ProudCanadianCitizen

joined 2 months ago

Mark Carney knows money, and how to make it grow. He favors the best return on investment. Strange how that could be construed as favoring the wealthy and privileged.

There is a very big difference between internal politics and outside politics. Of course an AGM is filled with the politics of the organization. However a political statement that has nothing to do with medicine has no place at an OMA AGM.

[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca -2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

The fact that he is making a very big issue over this pin is, I posit, sufficient evidence that the entire purpose of the pin was to make a political statement. I completely agree that an AGM of the OMA is NOT the place to make political statements. It is a medical conference, not a political convention. It goes to the root of the entire purpose behind the Hippocratic Oath - to serve equally without malice or prejudice.

Meanwhile in the Quebec news...

Wait, would this even be news in Quebec?

[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 weeks ago

Kevin O'Leary? Is he still considered a Canadian? I thought he had pretty much sold his soul to America.

 

And in next year's news, "P.E.I. aerospace firm announces that they have been bought out by a major American defense contractor."

Quebec actually had a solid plan for post-separation during their referendum. They had their act together much better than the Alberta separatists. But back then, it was not an issue of America, Russia, or China interfering, it was outright flagrant and in-your-face interference by De Gaulle.

 

Wow. America being put in the same negative, unsavory context as Russia. Really demonstrates how soured the American reputation is in Canada - just a shade short of being declared 'number one enemy of Canadian democracy'.

If you read the context, I was thinking more like a jumbo jet flying into the CN tower.

So is Trump. What exactly is the issue?

 

Drastically increasing flight activity of massive commercial jets right beside the CN Tower. What could possibly go wrong?

Enforced individual rights will eventually always cede to enforced collective responsibility. Those who supply services will be forced to collectively ensure their responsibility to protect the rights of the individual.

Now let us find out if indeed they can and will enforce it.

The difference between social policy and fiscal policy. They are not the same kettle.

[–] ProudCanadianCitizen@lemmy.ca 25 points 1 month ago

That facility, it said, would be able to supply 500,000 electric vehicles annually.

That is a lot of batteries.

It is actually probably a GOOD thing this was not done ten years ago. Back then, it would have been bought out by an American firm in short order. Now, there is little stomach for selling out to the Americans. Today, this has a really good chance of remaining Canadian,

 

The Canadian company gets paid in the local country's currency for the power from the solar farm, so the company has invested in a Chili pepper plantation beside the solar farm, and sells the chili peppers on the international market for a return on their investment in dollars. There is farming, and then there is farming.

 

Michael Ma was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to Canada when he was 12. He was raised and educated in Vancouver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ma

I can find no reference to his age, or to the year in which he immigrated to Canada. Hong Kong was transferred to China on July 1, 1997, 29 years ago, so I could not determine if he immigrated to Canada when Hong Kong was British, or part of China. But unless he is younger than 41, it was before Hong Kong was transferred back to China, and he would probably have been, rough;y interpreted, a British Subject in Limbo, (A British passport to the rest of the world but not really a British passport in Britain). This certainly goes towards addressing any issue of bias, and if he could hold a Chinese passport by birth.

https://passportia.org/en/uk-citizenship-hong-kong.php

This certainly does put an interesting twist on the Canada-China dialogue. It is really difficult to sort through fact-from-fiction, depending on where you were indoctrinated with your Chinese history knowledge.

view more: next ›