Of course. But this is something the Swedes themselves admit. The authorities admit that gang acitivyt has increased and become more violent which is a problem. Keep in mind though, the immigrants responsible for organized crime tend not to be muslims as much as they're from eastern Europe/former yugoslavia area. Running drugs and guns tends to be the area of the mafia, which does not traditionally mingle with muslims.
Not quite. The numbers of those violent crimes are enclaved areas which are predominantly muslim. See Malmo in Sweden or Molenbeek in Belgium. Those people aren't from eastern europe.
If you look at the stats for 2016 there's been an increase from 2015, but that's because 2015 saw a decline in crime.
I posted the 2016 crime stats above, read them.
What information do you have to back up your claim that this estimate is not affected by the broadening of the definition of rape and the way the stats are calculated?
The crime stats themselves, you did read the links right? They very happily break it down into both categories, they're listed above.
I never said it was. I simply said that even at that level of polling it's far from clear at this point that they'll be able to win the elections and form a government.
You seem to forget that forming a majority government has less of a social impact in northern european countries, then in say the Americas. And that minor political parties have enough say to "get what they want" with cross-party associations.
Around here kids are banned from school(primary and secondary) if they don't have up to date immunization records, or a reasonable reason to why they're not immunized(i.e. severe reactions). Considering the absolute shit that happened a few years back with multiple measles, mumps and rubella, not to mention whooping cough outbreaks, it's nothing but a good option.
If there'd been a chickenpox vaccine when I was a kid, I would have taken it. 2 weeks of absolute shit, and it nearly killed my one sister(who spent 6mo in ICU). All because some little shit stain and their parents decided that it was a good idea to have their kid out in public while infectious.
As a Finn that lives next to sweden, speaks some of the language and has some friends there I suspect your idea of what exactly is going on in Sweden is not accurate. Sweden has had and is having some immigration related problems which are caused primarily by 2 things: the way they handled the housing and education reform has lead to the rise of suburbs with predominantly immigrant populations. This has made integration harder, leading to higher unemployment which in turn generally leads to increased crime, especially organized crime. So gang activity in immigrant-heavy areas is up, similarly to the situation in some american inner cities, But crime overall has not skyrocketed.
I have friends that I've known since the 90's who live in Sweden, I'll trust their word that things are far worse today then they were then. Much like I would tell someone that Toronto is a complete shit hole compared to 20 years ago, and we have ghetto-enclaves appearing there where violent crime is going through the roof. Keep in mind that media actively discourages particular types of reporting. If you need a clearer evidence of that, look at Tim Pool and his recent trip to Sweden. If your country is suffering grenade attacks in public places, you have a serious problem. If a particular segment of the population is directly responsible for that, then you also have a problem. If it's directly related to an immigrant population, you have a very serious problem. Since it means that those people have: Imported their problems, refuse to integrate into society, are willing to use "olde world" responses to the same issues. And if these locations are enclaves? Then you likely have a serious social problem that is going to explode.
Now let's keep in mind that Sweden has scrubbed identifier information from violent crimes, rape, violent assault, this happened during a statistically significant upwards swing. Also keep in mind that clearance rates(the rate at which people are arrested and charged for a crime) from everything from those violent crimes against persons, to crimes against property and petty crimes are falling through the floor. That means that police are overburdened either due to a lack of manpower, and/or direct policies. That also means that people are less willing to report a crime to the police because they feel it won't be solved regardless of the circumstance of the crime. Or they feel that the justice system won't deal with an offender or they're going to be lenient towards the offender(s), so the person doesn't bother reporting the crime. Which can show "less crime" when there is an actual increase in crime. Now, Sweden's own crime reports says crime is going up. Itdoesn'twhat area of crime you're looking at, whether it be petty or violent. They've all gone up, the incidence rates of reported sexual crimes for instance have deceased from 25% reporting to 9% of victims reporting, that means there's a fundamental lack of trust in the justice system to deal with alleged and actual cases. Noting that from their own statistics estimated unreported sexual crimes have gone from ~160k/year to nearly 500k/year in a decade. That's not the : "The sexual act can be intercourse, but also other sexual acts because of coercion or other circumstances are serious offensive can lead to a person being convicted of rape." That's the violent assault of a person aka actual rape.
Well, I wouldn't say it's looking like there'll be a major 'backlash' right now. Even with the recent influx of refu
The result of one referendum is not the be all and end all of UK democracy.
It just happens to be the will of the voting public. People couldn't get off their ass to vote? Don't like the response? That's their problem. You know what's dangerous about believing that a referendum isn't the end of democracy with the voting public? That you can change foundational laws by fiat by using the courts.
It's not. The chances of you having cancerous meat because initial butchering is very possible as well. There's strict requirements for butchering of diseased meat, but that doesn't stop some company or person from being shitty and breaking the law either. Quite a few of the e-coli outbreaks have been because of shit poor butchering, especially from large scale operations. Lab-grown meat would reduce this to practically nil, and that's a good thing. Though you do get e-coli from greens, and those are easy to figure out. Usually because of the use of unprocessed human or animal waste as a fertilizer.
The reality is Christianity went through this phase. Remember that in the US, the majority of founding fathers weren't Christians but deists. You jump further back, and you had the same reasoning within Christianity. Reform or else vs "we're perfect" and the enlightenment phase. The real question is, do you feel the same way with Nazism? After all it's an ideology, it's banned in most countries.
Trump calls the media the "opposition party" because the media is very happy to lie when it suits their cause. Either directly, or lies through omission. His statement isn't just his own, it's a reflection of the public in the west in general of their absolute distrust of the media. It doesn't matter if it's the US, Canada, France or the UK. A majority of the population distrust the mainstream press and the press created the situation all by themselves.
Right wing demagogs replace god with the nation state and deem those in opposition to them as 'enemies of the state', or 'un-*insert national adjective*'. Two sides of the same coin.
And left wing demagogues replace god with communism, Leninism, collectivism and so on. Openly advocate against free speech, peaceful assembly, and so on. Horseshoe theory in action, the only difference is that in the west you're unlikely to see your belief come to fruition -- unless there's been decades of one particular ideology holding institutional power, and actively working against the voting public or engaging in policies that actively damage the voting public. You should be joyous that Trump was elected, because his solutions will be far worse then in another decade. If you need your canary in the coalmine, I suggest looking in Sweden. Where the media and politicians lie, and people who report the truth are charged/jailed/threatened for doing so. Keep in mind, that Sweden isn't right-wing but those left-wing policies will ensure that the backlash will be something exceptionally bad -- because only those "far right" groups are the ones listening to people.
"There's a lot of stuff that the current liberal government pushed through as well" - Republicans have controlled or have had at least half of the control of congress for decades. This isn't a liberal or conservative thing, this is a Washington was getting paid by lobbies thing.
Article is about Ontario, I'm making comments about Ontario. The link I used was in Ontario. The newspaper I mentioned was a major daily publication in Canada. The party in power that's pushed this have been Liberals. Try to keep up.
You mean the part where the court decided to overstep their bounds and tried to create law themselves? Or the part where remainers threw such a hissyfit that they tried to use the courts to overrule democracy itself.
Then they made IT workers overtime exempt in the province of Ontario, meaning you'd get *nothing*.
So I became a contractor.
IT wasn't the only area. There's a lot of stuff that the current liberal government pushed through as well. An employer can pay a "tax" to the government to make you work more then 40hrs/week, this is quite common in union shops. Then there's the variable change to truckers hours as well. Used to be a mandatory 8hrs top, with 10hrs off. Not so anymore. IT was one of the last areas that got hit with this type of BS. But just remember what the pundits(and news papers like the Toronto Star) keep telling everyone, the progressive conservatives are the ones that hold an anti-worker platform. It was the previous liberals in the 1980's that allowed the importing of 3rd world labor for farming as well, which drove wages through the floor.
I've had several engineering co-ops, and none of the co-ops I've done nor any of my fellow engineering students have done were unpaid. Paying engineering students for co-op work is pretty standard in the US at least.
It's actually pretty uncommon everywhere else in the world. Keep in mind that there is a difference between an internship and a co-op.
Maybe he was concentrating on doing the actual work for his degree rather than fannying around joining clubs to pad out his CV?
Considering you can't get into most universities without some kind of padding via volunteering/sports teams/etc. This shouldn't come as a surprise to them, it comes of more that they simply wanted to coast along and hoped that they'd get lucky.
Mainly it's a case where a business(big or small) will take on a student(usually in high school sometimes in colleges or universities) in a pre-apprenticeship phase. This is usually for 6mo, where they work for the place of business for free, but the time worked can be transferred directly to an trade apprenticeship or as part of their accreditation which is required by law. Students that excel while working there can sometimes be hired on, or receive recommendations for other businesses and be hired directly out of high school or completion of their diploma program. The closest in the UK would be like with lawyers, where a final year law student is required to work under an actual lawyer for 6mo-1yr before they can pass the bar exam.
Carbon tax? HST? Grandstanding with unions? Increased tax expenditures but then passing it off to businesses? That they wanted a bigger slice of the "pipeline income" to the point where the federal government had to step in and say "No." Need anything else?
There is no shortage in Toronto, which is an old rust belt city, across Lake Erie from Detroit. They would have much better opportunities in Vancouver. Instead of whining about not getting their perceived entitlement, these people need to be proactive and take some responsibility for their own future.
Disclaimer: I have lived, worked and pursued opportunities in four states and three countries.
Apparently never in Canada. Toronto has always been a "business city" aka white collar work and it's been like that since the 1800's when farming was pushed out and into the greenbelt. It's right on Lake Ontario, Lake Erie is ~150km away. Hamilton is an old rust belt city, it's where the steel mills were, it's where the cargo ports are, it's where the harbor is to make new ships. If they went to Vancouver they'd be in exactly the same spot as Toronto, but they'd be paying 4x the price for rent and double the price for food, and be struggling to make mortgage payments on a $500k/year salary.. If you want to get good money in STEM in Canada, you head to Alberta or Manitoba. Perhaps some areas of Quebec or the maritimes.
Disclaimer: I've worked in Ontario most of my life, outside of 5-24mo stints in the western provinces of Canada, and Singapore.
That's exactly what co-op's are in most cases. There is no requirement for payment, and those that pay are very few and far between. I did two of them myself back in the 90's, one as a mechanic, another as a welder. Rather the co-op program has always been an extension of the trades programs in schools to allow the student to see if their choice was the "right fit" for them. It also allowed you to start collecting your hours as part of your apprenticeship. The 4h/day I did under the program I was under, allowed me to apply it directly to my mechanics apprenticeship. I was good enough that the person who took me on also hired me for full weekends, and when I graduated, I started my apprenticeship there.
The real problem for Canada's job markets though? There's multiple problems. First you have governments like the Liberals in Ontario, BC, Maritimes and NDP in Alberta who have anti-job policies. They raise taxes, gut programs for jobs that are highly in demand, and/or take on so much debt that businesses are wary around investing. Or you have governments like both the former Federal Conservatives and the current Liberals that love their "imported labor" programs. And would rather "spread the wealth" while people in Canada can't find work. It's pretty hard for anyone to justify the TFW program, in a province with 10% unemployment. But the Liberal Party sure does, even undoing some of the safeguards that the previous conservative government put into place.
Unlike the US and H1B's, in Canada no job is safe from a TFW. It doesn't matter if it's janitorial, or a skilled trade. If a company can figure out how to game the TFW system, lay you off, and replace you with someone they can pay the min. wage for vs say the $20-25/hr you currently work for, they will.
We've had the same thing happening in Ontario and in BC. Because of similar problems Just remember the bullshit they peddled that that it was supposed to lower electricity costs too. Which is why every place they've been installed, the cost of electricity has skyrocketed. And in many working.
Easy the police were protecting the state. Just a reminder that this type of stuff has been going on in the UK for awhile, whether it be the police threatening people for daring to speak out against migrants, migrant terrorism or engaging in overt censorship over porn. It's not just the UK either, but other EU countries too. People who think the US is a "police state" have absolutely no clue, especially for those of us who live in countries where speech is restricted by law. Like in Canada, you know where you see shit like this. And the government launches a motion against "islamophibia" the opposition launches a completely neutral version, which is the defeated because it no longer contains the one and only protected religion aka islam.
So you're saying that business haven't been fleeing ever since the government imposed a carbon tax? You're saying that's not an increase in taxes, and not only punitive towards customers but towards businesses? Are you saying that the government's policies didn't cause the price of electricity to go up, or the price of NG? It did, just a FYI.
Alberta's economy has turned around not because of their actions, but in spite of their actions. There's a higher demand for resources which Alberta is primarily an exporter of(minerals/metals/oil/soft wood). The governments policies have been so bad, that they've tried to sue themselves in order to break previous contracts and have illegally deleted information in order to hide it from the public. Personally, I can't believe you don't understand this. It's not rocket surgery.
No, it isn't. You just *want* it to be shit because you either don't believe it, or you accept as gospel everything that comes out of Donald's mouth (or both).
Yeah it actually is. For someone who has a basic clue about how a warrant including "state warrants" like FISA are filed, the article is a steaming pile of shit in -30C weather. Pretending otherwise doesn't make it true, here's another little tidbit. 70% of all refused FISA warrants occurred on Obama's watch, there have been under 20 refused FISA warrants in the last 40 years. Do the math.
This BS again? They reported that when that's what the intelligence agencies thought, i.e. for a period of a few days before the investigation results came back and said it was unrelated.
No, the intelligence agencies didn't think so. The investigation even came to the same conclusion. The Obama administration wanted to make it so, which is why they arrested a fucking nobody. If you're going to make shit up, you should at least read the public investigation transcripts.
No, there were taps on the RUSSIANS. Unless Trump himself was contacting the RUSSIANS during the campaign there's no reason to worry at all, and that doesn't mean that Trump Tower was tapped.
Not how it works. You can tap an American citizen, you simply have to minimize what's recorded. This can be done *after* the tapped communications have been recorded.
It seems to me like most businesses are pretty unhappy when things are uncertain.
Of course they are. When the NDP were elected in Ontario in the 1990's the TSE tanked overnight and we lost two ranks to our credit rating. When the Liberals were re-elected in Ontario ~3 years ago, it also cost another rank to our credit rating. Why? Because the liberals have fostered an anti-business environment and created an excessively expensive electricity market, while raising taxes through the roof, and spending like a drunken sailor. Businesses have fled Ontario over the last decade, even "clean" businesses like IT. When the NDP won Alberta they lost a ranking to their credit rating overnight, when the NDP won British Columbia same thing. Why? Because the NDP are anti-capitalism, pro-heavy regulation, pro-taxation. Businesses and investors believed and rightly so as it's turned out in every case that it would be exceptionally negative, and the economies stalled nearly overnight.
Don't you know? The democrats are the pro-war party, even Hillary wanted to bomb them in Syria. Sure makes more sense considering their absolute "war, war, war" pushes by making shit up over Russia. With them stating that a war between the US and RUS was likely if Hillary was elected. And why the RUS interior was cheering because Trump was elected.
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Of course. But this is something the Swedes themselves admit. The authorities admit that gang acitivyt has increased and become more violent which is a problem. Keep in mind though, the immigrants responsible for organized crime tend not to be muslims as much as they're from eastern Europe/former yugoslavia area. Running drugs and guns tends to be the area of the mafia, which does not traditionally mingle with muslims.
Not quite. The numbers of those violent crimes are enclaved areas which are predominantly muslim. See Malmo in Sweden or Molenbeek in Belgium. Those people aren't from eastern europe.
If you look at the stats for 2016 there's been an increase from 2015, but that's because 2015 saw a decline in crime.
I posted the 2016 crime stats above, read them.
What information do you have to back up your claim that this estimate is not affected by the broadening of the definition of rape and the way the stats are calculated?
The crime stats themselves, you did read the links right? They very happily break it down into both categories, they're listed above.
I never said it was. I simply said that even at that level of polling it's far from clear at this point that they'll be able to win the elections and form a government.
You seem to forget that forming a majority government has less of a social impact in northern european countries, then in say the Americas. And that minor political parties have enough say to "get what they want" with cross-party associations.
Around here kids are banned from school(primary and secondary) if they don't have up to date immunization records, or a reasonable reason to why they're not immunized(i.e. severe reactions). Considering the absolute shit that happened a few years back with multiple measles, mumps and rubella, not to mention whooping cough outbreaks, it's nothing but a good option.
If there'd been a chickenpox vaccine when I was a kid, I would have taken it. 2 weeks of absolute shit, and it nearly killed my one sister(who spent 6mo in ICU). All because some little shit stain and their parents decided that it was a good idea to have their kid out in public while infectious.
As a Finn that lives next to sweden, speaks some of the language and has some friends there I suspect your idea of what exactly is going on in Sweden is not accurate. Sweden has had and is having some immigration related problems which are caused primarily by 2 things: the way they handled the housing and education reform has lead to the rise of suburbs with predominantly immigrant populations. This has made integration harder, leading to higher unemployment which in turn generally leads to increased crime, especially organized crime. So gang activity in immigrant-heavy areas is up, similarly to the situation in some american inner cities, But crime overall has not skyrocketed.
I have friends that I've known since the 90's who live in Sweden, I'll trust their word that things are far worse today then they were then. Much like I would tell someone that Toronto is a complete shit hole compared to 20 years ago, and we have ghetto-enclaves appearing there where violent crime is going through the roof. Keep in mind that media actively discourages particular types of reporting. If you need a clearer evidence of that, look at Tim Pool and his recent trip to Sweden. If your country is suffering grenade attacks in public places, you have a serious problem. If a particular segment of the population is directly responsible for that, then you also have a problem. If it's directly related to an immigrant population, you have a very serious problem. Since it means that those people have: Imported their problems, refuse to integrate into society, are willing to use "olde world" responses to the same issues. And if these locations are enclaves? Then you likely have a serious social problem that is going to explode.
Now let's keep in mind that Sweden has scrubbed identifier information from violent crimes, rape, violent assault, this happened during a statistically significant upwards swing. Also keep in mind that clearance rates(the rate at which people are arrested and charged for a crime) from everything from those violent crimes against persons, to crimes against property and petty crimes are falling through the floor. That means that police are overburdened either due to a lack of manpower, and/or direct policies. That also means that people are less willing to report a crime to the police because they feel it won't be solved regardless of the circumstance of the crime. Or they feel that the justice system won't deal with an offender or they're going to be lenient towards the offender(s), so the person doesn't bother reporting the crime. Which can show "less crime" when there is an actual increase in crime. Now, Sweden's own crime reports says crime is going up. It doesn't what area of crime you're looking at, whether it be petty or violent. They've all gone up, the incidence rates of reported sexual crimes for instance have deceased from 25% reporting to 9% of victims reporting, that means there's a fundamental lack of trust in the justice system to deal with alleged and actual cases. Noting that from their own statistics estimated unreported sexual crimes have gone from ~160k/year to nearly 500k/year in a decade. That's not the : "The sexual act can be intercourse, but also other sexual acts because of coercion or other circumstances are serious offensive can lead to a person being convicted of rape." That's the violent assault of a person aka actual rape.
Well, I wouldn't say it's looking like there'll be a major 'backlash' right now. Even with the recent influx of refu
The result of one referendum is not the be all and end all of UK democracy.
It just happens to be the will of the voting public. People couldn't get off their ass to vote? Don't like the response? That's their problem. You know what's dangerous about believing that a referendum isn't the end of democracy with the voting public? That you can change foundational laws by fiat by using the courts.
It's not. The chances of you having cancerous meat because initial butchering is very possible as well. There's strict requirements for butchering of diseased meat, but that doesn't stop some company or person from being shitty and breaking the law either. Quite a few of the e-coli outbreaks have been because of shit poor butchering, especially from large scale operations. Lab-grown meat would reduce this to practically nil, and that's a good thing. Though you do get e-coli from greens, and those are easy to figure out. Usually because of the use of unprocessed human or animal waste as a fertilizer.
The reality is Christianity went through this phase. Remember that in the US, the majority of founding fathers weren't Christians but deists. You jump further back, and you had the same reasoning within Christianity. Reform or else vs "we're perfect" and the enlightenment phase. The real question is, do you feel the same way with Nazism? After all it's an ideology, it's banned in most countries.
Trump calls the media the "opposition party" because the media is very happy to lie when it suits their cause. Either directly, or lies through omission. His statement isn't just his own, it's a reflection of the public in the west in general of their absolute distrust of the media. It doesn't matter if it's the US, Canada, France or the UK. A majority of the population distrust the mainstream press and the press created the situation all by themselves.
Right wing demagogs replace god with the nation state and deem those in opposition to them as 'enemies of the state', or 'un-*insert national adjective*'. Two sides of the same coin.
And left wing demagogues replace god with communism, Leninism, collectivism and so on. Openly advocate against free speech, peaceful assembly, and so on. Horseshoe theory in action, the only difference is that in the west you're unlikely to see your belief come to fruition -- unless there's been decades of one particular ideology holding institutional power, and actively working against the voting public or engaging in policies that actively damage the voting public. You should be joyous that Trump was elected, because his solutions will be far worse then in another decade. If you need your canary in the coalmine, I suggest looking in Sweden. Where the media and politicians lie, and people who report the truth are charged/jailed/threatened for doing so. Keep in mind, that Sweden isn't right-wing but those left-wing policies will ensure that the backlash will be something exceptionally bad -- because only those "far right" groups are the ones listening to people.
"There's a lot of stuff that the current liberal government pushed through as well" - Republicans have controlled or have had at least half of the control of congress for decades. This isn't a liberal or conservative thing, this is a Washington was getting paid by lobbies thing.
Article is about Ontario, I'm making comments about Ontario. The link I used was in Ontario. The newspaper I mentioned was a major daily publication in Canada. The party in power that's pushed this have been Liberals. Try to keep up.
You mean the part where the court decided to overstep their bounds and tried to create law themselves? Or the part where remainers threw such a hissyfit that they tried to use the courts to overrule democracy itself.
Ditto.
Then they made IT workers overtime exempt in the province of Ontario, meaning you'd get *nothing*.
So I became a contractor.
IT wasn't the only area. There's a lot of stuff that the current liberal government pushed through as well. An employer can pay a "tax" to the government to make you work more then 40hrs/week, this is quite common in union shops. Then there's the variable change to truckers hours as well. Used to be a mandatory 8hrs top, with 10hrs off. Not so anymore. IT was one of the last areas that got hit with this type of BS. But just remember what the pundits(and news papers like the Toronto Star) keep telling everyone, the progressive conservatives are the ones that hold an anti-worker platform. It was the previous liberals in the 1980's that allowed the importing of 3rd world labor for farming as well, which drove wages through the floor.
So, I'm right. You _don't_ know what a co-op is.
A two sentence reply that adds nothing. Good job, perhaps you should get a career in politics?
I've had several engineering co-ops, and none of the co-ops I've done nor any of my fellow engineering students have done were unpaid. Paying engineering students for co-op work is pretty standard in the US at least.
It's actually pretty uncommon everywhere else in the world. Keep in mind that there is a difference between an internship and a co-op.
In Ontario, unpaid internships are illegal.
A co-op isn't an internship, welcome to Ontario.
Maybe he was concentrating on doing the actual work for his degree rather than fannying around joining clubs to pad out his CV?
Considering you can't get into most universities without some kind of padding via volunteering/sports teams/etc. This shouldn't come as a surprise to them, it comes of more that they simply wanted to coast along and hoped that they'd get lucky.
What is a co-op anyway?
Mainly it's a case where a business(big or small) will take on a student(usually in high school sometimes in colleges or universities) in a pre-apprenticeship phase. This is usually for 6mo, where they work for the place of business for free, but the time worked can be transferred directly to an trade apprenticeship or as part of their accreditation which is required by law. Students that excel while working there can sometimes be hired on, or receive recommendations for other businesses and be hired directly out of high school or completion of their diploma program. The closest in the UK would be like with lawyers, where a final year law student is required to work under an actual lawyer for 6mo-1yr before they can pass the bar exam.
Carbon tax? HST? Grandstanding with unions? Increased tax expenditures but then passing it off to businesses? That they wanted a bigger slice of the "pipeline income" to the point where the federal government had to step in and say "No." Need anything else?
There is no shortage in Toronto, which is an old rust belt city, across Lake Erie from Detroit. They would have much better opportunities in Vancouver. Instead of whining about not getting their perceived entitlement, these people need to be proactive and take some responsibility for their own future.
Disclaimer: I have lived, worked and pursued opportunities in four states and three countries.
Apparently never in Canada. Toronto has always been a "business city" aka white collar work and it's been like that since the 1800's when farming was pushed out and into the greenbelt. It's right on Lake Ontario, Lake Erie is ~150km away. Hamilton is an old rust belt city, it's where the steel mills were, it's where the cargo ports are, it's where the harbor is to make new ships. If they went to Vancouver they'd be in exactly the same spot as Toronto, but they'd be paying 4x the price for rent and double the price for food, and be struggling to make mortgage payments on a $500k/year salary.. If you want to get good money in STEM in Canada, you head to Alberta or Manitoba. Perhaps some areas of Quebec or the maritimes.
Disclaimer: I've worked in Ontario most of my life, outside of 5-24mo stints in the western provinces of Canada, and Singapore.
It's not, but we get the extra bite in Canada because the TFW program(think H1B) can replace any job if the company can figure out a way.
You don't know what a co-op is do you?
Hint: It's not an unpaid internship.
That's exactly what co-op's are in most cases. There is no requirement for payment, and those that pay are very few and far between. I did two of them myself back in the 90's, one as a mechanic, another as a welder. Rather the co-op program has always been an extension of the trades programs in schools to allow the student to see if their choice was the "right fit" for them. It also allowed you to start collecting your hours as part of your apprenticeship. The 4h/day I did under the program I was under, allowed me to apply it directly to my mechanics apprenticeship. I was good enough that the person who took me on also hired me for full weekends, and when I graduated, I started my apprenticeship there.
The real problem for Canada's job markets though? There's multiple problems. First you have governments like the Liberals in Ontario, BC, Maritimes and NDP in Alberta who have anti-job policies. They raise taxes, gut programs for jobs that are highly in demand, and/or take on so much debt that businesses are wary around investing. Or you have governments like both the former Federal Conservatives and the current Liberals that love their "imported labor" programs. And would rather "spread the wealth" while people in Canada can't find work. It's pretty hard for anyone to justify the TFW program, in a province with 10% unemployment. But the Liberal Party sure does, even undoing some of the safeguards that the previous conservative government put into place.
Unlike the US and H1B's, in Canada no job is safe from a TFW. It doesn't matter if it's janitorial, or a skilled trade. If a company can figure out how to game the TFW system, lay you off, and replace you with someone they can pay the min. wage for vs say the $20-25/hr you currently work for, they will.
We've had the same thing happening in Ontario and in BC. Because of similar problems Just remember the bullshit they peddled that that it was supposed to lower electricity costs too. Which is why every place they've been installed, the cost of electricity has skyrocketed. And in many working.
Easy the police were protecting the state. Just a reminder that this type of stuff has been going on in the UK for awhile, whether it be the police threatening people for daring to speak out against migrants, migrant terrorism or engaging in overt censorship over porn. It's not just the UK either, but other EU countries too. People who think the US is a "police state" have absolutely no clue, especially for those of us who live in countries where speech is restricted by law. Like in Canada, you know where you see shit like this. And the government launches a motion against "islamophibia" the opposition launches a completely neutral version, which is the defeated because it no longer contains the one and only protected religion aka islam.
So you're saying that business haven't been fleeing ever since the government imposed a carbon tax? You're saying that's not an increase in taxes, and not only punitive towards customers but towards businesses? Are you saying that the government's policies didn't cause the price of electricity to go up, or the price of NG? It did, just a FYI.
Alberta's economy has turned around not because of their actions, but in spite of their actions. There's a higher demand for resources which Alberta is primarily an exporter of(minerals/metals/oil/soft wood). The governments policies have been so bad, that they've tried to sue themselves in order to break previous contracts and have illegally deleted information in order to hide it from the public. Personally, I can't believe you don't understand this. It's not rocket surgery.
No, it isn't. You just *want* it to be shit because you either don't believe it, or you accept as gospel everything that comes out of Donald's mouth (or both).
Yeah it actually is. For someone who has a basic clue about how a warrant including "state warrants" like FISA are filed, the article is a steaming pile of shit in -30C weather. Pretending otherwise doesn't make it true, here's another little tidbit. 70% of all refused FISA warrants occurred on Obama's watch, there have been under 20 refused FISA warrants in the last 40 years. Do the math.
This BS again? They reported that when that's what the intelligence agencies thought, i.e. for a period of a few days before the investigation results came back and said it was unrelated.
No, the intelligence agencies didn't think so. The investigation even came to the same conclusion. The Obama administration wanted to make it so, which is why they arrested a fucking nobody. If you're going to make shit up, you should at least read the public investigation transcripts.
No, there were taps on the RUSSIANS. Unless Trump himself was contacting the RUSSIANS during the campaign there's no reason to worry at all, and that doesn't mean that Trump Tower was tapped.
Not how it works. You can tap an American citizen, you simply have to minimize what's recorded. This can be done *after* the tapped communications have been recorded.
It seems to me like most businesses are pretty unhappy when things are uncertain.
Of course they are. When the NDP were elected in Ontario in the 1990's the TSE tanked overnight and we lost two ranks to our credit rating. When the Liberals were re-elected in Ontario ~3 years ago, it also cost another rank to our credit rating. Why? Because the liberals have fostered an anti-business environment and created an excessively expensive electricity market, while raising taxes through the roof, and spending like a drunken sailor. Businesses have fled Ontario over the last decade, even "clean" businesses like IT. When the NDP won Alberta they lost a ranking to their credit rating overnight, when the NDP won British Columbia same thing. Why? Because the NDP are anti-capitalism, pro-heavy regulation, pro-taxation. Businesses and investors believed and rightly so as it's turned out in every case that it would be exceptionally negative, and the economies stalled nearly overnight.
Don't you know? The democrats are the pro-war party, even Hillary wanted to bomb them in Syria. Sure makes more sense considering their absolute "war, war, war" pushes by making shit up over Russia. With them stating that a war between the US and RUS was likely if Hillary was elected. And why the RUS interior was cheering because Trump was elected.