Yeah, I lucked out in having nothing better to do at the time. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to catch all of the rest of the series, but I’m definitely going to keep an eye on it!

I don’t really follow baseball at all, and haven’t watched any of the playoffs to date. But I did watch this.

“As the labour movement in this province, our leaders have made a commitment to rise to that challenge, defend the teachers and their rights, defend worker rights more broadly, and to defend our democracy. We have no choice.”

[Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour] stopped short of confirming whether that response would include a provincewide strike, but said, “it’s one of the things that’s actively under consideration."

I’m not in Alberta, but pay doesn’t seem to be the sticking point here - the union is trying to negotiate on class sizes (which AFAIK the province is refusing to even disclose) and classroom supports.

Abuse of the NWS has been progressively normalized over the last few decades, and I think we’ve reached the breaking point.

Thank you - this is what I’m here for.

I linked to the article!

I took it from a news article from last week, which suggests pretty strongly that that proposal is exactly what was implemented, and they never produced an updated graphic.

But again, I’d welcome a genuine correction.

If you have additional information that contradicts it, I’d happy to see it. I don’t live in Quebec, and only know what I know.

Source

Deadline is actually an American Hollywood/entertainment industry trade outlet, so it’s definitely not a Canadian thing.

Weird metaphor to have in your style guide, though.

No, it says Canadian “beer” killed him. It’s an immediate signal that it wasn’t actually beer.

What’s misleading about it?

The product came from Canada.

The “beer” is in quotation marks, indicating that it wasn’t actually beer.

A 21-year-old was killed.

In New Zealand.

…not all low-income people are homeless?

I don’t think I’d call it a “catch”.

Carney said that Canadians who fail to file a return when they earn under the basic personal amount means Canadians “who most need benefits often don’t get them.”

Those benefits include the GST/HST tax credit, the Canada child benefit, the Canada workers benefit, the Canadian disability benefit and the disability tax credit.

*for low-income citizens who earn less than the basic personal amount

Well I’m happy for her - it sounds like it’s a good thing that she reconsidered her life goals, and found something more fulfilling.

I really think you’re putting words in her mouth.

“It felt impossible to go back to that kind of a life and I didn’t want to sacrifice my time with my family” has absolutely nothing to do with the process of transferring credentials to Canada, and everything to do with the job itself. “I feel that I can be a better nurse than a physician" speaks for itself.

There are plenty of stories about the challenges of transferring credentials. This, by her own account, as quoted in this article, is not one of them.

If the process were easier she wouldn’t have been “led” to reassess those priorities.

How does an easier process change her conclusion of, “I would be happier as a nurse?”

Not exactly.

When Tretiak first arrived in Canada in December 2022, she looked into obtaining a license to practice medicine, but the complexity of the process and volume of paperwork led her to reassess her priorities.

That doesn’t say she thought it was “too much.” It says she decided it wasn’t what she wanted to do.

You can argue that the process is too much - and it probably is, at least in places - but she pretty directly states that it led to her deciding that she didn’t actually want to be a doctor, and would rather be a nurse.