As the article says, we're only surging in population due to record immigration. The government has control over this... Maybe slow it down a little bit while we build the services to accommodate all these people? But nope, need to bring in more meat for the grinder to continue suppressing wages like they have been for decades. "good for the economy and labour shortage" means exactly this. Good for big business profit margins and eroding worker bargaining power when it comes to wages.
It's especially relevant now that workers have found new will to fight back since covid and inflation problems.
He's also 85, I know he has a construction background but I certainly hope he has contractors doing the majority of the work. But 2 years with no permits or plans submitted or contractors hired makes me think this guy wants to build it on his own at his own pace, and may be overestimating his own abilities given his age at this point.
Could very well be, unfortunately doctors don't take it seriously and naturopaths pretend to know more but really don't, and have less options available for treatment. I've tried herbal treatments to no success, so I'm kind of stuck living with what I've got. Unless I travel to the states for treatment or buy myself some rifaximin online on my own or something I'm kind of SOL. Not comfortable self prescribing antibiotics to be honest.
Tested for hydrogen and methane, unfortunately gastros just diagnosed it as ibs and don't even test for sibo here. I paid out of pocket and worked with naturopaths to get it done, but they only had a glucose/lactulose test that wasn't triosmart.
I've since developed histamine issues as well after having covid, so it's been a great time.
The funny thing is any blueprint you get will be in metric. But if you want to do something like bend a conduit, all the benders use imperial measurements.
Unfortunately I do. Anything that feeds gut bacteria messes me up. Antibiotics make me feel better for a bit but it always comes back. My only diagnosis is ibs, I've tested negative for sibo multiple times.
I used to be able to tolerate things like tomatoes and certain berries, even small amounts of lactose like in cheese. Little bits of garlic powder when used sparingly as a seasoning.
Plant proteins are all fodmaps. Beans, lentils, peas, etc are some of the worst ibs triggers out there. If I eat any of those foods I'm in excruciating pain on the toilet for a week. Not eating any protein would kill me yeah. I guess I could try to survive on powdered rice protein isolate which is the only plant based protein that doesn't fuck me up. But fuck that. More plant foods absolutely destroy me than not. Fruit? Forget it, that's fructans. Vegetables? Sure, if it's lettuce or something. Beans? Nope. Broccoli? Nope. Tomatoes? Apparently also high fodmap. Used to be low fodmap but Monash seems to have changed their mind. Sweet potatoes? You betcha that's a fodmap. Garlic and onion? Oh yeah those are the worst triggers ever. Nuts? Absolutely brutal reactions as well.
I've lived wth this shit for a decade. At first I could tolerate some fodmaps in small amounts. Recently? It's zero fodmap or I'm dying on the toilet.
I'm literally considering carnivore diet as a potential treatment. So yeah, all you lovely vegans and environmentalists are advocating for making my life either impossible, incredibly expensive, or excruciatingly painful.
Landlord is right in that it's unsafe to plug in and the circuits are likely not rated for it. I worked on many old buildings and often you'll have barely 2 circuits for the whole unit. Sure it might draw as much as a hair dryer, but a hair dryer alone maxes out a circuit. That's why the US code for example mandates a dedicated 20a circuit for bathrooms. Canadian one is behind in that regard in my opinion. Meanwhile in these old shitboxes you have your fridge on the same circuit as your living room, etc. Overloading circuits is a legitimate risk of fire, especially with older wiring and breakers that are basically never replaced when they trip and are in service for decades. Or the old oversized fuse/penny in the fuse trick.
It's not as easy as just slapping an ac unit in your window, the wiring needs to be updated.
Now I do think these people need air conditioning, absolutely. The government needs to step in and either force the landlord to pay for wiring upgrades (specifically dedicated circuits for window units, maybe panel upgrades to increase capacity, maybe service upgrades for entire buildings to accommodate the need) and/or subsidize the upgrade to some extent.
It's definitely not going to be a cheap fix though.
Great sentiment and all, but shit for all of us that have ibs (estimates are as much as 1 in 5 people). If I can't have animal protein I'd literally die, or have such a shit quality of life I might as well be dead
I mean the alternative is voting for someone who time and again has proven they're not acting with your interests in mind, and I'm talking both red and blue here
Maybe in university educated society. Any blue collar work place, lots of men's sports teams, etc. has these problems in my experience. When I shifted careers in my 30s from the office to a construction site I was blown away by how right wing everyone was while working for a union.
Costco also has actual cashiers working, and an extra person to bag your groceries on top of that typically. And they pay better than the typical grocery store.
As the article says, we're only surging in population due to record immigration. The government has control over this... Maybe slow it down a little bit while we build the services to accommodate all these people? But nope, need to bring in more meat for the grinder to continue suppressing wages like they have been for decades. "good for the economy and labour shortage" means exactly this. Good for big business profit margins and eroding worker bargaining power when it comes to wages.
It's especially relevant now that workers have found new will to fight back since covid and inflation problems.