ininewcrow

ininewcrow , 9 days ago to Canada in Canadian acting icon Donald Sutherland dead at 88

Thank you Mr Sutherland for everything you've given us.

I also hate these announcements because it's a subtle reminder of how old we are all becoming.

ininewcrow , 10 days ago to Technology in Crypto Scammers Are Targeting Trump’s MAGA Supporters

Isn't that what those supporters are there for? .... to be scammed

ininewcrow , 13 days ago to Showerthoughts in Why doesn’t Miss Piggy call herself Mademoiselle Cochon?

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ininewcrow , 15 days ago to Canada in Who’s telling the truth about the capital gains tax? | About That

Rich people telling poor people they can be put in charge of taking care of everyone's money

ininewcrow , 26 days ago to World News in One of the world's richest women will support Trump if he promises to back Israel annexation of the West Bank

It's called a plutocracy .... a system built on power and those who hold power.

Whatever it is .... it isn't a democracy.

ininewcrow , 28 days ago to Canada in Young Canadians are being priced out of home ownership and even parenthood. Why on earth would mandatory national service make them love their country more?

How about we just tax the hell out of the rich people and billionaires in the country and use their money to pay for all our problems?

Then we can talk about national service after if that doesn't work

ininewcrow , 29 days ago to Canada in Health Canada must reconsider man's bid to use magic mushrooms for cluster headaches, Federal Court rules

Pharmaceuticals are a money making business .... their secondary role is medical care ... if we allowed them and gave them the patents, they would be happy to sell and distribute cocaine and heroin if it meant they could profit from it.

ininewcrow , 30 days ago to Canada in Canadians, what is your favorite NFB production?/Canadiens, quoi est votre production favorite de ONF?

Blackfly

my skin crawled and I started scratching my back when I read that .... also, I can't wait to get back to my cottage in the north Ontar-i-o.

As an Indigenous person who grew up in the north ... skimming off the bugs from your hot cup of tea in the wilderness was a completely normal thing growing up.

... and the Logdriver's Waltz was a fun tune when I saw it as a kid ... and I appreciated it even more when I met my wife's family who were all from the Ottawa valley and had come from the log driving culture a hundred years ago.

The song they loved was the Log Driver Song ... here's a modernized version of it by Mac Beatty ... https://youtu.be/UnKmPCrqYDE

ininewcrow , 1 month ago (edited 25 days ago) to Canada in ‘We will be your human shields’: Why unions are showing up in force to support the U of T pro-Palestinian protest encampment

They have to speak up and defend those that are standing up for the rights of others .... because that is what unions are for!

Good for them and I'm so happy to see them up there fighting for the freedom of people.

Right wingers will chant freedom in the streets without ever being fully aware of what freedom means or just generalizing their message of freedom to only being about their own personal freedom to be idiots.

Unions are the real freedom fighters in our world ... they fight for freedom .. they fight for everyone's freedom, especially for those who don't have it or have lost their freedom.

Unions are representing the people in our country more powerfully and morally that our government is. They are the real leaders in our country. Those in power only represent power and money ... unions represent the people - all people - everywhere!

This makes me so happy to see. Good for them!

ininewcrow , 1 month ago to Videos in Life After People: The Last Humans Left on Earth (S1, E1) | Full Episode | History

And even if there were catastrophes and nuclear fallout somewhere, it would negatively affect life for a century or two in some areas but eventually everything would normalize again .... and in a thousand years there would be a few signs that we had been here. And in a few thousand more, there would be no visible signs except for a few strange hills and humps. After that, archeologists would have to dig and study the soil to know that someone was here before.

ininewcrow , 1 month ago to Canada in Loblaws, Sobeys owners under investigation by Competition Bureau for alleged anti-competitive conduct

Arsonist sets fire to five buildings, tells everyone, everyone knows, there are pictures of him setting fire to buildings, arsonist has posted multiple five minute videos of him saying he committed the fires, thousands of people have reported him as the arsonist .

Competition Bureau: we are launching investigations into who may have set these fires

ininewcrow , 1 month ago to Canada in Frito Lay Canada recalls 2 of its most popular snacks for possible salmonella contamination (Sunchips Harvest Cheddar Flavoured Multigrain Snacks and Munchies Original Snack Mix)

welp ... my thighs were in more danger than I realized

ininewcrow , 1 month ago to Canada in Water in N.W.T.'s Great Slave Lake is now so low, some houseboats won't float

If the lake is drying up .... the land is becoming bone dry and ready to burn in forest fires

None of this looking good

It's May and northern Alberta and NWT is starting to burn ... they are supposed to have a ton of spring run off to saturate the forest for a month or two and they had none of it.

Wait until June and July come around, we're all going to be wearing post apocalyptic full facemasks with oxygen and buying bottles from the biggest corporations that we will have to pay to breathe enough air.

ininewcrow , 1 month ago to Canada in Canada's 2024 wildfire season expected to be even worse than last year's

I'm up in northern Ontario near Sudbury ... and I've been driving around Timmins and Cochrane for the past few weeks. The forests don't have enough moisture ... we didn't get enough snow last year ... even my friends and relatives up north on James Bay are reporting a lot less water than years before. No one noticed that none of the James Bay communities reported emergency evacuations for anticipated floods this past spring like they normally do. There was about half the amount of snow here than last year.

It all means that the spring run off was a lot less than in previous years ... which means that our forests are already drying out and it isn't even warm or hot yet. As soon as that heat arrives, our forests are going to turn into tinder fire starter. Normally, we should have so much spring run off from our annual supply of snow and ice that it would keep our forests saturated long enough for them survive the summer heat and make it less possible for forest fires. Without that snow, we're doomed up here.

Take in a deep breath of fresh air everyone ... I hate to say it but I'm really worried that the whole north - everything north of North Bay, Sudbury and Thunder Bay - is going to go up in flames this summer. It won't be good for us in the north and it won't spare the south either because it will send clouds of smoke over the entire province.

ininewcrow , 1 month ago to Canada in Broken teeth and infected gums: 46K claims filed so far with Canadian Dental Care Plan

I really don't understand why they went with a private insurance company to deliver this program ... they really had to shoehorn a private company into a public service in order to make it happen. Cut out the private company and it would likely save more money in the long run ... money that could be turned around to hire government staff and a new government department to run the program. Instead of having a private company partly work to deliver the program and partly work to try to turn a profit by degrading the service for their monetary benefit.

There will always be fat to the system no matter who delivers it ... the difference is that if you allow private companies into these situations, they'll do everything in their power to deride the new system and turn into something that will only benefit them.