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Comment Re:In Canada, if you're on EI... (Score 1) 1201

Obviously you've never had to deal with Service Canada (I think of it as Service like you do with farm animals).

The goals of most Service Canada people seems to be 1) don't give you money you aren't absolutely positively entitled too... 2) don't give more information than they must. Both of these seems to be out of fear of getting fired or having to go to court because they gave you too money and/or too much/wrong information.

Comment Re:Alternate interpretation (Score 1) 208

I'm within 2 degrees of separation of Strempler individual (I know a few people who went to high school/university with him).

The feeling as I understand it is that Strempler is/was actually hounestly trying to provide reliable drugs, an the company did do regular testing. However, the problem that come in that the global supply chain is full of counterfeits (thank globalisation and the far east). Stock from one supplier can be reliable one week, and not the next.

Perhaps having to do this extra testing has an upward pressure on drug costs in the US, and perhaps not doing enough testing is Strempler's mistake.

Is it excusable? No. I think it's a case of Misfeasance or Nonfeasance; not Malfeasance.

As an aside, he probably meant to go to Miami Manitoba, not Miami Florida - it's an easy mistake ;-)

Comment Safety deposit box??? (Score 1) 402

Lets go with simple, because tech can fail.

Put a list in a sealed envelope in your bank safety deposit box and tell them it's there (and if you can't wait for them to get the death certificate, put someone you trust as a key holder). You could save trips by pre-determining them a year in advance, so you only have to go once every 11 or 12 months.

You could make it a little easier to accomplish regularly, by using a fire safe, somewhere in you house.

You could give a piece of the passwords to each of your siblings, so that two or more have to get together.

Comment Re:Get an academic on this pronto (Score 1) 282

I've stood on the corner of Portage and Main when it's 40 below ('F or 'C - it don't matter) with a 50km/h North wind coming down Main, and a 40km/h West wind coming down Portage enough times to say I KNOW Canada. Parts of it are 1st world, and parts of it are 3rd world - don't kid yourself.

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