@GrandPa86328664@MaritStiles Immigration was always going to happen, but if you adjust healthcare spending for population growth you'll see spending never kept up.
@makemoneymoney6@JessicaBellTO You're basing this off your own preconceived notions. We typically see public-private partnerships skyrocket in cost and the quality of service falter.
@mayhem_ss@aiishadahir What about the British and the Americans? They've been the biggest foreign influence over Saudi. The British were the first to recognize Saudi. The US recognized them shortly after in exchange for letting US companies search for oil. Aramco was initially owned by the US.
Exactly this time last year, when I finished reading Bob Woodward’s “War”, I tweeted a passage that caught my attention.
It was a conversation between Lindsey Graham and Muhammad bin Salman which included like this.
“I don’t need uranium to make a bomb,” MBS said. “I’ll just buy one from Pakistan.”
A year later, Saudi’s are going public with this, which poses a serious geopolitical risk to Pakistan.
No carpet bombing of a city anything like as large as Tehran, anywhere, since WW2.
Pyongyang was flattened in Korean War, but had a population of 500k.
Mariupol, flattened by Russia, was 400k.
Tehran is 10 million.
We are seeing new levels of war crime.
@cecile_shaw8@bradyw1ls0n 1. Hearsay, defecters are unreliable due to incentives.
2. Hearsay.
3. Hearsay.
4. The only UN special rapporteur that comes up re: Cuba, was the recent rappoteur urging the US to remove sanctions on Cuba.
5. The US is hostile to Cuba, I wouldn't really believe them.
6. USAID
"If recognizing a Palestinian state proves to be a barrier in trade negotiations with the US, should Canada reverse that decision?"
No, Recognize Palestine: 63%
Yes, Reverse The Decision: 20%
Unsure: 17%
Angus Reid / Aug 1, 2025 / n=1333 / Online
You can't put election signage on public land (Anything on the roadside of the sidewalk in this case)
By-law officers are completely within their right to come and remove these signs
(Fun fact, campaigns frequently rat each other out to the by-law officers when they see opposition signs on public land like this)