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My Carmine Jewel sour cherry tree outdid itself this year.

My favourite song by the legendary Lennie Gallant of Rustico, PEI. I can't do this guy's bio justice, so here's his from his website. But if you've lived in Canada long enough, I'd find it hard to imagine you haven't heard one of his songs at some point.

In an effort to bring balance to the universe given my other post just now, here is the cleanest version of the North Atlantic Squadron anyone has ever sang.

https://www.parl.ca/documentviewer/en/44-1/bill/C-210/first-reading

Elections Canada research shows most adult voters oppose the measure: "Seven in ten respondents, 72 percent, disagreed."

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Article criticizes those who push for peace like Putin and Orban in the same bucket as Hitler/Trump. But that Trump playbook does rhyme Hitler's.

Piece starts with an economics lesson that is mostly true: Investing in people can offset a financialization focus instead of a production focus. The missing truth is that your wealth is the ease to pick up a cheap axe from box store, regardless of where it was made. High wages with overall high cost of living, still provides access to more cheap goods.

Author still loves US militarist colonialism, and so it breaks down his WW3 fears, when extorting allies into harsher colonialism may be needed to push Russia/China into more defense spending, so that the US can (is forced to) spend on more offense. This means a slight delay to ww3, but its not as though the ignorant aren't cheering for one of the bipartisan sides for end of times.

WW3 is entirely up to the colonies response to US extortion in forcing their suicide. Even with colonies, the US loses badly, and it is defense budget extortion on world that is objective rather than actual war, but colonies can band together to prevent such extortion and accelerate US collapse instead of begging for their own collapse to prop up US.

Injectable prescription drugs, sold as Ozempic and Wegovy, and the pill Rybelsus all contain the ingredient semaglutide. This class of medication, known as glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1s), regulate blood sugar levels and appetite.

Health Canada previously approved Ozempic to treat diabetes and Wegovy for weight loss. Nearly 33 per cent of Canadians (10.6 million people) were obese in 2023, according to a recent study.

Novo Nordisk, maker of Ozempic and Wegovy, will effectively lose its price protection on those drugs in Canada in January, opening the door to generic versions.

Mina Tadrous, an associate professor who evaluates pharmaceutical prices at the University of Toronto, says three or four companies have them in development or are starting the paperwork.

Tadrous says the number of companies affects pricing.

"The classic framework is that if you only have one, it comes down from the list price to 75 per cent," Tadrous said. "If we have two, it goes down to 50 per cent and if we have three it hits 25 per cent."

Three manufacturers could bring the price down to $100 from $400 for the same strength of semaglutide product, Tadrous estimates.

UFCW Local 1518 in British Columbia has announced that 500 drivers in Greater Victoria unionized.