In a school zone at that. Just the price to speed (and kill children) if you're rich.

That's the thing, the PE firm already sold the major assets (the real estate) to themselves and leased it back to HBC. It's their standard playbook.

And most Canadians are descended from immigrants who arrived in the past century.

As a rural physician spouse, your family thanks you.

It is not one bit your fault. Incompetent government and educational institutions could see this coming for decades, but chose, and continue to choose to do nothing.

Boomers retiring and population growth are pretty obvious needs for more healthcare resources, not to mention not doing anything to help homelessness and addictions. Combined with that, med school faculty, at least in my home province, actively dissuade students from entering family medicine, and the university hasn't increased its intake volume in years.

Everyone in rural medicine feels this pressure. The responsible thing is to keep the balance that keeps you healthy, for a physician who is there working the hours a typical worker might work is still providing far better service than if they weren't there at all.

Passive House has a minimum ventilation rate of 0.3 ACH, but minimum code requirements can also come into play. Ventilation for health and hygiene is very much a consideration of the standard.

Technology and science are not the same thing.

"Common sense Conservatives will listen to the common sense of the common people, not Justin Trudeau's so-called 'experts,'" a spokesperson for Poilievre told the Canadian Press.

Translation: we, Conservatives, prefer to ignore any information, no matter how well researched or sourced, that goes against our own opinion, which in all cases, is simply the opposite opinion of the governing party. In fact, we prefer the opinion of those with much to gain from us opposing these opinions, such as oil and gas companies, Christian groups, and really any person likely to receive personal monetary gain which can then be shared with us.

You are able to edit titles on Lemmy, if you'd like.

"BuT I dOn't WanT to pUt uNknOwN CheMiCaLs iNtO my boDy." they say as they smoke two packs a day and are on several prescriptions.

The moment I read 'Mike Wiggins' I was really hoping that was the police chief.

If your issue is with the authenticator, then why not just switch authenticators? I've been quite happy with Authy over the years.

Sure, self hosting can be more secure, but if it's not on your own hardware, I don't see how moving to render is better. You're still using a third party to host your most sensitive information.

It's unfortunate you have to make that distinction, but thank you.

It's definitely a complex issue, but I think a few things could help in my experience as the spouse of a physician in rural SK with an engineering background.

• Pay parity - rural family physicians provide many of the same services as urban ER docs would, but are paid considerably less, while having worse work-life balance. Family docs can also do just one year of ER residency add-on and work solely in emergency medicine. This makes family practice much less attractive and incentivizes many family docs to pursue subspecialties. One of Regina's hospitals' ERs are staffed fully by family doctors, and we've had 2 of our 14 doctors leave recently to work in non-primary care specialties, with another also pondering leaving, effectively saying, "I can make more money, see less patients in a day, and have better work-life balance just an hour down the road, why should I stay here?" With this, family physicians have considerably higher overhead compared to really any other specialty. Clinic rent, clinic staff, clinic equipment, an EMR subscription, IT equipment all adds up. Work in a hospital and you have none of that. We also just had a health authority administrator ask the doctors here, who practice privately, to pay for scheduling software for the hospital. It's insulting, really.

• Support and scrutinize education - there is med student and residency education opportunities throughout many rural sites in our province, but there's become a lack of supports around those positions. Lack of housing for electives, stagnant med school intake and family residency spots. If you want more doctors, you need to educate more doctors and provide the adequate support in order to do so. Less on the government side and more towards education, but there are also some residency programs and/or preceptors whose residents are consistently behind standards, yet there seems to be no oversight or corrective measures taken. This is more on substandard self-governance and entitlement of certain individuals, though.

If I had to boil it down, I'd say those who make decisions in government have a complete lack of understanding of the day to day operations and expenses of rural physicians. A government rep was flabbergasted when she heard that family physicians often have several hours of non-patient facing time in a day when she asked why clinics can't be open 8-5 in a recent meeting. A 6-hour clinic day would often produce 2 hours of paperwork, or you'd need to leave 1 weekday for paperwork if you worked the other 4 seeing patients. Yet, given this lack of understanding, they still refuse to pay doctors for their time to meet to discuss these issues.