In the US, federal law allows women 3 months off after childbirth, after which infants are shipped to daycare.

This is unpaid leave that allows you to keep your benefits. Some states augment that with pay and some “benevolent” corporations will offer more pay or time.

State supported paternity leave does not exist.

Research shows that isolating men from children leads to poor modulation of testosterone resulting in more aggression and less empathy.

Research also shows that lack of mother child bonding in early development creates men like JD Vance.

Policy shapes biology which shapes culture which shapes policy. A vicious cycle that we can only break once we recognize it.

Complex geopolitics at play.

Both Alberta and Saskatchewan hold key natural resources (oil and potash).

Both are essentially land locked and are unsustainable as soverign nations being surrounded by the US and Canada.

If either seceded from Canada, the most likely outcome is annexation by or willingly joining the US, which would be problematic for Canadian sovereignty as a whole.

I’m all for Alberta’s self determination but Canada cannot and will not allow allow this to happen.

If Albertans don’t like that, I fully support them seeking asylum / refugee status in the US.

Recent polling by Angus Reid shows that major opposition from First Nations (as secession violates their treaty rights) either would not effect Albertans/Saskatchewanians opinion on leaving or would make them more likely to want to leave

https://angusreid.org/referendum-alberta-saskatchewan-smith-moe/

Funny meme but there is no circumstance where doctors discuss pricing with patients unless it’s an insurance company denying services. The bill for a hospital stay comes from the administrators of the hospital, typically via mail, after the hospital encounter has completed.

America has been on that path for sometime. It’s voting public has been unstable (in terms of lacking the efficacy to choose a stable and reliable government) for nearly a decade now.

Crazy that it took only 100 years for America to descend into Nazism. Really thought collective memory would be longer than that.

Couldn’t agree more and do not in any way intend to diminish the hard work of those that prevented a widespread systems failure.

In hindsight. There was some degree of hysteria at the time, which prompted ended at the turn of the millenia when planes did not fall out of the sky and computer systems did not all fail in unison.

The one and only time I’ve done consulting for a pharmaceutical company, I was presented with an AI generated ad for a drug. They kept asking what I liked about the image and the only acceptable response was how are you all finding ways to make medicine more impersonable than it already is

Mark Carney was very clear in saying any revenue from tariffs will be used to help anyone whose employment is affected by them in Canada. In America, this would be dismissed as socialism.

Trump has stated no clear intention for tariff revenues in the US. Probably subsidies to his cronies and some type of scheme to enrich himself.

Exclusionary and traditionalist politics are gaining steam in Australia as they are in the rest of the Western world. This election was no doubt a good outcome but, just like in Canada and the US, support for conservatism and far right politics is growing among young Australian men. This will become problematic in the next 10 to 15 years as historically this demographic inherits control of the institutions.

To encourage manufacturing you want low tarrifs on raw materials and high tarrifs only on finished products.

Key point that needs to be highlighted. Only fascists think their nation can be entirely self sufficient.

Yeah this is the most ham fisted go at it.

Please do not refer to any South Asian media on this matter. Refer to the Associated Press only.

I’m not sure one can say that the Pakistani government has been responsible as it has allowed the militant group that was previously funded by Osama Bin Laden and committed the 2008 terrorist attack on Mumbai to continue to exist on its soil.

That said, I am by no means absolving India’s Hindu nationaliat government for the injustice of revoking article 370.

More recent data from Our World in Data.

The only countries with a higher Gini coefficient after taxes (higher=more inequality) are Mexico, Turkey, Brazil, Costa Rica and Chile.

https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality-before-and-after-taxes

Unfortunately, many Western countries are inching towards fascism due to failed neoloberal policies and rising antiimmigrant sentiment.

Canada and Australia were able to at least delay it in their most recent elections.

Another example would be Trump saying that US farmers now have unprecedented access to the UK market for sales but the US uses growth hormone which is banned in the UK and Europe. It’s very unlikely they’re going to designate a non growth hormone section of their farm just to ship beef overseas.

Which would only be financially sound if for some reason there is significant demand for American beef in the UK which… Why would there be?

His memecoin alone will make him billions off of the presidency.

Regardless of whether anyone thinks he’s intelligent or competent, I think most would agree that he is a conman. I’ve honestly never seen 70+ million people fall for a con so easily. It speaks volumes to America’s education and media landscape.

I don’t engage with them being outside the US but we do have a ‘Maple MAGA’ here which is similar.

Terrifying to hear that there are many in the US that are eager to do this type of work.

Good they should pressure their government for a similar exemption on cars they make in Canada and Mexico.

🥭 is less a dealmaker and moreso someone that wants to appear as a dealmaker.