The latest information published in 2022 shows 38.8 per cent of the country adds fluoride to municipal water, with little to no fluoride in New Brunswick, Quebec, Newfoundland and Labrador, Yukon, and British Columbia.
I was absolutely floored by this.
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I see what you did there.
Stay safe out there, Albertans.
People don't talk about it much, but a significant chunk of the NDP base (~10%, if I remember correctly) jumped to the Conservatives, not the Liberals, in the last election. Some of these numbers might be them returning?
It's not a great comparison, really - the Manitoba Orange Team more strongly resembles the Federal Red Team in most respects.
Winnipeg suburbs breaking NDP in a federal election is far from a sure thing.
Fuck you, Carney.
The expanded birthright citizenship rules were brought about as a result of a 2023 court ruling, very solidly in the Trudeau era.
I'm not completely opposed to hosting these mega-events, or subsidizing them to a degree. Whatever you might think about the "prestige" factor, they can be a good excuse to ram through valuable infrastructure projects.
But the devil's in the details (and FIFA in this instance is a literal devil), and it's madness to expect an actual profit.
I think it's more about shoddy training and oversight of the staff.
I guess I'll add a more moderate take of "this is probably intended for absolute emergencies like a Biblical plague of locusts or something," but in the name of the Prophets, put guardrails on your emergency measures.
It will be interesting to see what the Senate does with it - they're not as predictable as they used to be.
I only recently discovered this channel, but I find their economics-based energy and climate discussions pretty interesting.
In this episode in particular, they talk a lot about what they think Carney is getting right in his approach to climate (though I wish they would have given more details), as well as something they think he might be getting very, very wrong.
If you're old enough, the original right-wing splinter party was the Reform Party (1987-2000).