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Big Pharma caused a lot of it by stating minimal risks and pushing doctors to prescribe opioids. BC just won a huge settlement against one. My buddy had a problem years ago... he's still using them. I have no doubt if he didn't have the fall back of that unethical doctor in Alberta, he'd either be in rehab or looking for street replacements. His old lady had knee surgery a year ago and still pissing and moaning about pain. Candidate in the waiting. Another friend took a bullet in VietNam and decided morphine made him dul and stupid. He lost a leg a couple years ago and told his doctor to shove the morphine after a couple weeks and uses gummies if the pain really upsets him. When I had severe arthritis in my back my doctor told me no oxys. How could I maintain their computers if I was zonked out of my head. Exactly what I thought! But many of us aren't like that. The slightest discomfort or stress and off they go popping pills. I was married to one for 20 years. Skip work, pop Valium and chug a six pack while she was 'studying', ignore the kids and tell them they were the cause of it if they pointed out her habits... Like I said, a lot of people are like that, Way more than most of us suspect. They're hidden out of sight in their homes and apartments, or just functional enough we don't look too hard.

Leave the keys on the bankers desk and drive away out of town. That's what a couple friends did when Mackenzie collapsed in the 1980s. 3 kids and everything you could fit into or strap onto a Ford Escort and off to Vancouver. Those 18% mortgages were a bitch. Both of us had full time union jobs and didn't have two nickels left to rub together. No furniture - people had to bring their own chairs to our first house warming party. Futon on the bedroom floor, Sally Ann kitchen table.... no one will do that these days. They want it all, right now.

A great reset might be a good thing. Somebody should shut the Earth's power switch to OFF. count to 10 and flip it ON again. It works for most other things.

YOU (the general public) can't, the PM's party can. Just ask Boris... The Flu Trucks Clan are the inspiration? The Canadian Diet Pepsi of Jan. 6th? More like the other way around, same ilk. Same level of political ignorance. Same save our freedom by undemocratic overthrow of the government. Same belief in utter lies. Same hypocrites who worried about Communists violently overthrowing the gov't in the 1950s-60s.

I thought for years that the overdose crisis was a self-solving problem. Surely after several years they'd all OD and die off, Darwinian style. But both of us were wrong, there's a hell of a lot more drug users than I ever estimated and I was a full blown 1960s-70s pothead. Now they're doing meth and opioids like we smoked joints. Goddam house down the street just had 2 hauled away by the Coroner - ppl in their 40s. A friend is moving back to Albera, supposedly because of the shitty level of health care in this small town. Truthfully, because no doctor here will ever give a prescription fore more than a few oxys. The guy goes back to AB all the time as a doctor there give him 6 month scrips. He even popped a couple over dinner the other night because "his foot was feeling numb". He had his major surgery over a dozen years ago and his been on them since. Like the whole guy is numb. I'm one of his few friends as no one else has the patience for him to spit out a complete sentence. He's 64 and he's an addict, but would never admit it.

And the more the Cons pander to their extreme right, the more voters they drive away. Just like when Harper loosened his grip and let the moron candidates explode in anti-immigrant rage and it got Trudeau his first win.

You're living in fear say the ones scared of needles. O'Toole was too liberal... keep it up righty loonies and Trudeau will be PM forever. Lose one more election and the PC will re-form their old party so people like me might actually consider them as a choice. Hell maybe their worst fear will come true: a Liberal-NDP-Green coalition.

Your discussing housing crisis with people who think Trudeau personally decides what you can have for breakfast? Don't waste your time pointing out facts. They all seem to have slept through Social Studies 10 and have no idea how Parliamentary democracy works or what a PM can and can't and does do. So long as they can post some meaningless Trudeau hate comment on the Internet you can think of it like Stephen Harper did, let his lunatic fringe blow off steam with unconstitutional daily Crime Bills while he got on with running the government.

No one replied to that post as it is so disgusting nobody thought you were worth replying to. That clearly was a example of hate speech which is disallowed by all hosting providers in Canada and major ones in the USA. Don't screw things up for everyone else by continuing your selfish hate diatribes. That and the fact you're promoting the worst stereotype of American Free Speech promoters. Your First Amendment doesn't protect you from the rotten tomatoes that get thrown at you.

Just keep posting this shit and you'll see what happens. The web host will block the site for violating it's Terms of Service. Unfortunately for outright racists, Freedom of Speech is interpreted differently in the civilized world.

So now there's "fake consensus" to blame. Jeez there's no stopping the flakes from inventing words and pretending they mean something., Just points out you're stuck at an indefensible position.

Work from home. One thing that's a huge issue these days as a hell of a lot of people don't want to return to the office. A niece who normally works from home asked if she could visit someone in N California and he boss said if she brought her laptop and continues to work, it didn't matter if she was at the other end of town or California. If they'd get the damn rural internet to proper standards, that would make one hell of an improvement to where you could afford to live. If you got more people into smaller towns, there'd be more incentive to move businesses. And like I said to another niece 20 years ago, why open a coffee shop down the block from your cousin and try to compete for that nickle when they're building a University in Prince George where you could charge $1 more for that cappuccino and they'd be so grateful to have one they'd kiss your ass? There's people retiring and trying to unload shops, retail outlets, cafes, notaries, bookkeepers and nobody wants to move and take them over. Add on the fact most of these places are so under serviced there's major market potential. All these people taking on a $1 million home and hoping working for someone else will cover it, FFS they could get a house AND a viable business for even less than that. But waaah there's no choice of nightclub, too far to cross border shop and it gets cold wah wah!

Do open that up, it's 75% of the problem. The other big problem is people with too much money that will pay far more than something's worth just to have it and the ones that will borrow that much to overpay.

It's not up to the 90% to post proofs of vax stats/climate change, it's up to you to post claims we're wrong. There's there's this thing called Google, Health Authorities and places called libraries. If you think they're all fake that's a problem with you not them You remind me of long ago when if taunted by the mean kids, one would lay on the classroom floor, spinning and kicking and screaming "I'm not retarded! ALL OF YOU are retarded". The level of those who insist health & the environment are leftist concerns. see https://sproutsschools.com/bonhoeffers-theory-of-stupidity/

The "news" doesn't have a bias. But those that don't like what they hear on the news insist it does. The "MSM" stations mentioned DO have editorial opinion, but is clearly separate from the actual "news". Wheras Fox and it's like deliver editorial opinion AS news. As Michael Hardner pointed out the "MSM" makes it's income from delivering the news and that income is affected by the accuracy and quality of the news they deliver, so it is absurd to label them as 'left'. At least by what a lot of posters claim is left....

So I got warned. Apparently F*** Trudeau, F*** the libtards, F*** Greenies, posting incessant obvious lies, and outright racism and holocaust denial are acceptable but Convoyers* are the Holy Disciples to the Church of the Extreme Right Circle Jerk, Lady of Incessant Bullshit congregation. I will not be replying in this thread anymore as it's a known waste of time even discussing a subject with the bone stupid. *convoyers, not truckers

You know the only thing worse than someone who can't learn is someone who refuses to learn. Too bad this site is infested by those, those that outright lie and simply repeat it and those so fucking stupid they believe those lies. Fuck the convoyers and all it's supporters.

I've serviced computers for over 40 years from Commodore Vic20s to 64s, Amigas, Windoze boxes, Macs and Linux server banks. Closed my storefront 8 years ago and still work out of my home. If you ask I question I might be able to help. I won't call you names, I work with so many seniors so I hold it all in dealing with computer stuff. Just don't ask about gaming, I stay away from that. Business & home productivity stuff mainly. Run at home w an iPhone, iPad, older Mac mini, Windows 11 laptop, Win10 Ryzen desktop and a Raspberry Pi to play with and an Ubuntu backup server. Biggest piece of advice I'll give you is buy an external drive and back your shit up at least monthly. Documents, Pictures, Music - the OS can be reinstalled easily. Kinda sick of everyone waiting until their system is completely FUBAR and asking me to fix it by tomorrow. 2nd is don't buy X because it's "cheaper than Y" and the brand name means SFA 3rd the idiot at BestBuy doesn't know shit, he sells vacuums on Monsay, TVs on Weds and computers on Saturday. He's pushing that Antivirus just to make an extra $2 commission. Go ahead and ask, I've been at this game as long as Bill Gates has.

You heard what I offer as a better solution. 1. Decriminalize possession of small amounts in all Canada 2. Allow Doctors to prescribe and monitor alternatives 3. Increase support for mental health services 4. Lock up dealers for a LONG TIME. Forcing people into rehab doesn't work. Shit my kid checked out within 24 hrs several times, he literally dragged his ass out of hospitals bleeding, stroked out, broken bones and gave the usual litany about stoopid doctors, all a plot, etc. etc. because he was Jonesing for a hit. The Band Office runs a few centres here deep in the bush and ppl have still died trying to walk back to town. Some addicts just go into rehab or jail just to get fed and gain strength so they can go right back to it again.

Which does not work! Look at almost 100 years of evidence when forming your opinion. Countries with the death penalty still have the same problem, or you wouldn't read about the executions all the time. States with 3 strikes laws have even more prisoners than we do. Countries like Portugal have actually seen progress.

Quit referring to the protesters as the truckers. Over 90% of truckers are vaxxed. The protesters were condemned by both the Teamsters and Independent Truckers Assn. Who all knew, unlike the morons in the convoy that you can't get into tjhe USA without being vaxxed, so you'd never have the problem getting back into Canada. Who knew no one was being forced to get the vax, that's total shit. Who know that Trudeau doesn't sit there issuing orders, he handed it off to Health Authorities who can only make border policy and Health is a Provincial responsibility, they made the mask mandates. They have a clue how government works, you don't just march off with a fucking Internet petition and demand some authority do what you imbecilically think they can. And I'm not about to constantly pull figures from out of my ass and claim they're "actual facts". The convoy was merely a Northern Trumpist collection of disgusting racists, fascists, sovereign person dotards blowing off steam. People who want to believe the PM is a dictator because they're not capable or unwilling to think for themselves and need someone else to order what they can eat for breakfast or what Church to attend. People who freely made their own choice and want to throw tantrums on the floor because of the consequences. But of course to such children a sore arm for a day is 'severe side effects'.

The 90% are the ones who got vaxxed. The other 10% are morons who think the loudest counts, sort of a squeaky wheel mentality. Fuck you you're a majority, you're a fart in a tornado. So who gives a flying fuck about you quoting the booster shot rates... they're already better protected than you. The reason we don't give a shit about you lot is because there's a possibility we might get Covid and get the sniffles, whereas there's a better possibility you'll fucking die. There's 350-400 truckers in this little town and ONE rig and three pickups dragging the flag in the dirt showed up to protest and got mostly the finger. The other 350 were working to feed their kids.

I didn't quit my fucking job because I'm chickenshit of a needle. And I sure as hell don't blame other people for the choices I made myself. We the 90% don't give a flying fuck about you anymore, other than to abandon support of any elected official that thinks you're worth catering to. Enjoy the consequences of your choice, you made it.

What makes you think you have the slightest right to know? Does GM have to tell you what it charged your neighbour, or what the repair shop charged someone else? And what does your demand have to do with democracy in the least? The name of this website is re:politics. Maybe some of you should learn the meaning of what that is, and at least a minimal knowledge of how it works.

Don't matter. Once a Covidiot always a covidiot. Facts don't matter to adults who still cover their ears and yell nyah nyah I'm not listening....