You mean they don’t just call up Fox News and give out the latest?

So 1-5 permanent positions then? Plus some contractors to keep wages suppressed, since it is Bell after all.

Really should not call them that, not because they aren’t, but because it does nothing but give them more firepower along with also making them appear to be weak, when politically they’re more powerful than anyone likes to consider.

They’re also far worse things than simple wing nuts.

If it’s essential to the survival of our citizenry, there are zero excuses for it being private in the first place, and the NDP should have been looking into making them a public company well before striking was even being talked about. Instead they’re just saying they “might” look into it, which translated from Politician to English, means they have no intention in making them public at all.

While I understand that these workers striking may put lab results on delay, that’s the cost of Privatizing healthcare. It is not the fault of the people striking, it is the fault of the Private company. That’s literally why the entire idea of socialized healthcare doesn’t include private interests.

Everyone that’s been alive and paying attention long enough knows that the only way to accomplish any goal against the Wealthy and Political classes is a painful process and that pain is not directed at anyone that deserves it. The Political class only cares about the rest of us, when it’s in their interest to do so. Meaning it has to both serve the Wealthy and Political classes, or they simply ignore us. The pain caused by striking here is to the people needing their test results, that’s a terrible thing no doubt, but to get the Political class to move in any way against the Wealthy class, pain MUST be inflicted. It sucks, but it’s the reality of how our systems are setup. It’s also why things like Protesting for Palestine does absolutely nothing at the government level (other than label you as a problem anyway). Protests that don’t cause pain, don’t get results.

That’s like 1 million per job created! A steal for sure!

Apparently Home Depot in Toronto has plans for them to be installed, to help with their theft issues. The same theft issues the cops already do sweet fuck all about. But apparently having AI hallucinations telling the cops that XYZ did the crime is somehow going to help them.

I wish the vast majority of Media wasn’t captured by like 6 douchebags, but here we are.

So, Conservatives bad (which is honestly true nearly 100% of the time), but we can’t let people choose to strike because…the company is run poorly because of the Conservatives?

If you don’t even KNOW if someone’s job is an “Essential Service” then you shouldn’t be able to stand in the way of a Strike. What the NDP does know, is that Dynacare is dog shit. As such, let them eat crow with strikers instead of forcing strikers to work for people you know for absolute fact are dog shit.

As far as it feeling like there’s an Agenda against the NDP, that’d be because there is, Post Media owns the majority of news in this country and they’re MAGA losers doing their best to sow discord. That said, the NDP shot themselves in the face here (and also very recently in BC).

His name is out there on fucking gambling sites, no one has actually suggested he be nominated.

Problem is that it doesn’t make them look like hypocrites, it shows they’re absolutely 100% hypocrites. This kind of shit is how the NDP just never gains actual power, let alone an actual left leaning party.

Feels like the NDP is also a Captured Party, leaving us with no one to actually represent us.

Pretty sure it was Obama and his damn Tan suits

So what’s your plan to redesign every single city in the country? Are you going to build out high speed rail?

It’s a dumb take because it doesn’t account for the myriad of things that would need to be intrinsically altered to accomplish your goal of 30km/h cars.

I don’t argue people kill tons of people with cars every year, I will argue about what your plan is outside of slow down cars. We’d be looking at least at hundreds of billions to rebuild everything, likely more.

I was watching my girlfriend play a Zelda for the first time and she couldn’t understand how I knew how to approach basically every puzzle. It’s 30 years of video game tropes.

That…is a pretty dumb take.

Bikes/Scooters are not cars, they’re not insured, they’re not licensed. Children can and regularly do use them.

Now if you want to talk about properly ticketing, charging, and impounding cars/drivers breaking the rules, that’s a different conversation. But an ebike or scooter going 120km/h isn’t the same as a car doing 120km/h on a highway.

Violence.

The reason we’re always told that Violence isn’t the answer, is because it works, and consistently at that.

The only times society actually gets objectively better for the majority, is after the majority show the Political and Wealth classes that they’re not immune to violence, nor are their families.

There is no peaceably forcing the hand of those that have gone Fascist, nor is there any other way to convince the Wealthy that what they’re doing is wrong. Dragging them out of their homes in front of their families and beating them to death is how change actually happens. That happens a few times and suddenly they see that the masses should be feared.

Luigi Mangione is an excellent example, the weeks following him allegedly shooting that Insurance CEO, and all kinds of people were approved for things that would have been denied otherwise. That is a microcosm of how change actually happens.

Left leaning people are usually incredibly against violence, you have to push them really far before they’re pick up that tool. Trying to talk down the right with words and platitudes does nothing. Their entire ideology is violence. Everything from cutting funding to Education and Healthcare to Climate change, that’s all violence being committed against the citizenry of the worldwide society.

It’s not going to stop until they’re forced into fear.

Nazi’s didn’t used to walk around the streets because beating the shit out of them was a valid response. They do now because it isn’t.

See, in order to actually do it, you rework the entire system top to bottom.

If politicians are in legally binding contracts, they won’t be lying to all of us constantly.

The entire idea requires a completely different system than we have, with the existing system, they just lie with impunity, or were “wrong” about a subject they pushed, and see no negative effects of that at all. You or I do that at our jobs, and we’re fired.

If you’re suggesting that you simply cannot hold public officials to their word, because reasons that just isn’t good enough. That’s just acknowledging that we’re letting them lie to the citizenry with no consequences at all.

If they’re found to be corrupt, arrest and jail them. What we do now is abhorrent when it comes to the political class lying with impunity.

It may not be in the article, but Micron’s stock is up 550%, he’s definitely celebrating.

We really should start making our politicians sign legally binding contracts, instead of letting them “pledge” to do things they have no intention of doing.

Come up with a real plan, that actually works by the numbers, and sign a contract to get it done.

Do you maybe avoid politics as a topic in your life? Because the things melsaskca is describing are absolutely real.

Social program funding has been cut year over year for quite a long time.

A non insubstantial group of the population legitimately have no shame.

Respect for people (Indigenous, LGBTQ+ etc) is dwindling. Hell even had masked Nazi’s show up at one of the Reserves during Truth and Reconciliation day.

Respect for many Institution’s (higher education being a huge one) is basically dead in the water.

Low Level anger has definitely permeated society, largely driven by social media and now “AI”. People can see their futures completely quashed because some tech bro’s and CEO’s think they’re already at Artificial General Intelligence, when all they have is a tool that doesn’t work for shit without proper human structures behind it.

Unstable world politics is impossible to ignore.

Society is being actively damaged by the Wealth Class, from climate change denialism to abuse of foreign worker programs to cuts to healthcare.

Sure you can find good things still, but as melsaskca said, most of that is on an individual level not a societal one.

Cars are fitted with speed limiters and have been for a long time. 160km/h - 165km/h is typical for cars to stop accelerating at.