jadero

You missed this pretty important part of "doing the job": And when you are unable to do the job, make room for some else to try.

I wish more people had the self-awareness to realize when it's time to hand off to someone else.

I didn't consider that. I don't know. The family and community seems to be standing behind the adoption, so I guess I'm not really willing form a strong opinion.

I'm absolutely and completely non-Indingenous and I agree 100%.

Making a claim based on her adoption by the Piapot family is fine. My limited understanding as an outsider who only reads stuff is that the adoption confers legitimate and legal membership as judged by custom. The rest? Not so much.

Should her awards be rescinded? Maybe, but probably not. After all, those awards all came after her adoption and far greater liars have not been banished.

I have some sympathy for that point if view, but it's not that simple.

Nobody, not even the most libertarian, wants to find themselves holding the shitty end of the stick, yet our political and economic systems are operating in ways that leave only the shitty end to hang on to.

We vote for improvement and get either the status quo or degradation.

We're told to vote with our wallets, but that just means bigger wallets get more votes. And if it looks like maybe the collective size of wallets is getting too big, corporations, aided and abetted by the political class, just arrange for fewer choices and smaller wallets.

Unsurprisingly, those with the will are starting to vote with their feet. People are starting to walk away from bad situations in search of better ones. Whether those better situations exist may be an open question, but they are not being any more selfish than those who insist on skimming the cream off for themselves.

It's actually an easy fix, if only the political class realized it. Tax every dollar sent out of the country at 90%. Tax every stock buyback at 90%. Tax every corporate cash reserve at 80%. Limit total compensation of each executive to 10 times that of their lowest paid employee. For essential goods and services, tax away any rise in profits beyond, say, 1% above inflation. No person or company is allowed to own more than 1 rental property with multifamily units treated as one property.

Take all that tax money and pour it into public health care, starting with free tuition to any health related education. Foreign students accessing this free education must practice in Canada for 5 years after graduation or be returning to work in public health initiatives. And fix the definition of health care so that it means what it says (dental, vision, hearing, mental, vaccines, and prescriptions are all health care that is uncovered or poorly covered).

Any money left over from that can be spent on actual environmental protection and remediation, starting with the climate crisis.

If any of that needs to be adjusted based on actual negative outcomes, then it will be adjusted, but the political class has to start by showing the general public that they mean business.

And if that sounds like I've got brain damage, that's fine. What we're doing is obviously not working out, so continuing the path we're on is also a sign of brain damage. At least I'm pointing out a different path.

Well of course they are. I learned as a kid that there are lots of things you have to get right to get a bullseye, but you'll never even get close to the target if you don't aim with intent. Has anyone seen any aiming? Any evidence of intent? Or just a target painted in kaleidoscope colours?

I don't think it's right to call it "wholesale" when it's not priced far enough below retail to matter.

Given that our governments have been unwilling to make the necessary infrastructure public, I don't think that it should have ever been legal to both own the infrastructure and sell retail services.

Most of us have heard the expression "money is the root of all evil." That's close, but not quite right. It's selfishness to the point of greed. "I want it and you can't have it." That's what is destroying the world. Spending money to gain power over others or to get rid of them is just par for the course.

Unless we find a way to solve the problem of greed, whether for resources, money, or power, we will never solve anything.

It's not the uniqueness of the coverage, but the reach. Out here in rural Saskatchewan, our choice is between CBC radio and one other station that has extremely limited news.

CBC not only has better news, but lots of deep dives, analysis, documentaries, and cultural programming. In that sense, it is unique, at least on radio.

Yes, expensive satellite internet or TV is available, and we have it in our house, but many don't. Newspapers have never really worked that well out here because picking up a stack of papers once a week when going for mail and groceries doesn't really work. Any sensible reading schedule means always being a week behind whatever comes in via CBC radio.

On top of that, we can listen to the radio while working in the fields or shop or around the house. That makes it easy to stay on top of things without sitting in front of a screen or with a newspaper for a couple of hours a day, when we should be spending time with our families.

As I said, our household can afford satellite internet, but we still get most of our news via CBC radio, because that is the only source of extensive coverage we can get without sitting around. We'd much rather use that sitting time for a good book or education (we have satellite internet specifically for all the online courses that are available).

If CBC television disappeared, I would barely notice, but CBC radio is how we stay connected to the world. If there is to be serious discussion of killing CBC, it should be TV only that gets killed and the money saved should then be put towards getting something in addition to CBC radio out to the rural and remote regions. One great option would be for CBC radio to broadcast Canadaland and other externally produced programming. CBC already doesn't produce everything they broadcast, so syndicating additional alternative programming covering other viewpoints would be a spectacular use of the system.

I think it's more about reporting to your community. If CBC goes how are you going to stay abreast of events outside your community?

To be fair, though, we just went to DST and never went back. At my longitude, solar noon is about 1:25 "pm". The people of SK aren't early risers, we just set our clocks so late that it looks that way.

There are people around me who think we should do DST, thinking we'll use our current time as the base, thus being double-DST. Madness.

If someone wants to get up earlier, I'm fine with that. But don't do it by trying to trick yourself by resetting the clocks.

The difference is that those in the public interest always argue this debate from the perspective of actually taking care of people

Those that argue for private health care argue for it as a money making business.

This is what pisses me off most about attacks on public services. Saskatchewan killed STC, the provincial highway public transit/freight system. It was costing 17 million more to run than what they were bringing in. If we assume only 250,000 taxpayers (individual and business), that's a lousy $68 apiece. I'm one of the proverbial fixed income seniors and I can come up with that much.

It's stupid, short-sighted, and heartless.