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You seem to think that it's impossible for people from a rich nation to be victims. This isn't the case.
49 people dead at Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2017, shot for being in a gay club.
22 trangender people dead in 2016 due to fatal violence.
Black men are NINE TIMES more likely than other ethnicities to be murdered by police.
And the list goes on and on. So when someone rants about how social justice is evil, I say no; hate is evil, and oppression is evil. Equity means you'll need to accept people who are different than you. Part of improving equity means accepting that social justice interventions are imperfect now, and there's no easy answer. But if you argue that equity is not needed, it's you who will be judged by historians as the oppressor.

In real life most whites are either criminals

Fixed that for you. Just because whites have a get-out-of-jail-free card based on skin colour, where white rapists escape prison and get off with a slap on the wrist and blacks have to worry about being shot by cops for "walking while black" doesn't mean that white crime rates are lower.

In real life, very few women are competent at anything technical

Really?

What do Caroline Herschel, Ada Lovelace, Mary Somerville, Mary Anning, Lise Meitner, Emmy Noether, Jocelyn Bell, Rosalind Franklin, Vera Rubin, and Hedy Lamarr (among others) have in common? They each made extraordinary scientific discoveries that went unrecognized because they were women, many of them having to endure male colleagues taking credit for their work, then winning Nobel prizes for it. Even Marie Curie - sadly the only woman scientist anyone can ever think of - was dismissed as little more than her husband’s assistant, her Nobel prizes contested by fellow scientists. On December 10, 1911, Marie Curie won her second Nobel, the only person ever to win two Nobels in two different sciences, yet a hundred years later, in 2011, no women were among the nine Nobel winners in the sciences, and women remain severely underrepresented in the STEM professions — science, technology, engineering, and math.

A 2010 report by the American Association of University Women, based on decades of research, concluded that bias and stereotypes still impede the female pursuit of scientific subjects from grade school through academia. Vivian Gornick’s book of interviews with scientists, Women in Science: Then and Now, provides detailed accounts of the discrimination experienced regularly by professionals. Glaring proof of such prejudice was infamously provided by Lawrence Summers, president of Harvard University at the time, who in a creepy, eugenics-ish statement asserted at a 2005 conference on Diversifying the Science & Engineering Workforce that women had “issues of intrinsic aptitude.”

Just look at Hedy Lamarr. She wasn't just an A-list actress - she also invented and patented, among other things, spread-spectrum communications - in 1941. That's more than 75 years ago.

Poor bastard. Add yet another name to the list of "social justice" crucifixions. At least this poor guy will just lose his job and career, not face actual jail time for his wrongspeak.

Canada does actually, under section 2 of fundamental freedoms of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Well, you might want to let this guy know then.

he man still has a 38% approval rating.

New to politics? Why otherwise would this be surprising to you? People generally dislike politicians.

Approval ratings for the premiers (roughly equivalent to governor I suppose) of the Canadian provinces were recently published. Only one managed to get over 50% approval (53%) and all of the major economic provinces had approvals worse (to far worse) than Trump.

Let me flip your argument around. I hope you can see how ridiculous it sounds:

Nobody wants the economically and socially successful states to steer the country.

CA and NY account for just under a fifth of total US population and just over a fifth of total US GDP.

It's almost as though people want to live in those states. And those states general a significant source of economic power and growth for the rest of the country -- compare states like Kansas, where regressive Republican economic and social policies have slowly been destroying the state over (at least) the last decade.

I'm Canadian, by the way, and live in Saskatchewan. We see the same problem: a bunch of ignorant rural folks swing the election in favour of a corrupt conservative party because they want to Make Saskatchewan/America/Racism+Bigotry Great Again.

Note: "ignorant" is not flamebait. They really do seem to be horrifically, willfully ignorant. How many rural voters in your country read the likes of Breitbart? How many people in Saskatchewan voted for Sask Party because they'll save our economy? (Hint: they didn't; they blew through several hundred million dollars of prior years' budget surplus to offset the crass amount of funds they bungled through mismanagement and giving to their buddies)

Please stop advocating for the EC. It made sense back in the day when telecoms didn't exist. Now it just seems to be a tool for orange-coloured reality TV stars to fuel their egos.

You mean like during the last decade where ***REPORTED*** inflation has been practically negative?

FTFY

See http://www.shadowstats.com/alt... for more realistic numbers. My 1974 Ford Maverick, 302 V8 and automatic transmission, was approximately $4070 CDN, sales-tax included. The 2017 Ford Focus is approx $14,400 CDN, before taxes. Public transit has also risen. http://globalnews.ca/news/2359... "From 3 cents to $3.25: a brief history of TTC fare hikes". And of course, house prices are going nuts.

But Canadian inflation is reported as being approx 2% http://www.inflation.eu/inflat...

Electronic toys have been worked into the stats to get low numbers. 10 years ago, I got a 50-inch "HDTV" (1366x768). Now, a 55-inch 4K UHD LED TV can be had for $450. This is "deflationary". The same governments that monkey the numbers to report low inflation rates are also monkeying the numbers to report tons of "global warming". I don't trust any numbers from governments.

People are so quick to jump on the FIT program and green energy costs here in Ontario. They seem to forget the billion dollars we have to pay off in order to cancel a contract for a couple of gas turbine generating stations to be built so the Liberals could win those seats in an election. In a statement concerning the rate hikes a couple of years ago (2 or 3) raising wages were responsible for approximately half of the hike. There are a lot of people making over $100k in the power companies.

Except that the FIT program and subsidies are directly responsible for those energy costs. Not those "gas power plants" that they cancelled and screwed the province over. See that link above that says "global news" where the provincial Liberal government openly states that it's the "green energy program" aka FIT that's the direct cause of the high electricity prices. Maybe you can enjoy reading this article instead. Or perhaps you can read this one. You know where the blame falls directly on the green energy program and the FIT system. Or perhaps even this one. Yeah, it all falls back to one place. Then you can get into this bullshit.

Define "short term" because here in Ontario, we're at ~16 years and the costs just keep going up. It's completely screwed up the electricity system of Ontario as well. So much so that even the government that parroted it for over a decade is say well, we screwed up. You know why they're saying that? Because they're about to go from a majority to a non-party and are trying to salvage themselves.

Now the kicker is people use less electricity and the prices keep going up, just like how they claimed that "ToD" meters would make electricity cheap. And the costs of it kept going up. This whole idea of paying via FiT and green energy rebates doesn't work and only makes people poorer. Hell it drives businesses out, which means governments need to find new tax bases. So who are the first taxed? Shouldn't be hard for anyone to figure out, but if you need a hint, it's not businesses. And the Federal Liberal Party is pushing for this exact same garbage on Canada.

If only we could get this kind of competitive pressure to occur in the healthcare market!

The main problem that US healthcare has is that they are not required to publish their price schedules, and they are allowed to engage in discriminatory pricing.
And so far, not many legislators have the spine to even mention this matter.
This is why you get an invoice (if you have health insurance) and it says the bill for you recent visit was $500, but the insurance discount was $450..... And you may have had to pay the co-pay of $15 or $20....
It's not unusual for the insurer discount to be 90% off the cash price,,, so when you read of US medical providers "losing money", it's not unfair to ask of they're losing the cash price money or the insurance discount money...


The problem not often mentioned with socialized health care outside of the US, is that to control costs they usually engage in rationing healthcare.
They schedule a given number of a certain procedures a year, based on their budget, and that's all they do. No matter what.
If they're doing 12 heart transplants this year (one per day, for the first 12 days in January) and you are the 13th person, you have to wait until next year. If you make it that long, that is.
So a lot more people suffer with a much worse quality of life while just waiting for a slot to come up, and a lot of people with life-threatening problems die while waiting for a slot when there's surgeons and operating rooms standing empty most of the year.
In many countries you can't even offer to pay your own money for the care, since that would destroy the "fairness" of the system.
So you never get a bill--but then, a lot of the time, you don't get health care either.
{-and I guess that's fair, in a way--but not the way most people would imagine}

Canada is frequently used as a better of health care than the US--but heath care procedure wait times in the USA are measured in days; in Canada it's measured in months. Some people forget to tell you that part.
http://globalnews.ca/news/1886...

yep, but in QC for instance, 50% of my taxes go to healthcare and service is so-so... hospital may be free but someone has to pay the exorbitant millionaires doctors we have here (and the PM is himself a millionaire doctor).

But I agree it's like an insurance we have in case of.

Justin Trudeau is not a doctor. You might be referring to the Premier of Quebec, Philippe Couillard - who was a neurosurgeon.
There are very few millionaire doctors anywhere in Canada, and until recently doctors in Quebec were underpaid compared to doctors elsewhere in Canada.
Average salaries for doctors in Quebec are just over $305,000. Certainly they are not poor, but they do work that requires a lot of education, has very high stress levels, and has an incredible amount of responsibility.

It won't work. People with their noses burried in their phones already walk over the big yellow safety line onto the subway tracks (or walk into the space between subway cars and get themselves killed).

It's been happening in Canada too: http://globalnews.ca/video/3037896/police-spy-on-montreal-journalist/

You've obviously never heard of the SUV covered in parking tickets with a dead man in the driver's seat (Nov 2016). Or the cops continuing to issue tickets after you've reported the vehicle stolen and cancelled the plates. Or ticketing and towing a car with a murder victim's body in it.

Reading skills "winter average."

The average house in Ontario is around 1000sqft. The average monthly electrical cost is $200-300mo with other heating sources like NG or oil. Welcome to Canada, and welcome to Ontario. And enjoy this article right here. And when you get to the part about her "one month" hydro bill being $1000, let me know.

Let me toss in. That prices are so screwed up, that even leftwing sites like Huffington Post and the CBC are talking about it. And these prices are directly related to "green energy" plans and policies. That there are ~600k people who are in arrears 4mo or more. The largest hydro company in Ontario has 1.3m customers and serves 75% of the province to put that in perspective. That it's driving businesses out of the province to anywhere else that's cheaper.

Well, you know it's just going to get worse as the SJWs take over everything. When BlackLivesMatter can get PRIDE parades to ban gays and lesbians, you know that both movements are now quickly accelerating to peak stupidity, bypassing any fake news you'd ever read ...

On balance, the internet is now causing more harm than good. Time to shut it down.

I am sure that some war mongering #ssholes in places like North Korea just had a sudden brain wave. Problem is they would have to contract Samsung to create the wifi controlled implants for the generals to turn on and off their army of zombies. I am old enough remember when a mass of Chinese zombie soldiers attacked the Canadians it was almost as if they were unaware of what was actually happening to them as 28 Canadians held off over a thousand insanely brave Chinese.

Where have all the flowers gone? Does no one here quite realize the real potential to abuse these findings? Or are the current crowd of technically literate children here on Slashdot blinded to what this means. Come on this is a fucking dangerous discovery that could be perverted into human weaponry the likes of which was only possible before with the social indoctrination of dictators like Hitler or Mao Zedong!

Hey, all of this is fine because it comes from right-thinking people, but referring to someone with the wrong gender pronoun is a crime against humanity.

Then they wonder why/how Trump got elected.

Expecting next cultural backlash in ~2.5 years here in Canada. The current government is trying to make using the wrong gender pronoun a crime.

But you're spot on.

Guess that's why my electricity bill keeps going up. It now costs me 0.18c/kWh on peak of which "green energy" mainly wind makes up less then 10% of total generation, but makes up 78% of the actual cost. And is now such a huge problem here in Ontario that 500k+ people are more then 3-5 months in arrears and the governments decade long "green energy program" created this entire mess. FYI that 500k number? That's nearly half of all customers of Hydro One, the largest power provider in Ontario.

Unfortunately 'laicism' seems somewhat partial in it's application. It seems that nuns, in full habit, are not being banned from the beach or forced to undress.

People share photos of nuns on the beach in response to burkini ban in France

But then, this isn't really about secularism or laicism, or even about the banning of uniforms (and a nun's habit is much more of a uniform than a burkini). Incidentally, the burkini was created by a Lebanese-born Australian, in Australia. In her own words...

I created the burkini to give women freedom, not to take it away

During the 2011 census, for instance, 89-year-old Ontario resident Audrey Tobias said she would not fill out the questionnaire because an information technology contract linked to it had been awarded to an American company, Lockheed Martin. Tobias was charged with violating the Statistics Act, but eventually acquitted.

Now that it's back, time to make sure that your data stays your data.

After 6 months:

- Make crime (any crime) commited with the help of guns (even if not a single shot has been fired) a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
- Ban all military or quasi-military guns and make possession of said weapons a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
- Make all forms of gun trafficking a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
- Make all murders and sexual assaults committed with guns a crime punishable by the death penalty (since you guys love the death penalty almost as much as your guns).
- Make sure all gun owners are registered, with a thorough (federal) background check and psychological evaluation beforehand, including a valid reason for gun ownership and respect all safety measures at all times (see hunters above).
- Raise the funds allocated to law enforcement to make sure the largest cities are safe.

I can guarantee you that these measures would also drastically reduce the amount of criminal activity in the USA, as an added bonus.

Seriously, though, pretty much everyone on earth realizes that private gun ownership is a bad idea. Except for the United States of America. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee. A good example of this is Canada, as simply crossing the border makes you immediately safer from guns.

Once you have done that, we can start talking about the metric system.

Why wait? Why do you need to ban guns and confiscate them first? Just pass these laws and everything would take care of itself, right?

The problem is the how.

No, the problem is not "the how". The problem is the lack of political courage.

Here is an outline:

- Ban guns.
- Give all law-abiding gun owners 6 to 18 months to turn in all their guns, including a complete amnesty and a small financial incentive (let us say US$10 to US$20 per gun turned in), no questions asked.
- Make all hunters register their guns, obtain a permit and prove they are respecting sensible safety measures (gun safe, ammo safe, kept separate and under lock and key at all times).

After 6 months:

- Make crime (any crime) commited with the help of guns (even if not a single shot has been fired) a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
- Ban all military or quasi-military guns and make possession of said weapons a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
- Make all forms of gun trafficking a crime punishable by life in prison, without the possibility of parole.
- Make all murders and sexual assaults committed with guns a crime punishable by the death penalty (since you guys love the death penalty almost as much as your guns).
- Make sure all gun owners are registered, with a thorough (federal) background check and psychological evaluation beforehand, including a valid reason for gun ownership and respect all safety measures at all times (see hunters above).
- Raise the funds allocated to law enforcement to make sure the largest cities are safe.

I can guarantee you that these measures would also drastically reduce the amount of criminal activity in the USA, as an added bonus.

Seriously, though, pretty much everyone on earth realizes that private gun ownership is a bad idea. Except for the United States of America. It's time to wake up and smell the coffee. A good example of this is Canada, as simply crossing the border makes you immediately safer from guns.

Once you have done that, we can start talking about the metric system.

ffs, if someone needs two-factor authentication several times a day, they can afford a goddam phone plan which doesn't charge per SMS. the most i've ever paid for an SMS was, like, $0.02 when i was a poor grad student using a tracfone. now i have a $30/month plan with unlimited SMS. as i understand it, the US was the worst place for this, and it's going extinct here.

Canada has always been worse. It's standard that receiving calls uses local minutes, and receiving texts costs the same as sending them. For reference, the rates on a basic Telus pay-as-you-go plan:

$0.15 per minute on local calls
$0.30 per message

Another comparison, showing average monthly bills in Canada are higher than the US. Canada requires majority Canadian ownership of any carrier, which limits foreign competition (eg: Wind mobile when it first entered the market), with the result that the big three raise their rates in lockstep and 85% of Canadians have no alternatives. They try to make it look good by buying up the small players (eg: Telus now owns Mobilicity and Wind, Rogers owns Fido), but then they'll place tight limits on coverage for example to make them less attractive. So if you are only ever in downtown Toronto, Ottawa , Vancouver, Calgary or Edmonton, then Mobilicity is fine. But if you leave those areas, you get either no coverage or get charged for roaming.

As I recall, things have gotten so bad there that the President sent the police to raid warehouses to "liberate" some 2,500+ rolls of toilet paper!

Source: http://globalnews.ca/news/6027...

Are they going to be anything like the Canadian government that requires vets who have lost limbs to provide annual proof that those limbs haven't spontaneously regrown?

nop... http://globalnews.ca/news/2508... Trudeau sold about 1T in January this year, or about 2/3 of what was left.

Well, you're simply wrong about that. It has been a thing for many years. It is without problems.

Wanna bet?

http://www.fox13news.com/news/...

http://dailysignal.com/2016/01...

http://globalnews.ca/news/2546...

https://allisonslaw.wordpress....

That took about 10 seconds to find. Give me 10 minutes and I'll have a hundred of them.

You are wrong based on the facts in evidence.

At least in Ontario our nuclear and hydroelectric generation is expensive. It contributed 40% to our price hike last fall. Of course that's most likely over paying the employees.

http://globalnews.ca/news/2279...

I don't have time to look up the stats, but I'd assume that the Czech Republic has better mental health services, less income inequality, greater social mobility, ranks higher on happiness indexes, etc.. than the US.

Yes, of course.

(This is unfortunately rarely brought up, because to the right wing, public healthcare and other things necessary to reduce income inequality and improve social stability are anathema, and to the left wing, guns themselves are anathema.)

But it we aren't going to address some of the root causes of the absurdly high rates of gun violence in the US, then I don't see lowering clip capacity and banning a few more rifles as that big a deal. We already drawn the line at machine guns, grenades, rpgs (for the average person), moving the line down another notch or two isn't a big deal.

How big of a deal it is depends on whether you own any or not. To remind, there are several million of those types of guns in the country, and probably 10x if not more magazines. If you ban them, what are their owners supposed to do with them? Confiscation? It'd be unconstitutional. Or mandatory buyback like in Australia? If the latter, where does the money come from? It'll be quite expensive...

But, more importantly, why would you want to do it if it doesn't actually make any difference? Assault weapon bans in particular make zero sense, because they ban guns based on largely decorative features that have little to no relevance to how deadly a gun is in a spree killing. A stock Ruger Mini-14 is just as deadly as its "tactical" cousin with a pistol grip and flash hider, yet the latter is an "assault weapon" while the former is not, even under the strictest AWB proposals to date.

Unless, of course, by "assault weapons" you really just mean all semi-auto firearms. That would change things. But then why not call it what it is? And bear in mind that if the ban target is that broad, you'll have to amend the total count (and hence the number of people affected, and the amount of money you'd need for compensation purposes) to tens of millions, possibly even a hundred.

With respect to magazine capacity limits. For one thing, they also make very little sense, as most popular semi-auto firearms are very easy and quick to reload, and even more so with just a little practice. Remember that Columbine was done with legal 10-round-limited mags. Besides, it's also fairly hard to define correctly, and consequently easy to circumvent. For example, here is a magazine that holds at most 10 rounds - of the caliber that it is designated for, that is. However, because the dimensions of the magazine are the same as the standard AR-15 mag, it can also hold 30 rounds of 5.56. Should it be illegal to own, or is it only illegal to load it with more than 10 rounds, or shoot it, or none of that? If you don't know about such things in advance when you write laws (and let's face it, most politicians who write gun control bills have no clue about what they're regulating), you wouldn't clarify that; and under any sane legal system, what's not prohibited is legal - as Canada has found out. Another good example of that type of thing is the California "bullet buttons", which stem from an unsuccessful attempt to define the difference between a fixed and a removable magazine (as all magazines are ultimately removable in some manner, for cleaning purposes).

Also, magazines are actually extremely easy to manufacture - when you stop to think about it, it's basically just a box with a spring and a follower. A follower from any (even 2-round) legal capacity magazine will work without any changes, springs are obviously trivial to obtain, and the box itself can be made fr

Speaking of corruption, isnt quebec the most corrupt in Canada?

http://globalnews.ca/news/1671...

"With their exclusive rights protected by the Public Carriage Office, and their rivals held back, London black cabs behave like any cartel — they squeeze their advantages for all their worth." http://www.spectator.co.uk/fea...

Uber is cheaper and quicker than black cabs: http://www.independent.co.uk/v...

In the age of GPS "The Knowledge" is a needlessly hard test which keeps most people out. https://www.washingtonpost.com...

London drivers say "The Knowledge" is better than a GPS http://www.theguardian.com/wor... but even before the age of GPS, most cities on the planet regulated taxi without such a test. Doctors do something similar with entrance boards which decide how many new doctors can enter a field. http://wallstreetpit.com/5769-... Rudimentary economics: any profession which restricts their numbers can charge more. Imagine if nurses, paramedics, firemen and cops set up their own mandatory boards what it could do for them.

Most cities restrict taxi numbers usually by restricting the number of licenses issued.
http://www.theverge.com/2015/6... FRANCE $270,000
http://globalnews.ca/news/1780... CANADA Was $360,000
http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/cost... AUSTRALIA Was $425,000
http://www.scmp.com/business/m... HONG KONG $1M
http://www.washingtonpost.com/... USA $1.2M

No, because you would die.

Why "No"?

No, because you would die.

Your argument is true quite often, but not always. But still, it is why this Airbnb failure happened, and why it will again and again: Specifically Damages could hit $150,000 in Calgary home trashed by Airbnb renters

Yeah, they do shoot -- http://www.thestar.com/news/cr...

Canada has a no-fly list -- http://globalnews.ca/news/1801...

And I'd take Obama over Harper in a heartbeat.

That said, hells yeah, big gaming convention in town? My kids and I would be all over that.

Stories of regular cab drivers sexually assaulting riders:
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2014/12/tourist_says_cab_driver_raped.html/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-brooklyn-woman-recounts-traumatic-rape-taxi-article-1.2101285/
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/exclusive-alleged-victim-recounts-rape-cabbie-article-1.1772138/
http://www.local10.com/news/fort-lauderdale-cab-driver-accused-of-rape/29941056/
http://globalnews.ca/news/1801977/taxi-ride-leaves-woman-shaken-police-investigate-sexual-assault/
http://fox4kc.com/2014/10/01/woman-claims-cab-driver-robbed-raped-her/

It seems that meeting the licensing requirements doesn't magically protect passengers from drivers. As a side note, meeting strangers who advertised in traditional newspaper classified ads doesn't provide any magical protection over meeting strangers who advertised on craigslist. Also, Teslas don't actually catch fire more than any other kind of car. Media sensationalism is exactly what it says on the label.

Humans have been phase-locked to the mean solar day for just over 200 out of the last 6 million years.

Given that human-like species only evolved ~3 million years ago, and modern homo sapiens ~100,000 years ago, your choice of timeline seems strange. Not that it has anything to do with DST, just sayin'

Majority of what population? People living north of the 49th? I doubt it.

I live in Canada, and most of the Canadians I know also think DST is a bad idea.

Unscientific, but still:
http://globalnews.ca/news/1868... - 79% of canadians against DST
https://www.onlineparty.ca/iss... - 60% of canadians against DST

Saskatchewan actually doesn't have DST anymore, they got rid of it in 1966, staying on Standard time year round.

There are other reasons here, and a reasonable question here.

After all, it's not the superior OS that wins - look at Windows.

Also, their passport is considerably behind the times when compared with what's coming out in the next year - 8 core cpus, 4k screens and cameras ... and their passport's weird screen size (1440x1440) is also a problem for many purposes, unless you like your videos letterboxed.

When you have to offer iPhone users up to $600 to switch to a passport there's a huge problem, especially since blackberry says it is changing its focus to business.

You can't continue to lose $140 - $200 million a quarter and make it up in volume when revenues continue to decline.

Born in Montreal, he later lived in Calgary and Vancouver, then went to Ottawa on Oct. 2 to deal with an issue regarding his passport application, Paulson said. Police believe he was hoping to travel to Syria from Ottawa.

Same as the Quebec terrorist:

The Quebec man accused of running down two soldiers, killing one of them, had already had his passport revoked for trying to go to Syria.

From my understanding, the most successful breweries are not as concerned about their recipes being stolen because they have a proprietary yeast strain that they own and no one else can get.

For example: http://globalnews.ca/news/1542...

I once saw a troll make a racist statement about Canadians. Yup, I wouldn't have thought it possible either, but troll managed it.

I wouldn't be surprised if it was another Canadian. Canadians might have a reputation for being nice, but I've seen enough racism, anti-ethnic slurs, LGBTphobia, and support for institutionalized bias from my fellow citizens to know better. Case in point - the Canadian government's dealing with the much much higher murder rate of aboriginal woman. Or rather, refusal - even after the UN added their voice to the demand for a public inquiry.

And let's not get started on the whole french-vs-english thing ...

Things are changing, but it's taking time.

Can't you just stop paying them and if there's any come back tell them the date/time of the call

They will just throw the collection agency at you. Admittedly, this article is about Bell Canada, but I'm sure other companies need to "protect themselves" against customers who don't pay.

Obviously my cancellation hasn't worked its way through the system yet.

Obviously, your cancellation has not worked at all.

Kidding aside, I have been hearing news lately that Bell Canada does not know the word cancel or deceased.

Obviously my cancellation hasn't worked its way through the system yet.

Obviously, your cancellation has not worked at all.

Kidding aside, I have been hearing news lately that Bell Canada does not know the word cancel or deceased.

Why haven't all airplanes been upgraded so the black box data is streamed to satellites/ground stations? It's so dumb to have to search for a airplane to find the data, that should be the fallback plan. Hey FAA, you listening?

It's happening. It'll get rolled out over the next few years.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1314...

Bullshit.

China is in complete violation of international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea which China itself signed and had agreed to and ">ratified in 1996.

China has been building structures, hunting and mass poaching endangered species and destroying coral reefs within the maritime exclusive economic zones of The Philippines and Vietnam (200 nautical miles or 370km from the coastline of those countries) while at the same time, forming naval blockades and harassing fishermen from Vietnam and the Philippines in their own waters. Recently a Chinese fishing vessel was caught with the poaching and mass slaughter of over 500 endangered and protected sea turtles within Philippine waters. Pics of the slaughter.

This article is a must-read on the behavior of the 800lb gorilla China and its bullying tactics: China's Pre-Imperial Overstretch and follow-up article: China and the Mosquitoes.

Another must read is the NY Times article A Game of Shark And Minnow about the ragtag crew of Philippine marines stationed on a grounded derelict ship in the area as an outpost. That NY Times article has a very good diagram on the 200NM exclusive economic zones and China's ridiculous "nine-dash line" tongue-shaped delineation which claims the entirety of the area hundreds of miles away from their nearest legal territory, Hainan Island. The basis of China's 9-dash line claims? Fabricated bullshit. Pre-19th century maps show this. Even China's own historical maps contradict their absurd claims. Bullying, intimidation, violation, invasion and annexation of territories of smaller, weaker states. It's that simple. See also: Tibet.

Fact check your facts. Your second link's researcher was funded by Bayer

You've discounted one of the linked articles (for a reason I understand but don't entirely agree with). What about the other? Does finding a reason to discount one piece of data allow you to discount all of it, in your opinion?