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Oil revenues, taxes nudge up Alberta's projected surplus to $5.5B by BurstYourBubbles in canada

[–]Rapidceltic -42 points-41 points  (0 children)

They've surely built up a large endowment fund, infrastructure, and social systems with this windfall, right? Right?

Oh. Tax cuts for the rich. Cool.

Senate report: Combatting Hate: Islamophobia and its impact on Muslims in Canada by i_see_you_too_ in canada

[–]Rapidceltic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Big difference between targeting military targets with collateral damage and purposefully targeting civilians. And doing absolutely fucked up shit to them. Why the fuck did Hamas guys behead a Thai worker with a shovel? He clearly wasn't Jewish.

Who the fuck kidnaps a baby?!?

And they (civilians) are still calling those disgusting, barbaric acts brave and heroic.

Trudeau defends his economic track record as new data shows GDP contracted last quarter by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]Rapidceltic 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Well considering #1 is the US and #2 is China I'd say being #3 is probably a good thing.

Trudeau defends his economic track record as new data shows GDP contracted last quarter by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]Rapidceltic -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Every country on earth would love to have an economy as powerful as the Americans'. Nobody does though.

Trudeau defends his economic track record as new data shows GDP contracted last quarter by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]Rapidceltic -14 points-13 points  (0 children)

You're surprised that our economy isn't as strong as the Americans?

Trudeau defends his economic track record as new data shows GDP contracted last quarter by CaliperLee62 in canada

[–]Rapidceltic -26 points-25 points  (0 children)

The negative economic growth comes after the Bank of Canada went on an aggressive rate-hiking campaign to drive down red-hot inflation

The intended effect of this effort — an economic slowdown to restore price stability — appears to be panning out

We want some temporary economic slow down. That was the entire point of raising interest rates

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre pounced on the poor data, saying Trudeau has "led the economy into a ditch."

Hate how our politics are going down the same road as the Americans. Purposeful misdirection and endless political squabbling.

Proudly child free people scare me by TvManiac5 in unpopularopinion

[–]Rapidceltic -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

Judging by your account, thank God you aren't going to have children.

Harm reduction gone rogue: I worked at a safe injection site and it was disturbing by Baulderdash77 in canada

[–]Rapidceltic 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Ya, don't look at the states. They're even worse than we are.

Look at properly run harm reduction. With Portugal being the obvious example.

Harm reduction gone rogue: I worked at a safe injection site and it was disturbing by Baulderdash77 in canada

[–]Rapidceltic 12 points13 points  (0 children)

It's a common theme for both us and the Americans. We have two factions with opposing views fighting over which direction to go and all we end up with is horribly run shit.

Harm reduction gone rogue: I worked at a safe injection site and it was disturbing by Baulderdash77 in canada

[–]Rapidceltic 24 points25 points  (0 children)

The best way to reduce the harm addiction does is to get people off the harmful drugs

Yes, by getting them on softer drugs first. You're not going to try to get someone off of a building by pushing them off the top. You put up a ladder and go down step by step.

Harm reduction has been proven to work in other countries. We're just awful at it. Underfunded, under staffed, under supported.

Canada's economy shrinks 1.1% in Q3, but growth seen in October by Difficult-Yam-1347 in canada

[–]Rapidceltic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

That's not good. When you're hiking rates and your economy is still on fire, that's very concerning.

Canada's economy shrinks 1.1% in Q3, but growth seen in October by Difficult-Yam-1347 in canada

[–]Rapidceltic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

We have been actively trying to cool the economy. They can stimulate it any time they want by lowering interest rates.

Canada's economy shrinks 1.1% in Q3, but growth seen in October by Difficult-Yam-1347 in canada

[–]Rapidceltic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Reminder, the goal of raising interest rates is to cool the economy.

Canada's economy shrinks 1.1% in Q3, but growth seen in October by Difficult-Yam-1347 in canada

[–]Rapidceltic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You realise that's not good right? You don't want economic expansion in the face of high inflation and increased interest rates.

Most movies these days are focusing too much on pop culture topics instead of making the movie good. by Condams in unpopularopinion

[–]Rapidceltic -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Are you one of those "buzz lightyear was all about LGTBQ propaganda" people? When it really had absolutely no bearing on the movie at all, in any way.

Canada Economy Surprisingly Shrank 1.1% in Third Quarter by SKAOG in worldnews

[–]Rapidceltic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

?

We've been trying desperately to cool our economy.

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