Meanwhile in Canada

Welcome to Wondercafe2!

A community where we discuss, share, and have some fun together. Join today and become a part of it!

Register Log in
Maple washing:


Taxpayers ought to be directly compensated for this. Fines just go straight back to the government when the company already gets government perks for things like “buy local” campaigns, which I just read about, and other grants. The fines pay for themselves but the consumers get nothing back for being duped. Somebody on Reddit mentioned how they label produce from possibly being from the US and/ or a couple of other countries, all arranged on the same shelf when most of it is from the US, so there’s no accountability for confusing or misleading shoppers whose conscientious choices would benefit from more clarity.

There was a time, probably back in the 90s, when people would’ve been a lot more upset about this. It would’ve been the Great Grocery Scandal. At least most people I was around at the time understood that we shouldn’t put corporate breaks before looking after people. But as neoliberal capitalism grew and a concern for a basic level of “socialistic” values and benefits to society shrunk, people became more apathetic about it, and some swung further over to to rejecting any socialism at all.
 
Last edited:
If Guru's escape ... guru some and thus expansion of the former ... altering the castings?

Reasonable as wealthy folk in a flawed condition? Enough to make a real thin man (means) fall off the sphere with a bump in the night ... interesting said "one" character that was described as nothing ... a ringer! What a game to catch up to like You 're Anoia ... Uranus? Mark that point ...

When things are marked there will be debate ... it is human nature ... just disagreeable ... mined you as psyche you can slip off somewhere unseen ... real folk say you are deceased ... so desist ... no cyst urn allowed ... due to catchy ness ... all abstract ... i.e. undiscernible, indeterminate?

Far out to the determined ... alien domains ... it remains to be seen ---Tobias? (is that a word to the wise) Get out while you can !
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
It’s a situation of: government and big business are looking after each other, and people aren’t adequately supported.
Click to expand...
The premier of Ontario owns a family company that makes signage and labels. It has contracts with the major grocery chains like Sobeys and Loblaws. Tell me he doesn't own stock. We'll never know because he scrapped freedom of information so his phone records couldn't be accessed going back 40 years.
 
ninj said:
The premier of Ontario owns a family company that makes signage and labels. It has contracts with the major grocery chains like Sobeys and Loblaws. Tell me he doesn't own stock. We'll never know because he scrapped freedom of information so his phone records couldn't be accessed going back 40 years.
Click to expand...
Edit for clarity...There is now no FOI regarding Doug Ford's activities going back 40 years. He uses his personal phone to conduct business, so the timing is suspicious. He looks like he has lots to hide.
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
so there’s no accountability for confusing or misleading shoppers whose conscientious choices would benefit from more clarity.
Click to expand...
You don’t need
1f341.svg
stickers if you want to buy Canadian in Canada - just look for the most expensive items.
 
it's that time of year again

when our village, engages in the Ancient Promise (called a Tryst) with the Local Kindly Ones, with the May Day ritual, and our village can continue for another year :3

this is our biggest time of year

(jazzfest seems like it; it has been cancelled due to insane debt)

people camping everywhere. all of our population increases

and as seems usual, the weather has got cooler and cloudier and rainier...

last night was another DELUGE in town; the rain ruts developed rain ruts and i think i might have seen some rats on rafts going down the street rivers. the rain was warm Spring rain -- still not somwthing i would want to be camping in or caught oot in the open in in the wild dark...;3

Joy and peace
 
Last edited:
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
It’s a situation of: government and big business are looking after each other, and people aren’t adequately supported.
Click to expand...
Bureaucrats and funded organizations thrive on ongoing problems --new grants, staff positions, advocacy roles, and political cover under the guise of "doing something compassionate".

Actual root fixes --housing supply deregulation, aggressive treatment/recovery focus, mental health access, economic opportunity, disrupting fentanyl trafficking networks are harder, politically riskier, and threaten existing flows.

Addicts dying publicly and the poor/disabled victims facing managed decline become the justification for more of the same.

It's a pattern in crony-influenced public services.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2055020721886437583
 
WhyCzar said:
Bureaucrats and funded organizations thrive on ongoing problems --new grants, staff positions, advocacy roles, and political cover under the guise of "doing something compassionate".

Actual root fixes --housing supply deregulation, aggressive treatment/recovery focus, mental health access, economic opportunity, disrupting fentanyl trafficking networks are harder, politically riskier, and threaten existing flows.

Addicts dying publicly and the poor/disabled victims facing managed decline become the justification for more of the same.

It's a pattern in crony-influenced public services.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2055020721886437583
Click to expand...
They do save people from dying from toxic drug supply, so I’m not against them. Cold turkey for many in that situation on the streets is just as dangerous, and doesn’t happen. There needs to be more funding put into voluntary treatment and recovery, too - a stronger bridge between safe injection sites and recovery, imo.
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
They do save people from dying from toxic drug supply, so I’m not against them. Cold turkey for many in that situation on the streets is just as dangerous, and doesn’t happen. There needs to be more funding put into voluntary treatment and recovery, too - a stronger bridge between safe injection sites and recovery, imo.
Click to expand...
Yeah, there's actually some good science supporting safe injection sites as part of a broader program of treatment. The stigmatization of drug addicts on moral grounds just exacerbates things rather than helping.
 
Mendalla said:
Yeah, there's actually some good science supporting safe injection sites as part of a broader program of treatment. The stigmatization of drug addicts on moral grounds just exacerbates things rather than helping. them, and they need caring support and an opportunity to recover.
Click to expand...

I don’t blame them for it. They need caring support and opportunities to recover.
 
Last edited:
Sorry I edited my reply and part of my comment ended up in yours in the process, somehow, @Mendalla. I wondered where it went. I said they need an opportunity to recover. It wasn’t part of your original post but I doubt you’d disagree with that.
 
Kimmio Laughterlove said:
Sorry I edited my reply and part of my comment ended up in yours in the process, somehow, @Mendalla. I wondered where it went. I said they need an opportunity to recover. It wasn’t part of your original post but I doubt you’d disagree with that.
Click to expand...
No probs. I see what happened and it's fine. It's very much in keeping with what I said.
 
Does most stress come from the government, business and belief systems about the populace ... or how the populace worries government, business and BS's?

It is a dual choice question that is obviously biased in weight ...

Much depends on the intent of the presentation and whether the populace can swallow it ... the other triad will absorb everything ... thus the populace faces demise and the marketplace vanishes ... because we never learn from nothing ...

The prized 3 say there is nothing to fret about ...
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top