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On December 22 2024 12:19 Yaqoob wrote: You didn't even reply to the fact that many nurses are leaving or considering leaving nursing in the USA.
You never replied to any of my questions for hard data and #s of US Nurses moving to Canada for all the great career experiences north of the 49th. You spoke in vague generalities. The problem for Nurses is worse in Canada than in the USA. It is easier to carve out a satisfying career in the USA.
Nurses leaving Canada doubled in the last five years amid health-care crisis
The # of Canadian nurses living in Canada and cross the border every day is rising.
Ontario's TV and Radio airwaves are inundated with news of the 87 bazillion new nurses coming to Ontario. LOL. Why the non stop messaging? Because the system is falling apart and crushing its front line staff.
What a mess. I do not see any one qualified to clean it up. Canada is fucked. To add to this the destroyer of Mississauga ,Barbara Crombie, is on her way to running Ontario. LOL.
On a more interesting note: here is a great interview with Ken Dryden. His analysis at 20:50 is great.
"you can not conceive that you have a weapon in your hand and somebody is coming towards you and you are firing at that person"
It is a cryin' shame Ken Dryden or Bob Rae did not become PM instead of Justin Trudeau. Justin does not have 1/10th the intellect of Ken Dryden. Justin does not possess 1/20th the intellect of Rae.
@jimmy you were right - you think he's gonna be relaxing on a private Cuban beach a few months from now or what? I'm joking but JFC I'm glad to see him go, I don't Love PP but he's gonna likely be better then this clown. Not sure if he'll live up to your expectations.
On January 07 2025 14:25 Taelshin wrote: @jimmy you were right - you think he's gonna be relaxing on a private Cuban beach a few months from now or what? I'm joking but JFC I'm glad to see him go, I don't Love PP but he's gonna likely be better then this clown. Not sure if he'll live up to your expectations.
Regarding the Trudeau resignation... I think I was wrong. I predicted a JT resignation 10 months ago. I'm very surprised he hung on this long.
I've never had high expectations of PP. IMO, He is average.
Yeah I hope we aren't getting a lemon with PP - Its so nice to see Trudy going though my god. I've had a chance to talk with a bunch of my friends from across the country and literally no one is sad about seeing this jackass go and I'd bet better then half of them voted for him more then once .
'member when the Prime Minister of Canada was a total bad ass?
His opponents made fun of his facial deformities. Rather than whining about being some kind of victim who has suffered thru a brutal life.... Chretien joked "i am one politician who won't talk out of both sides of his mouth". He never took the "victim" role despite the media begging him to do so.
Loblaws has since apologized. Hey guys, I'm sorry I paid someone to steal your $9 RainCoast Trading cans of salmon. I feel terrible. $9 for a can of salmon. LOL. I can reach into the Credit River and pull them right out of the water with my bare hands meanwhile Loblaws wants $9?
maybe robbing Loblaws is the ethical and moral move.
I wonder if there is going to be a 2nd annual "Steal From Loblaws Day" May 12, 2025? If so, Loblaws earned it.
What this means is the next Liberal leader must form policies that are sometimes very right wing and sometimes very left wing. Chretien made some hard right moves throughout his tenure as PM. Toughening up the Young Offenders Act, Tightening up UI rules in '96, and building upon the FTA that the Liberals opposed 5 years earlier were among many of the very smart right wing moves Jean Chretien made throughout his tenure.
Some great advice for the Federal Liberals from a great former PM.
Canada will be much better off if the Liberals could attract talent on the level of Jean Chretien, Ken Dryden, Bob Rae, Pierre Trudeau.
It'll be short-mid term pain unfortunately. Made-in-Canada is ideal, but I think it'll be a lot of made in China instead. Thankfully we're largely self-sufficient for food, and clothing is usually from Asia. I suspect we're going to immediately target red state exports like we did last time and Elon Musk's businesses directly.
Tesla's benefitted the most from the EV rebates in Canada, we should look to crater their sales. There's enough competition from other manufacturers now that if Tesla disappeared, we wouldn't be missing out on too much.
Canada can either pull out of the Paris Accord and compete on a level playing field with the USA or get crushed as they "save the world" with all their environmental initiatives.
my bet is , Canada is going to get crushed.
Look for a big boom in the USA's energy sector and look for Canada to become the weakest G7 nation. Canada's energy industry will not be able to compete with the USA's energy industry. Canada will be too busy saving the universe with their super expensive green energy initiatives while the USA burns coal and drills for oil. The USA will be able to produce super cheap energy.
For anyone confused on what exactly Jimmy is talking about, he's from some alternate universe in which Canadian tar sands oil isn't the main source of oil reaching US refineries and in which the cost of oil production is dictated by things other than the literal cost of oil production.
'member when you could rent a 2 bedroom apartment in Toronto and the landlord did not charge for hydro? Hydro was so dirt cheap the landlord didn't even bother charging for it. I remember those days. That super cheap hydro created a solid foundation for manufacturing throughout Ontario. Those days are done. Canada is too busy saving the universe by following the Paris Accord.
On February 01 2025 18:50 KwarK wrote: For anyone confused on what exactly Jimmy is talking about, he's from some alternate universe in which Canadian tar sands oil isn't the main source of oil reaching US refineries and in which the cost of oil production is dictated by things other than the literal cost of oil production.
Energy production is more than just oil though. Canada's industry operates with one hand tied behind its back while it attempts to adhere to the Paris Accord. It'll be hilarious watching Canada follow all the Paris accord rules while the USA produces 25X more pollution than the the Great White North ever has.
However, sticking to just oil. Donald said "Drill Baby Drill". The tariff motivates oil producers in the USA to produce far more oil so that the country is far less dependent on Canadian oil. Trump is going to start "deregulating" which means adhering to far fewer environmental standards.
Sounds like pierre poilievre has a good plan. "...in all thy sons command..."
Trudeau's speech was unhinged. He compares a war that killed 75 million people and 6 million jews to a trade war? huh? Flanders Fields? Ken Taylor? JFK speeches? 50 questions in a row asked and answered in French.
looks like i'll be buying my Mexican Avocados in St Catherines, Canada ... and smuggling them across the border. LOLOL.
On February 03 2025 15:22 Mikau313 wrote: I'm not sure you're the right person to be calling anybody unhinged after what you've been posting here for the last few months. Zeo is more coherent than this...
lol, i'm a random anonymous poster on a video game forum board. I'm not the leader of a major political party addressing a nation. in any event, if you have a direct rebuttal to my comments in the post i just made... make that rebuttal.
Check my comments in this thread from 10 years ago. It looks like my decision to leave Canada was a smart move. I wish I was wrong. I wish Canada was still as strong as it was in 2005. Unfortunately, Canada is fucked.
If you think Canada is in a good place.. .make your case.
You wanted to leave, so you left. Well and good. But you keep bellyaching across the border anyways. Which is a choice.
edit. Also, I have never respected Trudeau, and I can't wait to vote his party out, but it was a fine speech the point of which flew over your head, apparently.
Trudeau was simply reminding America that we are not this conniving neighbour 'ripping off' 'stupid Americans'. We were brothers that fought and died together. Canada in the modern era has been very supportive of America (except the Iraq War, because forget that noise). Trump is screwing with a loyal and stable ally was the point.
Now it will fall on deaf ears because Trump is psychopathic bully and MAGA world seems to enjoy the sufferings of others, but the speech itself is fine.
Doug Ford seems to be the guy who is pivoting hardest against trump, and is marshaling some real powers he has to at least create symbols of resistance. Is there a chance he's going to make a run for the next prime minister and take over the conservative party?
From the booing of the American national anthem at sports games I can see that the resistance against America is going to be something that anyone will have to embrace if they want popular support. PP seems broken on the wheel and conservatives might actually fumble the next election if they don't figure out their next step.
The most notable part is how unconnected to any form of reality it is. If the US continues, it's going to be a great move for some other reason, I assume Jimmy already explained why I haven't read it. If the US backs off now like the Reuters article suggested, it's going to be a great move because it projected strength for the negociations of xyz. The only important part is that Trump is right.
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