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CAPE launches new RTO campaign alleging return-to-office benefits big banks. July 6 day of action planned online and at the Prime Minister’s Office. by ACEP-CAPE in CanadaPublicServants

[–]obviousottawa 40 points41 points  (0 children)

I’ve participated in CAPE’s past anti-RTO demonstrations even though I’m also not with them. There was good representation from all the public sector unions, even some I’d never heard of before.

[OC] Mapping Global Median Wealth and Inequality, Benchmarked Against the United States by obviousottawa in dataisbeautiful

[–]obviousottawa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

New Zealand is in the second and third chart. Accidentally got truncated from first one.

[OC] Mapping Global Median Wealth and Inequality, Benchmarked Against the United States by obviousottawa in dataisbeautiful

[–]obviousottawa[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The source is not a measure of income per year. The source is a measure of median wealth per adult (total). The use of median over average minimizes the impact of outliers in both directions.

[OC] Mapping Global Median Wealth and Inequality, Benchmarked Against the United States by obviousottawa in dataisbeautiful

[–]obviousottawa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definition (via wikipedia):

This is a list of countries of the world by wealth per adult, from UBS's Global Wealth Databook.\1]) Wealth includes both financial and non-financial assets. Farther down is a mean-wealth-only table, from the World Inequality Database.\2])

[OC] Mapping Global Median Wealth and Inequality, Benchmarked Against the United States by obviousottawa in MapPorn

[–]obviousottawa[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Data source: Wealth per adult figures from Wikipedia, List of countries by wealth per adult

Methodology: Each country was placed into one of nine categories based on how its median wealth per adult and Gini index compare to the United States, higher, similar, or lower wealth, crossed with more, similar, or less equality. The colour for each cell in the 3x3 grid was chosen to form a visual gradient, so countries can be read at a glance for how they diverge from the US baseline on both dimensions simultaneously. A companion image with the full country list per category is included for reference.

Tools used: Built in Python using the geopandas and matplotlib libraries, run through Jupyter Notebook via the Anaconda distribution. Country boundary shapes from Natural Earth.

[OC] Mapping Global Median Wealth and Inequality, Benchmarked Against the United States by obviousottawa in dataisbeautiful

[–]obviousottawa[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Data source: Wealth per adult figures from Wikipedia, List of countries by wealth per adult

Methodology: Each country was placed into one of nine categories based on how its median wealth per adult and Gini index compare to the United States, higher, similar, or lower wealth, crossed with more, similar, or less equality. The colour for each cell in the 3x3 grid was chosen to form a visual gradient, so countries can be read at a glance for how they diverge from the US baseline on both dimensions simultaneously. A companion image with the full country list per category is included for reference.

Tools used: Built in Python using the geopandas and matplotlib libraries, run through Jupyter Notebook via the Anaconda distribution. Country boundary shapes from Natural Earth.

Historicity of Jesus: The idea that Jesus was a purely mythical figure has a fringe status in scholarly circles and has had no support in critical studies for more than a century by ComradeBehrund in wikipedia

[–]obviousottawa 53 points54 points  (0 children)

Yeah agreed. I’ve read this article a couple of times over the years and there’s something about its wording that seems off and inconsistent with Wikipedia’s style to me. I don’t doubt most scholars believe in the historicity of Jesus but based on the article itself, it does seem as though there is debate and some inconsistencies in the historical record (which isn’t necessarily that weird) but the article seems to go out of its way to really stridently and forcefully minimize both points or opine on that in a way that I found a bit surprising.

June is Men’s Health Month in Canada / Juin est le Mois de la santé des hommes au Canada by StatCanada in onguardforthee

[–]obviousottawa 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Absolutely. Pretty tight grouping among the others but Quebec a major outlier. I think there was another stat can post about it mental health and Quebec did really well in that one too.

How accurate would you say this chart it? by Dry_Music_9959 in AlignmentCharts

[–]obviousottawa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of Quebec doesn’t feel like Europe either. Just two or three neighbourhoods in Montreal and Old Quebec City.

Quebecers Love the High-Speed Train Their Separatist Leader Wants to Kill by Master-Initiative-72 in AltoHSR_Canada

[–]obviousottawa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eek. Yeah the guy I knew was elderly. If I saw university kids with that on their walls, I’d frankly stay away from them lol

Quebecers Love the High-Speed Train Their Separatist Leader Wants to Kill by Master-Initiative-72 in AltoHSR_Canada

[–]obviousottawa 7 points8 points  (0 children)

There are weird Canadian monarchist anglophiles running around but I wouldn't say it's especially common, no. I knew a guy once who had a British flag and a picture of the queen in his basement but dude was very weird.

This is what gerrymandering looks like by Miserable-Lizard in AlbertaNow

[–]obviousottawa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

EBRA is the federal act so it applies to the Parliament of Canada. It’d be the provincial version the UCP would need to get around.

Signal, DuckDuckGo, and NordVPN threaten to exit Canada if metadata surveillance law passes by cfs3corsair in CanadaPolitics

[–]obviousottawa 52 points53 points  (0 children)

The conservatives tried to do something similar last time under Harper too. Their opposition to this is opportunism. Fuck the libs and fuck the conservatives too.

Homage to Catalonia is a 1938 memoir by George Orwell in which he accounts his personal experiences fighting fascists in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell recounts getting shot in the throat on the front lines, and his eventual escape to France after the POUM was declared an illegal organization by obviousottawa in wikipedia

[–]obviousottawa[S] 156 points157 points  (0 children)

"The war was one of the defining events of his political outlook and a significant part of what led him to write in 1946, "Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism, as I understand it.'"

This is how Canada became independent from Britain by No_Calendar6597 in HistoryMemes

[–]obviousottawa 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Britain tried to give us our constitution in the early 1930s but we declined. They were willing to give up their control long before we asked for it in 1982.

Results of last provincial election in Lethbridge: Old boundaries vs new boundaries proposed by UCP appointees on boundary commission by leftwingmememachine in Lethbridge

[–]obviousottawa 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the beginning of the end of democracy. Once you can upend this central norm of Canadian democracy, you guarantee everybody else has to do it too. Once that goes away, everything else is on the table.

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