@RayMcDo52209957@DefazioIvano Divisive clickbait. Just another delay. Hopefully it will be operational soon. It is an engineering beauty ready to go, shame it is idle.
@StarfieldSteve@AreOhEssEyeEe My very successful career in healthcare came to an abrupt end long before I would have normally retired. I easily could have worked 10 more years in the field. The fact that people just want us to get over this amazes me
I was banned from society for a year. I wasn't allowed to attend funerals, concerts, go to restaurants, see dying loved ones in the hospital or leave the country.
So to the inclusive woke pride crowd that's so accepting of everyone, don't give me your lies about everyone being included when you clapped like seals and happily participated in ostracizing and treating myself and many others like trash over a personal decision. Don't tell me to get over it.
I will NEVER get over it.
This is what the ‘51st State’ could actually mean, without calling it that. There are a decent number of Canadians who’d happily join an economic union with the United States — and they’re right. 🇨🇦🇺🇸
Canada is a resource-rich nation governed by incompetent socialists who’ve turned our dollar into a joke.
We need to think bigger.
What would it actually look like?
1. One North American passport. Live, work, and travel freely between the two countries. No more border nonsense for actual citizens.
2. Ditch the pathetic Canadian dollar for the USD. End the currency weakness, inflation games, and ‘Trudeau peso’ embarrassment.
3. Total free trade. Zero tariffs. Integrated supply chains. North America becomes an economic fortress that China couldn’t dream of competing with.
4. Resources + American capital = explosion of wealth. Canada’s oil, minerals, and water paired with U.S. markets and investment. Actual prosperity instead of managed decline.
5. Harmonized regulations so doctors, engineers, and tradespeople can work anywhere without jumping through endless bureaucratic hoops.
This isn’t becoming the 51st state. It’s two sovereign nations acting like adults and building the strongest economic bloc on Earth.
Forget the European Union. It’s a weaker version of this. Canada’s current path is national suicide. Choose strength over feelings & TDS.
Thoughts? 🇺🇸🇨🇦
I visited Mt. Rushmore on Memorial Day. I may have been the only Canadian there. It was glorious, I stood in awe of American history and patriotism. God Bless America
Six years ago …
This beautiful mother, sister, and daughter .. Stephanie Warriner .. was taken from her family.
Hospital security in Toronto restrained her in the waiting room… because her mask was down while she fought for air with COPD.
She never woke up.
This is what government fear and mask mandates did to people.
Hospitals turned into enforcement zones instead of places of healing.
Never forget Stephanie. Never let them do this again. RIP 💔 🕊️
@ThrillaRilla369 Duran Duran was opening for Blondie back in the 80's at the Ex in Toronto. DD blew the crowd away, then Blondie stood there like a Zombie. Lost the crowd, people left during her show
@WallStreetApes It happens in Uber as well. I was in Toronto. Was supposed to be a 10-minute ride. At the 15 minute mark I realized we were going to complete opposite direction. I told him but he spoke no English. He just kept driving. Finally I had to raise my voice to get him turned around.
Imagine describing the modern food system to a farmer in 1955.
"So you've stopped eating butter?"
Mostly. We were told it was killing us.
"And the cream off the top of the milk?"
We pour that down the sink. Then we buy powdered vitamins to replace what it contained.
"You eat the chicken without the skin and the egg without the yolk?"
Yes.
"You cook your food in oil pressed from a flower with hexane in a refinery?"
Yes.
"You've swapped wool for polyester and leather for plastic?"
Yes.
"You eat bread made by a machine, from grain you've never seen, in a factory five counties away?"
Yes.
"And you're sicker than we are?"
Considerably. Diabetic by 40. Medicated by 50.
"And you blame the cow?"
Yes.
The 1955 farmer goes back to his work and says nothing more.
He is glad he was born when he was. He pities the children of the children of his children.
He has every reason to.
If you're over sixty, you grew up eating food your grandchildren would describe as a heart attack on a plate.
Dripping on toast. Lard in the pan. Eggs and bacon as a normal weekday breakfast. Liver and onions because liver was cheap and onions were in the garden. Mince and potatoes. A bit of cheese, a bit of butter, a bit of bread, and a strong cup of coffee or tea to wash it down.
Your generation was, on average, leaner than the children walking past your window today.
You weren't lean because you were virtuous. You were lean because you were eating animals.
Then in the late 1970s, somewhere between a US Senate committee with no nutritional training rewriting national dietary policy and a margarine industry seeing the opportunity of a century, the whole framework was inverted. Fat became the villain. Cholesterol became the new tobacco. The food you'd eaten every day of your life without consequence was suddenly the thing trying to kill you.
You changed your breakfast. Margarine instead of butter. Skimmed milk instead of full fat. Cornflakes instead of eggs. Low-fat yoghurt instead of cream. Dry toast instead of dripping. Vegetable oil instead of lard.
Then you got fatter. And sicker. And tireder. The bloodwork started drifting. The waistline started creeping. The doctor started writing prescriptions. One at first, then three, then five.
You are not the generation that got this wrong.
You are the generation it was done to.