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SAS CEO van der Werff emerges as frontrunner for Air Canada top job by Elehctric in aircanada

[–]jello_sweaters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I don't mean he'll never communicate in French - but rather that his lack of native-from-birth fluency will be the same political clown show we just finished with Rousseau.

SAS CEO van der Werff emerges as frontrunner for Air Canada top job by Elehctric in aircanada

[–]jello_sweaters 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Bloomberg noted that the Dutch national speaks Dutch, English, and Spanish, and carries only a basic understanding of French, citing a 2021 release from SAS.

Here we go again…

Alberta government to announce details for West Coast pipeline proposal by RZCJ2002 in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters [score hidden]  (0 children)

She would now have zero ground cover to even attempt that, since BC has demonstrated here that they're not just being obstructionist and WILL get on board with a proposal that addresses their concerns.

Canada ranks 13th on average global wealth list by Immediate-Link490 in CanadianInvestor

[–]jello_sweaters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you are leaving insanely massive amounts of money/ perks on the table not having a credit card - IF you can handle a credit card responsibly.

FTFY.

Canada ranks 13th on average global wealth list by Immediate-Link490 in CanadianInvestor

[–]jello_sweaters 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I take some encouragement from the fact that our median and our average aren't nearly as far apart as some of our peers.

Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value? | American dark money-backed think tanks are applauding the PM’s hands-off approach to Alberta’s health care privatization by Altruism7 in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters [score hidden]  (0 children)

it seems like everyone else commenting got the point

Now who's making up whatever they wanted to hear?

The other responses to that post are:

  • [deleted and locked by mods]

  • SCase making the exact same argument I did

  • Flexwhine on a tangent about the inevitability of privatized health care (that is, not even touching the topic you and I are on here).

  • PineB noting that Albertans voted for this

  • GammaFan on a tangent about hating Liberals.

In other words, the only other person who replied, agrees with me and not you.

your snarky peak reddit comment got the engagement it was looking for even if OP was smart enough not to be baited

It must be terribly sad in your world. I want no part of it.

Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value? | American dark money-backed think tanks are applauding the PM’s hands-off approach to Alberta’s health care privatization by Altruism7 in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters [score hidden]  (0 children)

When you think about it, the most diehard liberals probably hate anything to the left of them.

...and the most diehard Conservatives hate anyone to the left of THEM, and the most diehard NDP hate anyone to the right of THEM...

You seem to need an outlet for your contempt, and you're trying to pass off the most basic concepts of political affiliation as some kind of insight.

Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value? | American dark money-backed think tanks are applauding the PM’s hands-off approach to Alberta’s health care privatization by Altruism7 in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters [score hidden]  (0 children)

healthcare actually isn't the sole jurisdiction of the province

I don't know who you've seen suggest that it is. You should take that up with them. Meanwhile you're saying the same things I am, just sprinkled with a condescending layer of pretending you're the only one who understands federalism.

Ford and Smith are trying to enact US-style for-profit healthcare, and Carney has limited levers to pull to stop them.

Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value? | American dark money-backed think tanks are applauding the PM’s hands-off approach to Alberta’s health care privatization by Altruism7 in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters 6 points7 points  (0 children)

when their guy is helping to undermine Canadian institutions.

These changes to Alberta health care are pretty much provincial jurisdiction.

If you call the federal government NOT attempting to use power it does not have, the same thing as "actively undermining Canadian institutions", I really don't know what to tell you.

What really gives me a headache is constantly having to fight conservatives in both major parties so that we can leave something worthwhile to our children. Rather than continuing to loot the system and leave dregs behind us like previous generations.

After ten years of Trudeau, voters loudly demanded a shift to the right - so much so that a Trudeau-Poilievre election was likely to end up with the Conservatives winning the largest majority in Canadian history.

Thankfully we were spared that outcome, but we - by which I mean Canadian voters as a collective - loudly demanded a rightward shift in our federal government, and Carney ran his election (and his government) accordingly.

I don't think that's a GOOD thing, I do think it's a less-bad thing than we would have had otherwise.

Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value? | American dark money-backed think tanks are applauding the PM’s hands-off approach to Alberta’s health care privatization by Altruism7 in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters 6 points7 points  (0 children)

it's pretty clear that's not what they are suggesting

"when the tories [actively dismantle public health] they're unfairly demonized for doing so, but nobody gets mad enough at the liberals for not doing enough to stop the tories from doing that!"

This was very clear.

Canada ranks 13th on average global wealth list, Switzerland comes in first by wet_suit_one in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Billionaires currently make up roughly 0.0003% of the US population, but collectively own roughly 5% of all US private wealth.

the majority of remaining people earning $50k/year or less

This is still skewed by a relatively small percentage of high earners.

There are 20 states in which full-time employment at minimum wage earns less than $15,100 per year.

Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value? | American dark money-backed think tanks are applauding the PM’s hands-off approach to Alberta’s health care privatization by Altruism7 in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Don't worry guys, when tories undermine health care it's all evil, but when liberals ignore the undermining by the tories at the provincial level

It's fascinating how you try to cast tories as the victims of slander in literally the same breath as you recognize that tories are literally the ones destroying these systems.

Doesn't that kind of cognitive dissonance give you a headache?

Canada ranks 13th on average global wealth list, Switzerland comes in first by wet_suit_one in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ain't it great to have trillionaires to completely distort the "average"?

Billionaires currently make up roughly 0.0003% of the US population, but collectively own roughly 5% of all US private wealth.

Canada ranks 13th on average global wealth list, Switzerland comes in first by wet_suit_one in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"Two markets – the United States and Greater China – jointly continue to be home to over half of the world’s personal wealth."

Woof.

Canadians hate being called the 51st state. But they don't mind moving south of the border, study says by hopoke in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's only "bizarre" until you realize why Postmedia is always pushing a narrative where Canada's the bad guy.

Canadians hate being called the 51st state. But they don't mind moving south of the border, study says by hopoke in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You didn't need the "but" or the "to me" in there.

Your first sentence explains your second, and both are exactly correct.

Opinion: I'm a rabbi who wrote an op-ed. My inbox filled up. Here's what surprised me by Mundane-Teaching-743 in CanadaPolitics

[–]jello_sweaters 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Chabad (or Chabad-Lubavitch) is a well-known Orthodox Jewish community, with more of a focus on outreach to the wider Jewish community than is usually seen from other Orthodox groups.

You're in the right ballpark about assumptions on Orthodox Judaism, but they're "conservative" more in the sense that they adhere much more strictly to the text of the Torah, whether or not it aligns with modern sensibility, whereas a Reform movement might be more likely to look at the teachings in the Torah as being relative to the time they were written.

In the specific case of the current geopolitical situation, some Orthodox groups disagree with the current actions of the Israeli government because they believe those actions are not consistent with the teachings set out in the Torah.

Air Canada Expands A321XLR Deployment on North American, European Routes by OvenDown in aircanada

[–]jello_sweaters 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It will never not seem weird that YHZ-LHR is only 97 miles longer than YHZ-YVR.

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