Cyborganism @ cyborganism @lemmy.ca

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They need to fucking admit once and for all that it's a fucking genocide and that Israel is a god damn criminal state.

I'd add transportation, utilities and natural ressources to that.

You're talking about Carney, who can't even admit that there's a genocide going on.

EDIT: For those who downvoted me.

Aaaah OK. So as soon as a candidate gets X number of votes, they have s seat? So in a riding, there could be more than one MP?

How would proportional representation change this?

A single vote does "matter" and should "matter" in a case like this where we're split equally between two candidates. The last vote to make/break a tie is very important.

We're talking of a riding here where the votes would have been exactly 50/50 for the top 2 representatives and would have triggered a by-election. Of course it matters!

A single vote can matter, no matter the system.

No problem. :)

Wait, what do you mean? How did you interpret my comment? I feel like there's a misunderstanding here.

Probably the post/comment he replied to that upset him.

Totally

Yeah, when most of your masters and PhD students are foreigners with a student visa, it's quite a risk for them to travel to the U.S.

Edit: I'm afraid this might be misinterpreted as a racist comment. So for clarification, I'm saying this because I know someone personally who works as a research assistant and lab manager at McGill university. At least half of the post-graduate students they work with are foreign students who are here on a student visa.

They're often invited to conferences all over the world. But recently there was a big one that was to be held in Baltimore. The professor who heads their department, and who is very active in that research community, initially thought there was nothing to worry about. But all the foreign students cancelled their trip out of fear. And over time it got so bad even the professor canceled the trip and the whole event is at risk of being canceled.

It's a really sad situation and I sympathize with these students, some of which I also know personally by having hung out with them and helping them out by carrying some of their stuff to help them and my friend with their work. These are important missed opportunities, especially to get their names out there and network with other researchers from around the globe.

I think that's the point. But legally they have to wait for them to be overdue. At least that's my understanding.

How are we supposed to encourage Canadian companies during this trade war when they keep screwing the Canadian population over so much? Man fuck Bell, Rogers, Telus, Loblaws, Metro and every other big ass Canadian corporation. They're all worth being boycotted if we could help it.

Bla bla bla.

Canadians need high speed internet services, too. Bell, Telus and Rogers are already gouging Canadians with insane prices. But it's still not enough? Fuck all that.

In Québec, there used to be several electric utility companies in different regions of the province. They kept charging too much for crappy unreliable electricity because they didn't want to invest in their shitty infrastructure to deliver electricity to their customers. They also didn't want to build infrastructures in further regions because it would cost them too much. Remind you of anyone?

Well, René Levesque, as the premier of Québec, made the province buy all the companies and nationalized them under one company: Hydro Québec. Since then, the infrastructure was expanded so the furthest regions of Québec. More dams were built. It became the pride of Québec and a great source of revenue for the province.

As it turns out, nationalizing important utility infrastructures is beneficial to the population, but trying to benefit shareholders is bad for the population.

Absolutely.

Huh.. Urquhart. Like the castle ruins by the Loch Ness in Scotland.

That includes medical doctors. Yikes!

Edit: reminds me of that scene in Idiocracy with the doctor.

No. I swear it doesn't matter.

I'm in Québec. Here we have 6 years of elementary school, 5 years of high-school, 2 or 3 years of Cegep (college) depending if it's pre-university or a vocational degree, then 4 years university to get a bachelor's degree.

I was pulled back from advanced math to regular math back in my last year of high-school because the teacher hated my guts for some reason, and had to redo my advanced math to get into Cegep in computer science. Then, when I graduated after 3 years, my degree wasn't good enough and I had to go to university. At uni we had 3 semesters a year instead of 2 because it was an engineering degree and because of internships. But I worked in the summer to get some money to pay for my school expenses. Ended up finishing uni in 5 years instead of 4.

Yeah I got set back a couple of years, but it's okay. And honestly nobody cares if you failed a year in high school. As long as you finish, that's all that matters.