dwazou

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The Canadian Identity in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 1 points 22 minutes ago* (last edited 7 minutes ago)

American influence is the worst thing that ever happened to Canada.

Take for instance Opioids.

Canadians are now the second highest per capita users of opioids on the planet, only behind the USA.

Opioid sales in Canada have increased by +3000% since the 1980s.

https://www.mironline.ca/the-opioid-crisis-a-canadian-perspective/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31845436/

According to a recent study, Canadian and American doctors are 7 times more likely than European doctors to prescribe Opioids after a surgery:

https://www.pennmedicine.org/news/news-releases/2019/september/patients-in-the-us-and-canada-are-seven-times-as-likely-as-sweden-to-receive-opioids--surgery

How did it happen? English-Canada doctors go to conferences with their american colleagues. They liked them. They socialized. They trusted them.

  • "Wow, we are so similar haha"!

  • "It was nice attending this conference with you. See you next year !!"

Health Canada is also responsible for this disaster.

A number of studies have pointed out Health Canada’s failures to control the promotion of opioids in Canada, allowing Purdue to spread misinformation about OxyContin in particular and opioids in general

Based on little evidence, in 1996 Health Canada approved the drug for the management of moderate pain, ignored the risk of addiction, and allowed the statement in the product monograph that the risk of misuse is low. In addition, the product monograph provided no recommended maximum dose, allowing the drug to be marketed and prescribed with no upper dose limit.

It also took Health Canada more than ten years to revise misleading claims that appeared in the OxyContin product monograph

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10310031/

Again. Health Canada largely trusts the US FDA. They attend the same conferences every single year. If the americans say something is safe, the Health Canada officials largely trust them.

The Opioid Mess is exactly what happens when you trust one of the most institutionally corrupt nation in the West because they sound friendly and speak English. Thank god Quebec doctors kept reading french newspapers and listening to french regulators. They largely avoided this Opioid plague.

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We need spies. Canada is the only G7 country without a foreign intelligence agency. It's completely foolish to trust the americans. (www.lapresse.ca)
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We need spies. Canada is the only G7 countries without a foreign intelligence agency. It's completely foolish to trust the americans. (www.lapresse.ca)
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Financial Times: A hairdresser was sent to a maximum security prison. Trump ignored a court order to release him. Foreign travelers to the US should beware. You can be detained without recourse. (www.ft.com)
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Jérémie Assous, avocat de Depardieu : la face sombre du «sale gosse du barreau» (www.liberation.fr)
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Investigation finds Bangladesh politician bought at least 350 homes in UK (www.bloomberg.com)
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UK police chiefs call for ban on social media for under-16s (www.theguardian.com)
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California festival campers report being stuck in their car for several hours without access to water or restrooms. "We've been here since 3 a.m. It's literally almost 11 a.m'' (abc7.com)
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British Columbia real estate developers are pushing back against foreign buyer restrictions. Refusing foreigners with a lot of money is unfair, they claim. (www.theglobeandmail.com)
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  • British Columbians overwhelmingly favour the provincial foreign buyer tax and the federal two-year ban on foreign real estate purchases, a new poll shows. But developers, experiencing a bitter downturn, are pushing the government to ditch policies that curb foreign investment. They say they desperately need investors to return to the market.

  • According to a recent paper, in the 1980s, the government opened its doors to wealthy migrants with the Business Immigration Program that allowed about 200,000 people, mostly from East Asia, into Canada, until it was shelved in 2012. Instead of spurring entrepreneurial activity, the wealthy migrants invested heavily in property. Meanwhile, they continued to earn most of their income offshore, paying an average annual income tax in Canada of only $1,400

  • After much reluctance, the B.C. Liberal government finally responded with a 15 per cent foreign buyer tax in 2016. It was too little, too late for the party, and the next year the NDP took over the government and increased the tax to 20 per cent. They also introduced other demand-side measures, including the speculation and vacancy tax, which requires citizens to declare if they are paying Canadian income tax and if the home is a principal residence.

  • There are signs that in the current market downturn, the development community would like to reopen those doors to outside money. Condo marketer Bob Rennie said racism is driving the pushback against foreign investor buying.

  • Bob Rennie recently spoke on a real estate industry panel hosted by Postmedia and said he’d been talking to Mark Carney about opening rental housing development to foreign investment. Rennie also said he was opposed to the foreign buyers’ tax from the start, and believed it was a racist policy.

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Undercover investigator emerges from L.A. slaughterhouse with videos of animal torture. "I looked in the eyes of cows who could feel every slice as their ears were cut off" (www.nytimes.com)
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The footage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHIdWRQR39A

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US Naval Academy library removed books such as "Memorializing the Holocaust." Still on the shelves: copies of "Mein Kampf" (www.nytimes.com)
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An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

Gone is “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” Maya Angelou’s transformative best-selling 1970 memoir chronicling her struggles with racism and trauma.

Gone is “Memorializing the Holocaust,” Janet Jacobs’s 2010 examination of how female victims of the Holocaust have been portrayed and remembered.

Two copies of “Mein Kampf” by Adolf Hitler are still on the shelves.

“The Bell Curve,” which argues that Black men and women are genetically less intelligent than white people, is still there. But a critique of the book was pulled.

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Paris said au revoir to cars. Air pollution maps reveal a dramatic change. (www.washingtonpost.com)
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Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin plays chess with Zbigniew Brzezinski at Camp David, 1978 (jlai.lu)
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Pharma companies urge Trump administration to target Canadian drug pricing in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 34 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (11 children)

A vial of insulin costs far more in the U.S. than it does in Canada.

Drug prices are set by Canada’s Patented Medicine Prices Review Board which sets price caps by comparing drug prices across a group of 11 countries. The U.S. used to be included in the formula, but was removed from the group in 2022 — because U.S. drug prices are an insane global outlier.

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

A group of Pharma companies including Pfizer and Merck have asked the Trump administration to put pressure on Canada. They are accusing the country of unfair trade practices.

Halifax to phase out use of X as official social media platform in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

In december 2023, Reuters found Tesla systematically lied to customers about the range of their cars

👉 https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

In 2023, the New York Times exposed how Tesla lied about the safety of his self-driving mode. Engineers told Musk the system wasn't safe. He told them to shut up. As a result of his lies, several people were killed:

👉 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/magazine/tesla-autopilot-self-driving-elon-musk.html

Guess how Elon Musk reacted ? Did he resign? Nope. He went on the offensive.

He tells people to avoid "legacy media" (news organizations doing real journalism) and trust shady podcasters. He also ensured links to Reuters and the New York Times articles can't go viral on X

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/27/musk-x-throttle-links-threads-bluesky/

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/15/x-formerly-twitter-slows-down-access-to-threads-the-new-york-times-bluesky-and-more/

Elon Musk's greatest skill is his ability to lie without absolutely any shame.

Tesla was created by Marc Tarpenning and Martin Eberhard. Elon Musk joined the company, took over. Then he sued them both. He bought the title "cofounder" with a secret legal settlement. Now, he calls himself the cofounder.

https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk

He's also "Chief Engineer" at Space X. That's another title he bought too, as he owns the company. He's actually not a real engineer. He has a degree in finance.

Just like he is the co-founder of PayPal by most publications. When in reality his company merged with the company that created PayPal. He only worked for the company for a few months after they merged before being fired.

He has a habit of smearing innocent people. He once called an innocent man a pedophile and hired investigators to dig dirt on him.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-ignores-tesla-board-and-keeps-tweeting

He did the same thing when taking over Twitter. He called twitter executives “scum”, “dishonest” and “thieves”.

He described USAID as a criminal organization. Yet, not a single USAID worker will be prosecuted. Because there is absolutely no evidence that USAID workers misappropriated any money. This is just how Elon Musk operates. Lying. Smearing innocent people. Because, unfortunately, some gullible fools believe him.

This dude just lies shamelessly. Even his video game performance is based on cheating.

Halifax to phase out use of X as official social media platform in c/canada@lemmy.ca
Why Canada is on the cusp of a housing construction crisis in c/canada@lemmy.ca
[–] dwazou@jlai.lu 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Justin Trudeau is a decent man. In a world where many leaders are thugs. He has done a lot of good things such as assisted dying, legal marijuana, strengthening competition law or that bill against greenwashing.

However, the single biggest failure of Trudeau was immigration.

Justin Trudeau's immigration policies were absolutely extreme. Under his leadership, the Canadian population increased by 3% a year. This is far more than France, Britain, the United States, Mexico, Turkey, Brazil or Saudi Arabia. In fact, the only region of the world where you see a 3% annual population growth is Africa.

This extreme population growth triggered an unprecedented housing crisis. Visible homelessness is rising in every single canadian city, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. People are scared to end up homeless. New migrants are viciously exploited by unethical landlords.

You can't tell people from around the world "Come to Canada" and think it will have no consequences on housing.

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