My family and I moved from the US to Canada in the summer of 2023 and last week was the first time I had to make use my Services Card. I went to the ER in excruciating pain, had blood and urine labs done, a shot of pain killers then waited around (a long time) for a CT scan. The doctor said it might be a new record, but I had been bumped a few times by suspected stroke patients that came in, so totally understandable. Several hours later with a prescription slip in hand I exited the hospital. Easy as pie.

For anyone who has never had the displeasure of experiencing an American hospital you can not understand how much simpler and less stressful and cheap the Canadian system is. I dont know what it would have cost me in the USA, probably whatever my insurance deductible was, but it certainly was not $0. That state of not knowing what all this is going to cost you, and how you will afford it, makes an already awful experience even worse. Not being harassed for money on the way out, never once discussing the cost of something with the DR was truly eye opening. Source

Maybe getting a job and affordable housing anywhere would be helpful.

That’s a reasonable compromise.

… in your opinion.

The union did not immediately include other details about the polling, including how many members participated. Source

Not everything.

On Feb. 8, Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, wrote a letter to the leaders of six Class I railroads, urging them to guarantee at least seven paid sick days for all of their workers.

“Last year, the companies you lead made over $22 billion in profits,” Sanders wrote, noting that they had cut 30% of the workforce over the last six years. “Guaranteeing seven paid sick days to rail workers would cost your industry just $321 million.”

Russo is grateful that Sanders stepped in. “We truly compliment his effort to bring dignity to workers in the rail industry,” he said. “Without it, we very likely would not have gotten what we have gained today.”

But they ARE in the same ballpark tho.

I don’t see the vast difference you do.

Can’t/won’t be led by a black woman (or any woman for that matter).

I worked in a unionized saw mill previously and you have no idea how misogynistic places like that are … still … in the 21st fucking century.

Well fuck. :/

That’s fair. Don’t know why you’re getting downvoted for stating the facts tho.

The reports called on the EPA to take “appropriate corrective action” in response to the findings. In one case, the inspector general noted that supervisors who violate the Whistleblower Protection Act should be suspended for at least three days.

The reports focus only on the retaliation claims. The inspector general is expected to issue reports in the future about the whistleblowers’ scientific allegations.

Under the orange asshole’s reign.

Don’t ever forget what Trump did, because he will do worse if he’s elected again.

Capitalism evolved from Calvinism (see Max Weber), so the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

The thing to consider is that well-developed, critially thinking humans should be weighing the cost of their decisions. I mean it’s in the bible ffs so all these right wingnuts SHOULD be paying attention.

Luke 14:28-30

“But don’t begin until you count the cost. For who would begin construction of a building without first calculating the cost to see if there is enough money to finish it? Otherwise, you might complete only the foundation before running out of money, and then everyone would laugh at you. They would say, ‘There’s the person who started that building and couldn’t afford to finish it!’

Capitalism only does the right then when it doesn’t cost them. As soon as there’s a real cost, doing the right thing goes down the drain.

Not really. Six Indigenous people were killed by Canadian cops in 15 days. Source

“If the proportion of Indigenous people killed by police was put into the terms of the general population, it would equal 127 Canadians killed by police in two weeks.” Brandi Morin

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Good.

Because mistakes happen. I guess not to you tho as you seem perfect in every way. 🙄

BigDanishGuy was OP.

Yeah … so looking forward to revisiting polio, whooping cough/pertussis, german measles, etc.

Oh, and all the new/old viruses that we’ll be facing when the permafrost completely collapses across the northern hemisphere.

It is the Associated Press. Damn, I should have clarified that. My bad.