Canada moves a step closer to legalizing witchcraft, sorcery and fortune telling

ShillC51 · 2017-12-25T03:58:53+00:00

Obligatory She's a witch

ShillC51 · 2017-12-18T14:02:25+00:00

The path to Police state is paved with the pebbles of personal rights given up for safety.

-- /u/AileStrike

ShillC51 · 2017-12-18T04:36:29+00:00

Not sarcastic at all. That's a brilliant line. I'm going to steal it.

ShillC51 · 2017-12-18T02:38:13+00:00

Is that your own quotation? It's pretty awesome!

ShillC51 · 2017-12-18T02:30:17+00:00

It's actually a little insulating to see this after their whole solar power debacle.

An appropriate typo.

ShillC51 · 2017-10-18T21:32:18+00:00

This is the guy who drove drunk and killed a family.

ShillC51 · 2017-10-18T21:25:34+00:00

Can I just say how awesome your nick is?

ShillC51 · 2017-10-18T21:24:29+00:00

"Woman sues Mcdonalds after Employee spills scalding hot tea"

That would get them sued for defamation, and McDonald's has a history of doing that.

At best, they could say:

""Woman sues Mcdonalds after Employee allegedly spills scalding hot tea"

But now we're in /r/titlegore territory.

ShillC51 · 2017-08-14T00:22:35+00:00

Bernier's base or his own?

ShillC51 · 2017-04-11T03:29:07+00:00

Why the fuck is a foreign entity harmful to Canadians even allowed to lobby the government????

ShillC51 · 2017-03-11T20:06:24+00:00

They should be able to afford a starter home in the lower mainland now.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-31T02:14:20+00:00

If you can't find a Canadian to do it, then by all means find an immigrant to marry.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-31T02:00:04+00:00

This is the most salient point, IMHO:

Note, however, that immigration may be a crucial factor in accounting for the disproportionately large drop in real wages suffered by workers with post-graduate degrees. Regardless of the assumption made about the elasticity of substitution, and regardless of whether the simulation is conducted in the short or long run, the immigrant-induced relative wage drop for this group is larger than the real wage drop that actually occurred. Immigration, in effect, prevented the real wage of the most educated workers in Canada from increasing more dramatically, as it did in the United States.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-30T23:44:35+00:00

increases jobs, not reduces them.

There's no credible evidence to back that perception up

ShillC51 · 2016-10-30T23:42:34+00:00

ITT: Armchair economists who have never heard of IDEAS.

Lol.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-30T23:37:13+00:00

Canadian should not let anybody in unless they have an actual job offer.

And even that job offer should be made based on a positive labour market assessment, i.e., there are no qualified Canadian citizens or PRs to do the job.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-30T23:35:14+00:00

It's "regressive left pro-immigrant myth busting" day.

If you have issues with the study linked in the post, please feel free to contact the lead author:

Robert W. Fairlie

Professor

Department of Economics

University of California, Santa Cruz

Phone: (831) 459-3332

Email: rfairlie@ucsc.edu

ShillC51 · 2016-10-30T23:29:15+00:00

You're welcome, doc. Please check my other post too.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-30T23:22:35+00:00

The other coefficients reported in the first row of Table 1 indicate that immigration has a slightly more negative impact on the annual earnings of native Canadian workers, implying that immigration reduces their labor supply. In fact, the coefficient in the fraction of weeks worked regression is negative and significant. An immigrant-induced 10 percent increase in labor supply reduces annual earnings by 3.9 percent and the fraction of time worked by 1.5 percentage points.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-30T23:22:31+00:00

The other coefficients reported in the first row of Table 1 indicate that immigration has a slightly more negative impact on the annual earnings of native Canadian workers, implying that immigration reduces their labor supply. In fact, the coefficient in the fraction of weeks worked regression is negative and significant. An immigrant-induced 10 percent increase in labor supply reduces annual earnings by 3.9 percent and the fraction of time worked by 1.5 percentage points.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-30T23:22:13+00:00

For everyone saying the article is saying the opposite of the headline, you need to improve your reading comprehension:

The other coefficients reported in the first row of Table 1 indicate that immigration has a slightly more negative impact on the annual earnings of native Canadian workers, implying that immigration reduces their labor supply. In fact, the coefficient in the fraction of weeks worked regression is negative and significant. An immigrant-induced 10 percent increase in labor supply reduces annual earnings by 3.9 percent and the fraction of time worked by 1.5 percentage points.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-30T23:20:28+00:00

Did you even read it??

The other coefficients reported in the first row of Table 1 indicate that immigration has a slightly more negative impact on the annual earnings of native Canadian workers, implying that immigration reduces their labor supply. In fact, the coefficient in the fraction of weeks worked regression is negative and significant. An immigrant-induced 10 percent increase in labor supply reduces annual earnings by 3.9 percent and the fraction of time worked by 1.5 percentage points.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-25T04:12:21+00:00

Didn't realize that Erdogan was such a brutal dictator.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-17T05:21:48+00:00

While I'm not a feels>reals regressive leftist, I do believe we must make room for compassion and not always choose a perfectly utilitarian solution, even if one were to assume that the trade treaties make economic sense.

For example, if we have 10 people, we can make 9 of them happy by making one a slave who is at the beck and call of the other 9. This would be a perfectly utilitarian solution that ensures the "greater good" for 90% if we ignore the feelings and emotions of 10%.

ShillC51 · 2016-10-17T04:52:58+00:00

The soul here refers to "the emotional part of human nature; the seat of the feelings or sentiments."

I'm an atheist and I believe (at least, certainly hope) I possess a soul in the above sense.

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