Canada is a failed state

[Ser Prize]

The MBA and its consequences has been a disaster for the human race.

There is too much, "line must go up at all costs!" thinking, especially in Canada. All of our corporations are bloated, and more resemble our oversized government than anything that produces anything of any value. You can't run an economy and a social safety net, on Tim Horton's franchises and skinner box mobile apps. And even then, we outsource all that labour.

Hopefully before the collapse, we realize that making, growing and mining things isn't racist, or sexist or whatever excuse they use. But I doubt it.

But if we start extracting our abundant natural resources a native might be sad between bouts of huffing aerosol and molesting his niece!

 

[DiscoRodeo]

over time it means those companies will find it impossible to find skilled workers as there will be nobody left that has been building on their careers

This is the catch 22 basically, as you say.

Companies are squeezed, so they can't afford to train entry level jobs.

Companies then have to hire people already with experience to keep up

Less people domestically are being trained

Companies have to outsource and offshore labor to the third world (where people lie en mass on resumes)

Quality drops

Repeat

Guy who wrote this was one of the fervant anti-lockdown rich.

Look I'm not here to argue with you- If you don't know what the term laptop class means or find it personally offensive, great. Its so mainstream, it wound up even in the national post. I do not want to get into the autism of this is the proletariat, this is the precariat, this is the bourgeoise, etc- here.

Also, lockdowns were stupid.

He bases his argument on a national bureau that uses high density cities as a basis (With a map of New York City). New York City is an absolute shithole of bureaucracy and insane real estate prices.

High density cities the same way Canada half of Canada basically lives in 4 major and highly dense metro areas full of shithole bureaucracy and insane real estate prices?

It's hard to define what entry-level even is, when our universities miserably fail at producing decent graduates. I have dealt with business school undergrads in supply chain management who don't understand basic sample testing. I've dealt with marketing undergrads who don't understand how to do a content calendar, run ad campaigns, or manage conversions. I've dealt with finance undergrads who cannot read financial ratios. These kids all think they'll be managers. The quality of Canadian graduates is incredibly low.

I don't know how people are failing this bad- but entry level, to most, means you have a generalists knowledge in a field, have demonstrated an aptitude of learning in said field, and can be taught to specialize.

I don't think anyone would call the people youre talking about entry level, especially marketers who can't even run an ad campaign or manage a conversation. I also don't think thats what most people here are talking about when it comes to Canadians- at least in the sense of, these are basic skills that people have, but the jobs aren't there, or they're demanding 2, 3, 4 years of experience and someone who lied on their resume, who actually doesn't know basic generalize knowledge about the industry, gets the job instead and fails. Most Canadian graduates now are also typically FOB, so this is understandable.

Tip as well, knowledge of different computer programs (salesforce, dayforce, oracle, etc) actually gives you a better one up- because for many desk jobs people are finding it far easier to teach someone about the business side of things, rather than to teach them programs that are to be used within a company. From what I've had with a few team members, had the fun case of "do you know much about this field? Nope? You know salesforce and have experience in excel? Fair enough, we'll teach you about the industry"

MBAs aren't any better. Reading business cases someone prepared and "solving" them doesn't make you smart. Harvard is obsessed with them, and so are major consulting firms.

100% agreed, at this point its the same as linkedin masturbation

We have far too many people sitting in universities. Universities are more than happy to churn out diplomas and put out bloated curriculum. They have a financial incentive to get you to stay longer even if you drop out eventually. That way, you pay more tuition. I have read recently that many universities the one I graduated from have turned into a breeding ground for sand wars extremism.

They are more business than educational at this point, thats the key thing here, but aye- absolutely spot on. I wish we had something that prevented aggressive university and college marketing and pandering, to be frank. I hate seeing ads on bus stops or online that are trying to incentivize kids into careers and degrees that just don't pan out to anything in this day and age.

Add that over the past half decade we've further made our universities into diploma mills for the third world, and this just devalues things even more.

Atop that is the encouragement of illegal drug use and alcohol abuse that has turned even small cities and towns into shitholes like as it happened to Thompson and Lethbridge.

Step 1: get people addicted to drugs by legalizing all drugs
Step 2: legalize euthanasia for drug addicts
Step 3: Profit?

 

[wry wrangler]

Well, my membership card for the People's Party of Canada came in the mail today. It certainly made my day. Still not sure what comes next, though.

 

[Tachibana]

Look I'm not here to argue with you- If you don't know what the term laptop class means or find it personally offensive, great. Its so mainstream, it wound up even in the national post. I do not want to get into the autism of this is the proletariat, this is the precariat, this is the bourgeoise, etc- here.

Also, lockdowns were stupid.

I don't follow the mainstream news cycle often, especially not the Canadian news cycle. Not on here often for that reason too. I stopped a few years ago. Our media publishes tripe. A bunch of them receive money from the Local Journalism Initiative and labour tax credits. You don't know who's taking the government money and how much. The information you get from these outlets fills your head with garbage. Garbage in garbage out.

I tried looking up "laptop class", and all I could find were articles from outlets I would never subscribe to in a million years and Elon Musk complaining. One articles argues that corporate culture in the office is such an amazing thing. Fuck off.

Lockdowns were a waste of time. Destroying small local business while Cargill and Amazon warehouse workers were coofing on each other, making the whole exercise a joke.

I don't know how people are failing this bad- but entry level, to most, means you have a generalists knowledge in a field, have demonstrated an aptitude of learning in said field, and can be taught to specialize.

I don't think anyone would call the people youre talking about entry level, especially marketers who can't even run an ad campaign or manage a conversation. I also don't think thats what most people here are talking about when it comes to Canadians- at least in the sense of, these are basic skills that people have, but the jobs aren't there, or they're demanding 2, 3, 4 years of experience and someone who lied on their resume, who actually doesn't know basic generalize knowledge about the industry, gets the job instead and fails. Most Canadian graduates now are also typically FOB, so this is understandable.

The issue is these people graduating, should, on paper, have these skills. They don't. Is the goal of a university to teach students applicable skills, critical thinking, or general culture? It's failing in all 3. The goal is to make money.

It makes the lot of these kids unemployable. The onus is on businesses to train them, which they don't want to do.

Tip as well, knowledge of different computer programs (salesforce, dayforce, oracle, etc) actually gives you a better one up- because for many desk jobs people are finding it far easier to teach someone about the business side of things, rather than to teach them programs that are to be used within a company. From what I've had with a few team members, had the fun case of "do you know much about this field? Nope? You know salesforce and have experience in excel? Fair enough, we'll teach you about the industry"

The kids that get employed after graduating are the ones smart enough, or curious enough, to go out there to learn some skills. My firm hired a kid who has great soft skills, spent time to learn SQL, seems like someone who has street smarts. I put in a recommendation for him. He's been doing amazing, great hire.

Some of the people who have taught me shit I still use today don't teach in undergrad anymore. Classes are in great majority lazy, entitled kids who kick up a fuss when you don't give them As, or offend in any way. That's in good part the problem.

100% agreed, at this point its the same as linkedin masturbation

I don't think businesses cases are completely devoid of value. But you need to be in an environment where you can discuss with other people who also have an interest. Vomiting textbook answers you memorized is worthless.

One case I like is about Gillette's acquisition of Duracell. The case provides a lot of data points. But business students are so used to regurgitating textbook answers that they don't realize what's staring them in the face. Gillette's shareholders are whining that Duracell isn't making more money, but by all accounts, Duracell was doing incredibly well considering its competitive industry.

Students almost never tell you that what Gillette should do is divest. Which is exactly what they did in 2016. Because that's not a conventional "line goes up" answer.

They are more business than educational at this point, thats the key thing here, but aye- absolutely spot on. I wish we had something that prevented aggressive university and college marketing and pandering, to be frank. I hate seeing ads on bus stops or online that are trying to incentivize kids into careers and degrees that just don't pan out to anything in this day and age.

Goes back to what I said. It's not even that some of these degrees don't lead to careers either. It's that kids sit in universities either because they'll think it's an easy ticket to money, or because their parents told them to. The trades are considered dirty, but thousands of these failing university grads in debt is a net loss to society.

 

[PhoBingas]

I was talking to my colleague and he was telling me how the rent in Halifax is worse than Ontario.

Halifax was and still remains a shithole Atlantic city.... low wages...low employment....high rent...1 bed is essentially 1000-1500 USD a month.

Rents are outrageous everywhere. Different province and city in the Maritimes with a much smaller population, but you're still looking at like 1000-1200 for a 1 bedroom or a studio. You might luck out and find a shitty studio flat with no utilities for 900 or 950 if you're lucky, but it'll be a shithole with fent zombies for neighbors. When the pandemic hit, we had droves of people move from bigger cities in Quebec and Ontario who would outbid landlords. Also more and more places are being managed by out of province and sometimes even out of country property management firms. Absolute jokes.

More like Hell-ifax.

I'd also accept Hella-blacks and or hell-of-blacks too.

But Halifax? ...

Donair shops, violent niggers and fentanyl.

And it's not even just a Canadian thing. What's with West Coast cities having to be seedy, drug-addled bungholes full of skid rows, bums and drifters? Vancouver, Seattle, San Fran, LA. Same shit.

Hongkoover was bad even years ago. The syringe bird nests in Stanley park circa 2011 weren't hyperbole.

 

[DwayneTheSockJohnson]

Well, my membership card for the People's Party of Canada came in the mail today. It certainly made my day. Still not sure what comes next, though.

Step 1: get card.
Step 2: steal underpants.
Step 3: ???
Step 4: profit.

 

[DiscoRodeo]

Goes back to what I said. It's not even that some of these degrees don't lead to careers either. It's that kids sit in universities either because they'll think it's an easy ticket to money, or because their parents told them to. The trades are considered dirty, but thousands of these failing university grads in debt is a net loss to society.

I don't believe its quite this, at least from what I've observed. To say university students havn't been hired because for the past decade students are so bad that they don't even know how to hold a conversation with a client over email, unless we're talking about Indians, I just don't think its true.

The biggest problem I've seen is underemployment, rather than degree inflation (at least before the Indians). They know how to do spreadsheets, run excel, manage marketing campaigns if they specialized in marketing.

But if it is something like, policy analyst- needs to know SQL, that may be where the schools are failing, but teaching SQL, basic web design, JIRA, Salesforce, etc is a completely different thing than people not even knowing the basics of their field.

The biggest problem there, I would argue, was that people have been trained for industry standards that are par for the 2000s, not the 2010s. People were trained for jobs in the non-internet age. The same way that people on the left used to like to meme that highschools needed to be revamped, because they were geared towards factory work, Id argue that universities need to be revamped, because they do not include as many web based technologies in their curriculum as they need.

But on general industry knowledge, basic skills, how to write a spreadsheed, how to use Visio, microsoft products, making process flows- "the basics" that stuff is still taught.

The part that is frustrating is seeing colleges get into American firms with just that. You are right that Canadian students need to know these computer programs, but I would argue against the notion that the majority neither know the basics of a field, nor the specialized computer programs essential for web 2.0 after 4 years. I don't think we're that bad (this is all before the Indians came, anyways).

What I wish we had is more of an entrepreneurial attitude towards learning these programs on our own time. People who do take the time to learn SQL on their own, those are the hires that you want, as highlighted. And its not that difficult either.

I tried looking up "laptop class", and all I could find were articles from outlets

I get it, but the point was its so mainstream that even outlets like fox or the national post, or musk on twitter use the term. If you don't know what the term means, disagree with it, or it offends you, fair enough

I don't think businesses cases are completely devoid of value. But you need to be in an environment where you can discuss with other people who also have an interest.

Honestly, I just go to linkedin at this point to laugh at LinkedIn-Americans posting feel good stories about pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps while being socially concious and girlbossing and bla, bla, bla.

There's something so insidious to that site where its essentially just a puff piece for job searchers and hr workers trying to flex on eachother

I don't understand how anyone can actually discuss business on there.

Vomiting textbook answers you memorized is worthless.

This is something I was talking about with Korean clients of mine, and the biggest drawback of their country and why Hell-Joeson is a failed state. Theres so much pressure to succeed that people just can't deviate from established educational practices or paths. Id argue that vomiting textbook answers is precisely what kills creativity and innovation- we're not as bad as them currently, but we're getting there in some sense.

Students almost never tell you that what Gillette should do is divest. Which is exactly what they did in 2016. Because that's not a conventional "line goes up" answer.

The other part is thinking long term or consequentially in the most minor way. Sometimes profit today will obviously cost you something else in the future, if you care to take a look long term. But hay, that's future me's problem, right?

Goes back to what I said. It's not even that some of these degrees don't lead to careers either. It's that kids sit in universities either because they'll think it's an easy ticket to money

I'd basically argue a different thing based on stats, graduating class size, available jobs in a region- etc.

Most kids were never getting a job in their field, and then you have next years graduating class as well.

There are lazy kids too, not denying that,

But

A) the biggest problems are an abundance of degrees for jobs that aren't there,
B) the skillsets being taught, even then, may teach the basics, but are not appropriate for web 2.0 businesses, frankly.

 

[Clusterfuckk2]

The trades are considered dirty, but thousands of these failing university grads in debt is a net loss to society.

This is one of the biggest arguments I have with my significant other. He tried to push our kids to university because you will ‘never get a job without a UNIVERSITY DEGREE’ and one of them is struggling to complete a useless degree that will get them nowhere special. Luckily the other one went into trades and is making more money than me.

 

[Lord Xenu]

If China wants to be the counterweight to Canadian politicians supporting Israel than let them.

At least if they're fighting each other for control, the ensuing chaos increases our chances of making it.

Still not sure what comes next, though.

Even if they never win a seat, there's still someone (who's harder to ignore than I am) saying what needs to be said. As long as old Mad Max keeps that up, I'll keep supporting him. The conversation pushes things in the right direction.

 

[Tachibana]

I don't believe its quite this, at least from what I've observed. To say university students havn't been hired because for the past decade students are so bad that they don't even know how to hold a conversation with a client over email, unless we're talking about Indians, I just don't think its true.

The biggest problem I've seen is underemployment, rather than degree inflation (at least before the Indians). They know how to do spreadsheets, run excel, manage marketing campaigns if they specialized in marketing.

Not what I see with grads from my university. There's a lack of soft skills and a lack of skills in general.

But if it is something like, policy analyst- needs to know SQL, that may be where the schools are failing, but teaching SQL, basic web design, JIRA, Salesforce, etc is a completely different thing than people not even knowing the basics of their field.

The biggest problem there, I would argue, was that people have been trained for industry standards that are par for the 2000s, not the 2010s. People were trained for jobs in the non-internet age. The same way that people on the left used to like to meme that highschools needed to be revamped, because they were geared towards factory work, Id argue that universities need to be revamped, because they do not include as many web based technologies in their curriculum as they need.

But on general industry knowledge, basic skills, how to write a spreadsheed, how to use Visio, microsoft products, making process flows- "the basics" that stuff is still taught.

The part that is frustrating is seeing colleges get into American firms with just that. You are right that Canadian students need to know these computer programs, but I would argue against the notion that the majority neither know the basics of a field, nor the specialized computer programs essential for web 2.0 after 4 years. I don't think we're that bad (this is all before the Indians came, anyways).

They do attempt to give that knowledge. One firm I deal with uses SAP. SAP is industry standard. The problem that's been communicated to me, is that I fare better with SAP than the new grads who had SAP training. Despite me having no SAP training whatsoever.

Part of what is going on is that universities make students pass when they barely understand the material. Business school also over-relied on group projects. It saddled A-students with C to D level students. The A-students put in all the work while the freeloaders get free marks.

My university offered many electives to learn stuff. But students would gravitate towards the more exciting things. The other problem, which you point out, is that the teaching is taught on ancient standards. I was offered to sit in an ecommerce class because I was giving part of the lecture. Not only could I smoke the teacher, which was embarrassing. but the content being taught isn't current. Ecommerce has been changing drastically.

What I wish we had is more of an entrepreneurial attitude towards learning these programs on our own time. People who do take the time to learn SQL on their own, those are the hires that you want, as highlighted. And its not that difficult either.

These are the people who tend to do fine and get good salaries. But in aggregate, that's not what the student body is.

I get it, but the point was its so mainstream that even outlets like fox or the national post, or musk on twitter use the term. If you don't know what the term means, disagree with it, or it offends you, fair enough

I'm more confused. I live too much under a rock, and it sounded like one of these bullshit terms business publications like to invent. Like when Bloomberg would report on topics like "quiet quitting", "rage applying", and the "great resignation".

It doesn't offend me as much as I just feel lost. All this business jargon gets old, and it's usually reductive.

Honestly, I just go to linkedin at this point to laugh at LinkedIn-Americans posting feel good stories about pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps while being socially concious and girlbossing and bla, bla, bla.

There's something so insidious to that site where its essentially just a puff piece for job searchers and hr workers trying to flex on eachother

I don't understand how anyone can actually discuss business on there.

I don't understand why anyone even spends

on linkedin. Whenever I go on there, it's to poke someone in my network. I see the news feed, and it's the most sycophant shit.

This is something I was talking about with Korean clients of mine, and the biggest drawback of their country and why Hell-Joeson is a failed state. Theres so much pressure to succeed that people just can't deviate from established educational practices or paths. Id argue that vomiting textbook answers is precisely what kills creativity and innovation- we're not as bad as them currently, but we're getting there in some sense.

One teacher once explained to me that he thinks standardized testing is the problem. Or at least, universities put "bums on seats" (another news term...). It makes it impossible for teachers to create good curriculum that challenges students. Instead a lot of programs focus on multiple-choice answer tests. In turn, this lowers the quality of education.

In the case where students are taught, they're often too immature to truly digest it. One of the things students were taught in my curriculum was how to write emails, how to do one-page memos and executive summaries. But you ask any of the grads to write you a one-page memo, and they write this verbose, poorly structured memo. What happened?

Reggie Fils-Aime has this great talk at Cornell where he talks about what he finds important. I quite like this bit:

He has this bit too which is excellent:

I'd basically argue a different thing based on stats, graduating class size, available jobs in a region- etc.

Most kids were never getting a job in their field, and then you have next years graduating class as well.

There are lazy kids too, not denying that,

But

A) the biggest problems are an abundance of degrees for jobs that aren't there,
B) the skillsets being taught, even then, may teach the basics, but are not appropriate for web 2.0 businesses, frankly.

I agree. Though I see it as a double problem. You have far too many graduates in a given field because universities want that money. And then you have a lot of kids who have 0 entrepreneurship, 0 innate interest.

I would need to look at the stats, but the amount of student loan interest government is paying is fairly high. And then you look at dropout rates, how many students don't pay back their loans, and how many of them actually get a job long term in their field.

We are investing tax payer money into way too many students who end up being a net loss to society.

This is one of the biggest arguments I have with my significant other. He tried to push our kids to university because you will ‘never get a job without a UNIVERSITY DEGREE’ and one of them is struggling to complete a useless degree that will get them nowhere special. Luckily the other one went into trades and is making more money than me.

The point isn't to send people into trades by default. But if you struggle with instruction, or you have 0 innate interest in what you're learning. You're better off going into trades.

 

[Clusterfuckk2]

The point isn't to send people into trades by default. But if you struggle with instruction, or you have 0 innate interest in what you're learning. You're better off going into trades.

I don’t disagree with university education to learn a specific skill set. But offering Bachelor of Arts degrees and MBAs in my opinion is a waste of money and time for the student. Most people got jobs in those fields with experience and possibly a college diploma. If you plan on becoming a doctor or architect and obtain a masters or PhD fine get your Bachelor of Arts. But to graduate with just that you aren’t going to be any more successful than someone with good communication skills and work experience.

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

It saddled A-students with C to D level students

Canada feels like a nation run by people who were C/D-level students in university. Not helping matters is the fact that, as you said, is that Canadians view the trades as dirty. Same with the energy, resource, and agricultural sectors. The current government and the left in general seems to want to transform Canada into a country of office drones and middle managers for the global economy. For all their crowing about all the green jobs, they will likely source the minerals from South America (lithium), China (rare earths), and Africa (cobalt and tantalum, through child labor); then manufacture it in China or elsewhere in southeast Asia; and maybe assemble it in Ontario.

All of this ignores Canada's greatest asset: we're the second largest country by land area on the planet. That comes with a mineral wealth that should make us self-sufficient and able to trade the surplus. This was the country that created the CANDU reactor and is blessed like large reserves of uranium so we don't need go all in on extremely unreliable renewables like the current regime would have us do. Same with oil and gas, China is still practically bringing a new coal plant online each week while nations India and Indonesia similarly burn more coal to fuel their industrialization so Canada's suicidal rush to net-zero is all for naught.

Add to this is a sense of complacency in this country. Ontario is a province that has long rested on its laurels and struggles to adapt to global realities--instead, trying to relive the days when they were the be all, end all of Canada. Quebec and the Maritimes refuse to develop their own resources because they want that fat check from Ottawa. (NOTE: Quebec does have substantial reserves of natural gas.) Fuck me, but it's also happening here in Alberta. Edmonton is a hive of bugmen with Calgary flowing suit as well as the medium-sized cities. Seriously. The City of Ottawa, if not the the whole of central Canada from Windsor to Quebec City could be vaporized in nuclear fire no one would notice the difference.

 

[BeetleBug242]

I was right. It’s over. I’ve never been crazy. Good luck with 2024 guys.

 

[OutInTheRain]

Canada feels like a nation run by people who were C/D-level students in university.

That's because it is. The NAFTA visa led to unprecedented brain drain in this country. If you're skilled and ambitious, just move to the US and make more money, pay less taxes, and have more opportunity. Everyone who stayed behind, either can't get on the NAFTA visa program, or already had a comfortable place in the establishment. 2015 the Liberal party had to import a bunch of people to run for them. It's how we got Freeland. Look at 2011 and Ignatief, the party begged him to come back to Canada from his Harvard job, where he had been for over 20 years. Then after he lost election, he went back to Harvard. I imagine that a lot of the Liberal cabinet will vanish back to other countries after the party is defeated.

 

[Betonhaus]

That's because it is. The NAFTA visa led to unprecedented brain drain in this country. If you're skilled and ambitious, just move to the US and make more money, pay less taxes, and have more opportunity. Everyone who stayed behind, either can't get on the NAFTA visa program, or already had a comfortable place in the establishment. 2015 the Liberal party had to import a bunch of people to run for them. It's how we got Freeland. Look at 2011 and Ignatief, the party begged him to come back to Canada from his Harvard job, where he had been for over 20 years. Then after he lost election, he went back to Harvard. I imagine that a lot of the Liberal cabinet will vanish back to other countries after the party is defeated.

Canada being run by foreigners explains so much.

 

[DiscoRodeo]

Part of what is going on is that universities make students pass when they barely understand the material. Business school also over-relied on group projects. It saddled A-students with C to D level students. The A-students put in all the work while the freeloaders get free marks

Amen, we agree on some things, disagree with others.

I think the key thing here is I'd say that this became more of a recent problem with the Indians, over anything else.

The other difference is more, I can remember about a decade or so we had an abundance of grads, who I would argue were capable- and even then there just wern't the entry level jobs to match the mass demand, nor were companies really able to give that sort of training that they would have before this.

The grind really made it so that the cost of training either had to be negated or offshored, and here we are currently.

I was offered to sit in an ecommerce class because I was giving part of the lecture. Not only could I smoke the teacher, which was embarrassing. but the content being taught isn't current. Ecommerce has been changing drastically.

I'm tempted to say that a course in ecommerce shouldn't even be taught, but instead it should be a supplemental unit that has to be updated yearly- because of the speed of changes in the industry.

A secondary problem here is the quality of professors as well, even within Universities. Professors from my experience are completely hit or miss. At least in colleges you do get some industry experts, but if there is a pampered class- its them.

One teacher once explained to me that he thinks standardized testing is the problem. Or at least, universities put "bums on seats" (another news term...). It makes it impossible for teachers to create good curriculum that challenges students. Instead a lot of programs focus on multiple-choice answer tests. In turn, this lowers the quality of education.

I'll get into the dynamics of Korea a bit, as was talking with my client from there over the past few days and it may relate, may not- but I think its insightful enough in its own way. It also explains the birth rate, in part. The problem with Korea is that education and the cost of raising a child is just too much, coupled with the cost of failing an exam, fucking up, etc.

For students, even if you took away the multiple choice tests or standardized testing (and they definitely do), the amount of pressure within that culture is insane, and they basically cannot afford to fuck up in the slightest. You get a 97.5 instead of a 98%? Banished, now you are out of the top university and will work as a sales manager somewhere, shamefuwl.

This basically causes the students there to only go for the 'trust and tested' strategy, with the least chance of failure, error, or any sort of deviancy from the norm. It really, really kills innovation. Its part of why this guy is sending his kids to an international school instead.

The other aspect of this, and its related to birth rate- the cost of education in Korea is so high (and not by state design) that people can't actually afford to have kids any longer. You can send your kid to a public school, but you need to send them to a private hagwon after school, or they wont get into one of the top three universities and their life will be awful. They have problems much worse than Canada in a lot of senses, and some aspects of their society are better, but there's always cause and effect for these sort of things.

It may be standardized testing in Canada thats causing problems and dragging some students down, but honestly- with the amount of pressure in some programs, even without standardized testing the sad thing is that many would still act the same and only go for 'true and tested solutions/paths'.

But you ask any of the grads to write you a one-page memo, and they write this verbose, poorly structured memo. What happened?

You might actually be right, so apologize. Maybe its a zoomer thing? Most millineal candidates Ive talked to, even entry level, were fine with writing emails, doing basic tasks, could learn programs if pushed. Its really only zoomers that I think fail here. Too much tiktok and chat GPT I guess?

I agree. Though I see it as a double problem. You have far too many graduates in a given field because universities want that money.

Bingo

And then you have a lot of kids who have 0 entrepreneurship, 0 innate interest.

and bingo, its really the worst of both worlds- and then everyone gets dragged down entirely.

I don’t disagree with university education to learn a specific skill set. But offering Bachelor of Arts degrees and MBAs in my opinion is a waste of money and time for the student.

Ask your child if they actually have a specific plan for a Bachelor of Arts. I'm not saying that you can't leverage one for something, but if their idea is "Ill go into teaching, or get a job as a psychologist, or working for a political office", Id strongly encourage you to show them the amount of jobs in these specific fields, the amount of applicants the average job gets, and then advise them to go into something in demand.

I'm not saying that you can't take an arts degree, but you should have a specific plan. Being a translator can be in demand depending on the language and be a general net asset even for an administrative role, a social worker, etc. If its arts history though or something like that, I have no idea how that can be salvaged into anything.

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I was right. It’s over. I’ve never been crazy. Good luck with 2024 guys.

Pierre wants to end deportation and open immigration? 4D chess move if that means that now Trudeau has to deport them to be different.

But yeah, politicians here usually stand for nothing, and will change positions on a dime or make false promises (he may be lying to the Indians) if they think it will get them votes, there's not much new there.

 

[Lord Xenu]

NOTE: Quebec does have substantial reserves of natural gas.

They also have lots of hydro-electric, with the capacity for much more. They export a significant portion of the current production to the U.S.

Hydro-Québec is a Canadian Crown corporation public utility headquartered in Montreal, Quebec. It manages the generation, transmission and distribution of electricity in Quebec, as well as the export of power to portions of the Northeast United States. More than 40 percent of Canada’s water resources are in Quebec and Hydro-Québec is the fourth largest hydropower producer in the world.

It was established as a Crown corporation by the government of Quebec in 1944 from the expropriation of private firms. This was followed by massive investment in hydro-electric projects like the James Bay Project. Today, with 63 hydroelectric power stations, the combined output capacity is 37,370 megawatts. Extra power is exported from the province and Hydro-Québec supplies 10 per cent of New England's power requirements. The company logo, a stylized "Q" fashioned out of a circle and a lightning bolt, was designed by Montreal-based design agency Gagnon/Valkus in 1960.

(Wikipedia)

Hydro-Quebec Posts Record Profit as US Export Sales Soared
February 22, 2023

Hydro-Quebec posted record profit last year after selling electricity to the US at elevated prices, driven higher by impacts from the European energy crisis and an economic recovery.

Canada’s largest hydroelectric utility earned C$4.6 billion ($3.4 billion) in annual profit, a 28% jump from the prior year, according to a Wednesday statement from the provincially owned corporation. The results translate into a record C$3.4 billion dividend for Quebec’s provincial government.

(Bloomberg)

Hydro-Québec deal with New York tests limits of 'traditional export model': analyst
Published Sep 21, 2021

Hydro-Québec’s biggest-ever export contract promises to work wonders for the province’s finances, but the state-owned company may be hard pressed to replicate the feat in the absence of new generating capacity.

New York state tentatively agreed Monday to buy 10.4 terawatt-hours of electricity from Hydro-Québec under a 25-year pact that could start as soon as 2025. Premier François Legault said the accord could generate more than $20 billion in revenue over the period.

Coupled with a 2018 agreement to sell electricity to Massachusetts, the New York contract will limit Hydro-Québec’s future capacity to sign other large export deals because demand inside the province is expected to climb substantially over the next decade, said Pierre-Olivier Pineau, a professor at the HEC Montréal business school who specializes in energy policy and electricity markets.

(Montreal Gazette)

 

[Ser Prize]

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I was right. It’s over. I’ve never been crazy. Good luck with 2024 guys.

Man. Between this and how things are in America with the spics they just really don't want us to have a homeland at all, do they?

I guess having a homeland is for brown people.

 

[Audit]

Man. Between this and how things are in America with the spics they just really don't want us to have a homeland at all, do they?

I guess having a homeland is for brown people.

Any country nice enough to be proud of gets filled with pajeets. Even Israel has issues being outbred by their own Arabs and nigger-Jews. Give it a few more decades before China and crew start bringing in Phillipino nurses for their elderly.

Pajeetland and other shitholes are the perfect ethnostate because no sane person would willingly move there.

 

[Jetpack Himmler]

Man. Between this and how things are in America with the spics they just really don't want us to have a homeland at all, do they?

I guess having a homeland is for brown people.

How's this for a documentary title; No Country For White Men.

It's amazing how we've gone from Clown World to outright Bizzaro World with how inverted things have gotten. Europeans started colonizing other continents and built infrastructure there, even if it was for commercial or strategic reasons in the 19th century. Now we're a quarter way into the 21st and Europe and the Anglo-sphere are letting the world colonize them while letting their own infrastructure crumble.