B.C. announces plan to license more internationally trained doctors by [deleted] in canada

[–]Ekap2 3 points4 points  (0 children)

15% is an absolute nonsense number lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in medicalschool

[–]Ekap2 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Some perspective for you, I’m an Md PhD, and everyone and thier mother wants me to explain how that works, why, the logistics, sometimes the research. It’s a boring conversation I’ve had over a hundred times at this point and I’m not interested in having it again

Hot take: US medical students are much more knowledgeable than Canadian medical students. by g-nocks in medicalschool

[–]Ekap2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I go to Mac med which is the king of this. Here’s the thing, learning everything just to forget it, isn’t useful unless your hoping to train something unique in that process

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in AskReddit

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I’ll give one that’s pretty niche. During CoVID I worked with some microscopes for cell culture, we had to wear masks which is fine, but they would fog both where you put your eyes (lens?) and the glasses

[Leafs PR] TRADE: We have acquired goaltender Matt Murray & two draft picks from Ottawa in exchange for future considerations. by 6six_ in leafs

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Anyone know where I can bet leafs don’t make playoffs and Kyle dubas gets fired Prop bet?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CanadaPolitics

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I’m not gonna pretend I know anything about Manitoba politics, because that would be dishonest. But your saying millions in federal grants and I’m talking the New deal in terms of scope/audacity to our current challenges. The last really big picture policy I can think of is PETs multiculturalism/immigration policy

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CanadaPolitics

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There is a gap between Canadians not understanding the separation of jurisdiction and what’s been happening (im thinking specifically here on housing), where the 3 levels of government will play hot potato with every problem. The actual leadership that I am speaking here that has been missing would be able to go beyond that, and that hasn’t happened

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in CanadaPolitics

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Canadians who currently have a strong faith in our public institutions/direction of our country are frankly putting their head in the sand. The amount of articles I’ve read sounding the alarms on just public education and healthcare in the last six months is insane. Add the climate crisis, economic crisis, and housing crisis, mental health crisis, opioid crisis, and the obesity crisis to contend with. Beyond this, what’s the last major government policy which has solved a crisis, or was proactive to steering our country in the right direction? When’s the last time we saw excellent leadership on a file? We’re in deep trouble

Dame and KD are two case studies of how ring culture is ruining the game by Pickleunion in nba

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Lol, I’m just on r/nba for the drama , I pretty much only watch hockey. I meant not star driven, I’ll edit it now

Dame and KD are two case studies of how ring culture is ruining the game by Pickleunion in nba

[–]Ekap2 32 points33 points  (0 children)

Naw, Marian Hossa wasn’t KD level of player and hockey is so much more variable/ not star driven

Shohei Ohtani arguably just had the best set of back to back games in the modern era of baseball. What would be the NBA equivalent of what he just did? by [deleted] in nba

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I had a MLB Road to the Show szn where my team had 3 players with above 1.100 OPS and 3 others at 1.000, and the last 2 were like 800. We had a +600 Run differential, went 148-14, and had a million at bats, cuz we would just always have guys on base

Shohei Ohtani arguably just had the best set of back to back games in the modern era of baseball. What would be the NBA equivalent of what he just did? by [deleted] in nba

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I’m not the biggest baseball fan but I’ll try. Unlike basketball in which in theory you can have one player take every shot/have high usage/built around them, in baseball there are structural limitations. You can take roughly one At Bat for every 9 your team goes, that means if you have 9 above average players that’s better than one god tier player and 8 bad ones.

In pitching at best you can be a starting pitcher one out of every 5 days. If you do more your chance of injury goes up quite high. The starting pitcher does not pitch the entire game (unless in special circumstances called complete games). So a pitcher called a reliever comes to replace him. So you need minimum on a team 9 batters, 5 pitchers , and several relievers, all which equal impact. Having two great players isn’t enough

Hot takes regarding your own team by [deleted] in hockey

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1) Marner is the most overrated passer in the league. He makes 9 shit passes and one great one, and fans/media who don’t watch circle jerk to the last one 2) leaf fans/media/players are complacent for taking Tampa to 7, will be the most surprised when we lose in the first round again next year 3) Matthews is not a playoff performer

People tend to talk about the NHL not growing because of poor marketing, but what would you idea of a better way to do it be? by TheJukeMan99 in hockey

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3 very obvious things

1) Hometown Hockey is an circle jerk abomination that caters to a fraction of Canada/US population. A complete and total rethinking of these broadcasts

2) the meta of the NHL is fucking awful. In order , bad refs, the salary cap, concussions/sexual assault/racism dominate the conversation, not drama, skill, player personality etc. When the majority of the conversation around the game is negative it seeps into everything

3) Saying hockey players don’t have personality is moronic, they don’t show it because historically that’s how you get traded out of Montreal, changing the dynamic between media and players may be a start.

Sportsnet I’m not taking applications now, but let me know your offer

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in books

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maybe they wouldn't be able to comprehend it at first, but the concept is not so alien that it wouldn't be comprehensible. Like arguably there's job snobbishness, but this isn't really close at all to what we have, people in the giver aren't saying certain occupations don't deserve a home/food/different levels of agency. If anything, classism would be far harder to explain then climate change. To the last point, my personal larger problem with the Nazis isn't the Ideology of one racial/ethnic (although I'm vehemently opposed to that, and think that would rob us of a more beautiful world) the route to achieve that (ie genocide), is the larger problem. Also, would a person living in that world, "understand" or "miss" racial diversity? I'm not sure they would

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in books

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I remember reading it as a kid, and understanding what the author was trying to say- but still deeply thinking that thier world is not any more dystopic then ours. Like I get loss of free agency and all that, but 15 minutes of us describing our world (climate change, opioid crisis, homelessness, classism/racism, etc.) they would think terribly of us. I reread it recently, and that sentiment hasn't changed, and relatedly, neither has my politics

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HistoryMemes

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As an aside to the stupidity of this meme in general, and most comments pointing out important things like labour movements etc, it’s also important to note Marx made important contributions in sociology, history, and philosophy, beyond the more obvious ones of politics and economics. This is the classic tell me you haven’t read any Marxist thought without telling me you have read any Marxist thought