1 in 4 Canadian employees is now a public servant.
25% of the entire workforce works for government or a government-funded sector.
Highest level in Canadian history.
Of all the jobs added in the last six years, 42% were government jobs.
833,000 new government positions.
THIS is how a government FAKES good GDP numbers to hide their failure.
Pump up the public payroll, call it growth, and hope nobody notices the private sector is carrying the load.
But we Canadians FEEL the failure.
Food banks packed with working people.
Housing out of reach.
Wages that donโt keep up.
Bigger bureaucracy does not equal a stronger country.
It equals a heavier burden on the people who actually create the wealth.
The math is broken.
And so is the country under this Liberal model.
#cdnpoli #LiberalFail #CanadaFirst
ATTENTION: Bri is MISSING
๐จPlease Call 911/Local authorities if you have seen her or know anything
She was last seen on July 23rd and was SUPPOSED to return home from her trip on July 28th. She has friends watching her cat/home
She has been absent on social media, last tiktok and twitter post (other than auto posting) was on the 24th of July
From what I understand, those who have been in more recent contact have said her messages/responses seem out of character/not like her. NO CALLS have been successful. Last text recieved was on August 5th
She was supposed to be home over 10 days ago from her trip in Miami
A text even said to give her cats to the rescue..
I deeply hope everything is okay, we all care about you, Bri ๐ Whatever is going on, I hope you are safe and know you have soooo many people trying to get you back home
โ๏ธ Closer Contacts listed below ->
@playserena@xxxamonebane@OCModeling@sashatatcha
I Am Being Told To Stop Saying Dog Crate Condo: Some People Are Mad About It
I am being told it's demeaning to the people who live in them
I'm told it hurts sales, it hurts feelings, it casts tiny Condos in a bad light
Many people telling me to stop
So I decided: Fuck That
My father died in Japan in February and I could not get back.
I told exactly one American, and only because he asked a direct question at a bad moment and I have never been able to lie fast enough.
He did not say he was sorry.
He said, "You busy Saturday?"
I was not busy Saturday. I have not been busy on a Saturday since I arrived in this country.
He wanted help moving a riding mower to the other side of his garage. The mower runs. He drove it out himself. I want to be accurate here, because I have thought about it a great deal since: the mower ended that day about two feet from where it started.
We were in the garage five hours.
There was a small refrigerator out there with beer in it and one orange drink belonging to his grandson, and neither of us touched the orange drink at any point.
We discussed a shelf. We discussed a bolt for some time. Around one o'clock we spent close to forty minutes on the correct way to coil a hose, and he was wrong, and I told him he was wrong, and he told me to prove it, and I proved it, and he said "huh," and that was the end of it.
He did not mention my father once.
I had prepared for it. In my country a man in mourning is approached with fixed phrases that have been in service four hundred years, which is the entire purpose of them, and I had built mine in English over three nights. They were not good. They were ready.
I never used them. I still have them written down.
At six he said, "Same time next week?"
We did that for five Saturdays. We moved a workbench. We rewired a light that already worked. One Saturday we sorted screws by length, which is not a job. That is somewhere to put a man.
In April a neighbor three doors down lost his mother.
I do not own a mower. I own a boat trailer that does not need to be moved.
He came at eight. He is coming again this Saturday.
I have not said one word to him about his mother and I am not going to.
He knows what time.
A SpaceX recruiter once described what happens when Elon Musk personally interviews a candidate. And it explains why SpaceX has the lowest acceptance rate of any company in aerospace, lower than NASA, lower than Boeing, lower than any defense contractor on earth.
She said the interview doesn't feel like an interview. There's no behavioral questions. No "tell me about a time when." No competency framework. Elon sits across from the candidate and starts asking technical questions at the boundary of the candidate's expertise. Then he pushes past the boundary.
He's not testing whether you know the answer. He's testing what happens when you don't. Does the candidate panic and make something up? Do they freeze? Or do they say "I don't know but here's how I would figure it out" and then reason through it in real time?
She said the candidates who get hired are almost never the ones with the most impressive resumes. They're the ones who reached the edge of their knowledge and kept thinking out loud instead of shutting down. The willingness to sit in not knowingn and work through it publicly is the signal Elon selects for.
She said he rejected a PhD from MIT and hired a self-taught engineer from a state school in the same week. The PhD froze at the edge of his knowledge. The self taught engineer said "I've never solved that specific problem but here's how I'd approach it" and then spent ten minutes reasoning through it while Elon listened.
SpaceX doesn't hire credentials. It hires problem solvers. And the only way to identify a real problem solver is to push them past what they know and watch what happens in the space between knowledge and uncertainty. That space is where rockets get built.
I saw a homeless man with a sign that read โยฃ1 for a dirty jokeโ
Seemed like a good investment to me so I gladly handed over a quid.
Homeless man: โLook there, you can see a Rooster right? How many legs does it have?"
Me: โTwo?โ
Homeless man: โCorrect, now how many wings does this Rooster have?โ
Me: โTwo?โ
Homeless man: โRight, now how many eyes this Rooster have?โ
Me: โTwo?โ
Homeless man: โCorrect again! Now look over there, you see a Cat right?
Me: โYes, I see a catโ
Homeless man: โhow many hairs on that catโs whiskers?โ
Me: โI don't know?โ
Homeless man: โBro, why do you know so much about cock and know nothing about pussy?โ
John McAfee after his house got raided in Belize:
"Within a week, the entire government computer system was under my control."
"I was looking for information that they had set me up for that raid."
"I didn't find that. I did find out that the Minister of National Defence was the largest drug trafficker in all of Central America, and the Minister of Immigration [was] the largest human trafficker."
HERO: On April 22, 2018, James Shaw Jr. walked into a Waffle House in Antioch, Tennessee, expecting nothing more than breakfast. Minutes later, gunfire erupted inside the restaurant.
Four people had already been killed, and the gunman was still holding an AR-15-style rifle. Most people ran. Shaw made a split-second decision.
Unarmed, he charged the shooter, grabbed the rifle by its burning-hot barrel with his bare hands, and fought until he wrested the weapon away. His hands were severely burned, but he did not let go. The gunman fled. Shawโs actions almost certainly prevented further loss of life.
The country called him a hero. Shaw refused the title. He said he was simply trying to survive and protect the people around him. Instead of seeking attention, he launched a fundraiser that raised more than $200,000 for the victimsโ families. He continued speaking about healing and supporting communities affected by violence.
The headlines have long since faded. Many no longer remember the name. But courage like James Shaw Jr.โs should never be forgotten.