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you mean something like https://www.cbc.ca/news/politi...

So what is it called in capitalism, when a cure is discovered but not widely reported because of an exceptinally profitable drug (like insulin, also a Canadian innovation) can be used instead? I think there is a treatment now in the US, but I really don't think insulin makers want diabetes cured.

Perhaps they don't anymore and just sold it? Otherwise would seem very strange to buy controlling interest in a company, then boycott it's only product...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

and

http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Perhaps they don't anymore and just sold it? Otherwise would seem very strange to buy controlling interest in a company, then boycott it's only product...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

and

http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

The tariff is for 25% (steel) and 10% (aluminum). No this alone won't raise costs 80%. The problem is that:

"The biggest importers of steel into America, by far, are U.S. steel companies," said New York-based steel analyst Chuck Bradford.

That's in part because some of the biggest U.S. steel mills are nearly 80 years old and they aren't capable of making the specific types of steel that go into high-grade technology and aerospace products. U.S. mills mostly import what's known as "semi-finished" steel from places like Canada, Brazil, and Mexico and turn them into finished products they can resell.

It's not as if the U.S. even has the capacity to fill its own need for steel and aluminum. Steel mills take several years to get permitted and built.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/busine...

So if you limit the import of steel and aluminum the supply will decrease and (as any econ 101 student will tell you) when supply goes down the price goes up. So the price of steel is 25% and aluminum is 10% higher just from the tariffs then they will increase more based on supply and demand. Does this actually account for an 80% increase in cost? I have no idea but it is as simple as saying that because the tariff is only 25% there is no way that costs for steel and aluminum products will only go up 25%.

I've seen where the trees are mostly dead, and have to re-grow from scratch, as if it was clear-felled.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/techno...

I've seen where the trees are mostly dead, and have to re-grow from scratch, as if it was clear-felled.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/techno...

I know, i was referring to their announcment about shifing productioni to EU over the Tarrifs : https://www.cbc.ca/news/busine...

Was this really Tarrif related, or an excuse? Regardless, it was Funny to watch Trump pitch a "Great american company" with big Harley's on the whitehouse lawn one momemt, then stab them the next.

We should be so lucky. The mere appearance of interstellar aliens would be a game-changer for our species (or so I'd hope). Being threatened by an interstellar alien race would most certainly get us over all this infighting bullshit in short order, giving people a common enemy has a tendency to do that. I'd rather deal with that than this Dominionist bullshit of trying to bring about the apocalypse.

Interestingly enough the Mennonite Mob believe that the trade in cocaine and other drugs is justified in that it will help bring about the downfall of Western democratic society and thus the end of the world as we know it. So does Putin and a large section of the Chinese political directorate who if not actively then passively support this through the Russian Mafia in New York who wholesale a large portion of the Mennonite delivered drugs in the states. Of course the whole scheme was concocted by sociopathic assholes who use religion as a drug on their followers but it was also supported by American organized crime and is still going on as strong as ever. A bit like the fake news and "make America Great" bullshit currently being spouted by Donald and company to daze the electorate of the US into stupidity. Don't believe it is really happening, watch this bit of fake news dated 1992 from the liberal media in Canada.CBC CANADA

However most Mennonites see the bullshit that goes on a little more clearly than the sheep who follow assholes like Abraham and Enrique Harms or the Republicans that follow Donald Trump and Mike Pence. I seriously doubt that very many Americans really understand how destructive these manipulative assholes are becoming. It seems that the American populace is slowly but surely being both propagandized, drugged and duped in a way that would have made Joseph Goebbels green with envy. My bet is the next step is that the coming elections will be invalidated until Trump and his backers receive another mandate.

I am seriously afraid that we have another Adolf on our hands and unless he is stopped and soon elections will become completely irrelevant. The news media will be the next target if Trump loses the mid term elections and control of the houses of government he is already setting us up for that by demonizing the media the same way Hitler did.

Saskatchewan alone reaps nearly $370 million annually in farm subsidies. Quite a bit more than your claim? At least that's what I found in the Canadian media.

I live in Ontario. I'm not a fan of the Liberals, but even Lisa McLeod acknowledged that the PCs lied: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

According to this February article from the CBC, the average price of a detached home in Toronto is Feb. 2018 was $1,283,981 CAD. The internet tells me this is roughly $983K USD.

So, I question that this current tech boom in Toronto has anything to do with cheap and available housing. (Since, you know, like most urban professionals, the first thing I am looking for in a house in 2018 is an acre of horse property.)

Multiple sources say that Facebook confirmed that the message is real.

http://thehill.com/policy/tech...

http://nymag.com/selectall/201...

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

https://www.theglobeandmail.co...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/wor...

I guess you have a Pastebin or a blog or something that says otherwise... But rather than argue, it might be easier to wait until his trial to see what evidence is presented. Doubtless Facebook will have provided logs etc.

Here in Ontario , the newly elected Progressive Conservative government cancelled any tax incentives for electric cars, starting September. But that is only when you buy the car through a dealer. If you buy the car directly (like all Teslas are), the incentives are cancelled immediately, leaving those who ordered Teslas on the hook for C$14,000 more.

The PC government also cancelled a large wind project, with hefty penalties expected, and cancelled the carbon trading system, which provided C$100 million for schools. No tax credits for retrofitting homes for more power efficiency (insulation, windows, furnaces, ...etc.)

If its a similar story to a recent one i heard about, they cant get product anymore. I am not sure why they couldnt get dvds, as i assume that they dont rent VHS anymore ( you can still buy dvds right?). Buy anyways sounds like the parent distributor is closing up shop.

Comox Valley's last video store to close, but not due to lack of demand

My ISP, Telus, is very profitable with mostly increasing profits every year.
According to https://www.cbc.ca/news/techno... all the Canadian Telecoms are the most profitable in the world at 45.9%. That article is old but ddg returns other results showing their profitability, eg https://ycharts.com/companies/... shows 12.24% quarterly.

Firefox and it's more usable cousin, PaleMoon, both support RSS as live bookmarks. I use that for all my news. BBC World, CBC World, CBC Canadian, CNN Latest, and CNN World. You don't need a dedicated RSS reader to enjoy RSS. It also lets me laugh at people who (still today) get caught by fake stories on social media sites. People who get their news through social media deserve what they get, I think.

Firefox and it's more usable cousin, PaleMoon, both support RSS as live bookmarks. I use that for all my news. BBC World, CBC World, CBC Canadian, CNN Latest, and CNN World. You don't need a dedicated RSS reader to enjoy RSS. It also lets me laugh at people who (still today) get caught by fake stories on social media sites. People who get their news through social media deserve what they get, I think.

I live in Canada and I call bullshit on your assertion. Universal healthcare is great, but not free. We pay close to 50% income taxes.

I don't live in Canada and I call bullshit on your assertion

This tells me that a top 10% income is about $80k, and a top 1% income is about $190k

This tells me that income tax on $80k is around 25-30% depending on state, and on $190k it's 34-40%.

If you're paying close to 50% income tax, you already have a good salary so shouldn't complain too much.

You're not accounting for the high sales tax and all other bullshit taxes we have to pay on top of income tax.

I live in Canada and I call bullshit on your assertion. Universal healthcare is great, but not free. We pay close to 50% income taxes.

I don't live in Canada and I call bullshit on your assertion
This tells me that a top 10% income is about $80k, and a top 1% income is about $190k
This tells me that income tax on $80k is around 25-30% depending on state, and on $190k it's 34-40%.
If you're paying close to 50% income tax, you already have a good salary so shouldn't complain too much.

It amazes me that so many who fall for that kind of scam are not utterly embarrassed to report it to the police

Most of the scammed ARE embarrassed to go to the police, actually. For every one you hear in the news, there are probably dozens of people who simply walked away after losing thousands of dollars in one of the many scams.

Heck, some of them who go to the police make up a story to go along with it. Just last week, a woman claimed to receive a call from the CRA (Canada Revenue Agency, aka the Canadian IRS) who then had fake police "arrest" her and force her to withdraw money.

Yes, people fall for the tax scam all the time. It'a annoying enough to receive the calls almost daily at times. Though this time, they used Bitcoin instead of iTunes cards (or other gift card) - perhaps because large iTunes card purchases are flagged by most retailers - there is very few legitimate reasons to buy 100 $50 iTunes cards so most retailers will ask if they're paying a tax bill or something.

Chances are, the public is going to be so reinforced into "the taxman does not accept gift cards and Bitcoin" that any mention of Bitcoin will trigger scam alerts. (And I found out there's apparently a bitcoin "ATM" near me).

The scammed people are too embarrassed most of the time to admit they've been scammed. Usually because they usually believe they can't be scammed. The only way to be sure is to take two life lessons to heart - first, nothing is easy in life - so if someone promises a lot of money to you quickly, it's a scam, and two - question everything.

My mom was the best at it - she literally would question everything - she'd get a scam email and delete it. If she wasn't sure, she'd ask me and we'd talk about it. At which point she'd realize it was still a scam - either some tell tale sign she missed, or if we weren't sure, we'd assume it was a scam. Any important business is never done through just email - your bank, a government agency, etc., they'd send letters or call you in addition to email. I think out of this only once did we treat something as a scam that wasn't, which happened because they sent a letter the next day.

Until recently you could watch John Oliver on YouTube - not the full episode but the main story. They've blocked Canadians from accessing it, likely at the behest of Bell Canada who owns TMN Go, the service you need to subscribe to at that link.

That means you need a cable package that includes The Movie Network (extra $20 on top of the cable package, so a minimum of $45)

Compare that with HBO Now at US$14.99

CBC even did an article on it: http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

The purpose of a language is to communicate.

If there is nobody left who speaks or writes that language, why is it suddenly important (other than in an abstract way) to preserve it?

The Canadian government is currently spending $90 million (Canadian, about $70 million USD) to preserve endangered aboriginal languages.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

The first line of that article says "Indigenous languages in Canada are dying out at an alarming rate and in desperate need of saving".

My question is why, and what makes it worth spending all of that taxpayer money on?

If someone is interested in an obscure language to want to preserve it and learn it, I see no problem with doing that as an academic exercise. But I honestly don't see why it's suddenly a responsibility for governments to preserve it.

Again, a language is intended to facilitate communication. If nobody's communicating in that language any more then it's obsolete.

How do you plan to heat your EV during Quebec's 9 months of Winter? Wood stove?

" From Dec. 27[2017] to Jan. 1[2018], the maximum temperature in Montreal did not rise above –17 C. This six-day stretch is the longest such cold streak on record, based ondata going back 146 years" http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I almost lost my coffee through my nose on this one. Just, wow. A record 6-day stretch. Think about that. A cold week. Which happens to coincide with common holidays too, BTW. Oh, yeah, and this was the first time in almost 150 years of keeping records. Thankfully, global warming^^^climate change means we'll never see the likes of this cold weather ever again.

Back in the real world, people with EVs in cold places already know how to deal with heat in the winter. 1) Leave it plugged in overnight and set it to preheat the cabin before your commute. 2) Live with a slight range reduction. 3) Keep the range and dress for it instead of pretending your car should feel like a tropical beach.

Oh, the horror, how shall we survive?

How do you plan to heat your EV during Quebec's 9 months of Winter? Wood stove?

" From Dec. 27[2017] to Jan. 1[2018], the maximum temperature in Montreal did not rise above –17 C. This six-day stretch is the longest such cold streak on record, based ondata going back 146 years" http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

(For Americans and those in the Bahamas and Belize -17C=1.4F)

And Victoria continues to dump raw sewage into the ocean, as it has done for decades.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Good to know that the govt has its priorities right and is focusing on banning plastic straws!

Nuclear power and GMO foods are going to save us? Really?

Solar is dwarfing nuclear.

As for GMO crops, um, no. Just no.

Do you realize the connection between the nitrogen cycle, fossil fuels, and the 1973 oil embargo?

In a nutshell: World populations grew faster than land based plants can fix nitrogen from the atmosphere. The natural carrying capacity of this planet using sustainable traditional agriculture is about 2 billion humans. Oddly enough, about the time that the world population level reached 2 billion humans, the most technically advanced society at that time created a process to make large scale artificial fertilizers (and explosives) and a major engine of the industrial revolution. Both powered by fossil fuels. Farming commenced on a massive scale. And war, but that's just entertainment for idiots and of no real importance.

Fast forward to 1973. A new world power (USA) pisses off the a little Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, and finds itself with insufficient energy to function. Everybody scrambled to find a way to fuel airplanes, cars, and tractors. Monsanto discovers that a chemical chelator that removes calcium, manganese, magnesium, copper and zinc (trace elements essential for most forms of life on earth), also kills weeds. Go figure. This seems to suggest a way to conduct large scale farming without having to till the earth, which greatly reduces the fuel needed to farm. Fast forward a bit, and now we have GMO crops that survive occasional applications of this new miracle herbicide. And then there's the unregulated application of this new herbicide on wheat. Because Profit.. And it seems to be everywhere.

Sadly, many forms of animal life that come in contact with Monsanto's creation get cancer, have the epithelial lining of their intestines die, and get misdiagnosed as having Celiac disease. And those that aren't so lucky end up morbidly ill and dying prematurely due to complications of a diet high in high fructose corn syrup (high cholesterol, heart disease, etc.)

Now connect the dots... stay with me here:

GMO foods today have their origin in a lack of energy and environmental planning. These are contributing to CO2 levels and a whole collection of ensuing health and environmental disasters.

Stop spewing carbon, stop processing food with short sighted techniques that result only profit for some and misery and death for most. And please realize that messing with plants has the potential to cause death and misery on a truly global scale. Do you really want to go there, for profit?

There has been recordings of the sounds and it was also happening to the Canadian embassy as well.

Then there's the Toronto policeman convicted of attempted murder for the last 6 shots fired at the guy he'd already killed.
From http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A jury has found Toronto police Const. James Forcillo guilty of attempted murder in the 2013 shooting death of Sammy Yatim.

Forcillo faced two charges related to the shooting death of 18-year-old Yatim on a streetcar in 2013, but was found not-guilty of second-degree murder.

The jury believed Forcillo was justified in firing the first three shots at Yatim, but not the second round of shots, and hence was guilty of attempted murder.

In short, sometimes they are.

It seems like you will have to wait a little still, it is coming really soon although. Then, all you will have to do is go to a friendly cannabis store like the "Société Québécoise du Cannabis", note that these will be government owned stores.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

When the computer hacking laws were introduced, that was one of the drawbacks: Intent does not matter, for the law. So in this case, it is just the law enforcement being nice in not pursuing the case while they are convinced there was no intent.

"In order to break this law, you have to have done it with fraudulent intent," said David Fraser, a lawyer with McInnes Cooper in Halifax who specializes in technology and privacy laws.

It is likely this falls under the realm of politics. In Canada we're not all that far away from a Federal election, and indeed Ontario is only a couple months away now. Papers like these are unfortunately used to wave around to support whatever agenda you're trying to espouse, be it how terrible the current government is and the choices the made, or what your plan is for the future and how you would fix the problem in said paper.

Some of these are more overt than others. Usually coming from a politically biased "think tank" which is funded by like minded politically motivated people/industry. In Canadian politics there is also some severe spending limited as to what you can spend on a campaign and where that money can come from. These "independent" think tanks can be a bit of an end run around some of this by essentially providing "facts" or fodder depending on your political leanings.

This particular one seems a bit more independent and less overt than some, so it takes a bit of digging to take a more critical look. So while this particular instance is associated with the University of Toronto, it as it's name suggests was largely funded by a fellow called Peter Munk, which brings into question how independent it really is.

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

Apparently there were strings attached to the money that was "donated" in that the school should "fit with the political views and sensitivities of Peter Munk".

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

Which then begs the question about what political views Peter Munk has, and when you look, and see for example that he apparently exceeded donation limits for the Conservative Party of Canada 3 times. So it is safe to say he is pretty right of center politically.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

Soooo after all that, I'd say I would be pretty confident given the conclusions of the study that it will be used by Conservative Politicians around election time to point out how un-competitive we are in comparison to the US and that the obvious solution is to lower corporate tax to attract large tech corporations so that we can keep our tech talent from leaving Canada. Likely also suggest lower income tax for wealthy under the same guise and perhaps other "incentives" to attract corporations like cash bonuses, other waived taxes, real estate etc... I'm reminded of Ontario giving an auto maker 300 million to locate a new plant there, to which they did, while closing one of their other ones located there at the same time... Whoops! Here is 300 million to make a new plant for zero net new jobs.

Anyway I find it a bit sad that every time I seemingly come across some new "academic" paper purporting new facts, you need to do a critical analysis of where it came from because half the time it is part of some self serving political agenda.

Unions can be more then about the pay. There is also working conditions, things like a break every 2 hours and not spending 12 hours standing on your feet, something that'll fuck you in the long run. The local grocery store here only lets their cashiers stand at the till for 4 hours before having them do something else that involves movement, but then they're interested in stopping unionization by treating the workers well, and it's working.
Businesses can be insanely cheap. One of the longest strikes, for health reasons, in Canada involved an Asbestos plant. Workers went on strike with some simple demands, 2 lockers, one for their street clothes, one for their work clothes, showers to wash the asbestos off after work, car wash for the same reason, and a clean lunch room. Sounds pretty reasonable but the company didn't think so.
http://www.cbc.ca/archives/ent...

Intent matters:

"In order to break this law, you have to have done it with fraudulent intent," said David Fraser, a lawyer with McInnes Cooper in Halifax who specializes in technology and privacy laws.

"From everything that's being discussed about this, it's likely the person was likely trying to download content of public documents from a public internet site."

These guys should team up with a company that runs data centres. MS, Amazon or Google... Those guys site their data centres beside a power dam. The waste heat is perfect for green houses, and the DC staff, could likely easily maintain farmbot equipment as well. And the power for the lighting will be cheaper than as well. It's amassively synergistic with data centres...

I'm in Montreal, my choice would be to talk to OVH out in Beauharnois: world's biggest data centre, a mostly empty ex-aluminum smelter, beside a 1.6 gigawatt power dam, next to a city of four million people that have six months of winter. Quebecers are pretty *grano* as well, organic would be a big seller here.

Seattle just doesn't strike me as the easiest place to start with.

You apparently haven't been living here for a while then.

Article from last year:

"Average commute time in Toronto longest in country at 34 minutes"

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

the Liberal Party of Ontario is trying to buy votes by pushing a high-speed rail line from Windsor, to London, to Toronto specifically for commuters

I never knew anyone who commuted from London to Toronto. The very idea of it is insane, and you're a lunatic if you're actually doing it. You're also a lunatic if you believe that there are enough such maniacs to actually influence government spending priorities.

That said, if the government does end up building a high speed line then commuting from some of these areas will actually become a viable alternative. Which is why they proposed it. Not for lunatics like you who already do it, but to create an opportunity for others to work in and/or visit the GTA while living well outside of it.

Stop pretending that you're normal; you're giving people weird ideas about what Canada is actually like.

One year ago, to the day ...

With a map of where the devices where, and all the probable parties that would be using them ... domestic and foreign, friendly or otherwise ...

CBC investigation finds cell phone trackers at work near Parliament Hill and embassies.

I believe they were referring specifically to Mammoths diets. However it is unlikely that mammoths were sustaining themselves by eating pine needles and bark. According to an article I'll link below we've been able to analyze stomach contents and permafrost samples of the appropriate period and such fare doesn't get mentioned at all.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...

So we tailor their class times to their biological rhythms and they turn into adults with juvenile biological rhythms. Will they ever really grow up?

I've had N24 for the last thirty years, so I can officially blow this smoke back into your face.

Juvenile:

* A prepubescent child.
* A person younger than the age of majority.
* A person younger than the age of criminal responsibility.
* An animal that is not sexually mature.
* A mindless insult that all-too-often passes itself off as intelligent discourse.

Last I checked, college students fuck like rabbits, so we'll dispatch item #1 with extreme prejudice.

Age of majority

Most countries set the age of majority at 18.

What is the normal age for college freshmen in the U. S.?

If someone goes straight to college campus from high school, the typical age of the incoming freshman in a U.S. college is 18 or 19.

So, by sophomore year, juveniles (as defined by a minority criteria) are already a distinct minority.

So what we have here is a juvenile-onset biological rhythm shift which persist well into young adulthood.

Young adulthood having recently become the age during which a majority of the population struggles to acquire a remunerative skillset among the top-three quartiles of career prospects and life outcomes.

Fewer U.S. Graduates Opt for College After High School — April 2014

Last October, just 65.9 percent of people who had graduated from high school the previous spring had enrolled in college, the Bureau of Labor Statistics said this week.

(The large chunk of the college admission population enrolled in the humanities starts the race a full quartile back, many drop-outs return to the fray later, and some high school dropouts have intrinsic skills, so even the dismal quartile from 25–50th percentile is by no means guaranteed merely by showing up.)

A really good example of the indirect path was in the news cycle this week:

Wylie was born to parents who were both physicians. At age 6 he was abused by a mentally unstable person, and the school tried to cover it up. In 2000 his father and he won a settlement of CA$290,000 against the school district. As a child he was diagnosed with dyslexia and ADHD.

He left school at 16 without a qualification, but by 17 was working for the Canadian opposition leader Michael Ignatieff. He taught himself to code at age 19. At 20, he began studying law at the London School of Economics.

In 2013 he was introduced to SCL Elections which would later create Cambridge Analytica.

Ignatieff was a catastrophic political leader, but the rest of his bio reads like a Who's Who entry (recent Order of Canada, and back to full professorship at Harvard).

Speaking of physicians, that's surely one profession that's never strayed into sparing the whip.

* How Much Do 30-Hour Shifts Suck for Medical Residents? — 8 March 2017
* No Doctor Should Work 30 Straight Hours Without Sleep — 15 December 2016
* Marathon 24- to 26-hour doctor shifts may be unsafe for patients: experts — 19 February 2016
* A Dangerous Study of Medical Resident

I am having trouble understanding how this wouldnt be a poison pill for us companies. If this act is made into law and then used, would it not over time lead people in other countries to garner mis-trust in US Corporations?

What confuses me more is this could be most detrimental to Microsoft as losing their monopoly of business desktop operating systems would be a death blow, after-all there is no point in using Microsoft server systems if you don't have the desktops to tie into it.

Maybe it is just hope but i could see this having the unintended consequence of creating more local social media and search options or other countries enacting laws specifically to guard against this type of BS. I just cant tell any more if it is stupidity or we are all just being played on so many levels, for example:

Sidewalk Labs(part of google) 'hadn't foreseen' data concerns in designing Toronto neighbourhood:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol...

Miner will move their business elsewhere where they are welcome. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

According to this list, the civil service. Though, the one you were thinking of, law, seems to be the #2 professional background. According to this article the percentage of lawyers in Congress is actually shrinking, it used to 80% in the 19th century and had fallen to 40% as of 2016. For reference, according to Dr Dutton's list, civil service is 10th on the list of top 10 jobs with the highest rates of psycopathy.

Maybe congress needs more healthcare aide workers? That's the job with the lowest rate of psycopathy.

Different ship. The ship stuck in Montreal is the USS Little Rock. There's a visual of ice conditions at http://ge.ssec.wisc.edu/modis-... -- clearly not moving for a while. Its current status is at http://www.marinetraffic.com/e...

While there are worse places to be stuck than Montreal, but one wonders if the ship was properly designed and provisioned to winter-over comfortably in Montreal's sub-arctic Winter. There's a picture at https://i.cbc.ca/1.4501115.151...

There was a story about how insiders, trusted to safeguard the stored maple syrup, instead looted it and sold it bootleg. They filled the barrels with water to make it seem like they still had syrup in them.

The Maple Syrup commission said that such criminal activity was "beyond imagination", and said they had taken steps to prevent recurrence.

Then the whole scandal happened all over again! We're talking about an exact, step-by-step repeat.

The Maple Syrup commission said that such criminal activity was "inconceivable", and said they had taken steps to prevent recurrence.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-police-conduct-2nd-maple-syrup-raid-1.1184637

Sure, Quebec doesn't have systematic problems with crime!

link

And well, another corporate cartel with price fixing

A finite amount of real maple syrup is made every year, and the taste is unique to maple sap, and you can't just fake it. The higher the quality, the higher the price.

That the maple syrup producers have decided "we're not selling you our stuff for stupidly low prices which don't let us recoup our costs or reflect the scarcity of our goods" is only rational. You may want to buy it for pennies, but it's a limited commodity, and prices reflect that.

You wanna eat crappy high-fructose corn syrup? Then buy the cheap shit and quite your whining. I guarantee you corn is far more subsidised than maple trees.

That there have been Maple Syrup Heists in Canada tells you it has value as a commodity.

Most consumers are idiots, which is pretty much an established fact. The fact that most people can't tell the difference doesn't mean there aren't people who can. Hell, I know someone whose father made award winning maple syrup which was head and shoulders above pretty much everything else. If you grew up with the real stuff, the fake stuff is just garbage pretending to taste good sold to people who don't know better.

Maybe you simply don't know a fucking thing about maple syrup or what actual food tastes like because you're used to eating shitty products made with HFCS?

Funny to see this today, given today's news up here in Canada.

"Private enterprise is more efficient!" go the cries of the free-market absolutists. The question is, more efficient at what, though. Because here it seems telecoms are optimized to extract maximum dollars from the population, which is not something the citizenry wants out of basic infrastructure.

To add another source for the attempted swat in Calgary.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada...

One has to wonder what would happen if he wound up facing a crown prosecutor in Calgary. I'm just curious how many charges he would be hit with under the Criminal Code of Canada.

I believe he would be busted if he tried doing either land air or sea to get into this country.