Thank you for your insight.

What are your thoughts on the issue of dust with cultured stone, is it similar for real stone as well?

Well that’s a bunch of bullshit that we need to watch for with everything we’re told. Critical thinking skills are going to be more important than ever.

That being said, there are plenty of companies taking advantage of the TFW program in Canada, most people think that they do this because they can hire cheaper labour, well that isn’t really the case. To me most of the TFW’s in fast food are being taken advantage of, as the franchise owner can own the house they rent, dictate what hours they work (not needing to deal with student of parents who might need flexibility for picking up kids), and the constant threat of losing your job and being sent back to wherever they’re from.

You cannot put the same restrictions on Canadians, so maybe there is an economically distraught area and plenty of people would work at a fast food restaurant, but the franchise owner would rather a TFW because they have way more control.

Now the TFWs themselves are doing nothing wrong by trying to improve their lives and families situation, but to me it is a new form of slavery where your still stuck at the whims of the owner.

The situation is a mess and like our healthcare industry the government isn’t doing much to make it better for Canadians only for corporations.

BTW fuck Tim Hortons, they’re as Canadian as McDonalds, not very!

I am always amazed at how many people do not understand this. Phone companies right before they started becoming almost “essential”, power companies, water/sanitation companies, healthcare “you know excluding eyes and teeth because they have nothing to do with healthcare” that they’re pushing to privatize, etc etc. So why does anyone think that privatizing Canada Post will be any different, and sure as shit it will be some stupid Tech company that will just have another means to amass your information to sell.

Now don’t get me wrong, there needs to be a change at Canada Post (and the CBC but that’s another topic), but privatization is not the answer, and neither is the current way it’s going. The person who mentioned how Ireland has adapted their postal service makes a valid point and it should be looked at.

Canadians will not be better served by privatization but some greedy asshole billionaire will, unless it gets bought by the employees.

Yes government organizations are rife with inefficiencies but it would be better to attempt to solve those problems.

I do not get a lot of useful mail from Canada Post, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a valuable service for Canadians. There just needs to be less junk mail what a complete waste of resources, and why the hell do companies have the right to force their trash on me. Bet that gets better with privization /s

Or “Might as well do EVIL”, what is anybody going to do about it, maybe make some noise but we just pay off TACO and we good.

She gets that from her hero TACO.

There is a tiny little tab on the silver pins, bend that flat and you can pull the wires out and put them in the other connector.

That being said, just cutting and splicing would be the easiest option as this pins can damage easily.

Well played!

With someone else’s front?

Volkswagen was definitely had the loudest outrage but as you mention, anyone making a diesel was doing the same thing.

And to your point about morals, yeah most corporations have no idea what morals are, and some might say that’s their right as a company to just focus on money, damn everyone and everything else, your health, the environment not if it interferes with my corporations profit margin.

Social contract what’s that about.

Yes but think of the debt they can accrue for the economy.

/s

It wasn’t that bad a few weeks ago, got the full fingerprint treatment which was a first, a few more pointed questions but nothing out of line. Most people in the que were through pretty quick.

I head down again Monday and don’t expect anything different.

Really my response is such that you think I was triggered hard.

Jesus you people need to get a life.

Just trying to have a conversation.

You mean the later that follows environmental regulations and human rights conditions?

Don’t get me wrong yes heavy oil takes a lot of upgrading to produce but with the shear amount of it it makes sense. All oil and most of the taxes taken from it should be used to wean ourselves off oil but that is many many years away.

And to your comment about the personal attack, um think you threw the first attack to oil and gas workers.

And haven’t been on Reddit much for a bit now and I don’t usually comment, but trying to help Lemmy be active and here is the average redditor who is better than everyone else. Guess your oil is better than ours. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Colonial farm, like every other farm in the country. And what you got against oil and gas, let me guess you bike everywhere and everything you own is all natural ingredients.

That’s a fair point.

They pretty much are in Canada. You need to take tests to prove basic competency of training.

Anything can be used as a weapon if the person wishing to do harm is unstable enough or it’s pre-meditated and they’re crazy enough.

Really the carbon tax was funding the CRA?

The CBC needs to be cleaned out and returned to a fact based news company, local news and made in Canada shows that aren’t stupid gimmicks.

But there is definitely a ton of money being wasted.

Canadian news agencies need to be clearly pointing out every lie the Cheeto in Charge spews from his orange face. Not the American owned media (although it would be good but fuck them).

Every politician too, and put it on with the ads in the US. Show them that they’re being lied to on a regular basis.