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Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money.

[UnitedNumber_7 @UnitedNumber_7]

This:

[GuruAnaerobic @GuruAnaerobic]

'Make the World More Unequal'

[UnitedNumber_7 @UnitedNumber_7]

@KanwarSierah The immigration system carries a lot of the burden, but the role federal judges play in the current state of immigration in Canada is huge.

Several judges come from refugee activism backgrounds, and they use courts and the legal system in favour of their cause.

[Colin Jonov @ColkyJonov10]

“Cruelty is not simply opposite of compassion, it’s often adjacent to it; so much evil is done out of love.”

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

Optimism is not the belief that everything will be fine, but the belief that problems are SOLVABLE, combined with the willingness to actually go solve them. That thesis has built every good thing we have.

[QuietReckon @QuietReckon]

You have the entirety of human knowledge on a slab of glass in your pocket.

Learning, building a business, and active curiosity on your phone is not the same as watching clothing reviews on TikTok.

As always, you are accountable for the outcomes. Your phone and AI are not.

[UnitedNumber_7 @UnitedNumber_7]

@KirkLubimov A group that represents around 5% of the population gets to hold a country's economy hostage.

[UnitedNumber_7 @UnitedNumber_7]

@StevePaolasini Governments should be as small as possible and should stay out of the way as much as possible. Sadly, most governments do the opposite. They take on the role of a protective paternalistic figure that must be involved in absolutely everything.

No wonder why growth has stalled.

[UnitedNumber_7 @UnitedNumber_7]

@avidseries What's the main purpose of prisons?

To rehabilitate/successfully reinstate criminals into society?

To deter/punish criminal behavior by restricting freedom?

To protect the general population by restricting criminals' access to society?

It should be to protect society.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

This has been my philosophy ever since I was a kid and read Richard Dawkins describe how delusional ideologies are parasites that hijack the host to make them spread it to others. It made me less hostile to the believer, and more hostile toward the belief.

[Kirk Lubimov @KirkLubimov]

WTAF is going in Canada?

> man gets assessed outside of Tim Hortons.
> doctor recommends euthanasia, of course.
> the doctor drives that person to get euthanized.

Pretty much the state of Canada these days.
I bet his last cup of coffee was served by a foreign worker as well.

[UnitedNumber_7 @UnitedNumber_7]

@Mufc_Sarah He's had quite a few good saves but I have yet to see something special like what De Gea was able to deliver in his prime.

Sure, it took De Gea a while to get there, but I just don't see anything special about him. Maybe stability and a decent keeper is more than enough though.

[utdreport @utdreport]

BRUNO FERNANDES HAS DONE IT.

THE MOST ASSISTS IN A SINGLE PREMIER LEAGUE SEASON 🤯🇵🇹

[UnitedNumber_7 @UnitedNumber_7]

@KanwarSierah Prioritizing high earners is definitely a move in the right direction. As with all policies, the challenge lies in making it as fraud proof as possible.

The question is how?

And if this is not a move in the right direction, what would be?

[UnitedNumber_7 @UnitedNumber_7]

@KirkLubimov Having another nation within a nation is a recipe for stagnation and bureaucracy.

[UnitedNumber_7 @UnitedNumber_7]

@KirkLubimov People from Western cultures will NEVER comprehend how normalized things like fraud, bribes, corruption, and lying are in other cultures.

It's sad to see how Canada is being hustled by so many who will happily play the system simply because the doors to do so are wide open.

[Dikshit Soni, RCIC @dikshitsoni]

🧵 1/5 The Conestoga College Story

In 2012, Conestoga College in Kitchener, Ontario was a modest, unremarkable polytechnic. About 10,000 students. Nine out of ten of them Canadian. A school that served its community, trained tradespeople and healthcare workers, and quietly did what community colleges are supposed to do.

Nobody was watching Conestoga because nobody needed to. And then came the money.

Canada's provincial governments had frozen domestic tuition for years. Funding per student was chronically below the national average — about $5,200 short per student annually. The result was that the colleges were quietly suffocating. And then Ottawa offered a lifeline: international students. No cap. No ceiling. And they paid 3 to 4 times what a domestic student paid.

Conestoga saw the opportunity before almost anyone else — and went harder than any institution in the country.

By 2017, they were celebrating a "record" 2,300 international students enrolling in a single month. By 2022, total enrollment had doubled to 42,000 — with nearly 30,000 of them international. By 2023, revenue hit $945 million. At peak, Conestoga alone held more international study permits than the University of Toronto and UBC combined. They accounted for over 4% of every study permit holder in Canada.

A public college in Kitchener, Ontario was generating nearly a billion dollars a year — almost entirely on tuition from students who came from India, Nigeria, and the Philippines, believing that a Canadian diploma was their ticket to permanent residency.

But here's the part that tells you everything about how they saw themselves: they weren't satisfied. They wanted more. And they had a plan to get it.

Conestoga originally operated from a handful of campuses anchored in the Waterloo Region: Doon, Waterloo, Cambridge, Guelph. By the peak of the boom, they had expanded aggressively to over a dozen locations including Milton, Stratford, downtown Kitchener, and more — a footprint that grew almost entirely with international enrollment.

The national average tuition revenue per student at a Canadian public college sits around $8,000 to $9,000 domestically. For colleges outside the GTA, the average international student tuition collected runs roughly $14,000 to $19,000 per year. Conestoga, at its peak, was processing nearly 30,000 new international arrivals annually at those rates.

Do the math....

[James Cantor @JamesCantorPhD]

People want to hear opinions only from experts. But they decide who the experts are only after hearing their opinions.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

You can go to hell without moving an inch, just focus on what you lack.

You can taste heaven without leaving earth, just rejoice in what you have.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

First he was told that he had to be put to sleep. Then it looked like he might never walk again but what nobody had counted on was the heart within little Stormzy.

I remember the days trying to teach him to walk. He must have fallen over 1000 times but every time he got back up

[National Post @nationalpost]

Failed refugee claimant, MS-13 gang informant, identity thief and forger can stay in Canada https://t.co/5MWdxj2ySN

[James Clear @JamesClear]

People can help you in many ways throughout life, but there are two things nobody can give you: curiosity and drive. They must be self-supplied.

If you are not interested and curious, all the information in the world can be at your fingertips, but it will be relatively useless. If you are not motivated and driven, whatever connections or opportunities are available to you will be rendered inert.

Now, you won't feel curious and driven about every area of life, and that's fine. But it really pays to find something that lights you up. This is one of the primary quests of life: to find the thing that ignites your curiosity and drive.

There are many recipes for success. There is no single way to win. But nearly all recipes include two ingredients: curiosity and drive.