SamuelRJankis @ SamuelRJankis @lemmy.world

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Even if there is belief that the program was implemented with the best of intention, what Canadians seem to get out of it is a mangled mess and I wonder how much value we're really getting.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/federal-dental-insurance-program-phase-in-1.7054990

The government signed a $750-million contract with Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada to administer the claims. Procurement Minister Jean-Yves Duclos previously announced a $15-million agreement with the company to lay the groundwork in September.

Just to point out in respective of at least "Loblaw" they own a lot more than just grocery stores and just using the profit margin is not a absolute indicator of how profitable they truly are.

Loblaw Companies>George Weston Limited>Wittington Investments, Limited

Report regarding grocery inflation.

We know very little of what is going on in food processing, transportation, and at other companies who participate in the food industry. A proper investigation led by the Competition Bureau of Canada would shed some light on practices in the industry.

This truly sounds pathetic. Although it clearly displays the real power hierarchy.

In February, the House of Commons' committee that studies food prices urged Loblaw and Walmart to sign on to the grocery code of conduct, or risk having it made law. Both organizations have said they will not sign the code as currently drafted, saying it could raise prices for Canadians.

People have abused systems way more for less benefits.

I'm surprised more Liberals and Conservatives MP's don't abuse things more given that it seems to make little difference to them getting elected.

Given the circumstances I believe most people would do the same at least on a federal level.

Why rock the ship with any significant changes when the vast majority voters only seem to vote to 2 parties. No matter how terrible of a job you do you're always at worst next in line for the job.

“They recognize that for every new affordable rental home that is built in their province, four more are lost to investors, to conversions, to demolition, and to rent increases,” Trudeau said.

An RBC report published earlier this month said that more than two-thirds, or 68 per cent, of Canadian households can't afford to buy a home on earned income alone.

Critics, however, said the measure doesn't address the key issues of insufficient housing supply and affordability, but it could hurt the credit scores of people who are struggling to pay their rent on time.

Putting more power in the hands hands of private companies and landlords is not a good idea. Good thing they aren't actually required to do it.

An amendment to the Canadian Mortgage Charter would urge landlords, banks, credit bureaus and fintech companies to include rental reporting in a credit score.

Both of Canada's official credit bureaus told CBC News that they welcomed the new government initiative. Credit Reports: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

For anyone paying attention it's very clear the current federal government only meaning of "affordable" is figuring different ways to get people to leverage more into housing.

There's a lot of people saying it's the corporations fault which isn't exactly untrue and they do have significant sway politically with lobbying.

But it's the people who keep bringing back politicians that clearly don't want to lower housing prices because a segment of a population is to heavily invested into it. If anything the current tax system clearly incentivize people to invest into housing, imagine if we treated water like housing and people would buy up then vote for anyone that'll make the prices go up.

Air Canada is a crap company and I'm sure they wouldn't care who does the job as long as it's cheap. But if anyone actually doesn't want to stop companies critical to our infrastructure from outsourcing stuff like this they're going to have to put proper regulations in place.

Transport Canada confirmed HAECO is a certified foreign maintenance organization.

Aircraft maintenance technicians in China earn just over $10 an hour, compared to triple that in Japan and Australia, according to a 2023 study of the aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) industry in Northeast Asia.

TouchBistro recommends restaurants respond to the changing trends by changing policies to emphasize the human connection.

The articles bizzarely focuses on restaurants leaning on tech as the problem. As someone who used to spend $1,500 a month on food the tech changes is no where near the top reasons why I almost stopped eating out these days.

One of examples is grabbing a beef fried rice in Vancouver 90% of places has soggy rice due to being cooked in to big of a batch, barely enough rice to fill you up and essentially what is less than a tea spoon of beef. This doesn't even account for most places asking $20 for it now.

The article heavily leans on Ontario and what doesn't work.

If anyone wondering how things are going for a province the adopted a payment system less focused on volume.

700 more family physicians in B.C. since payment revamp: doctors

The author view as portrayed in the title is rather bizzare. She also doesn't justify it aside from her essentially day dreaming things would be that way.

As someone who grew up in rural Canada. It's pretty clear that a significant amount of people would leave to seek better employment opportunities by the last few years of high school.

“It’s a real shock,” said Mr. Jobb, who worked as a reporter, an editor and a columnist at The Chronicle Herald for 20 years.

It really isn't and this is at the very least a North American local news issue. Their advertising and subscription model hasn't been viable for a decade now.

I didn't down vote you but to share the sentiment of why you're getting down voted. While you make one of the best apps on the platform your pricing and availability is one of the worst.

Your time would be better spent improving those aspects your business. If you just want to be a niche high priced app that caters to people obscure feature requests and have erratic development cycles you should at least be transparent about it.

Xxxxx(redacted as per community rule) was $4.92 CAD to remove ads while Sync is $27.99. For the record I think Sync is the better app but like maybe 4-5 dollars better not nearly 600% better.

The Boost dev also didn't abandon their app\platform for months during its infancy where it certainly needed the attention then comes back and drop more ads in the app.

The NDP should really make it a larger part of their platform.

In case anyone forgot:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/Members/en/votes/44/1/634?view=party

LIBERAL

Yea: 39

Nay: 108

Paired: 0

CONSERVATIVE

Yea: 3

Nay: 112

Paired: 0

BLOC QUÉBÉCOIS

Yea: 30

Nay: 0

Paired: 0

NDP

Yea: 24

Nay: 0

Paired: 0

INDEPENDENT

Yea: 3

Nay: 0

Paired: 0

GREEN PARTY

Yea: 2

Nay: 0

Paired: 0

Per the article

Titanium dioxide is used to make foods look more appealing, especially brighter and whiter. 

This is my last month of Sync Ultra sub. It's only a few bucks a month and Sync is relatively polished but I rather the money go towards a actively developed app.

https://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/indicators/indicators-of-financial-vulnerabilities/

29% of housing sales are from investors:

The abandonment of public housing by the federal government in the 1990s went hand-in-hand with a wider push to financialize the entire sector: rent controls were deregulated, rules were rewritten to make it easier for landlords to purchase buildings then forcibly hike rents.

Once the Liberal and Conservatives governments pushed us into this era of investor led housing development it was obvious there was going to be a growing group of people that would be very happy that general housing prices were sky rocketing. Imagine how society would have viewed any type a significant bump in housing otherwise, how would anyone view it as anything as a bad thing.

List of random thoughts for what investor led housing has brought us aside for the prices:

• Worse quality housing - They're not living in it so they don't care how poorly built or designed it is as long as it can be flipped for profit.
• Worse quality local amenities - Why invest in things like local amenities, transit and anything else when it doesn't make a difference for you
• Worse maintained strata housing - Anyone that has been on strata boards know that investors owned units don't want to maintain the building since they'll be gone by the time the shit hits the fan and be twice as expensive to fix.