Canada is a failed state

[The Cum Beast]

Rough, was it one of those sandwiches?

One of their donut, I think it was a Boston Cream.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

I'm just left with the dilemma of trying to hedge my bets. I do have a higher quality of life in canada then I would in the states. Without power leveling to much ive a very specialized skill.

I just have to decide if things will hold apart enough that the cost for a gated community isn't more then what I would lose running to freedom land. Its honestly a grim calculation.

I would suggest selling all your assets and moving to Freedom land. PA is nice. Texas is overrated. Kentucky is actually underrated, to be honest, as a state.
North Cackalacky is pretty nice

 

[McSneaks]

Also, my dad has (lung?) cancer in Nova Scotia. I'm not surprised given he smoked liked a chimney and drank like the Scot he his but god am I pissed at how long its taking to get results just for diagnostics and planning. 2 fucking months for a PET scan because 'immigrants' are clogging the system. And of course they fucked up the first biopsy. I'm close to fedposting and need to stop drinking. I swear if I pry outta my mother it was jeet who took that failed sample...

I have a very young family member that has cancer and the Canadian solution...is to repeatedly fly the family to the US where they can actually treat it because the Canadian medical system is a complete fucking failure and no one wants to work in it. It's incredible

If you really want a good time you should see how many people were left permanently crippled from what minor procedures would have fixed after COVID turned 3 year wait times into 10 year wait times. The good news is they're finally addressing all these inadequacies by making sure the timeframe from application to needle with MAID is about 2.1 days and performed by the one white doctor so you get the VIP experience

Immediately after posting that I see an incredible article about how foreigners robbed $200m from BC hospitals....over FOUR YEARS only

B.C. hospitals are increasingly dealing with a form of medical dine-and-dash, where foreign visitors get treatment and then take off without paying their bills.

That’s according to new data dug up by think tank SecondStreet.org, which used freedom of information requests to total up more than $200 million in unpaid medical costs run up by people from other countries who then skipped town.

“This would likely be people coming to B.C. for tourism, maybe they are there for work or something, maybe there to take advantage of the system, and they get some kind of health-care treatment and are being given a bill and not paying it,” said Colin Craig, SecondStreet’s president.

The amount is spread over four years, from fiscal 2020-21 to 2024-25, with Fraser Health having the highest losses at $95.6 million, followed by Interior Health at $54 million, Vancouver Coastal at $31 million and Island Health at $21 million. Northern Health did not produce costs.

The unpaid bills come at a time the B.C. government has pledged to cut costs in health care to tackle the record $13.3-billion deficit forecast this year. It’s currently reviewing how to merge services across health authorities, cut administration costs and reduce mid-level executives.

Finance Minister Brenda Bailey has said the government is reviewing all spending, everywhere, as well as cutting 15,000 full-time equivalent positions in the public sector. Health is the largest and fastest-growing expense for the provincial treasury.

“We are in a health-care crisis and every dollar matters,” said BC Conservative health critic Anna Kindy. “So [government] should be looking at that, tracking it, and potentially see what other counties are doing about it, because that’s a big number.”


The missing $200 million may only appear to be a fraction of the $40.6 billion annual health-care budget for B.C.

But put in real procedural terms, it represents surgical procedures for thousands of people that could lower wait lists.

“This is the equivalent of 21,000 hip replacement operations,” said Craig.

“That’s the equivalent of an NHL arena full of fans you could help. That’s a lot of people.

“We always say you’re not going to fix the health-care system by making one change or two, it will take a lot of changes, but this is certainly something governments could take a look at to make sure health-care dollars are spent on Canadian health-care patients.”

B.C.’s Ministry of Health said in a statement it does try to collect payment up front for non-residents, but that in emergency situations it will not refuse care if a person cannot pay.

“In emergency situations, care is always provided regardless of ability to pay,” read the statement.

“No one is denied care. Patients are triaged and treated based on severity of their illness.”

The government tries to recover medical bills “thoughtfully and thoroughly” the ministry said, without explaining how it does so and whether that process could be improved.

Kindy said she agrees with SecondStreet’s recommendations that B.C. lobby the federal government to require out-of-country tourists have health insurance before entering Canada. That’s a requirement already in place in some European countries.

“Let’s say you did get health care in Canada, and you left, well, you’re not allowed back in unless you pay for the treatment,” said Kindy, who is also a physician. “And I think that’s fair.”

B.C.’s numbers are already amongst the highest collected by SecondStreet, which has been filling FOI requests in every province to gather a national picture, said Craig.

For a government that says it’s trying to pinch every penny, and making tough decisions about spending, going after those non-residents who heal and peel out of our system seems like a no-brainer first step.

https://www.nsnews.com/economy-law-politics/rob-shaw-medical-dine-and-dash-costing-bc-hospitals-millions-12394673

But put in real procedural terms, it represents surgical procedures for thousands of people that could lower wait lists.

“This is the equivalent of 21,000 hip replacement operations,” said Craig.

Oh it's not a big deal, grandma doesn't need to walk it's more important to let a few thousand more indians clog up the hospital's for bullshit


It's also now come out that Carney's incredible elbows up middle power proposal to all these countries....is that if you partner with us you get access to who you actually want....the US. Incredible 10/10 https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/trumps...-push-collides-with-reality-of-us-dependence/

Yet Carney’s push to lessen dependence on the U.S. is colliding with a stubborn reality: access to American markets remains a crucial part of Canada’s appeal to prospective trading partners, according to interviews with a dozen government officials and business leaders.

But Canadian officials acknowledge that the main draw for many potential trading partners is the prospect of gaining tariff-free access to the world’s largest market through Canada’s participation in the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA).

Carney regularly touts Canada’s preferential access to the U.S. market, noting that more than 85 per cent of bilateral trade remains tariff-free.

 

[PhoBingas]

One of their donut, I think it was a Boston Cream.

Shit eh? The custard filling probably went rancid. That's about all I figure would have made you sick.

 

[The Cum Beast]

And as if wasn't enough. After the Holocaust Industry, here come the "denialism industrial complex".
https://youtube.com/watch?v=CMaIQGssPJQ

I was thinking, if Canadian libs believe in collective punishment, shouldn't that mean, going by their logic, Canadian libs should be punished for the bad things China or Iran are doing? Given how much libs love China and Islamist countries like Iran. I mean, if libs want Canada to be a part of an 'anti amerikkkan axis' with them so badly, then they might as own it.

 

[McSneaks]

These scumbag cellphone companies are already (predictably) just make alternative scams to get around the new ban on activation fees. Telus is now charging a SIM card fee "not to activate it but because it's a physical product we have to sell....uh of course it applies to esims too but that's because someone has to uh physically touch a computer"

And Bell is charging a "handling fee" which is totally not an activation fee, it's to cover the expertise required to literally (or metaphorically) physically have an Indian handle your phone and not drop it. 10/10

 

[Super-Chevy454]

Immediately after posting that I see an incredible article about how foreigners robbed $200m from BC hospitals....over FOUR YEARS only

Could we said then Michael Moore's documentary "Sicko" aged like milk, to see how Canadian healthcare is run now compared to 25 years ago?

 

[JustStopDude]

North Korea is the last orthodox communist nation,

Cuba is more Orthodox than the DPRK. The Koreans got the weird bloodline for rulership and the Juche shit, neither of which are remotely close to Orthodox Communism, but to be fair, as effective.

North Cackalacky is pretty nice

Fucking worst style of bbq in the country. Fuck that vinegar based shit.

Since some people have mention border crossing stories. I don't know what it is, but whenever I have to to Canada for work, be it Vancouver for the ports, Hamilton for the steel mills, Edmonton for the oil/gas jobs, whatever, I get the border guy at the airport that thinks he is the main character from "24" and I am some terrorist.

There is something surreal in seeing some moron peon threaten to arrest me unless I explain what a multistage, medium voltage VFD does because he sees the contract and wants to...fuck I have no idea...prove that I want to go to Hamilton? No one wants to go there. It's the Detroit of Canada.

Meanwhile, I come back to the states.

"Why were you there?"

"I'm an engineer"

"Oh cool. I like trains!"

"Me too."

"Welcome back to the US, Mr JSD!"

 

[Slap47]

https://x.com/Yvan_Baker/status/2064117157043241273

Canadian MP makes proposal.

 

[Martin Serious]

No other fast food chain or restaurant seems to be doing this.

Starbucks hires white people, but remember to support a local mom and pop cafe if you can.

smug shitlibs telling you to eat ethnic slop and that Canada has no culture.

I won't knock Markham's food scene it is pretty good but it's not really for the tourists, it's more for the locals to do some cheap ass grocery shopping and get a $12 meal. Food inspection on all Toronto restaurants are %100 bribed, there are zero standards and failing an inspection is incredibly hard.
Here is a video from 2008.

The Koreans got the weird bloodline for rulership and the Juche shit

North Korea is allowed to exist as a buffer zone. I'll give credit to North Korea that their "Juche" is a massive coverup for being sanctioned to hell, but lately they've noticed that sanctions just don't fucking work and you have smuggler barons rolling around Pyongyang in Hummers now.

What do you guys think of Zellers coming back? Will you shop there?

 

[Nol 2]

Though there’s a few Canadian restaurants named after places in America which are good, like Boston Pizza or Montanas.

This is a personal pet peeve of mine, but you guys name restaurants after American places but get the food wrong. Pizza does not come from Boston. Its Irish people in Boston, not Italians. New York doesn't have poutine shops. Montana is not known for its BBQ, that is the south.

If there is one thing I can point to about how you lot have no idea how the US works, the restaurants is the easiest most obvious thing I can point to.

That being said, Costco poutine is better than NY fries? Their Pulled Pork Poutine is top tier. Didn't like belle province.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

This is a personal pet peeve of mine, but you guys name restaurants after American places but get the food wrong. Pizza does not come from Boston. Its Irish people in Boston, not Italians. New York doesn't have poutine shops. Montana is not known for its BBQ, that is the south.

If there is one thing I can point to about how you lot have no idea how the US works, the restaurants is the easiest most obvious thing I can point to.

That being said, Costco poutine is better than NY fries? Their Pulled Pork Poutine is top tier. Didn't like belle province.

Boston Pizza was started by that former Mountie on Dragons Den. It Kevin O’Leary (who was the asshole who started the whole don’t eat lunch Twitter slap fight)

Boston Pizza is way better than the American chain Boston Market

Swiss chalet is another example for you. Although I do love dipping the fries in their chalet sauce

 

[Nol 2]

Swiss chalet is another example for you.

Dude, proving my point about Canadians not knowing about the US. Switzerland is not in the US. It is in Europe.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Dude, proving my point about Canadians not knowing about the US. Switzerland is not in the US. It is in Europe.

I meant it’s an example of Canadian restaurants being named after other places.

 

[Betonhaus]

There’s also Chicago Deep Dish, but I think that’s an American brand

Remember that one of the more popular locally owned (I presume) department store brands is Canadian Tire. There’s also the Real Canadian Superstore.

America has stuff like Piggly Wiggly, we have stuff named after places for seemingly no good reason.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Maybe if things get bad enough Trump will offer Canadians asylum status.

Honestly, white Canadian males should have qualified since the early 90s with all the disadvantages imposed on them in access to education and employment.

 

[BIG BILL HELL'S]

Remember that one of the more popular locally owned (I presume) department store brands is Canadian Tire. There’s also the Real Canadian Superstore.

Don't forget about Hoser Freight Princess Auto!

 

[Spooky Space Kook]

Anyone else think Canada having the world cup is an utter waste of taxpayer money. I would be fine having a goyball event if we actually had a functioning economy but when more people suffer economic hardship than the previous year. All this prostrating about how hosting will benefit the economy and saying how it will make businesses money. It will make Fifa money, Coca Cola/Gatorade money but it will not benefit the economy like they say it will. The 2010 Olympics was alright finally but we had a significantly better economy back then.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

Anyone else think Canada having the world cup is an utter waste of taxpayer money. I would be fine having a goyball event if we actually had a functioning economy but when more people suffer economic hardship than the previous year. All this prostrating about how hosting will benefit the economy and saying how it will make businesses money. It will make Fifa money, Coca Cola/Gatorade money but it will not benefit the economy like they say it will. The 2010 Olympics was alright finally but we had a significantly better economy back then.

It is to keep the thirdies in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver happy and let Carney pretend Canada means something to the world.

 

[Lobster Cult High Priest]

Honestly, white Canadian males should have qualified since the early 90s with all the disadvantages imposed on them in access to education and employment.

The same people controlling Ottawa are the same people controlling Washington DC. You aren’t qualifying for asylum