… Cameron Davies is the leader of the Republican Party of Alberta

Jfc. :/

It’s really in South America tho.

But unlike the Americans, who have gone decades without tracking their gold supplies, the Canadians have known that they were getting it from a country where cocaine trafficking, paramilitary violence and the gold trade are intertwined.

Yet they continued to call it North American gold.

They did so, officials explained, because before the Colombian gold arrives in Canada, a Texas intermediary mixes it with American gold. In the Mint’s eyes, the resulting mix is entirely North American.

This fiction, and the fact that perpetuating it is completely legal, is an example of how even the world’s most credible dealers allow tainted gold into the mainstream market.

Jfc. When did the idea of lying become the government-approved way of things??

Nevermind … I know.

On par with private equity.

It is up to the provincial government to properly fund the education of ALL children whether or not there are learning challenges or difficulties.

If the provincial government doesn’t want to do its job properly they should step down from office.

wink wink Canada

Those who forget history are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

This is how it works (from the article) …

The search began to find the best bone marrow match. The ideal donor would also have a CCR5 gene mutation resistant to HIV.

CCR5 is a protein on the surface of an immune cell that acts as the door that HIV enters to infect the body, but about one per cent of the population, primarily of northern European descent, are deficient of this gene.

That means there is no door for the virus to enter, “and so the virus can’t get into the cells,” said Dr. Mario Ostrowski, a clinician-scientist at St. Michael’s Hospital who co-led the case with Walmsley. The new donor cells could also attack and eliminate the reservoir of virus-infected cells.

I have a friend who adopted an FASD child in Ontario. The family tried using the regular school system but the hoops they had to jump through, and the lack of funding for 1-on-1 care, became too much to deal with.

They finally decided to place the child in a religious private school where he had the freedom (and monitoring) that he needed, ie: when he became frustrated he was able to go outside and race around the church.

Maybe Drug Fraud could better fund 1-on-1 care in schools with that $29M he was going to spend on a private fucking jet.

He paid his dues according to our laws.

Yeah. I’m old now but have moved about a hundred times in my life. I hate it.

The one good thing about moving so often is I don’t have a ton of stuff to pack.

Honestly I don’t think a lot of them would go back right away. It’s like that old saying, “Once bit, twice shy.”

If anything I think they’d be holding back moving so they could verify any positive changes in how the USA would operate would be permanent, and not just lip-service.

Hey Kev. Who was really driving the boat?

The mass expulsion of Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt has been an aim of Israeli governments since December 1948, when the army first tried and failed to cleanse this last remaining enclave along Palestine’s Mediterranean coast. It tried again during the 1950s and intensified its effort after the 1967 War, when Israel occupied both the Gaza Strip and the Sinai desert. Hamas’s attack on 7 October 2023 gave Israel another opportunity. Expulsion plans were trumpeted by Israeli politicians and media spokespeople. Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed that he was actively seeking to transfer Palestinians out of Gaza. Israeli and some US officials started lobbying Egypt to accept large numbers of refugees. For eight months the Israeli army refrained from occupying the border area near Rafah, leaving the exit to Egypt open.

This exemplifies the circular logic of Zionist settler-colonialism: settlements are built to mark and protect the state’s border, but that makes them vulnerable to attack and so a buffer zone is established to protect them. Afterwards, this buffer zone is itself settled to mark and protect the newly expanded borders, at which point another buffer zone becomes necessary. In this manner vulnerability is produced and then mobilised in a feedback loop that the genocide scholar A. Dirk Moses has called ‘permanent security’.

Ofc he is. 😡

Damn. That sucks.

My bank (RBC) does, but luckily they also give me other options to choose from.

Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation

Probably because most people wouldn’t know what that acronym stood for.

They should be reported on and arrested by Netherlands law enforcement.

Either that or hire a hacker to shut their ignorant asses down.