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I hate all skype rooms. Yes, yours too. I stand with 🇺🇦. Vatniks, come FAFO with NAFO :-) Canadian, Liberal, Support Canadian Armed Forces. Pilot. Fella.

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@KreusHarri @kajakallas Behind every #Fella is a real person who believes in #Ukraine’s victory." - @kajakallas #NAFOExpansionIsNonNegotiable

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@gator_gum @HenriAGS Just typical Conservative “grass roots”

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@gator_gum My answer would be NO. Even if I could keep my Canadian citizenship. At the very least, the tax implications would require me to hire a specialist accountant.

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@Tablesalt13 At Sunnybrook, I'd wager it was 10 of 10 waiting for 48 hours or more in the ER for a bed upstairs. My wife has been admitted 10 times in the past 3 years, and every time it took more than 48 hrs to get out of the ER.

[Maxi @AllForProgress_]

Drive through almost any corner of the English countryside and sooner or later you pass a ruin: a roofless abbey, a row of broken arches open to the weather, a few worked stones in a field where something vast once stood. We are so used to these skeletons that we file them under scenery. In truth each one is a crime scene, and the oldest warning we have about what the English state does when it decides its own people are there to be harvested.

The fashionable comparison this season is the Civil War: the 1640s, the king against his parliament, the long slide to the sword. The state-as-enemy-of-the-nation. I think it's the wrong century. To see our situation as it actually is, go back a hundred years earlier, to the 1530s, and to the largest seizure of wealth in English history before the modern age - the Dissolution of the Monasteries.

The monasteries were far more than churches. They were the welfare state of their day, among the many other pillars-of-society which they constituted. They ran the hospitals and fed the poor at the gate. They schooled the clever sons of nobodies, took in travellers, lent money, employed half the county, and held perhaps a fifth of the land in England in a kind of standing trust for the people around them. They were the accumulated institutional capital of the nation, built up across four centuries.

In barely four years, the state took the lot.

The way it was done is the whole point. First the audit: Thomas Cromwell sent his men to value every religious house in the land down to the candlesticks - the Valor Ecclesiasticus, a Domesday Book drawn up for plunder. Then the justification: the same men came back with lurid dossiers of monkish vice and idleness, much of it invented and all of it deeply useful, because a thing you mean to destroy must first be declared rotten. Then the disposal. The proceeds went nowhere near the poor who had depended on the place. The land was sold, fast and cheap, to the Crown's creditors and courtiers and the rising, grasping gentry - a new class of men bound to the regime by the very loot they were handed, a good many of whose descendants sit on the same acres now.

When the north rose against it, in the Pilgrimage of Grace, the rising was put down and its leaders hanged on the strength of a royal pardon that was never meant to be honoured.

The result, for ordinary people, was a disaster that took generations to undo. The hospitals shut. The poor relief evaporated. England filled with vagrants and beggars - "sturdy beggars", in fact, which the same government then set about whipping through the streets - because the institutions that had carried the poor had been cashed in for the king's wars and the courtiers' estates. It took the better part of a century, and the Elizabethan Poor Law, to rebuild a fraction of what those four years had wrecked.

This is the English disease in its purest form, and a man ought to know his own country's worst habit when he sees it come round again. The English state has never had much need of tanks or secret police. Its signature is subtler. It finds the institutions ordinary people rely on, declares them corrupt or inefficient or unaffordable, audits them, hollows them, and transfers their substance - the money, the land, the power, the security - to the class that runs the machine.

You have watched it done. The hospitals, the courts, the high streets, the post offices, the savings, the very safety of the streets - audited, downgraded, closed, sold, or left to rot, while the apparatus sitting on top of it all has swollen to £400 billion a year and answers to nobody you can name. The monks are long gone and the method is immortal.

The ruins in the field are a gravestone, but they are also evidence, and evidence is always useful. Once a people learns to recognise the method - the audit, the manufactured rot, the fire-sale to insiders, the whole business wrapped in the word "reform" - it stops working on them.

The English have rebuilt everything that was stripped from them before: the parish relief, the friendly societies, the great Victorian foundations, the hospitals and schools of the last century, every one of them raised by people who refused to accept that the floor under ordinary life was gone for good. We will do it again. The first step is to stop calling the men selling the country reformers, and to call them what Cromwell's men were: looters with a jolly good filing system.

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@raghu_venugopal @CAEP_Docs @Megan_Ogilvie At Sunnybrook, my experience (with my wife, who has had to be admitted about 12 times in the past 2 years) is that it takes 2 to 3 days in the ER (usually in the hallways) to get admitted to a room. Those days are hell.

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@Jassmini2 An upgrade to a Slovenian prostitute? Ok - if that's your idea of an upgrade, your judgement is seriously in question.

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@Jassmini2 Doing nothing for a full day with no interruptions? It is everything you could hope for and more! Paradise.

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@TPS_32Planner Generally people drive at the speed they are comfortable with from a safety standpoint and fuel efficiency standpoint. Limits seem to have little effect - especially when they are artificially lowered to generate cash. People regularly have driven at 120-130kph on these roads.

[Annie Dufour @anniedufour99]

Canada : No more economic integration with the USA. "They would be our jailers "- Peter Donolo, The Globe and Mail
"Our future as a country does not lie inside a North American fortress. Especially one in which those holding the key have proven themselves belligerent, untrustworthy and hopelessly corrupt. They would not be our partners; they would be our jailers."
Worst of all, the pressure to harmonize our country’s foreign and domestic policies with the United States in “Fortress North America” would be irresistible – and result in our national self-erasure.
"Public health care? Publicly owned utilities? Made-in-Canada environmental, labour or even language laws? Our tight controls on election spending? Our public funding for Canadian arts and culture? All “unfair advantages” or “barriers” that, you can be sure, would be challenged with the maximum power and might of U.S. authorities."
"As Mr. Carney said last year: “The Americans want our resources, our water, our land, our country. Think about it. If they succeed they would destroy our way of life.”
#cdnpoli #onpoli #polqc

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@trainofangels00 Every car made in the past 10 years is capable of running spyware. All of them. This is not unique to the Chinese cars.

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@fordnation In the absence of heavy traffic, the average speeds on the 400 series highways in Ontario has always been somewhere between 120 and 140kph. Remember; if you're in the passing lane, you should be passing the cars on your right. If not, get out of that lane.

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@krunalbuilds Without reading any replies, I'm going to go with Erlang.

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@Murk441 Single?

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@Ashley7ex Your account is based in Pakistan.

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@Ashley7ex Ontario

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@Jassmini2 Drugs? 😆

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@Aspen_2210 Tit, tart, tort

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@Monica55dzrh Olivier

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@VanEmmerickKris They’ve been saying this since the beginning of the conflict. Empty threats - All of Russia would be destroyed, and All of the leaders would be killed within hours.

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@davepl1968 Those were good days.