I don’t know about other provinces, but here in Ontario, the provincial government created the problem. Tuition has been frozen to 2019 levels and they reduced direct funding to universities and colleges. The “solution” was to massively ramp up international student enrollment, which came with a lot of other issues.
To be clear, I’m not doubting that therapy helps. Therapy is a great idea for everyone.
But I’m still dubious about the claim that access to artificial children, including AI porn, will cause pedophiles to offend (more than baseline), rather than provide an outlet for their urges. What makes this different than simulated violence in video games?
And finally, please take note of how unhelpful and condescending “do your own research” is, especially after starting your comment off with “this research is unavailable, but trust me, it exists”.
This feels a lot like the “violent video games cause violence” argument, but because it’s about child abuse, people don’t want to defend it.
Are there actually any studies supporting your comment? I briefly looked and couldn’t find anything.
I don’t disagree with your overall point, but 40% of Americans are obese, which is the category worse than overweight. A full 73.6% are overweight or obese (2018): https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm
Are you under the impression that this new manufacturer will somehow capture the entire market?
To use Tesla as an example, since they’re the largest and fastest growing “new” auto manufacturer… In 2024, they sold about 50,000 cars in Canada, and manufactured 1.7 million. So we’re barely 3% of their market, and if their Canadian sales drop to zero (as they should), they would barely notice.
As you said, licensing could save a lot of R&D costs, but it would almost certainly come with a stipulation that we couldn’t sell the vehicles outside of Canada. If a new manufacturer were to take up the entire Tesla market in Canada (which would be incredibly ambitious), they’d need to be about a quarter (or less) of the size of the Oakville Ford plant. I don’t think that it can be profitable at that scale, but I’d love for someone to prove me wrong.
Canada has about 1.8 million new vehicle sales per year. It’s not impossible to serve a market that small, but a lot of profits in the auto industry are due to their ability to scale.
Any new manufacturer will have to start in the high priced, low volume, luxury segment anyway, but there isn’t huge room for growth while remaining in Canada.
If they expand to the States, then they just end up with the same problems we have now. If they expand to Europe, shipping is a pain, though doable. But if that’s the plan, anyone with enough money to start a new car company will probably just start it in Europe to begin with, since Europe has a bigger market than Canada.
The other way to do this would be a non-profit or Crown corporation, where profitability isn’t the goal. That has a lot of other issues, but avoids the biggest one.
If you don’t think she has a serious chance to win, then I’m not sure I understand what the complaint is here. What “harm” are they causing?
At the end of the day what does LBC stand for if they’re undermining legitimate independent candidates?
The stand for electoral reform (and against the first-past-the-post voting system).
If they’re a serious contender, then it shouldn’t matter how many people are on the ballot; their supporters will be voting for them by name.
Just like the LBC didn’t affect the end result in Carlton, it won’t make a huge difference here either.
Can you define “non exploitation”?
My understanding is that leather is a waste byproduct of the meat industry, so much in the same way that gas is from dinosaurs that are already dead, the cows that provide leather are “already dead” due to their use as meat.
So in that sense, it seems like leather is the more ecological choice, though not knowing your definition of exploitation, it may or may not be exploitative. I certainly wouldn’t consider it vegan though.
There once was a final solution
With suffering and mass execution
They said “Never again”
What they actually meant
Was “Palestine’s just an illusion”
But if we also include all the times that he didn’t kill Hitler, then he actually killed two thirds of a Hitler
Despite these options not being mutually exclusive, I think I would be in the 17.2%. I’m not buying US booze now, but I wasn’t buying it before either.
Mostly this survey is pretty bad, and I don’t think we can make any good conclusions from the results.
The left seems awfully worried about home values
Why do you think it’s the left that’s worried about home values?
I live in Canada. I used to visit the States probably every other year. Then Trump was elected in 2016, and I stopped going. Then covid happened, so I figured I’d wait a bit longer. And now it’ll be another 3 years until I even consider it, but that largely depends on what happens in that time span. It’s not out of the question to just never visit again. There are plenty of other places in the world that I haven’t seen yet.
There’s a good chance that many or all of these cases are in the Mennonite community.
That’s not an explanation of why he should be barred from office.
He’s Catholic, but he’s not trying to make Canada Catholic. Trudeau and Poilievre are also Catholic. In fact, every single PM of Canada has been either Catholic or Protestant.
Sue them for what? They are fully within their rights to run anti-abortion ads and reject pro-choice ads.
when he says that trump wouldn’t win election without him, I wish people would respond that he is full of bullshit and trump alone would win anyway, pushing him to say more.
I believe that Trump may not have won without him. He weaponized twitter to push misinformation against the Dems and in favour of Trump. I don’t know if the result of that can be quantified in such a way that we’d know for sure whether it changed the outcome, but it certainly had an impact.
When will it support other countries? And why is the list of countries sorted the way it is? Non alphabetical makes it more difficult to see whether my country is even in the list.