@mdhgray If we taxed 10% income tax avross the board we would pull in the same amount of tax revenue. That sounds fair. Also, the top 3% of earners in this country pay over 50% of the income tax. News flash, the rich are already taxed to hell. The bottom 50% pay 3% of the total tax. Facts
A landmark Finnish study has found a sharp rise in psychiatric illness among adolescents following sex-alteration procedures.
The peer-reviewed study, published in Acta Paediatrica, tracked every young person under 23 who contacted Finland's gender clinics between 1996 and 2019.
A total 2,083 individuals were studied, with 16,643 matched controls. They were followed for up to 25 years.
Finland's health registers are mandatory, which means no one opts out — this is the complete national picture.
The numbers: psychiatric morbidity rose from 9.8% to 60.7% in adolescents who underwent feminising reassignment, and from 21.6% to 54.5% in masculinising reassignment.
Even after adjusting for prior psychiatric history, gender-referred adolescents faced five times the risk of male population controls, and three times the risk of female controls.
"Psychiatric needs do not subside after medical gender reassignment," the authors concluded.
Referrals after 2010 arrived sicker. 47.9% had already needed psychiatric treatment before their first clinic visit, against 15.3% among controls.
The authors' read: for some adolescents, gender distress may be secondary to other mental health challenges.
The evidence keeps mounting. The silencing continues anyway.
How many more adolescents will be told this is "care"?
@Smileyyeg The fact that you can logically see this and still not think a trade deal with the US is ultra important to maintaining our standard of living is wild.
@Smileyyeg Does the Dominion Society inter people in work camps and vow to kill infidels against their religion? Pretty sure they don't, despite what cbc might say...
Just finished a call with the Prime Minister to discuss the tariff escalation.
My message: release the text of the rejected agreement, recall Parliament, and adopt an emergency Economic Action Plan to save jobs and lower costs for our people.
The plan should scrap gas taxes until Canada Day, have zero capital gains tax on reinvesting in Canada, end the industrial carbon tax, green -light the 500 projects waiting for federal permits, and have ZERO sales tax on Canadian-made cars.
As the U.S. hikes tariffs, we must lower taxes for Canadians.
Let’s all fight for our workers, our businesses, and our country.
@Jonathanvfhu@chiarachampagne@ABDanielleSmith That type of protectionist nonsense has been used as a bargaining tool and is one of the prime reason we have tariffs right now. It was only a matter of time before the country we're using it on, uses their own bargaining tool, in this case, tariffs.
@Jonathanvfhu@chiarachampagne@ABDanielleSmith And how do you get your product to compete against other products? You make it more cost effective, or cheaper. This isn't rocket science.
@Jonathanvfhu@chiarachampagne@ABDanielleSmith Milk quotas (our pretectionist nonsense) force famrers to dump THOUSANDS of litres of milk. By NOT doing that they would have more litrs to sell (to us, the citizens) and it would subsequently make the cost of each litre cheaper. Again, supply and demand.
@CJLewisJD@davidkmcgown@TristinHopper But without quotas the farmers wouldn't have tp pour thousands of liters of milk down the drain and our milk would be cheaper. Oh my
@wyatt_claypool I guess Carney should have started negotiating immediately, instead of throwing his "elbows up". I love how yhey're somehow blaming Poilievre too. Our political cycle is complete nonsense at this point, too bad a third of the country is completely dazzled.