Telecom is critical infrastructure and this country is too geographically large for for-profit companies to bring good, cost-effective service to everyone, especially in rural areas. They charge us some of if not the highest rates in the developed world. Their business practices are predatory. Not to mention Telus’ apparently unchallenged ingress into healthcare services.
Fucking nationalize it.
Where I live, two of the three trades you listed require completion of 4-year apprenticeships, including a minimum of 6 weeks of in-school technical training per year. It’s much cheaper to train as an apprentice than it is to pay other post-secondary tuitions, and you earn an income most of the time you’re an apprentice, but the reality is a lot more complicated.
And it’s also very easy to be employed in most trades and not make that much. It depends on which trade you’re in, how much punishment you can take, and whether you’re in a union job or not.
Can’t take credit for that one, but glad you enjoyed it!
Well fuck this shit.
Like I want to see Air Canada renationalized, but not under any government that could get elected under FTPT, and sure as fuck not with facial recognition systems.
Not actually a stupid question at all!
We have shitty fake universal healthcare that most of us (myself included) do not fully understand because we are not actually taught how the system works. Currently reading The Social Safety Net by Nora Loreto to try and better educate myself, but it’s fighting with my epub reader so nyehhhhh
Healthcare in Canada is about 70% public and 30% private, but your mileage will vary by province as healthcare is administered at the provincial level.
Some provinces require people to pay premiums.
As other posters have said, most GPs, specialists, and emergency medicine are covered (but not ambulance service, you get a bill for that later).
Without private insurance (which many employers offer if you work full-time hours), you have to pay for anything considered an elective procedure, dental care, and prescription drugs. Also stuff like physiotherapy, massage therapy, and optometry (or vision testing by an optometrist, at least).
If you spend some ridiculous portion of your income on prescription drugs you can get a shitty tax break, assuming you are able to tabulate everything for the CRA.
National pharma and dental care are “in the works”, but I think currently limited to seniors, people who have been approved for the Canadians with Disabilities tax credit (which excludes a large number of Canadians with Disabilities), and children? At this stage I’m pretty sure it’s still mostly hot air and either Bitcoin Milhouse will kill it as soon as he’s elected (likely), or the Liberals will weasel out of it (less likely, but only because they are almost definitely going to lose the election).
I was just playing Powder a few weeks ago! My friend and I used to play on a work laptop during slow periods, and I got nostalgic for it.
Had some good fun with unidentified ring of polymorph, don’t remember that from 2010.
I don’t think most people understand the process financialization, its wider-ranging impacts, or how thoroughly it’s metastasized at this point.
I’d put that failure at the feet of every government of the last 40-some years, and on the fourth estate.