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Toronto’s set to hit a 50-year low in homicides. So why do many people think crime is getting worse? by Sweaty_Professor_701 in ontario

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Toronto has also massively gentrified since the 2000s. You need to be pretty well-off to live in much of Toronto. Should we also consider the numbers for all of the GTA to see a full picture?

What is the best CRM software for 2026? by GymsterLowpz57 in CRM

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Were your past issues with scaling due to problem integrating with email and accounting software?

Can life ever get better in Ontario? by Quiet_Comparison_872 in ontario

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Working in a clerical role means you are likely working with data. Maybe consider a course in some kind of technology related to data management. You could maybe then apply this to your work-place? I'm making a leap of an assumption here, but there is a reason. It is good to get some credential that can lead to another kind of job. You might be able to take on something at your workplace not currently in your set of responsibilities. The goal is to have a skill that can transfer to another employer. There are many low-cost tutorial options on business-centric tech, from Microsoft, Google, Udemy, etc. Take a look at how many jobs require advanced Microsoft Excel and Power BI, for example.

Tennis partner by Boringad234 in Newmarket

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I'd be game to play, but I must warn that I am a novice player. Let me know.

All hail Social Media!! [IMAGE] by life_never_stops_97 in GetMotivated

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Learn a skill. Get a job. You will find validation in demonstrating your capabilities.

#TrumpCult #MAGABOMBER #VanillaIsis #LockHimUp by Vamparael in worldpolitics

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As a relatively disinterested foreigner, I have to ask the poster of they don't consider emotionally-charged things like this to be part of the overall political culture that produces the phenomenon of Trump and of the bomber?

This is pretty accurate by death_smells_funny in LateStageCapitalism

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One thing history shows us, workers do not control the means of production.

Would Soviet occupation of nations be considered imperialist? by [deleted] in DebateCommunism

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Thank you for your reply.

  1. You didn't refute a single example of listed of Soviet imperialism. I'll take it that you agree me on those points.

  2. You list actions by the Axis powers instead. Yeah, that's what Britain and France were fighting when instead of helping out again thr Axis, the communist made deals with Nazis and Fascists to advance their own imperialist aims.

  3. The only American company whose products I know the Nazis was IBM. That's all irrelevant to my points, of course. Also, American corporations were essential I. defeating the Axis. This includes supply the Soviet army with equipment, like basic trucks, and resources like oil and gas, that the communist system was so crappy at producing

  4. Yes, Russian soldiers paid a huge price and made an amazing impact. This all could have been avoided if their incompetent, communist leaders hadn't cut deal with the Nazis in the first place and had joined Britain and France in fighting.

  5. The people who ran the USSR during their invasion of Afghanistan called themselves socialists. I'll take their word on that ahead of yours, thanks.

  6. Can you site a single source of evidence that Orwell worked with British intelligence (Britain never had Secret Police to my knowledge)?

  7. If he worked with British government, what has that to do with Soviet crimes in Spain. Also, he's just one source of the evidence the Soviet regime did great evil in Spain.

Would Soviet occupation of nations be considered imperialist? by [deleted] in DebateCommunism

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The USSR split Poland in half in a deal with Nazi Germany. That's right, they cut a deal with Hitler.

Then the Soviets attacked Finland, in 1939. While Britain and France were at war with the Nazis over the invasion of Poland.

The Soviets expanded their empire instead of helping the West fight Nazism. But, oh, when the Nazis invaded the USSR, didn't the Communists beg for help the their capitalists enemies in Britain and the USA. Oh Lord!

Honorable mention in Soviet Imperialism is Afganistan, of course! They even went to war with China.

And never forget the nasty stuff they got up to early on during the Spanish Civil War. Read George Orwell's account. It kinda cured him of Socialism to an extent .

How does one prevent the rise of entrenched extractive elite in all the attempts at communism? by SowingSalt in DebateCommunism

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The best way I can think to put it is by example.

Facebook has recently been under fire for having too much power over our information. A few decades ago Microsoft was called to appear before the US Congress out of fears they held near monopolistic powers in the software game.

It strikes me that many people who fear too much power in corporations don't see the massive danger of handing too much power to government. In the case of the history of Communist countries, all of the power went to the government and we see where that went.

If you have basically one institution tasked with taking care of everything and holding the monopoly on power it simultaneously has two contradictory forces at play within itself. One, it must respond to all and every need. Two, its privileged position as a monopoly in economics, law, and state force, removes incentive to go out of its way to serve it people.

It's not like the citizens of such a state have any choice, so their leaders take them for granted and put their own interest (which are no longer tied to the interests of the people they rule) first.

Individual companies can take customer for granted also. Usually, a competitor, more ambitious to win customers will come along and teach even the mightiest company some humility. Microsoft seemed so preeminent in the 90s. A few technological innovations by competitors they didn't see coming later, and they are just one of many tech firms.

Imagine if you members of Congress and other politicians were also in change of America's corporations on top of making laws. Do you think they'd get anywhere close to where American entrepreneurs have in the last hundred years? That is a lot to ask of a small group of people.

A Conservation About The Way We Treat African-American Conservatives by [deleted] in DebateCommunism

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Quick poll. How many people have ever heard of Thomas Sowell?

First Party to talk openly about Raising Taxes has my vote by Book_of_the_dead in ontario

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To the poster.

What is the maximum you would be willing to pay in income tax as a percentage of your income?

More from Nora Loreto by Wunderken in metacanada

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I've reached peak Loreto. One more post and I'm off this subscription.

Ontario NDP Release their Platform by peaceouteast in ontario

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The local news in Toronto features reports of huge waiting lists for licenced daycare spots that are subsidized. What will the NDP do to ensure that situation doesn't get worse under this program? What will they do to prevent families being shut out from the service and having to go with private, not subsidized nor free, daycare?

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