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If they do this right, it will be part of the federal labour code. No province can have labour regulations that are "less than" the federal code. For example, the federal labour code requires 2 weeks paid vacation. No province is permitted to set their own labour code such that it provides for fewer than 2 weeks paid vacation in provincially regulated workplaces. (Technically, vacation pay equivalent to 1/26 annual earnings, including overtime pay).

Ok, good. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I agree that engaging for long enough to go beyond hot takes is nice.

If so, I bet that it applies to only provincially regulated businesses. Rogers is probably federally regulated.

I'm retired from fire and rescue. I will never forget the words spoken during orientation on my first day: "The toughest decision you will face will be the one where you choose to not add to the death toll. Remember that there are only two ways to go a funeral: as a mourner or the mourned."

Training, equipment, a plan, a way out. If you don't have all four, you don't go in.

This is not a criticism of the would-be rescuers, but a warning to those present. If there is any blame, it should be placed at the feet of those so afraid of negative reaction that they don't make these points as part of any reporting on such tragedies. There is a duty to inform and educate that transcends how people react.

Yeah, I probably shouldn't have written the "crank" bit. It seems my battle against stream of consciousness writing continues...

My apologies.

They need a Go Fund Me page. CPP ain't much but I could probably kick in a few bucks.

Okay, now I better understand your argument. I was ready to just dismiss you as a crank.

I agree with you that governments should not be in the death business. But they already are, in a sense, in their legislation of things like murder, negligence causing death, etc.

I think that proper legislation would allow for someone to help me carry out my wishes in dignified ways that are less traumatic to those I leave behind. Obviously, that means regulation to ensure that nobody is imposing their will on mine.

At the very least, I don't want anyone charged with negligence just because they didn't stop me from taking what turns out to be my final swim.

You missed this pretty important part of "doing the job": And when you are unable to do the job, make room for some else to try.

I wish more people had the self-awareness to realize when it's time to hand off to someone else.

I didn't consider that. I don't know. The family and community seems to be standing behind the adoption, so I guess I'm not really willing form a strong opinion.

I'm absolutely and completely non-Indingenous and I agree 100%.

Making a claim based on her adoption by the Piapot family is fine. My limited understanding as an outsider who only reads stuff is that the adoption confers legitimate and legal membership as judged by custom. The rest? Not so much.

Should her awards be rescinded? Maybe, but probably not. After all, those awards all came after her adoption and far greater liars have not been banished.

I have some sympathy for that point if view, but it's not that simple.

Nobody, not even the most libertarian, wants to find themselves holding the shitty end of the stick, yet our political and economic systems are operating in ways that leave only the shitty end to hang on to.

We vote for improvement and get either the status quo or degradation.

We're told to vote with our wallets, but that just means bigger wallets get more votes. And if it looks like maybe the collective size of wallets is getting too big, corporations, aided and abetted by the political class, just arrange for fewer choices and smaller wallets.

Unsurprisingly, those with the will are starting to vote with their feet. People are starting to walk away from bad situations in search of better ones. Whether those better situations exist may be an open question, but they are not being any more selfish than those who insist on skimming the cream off for themselves.

It's actually an easy fix, if only the political class realized it. Tax every dollar sent out of the country at 90%. Tax every stock buyback at 90%. Tax every corporate cash reserve at 80%. Limit total compensation of each executive to 10 times that of their lowest paid employee. For essential goods and services, tax away any rise in profits beyond, say, 1% above inflation. No person or company is allowed to own more than 1 rental property with multifamily units treated as one property.

Take all that tax money and pour it into public health care, starting with free tuition to any health related education. Foreign students accessing this free education must practice in Canada for 5 years after graduation or be returning to work in public health initiatives. And fix the definition of health care so that it means what it says (dental, vision, hearing, mental, vaccines, and prescriptions are all health care that is uncovered or poorly covered).

Any money left over from that can be spent on actual environmental protection and remediation, starting with the climate crisis.

If any of that needs to be adjusted based on actual negative outcomes, then it will be adjusted, but the political class has to start by showing the general public that they mean business.

And if that sounds like I've got brain damage, that's fine. What we're doing is obviously not working out, so continuing the path we're on is also a sign of brain damage. At least I'm pointing out a different path.

Well of course they are. I learned as a kid that there are lots of things you have to get right to get a bullseye, but you'll never even get close to the target if you don't aim with intent. Has anyone seen any aiming? Any evidence of intent? Or just a target painted in kaleidoscope colours?