Not gonna provide any more PI deets but I saw an AMA on a Saudi Arabian girl and I like the idea :)

Lets learn and have some laughs, my dish is your command 🧞‍♂️

  • cabron_offsets@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 months ago

    Yall got any room for my family of 4? I can code and do finance bullshit and my wife has years of experience in small molecules and genomic medicine.

    • ravhall
      10·
      2 months ago

      Get in line, pal. I’ll give head and do laundry. Pick meeee!!

        • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
          81·
          2 months ago

          Are we?

          Yes, despite what the right wing propaganda saya, we do have a challenging process to go through. And have had for many years.

        • ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca
          51·
          2 months ago

          Yes, I know people going through it

          Tfw and student are loopholes that weren’t intended to be used as much as they are

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        1·
        1 month ago

        Unless you have lots of cash, then you just come in to Quebec via the investor immigrant route, get your PR and move to another province

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      42·
      2 months ago

      We have a real problem with abuse of the TFW program being used to recruit wage-suppressing fraudulent McJobs to profit franchisees and business owners, businesses, and other interest groups. Maybe thats a good lead haha🫠

  • ravhall
    9·
    2 months ago

    How realistic do you think it would be for the right-wing to gain control of Canada?

    • IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      2 months ago

      Pretty much inevitable at this point. The Liberal party has been in power for a while now, and Canadians start to get antsy and vote out the incumbent party after a while. The only real question is how conservative is the Conservative party going to be when they get in.

      • HungryJerboa@lemmy.ca
        8·
        2 months ago

        Yea this is a question of damage control. My wife is worried about them attempting to remove abortion access in lock step, and now she isn’t wrong to be afraid. Populism is toxic.

        Also, all of the disinformation campaigns that worked to destabilize the US were vindicated by this election result, so you can expect similar interference in the Canadian election next year.

        • Kaput@lemmy.world
          5·
          2 months ago

          Learn a little French and move to Quebec, were Canada a California on most social issues.

      • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
        11·
        2 months ago

        I wonder whether the Trump win down South might make folks more reluctant to have all Conservative

        1. Canadian Federal government
        2. Several Provincial governments
        3. US gov

        All at the same time.

        I mean for the kind of voter who is interchangeable between conservative and liberal (not people who are bona fide right-wing or left-wing voters because a principled person with an actual political orientation doesn’t flip so frivolously or unpredictably and they sure as hell vote reliably)

    • saigot@lemmy.ca
      8·
      2 months ago

      A certainty.

      Liberals have been in power for a decade at this point (5th-6th longest term in history depending on when exactly the election happens), and have picked up a ton of baggage, from corruption scandals (some more manufactured than others) , oil pipeline flubs that left everyone mad, blackface scandal, political interference, broken promises of electoral reform, even a divorce. They currently hang on to an extremely weak minority with the NDP. The only reason there hasn’t already been an election is that the NDP is too broke to put up a real fight.

      Anyone right of centre will literally foam at the mouth at the mention of Trudeau, anyone left of centre is disappointed and disinterested. The NDP is likely to pick up seats, but they have never held power and the current leader is seen as pretty weak, they don’t stand a good chance of gaining power.

      the conservative party is polling with a 20point lead right now, look at this map. Furthermore they have been taking a hard right turn over the last few years to avoid losing out to a far-right party that has emerged, the new leader poilievre is a populist and the furthest right I have ever seen a viable Canadian candidate. He’s also french speaking, which has traditionally been a strength of the liberals and weakness of the CPC. He is actively campaigning on reducing trans folks (and especially trans children) access to healthcare, ending the carbon tax, reducing immigration and has been dog whistling hard about restricting abortion.

      The question is not If he takes power, but rather how quickly we can rebuild left wing power and how much can we mitigate the damage. Personally I hope Greens pick up a few seats, liberals get their shit together within a year and no-confidence Mr.PP. He mostly won’t be winning because he’s popular but rather his opponents are politically radioactive.

      • kent_eh@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        Hopefully we can limit PP to a minority government so he can’t do too much damage.

        • saigot@lemmy.ca
          3·
          1 month ago

          that’d be a huge pull, but if it were to happen we’d probably end up with a very exciting 5-way split which would be quite exciting (and probably extremely unstable). if ABC voters can heavily coordinate AND PP says a bunch of quiet stuff out loud then it could happen.

      • ravhall
        22·
        2 months ago

        Oh, it’s all over. By the end of his 4 years, he will just choose to stay and elect his replacement. Voting is done.

        • saigot@lemmy.ca
          2·
          1 month ago

          I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “voting is done” but I think our parliamentary system is somewhat more resistant to systemic fuckery than the US system.

          I don’t mean we are invincible, but 1 conservative term is not going to end democracy in Canada.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      Liberal party is centre-right already. Liberalism opposes humanism to the degree that it favours capital over human needs.

  • Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com
    7·
    2 months ago

    Are you guys really that much into maple syrup?

    Ps. What’s the best wedding gift for a Canadian living abroad?

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      2 months ago

      Actually hate the stuff, not into it as a flavor and as a rule I generally avoid natural and artificial sweeteners in general and added sugars wherever possible

      Can you give them (and me) a house 😂?

    • ravhall
      41·
      2 months ago

      I’m guessing maple syrup with a bow.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      61·
      2 months ago

      Its gonna sound undriven but all I’ve truly ever wanted is to be safe and okay and able to emancipate myself from unproductive conflict and others undue influence.

      Have basically succeeded with that so now I have begun my search for a new purpose. TBD ha

  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works
    3·
    2 months ago

    have you got one of those vending machine pizzas yet?

    If so, how was it?

    I think… I think that’s all I need to know about Canada right now.

    • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
      11·
      1 month ago

      Poilievre is definitely a coomer so not sure how we’re going to stop him. Hopefully the foreign interference inquiry sheds some light on such personalities, one hopes anyway.

      Super weird he has resisted gettint clearence tho, almost like he has shit to hide and also doesn’t want to be held to any kind of rational or truth-based standard when it comes to discussing matters of national and legal significance

      • Kecessa@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        1 month ago

        I’m starting to wonder if Trudeau has an ace up his sleeve concerning Lil’PP and that’s how he manages to keep his team together even though some MPs want him out…