OK, and now that a system is in place, they have a financial incentive to drop that coverage because it A) costs them money, and B) costs their workers money, so it makes no sense to keep it there.

While yes it's technically a fraction, and universal would've been better, the 4 in 5 people that make under 90k is a pretty darn big fraction.

While I agree universal would've been better, the cutoff is 90k. That's something like 80% of the population who qualify, and the top 20% can probably afford it.

In practice, is it really that different than universal with a raise in taxes on the wealthiest 20%?

Did we collectively forget that the NDP brought dental care to those who couldn't otherwise afford it? Kinda a big difference, no? The Liberals certainly wouldn't have done it themselves.

It seems more just that the optics of confidence and supply is confusing to some.

As much as I appreciate Japanese culture, they also created Oyakodon, which literally means "parent-and-child rice bowl". Like damn, Japan, what'd those birds ever do to you to necessitate multi-generational violence?

he left us with bad numbers

Yeah, I don't quite get it myself. The only thing I can think of is that it might be designed for American citizens living abroad, but I can't quite figure out why there either.

Maybe it's just being onerous enough to discourage all but the most serious attempts.

PTB. If everything you say is accurate, the mods did not handle that in an appropriate manner.

If they have a blanket rule against AS, then they should enforce it. If they wanted to preserve open discussion, they should've asked the the other user to ammend their comment removing the offending links, and this all would've been avoided.

Yes, OP did get rather heated, but I think their reaction was understandable, if not justified.

I'd imagine that's because of the STCA, but there seems to be a loophole where it doesn't apply if you enter via water and don't claim refugee status before 14 days.

If I were really determined, I'd at least ask an immigration lawyer about it, and then I'd plan on taking a 2 week camping trip in Canada when I thought shit was likely to go down.

Anything But Conservative ( some conditions apply). 🤪

Omae wa mou... shinderou!

FBI! Open up!

If you face:

• danger of torture
• risk to your life
• risk of cruel and unusual treatment or punishment

https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/asylum/in-canada/eligibility.html

If you enter Canada from the U.S.
...
Your claim may not be eligible if you entered Canada from the U.S.:

• at an official land border crossing
  or
• anywhere along the border, including rivers, lakes and other waterways, and made a refugee claim less than 14 days after the day that you entered

"He fills my soul. When I watch him on the lives, it's one crying, we were in tears," she said. "You feel from the soul of Pierre, just bringing that out to everybody."

How about neither, lol. They'll come up with some healthy synthetic dye fast enough if enough money is on the line.

かわいい！

Why are Republicans so enthralled with eating bugs? I'll take the beet juice, but I'd rather eat some oil than bugs.

Not bad for 44

Damnn, ain't no way...

I gotta hit the gym. 😑

While I totally see where you're coming from, let me try and steelman the counterargument a bit:

There have been signs that Elon was a shit person for a very long time. Even some ten years ago when I personally thought "well he's kinda doing cool stuff in space" I had people telling me: "look at the way he treats workers".

If you did your due diligence, you should know the kind of person you're working for. So either these companies were negligent in their responsibilities, or they knew what they were signing up for and went ahead anyways.

The people who can afford to start a car dealership aren't exactly the ones struggling to know where their next meal is coming from, or how to pay rent. These are well off people that were carless or took a gamble, and it didn't pay out, and they deserve the hardship for their negligence or poor conduct.

Gardening metaphors can only take us so far, I guess. I wish you the best, and hope that you don't get discouraged, and can keep an open mind. (: