Now is the time to draw inspiration from wherever we can, and stand with workers while they fight the employer-led race to the bottom.

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    4 days ago

    How much money is the military losing per day? As far as I can tell they aren’t bringing in any income at all!

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        2 days ago

        I don’t think government services need to turn a profit to exist. Including the military.

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          2 days ago

          The military isn’t a public service. It’s the fundamental exercise of the government’s sovereignty over the country.

          Canada Post doesn’t need to turn a profit either. But it shouldn’t be losing billions of dollars to deliver junk mail door to door 5 days a week when it could deliver weekly to community mailboxes (supplemented by home delivery for those in need) and provide the same vital service at a fraction of the cost.

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            2 days ago

            Defence is absolutely a service the government is providing the country. Define it however you will, that is the nature of the thing.

            As for the rest, everyone keeps banging on about junk mail but I seem to get other things in the mail regularly as well.