It's even worse – they do less surgery at a more relaxed pace, so capacity is actually decreasing. It attracts lots of staff because of flexible hours and good pay. The result is poor people get fucked.

Signed!

It's not an attempt at Greek, for sure. She probably used Cyrillic as a simple substitution cipher to stop her parents and others from reading her very violent thoughts.

No, it wasn't. My wife is a Russian trans girl, and she tried reading the journal – she confirms that it is, in fact, a bastardized fusion of Russian lettering of mostly-English words.

The writer is most definitely not a Russian speaker, and the notebook would be unintelligible to anyone who doesn't speak English.

His ban will force Health Canada to consider the issue, and may accelerate them making similar decisions as the FDA, on reducing this practice altogether.

This is actually not true. If you ban it here AND remove the Health Canada requirement for testing on higher order animals, there is no need to do that research. It doesn't even correlate that well with human health outcomes. Ban the practice and remove the incentive, and I guarantee you that the behaviour will go away.

The FDA already removed its requirement for testing on higher order mammals – mouse work is sufficient to get an investigational new drug (IND) permit, or an equivalent permit for a medical device. I suspect Health Canada has done the same, but I'm not 100% sure – if not, it absolutely should. I'd rather have marginally more risk to human participants that generates useful, applicable data, than perform countless cruel experiments that poorly correlate with human biology.

No it doesn't, but then, that's not really an argument to keep nickel-and-diming drivers. I'm all for fair progressive taxation, but it shouldn't be composed of a million government fees that pop up every time you have to deal with the government for any reason. I know Ford got rid of the $200 fee and refunded it for cynical, manipulative reasons, but I'm still glad it's gone, and I have to believe that most people are not stupid enough to be bought by $200.

Oh fuck off. You car-haters manage to bring that into every issue.

I have an EV and burn zero fossil fuels. I also think putting bike lanes on a major artery that wasn't designed for them is a terrible idea. I'm all for bike lanes on side streets, but not on arteries, sorry.

OP is not wrong, and I think you know that, but you've got a sore spot about it clearly. It may be uncomfy, but it's the truth that alcohol is absolutely horrible for one's health.