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I don't have a loyalty card. I was going to get one but the questions asked were disturbingly personal. I don't know where that info would have ended up.

Sikh extremist account claims responsibility for Khalistan critic's death The social media account of a Sikh extremist group is claiming responsibility for the stabbing death of Nancy Grewal. The Windsor, Ont., health-care worker and noted Khalistan critic had received mult...

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I didn't hear about this. Separatists from other countries should not be fighting on Canadianb soil.

I went to a Shoppers in Toronto. The only staff person I saw was in cosmetics. I think maybe they get a commission? She showed me where to find something I was looking for, but there was no other option than the self checkout. I had to be buzzed into the store.
It was weird.

In my experience, as a Canadian, you don't have to prove you're Canadian because as soon as there is any interest you start spouting Canadiana. It's kind of like being a vegan or a cross-fitter. If you wonder if someone is either, wait 5 minutes and they'll tell you.

I'm trying to think how I, as a Canadian would have answered. Probably a quizzical look and no answer at all.
You have to practice passive aggressiveness if you want people to believe you're Canadian.

They're trying to convince Canadians who are sure to spend 6 months less a day in Mexico so they don't lose their health care, and who live on their CPP and OAS that they'd be better off in a separate Alberta? Right. That's logical.

AI should ask AI this question, and while it's at it, it should ask AI if AI has a viable business model.

Fomenting rage seems to be the plot. Questioning the court's decisions is not a good thing.

I agree with that. It's not all about wages. A fair bit of it is about supply of trained labour. Businesses need to step up and train.Businesses have to step up, but we also need more people.

It wasn't a case of affording. It was a case of there being no domestic nannies available. I wouldn't be a nanny no matter how well it paid. Even when I was a mostly stay at home mom, I was privileged to be in a position I didn't have to make my own income.

It's not that simple. Many small businesses are barely scraping by
We've always imported a societal underclass, who had children who became professionals and imported the next societal underclass.
Difference is TFWs originally didn't have a path to citizenship.
Changing it is easier said than done.

I knew people who had nannies back then. They literally couldn't find any locals to do it.
People mostly act in self-interest, not for ideological purposes.

It might be especially bad in tourist towns where outsiders outnumber the locals in tourist time.
Some employers do take advantage - it's a lot of bother to train and retain, but some good employers can't find workers either.
I don't know what the solution is.

It's not just cities. There are TFWs in my BC town of 1600. We're an aging population (not just in my town.) The jobs that would have been taken by high school or recent grads have run out of high schooler or recent grads who want/need to work

It was just taking the easy way out, imo. Probably started with nannies 40 or 50 years ago.

That comes from the low wage stream - so the service jobs that TFWs fill. If someone from across the country wanted to take a restaurant job here, it wouldn't be worth it because the airfare would be more than the job was worth, and they wouldn't be able to find anywhere to live. It's a problem.

I don't care. I'm mostly here to shout out into the void and don't expect much back. It's just odd.

Why doesn't media point out that it's not good to have factions using Canada as a launching pad for their efforts to get an independant homeland from another country? This has been happening since before Confederation with the Finians starting the ball rolling. Would we support Basque separatists?

I agree with you that the TFW program is bad, btw. I'm in favour of immigration, but bringing people in, using them up, and throwing them back is just wrong.

I should start blocking people who block me as well.
I don't even know how these people know about me to block me, unless some of my posts end up on the discover tab.

Employers have to figure out housing and pay for transportation.

TFWs seem willing to go places that Canadians won't. I was in Yellowknife and there are a lot of foreign workers It used to be that young Canadians would hit the road in the summer working summer jobs and having adventures and that doesn't seem to happen a lot now.
Maybe we've become too citified.

Maybe there needs to be some govt initiatives to get people to jobs? I'd love it if they brought back Canada Manpower.

I don't know about that. Where I am, there just aren't a lot of people to do the jobs and there are barriers to Canadians coming here. Travel is expensive and accommodation is hard to find.

Wonder if protesters outnumbered attendees?

He's not really embarrassing Canada because no-one in Europe knows or cares that he's there.

Maybe also under-managed. The same issues keep coming up over decades.

Drax to stop burning controversial Canadian wood within next year Yorkshire plant has been criticised for taking material from some of British Columbia’s most environmentally important forests

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Where was the BC Forests Ministry on this? Never mind exporting - why was harvesting allowed?
To an outsider, the Ministry of Forestry doesn't seem to have a good handle on things.

Iranian mathematician missing in Canada may have been targeted by Tehran, activists say Police say Masood Masjoody was most likely murdered; Iranian expats suspect he was killed for his criticism of the theocratic regime

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I don't remember seeing anything about this from Canadian sources.