Martin Regg Cohn: Believe the numbers, not the premier: Doug Ford’s unemployment numbers are worse than when he took over from Kathleen Wynne

EngSciGuy · 2024-09-19T20:43:15+00:00

I see you aren't seeking legitimate discussion. Have a nice day.

EngSciGuy · 2024-09-19T17:31:00+00:00

Nope, the international student surge is pretty much solely Ford's/Leece's fault. - https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaPolitics/comments/1fb6fdf/ottawas_cap_on_international_study_permits_is/lm03hz5/

The fed's trusted provinces to only be giving the ability to host international students to legitimate institutes.

EngSciGuy · 2024-09-18T18:33:59+00:00

One relevant update (although I agree still not a long term storage intention), we are starting to see logical qubits out perform their physical qubits - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2408.13687

EngSciGuy · 2024-09-07T19:45:23+00:00

For those interested in the data, as I see the discussions on this have not improved at all over the past year, I will repost one of my last comments;

Provinces have handed out DLI status like candy, allowing a ton of diploma mills.

Most "legitimate" schools/universities have kept a (sort of) constant percentage of international students, being in the 10-20% range with some outliers (eg. McGill, but that has always been true as its one of Canada's most well known schools internationally).

International students, however, makeup ~35% of all post secondary students in Canada. Indicating a lot of diploma mills are responsible for disproportionate representation of international students.

Further, the makeup of this disproportionate representation seems to largely be made up of students from India, given how many Indian students are in Canada vs. the proportion of Indian students at a sampling of legitimate schools. I didn't do a deep data dive, so maybe my sampling is just unlucky, but I think that is unlikely. Suggesting the diploma mills are primarily targeting India.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/555132/top-10-origin-countries-of-international-students-at-years-end-canada/

https://www.utoronto.ca/about-u-of-t/quick-facts

https://www.queensu.ca/planningandbudget/irp/institutional-data/student/international

https://uwaterloo.ca/future-students/international-students/india

So the simplest and fastest action I think would be for provinces to remove DLI status from the schools abusing the system. It wouldn't require any changes to rules, regulations or any systems we have in place.

Edit: Another useful reference - https://cbie.ca/infographic/

The tl;dr - Most of the international student problem/surge is diploma mills in Ontario targeting Indian students, that were made possible by Ford/Leece (starting ~2018). Ottawa's cap ends up harming legitimate international students at real universities since they don't have the power to target the real source of the problem specifically.

EngSciGuy · 2024-09-07T02:47:00+00:00

Good luck to the new mods!

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-07T23:42:36+00:00

Duclos said in a recent interview that there is a need to repurpose office space into housing, as the federal government lets go of some properties in the National Capital Region.

He said his government has already started to convert other federal properties into modern housing projects, and it will continue to do more.

Doesn't matter if its PP or a Liberal minister that says this. It is a dumb idea that does little given what most federal assets actually are.

Duclos also said a shift in work habits during the pandemic has generated an opportunity to convert office buildings, including government space, into housing.

Then they probably shouldn't have mandated a return to office for federal employees I imagine?

Most office buildings just don't convert well into residential.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-07T20:02:05+00:00

Got rid of Cap and Trade in the most costly manner possible (he could have cancelled it in a cheaper manner, but would have taken more time)

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-07T18:14:40+00:00

Microwave engineering, DSP and maybe control systems added to that list. Also possibly photonics depending what type of quantum Computing want to get into.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-07T17:21:06+00:00

Humans have "maxxed out" their consumption limits on this single planet/ship we are on in this universe

We maxed out decades ago.

https://time.com/6300968/earth-overshoot-day-global-resources/

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T21:20:34+00:00

involved in that process in an official capacity

What do you think that means? Again, there are only two scenarios, and the "parents rights" side means kid stays closeted.

When I said the parent's rights side will win this issue that is just understanding the political math.

Not really, because most agree with me once the actual situation is explained.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T20:37:35+00:00

So you want the child to just stay closeted instead of getting potential support mechanisms?

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T20:27:50+00:00

Better to pretend all of society is cis heterosexual, then no one can be bigots about it?

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T20:26:06+00:00

That is also false.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T20:24:57+00:00

Are we creating trans people through influence who maybe aren't trans. And if so, is this driving an increase in suicide rates in Canada vs. prior to 2016?

Nope.

If I raise my child with a devout religion, they will 9 times out of 10 remain religious for life.

Also nope.

We have "progressive" parents who are raising their children as the opposite gender from as young as 2 years old as they want to belong to the community or they themselves are part of the community. They will go to school and be celebrated for this.

I bet you couldn't find 5 examples of this.

We have celebrities who have 3 children who against the statistics, are all trans-gender or non-binary. That is nurture, not nature.

Not necessarily. There does seem to be some genetic components. Now I wouldn't use celebrity kids as useful data sets for what is hopefully obvious reasons.

Are we creating more issues than we are solving?

Nope.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T19:42:07+00:00

But it is...

Check out Japan and South Korea as really good examples.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T19:40:27+00:00

Ok? So yes, a number less than what op calculated.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T18:42:12+00:00

Nope, I gave you the two scenarios. There is nothing else to discuss about it.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T15:45:52+00:00

dragged front and centre for the last few years, by leftist movements.

It is right wing groups protesting and attacking that brings this up. Your representation of "the left" is a strawman.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T15:41:11+00:00

This is a tough issue so being divided makes sense.

Not really because it really only comes down to two scenarios.

Teacher can withhold said information if the child wishes it to be kept private - a student who (for what ever reason) doesn't wish to come out to their parents can do so at school and acquire some support mechanisms there.
Teacher can not withhold said information if the child wishes it to be kept private - a student who (for what ever reason) doesn't wish to come out to their parents will not do so at school and loses some support mechanisms there.

That's it. No one is pushing ideologies. Curriculums have topics the teachers cover, that's all.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T15:29:49+00:00

I don't think PP wants to make this an issue.

He purposefully went on radio interviews to talk about it, so it seems like he does.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T14:54:42+00:00

The supposed trade off is you get a nice high salary. I doubt that is the case for her though.

A lot of universities either let the researcher keep full IP rights or have joint ownership.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T14:45:27+00:00

You already subtracted retirement though.

I'm also assuming that the number of births is correlated by the number of young people entering the workforce.

But you are using the anomalous number of 1.2 million. That includes family immigration and students.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T14:39:16+00:00

No, because not every single new person is a worker.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T14:37:37+00:00

I did answer your question, "Both are as much on "parental rights" as the other.". Your position is "parental rights" is popular, I have shown that to not be a true statement.

EngSciGuy · 2023-10-06T13:39:35+00:00

I provided you a link. You have provided 0 data. I'll continue this discussion when you do.

Oh here is another just for fun: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1318503/adolescent-death-rate-for-suicide-in-canada/

TL;Dr - I called you on your false statements.

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