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I'll be honest, I really don't understand the distinction you're trying to make.

1) There is a vaccine for it (and anyone born before 1971 probably already has it). 2) The death/serious illness rates are significantly lower than originally feared 3) This isn't the only disease/illness that you put yourself at risk for, if you regularly have multiple sexual partners over a short period of time. [i.e. HIV, Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Chlamydia, Hep B&C, HPV, HSV-2, etc.] 4) The larger concern is that the lack of communication to this community about THEIR risk, IMHO, puts them at higher risk. [Some epidemiologists have raised this concern.]

Got my Steam Deck a few weeks ago, and have to say it has exceeded my expectations: 1) In my limited experience, most games are "mostly" playable. 2) Heroic Launcher makes running EGS games really easy 3) Surprised how easy it was to put Origin on it. 4) I got X-Wing running perfectly in TTS, even though TTS is "Unsupported". Controller setup is so flexible. 5) The analog sticks, touchpads and haptic feedback are phenomenal I have a few "niggles" 1) OS feels a little like a "late beta" -- it generally works well, but crashes more than I would like. Also, wish it would DL/Move games while asleep. 2) Battery life on demanding games is not great. 3) The RB/LB buttons are not very responsive. I really noticed the difference playing Rogue Legacy 2. I played the first on my Vita, and hoped that RL2 would be my Steam Deck game -- deleted it almost immediately. 4) I've been playing the Ascent --which is great, BTW -- but the text is so small. Playing games designed for desktop (even ones that are "great on Deck") can sometimes be a little frustrating. I picked up a 60% size Bluetooth keyboard and mouse -- If you're going to mess around in Linux, it makes it so much easier. [Plus I need them to pull up my lists in X-Wing.]

The reason it has spread outside of Africa, and continues to spread, is that it is now within a small part of the gay/bisexual community that has multiple sexual partners over a regulalry short period of time (sometimes anonymously) -- 98% of the cases have been MSM, and 41% are immunocompromised.; 95% of the cases occurred as the result of sexual activity. There is not yet any evidence of it spreading much outside of that community and their close contacts (i.e. household members).

I'm moving on from this. I have formal economics training as well. The problem is criminals having access to guns. No one should care if someone takes his gun to a shooting range to fire off a few shots. I would be more than willing to close down gun shooting ranges in Canada if I believed it would keep guns out of criminal's hands. I don't. Banning all handguns/ammunition globally would cut off the supply of guns to criminals. All banning handguns in Canada does is cut of a small potential source of guns. It does nothing to solve the problem. I'll put it another way, If the US were to ban all handguns, I would support Canada doing the same thing. You are our problem. [Not you specifically, your country.]

I've tried to make the point that they are different markets, but I'll be moving on from this one. No one in Canada is making that particular argument, and I don't think either one of us will be changing the other's opinion on this point. I would 100% support a worldwide ban on handguns and ammunition. But as long as you jokers make buying guns easier than alcohol, there is no point banning them here.

Dealers can sell above MSRP in Canada. Auto companies try (very hard) to discourage the practice. However, if a dealer advertises a price, then they have to sell for that price. However, this advertised price can be above MSRP.

Getting a legal gun is not easy in Canada. In order to buy a handgun in Canada: 1) You have to take a $340 of courses that includes 12 hours of classroom instruction, it is a 2 day course that must be a minimum of 30-days apart 2) Pass 2 exams 3) Apply for a restricted firearms license for $80 (and takes a minimum of 45 days to be processed), with a minimum of 28-day waiting period 4) Get an Authorization to Transport a restricted firearm from the Government (you can't transport it from the store to your home without a license) 5) Get a trigger lock, and a storage vault Radio host proves how easy it is to find an illegal gun in Toronto TORONTO.CTVNEWS.CA A radio host who wanted to see how easy it is to get an illegal gun in Toronto was viewing firearms in the parking lot of a mall just hours after he began looking for one. Or, if you want an illegal gun from the US, and it took a local radio host 5-hours to get one, avoid all of that hassle. And, you have the added benefit of not registering with the government -- which is advantageous if you plan on doing some carjackings.

I'll start this off with the caveat -- there are no great stats on how guns are used in crimes in Canada. Journalists have expressed frustration with this. So I'm going to take some liberty with some of the numbers for illustrative purposes. 1) Toronto Police Services suggested that 80% of guns they had traced as part of the study originated in the US. They didn't break-down the remaining 20% for how many were legally obtained vs. illegally obtained in Canada. Given that criminals seem to either prefer illegal guns, or just plain find them easier to obtain, my POV is that if you cut off the supply of domestic guns, the people that want those guns will just get US based guns instead. 2) If you talk about Homicide specifically. There are some stats from Statscan. In 2020, there were 743 homicides in Canada, 277 which were committed with a gun (of which 49% were from a handgun). So a total of 136. So if 20% were made with legally owned handguns -- that's 27 -- or about 3.6% of total homicides. How many of those people would be saved? Probably not all (or most) of them. They killer could likely get their hands on an illegal gun, a nonrestricted rifle/shotgun, or a knife. This data is VERY different than the US, where murders with handguns is ~45% of the total (vs. the 18%) in Canada. The homicide rate from handguns in the US is ~7x that of Canada. 3) Suicide Data is a little more out of date here, last info I am aware of from Statscan on suicide was published 10 years ago, and covered 10-years prior. About 4,000 people commit suicide each year in Canada, but only ~16% use a firearm. (I have seen no breakdown on a split between handguns vs. rifles). This is vastly different than the US, where ~50% use a firearm. Since there are about 45,000 suicides per year in the US, the overall suicide rate seems to be fairly similar in the 2 countries. I just don't understand the how this law would materially impact suicide in Canada. To your point on banning handguns making illegal guns more expensive? Maybe. But again, most of Canada's illegal handguns come over the border from your country (where it is easy to get one), and it is relatively easy to get over the border. There is a virtually unlimited supply of handguns a few hours drive from most Canadian cities.

Canada is flooded with smuggled handguns from the US. Banning Canadians from owning them won't change that.

Yes. I support banning handguns if it will meaningfully reduce deaths in Canada. I don't believe it will, so I don't. In general, I don't support any restrictions on people that don't have a clearly articulated/demonstrable "public good".

That's the point, the source of guns used in crime is overwhelming from the US. These actions are all for show, and won't actually do anything.

Again. Nothing bad happened in Canada. Just like when there was a Supreme Court decision leak in the US a while back, nothing happened to attack abortion rights in Canada. Canada's homicide rate is about 1/3 of the US. What happens there is not indicative of what happens here. There aren't good statistics on the source of guns in crime, but when the Toronto Police Service looked at the source of guns used in crime, more than 80% did not originate from sales within Canada. These laws would not have prevented the largest "massacres" in Canada (by # of deaths) over the last 30 or so years: 2020 Nova Scotia Attacks (22 dead) -- Killer had numerous illegally obtained weapons from the US 1989 Ecole Polytechnique Massacre (15 dead) -- Killer used a rifle that is perfectly legal under the current proposed legislation 2018 Toronto Van Attack (11 dead) -- killer used a van to run people over

NDP -- 23.7% of popular vote is probably the pinnacle of where they can be. The only times they have been higher than this is 2015 and 1990. It's significantly better than their share of the popular vote in the 2021 Federal election. Liberal -- Complete disaster of an election. Del Duca didn't even win his own seat. They need to figure out what they are. Progressive Conservatives -- 41% of the vote is the highest since McGuinty's second election in 2007 (at 42%), and the first time an encumbant party has had their popular vote% go up since Mike Harris in '99. Reflective of how well he handled the pandemic. A right-of-centre party now forms the government in all provinces except BC and Newfoundland.

Andrea Horwath is pointing out that the majority of Ontarians did not vote for Doug Ford. The OPC currently has 41 % of the popular vote. Justin Trudeau’s Federal Liberals got 33% of the popular vote last year.

That chicken suit was REALLY dumb.

CBC has already declared a majority with a third of the seats yet to report. Only question is whether Liberals will regain official party status.

15 minutes in. Polls seem to be spot on.

True, Justin Trudeau is fantastic at good politics.

Bill Morneau was Trudeau's Finance Minister from 2015-2020. Bill Morneau is 'much more worried' about Canada's economic prospects now than when Trudeau was first elected OTTAWACITIZEN.COM The ex-finance minister gave a series of critiques of his former government’s economic policies in his first public speech since leaving office in 2020

I am suggesting that Governments frequently announce news to distract the media from other news. Companies do this too. I am suggesting that based on how poorly planned this announcement was (and lacking in detail), that it was rushed.

1) Because those mass killings didn't happen in Canada. They happened in a country that has very different gun laws than Canada. Mass killings are exceedingly rare in Canada, and typically don't involve legally obtained hand guns. 2) You don't believe that politicians time their news to distract from "bad news"?

Complete coincidence that they announced this days after shootings in the US and 2 days before a 50bps hike in interest rates.

My friends/family/acquaintances must be the healthiest people on the planet. Everyone I know who has caught Covid in the last 6 months had mild symptoms and nothing lasting over 2 weeks.