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Every Canadian needs to read this: 👇

While at the gym today I noticed a young man working at the front desk staring intently at his laptop. You could see the stress on his face. Before I left, I asked if he was in college and he said yes, so I asked what he was studying and he told me pre med, which led into a conversation about why he had been staring so intently at his computer. He showed me his screen and told me he was literally debating dropping his current classes while he could still get a refund. He’s hearing from older grads struggling just to get residency and he’s not sure he wants to keep paying for school if there may be no jobs at the end. That conversation today is exactly why this fight matters. A pre-med student, halfway through the hardest path you can take, sitting there debating whether to quit… not because he failed, but because he doesn’t believe there’s a future waiting for him at the end. We are now at a point where high-achieving American students are questioning whether merit even matters anymore. They’re watching graduates struggle for jobs. They’re seeing doors close before they even get there. They’re being told, in every indirect way possible, that effort isn’t enough. This is how a country collapses its own future... quietly, systematically, and in plain sight. You don’t need a war when you can convince your next generation to give up before they even start. That’s what this is. This is not just about jobs. This is about whether Americans still have a place in their own economy. And if we don’t fight this now, hard, loud, and without apology, there won’t be anything left for the next generation to fight for.

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I feel like it has become popular to discuss how awful it is Britain is being overtaken, but it’s also disgusting how a nation as raw and beautiful as Canada has been turned into an international airport. I hope someday the entire Anglosphere is restored.

This is ghoulish. Two pilots died. Multiple people are injured. The Official Languages Act can take a back seat.

@ChrisMartzWX In 🇨🇦, for those of us "of a certain age": 9-6-7, 11-11

How "by and large" sailed into everyday English

The degradation of Cadbury as a brand and product serves as a tidy allegory of Britain as a whole. Mismanaged by a deceitful, arrogant team of people who think the little people are too stupid to see what’s going on or, when they do see it, left with no choice but to put up with it.

A patient walks into the clinic complaining of severe abdominal pain, describing it as "feeling like my insides are on fire." The foreign-trained physician nods, asks a few questions in accented poor English, misses the nuance of the idiom, and prescribes antacids for what turns out to be a brewing appendicitis, delayed diagnosis because the history got lost in translation. Stories like this aren't rare. Language barriers, accents, cultural differences in how symptoms are expressed, and unfamiliarity with American colloquialisms lead to misheard histories, overlooked emotional cues, and incomplete informed consent. Studies show patients with language-discordant providers face higher rates of adverse events, poorer adherence, and worse outcomes, yet in fast-track provisional paths or high-IMG programs, full cultural/linguistic alignment isn't required or disclosed. The white coat doesn't fix miscommunication. Patients pay the price in delayed care, unnecessary tests, or complications that could have been caught with better rapport. No mandatory disclosure means you don't know if your doctor trained in a system where direct, blunt history-taking was the norm versus the nuanced, patient-led style here. Many arrive in this country without needing to perform a residency and have minimal interaction prior to practicing. This is about policy that prioritizes volume and cost over seamless patient-physician connection. Citations (APA) Al Shamsi, H., et al. (2020). Implications of Language Barriers for Healthcare. International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health. Jain, P., & Krieger, J. L. (2011). Moving beyond the language barrier: The communication challenges of immigrant physicians. Patient Education and Counseling. Partida, Y. (2007). Language Barriers and the Patient Encounter. AMA Journal of Ethics. Comment below if you've experienced or witnessed this.

Let's check in on Gerald, who is diverting food from starving children. 6:00am - Gerald ate grass. The grass grew on a 40-acre clay slope that has been permanent pasture since 1763 and cannot grow human food. The starving children situation was not affected by the grass. 7:30am - Gerald ate some hedge browsings. Hawthorn and field maple trimmings from the east boundary. Not on any nutrition label. Cannot be processed into human food. Gerald ate them. The hedge now needs less management. Gerald charged nothing. 10:00am - Gerald ate some brewers' grain. This is what is left after barley has been used to make beer. It is spent. The sugars are gone. The protein remains, but in a form that is nutritionally marginal for humans. The options for this material are: Gerald, biogas, or landfill. Gerald ate it and is turning it into beef. 12:00pm - Gerald ate silage. Silage is fermented grass. The grass came from the same field it always comes from. The field cannot grow crops. The silage cannot go to Ethiopia. Silage requires a rumen. 2:00pm - Gerald ate more grass. Gerald has now been eating things that cannot feed humans for eight consecutive hours. At no point today did Gerald intercept a food supply. At no point today did Gerald remove calories from the human food system. At every point today, Gerald was converting materials that are nutritionally useless to humans into beef, B12, zinc, iron, creatine, heme iron, and fat-soluble vitamins. The beef will go to the abattoir. The beef will go to the supermarket. The beef will go to families in Ledbury and Bristol and Wolverhampton. Gerald is the only system that connects these waste materials to human nutrition. Gerald does not know about Ethiopia. Gerald does not know about the global food system. Gerald is in the south corner. Gerald is converting the unconvertible. You're welcome.

Hear me out: If they only have enough funds to investigate 2000 cases per year, they should only accept 2000 applications per year.

@CTVMontreal ONLY IN QUEBEC, where the language used is more important than the message itself.

@CTVMontreal As someone fluent in French I think it’s ridiculous to focus on such an issue instead of focusing on the victims and the two pilots who lost their lives and families that will miss them. Moi je dis à ces personnes aller vous faire foutre.

@CTVMontreal This is infuriating. Air Canada and our country has lost two beautiful and brave young stars and this is what it comes down to. I am so ashamed of this country.

@CTVMontreal Textbook manufactured separation. In a moment where the focus should be shared grief, the media spotlights the language split instead, amplifying voices calling it disrespectful. It's not neutral reporting of facts; it's choosing to lead with the wedge: English vs. French. 🤦

@CTVMontreal Two young pilots have died and the governments greatest concern is that the CEO spoke in English. Unbelievable.

@ChristianGroul2 @CTVMontreal Does not matter that two pilots lost their lives, we now need to cater to the fragile egos of the few. Moi je dis, smaller vous faire foutre. Le chef de air Canada ne vous dois rien. Vous N’être q’un con.

@CTVMontreal I can’t decide whether by these kind of actions Quebecers are trying to say they want to be in Canada, or are they saying they don’t? The losses of the two pilots get lost in this kind of nonsense. SMH.

Politicians are trained to stay safe. Wab Kinew isn’t. He doesn’t protect power, he challenges it. That’s rare, and real. Be like Wab.

@allenanalysis So Spain has once again fallen to the Muslims. Good luck with that 💀

Canada's Dirty Little Secret: Exposing the MAiD Predators Part 3 Name: Heather Hancock - 50 years old Where: Victoria General Hospital - British Columbia and Medicine Hat Regional Hospital - Alberta Date: 2018, 2019 What Happened: Heather lives with Cerebral Palsy. The 3 times she was offered MAiD was due to episodes of spastic paralysis. In the first solicitation, the attending Emergency Dr. offered MAiD, "as the doctor deemed my level of suffering intolerable, yet would not treat my pain or send me to a pain clinic". "My second admission found me in a hospital bed in the back hallway of the neurological rehabilitation ward of Victoria General. Again, I was offered MAiD by a Dr. with definite malice in that coercive attempt. No name tags or ID tags were visible at the time. Both times I refused MAiD and told them to do their jobs. They didn't like that." The third time, in 2019, Heather was admitted to Medicine Hat Regional Hospital, again with spasticity. She says she was treated with the "utmost of contempt". "The RN was careful to remove her name tag or ID badge before entering my room. She believed I was faking paralysis. She was the one who offered MAiD saying, 'if I were in your shoes I would take it in a heartbeat. You aren't LIVING, you're EXISTING!' I was stunned and horrified. Again, I refused and she shook her head in disgust telling me I was being utterly 'SELFISH'. Heather has spent many years as a writer since her encounters with the MAiD Squads and has become a published author of an award-winning novel called, "Sister Lost". Heather says, "I am doing so much more than merely existing, I am contributing in a myriad of ways! Our lives count and should be valued."