Eh. Little People is a toy line for toddlers with a long history, that kids from the 50s through at least the 80s are going to have some core memories around. This seems like a bit of a no-brainer limited licensing deal.
Kichae
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Believe it or not, I don't think Stephen Harper's immigration minister is worth listening to about anything, ever, in any context. Especially the one who announced the "barbaric cultural practices" hotline.
Ah, so it's "things have gotten worse (unstated: because government has abandoned social responsibility), so I hope the guy who explicitly shits on the government having any social responsibility wins"
So you better spend your time adapting.
They already ruined web search with SEO. Now it just won't be worth searching for websites at all. We can either accept whatever nonsense the syntax generator spits out, untethered from fact, or we can stop looking altogether.
That's what you mean by adapt, right? Accept not having access to real information ever again?
I guess each credit union is different but from my experience they only want people with exceptional credit history to be members.
I had middling credit score and a bunch of credit card debt. I showed the credit union I was making the interest payments on my credit card, they offered me a line of credit large enough to pay off the credit card and an interest rate that would keep my payments the same but actually pay down the principle. They then paid off my credit card and acted as my agent to close all of my accounts at TD.
It doesn't sound like you have credit unions down there. It sounds like you have private clubs for money. Which checks out. In Canada, banks credit unions are tightly government regulated, and opening a personal bank account is a legal right.
The thing is, Canada already has an established (and repeatedly courg-challenged) legal framework for hate speech and hate crimes. These terms are already clearly defined, and laws are free and even supposed to reference other established legislation and legal precedent rather than republish parts of the criminal code over and over again.
So no, the law does not need to be a capsule full of explicit definitions of things that are already well defined in law. It merely needs to make direct reference to those definitions and other relevant legislation.
And based off of those established legislation
“offence motivated by hatred,” in theory any non-criminal offense, as tiny as littering, committed with hateful intent;
is a bizarre twisting of things. The author is either ignorant of Canadian hate laws, while still choosing to report on them, or engaging in purposeful FUD for some reason.
Has he also deactivated his company's mailbox? I know stamps are more expensive than Facebook comments, but the cost to your soul is so much less.
I switched to a credit union about 10 years ago and haven't looked back. I've personally had to deal with a few more human errors than at the commercial banks, but they're fixed promptly (and permanently, an an issue-by-issue basis, at least), but I've encountered none of the systemic anti-customer issues that the commercial banks have thrown at me and my friends and family over the years.
It's been good. Highly recommend.
And just like that I went from suspecting that the author was just simping for the rich to knowing it for certain.
"There's no room for negotiation" is an odd thing to say to someone when you've indicated that you do not want certain information to be public.
"We dictate from a position of monolithic strength. Also, here's a pickaxe."
There is no reason why specialist wages need to be eviscerated
Yes, there is. We pay specialists fuck-you money, and enable a rigid social hierarchy within a profession that exists to help others.
It's already questionable that GPs are underpaid. Overworked, sure, but they already make signidicantly more than the median income, and well above a living wage, in a society where many work twice as long and just as hard for peanuts.
As a society, we don't need to be enabling the structural narcisim of medical specialists with kingly wages. It's a social sickness.
If specialists want to out-earn the rest of us by a factor of 5 or more, maybe they should work 5 or more jobs.
I know what they looked like. I had a tub of them.
But they stopped being that in the '90s. They didn't stop being for toddlers, though. And parents are strongly influenced by their own childhood when buying things for their kids.