posting in relevant communities may help connect qualified applicants with the employer.
Repost to help more Canadians see this.
jobwatchcanada.com/job/50334…
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An Older Alberta Independence Supporter Gives a Young Canadian a History Lesson!
At the Alberta Legislature, a young counter-protester argued that Canada could still be fixed. Then an older independence supporter joined our conversation.
When the young man blamed older generations for Canada's problems, the gentleman challenged him on his ageism and walked him through more than a century of Western Canadian history.
From the creation of Alberta in 1905 to Louis Riel, Preston Manning's Reform Party, and decades of unsuccessful attempts at constitutional reform, he made a compelling case for why so many Albertans have lost faith in Ottawa.
The young man pushed back, but he also listened.
Two generations, two very different perspectives, and a fascinating debate about Alberta's future.
Watch the full conversation:
youtu.be/Ob3RhYcuh_4
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85 mental health nurses are laid off at Parkwood....this is the state of our Healthcare. Welcome to Canada
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This video is currently all over social media. Many are expressing sorrow for this woman and sadness at her outrage. My take on it is different. The look you see on her face is not outrage…it’s realisation. It is the look of a white, liberal lefty woman suddenly realising that her entire worldview is/was totally wrong. That what she had spent her life arrogantly portraying as her higher morality and understanding was in fact “suicidal empathy” as described by @GadSaad and that empathy was going to destroy her entire society.
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Can someone please explain how criticizing the Carney Liberal government and ELBOWS UP movement is somehow considered traitorous behaviour? I just want to see the logic there.
I’ve been called a traitor so many times
It’s legit lost its meaning. Same with Russian BOT 😅
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Nearly $900 million last year for asylum seeker health care.
Urgent dental alone jumped from $30 million to $257 million.
Nearly 74,000 failed claimants still in the system, many still covered until they leave.
PBO says this is heading past $1.5 billion a year by 2030.
Meanwhile Canadians are still waiting years for a family doctor.
Priorities are pretty clear.
#cdnpoli
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This posting seeks a manager for a Surrey waffle shop at $38.40 per hour through the TFW program. The wage sits above typical food-service pay, which raises the question of why a Canadian worker has not already filled the role. It is also unclear what specific skill gap prevents local recruitment when the position involves overseeing daily operations rather than specialized technical expertise. Share this with any Canadians you know who might qualify, and pass it along on Facebook or X so more people can apply.
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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre, who represents the Wainwright area, flew in after the deadly fire at CFB Wainwright: "There are acts of courage that are almost unimaginable. People who ran towards rather than away from the danger and are now paying a cruel price fighting for their lives in hospitals."
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When 3 out 10 provinces are net contributors & 7 out of 10 are not that’s not a family helping each other out. That’s an unsustainable economic system doomed to fail, especially when 2 of the 7 have the 2 largest provincial GDP’s!
This economic insanity has been built into the CDN Constitution!
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I have so much appreciation for the people who are relaying accounts of what happened in Wainwright out to the broader public. I have to say though, Canadian government comms culture is atrocious. There should be some kind of report from official sources. We basically got "There's been a horrible tragedy, don't speculate" from the government with very little else said a day later.
The whole country is still trying to figure out just how big of a disaster this is. Not because Canadians are morbidly hungering for infotainment, but because they are concerned about the lives lost and people hurt, and are trying to make sense of it.
The average person understands very well that the full summary of events and casualty count is not going to be available until much, much later. And that when it comes to identifying individuals injured or lost, it is no question that family notification comes first. But that does not preclude officials from providing their basic understanding of what happened, and ballpark figures when it comes to casualties. Is the number of people with life-threatening burns in the hundreds or the dozens? How about deaths? Missing?
It also seems that "something hit gas infrastructure" and "fire blew into a location on base where people were present" are two prevalent explanations coming out of the grapevine; if soldiers are talking about it in their networks, then officials are getting briefed on it, too. There doesn't need to be a scientific level of precision in the intel before going to the public; "At this time it is believed ...." does suffice, and is especially welcome if it dispels any erroneous information that's floating around.
Absent official lines of communication, all we have is what can be gleaned from Facebook comments of locals, chatter that makes its way to the public through CAF/first responder networks, eyewitness accounts from people in the area, etc. And this is how you get more rumourmongering than there otherwise would have been, which I believe is worse for a nation that is trying to appropriately mourn a tragedy. It shouldn't have to be that way.
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Maybe, for once, we can stop framing the argument as an "immigration problem" but rather a "capacity problem" and put together practical solutions from there.
Facts are facts. For the last 11 years we imported population growth faster than we built homes, transit, schools, doctors, and hospitals to keep up. Now the Liberals new slogan is “more immigration plus more housing and we'll treat it like a serious plan. We mean it this time. Trust us." And while Liberals will surely pull another "it's not me; it's him. It's not him; it's her. It's not her; it's the other one" among each other in multiple levels of government as the explanation for how we got to here, the blame starts right at the top because they're the ones who issue the visas and the entry permissions along with the slogans and performative theatrics.
Stop it. How about build the housing and infrastructure first? THEN set immigration to what Canada can actually absorb.
Low fertility rates are real. So are rents, ER waits, and a chronic housing shortage. Pretending the second set of facts is secondary (if a consideration at all) is showing contempt for younger people, renters, hospital patients, and commuters. It's ruining our country. It's ruining the Canadian dream.
“It’s existential.” With no natural population growth coming, Canada needs more immigration to avoid incredible decline, which means that in addition to higher targets, we need more housing and social infrastructure. It’s as important as anything. thestar.com/opinion/canada-s…
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Disgraceful
‼️ MAJOR BREAKING -
Starting Nov 3, the Liberals will let employers hire a foreign worker for a "high-wage" job with NO REQUIREMENT to try a Canadian first.
IT’S A DIRECT RESIDENCY PATH
Not a temporary visa you can send home.
Permanent status, right out of the gate.
Then comes the chain.
Permanent residency means sponsorship: spouse, kids, parents, grandparents to follow.
One approval becomes a household.
No requirement to offer the job to a Canadian first.
And "high-wage" is a trick.
It means the job category averages about $40/hr, roughly $84,000 a year.
BUT THE WORKER THEY ACTUALLY BRING DOESN’T HAVE TO BE PAID THAT.
The paycheque can be low.
Only the job title has to be high.
Weeks after 68,300 Canadians lost their jobs.
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SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS STORE MANAGERS, BUT I'M DONE.
I just pulled $140 worth of groceries off the shelf, carried them across the store, scanned every item myself at a self-checkout kiosk, bagged every single item, and tapped my own card.
Then the machine screen flipped around and asked:
"Would you like to round up your total to donate to corporate charity?"
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
You eliminated 12 cashier jobs to cut corporate payroll, forced me to provide free manual labor for 15 minutes just to buy food, and now you want ME to fund your tax write-off?
If I'm doing the work of an employee, give me a 10% self-checkout discount at checkout.
Stop asking for tips and donations at kiosks where I did 100% of the work.
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"I have bad news for you, Prime Minister. All of the premiers are interested in talking about immigration." Danielle Smith tells Carney she's handed him her case for "yes to the nine."
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Nova Scotians take stand against major data centre project.
They don't want jobs. They don't want projects. They just want welfare cheques.
globalnews.ca/news/12106542/…
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‼️ MAJOR BREAKING -
Starting Nov 3, the Liberals will let employers hire a foreign worker for a "high-wage" job with NO REQUIREMENT to try a Canadian first.
IT’S A DIRECT RESIDENCY PATH
Not a temporary visa you can send home.
Permanent status, right out of the gate.
Then comes the chain.
Permanent residency means sponsorship: spouse, kids, parents, grandparents to follow.
One approval becomes a household.
No requirement to offer the job to a Canadian first.
And "high-wage" is a trick.
It means the job category averages about $40/hr, roughly $84,000 a year.
BUT THE WORKER THEY ACTUALLY BRING DOESN’T HAVE TO BE PAID THAT.
The paycheque can be low.
Only the job title has to be high.
Weeks after 68,300 Canadians lost their jobs.