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Then this should be corrected. But the idea of MAID is sound, saving people from the pain they might otherwise experience from an inevitable painful death. But to your OP, how much money should we devote to End-of-Life treatment, because it already accounts for a gigantic amount of our Healthcare costs. https://www.cdhowe.org/media-release/canadas-sky-high-costs-end-life-care-need-solutions I'm not opposed to funding going to more palliative care. But you should concede it's a socialist venture.

I guess it becomes problematic when it's seen as condoning suicide. Ultimately MAID is a substitute for suicide, but in cases where the death is going to happen, it's seen as a mercy. Killing someone because they're unhappy with their financial or social fortunes is not something out government should dabble in.

This would only be valid if MAID is mandatory. If someone will eventually die from a disease like Cancer or ALS, and would prefer not to endure the pain and suffering the death from such a disease would entail, who are you to say that shouldn't be allowed?

Vaccines for respiratory viruses like the Flu and COVID are tricky because they mutate so frequently. Annual Flu shots have been a thing for a long time. Nevertheless they're a tool to reduce sickness even if you do get infected. I guess unless you feel Viruses are a tool to control the populace, which seems odd seeing they aren't mandatory. Now childhood vaccines for very serious diseases that don't mutate are a completely different story, they should be mandatory to use public institutions like schools.

Is it Valid? What's the appetite for this? There were a lot of things that happened during the pandemic that, in hindsight, seem super heavy handed. I know, here in Ontario, there's absolutely no appetite for government's to mandate masking or vaccination. Some Hospitals have brought back masking, but in a healthcare setting, that doesn't seem so crazy and unreasonable. But we're not talking about making people wear masks to the grocery store anymore.

Well good thing, for you. There's no Orange Shirt Mandate.

If we didn't get Mask mandates last fall, I seriously doubt we'll see them again related to COVID. Teresa Tam was asking people to start masking a few weeks ago, not for COVID necessarily, but all respiratory viruses. As for vaccines. They aren't a bad thing. If you don't want to get sick they help against that. If you think your immune system is rock solid, don't get them. There's no harm in promoting them.

Buried in this article: And EV people seem unbothered by the ecological issues presented by the continued burning of fossil fuels. There are already alternatives to the many metals required for battery production being developed.

So should the CPC be able to bring down a government without sufficient votes?

Because the Magazine probably makes money. They can force suppliers to advertise for better shelf space.

Just conceding they exist and have rights isn't having the ideology being shoved down our throats though.

It's sort of like when people defend the Bible as the literal word of God . . . by citing the Bible.

Do you even Faith Bro?

Are you being order to though? Or are you ordering trans people to go away so you don't have to confront idea that they may feel like they're "gender" does't match their sex? TBH I'm seeing more aggression from those that don't want Trans issue being discussed at all.

How can you tell that? And what is a soul defined as? Do viruses have souls?

There were duelling protests at schools yesterday, across Canada. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/rallies-gender-schools-1.6972606 Do we really have hard evidence of schools encouraging students to be Trans? Is it even possible for a school to facilitate an underage student to transition to another gender completely ignorant of their parents? I'm not seeing it. Is the questionable curriculum simply the fact that they acknowledge there are LGBT families and people do feel they were born the wrong sex/gender? What evidence is there of Grooming? Or is this caustic debate simply about pronouns and how some Provinces are telling teachers that they have to let a parent know if a child wants to go by a different pronoun. If a child really believes that being Gay or Trans will cause them harm, then no a parent shouldn't be told. It's just a pronoun. It's not removing their genitals. I'm certainly reinforcing traditional gender stereotypes with my children. But kids grow up differently than I was, we need to embrace that somewhat and not freak out like these people protesting yesterday.

I think we all "want" to believe that there's something beyond this. I certainly don't discount it because, as you say, it's something we all instinctively embrace. But no, there's no definitive proof of anything beyond the life we have. Does the ant you smush live beyond this world? What about the bacteria that have lived on this earth for millions of years, do they all have souls? Is the afterlife only set aside for humans because God has created us to be caretakers of this world? Then what of early humans that certainly weren't dominant creatures in this world? Nor did they embrace any form of monotheistic religion. Did the Dinosaurs have souls? Those are rhetorical questions, obviously, but it complicates the narrative of a Heaven or Hell set aside for those that don't accept Christ as their personal saviour which seems like the certainty that a lot of Christian abide by.

The whole premise of overturning Roe v Wade was to make this a "State's Issue". Passing a National ban would prove that entire talking point complete hypocrisy. 45 at least as the self awareness to realize that. Some believe abortion, at any stage, is murder. If you believe that then you can consider it a criminal law thing where murder is illegal so abortion should be. But there's scant agreement that Abortion is murder. A fetus is not a human. A National Abortion ban would be completely unenforceable.

The Provincial directive was for removing damaged books. PDSB went rogue and started removing books for cultural reasons.

Yes because the OP of the thread asks if we will comply with further COVID restrictions. There's a faction out there that would love to see Masks mandated in crowded indoor settings again.

People don't want to use them. It's natural to cover your face. I get this sentiment from Maskers that it's a form of public service to protect the weak and immunocompromised. So this has moved beyond a COVID measure. If a Hospital or a Healthcare clinic mandates their use, fine. But it should never be mandated again, unless we see some sort of pandemic of a novel disease.

Mask wearing is normalized in Asia. That's fine, so are a lot of things that aren't here.

I have issue with normalizing masks outside of a public health emergency.

I'm sure it won't happen, but did you see Teresa Tam yesterday? https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2263051331790 She wore a mask while being alone on stage. She basically said she wants people to normalize mask wearing for the respiratory illness season, not just for COVID. This is what I'm somewhat concerned about.