The Earth is burning around us as a slo-mo climate catastrophe builds up unstoppably. Fascists and other authoritarians are ramping up to take control of people around the world (with a major party in Canada, even, hiring an open fascist into its leadership). Canadian essentials prices are reaching the point where the practically the entire nation is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the basic needs of food and shelter. There's a genocide going on in Gaza after a mass murder was done against Israelis. The people of Ukraine are still fighting off an invader that the world let get cocky and arrogant enough to decide to invade.
But the CBC is bravely fighting to expose a has-been entertainer.
Bravo, CBC! Only you have the journalistic integrity to do deep investigative journalism on issues that don't matter at all! Keep up the great, tax-funded work!
I ate turkey in Germany in the '80s already. It wasn't super-common, but it was there. My family tended to have goose at Christmas dinners, but turkey was an option that was frequently used by others.
Turkeys are traditionally eaten as the main course of Thanksgiving dinner feasts in the United States and Canada, and at Christmas dinner feasts in much of the rest of the world (often as stuffed turkey).
Turkey was eaten in as early as the 16th century in England.
While the tradition of turkey at Christmas spread throughout Britain in the 17th century, among the working classes, it became common to serve goose, which remained the predominant roast until the Victorian era.
Turkey consumption per capita statistics show that Germany, for example, is about 3.4kg annually per capita vs. the USA's 7.5, Hungary's 9, and Israel's (?!) 13.
Unfortunately statistics on this seem a bit incomplete. The first site lists 11 nations only. Over here they list 7, but barely have any overlap with the first site. More information gives some solid figures on the production and export of turkey meat. ... And so on and so on and so on. So yes, turkeys are raised and consumed worldwide.
Wouldn't it be better to boost long-term personal residence ownership? Boosting the number of people renting is just a way, it seems, of exacerbating the heart of the housing problem.
The technological hurdles that have to be cleared to send a manned mission to Mars are not currently surmountable by any institution, government or private, on the planet. We're not even talking about colonizing here, just sending humans to Mars at all is currently fantasy with any technology that anybody on the planet has.
SpaceX will be bankrupted by the antics of Space Karen (a.k.a. Apartheid Edgelord) long before the first manned mission of any size makes it to Mars.
In some cases it is, yes, worse. But in many cases it's just the press the Americans spew about themselves living in the "land of the free" while the jackboots march in unison ever closer.
You make it sound like you believe that Mars flights will ever start! 😜
He's a grifter. Everything he says and does is a grift. There won't ever be a Mars flight. The Mars flight crap is there so that his starry-eyed youngster engineers will kill themselves working toward that grand vision so he has a launch vehicle to pollute LEO with Starlink crap.
And make no mistake. The Chinese government is bad. It's just bad in ways that the western governments and press don't actually give a shit about so they make up other shit instead.
Yep. Regardless of what your position is on drugs (and I'm in the "legalize and license most of them" camp), it's well known that the Chinese government (for very valid, albeit unfortunate, historical reasons) has absolutely no tolerance for the recreational narcotics industry and that this includes the death penalty.
You'd have to be a very special kind of stupid to traffic drugs in China, or any number of other countries with similar policies.
He was arrested before the Meng thing happened, so the arrest was not dubiously political. The upgrading to the death sentence, however, was very clearly a pressure tactic of dubious politics.
The Earth is burning around us as a slo-mo climate catastrophe builds up unstoppably. Fascists and other authoritarians are ramping up to take control of people around the world (with a major party in Canada, even, hiring an open fascist into its leadership). Canadian essentials prices are reaching the point where the practically the entire nation is finding it increasingly difficult to meet the basic needs of food and shelter. There's a genocide going on in Gaza after a mass murder was done against Israelis. The people of Ukraine are still fighting off an invader that the world let get cocky and arrogant enough to decide to invade.
But the CBC is bravely fighting to expose a has-been entertainer.
Bravo, CBC! Only you have the journalistic integrity to do deep investigative journalism on issues that don't matter at all! Keep up the great, tax-funded work!
You utter fucking berks.