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Do better CBC. “The weak Canadian dollar makes a trip down south a pricier proposition“
Comparison of Yearly Average Exchange Rates: Canadian Dollar (CAD) to US Dollar (USD) The average exchange rates for the Canadian dollar against the US dollar for the years 2024 and 2025 are outlined below: Yearly Average Exchange Rates 2024: The average exchange rate was 1.370 CAD per USD. This indicates that one US dollar was equivalent to approximately 1.370 Canadian dollars. • 2025: The average exchange rate is reported to be 1.3785 CAD per USD. This implies that one US dollar was approximately equal to 1.3785 Canadian dollars.
December 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating the obvious... At first Ford formed a theory to account for this human behaviour. If human beings don't keep exercising their lips, he thought, their mouths seize up. After a few months' consideration and observation he abandoned this theory in favour of a new one. If they don't keep on excercising their lips, he thought, their brains start working. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
December 13, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Hmm, 🇦🇺massive # of solar installations = 1/3 the cost of Canadian system. Plus so much excessive solar power that next year millions will get 3 hrs/day free electricity.
Oz environmental protection is 🐂💩, but in solar they are very far ahead of Canada
December 12, 2025 at 11:21 PM
🇨🇦 not serious about green energy.
154.4% tariff on 🇨🇳 solar panels
1500 Canadians manufacturing solar panels 🤦
= millions of 🇨🇦 denied cheap green energy to protect a tiny, uncompetitive, industry.

🇦🇺 produces so much excess ⚡️, & 🏠 solar < 1/3 🇨🇦 price, that MILLIONS will have 3 hrs/day free.
ALDI Solar $8,499* Solar and Battery Package. Fully installed. • 6.6kW solar panel array • 5.5kW hybrid Inverter • 20kWh battery capacity (4 × 5kWh battery modules) • Installations from November 2025 Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen said the scheme would share around the benefits of solar panels, including to those without panels or who rented their homes. "There is so much power in the middle of the day now that often the prices are very cheap or negative and this should be something, by our analysis, that energy companies can incorporate and offer," Mr Bowen told the ABC. "It's not a silver bullet, and it is part of a suite of measures, but it's a good one. No one would claim that one particular policy solves all the challenges in the energy market."
December 12, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Yes, BC is rolling out a program: news.gov.bc.ca/releases/202...

Unfortunately, zero programs for hospitals & schools … unless the patients and kids move to the chicken barns 🤪

A step in the right direction … but BC public health IPAC is archaic.
"Fraser Valley farmers have been battling against avian influenza since the first outbreak in 2004, adopting strict biosecurity measures so British Columbians can continue to enjoy the eggs and poultry we rely on," said Lana Popham, Minister of Agriculture and Food. "Despite the personal stress and losses caused by the virus, producers still rise every morning to care for their birds and build our food supply. This program will help them do that by adding extra defence measures against the virus to their barns." The $2.5-million Novel Tools and Technologies Program will help egg and poultry producers in the Fraser Valley equip their barns with tools such as air filters and ultraviolet light systems to help protect their flocks from avian influenza. Despite implementing enhanced biosecurity measures and keeping birds
December 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
This was the CDC of BC’s hybrid immunity push, lead by Bonnie Henry 👎
• Hybrid immunity is defined as the immune protection in an individual who has had one or more doses of a COVID-19 vaccine and experienced at least one SARS-CoV- 2 infection before or after receiving COVID-19 vaccine Evidence demonstrates that hybrid immunity may provide superior protection against COVID-19 compared to vaccination or previous infection alone. 8In a vaccinated individual, infection acts as a "dose" to increase neutralizing antibodies and may induce broader antibodies that respond better to variants. Evidence is emerging that vaccinated individuals who had been infected also demonstrate increased T cell proliferation and broadened T cell responses? as well as increased neutralizing antibodies, compared to those without a history of infection. 1° It is also noted that the level of B cell response significantly increases when individuals who have received two or three doses of COVID-19 vaccine also had a nrior Omicron infertinn comnared to AA Not Secure - bccdc.ca
December 5, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Another Vought ‘shadow president’
******** VOUGHT IS HERE FOR YOU! ********
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Much of journalism relies on the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. / call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. - Michael Crichton
November 24, 2025 at 12:48 AM
And a cultural problem, per Dr Westrum’s BMJ study of information processing about safety in medicine and aviation, much of public health is Pathological or at best Bureaucratic.
Pathological Bureaucratic Generative Power oriented Rule oriented Performance oriented Low cooperation Modest cooperation High cooperation Messengers "shot" Messengers neglected Messengers trained Responsibilities shirked Narrow responsibilities Risks are shared Bridging discouraged Bridging tolerated Bridging encouraged Failure leads to scapegoating Failure leads to justice Failure leads to inquiry Novelty crushed Novelty leads to problems Novelty implemented Table 1: The Westrum organizational typology model: How organizations process information (Source: Ron Westrum, "A typology of organisation culture [Z); BMJ Quality & Safety 13, no 2 (2004), doi: 10.1136/qshc.2003.009522.)
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 PM
It was the 1991 NDP, per the NDP MoH in her CBC interview, that set the policies to block immigrant docs + stopping BC docs from family medicine.

incompetent @bcndpcaucus.bsky.social, having been in power SINCE 2017 - did nada, zip, zero until 2024 to begin to rectify **their own policy mess**
"It concluded that there was a mismatch between the health-care professionals that we needed and what we actually had," Cull said, speaking to CBC's On the Island. The report found that B.C. had more family doctors than it needed, and that the number of physicians provincewide had increased by more than 50 per cent since the 1970s. It also found they were seeing fewer patients than anywhere else in Canada. • Q&A Retiring family doctor worries about the future of his patients without changes to the job In order to reduce costs, it was recommended immigrant physicians not be allowed to practise in B.C2that international medical students be made to leave the province after graduation 3nd that domestic graduates train in fields where there were shortages — which, at the time, did not include family medicine.
November 10, 2025 at 10:00 PM
BC public health’s RSV vaccination for pregnant women, good luck, it costs $300 🤷
BRITISH COLUMBIA HealthLinkBC C 8-1-1 The vaccine is given just before or during the RSV season, ideally between weeks 32 and the end of 36 weeks of pregnancy. For the best protection, it's important to get the vaccine at least two weeks before birth to allow time for the antibodies to reach your baby. The vaccine is not free (it costs about $300) and can be purchased at select pharmacies.
November 9, 2025 at 6:41 PM
There’s some good evidence for creatine supplementation. And creatine production decreases with age. brandonluumd.substack.com/p/creatine-f...
Creatine Under Brain Stress: What the Research Shows Let's review the evidence from real-world studies where creatine was put to the test under conditions of energy stress: sleep deprivation and hypoxia (low oxygen). 1. McMorris et al., 2006 - 24 Hours of Sleep Deprivation In a 2006 study by McMorris and colleagues, healthy adults were divided into two groups. One group received a high dose of creatine— 20 grams per day for seven days—while the other group received a placebo. After the supplementation period, both groups were kept awake for 24 hours under conditions of intermittent, mild exercise designed to standardize energy expenditure among participants. A comprehensive battery of cognitive tests was administered throughout the night to assess working memory, reaction time, and overall mood and fatigue. Key Findings: • Reaction Time: Creatine users exhibited significantly less slowing of reaction time compared to the placebo group.
October 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
He’s immoral
THE MORAL TEST OF GOVERNMENT IS HOW IT TREATS THOSE WHO ARE IN THE DAWN OF LIFE, THE CHILDREN; THOSE WHO ARE IN THE TWILIGHT OF LIFE, THE AGED; AND THOSE IN THE SHADOWS OF LIFE, THE SICK, THE NEEDY AND THE HANDICAPPED. - HUBERT HUMPHREY -
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Bill Cassidy Never learns
August 29, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Yep. Same vibes
VOUGHT IS HERE FOR YOU!
August 22, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Zero evidence, still … 🦗🦗🦗
Air Canada Flight Attendant Salaries Canada V All years of experience V Base pay $36K-$63Kyr $59 K/yr average Additional pay $2K/yr Average $575 - $6K/yr Range About our data il Very High Confidence • ....... Last updated Jul 31, 2025 • 680 Salaries submitted The "Most Likely Range" reflects values within the 25th and 75th percentile of all pay data available for this role. Glassdoor salaries are powered by our
August 18, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Air Canada’s CEO says it’s not 🤣
1/3 of AC’s flight attendants have been hired in the last 5 years.
Avg is about $58k. At 3 years they make about $40k.

You sound like a great future AC FA … you’ll be rolling in $
• Half of Air Canada mainline flight attendants earned more than $54,000 in 2024, excluding incentive rewards, and health and pension benefits. The median is influenced by the fact that about one third of flights attendants have been hired in the past 5 years. At the top of the scale, which they reach within 10 years, flight attendants can make more than $70.000.
August 18, 2025 at 10:37 PM
Yep
August 13, 2025 at 3:32 AM
The Supreme Court is clear, health is a shared Federal & Provincial responsibility:

macleans.ca/opinion/trud...
= MACLEAN'S Subscribe Ottawa is good at setting standards. Look at the Canada Health Act-another Pierre Trudeau invention —which sets minimum national standards for health care. Without that federal law, the free health care enjoyed by every Canadian, regardless of their province, would not exist. We have national medicare only because the federal government set that standard. Why is this example important? Because it shows that in our Constitution and federal system, health is a shared legal responsibility, no more provincial than federal. But the federal government can make national rules, specifically minimum national standards for COVID-19 control that the provinces must play by. That would be a breakthrough, because Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, Saskatchewan and Quebec all failed by unwisely doing less than the minimum to curb a second wave. Put a standard, legally binding "floor" under the provinces—a "backstop" of disease control which kicks in only when they fail— and Ottawa would save lives. Ottawa is good at setting standards. Look at the Canada Health Act—another Pierre Trudeau invention-which sets minimum national standards for health care. Without that federal law, the free health care enjoyed by every Canadian, regardless of their province, would not exist. We have national medicare only because the federal government set that standard. Why is this example important? Because it shows that in our Constitution and federal system, health is a shared legal responsibility, no more provincial than federal. “Health is subject to overlapping federal and provincial jurisdiction, and the provinces’ power to legislate in this field does not exclude Parliament’s authority to target conduct that constitutes a public health evil.” An evil, one supposes, like COVID-19.
August 12, 2025 at 12:19 AM
Gell-Mann Amnesia … except you know it 👍
Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray's case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward-reversing cause and effect. I call these the "wet streets cause rain" stories. Paper's full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know. - Michael Crichton [1]
August 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Yep
"No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
August 10, 2025 at 9:47 PM
A. Not good. B. Trudeau dropped the ball on Canadian Novavax production. Hundreds of $MILLIONS wasted, not a single COVID vaccine produced.
Two years after Trudeau promised a made-in-Canada COVID vaccine, the country is still waiting The National Research Council site hasn't produced a single vial of a COVID-19 vaccine John Paul Tasker • CBC News • Posted: Aug 20, 2022 1:00 AM PDT | Last Updated: August 20, 2022 Two years after Trudeau promised a made-in-Canada COVID vaccine, the country is still waiting
August 9, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Russ Vought gives Vought International vibes
Vought is here for you
July 18, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Dr Rhonda Patrick has a great podcast, here’s one on coffee’s benefits. TL;DR caffeinated (1-2 cups, then decaf) paper filtered coffee is the best, unfiltered still good but can increase cholesterol.
www.foundmyfitness.com/episodes/cof...
foundmyfitness.com Effects on Aging & Longevity Key insights: • Coffee consumption slows biological aging by reducing epigenetic age. • Observational studies consistently show that regular coffee drinkers display younger epigenetic signatures compared to non-coffee drinkers. These benefits appear consistent across diverse populations and persist regardless of caffeine content and peak at around 3-4 cups per day. • Coffee and its constituents appear to affect several "hallmarks of aging" thereby increasing healthspan and lifespan. Research underscores coffee's impressive ability to slow biological aging. Biological age is distinct from chronological age; it reflects cellular and DNA health. Regular coffee consumption significantly lowers
July 15, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Site C sucks. Photo with BC Premier John Horgan
May 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM