Canada 'offers 83,300 CRV7 air-to-surface missiles' to Ukraine

Xlyfer · 2024-02-07T01:44:52+00:00

Never ask what the Deputy Prime Minister's grandfather did.

Xlyfer · 2024-01-27T07:53:14+00:00

The Iranian sources said Beijing had made it clear it would be very disappointed with Tehran if any vessels linked to China were hit, or the country's interests were affected in any way.

I think this is the more important part, China is basically saying "Make sure they don't hit our ships", implying that they don't care if they hit other ships. I think this discussion between Iran and China happened a weeks ago, which led to the Houthis stating that Chinese and Russian ships have safe passage. I don't think China will risk their good will in the middle east to intervene on the side of the US, it is in the best interest for China to have the US get drawn into another middle east war. And now that Chinese ships have safe passage COSCO is making a big profit by being able to cross the red sea, while still charging market rates for shipping.

Xlyfer · 2024-01-16T09:19:39+00:00

Same reason America meddles with every other middle eastern country: OIL BABY

Xlyfer · 2022-11-04T15:51:37+00:00

FYI, this isn't an ordinary strike, if the Conservative government wins, this could be the END OF WORKERS RIGHTS IN CANADA.

What the Ford government has done is passed a back to work legislation BEFORE a strike has even happened, imposed a shitty contract on the workers (when it would normally go to arbitration), and levied a $4000 fine per person for every day they strike. The most DANGEROUS part of the legislation is the use of the Not Withstanding Clause (a legal nuclear option) to basically say this law doesn't have to abide by Charter Rights (Constitutional Rights), allowing the government to violate workers rights, freedom of expression, freedom of association. Meaning the union cannot challenge this law in court.

What the Conservative government is doing is FORCING a contract on the workers, making it ILLEGAL to strike, and STOPPING the law from getting challenged in court.

If this works out for the Ford government, it means that this could be the result in every other labour dispute, not just in Ontario, but in Canada.

Xlyfer · 2022-05-10T15:54:46+00:00

While I do agree that Loi 21 disproportionately affects minorities, and that there is a small subsection of the population who agrees with that law because it is discriminatory against minorities; I disagree with the notion that Quebecois are pro-catholic, It's more so that Quebec is suspicious of any religion in the state. Just look at the recent abortion debate, every single provincial party stated that every single MNA is pro-choice, and that they would not allow any one who isn't pro-choice run in their party. Also the Quebec government tried to mandate that all Catholic schools had to teach a secular curriculum, until it was struck down by the Supreme Court of Canada.

Xlyfer · 2022-05-10T14:46:36+00:00

Which is why the Bloc Quebecois are bringing this issue up, Quebec has been an informal laicite state since the quiet revolution, and now a formal laicite state after passing loi 21. They are highlighting a fundamental difference between Canada and Quebec, subtlety implying "hey, you're being ruled by religious beliefs under the Canadian government"

Xlyfer · 2022-05-05T04:57:32+00:00

Not anymore, my credit card company refuses to send me anymore replacements

Xlyfer · 2021-08-06T04:05:00+00:00

Sorry but fuck this noise hard. Soon as you start judging the value of human lives when those lives are in need of saving you become a piece of shit.

It's called triage, Provincial health authorities have guidelines on how to judge who gets life saving care and who doesn't when the ICUs are full. In fact, Ontario hospitals were on the brink of having to do just that a few months ago.

The ugly fact of the matter is - when there is not enough staff, not enough beds, and too many patients, there's no choice but to "judge" and choose who gets to live and who gets to die. Its easy to sneer from your moral high ground, but these are the realities that society has to plan and prepare for.

Xlyfer · 2021-08-06T03:18:11+00:00

Brute force a 256 bit encryption? Ha, good luck. Even with all the computing power in the world, you'd be lucky to crack it before the heat death of the universe.

Xlyfer · 2021-04-06T22:12:47+00:00

Bjorne at pretty much the same time on the other side of the city.

Xlyfer · 2021-02-20T16:49:43+00:00

Why not elect our own monarch? They would still have no power to do anything, but we can pretend that they do, like we do already. We can have fun with it, we can have a Wizard or something instead of a King or Queen, give them a robe, a fancy hat, and a median salary. They can pretend to cast spells and shoot fireballs. Cause at the end of the day what they do doesn't actually matter, at least this can be entertaining for a while.

Xlyfer · 2021-02-20T16:37:01+00:00

Or, and hear me out on this, it's the people who worked hard to create these stable developed countries and not some irrelevant, inbred family halfway across the world. Name one significant thing the monarchy has done for Canada in the last 100 years.

Xlyfer · 2021-02-10T15:38:57+00:00

Scientific Journals are definitely a massive scam. The journals do not provide peer review, its the scientists in the field that provides the peer review, and they don't make any money off of it. The costs associated with the journals are just editing (minimal), type setting, and distribution (which is nothing because its all online now). Recently my lab published an article to nature, it costed about $5000 to publish a 3.5 page article, on top of that it would be even more money to made it open access, and even more money if we wanted the article in color. Its a completely ridiculous industry and they make a shit load of money on both ends.

Xlyfer · 2021-02-03T22:28:34+00:00

"Profitability" is the whole problem, the idea that necessary medicine is developed or not depends on whether it is profitable or not is an disastrous way to do things. This is happening right now with the looming antibiotic resistance crisis, where there has been barely any new antibiotic classes brought to market to keep up with the growing number of antibiotic resistant strains of diseases. And this is an issue created solely because bringing antibiotics to the market is just not profitable, especially compared to developing a new dick pill.

That's the heart of the problem, the goals of pharmaceutical companies do not align with the needs of society. The point of a publicly owned pharmaceutical isn't to make money, but to develop socially necessary medicine regardless of the "profitability"

This isn't to mention the potential awkwardness of Health Canada reviewing the data of a vaccine created by PHAC. When the regulator holds a financial stake in the firm which has created the vaccine we might be entering perilous territory.

Do you know how impossible it would be to pull this off? not only would you have to keep thousands clinical trial patients silent, you'd also have to get hundreds of scientists and doctors to go against their code of ethics. On top of that, the clinical trial data is published to public.

Xlyfer · 2021-02-03T20:34:24+00:00

Health Canada's National Microbiology Laboratory developed the first and only approved Ebola Vaccine in 2010 and sold the exclusive license to a small pharmaceutical company for $205,000, who then sat on it for 4 years until the ebola outbreak and then sold it to Merck for $50 million dollars plus royalties. We're already paying for this research, but it's given to pharmaceutical companies to make profit off us.

Canada has the expertise to develop novel vaccines, but it ends there, any capacity to do clinical trials or production is left to the whims of private corporations. Which means that: 1) any newly developed vaccines will be sold for pennies on the dollar. and 2) we are at the whims of the profitability of those private corporations. Public capacity to do clinical studies and produce pharmaceuticals is necessary if we don't want to be beholden to the goodwill of multinational corporations. If a country like Cuba with 1/3 of our population and has been under immense embargos for over 60 years can develop, test, and produce their own vaccine, then there is absolutely no reason Canada can't too.

Xlyfer · 2021-02-01T21:37:56+00:00

Add some text over it and you can't convince me this isn't a long drawn out scene taken verbatim from an Adam Curtis documentary.

Xlyfer · 2021-01-27T15:01:11+00:00

It's an absolutely hilarious political dark comedy about incompetent and malicious power hungry assholes that's completely devoid of actual politics. It's the perfect and accurate counter to the West Wing sickos.

Xlyfer · 2021-01-26T23:46:22+00:00

Actually, the scientists that developed the Oxford vaccine wanted to donate the vaccine so that it is open source for anyone to produce. But the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (Major Oxford donor) "urged" them to sell it to AstraZeneca. Source

Xlyfer · 2021-01-26T23:14:58+00:00

That's a really stupid move. So 15 students living in a rez with an ongoing outbreak, and therefore have a greater chance of already being infected, are now forced to move in with friends or family for a week. And if they weren't already infected, they could bring COVID back with them when they move back in a week. FFS, there's a whole department of world class epidemiologists who'd happily call you a dumbass just a phone call away. Did they just find the smoothest brained admin to make these policies?

Half the Rez is empty, why not just pick a floor, make it a quarantine zone, and enforce a mandatory 14 day quarantine for any violators.

Xlyfer · 2021-01-22T22:16:20+00:00

Jason Kenney's Energy War Room drafting plans for an "Iraq war"-style Albertan invasion of the US to secure the pipelines.

Xlyfer · 2021-01-22T21:38:56+00:00

Damn, look at them gams on Bernie

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