…and so it begins.

The biggest lie about global warming is that it’s still a few years off.

Mark my words. 5 years from now? Humanity will not be anything close to what it is now.

Honest answer?

If you’ve lived through Canadian HC for a few decades, you’ll notice a few things:

1. It’s no where near as good as it was in the past.

2. It’s broken now after Covid and the apathetic response to the stress upon the system.

3. The conservative governments (mostly provincial) are purposely not putting monies where needed (eg more staff), and underfunding everything in it so the system breaks. This way, their associates can swoop in and take over with “more efficient” and faster HC services - and they can then begin raking in the enormous profit margins seen in the private US system (many of whom are their ‘associates’).

Canadians in most provinces are currently being slow-walked into private, for profit HC.

If you don’t see this. You’re truly blinded by your comforting illusions of what Canada is now, compared to 20-30 years ago. Shit, even 10.

Two-tiered HC coning right up!

Girls like it when you laugh.

WHAT?

What’s that “Kids Online Safety Bill” thing in the USA right now?

Growing cannabis (legal here in Canada)

…anyone can grow weed. Growing GOOD weed is an art.

Hey, it’s not easy being …green.

Deathmaze 5000

Im just spitballing here, cause I’m pretty ignorant about this sort of thing, but I don’t think a guy like this flys around with his name on a “passenger list”. Unless he wants it to be known that he’s on a private plane.

Would’ve thought the NDP would have held onto that like a dog with a bone.

Welcome to Canada.

Happy Halloween, Ladies!

Happy Halloween, Ladies!

No one would ever willingly talk to me ever again.

…so pretty much no change.

A few minutes before the services started, the townspeople were sitting in their pews and talking. Suddenly, Satan appeared at the front of the church. Everyone started screaming and running for the front entrance, trampling each other in a frantic effort to get away from evil incarnate.

Soon everyone had exited the church except for one elderly gentleman who sat calmly in his pew without moving, seeming oblivious to the fact that God’s ultimate enemy was in his presence.

So Satan walked up to the old man and said, “Don’t you know who I am?” The man replied, “Yep, sure do.”

“Aren’t you afraid of me?” Satan asked.

“Nope, sure ain’t,” said the man.

“Don’t you realize I can kill you with a word?” asked Satan.

“Don’t doubt it for a minute,” returned the old man, in an even tone.

“Did you know that I could cause you profound, horrifying, physical AGONY… for all eternity?” persisted Satan.

“Yep,” was the calm reply.

“And you’re still not afraid?” asked Satan.

“Nope.”

More than a little perturbed, Satan asked, “Well, why aren’t you afraid of me?”

The man calmly replied, "Been married to your sister for the last 48 years!!..

“The purpose of your life is to make others happy”

Put that in the head of all the ‘players’.

“Labor Shortage”=“no cheap, or near slave- labor”

I put my head under the tap with the coldest water. Inlet it run over my the base of my skull for minutes at a time. Within an hour, it was gone. I was shivering, but didn’t give s shit.

It was a shit-kicker of a migraine too. Day and a half before I tried the cold water thing. Puking. Sight-loss. Bad!

Canada is big enough that, as bad as it is right now, most of us are still just doing our regular <cough, cough> lives. Until <hack> autumn comes around and the fires abate.

Or, specifically, “we’re steadfastly continuing to feed the global machine that greases the wheels of climate change….”

Canadian here. This is, for many provinces the worst year ever recorded for forest fires. One fire is larger than our smallest province. It’s very bad. Not sure there is a “normal” though as each year can be highly variable, and different measures for what is normal. Gonna get worse too as we move into the coming few years, imo.