[ShepherdsDog]

$1:

Health care has to be free?

No. Healthcare has to be affordable. People often point to Tommy Douglas as the father of Canadian medicare. He stated from the beginning that healthcare should be affordable for all Canadians....not free

[OnTheIce]

Lemmy Lemmy:

Merit recognition is a difficult thing to implement because it's very difficult to measure how well a teacher is teaching. In Ontario, teacher unions' activities are severely limited by the Education Act. Discipline is handled by the government through its watchdog (The Ontario College of Teachers) and the union plays virtually no role in those cases. Good teachers don't want bad teachers in the system any more than anyone else does.

Huge red flag!

Unions often step in when there's an issue with a teacher and that teacher is moved from one school to another.

[Lemmy]

OnTheIce OnTheIce:

Unions often step in when there's an issue with a teacher and that teacher is moved from one school to another.

Yes, that happens frequently. At that stage, however, the union is really just in the room to watch. They don't have any authority or influence on what ultimately happens to the teacher. That's decided on by the College of Teachers, where the unions are only passive observers at the hearings. If it's a serious enough violation of professional conduct, the teacher gets fired, so the transfer is only temporary anyway.

[rickc]

This thread started off as a complaint about wait times increasing for the Canadian Health Care System. It only took one American getting involved to sidetrack the discussion entirely. I have noticed that when the discussion of the Canadian Health Care System is occurring with mixed company [Canadians and Americans] the conversation always turns into a: "my system is better than your system" throwdown. When Canadians are alone,or when they think they are alone [posting on cbc boards] they tend to spend a fair amount of time bitching about their healthcare. I'm not picking sides here, I'm just pointing out an observation. Its like I can bitch about my Redsox, but its fighting words if any outsider puts them down.

[Brenda]

That is with everything. If I, as an immigrant, say something negative about Canada, I am told to go the fuck back where I come from. In those exact words, too.

[ShepherdsDog]

that's cuz gunnair doesn't like it when you don't trim the crust

[Brenda]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

that's cuz gunnair doesn't like it when you don't trim the crust

Gunny should be happy I don't live on the island...

(btw... nice double entendre )

[fifeboy]

rickc rickc:

This thread started off as a complaint about wait times increasing for the Canadian Health Care System. It only took one American getting involved to sidetrack the discussion entirely. I have noticed that when the discussion of the Canadian Health Care System is occurring with mixed company [Canadians and Americans] the conversation always turns into a: "my system is better than your system" throwdown. When Canadians are alone,or when they think they are alone [posting on cbc boards] they tend to spend a fair amount of time bitching about their healthcare. I'm not picking sides here, I'm just pointing out an observation. Its like I can bitch about my Redsox, but its fighting words if any outsider puts them down.

Perhaps we are just tired of being lectured to. Especially when the professor is giving the same speil as last year...and the year before ...and...

[OnTheIce]

rickc rickc:

This thread started off as a complaint about wait times increasing for the Canadian Health Care System. It only took one American getting involved to sidetrack the discussion entirely. I have noticed that when the discussion of the Canadian Health Care System is occurring with mixed company [Canadians and Americans] the conversation always turns into a: "my system is better than your system" throwdown. When Canadians are alone,or when they think they are alone [posting on cbc boards] they tend to spend a fair amount of time bitching about their healthcare. I'm not picking sides here, I'm just pointing out an observation. Its like I can bitch about my Redsox, but its fighting words if any outsider puts them down.

It's an American thing...it's a "my dick is bigger than your dick" contest with any topic, any time.

[Gunnair]

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

that's cuz gunnair doesn't like it when you don't trim the crust

Moreso because she doesn't do what she's told, chop fucking chop.

[Brenda]

Gunnair Gunnair:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

that's cuz gunnair doesn't like it when you don't trim the crust

Moreso because she doesn't do what she's told, chop fucking chop.

[Gunnair]

Brenda Brenda:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

that's cuz gunnair doesn't like it when you don't trim the crust

Gunny should be happy I don't live on the island...

(btw... nice double entendre )

Your clogs wouldn't last for a month before getting mildewy.

Now, back me a fucking tray of cup cakes, chop fucking chop.

[Gunnair]

Brenda Brenda:

Gunnair Gunnair:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

that's cuz gunnair doesn't like it when you don't trim the crust

Moreso because she doesn't do what she's told, chop fucking chop.

I sense an ESL moment. Chop chop means right now!

[ShepherdsDog]

Dicky Dow you chop chop now. In Mandarin you say 'Shenzuh' or 'Kwy dyen'. Chop chop was cantonese pidgin.

[Brenda]

Gunnair Gunnair:

Brenda Brenda:

ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:

that's cuz gunnair doesn't like it when you don't trim the crust

Gunny should be happy I don't live on the island...

(btw... nice double entendre )

Your clogs wouldn't last for a month before getting mildewy.

They wouldn't last because they'd break on your thick skin while hitting you upside the head