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It's like a time capsule! The hate is the same, just identify the noun to find the year!

It can also help determine the age of the speaker! Try it yourself! You'll find you can ascertain hatred from any decade!!!

With luck the noun will be so old the youth won't know what the speaker is even talking about!!!!!
 
HGCC

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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1673667784834785283
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Do they think the grocery stores are responsible for high food prices? They have normally just been the middle man and operated on razor thin margins. In the article they note its a pretty modest increase, wasn't terribly clear but they mentioned 1-2%, either annually or total since 2017.

The lengths the existing power structure is going to protect those at the top from facing repercussions for raising prices to increase their profits is shocking. I don't put the grocery store giants at the top, they are middlemen. Based on the article, the portion of the price increase that could be attributed the grocery stores was a pretty minimal component of the overall increase in what consumers are paying.

This is the hill I will die on.
 
CANON_Grow

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HGCC said:
Do they think the grocery stores are responsible for high food prices? They have normally just been the middle man and operated on razor thin margins. In the article they note its a pretty modest increase, wasn't terribly clear but they mentioned 1-2%, either annually or total since 2017.

The lengths the existing power structure is going to protect those at the top from facing repercussions for raising prices to increase their profits is shocking. I don't put the grocery store giants at the top, they are middlemen. Based on the article, the portion of the price increase that could be attributed the grocery stores was a pretty minimal component of the overall increase in what consumers are paying.

This is the hill I will die on.
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There is one company in particular that is an issue(in my opinion), and they have the largest share of the Canadian grocery market. They admitted to price-fixing bread a few years ago for some context on how they operate. They are also lobbying the government to expand privatized health care services.

It's not so much that they are increasing profits, but increasing them while already double what they are just over the border. From that article:
"Canadian grocers’ profit margins are typically double those of their U.S. counterparts, according to Charlebois, suggesting that big players in Canada’s grocery sector face less pressure than those south of the border."

Expanding privatized health care services:
"Doug Ford’s ‘Director Of Pandemic Response’ was a private health lobbyist for Shoppers Drug Mart.Shopper’s and other companies that provide private health services have been busy lobbying the Ontario government for COVID-19 contracts.https://t.co/Q5bRArsbHG #onpoli #cdnhealth— PressProgress (@pressprogress) March 16, 2021"
pressprogress.ca

Here Are All the Corporations Lobbying Doug Ford To Privatize and Outsource Parts Of Ontario’s Health Care System

Doug Ford has a 'track record' of working with private companies rather than investing in the public system, advocacy groups warn
pressprogress.ca pressprogress.ca

Shoppers Drug Mart is owned by that same company that has the largest share of the grocery market. They are essentially owned by one of the wealthiest families in the country.
www.bnnbloomberg.ca

Canada's top billionaires gained $37B since COVID-19 began: Report - BNN Bloomberg

Canada’s top 20 billionaires only got richer during COVID-19, gaining an average of $2 billion each while millions of Canadians lost their jobs and struggled with the economic consequences of the pandemic, according to a report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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They are, by any metric, at the top.
 
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Google set to remove links to Canadian news sites from search engines in the country
Google plans to remove links to Canadian news sites from its search engines in the country, after the Canadian Parliament passed a law requiring major online platforms to pay news outlets to share their stories.

Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs, said in a press release Thursday that the law “remains unworkable,” leading the company to make the “difficult decision” to remove links to Canadian news from Google Search, Google News and other products in Canada when the law goes into effect.

Walker argued that the Online News Act “creates uncertainty for our products and exposes us to uncapped financial liability simply for facilitating Canadians’ access to news from Canadian publishers.”

“We have been saying for over a year that this is the wrong approach to supporting journalism in Canada and may result in significant changes to our products,” he said.

“We’re disappointed it has come to this,” Walker added. “We don’t take this decision or its impacts lightly and believe it’s important to be transparent with Canadian publishers and our users as early as possible.”

Meta similarly said last week that it would follow through on its plans to block news content Facebook and Instagram in Canada over the new law.

“We have repeatedly shared that in order to comply with Bill C-18, passed today in Parliament, content from news outlets, including news publishers and broadcasters, will no longer be available to people accessing our platforms in Canada,” Meta leaders said in a statement last Thursday.
thehill.com

Google set to remove links to Canadian news sites from search engines in the country

Google plans to remove links to Canadian news sites from its search engines in the country, after the Canadian Parliament passed a law requiring major online platforms to pay news outlets to share …
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The Government of Canada has enacted a new law called Bill C-18 (the Online News Act), requiring two companies to pay for simply showing links to news, something that everyone else does for free. The unprecedented decision to put a price on links (a so-called “link tax”) creates uncertainty for our products and exposes us to uncapped financial liability simply for facilitating Canadians’ access to news from Canadian publishers. We have been saying for over a year that this is the wrong approach to supporting journalism in Canada and may result in significant changes to our products.
We have now informed the Government that when the law takes effect, we unfortunately will have to remove links to Canadian news from our Search, News and Discover products in Canada, and that C-18 will also make it untenable for us to continue offering our Google News Showcase product in Canada.
We’re disappointed it has come to this. We don’t take this decision or its impacts lightly and believe it’s important to be transparent with Canadian publishers and our users as early as possible.

How we tried to improve Bill C-18
We already pay to support Canadian journalism through our programs and partnerships - and we’ve been clear we’re prepared to do more. As part of our Google News Showcase program, we have negotiated agreements covering over 150 news publications across Canada. Last year alone, we linked to Canadian news publications more than 3.6 billion times — at no charge — helping publishers make money through ads and new subscriptions. This referral traffic from links has been valued at $250 million CAD annually. We’re willing to do more; we just can’t do it in a way that breaks the way that the web and search engines are designed to work, and that creates untenable product and financial uncertainty.
Ever since the Government introduced C-18 last year, we have shared our experiences in other countries and been clear that unworkable legislation could lead to changes that affect the availability of news on Google’s products in Canada.

We have successfully collaborated with Governments and news publishers around the world on the shared goal of strengthening the news industry, and we currently have thousands of mutually beneficial agreements with news publications around the world.

We tried to take this same approach with Bill C-18. We repeatedly offered constructive feedback and recommended solutions that would have made it more workable for both platforms and publishers, unlocking further financial support for Canadian journalism. We also endorsed the alternative model of an independent fund for Canadian journalism supported by both platforms and the Government, an approach that’s worked elsewhere. We appeared several times before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage and the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications and submitted detailed recommendations to both committees.

We advocated for reasonable and balanced amendments to the legislation for over a year. None of our suggestions for changes to C-18 were accepted.

Last week, just as the Bill was approaching final passage and Royal Assent, the Government agreed to discuss the possibility of addressing some of the most critical issues, which we welcomed. In that discussion, we asked for clarity on financial expectations platforms face for simply linking to news, as well as a specific, viable path towards exemption based on our programs to support news and our commercial agreements with publishers.
While we appreciate the Government’s acknowledgement that our concerns were reasonable and confirmation that the law will not apply until they adopt implementing regulations, they have not provided us with sufficient certainty that the regulatory process will be able to resolve structural issues with the legislation (such as forced payment for links and uncapped financial liability).

What happens now?
We plan to participate in the regulatory process and will continue to be transparent with Canadians and publishers as we move forward. We hope that the Government will be able to outline a viable path forward. Otherwise, we remain concerned that Bill C-18 will make it harder for Canadians to find news online, make it harder for journalists to reach their audiences, and reduce valuable free web traffic to Canadian publishers.
blog.google

An update on Canada’s Bill C-18 and our Search and News products

November 29 Update:We thank the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pascale St-Onge, for acknowledging our concerns and deeply engaging in a series of productive meetings abo…
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"The dominance over advertising once enjoyed by legacy media is over. Google and Facebook have a combined 80 per cent share of all online ad revenue in Canada and rake in an eye-popping $9.7 billion a year, according to government data.

According to government figures, more than 450 news outlets in Canada have closed since 2008 and at least one third of Canadian journalism jobs have disappeared over that same time period."

 
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Sue Johanson, beloved Canadian sex educator, dead at 93
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1674464200993779732
Sue Johanson, the beloved Canadian broadcaster who in her golden years enraptured a generation with straightforward sex advice, has died at age 93, a representative confirmed to CBC News on Thursday.

Johanson died in a long-term care home in Thornhill, Ont., just north of Toronto, surrounded by her family, the representative said. The broadcaster was best known for hosting the Canadian call-in radio and then television program Sunday Night Sex Show, which led to a successful U.S. spinoff called Talk Sex With Sue Johanson. Born in Toronto, Johanson began her career as a nurse, receiving her training in Winnipeg. During the 1970s, she opened a birth control clinic at a Toronto high school and ran it for almost two decades. "She was a groundbreaker pioneer trooper. And she broke all the rules. And it was fabulous," her daughter Jane Johanson said Thursday during an interview with As It Happens host Nil Köksal.

"She never brushed people aside. She treated everyone absolutely the same. She was never judgmental, nor was she condescending or disapproving of any question that came her way.… I think everybody felt like they had another mother or another grandmother with Sue." Johanson's Sunday Night Sex Show premiered as a live call-in program on Toronto radio in 1984, with a television version of the show airing on W Network from 1996 to 2005. The U.S. spinoff, Talk Sex With Sue Johanson, began in 2002 and concluded in 2008. "My mom was amazing. She could be anywhere at any time, and people would recognize her voice," Jane Johanson said.

She offered callers advice on everything from how to use sex toys and ways to spice things up in the bedroom, to navigating the taboos of the birds and the bees — always with her signature humour and candour. "It didn't matter who you were, what your sexual preference was, how you identified, what you might be dealing with in terms of the time of AIDS — like, she embraced everybody and who they were. And that just … made me so proud. We are so proud of our dear Sue, my mom," Jane Johanson said.

A champion for a well-informed, sex-positive public, Johanson covered topics and demographics usually ignored by mainstream sexual education in the 1990s and aughts. While training to be a nurse in Winnipeg, Johanson was taught by nuns who didn't speak about sex. That repression informed her approach in her later years, emboldening her to be open, honest and non-judgmental. "Sue approached everything as though it was just normal," Nadine Thornhill, a Toronto sex educator, previously told CBC News. "Like, she said all of the words she said, all of the taboo sex words. She talks about penises and clitorises and orgasms. "But she was just very matter of fact about it, and I don't think I had ever heard anybody talk about sex in that way."

Johanson never had an agenda to become a celebrity or a big name, according to her daughter. She was just passionate about filling what she saw as a gap in the public health system. And that just slowly morphed, Jane said. "She loved what she did. She cared about people's sexual health, sexual information, and she just wanted to be of assistance to people in that way," she said. "She just invented a niche for herself and did a beautiful job teaching people about sex and sexual health." In 2000, Johanson was awarded the Order of Canada for being "a strong, successful advocate for sex education." On the Governor General's website, she's praised for her decades of work. "Listening without judgment and candid in her responses, she helps Canadians to improve their understanding of sexuality and their ability to make wise health choices."

Condolences for Johanson poured in online Thursday, as Canadians remembered "an absolute icon" and "national treasure." "Canada has lost an absolute icon. Sue Johanson did more for sex education in this country than anyone. When the government failed to educate the public on the risks of HIV, Sue filled the gap. And she did it with empathy," one person tweeted. "Not gonna lie … I learned how to properly put a condom on watching Sue demonstrate it on her show," wrote another. "I loved Sue growing up … I used to listen to her every night before I went to sleep. She taught me to have a healthy attitude around masturbation & gave me the sex education schools wouldn't," another person tweeted.

The official Twitter account for the 2022 Sex with Sue documentary wrote Thursday that Johanson paved the way for how we talk about sex and sexuality today, noting she was unafraid of shattering taboos. "Canada lost a national treasure today but Sue's legacy will continue to make positive change for decades to come," they tweeted. In that documentary, Johanson admitted the work she did was "a little bit controversial," but necessary. And her age only helped. "I was older; I was never seen as a sex kitten, I had the gift of the gab," she said. Jane Johanson said Thursday she believes it was her mother's sense of humour that clicked with so many people, and recognizing that the topic of sex would make lots of people uncomfortable or shut down. "She knew that if she used humour antics — you know, jumping around the stage, stretching condoms, being light about it — she knew that she could break the ice and then make people comfortable," Jane said. "As soon as she made people comfortable, then she could get into the real nitty gritty of the topic."

She deserves her own stamp, with her holding a dildo.
 
Roger A. Shrubber

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Google set to remove links to Canadian news sites from search engines in the country
Google plans to remove links to Canadian news sites from its search engines in the country, after the Canadian Parliament passed a law requiring major online platforms to pay news outlets to share their stories.

Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs, said in a press release Thursday that the law “remains unworkable,” leading the company to make the “difficult decision” to remove links to Canadian news from Google Search, Google News and other products in Canada when the law goes into effect.

Walker argued that the Online News Act “creates uncertainty for our products and exposes us to uncapped financial liability simply for facilitating Canadians’ access to news from Canadian publishers.”

“We have been saying for over a year that this is the wrong approach to supporting journalism in Canada and may result in significant changes to our products,” he said.

“We’re disappointed it has come to this,” Walker added. “We don’t take this decision or its impacts lightly and believe it’s important to be transparent with Canadian publishers and our users as early as possible.”

Meta similarly said last week that it would follow through on its plans to block news content Facebook and Instagram in Canada over the new law.

“We have repeatedly shared that in order to comply with Bill C-18, passed today in Parliament, content from news outlets, including news publishers and broadcasters, will no longer be available to people accessing our platforms in Canada,” Meta leaders said in a statement last Thursday.
thehill.com

Google set to remove links to Canadian news sites from search engines in the country

Google plans to remove links to Canadian news sites from its search engines in the country, after the Canadian Parliament passed a law requiring major online platforms to pay news outlets to share …
thehill.com thehill.com


The Government of Canada has enacted a new law called Bill C-18 (the Online News Act), requiring two companies to pay for simply showing links to news, something that everyone else does for free. The unprecedented decision to put a price on links (a so-called “link tax”) creates uncertainty for our products and exposes us to uncapped financial liability simply for facilitating Canadians’ access to news from Canadian publishers. We have been saying for over a year that this is the wrong approach to supporting journalism in Canada and may result in significant changes to our products.
We have now informed the Government that when the law takes effect, we unfortunately will have to remove links to Canadian news from our Search, News and Discover products in Canada, and that C-18 will also make it untenable for us to continue offering our Google News Showcase product in Canada.
We’re disappointed it has come to this. We don’t take this decision or its impacts lightly and believe it’s important to be transparent with Canadian publishers and our users as early as possible.

How we tried to improve Bill C-18
We already pay to support Canadian journalism through our programs and partnerships - and we’ve been clear we’re prepared to do more. As part of our Google News Showcase program, we have negotiated agreements covering over 150 news publications across Canada. Last year alone, we linked to Canadian news publications more than 3.6 billion times — at no charge — helping publishers make money through ads and new subscriptions. This referral traffic from links has been valued at $250 million CAD annually. We’re willing to do more; we just can’t do it in a way that breaks the way that the web and search engines are designed to work, and that creates untenable product and financial uncertainty.
Ever since the Government introduced C-18 last year, we have shared our experiences in other countries and been clear that unworkable legislation could lead to changes that affect the availability of news on Google’s products in Canada.

We have successfully collaborated with Governments and news publishers around the world on the shared goal of strengthening the news industry, and we currently have thousands of mutually beneficial agreements with news publications around the world.

We tried to take this same approach with Bill C-18. We repeatedly offered constructive feedback and recommended solutions that would have made it more workable for both platforms and publishers, unlocking further financial support for Canadian journalism. We also endorsed the alternative model of an independent fund for Canadian journalism supported by both platforms and the Government, an approach that’s worked elsewhere. We appeared several times before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage and the Senate Committee on Transport and Communications and submitted detailed recommendations to both committees.

We advocated for reasonable and balanced amendments to the legislation for over a year. None of our suggestions for changes to C-18 were accepted.

Last week, just as the Bill was approaching final passage and Royal Assent, the Government agreed to discuss the possibility of addressing some of the most critical issues, which we welcomed. In that discussion, we asked for clarity on financial expectations platforms face for simply linking to news, as well as a specific, viable path towards exemption based on our programs to support news and our commercial agreements with publishers.
While we appreciate the Government’s acknowledgement that our concerns were reasonable and confirmation that the law will not apply until they adopt implementing regulations, they have not provided us with sufficient certainty that the regulatory process will be able to resolve structural issues with the legislation (such as forced payment for links and uncapped financial liability).

What happens now?
We plan to participate in the regulatory process and will continue to be transparent with Canadians and publishers as we move forward. We hope that the Government will be able to outline a viable path forward. Otherwise, we remain concerned that Bill C-18 will make it harder for Canadians to find news online, make it harder for journalists to reach their audiences, and reduce valuable free web traffic to Canadian publishers.
blog.google

An update on Canada’s Bill C-18 and our Search and News products

November 29 Update:We thank the Minister of Canadian Heritage, Pascale St-Onge, for acknowledging our concerns and deeply engaging in a series of productive meetings abo…
blog.google blog.google

"The dominance over advertising once enjoyed by legacy media is over. Google and Facebook have a combined 80 per cent share of all online ad revenue in Canada and rake in an eye-popping $9.7 billion a year, according to government data.

According to government figures, more than 450 news outlets in Canada have closed since 2008 and at least one third of Canadian journalism jobs have disappeared over that same time period."

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i have to say, this seems like a mistake that is going to hurt news outlets a lot more than it's going to hurt google.
Google was basically giving them free advertising. They seem to think the news services are doing websites a favor, but it sure seems the other way around to me.
 
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