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Have you ever considered that the Prime Directive is not only not ethical, but also illogical, and perhaps morally indefensible?

  • Canadian ‘beer’ kills 21-year-old in New Zealand

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  • 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.

  • Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent

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  • ...not all low-income people are homeless?

  • Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent

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  • 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.

  • Carney announces long-awaited automatic tax filing, makes school food program permanent

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

  • 5 premiers urge Carney to withdraw court submission on notwithstanding clause

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  • I agree, but...legally speaking*, I think they have a decent case?

    *I'm not a lawyer, just your standard online idiot

  • Any way to get a Tarellian ship in STO?

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  • Unfortunately not - and it's a damn shame, since I agree that it's one of the better ships-of-the-week. Maybe some day...

  • Why Canadian taxpayers spend millions on U.S. medical treatments

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  • we don’t have the technology or the expertise to perform the procedure here

    I would say this is the part that's unreasonable. Being the only G7 country unable to perform proton beam treatments isn't exactly a point of pride.

  • [PC] Star Trek Online: Unleashed - Coming September 23rd

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  • I don't think it's the most grindy thing in the world. The F2P model is mostly pretty fair, though absurdly-priced bundles have become normalized over the last few years.

    But it's not overly difficult to play, even if you choose not spend a dime. And the story is fun.

  • Lemmy community feedback: Should we fetch and combine comments from cross-posts on the post screen? · Issue #3415 · LemmyNet/lemmy-ui

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  • I don't think that this is something that should be done without the explicit, case-by-case consent of the mod teams of both communities - the one hosting the original post, and the one to which it is being cross-posted.

  • Carney recommending 5 'nation-building projects' for approval, including LNG expansion: sources

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  • It does beg the question of what about the project "requires further development" - it seemed like a pretty comprehensive plan when I looked at it.

  • Carney recommending 5 'nation-building projects' for approval, including LNG expansion: sources

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  • The Alto project is on the "secondary" list of projects that are likely next.

  • Can a non-corporate grocery chain work across Canada?

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  • "It becomes a profoundly difficult thing to scale that infrastructure in a way that allows you to scale growth in the retail sector," he says. "So can it work? I think it could, but it would be a very difficult and painful process to get established and to grow."

    One of the Federated Co-ops, Red River Co-op, ceased grocery operations in 1983 - it wasn't until the Sobeys/Safeway merger in 2014 that they were able to pick up four of the Winnipeg locations that the new megacorp were forced to sell, and re-enter the market. They now have nine grocery locations in and around the city.

    It's hard to take a lesson from that, since you can't count on those circumstances to repeat every often, but inheriting existing infrastructure certainly seems to help.

  • After fleeing war in Ukraine, physician starts new chapter as U of T nursing student

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  • 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.

  • After fleeing war in Ukraine, physician starts new chapter as U of T nursing student

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  • 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.

  • After fleeing war in Ukraine, physician starts new chapter as U of T nursing student

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  • 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?"

  • After fleeing war in Ukraine, physician starts new chapter as U of T nursing student

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  • 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.

  • After fleeing war in Ukraine, physician starts new chapter as U of T nursing student

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  • She says she sees nursing as an opportunity to engage more deeply with patients through communication and empathy. “I feel that I can be a better nurse than a physician,” says Tretiak, who currently works in a retirement home for Ukrainian-speaking older adults.

    “I had lost a lot of people already – including many of my friends – and I no longer connected my happiness to my professional goals. It felt impossible to go back to that kind of a life and I didn’t want to sacrifice my time with my family.”

    I'm going to suggest we shouldn't force her to do something she doesn't want to do.

  • 5 Canadian soldiers suspended after Nazi salute video emerges

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  • Yeah, I wish I could say I was confident that they will be dismissed...

  • 5 Canadian soldiers suspended after Nazi salute video emerges

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  • It sounds like the suspensions are for the duration of their investigation:

    "Although I have been made aware that these events happened in 2023, these members remain subject to administrative and disciplinary action that may lead to their release."