Healthcare should be run as a 100% financial loss. Like armed forces, the point is not to generate profit or even to break even, it is to provide an essential service. Right now there are doctors offices, hospitals, labs, and specialists who are forced to cut corners because the price they are paid per service is set by OHIP (in Ontario) but the rent on their building, the cost of equipment and the cost of living keeps rising. On top of that, hospitals have massive administrative staffs and boards of directors who suck facilities dry regardless of whether they actually provide any value.

A fully government operated system buys or rents the building, buys the equipment, pays medical staff, and provides administrative support. All costs, no revenue. There is still an incentive for the government to provide the best care possible for the lowest cost to tax payers but there is no middle men trying to balance care with keeping the lights on, or trying to squeeze a new boat out of this quarter’s crop of cancer patients.

At least you don’t have to go into debt to get your malpractice!

Seriously, Canadian Ontario healthcare is terrible and has only been propped up by ‘at least it’s not the USA’ for decades.

Remember when facebook ran the numbers to predict if certain users were gonna kill themselves but didn’t tell anyone? As long as Canada is gonna go full China then we should follow suit and install a government overseer in EVERY big corp that operates in Canada.

I always thought he was a Quimby.

Add your AI defeating prompt to rental applications as 1pt white text on the pdf, same as resumes.

It’s already a 1.5 party system. Our liberal party is just conservatives who aren’t openly racist or bigoted.

Cuba as a country, sure. Individual people, not as much as they should.

It means stop using, investing in, pumping up the fucking AI bubble.

Personal computing is gonna be set back a decade because people are too lazy to write their own documents or make a 30 second search.

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I have an Xbox 360 controller that has been awesome, takes AA batteries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_government_interference_in_the_2019_and_2021_Canadian_federal_elections

China does not want a strong Canada. A strong Canada might speak out about Taiwan and demand change before making trade deals. A strong Canada will look for more ethical but expensive trade partners in Europe.

The US wants Canada directly for resources, China wants a scared Canada who is willing to take any deal just to get some stability.

Remember that whole thing where they interfered with elections and were policing expats from China? That never stopped.

I do around town but a 30km commute to a 12hr shift is not really viable.

Europe, Japan, Korea. They have their own problems too but it’s the USA and China that are actively threatening Canada.

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We should be reducing our import of Chinese developed technology, “smart” devices, phones, and EVs in particular. Every Chinese business big enough to play at the global scale has the government in it’s power structure. They don’t necessarily dictate business decisions but every bit of data collected is by default accessible by the government.

Having a significant fraction of a country driving around in Chinese EVs gives an insane amount of information to the Chinese government for free. And it’s not just direct information either like the driver’s identity, with millions of cars on the road a lot can be inferred, like if the parking lots at military bases suddenly fill up on a Tuesday afternoon or traffic between a high value person’s home and an airport gets unusually slow.

Cars have cellular modems, they have wifi and bluetooth hardware, if a particular person’s device was identified, for example, at a political meeting then that person could be trivially tracked by the dozens of Chinese cars and “smart” devices that they pass in a day. The information could be smuggled home along with all the normal diagnostic, update and service info. It is not in our best interest to let the Chinese government track individuals, be it politicians, expats, or activists.

This could be done today by the our government, and it is to some extent, to identify, and locate, protesters and criminals by their mobile devices but it takes time and access to equipment and logs that the government does not always own. A competent adversary who owns millions of devices in your country can do in seconds what takes law enforcement weeks to accomplish via conventional means.

Remember that China was caught operating their own “police” force around the world not long ago, they will take advantage of any opportunity they are given to spy on other countries and gain political control.

China doesn’t plan for the next fiscal quarter they plan for the next quarter century, and Canada’s resources are in their sights.

Random auditing of politicians and police. Any politician or police officer caught on their personal phone or otherwise wasting pubic funds should be reprimanded and fined.

If they have nothing to hide they have nothing to worry about.

coupling our industry to a burgeoning fascist state

So instead, we choose to buy from an established dictatorship?

Give it 2 years, when the AI bubble bursts the data centers wont need all that water.

If the US moves to take control of Canada there will be a line of people over the horizon ready to burn every resource and every piece of infrastructure before handing it over.