I think just a card and cash is appropriate for someone you don’t really know, and probably less than $100 unless you’re both rich.

were you able to free the raviolis

I don’t think either major party will offer much better really. The Conservatives get to ride on being the opposition and the viable supposed alternative to what’s been happening recently.

I have doubts about a pursuit of whiteness and model minority stereotyping. No matter what immigrants or their children do, they’ll always be hyphenated-Canadians at best, facing discrimination, suspicion, and hatred from “real” Canadians, conservative or not.

Instead the factors are much more tangible-the current government has overseen the relationships with both countries degrade severely, with severe impact to these groups. When you’re trying to care for a sick grandparent abroad or whatever else, the last thing you want is a two-faced political approach that risks having you stranded away from home.

And then what role did the government have in building up the current levels of hate towards immigrants with their policies? For decades academia has been allowed to turn international students into cash cows with zero regard for their quality of life. Businesses whining about wages getting too high after the pandemic meant that immigrants were brought in with no place to live and no livable income. And then scapegoated for cost of living increases spawned by decades of bad policy, by the governments who brought them in.

Immigrants are expected to put in to a system that’ll have them work twice as hard to get half as much, if that, and hate them for it. It’s not “I got mine, fuck you”, it’s “you’ll never give me mine, I’m just an exploitable tax base to you, we’re not going to pretend anymore”.

It’s pretty much everybody but go off I guess

https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/surgeon-general-social-connection-advisory.pdf

He’s going to start crying again isn’t he

It feels like they turned an article about this weird rape game into a Netflix ad.

We’ve already seen it happen in Canada under Harper, there’s no doubt that it could happen again.

The supreme court would ultimately strike it down, and I only see it as a ploy to bring in private prisons, but at the same time there’s a genuine problem in this country with sentencing habitual, dangerous offenders. I can think of at least three women in my province murdered by people who just kept getting in and out of jail for violent crimes their whole lives. One was even on day leave from the prison, which seems like insanity.

The biggest, wealthiest, most advanced polling firms in the US couldn’t get it right either, horrendously so in recent memory. I don’t think that’s down to conspiracy, but how to weight your samples when so many people don’t want to answer a phone call from an unusual number.

https://youtu.be/ygr5AHufBN4

Yes

The reports all bear notes of caution about the summaries being possibly uncorroborated, single-sourced or incomplete. CSIS Director David Vigneault told the public inquiry that intelligence is not necessarily fact and it may require further investigation.

Actual facts on election interference are, hard to come by, but conjecture from unidentified interests isn’t good enough. Blindly trusting intelligence agencies without proof is how you end up invading Iraq.

The “critic” in question was a supporter and fundraiser for the Khalistani rebel movement, on and off no fly lists and wanted by Interpol. Arms training programs in the BC interior seemed to have spooked Modi into action, can’t imagine why after the Air India bombing and the trial the RCMP fumbled. Most Canadians are content to forget the event after all.

It’s hardly the same situation, given that one country is trying to annex Canada and the other isn’t.

These guys aren’t the Stronachs, Westons, Irvings or Sobeys pumping money into parties, who the leaders have to know. I’m not going to put it past PP to not remember the name of a brown person who he didn’t meet for breakfast either.

The report found that a handful of people donated about $10,000 of their own money. No one broke the law. What’s the issue here, exactly?

I’ve gone through this and nothing was actually illegal or questionable. I’m not really sure what the contention is.

Depends on the extent of how much you’d do and if you’d get noticed, really. Leverage being applied against you or your parents could occur, particularly to or via relatives in China, but only if you’re deemed worth the effort. I wouldn’t take that risk, personally, but that’s a very specific, individual decision.

The US is another matter. Sure you’ll go on a list but everyone’s on a list of one kind or another, we’re both on one for using Lemmy most likely.

Would there be any validity in your parents thinking your concerns about this are getting in the way of improving your own life?

Just when you thought it was safe to trust a biker, something like this happens. Now where will I get my crank and human trafficking?

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