Especially so in Canada. The politics that affects like 95% of your daily life is local and provincial. It infuriates me when I hear people blame all their problems on the PM that are actually the responsibility of your local or provincial government. Blaming Trudeau (or now Carney) for Doug Ford’s faults.

Housing, healthcare, education, public transport, urban planning, welfare, labour standards? It’s all exclusive jurisdiction of the provinces.

...sorry did you think I was a journalist?

That statistic isn't odd at all, it's what I would expect. I think it's only newsworthy because it might be surprising to some people.

You’re suggesting that it’s obvious why world cup-related travel would result in a larger fraction of visa applications denied than other travel? It’s not to me.

Compared with normal times, the world cup sees a much bigger proportion of people applying for tourist TRVs compared to work and study permits, and perhaps these have a higher rejection rate, which leads to a higher rejection rate overall. There is also the fact that the demographics of who is applying for world cup visitor visas may be a higher risk population than those who usually apply. In terms of the disparity between different countries themselves, this is quite normal that countries with higher risk of visa overstays, illegal work, etc, will have higher rejection rates.

Refusing visas and determining admissibility is an act of sovereignty, I don't really see anything here worthy of an investigation.

I love nuclear. I also love solar and wind. Let's keep building more of everything.

I still don’t understand your point at all.

If a meal is priced $50 + a 15% tip is expected, you expect customers to pay $57.50 for the meal.

If you instead eliminate tipping and increase the prices by 15%, your customers will still pay the same $57.50 for the meal. You still have the extra money to pay your servers. How does that lead to fewer customers? They still see the same final price at the end of the day.

The rest of the world operates perfectly fine without tipping and in fact has better service.

But the prices are already too high because of the expected tipping? Are you counting on people to eat at the restaurant because they didn’t expect to pay more and you can secretly price gouge them at the exit?

If anything the total expected price for a meal will come down because servers will be paid the fair market rate for their labour and not the current guilt trip percentages… the rise in prices won’t exceed the savings from not tipping.

In New York, which the article is about, the hourly wage for tipped employees is only $2.70 less than usual. So if a server waits on 5 tables an hour, each table only needs to tip $0.54 per hour to make up for the "lost" wage. Anything extra is just voluntarily financing the server's fancy new handbag or iPhone. And in New York, like most places now, the employer is required to make up the difference in their pay if they didn't get enough tips, so even if you don't tip you're not taking anything for free... the employer has to cover it.

Wait staff are assholes thinking they can guilt trip people to hand over extra money for free when they're simply doing their job. Doubly so when they aren't even sharing the tips with the kitchen staff who are doing the real work.

No it’s not. The only one taking advantage of workers is the restaurant owner.

If tipping is optional, why the hell would anyone “choose” to pay more? Imagine if I sold you a phone and said you can buy this phone for $500 or you can optionally pay an extra $100 and get literally exactly the same product. That’s tipping.

If tipping is mandatory, then make it clear beforehand that there is a mandatory fee and how much it is.

I’m in Tokyo and pay $55 for 10 gigabit symmetric with unlimited bandwidth… wth Canada

I don’t expect Canada to have the fastest speeds way out in the countryside, but for the major cities there are no excuses.

The Carney government is responsible for Ontario court decisions in response to a case brought against one of Doug Ford’s provincial laws?

Well, sure, okay, sorry my wording was bad. I wanted to clarify because your comment might sound to readers like it’s not possible. The law doesn’t provide for revocation today, but it easily could do tomorrow, if parliament wills it.

There is no real legal mechanism for revocation.

There is. Parliament has the right to control how citizenship is obtained and lost, it's governed by federal law. If Alberta actually passes a referendum and gets it past the clarity act, you can expect that Canada will be looking into updating the Citizenship Act. They can create whatever legal mechanism they want as long as they don't leave people stateless or apply it in a way that is unjust (according to the supreme court and constitution).

It would be a huge legal battle but it's something that the federal government will hold over the province in a secession negotiation, and the final settlement between Canada and Alberta would include an agreement about how to handle citizenships.