Loto-Quebec's pretend efforts to combat gambling addiction are, to put it mildly, a clownshoes fucking joke. Work a day in a Quebec convenience store and you'll see just how much gambling is a PROBLEM.
I don't know if it's just confirmation bias, but it feels like as soon as the PCs got in power the tenor of OLG advertising changed for the worse.
There was one where I just had to tell the radio to fuck off, along the lines of: "gamble if you want your programs funded!"
(And yeah, my first job was at a Petro Canada. Owner spent the whole summer saying "push the coffee, push the coffee". No one comes in here to buy a cup of coffee. It's Red Bull, smokes, and 649.)
Yeah I worked for years in two separate Shells
the thing about coffee is that the margin on it is HUGE. It's so cheap that they let us take as much as we wanted for free, and I've definitely had a few times where I offered a free one to a customer (one bad incident where a woman came in clearly hiding from an abuser).
This is last night in front of Mont-Royal station in Montreal, protesting the curfew
imagine when your cause is "I won't wear a mask" and you show up with a Guy Fawkes mask and a Quebec flag, 3 days after the US coup attempt. How very normal.
(these people apparently all got a $1,550 fine for being there)
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Zero new cases in NS today, hell yes. There'll be at least one tomorrow as one of the universities confirmed a student case related to travel, but they're already isolating at least.
Record-breaking day in Ontario. Nearly 4k, but apparently that's because they're rolling in some old cases that went unreported. Still, we weren't far off anyway. The next couple days will tell what the curve really looks like, but Jesus, it's not good already.
And through it all, Premier Absentee Dad "won't hesitate" to act if things get worse. How much worse? He won't say. How will be act? He won't say. Does he even have a fucking plan at all? He won't say.
Because if he did, the answer would be no.
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Like I've read news reports about the new rules several times and i still can't figure out if i am allowed to have my girlfriend over? I live alone. She's the only person outside of work that i see.
Could we be ticketed? Do i still fall under the rule of "contact allowed with one other household"? Is that still a rule?
Well, the rules did one thing, which is cancel the one on one cross country ski coaching I was gonna get for another month (come ON it's fully outdoors with tons of meters of distance!!)
But aside from being used to harass and fine homeless people and people of colour? Looking forward to that 10,000 cases a day number, baby
Like I've read news reports about the new rules several times and i still can't figure out if i am allowed to have my girlfriend over? I live alone. She's the only person outside of work that i see.
Could we be ticketed? Do i still fall under the rule of "contact allowed with one other household"? Is that still a rule?
If you live alone you are still allowed to visit one other household so yeah
Some reporters cleared that up
God this is such a rush job, what was the point of the province taking the weekend to prepare if they're THIS unprepared
Further, why did they need the whole weekend? There should be an entire full-time department whose job it is to create and update models, to prepare and provide new recommendations. They should never need spend literally any time thinking about this, they should always have an up-to-date full-on view of the situation, projections for a wide variety of possibilities, and the required new restrictions and programs to bring it under control should those lines be breached. That's basic competency for a situation like this, and they can't even handle that let alone the intermediate/advanced shit of actually rolling out recommendation and programs and vaccines.
I don't understand what the fuck is going on over there that they are continually surprised by things and require time to analyze and respond to it. So many dead and infected because of their incredible incompetence, it's infuriating.
Further, why did they need the whole weekend? There should be an entire full-time department whose job it is to create and update models, to prepare and provide new recommendations. They should never need spend literally any time thinking about this, they should always have an up-to-date full-on view of the situation, projections for a wide variety of possibilities, and the required new restrictions and programs to bring it under control should those lines be breached. That's basic competency for a situation like this, and they can't even handle that let alone the intermediate/advanced shit of actually rolling out recommendation and programs and vaccines.
I don't understand what the fuck is going on over there that they are continually surprised by things and require time to analyze and respond to it. So many dead and infected because of their incredible incompetence, it's infuriating.
this has been constant and annoying, we all know that rapid response and harsh restrictions work, but that is *hard* so they are trying these goddamn half measures, slowly incrementally and the cases just start exploding and going up. The second wave is way worse and make our concerns during the first wave look foolish in hindsight. things are much worse now, and with a vaccine slowly rolling out its the worst time for things to be escalating.
initially he did some good things, now all that goodwill is pissed away.
I hate the situation so much.
Further, why did they need the whole weekend? There should be an entire full-time department whose job it is to create and update models, to prepare and provide new recommendations. They should never need spend literally any time thinking about this, they should always have an up-to-date full-on view of the situation, projections for a wide variety of possibilities, and the required new restrictions and programs to bring it under control should those lines be breached. That's basic competency for a situation like this, and they can't even handle that let alone the intermediate/advanced shit of actually rolling out recommendation and programs and vaccines.
I don't understand what the fuck is going on over there that they are continually surprised by things and require time to analyze and respond to it. So many dead and infected because of their incredible incompetence, it's infuriating.
this has been constant and annoying, we all know that rapid response and harsh restrictions work, but that is *hard* so they are trying these goddamn half measures, slowly incrementally and the cases just start exploding and going up. The second wave is way worse and make our concerns during the first wave look foolish in hindsight. things are much worse now, and with a vaccine slowly rolling out its the worst time for things to be escalating.
initially he did some good things, now all that goodwill is pissed away.
I hate the situation so much.
Also probably suffering from the layoffs and budget squeeze they did to the health department right before the pandemic
That risk communications expert would probably have been pretty helpful what with how health is constantly at risk right now!
Also God, I don't know how much more screaming JUST GIVE PEOPLE SICK LEAVE at my TV my heart can handle
For example, beloved forum poster Me was not eligible because due to my depressive episodes in 2019 I did not make sufficient money in the year to qualify for the CERB. The only financial assistance I have received for the covid-19 pandemic was 200$ in March and $500 for living in BC last month.
If your province has let your employer open up, no matter how bad an idea it is for them to do so, you are now considered to be employable and you no longer qualify for CERB.
Basically, the Canadian financial offerings have wound up being pumped up in people's minds because they are still significantly better than the state of the financial assistance in a lot of other western countries that people get news about. But that's more of a condemnation of what those other countries got than a praise of what Canada got.
Yeah like, a lot of US-based memes incorrectly assert we're all getting a 2k per month UBI
While I have some optimistic hope UBI becomes a part of the next election cycle, a lot of the benefits we have right now are means tested to hell; some of them clearly anticipated the province to do more and add to them (e.g. the federal sick leave benefit) but since some provinces are run by the right wing, well! Well!!!
CERB/CRB is extremely helpful for my family since usually self-employed people aren't eligible for EI benefits and my Dad can't run his business safely right now, but if you didn't make 5k clear in the last 12 months then you can't apply, and people working essential jobs can't quit to claim it
There are wage subsidies for businesses which were an attempt to keep people employed if they have to stay home, and a program for companies to have rental assistance, but the latter was hamstringed by an idiotic decision to make landlords responsible for applying for the rental assistance and many seemed to take it as a way to clear out tenants and be able to charge higher rent to new businesses (they fixed that afaik but it took several months)
At least in Ontario a lot of the protections in place are basically for the white collar class and the folks who have to go into work are being left to rot while the province deliberates over how to adjust policy to let the rich go to their second residence whenever they feel like it
Federally, what benefits we do have were mostly dragged to a level of usefulness by the left-leaning NDP party, but there's only so much that can be done when they're not in leadership and the Liberals *love* a good means test
Further, why did they need the whole weekend? There should be an entire full-time department whose job it is to create and update models, to prepare and provide new recommendations. They should never need spend literally any time thinking about this, they should always have an up-to-date full-on view of the situation, projections for a wide variety of possibilities, and the required new restrictions and programs to bring it under control should those lines be breached. That's basic competency for a situation like this, and they can't even handle that let alone the intermediate/advanced shit of actually rolling out recommendation and programs and vaccines.
I don't understand what the fuck is going on over there that they are continually surprised by things and require time to analyze and respond to it. So many dead and infected because of their incredible incompetence, it's infuriating.
this has been constant and annoying, we all know that rapid response and harsh restrictions work, but that is *hard* so they are trying these goddamn half measures, slowly incrementally and the cases just start exploding and going up. The second wave is way worse and make our concerns during the first wave look foolish in hindsight. things are much worse now, and with a vaccine slowly rolling out its the worst time for things to be escalating.
initially he did some good things, now all that goodwill is pissed away.
I hate the situation so much.
Also probably suffering from the layoffs and budget squeeze they did to the health department right before the pandemic
That risk communications expert would probably have been pretty helpful what with how health is constantly at risk right now!
Also God, I don't know how much more screaming JUST GIVE PEOPLE SICK LEAVE at my TV my heart can handle
This has been not addressed at all, is they spent the months before the pandemic dismantling the local health authorities and public health to streamline and cut bloat. then during the pandemic passing the buck to those same health authorities to enforce and enact proper measures.
like, everything the ford govt has implemented or tried to implement has had to be walked back, changed or delayed all the time while wasting money and resources leading up to a crisis event, and then just keep on trucking like morons. its bad governance on display, and I don't think they are gonna face any consequences for their track record.
atthis point I hope the fed govt can mandate or step in on vaccines to make sure they get delivered properly.
We never ELECTED one, but that type of politics gets a LOT of play to a slice of the population of Quebec approaching 30%. Legault is certainly the most conservative PM we’ve had since I was born but even he’s “just” your typical neolib.
Maxime Bernier is 100% that guy pipe alluded to, and yes he’s an absolute joke, but he’s a joke representing an increasing faction in this province.
If y'all have some bandwidth I highly recommend reading "Clearing the Plains"
It gets some details wrong (horses in NA), but it's a brutal breakdown of how England/HBC/France/proto-Canada did the First Nations dirty
this coming off a letter today that was a bunch of canadian historians who want people to stop being mean to john a macdonald about all the genocide he was responsible for.
If y'all have some bandwidth I highly recommend reading "Clearing the Plains"
It gets some details wrong (horses in NA), but it's a brutal breakdown of how England/HBC/France/proto-Canada did the First Nations dirty
this coming off a letter today that was a bunch of canadian historians who want people to stop being mean to john a macdonald about all the genocide he was responsible for.
Further, why did they need the whole weekend? There should be an entire full-time department whose job it is to create and update models, to prepare and provide new recommendations. They should never need spend literally any time thinking about this, they should always have an up-to-date full-on view of the situation, projections for a wide variety of possibilities, and the required new restrictions and programs to bring it under control should those lines be breached. That's basic competency for a situation like this, and they can't even handle that let alone the intermediate/advanced shit of actually rolling out recommendation and programs and vaccines.
I don't understand what the fuck is going on over there that they are continually surprised by things and require time to analyze and respond to it. So many dead and infected because of their incredible incompetence, it's infuriating.
this has been constant and annoying, we all know that rapid response and harsh restrictions work, but that is *hard* so they are trying these goddamn half measures, slowly incrementally and the cases just start exploding and going up. The second wave is way worse and make our concerns during the first wave look foolish in hindsight. things are much worse now, and with a vaccine slowly rolling out its the worst time for things to be escalating.
initially he did some good things, now all that goodwill is pissed away.
I hate the situation so much.
Also probably suffering from the layoffs and budget squeeze they did to the health department right before the pandemic
That risk communications expert would probably have been pretty helpful what with how health is constantly at risk right now!
Also God, I don't know how much more screaming JUST GIVE PEOPLE SICK LEAVE at my TV my heart can handle
This has been not addressed at all, is they spent the months before the pandemic dismantling the local health authorities and public health to streamline and cut bloat. then during the pandemic passing the buck to those same health authorities to enforce and enact proper measures.
like, everything the ford govt has implemented or tried to implement has had to be walked back, changed or delayed all the time while wasting money and resources leading up to a crisis event, and then just keep on trucking like morons. its bad governance on display, and I don't think they are gonna face any consequences for their track record.
atthis point I hope the fed govt can mandate or step in on vaccines to make sure they get delivered properly.
Hey now we had paid sick leave when Ford got in and now all we have is no sick leave and 44 hour over time
speaking of canada life, my partner in the states mailed me a small book and several plastic cat gacha figurines for christmas, and today ups invoiced me 135$ for the privilege lol
speaking of canada life, my partner in the states mailed me a small book and several plastic cat gacha figurines for christmas, and today ups invoiced me 135$ for the privilege lol
God I fucking hate UPS
They also only do that billing by mail now and if you miss it enjoy being in collections for $20! Love it!!
speaking of canada life, my partner in the states mailed me a small book and several plastic cat gacha figurines for christmas, and today ups invoiced me 135$ for the privilege lol
God I fucking hate UPS
They also only do that billing by mail now and if you miss it enjoy being in collections for $20! Love it!!
Yeah I received the invoice today and it says that the due date was the 5th, thanks buddy.
So many under cover pigs out getting free fine money
Which like fun oppression from the capitalists we got going on her, the economy's more important then civilian life's and now because they've pretended to care about public health but not since all business is still open there gonna take money from citizens that goes never bothered giving us before
What a fucking joke Jesus Christ
I ain't got a problem with lock down aside from the fact it's way to late and is clearly only so the government can pretend they did all they could during a pandemic where they did fuck all
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Yeah I worked for years in two separate Shells
the thing about coffee is that the margin on it is HUGE. It's so cheap that they let us take as much as we wanted for free, and I've definitely had a few times where I offered a free one to a customer (one bad incident where a woman came in clearly hiding from an abuser).
This is last night in front of Mont-Royal station in Montreal, protesting the curfew
imagine when your cause is "I won't wear a mask" and you show up with a Guy Fawkes mask and a Quebec flag, 3 days after the US coup attempt. How very normal.
(these people apparently all got a $1,550 fine for being there)
And through it all, Premier Absentee Dad "won't hesitate" to act if things get worse. How much worse? He won't say. How will be act? He won't say. Does he even have a fucking plan at all? He won't say.
Because if he did, the answer would be no.
these restrictions... really change nothing for me?
I find it hard to believe that this will actually change anyone's behavior
And of course without actual enforcement people will just do whatever
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Could we be ticketed? Do i still fall under the rule of "contact allowed with one other household"? Is that still a rule?
But aside from being used to harass and fine homeless people and people of colour? Looking forward to that 10,000 cases a day number, baby
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If you live alone you are still allowed to visit one other household so yeah
Some reporters cleared that up
God this is such a rush job, what was the point of the province taking the weekend to prepare if they're THIS unprepared
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I don't understand what the fuck is going on over there that they are continually surprised by things and require time to analyze and respond to it. So many dead and infected because of their incredible incompetence, it's infuriating.
this has been constant and annoying, we all know that rapid response and harsh restrictions work, but that is *hard* so they are trying these goddamn half measures, slowly incrementally and the cases just start exploding and going up. The second wave is way worse and make our concerns during the first wave look foolish in hindsight. things are much worse now, and with a vaccine slowly rolling out its the worst time for things to be escalating.
initially he did some good things, now all that goodwill is pissed away.
I hate the situation so much.
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Also probably suffering from the layoffs and budget squeeze they did to the health department right before the pandemic
That risk communications expert would probably have been pretty helpful what with how health is constantly at risk right now!
Also God, I don't know how much more screaming JUST GIVE PEOPLE SICK LEAVE at my TV my heart can handle
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Only if you've become unemployed due to covid or you had to leave work to care for someone with covid or at risk.
Edit: they're also paying employers a percentage of the wages of people they've had to lay off so they can keep them on payroll
Need some stuff designed or printed? I can help with that.
It's tremendous means testing bullshit but like compared to the US it's 1/3rd of people not paying rent instead of 1/2
If your province has let your employer open up, no matter how bad an idea it is for them to do so, you are now considered to be employable and you no longer qualify for CERB.
Basically, the Canadian financial offerings have wound up being pumped up in people's minds because they are still significantly better than the state of the financial assistance in a lot of other western countries that people get news about. But that's more of a condemnation of what those other countries got than a praise of what Canada got.
Well umm, just like, sing out if any of youse need some help
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While I have some optimistic hope UBI becomes a part of the next election cycle, a lot of the benefits we have right now are means tested to hell; some of them clearly anticipated the province to do more and add to them (e.g. the federal sick leave benefit) but since some provinces are run by the right wing, well! Well!!!
CERB/CRB is extremely helpful for my family since usually self-employed people aren't eligible for EI benefits and my Dad can't run his business safely right now, but if you didn't make 5k clear in the last 12 months then you can't apply, and people working essential jobs can't quit to claim it
There are wage subsidies for businesses which were an attempt to keep people employed if they have to stay home, and a program for companies to have rental assistance, but the latter was hamstringed by an idiotic decision to make landlords responsible for applying for the rental assistance and many seemed to take it as a way to clear out tenants and be able to charge higher rent to new businesses (they fixed that afaik but it took several months)
At least in Ontario a lot of the protections in place are basically for the white collar class and the folks who have to go into work are being left to rot while the province deliberates over how to adjust policy to let the rich go to their second residence whenever they feel like it
Federally, what benefits we do have were mostly dragged to a level of usefulness by the left-leaning NDP party, but there's only so much that can be done when they're not in leadership and the Liberals *love* a good means test
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This has been not addressed at all, is they spent the months before the pandemic dismantling the local health authorities and public health to streamline and cut bloat. then during the pandemic passing the buck to those same health authorities to enforce and enact proper measures.
like, everything the ford govt has implemented or tried to implement has had to be walked back, changed or delayed all the time while wasting money and resources leading up to a crisis event, and then just keep on trucking like morons. its bad governance on display, and I don't think they are gonna face any consequences for their track record.
atthis point I hope the fed govt can mandate or step in on vaccines to make sure they get delivered properly.
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The fact is people like to use Canada as a shining example of a leftist utopia who is just next door to America but so much cooler
When in reality our politics are either
A: Honeyed words and broken promises
B: Trump, but FRENCH or
C: Too little too late
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E: I suppose there’s less French
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When did we ever vote in a French(-Canadian) Trump-alike? In the last 50 years, I mean.
Why do you guys hate French so much?
Alas, the tyranny of distance.
That and the French turned up to Australia around the same time as the poms and said , ‘lol fuck this place’ and left
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We never ELECTED one, but that type of politics gets a LOT of play to a slice of the population of Quebec approaching 30%. Legault is certainly the most conservative PM we’ve had since I was born but even he’s “just” your typical neolib.
Maxime Bernier is 100% that guy pipe alluded to, and yes he’s an absolute joke, but he’s a joke representing an increasing faction in this province.
Epic hand clasp meme that and how Nazis copied American eugenics
It gets some details wrong (horses in NA), but it's a brutal breakdown of how England/HBC/France/proto-Canada did the First Nations dirty
I believe the Nazi's also came to western Canada to study eugenics.
This article is also a good reminder of the diseases Europeans brought with them came ahead of the colonizers in some places:
Everyone was dead: When Europeans first came to B.C., they stepped into the aftermath of a holocaust
this coming off a letter today that was a bunch of canadian historians who want people to stop being mean to john a macdonald about all the genocide he was responsible for.
I thought some of them were politicians.
bc aiming for herd immunity through vaccination "by september"
Hey now we had paid sick leave when Ford got in and now all we have is no sick leave and 44 hour over time
I think that lines up with the federal timeline, right
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God I fucking hate UPS
They also only do that billing by mail now and if you miss it enjoy being in collections for $20! Love it!!
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Yeah I received the invoice today and it says that the due date was the 5th, thanks buddy.
Which like fun oppression from the capitalists we got going on her, the economy's more important then civilian life's and now because they've pretended to care about public health but not since all business is still open there gonna take money from citizens that goes never bothered giving us before
What a fucking joke Jesus Christ
I ain't got a problem with lock down aside from the fact it's way to late and is clearly only so the government can pretend they did all they could during a pandemic where they did fuck all