I have never had to present ID to visit someone in a hospital nor have I ever had my photo taken for the purpose of an ID tag to wear while I visit. Having said that, I consider myself lucky that I have rarely visited people in the hospital.
You have to get past the nurse's desk first and you're not going anywhere without their OK.
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… and since I have never spent a night in the hospital since I was born, I have never had anyone visit me in the hospital (knocking on wood).

Comparatively, the TSX, the main Canadian stock exchange is down
2.79% in the last six months. We always come along for the American ride because our economies are so intertwined.

Canadian travel to the US is down so much the Canadian airlines are rescheduling flights from the US to places lake the Caribbean, Mexico, South America, and Europe for the summer vacation months.
Day trips to the US are down substantially as well. Canadians are genuinely concerned about their personal safety in the US. That is not unreasonable considering the current situation in the US regarding people from other countries.

We don't want an unscheduled side trip to El Salvador!

I see we have another day of the DOW tanking.
I think we can expect a major change in policy
from the Trump administration today.
This can't go on and even he knows it. In the last six months
it is down 10.44% and that matters… a lot.

As of right now it is down 744 points.

Pope Francis died today.
I hope this time they elect a younger Pope
that will be around for a while. I've seen a lot
of Popes in my life.
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Well I guess it's not as many as I thought it was.

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Make sure that you report it to the police or the SPCA so that it is on record. If someone has a record of violence to people or animals and you use your bat, things will go better in court because his previous actions have been reported.

Unlike Canada, prisons (and healthcare) in the US are businesses. Businesses do not like having their business sent out of the country. If you send the prisoners out of the country to the lowest bidder, US companies will suffer and their employees would get laid off.

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If Donald Trump sends American prisoners to El Salvador it will cost American jobs.

Of course he caved.
He will remain unpredictable and unstable.

How is negotiating deals for importing products going to bring all that manufacturing back to the US?
As I'm sure you know, Donald Trump said on many occasions that these tariffs will be permanent…
Of course being Donald Trump, the fickle man he is, everything or anything can change on a whim, a thought, a misspoken sentence or a stupid post on Twitter. That's your president.

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

The Dow Jones opens on another multi trillion dollar slide!

Hopefully investors will calm down and turn this around
because everybody loses in this scenario.

'Trump keeps playing into Putin's hand. If Trump was a Russian asset what would he do differently than he is doing now?'

-World chest champion Garry Kasparov, Chairman, Renew Democracy Initiative
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*chess champion

So you're going to boot Puerto Rico out of the United States? Why not Mississippi in Alabama as well? You are demonstrating the difference between an American and a Canadian.

Nobody likes fentanyl except drug dealers.

So it's Canada's responsibility to protect American citizens from drugs coming into their country and it is also Canada's responsibility to protect Canadian citizens from illegal guns coming into Canada from the United States that kill thousands of Canadian citizens every year.
That sounds very Trumpesque to me.
At what point is it America's responsibility to police its own borders?

Oh, and by the way, we are changing the name of Lake Erie to Lake Canada because we feel like it.

I think we will also take over the sovereign nations of the Dominican Republic and Iceland too.
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Oh yeah, and we're also in talks with Russia to put nuclear weapons on the Canada US border.

I believe what you were thinking of is something called Utopia which does not exist. Utopia is an impossibly Idealistic society.

Honest? According to who?

Did you feel that Biden should have had the same authority when he was president?

So who decides what is honest and fair? The president in power?
Is it honest and fair to say that the 2020 election was not honest or fair or is that illegal now?
If Americans and their courts were as vehement about ALL freedom of speech as they are about their second amendment rights this would be a moot subject.

Even the people who voted for Trump should be very wary of rights
being removed and your constitution questioned in court; maybe next time
you will be the one in the crosshairs. Perhaps the next administration will consider Fox News and everybody in the right wing media the enemy of the state.

Protect your rights and your Constitution, all of your rights and all of your constitution.

It is one of the most common surgeries in Canada. The actual surgery itself took 10 minutes but I was in the hospital for three hours for waiting and preparation. Because of the incision in my eye to replace the old lens with a new lens it feels like there is a piece of sand in my eyeball that is driving me crazy But this is a short term pain for a long-term gain. My vision was quite blurry in my right eye and within a week it will be a lot better. A common analogy is that it's like having your windshield cleaned.

I had my first of two cataract surgeries today.
I am looking forward to much clearer vision in
my right eye with in the next week or so.

I get up at 5:30 every morning except Monday and Tuesday. This morning seems particularly early… kind of like 4:30 for some reason.
I turned all of my cocks forward! 😜

Florida, Nevada, California and Hawaii also welcome Canadians and their tourist dollars.

Port Angeles Washington welcomes Canadians.

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If you die on your way to your destination you will never have been there but if you die on your way home you will have enjoyed whatever it was that you went to enjoy.

Consider the two space shuttle accidents. One group of astronauts had been on the international space station and the other group didn't even make it to space.

If I were to die in a plane crash I hope it would be on my way home.

I just paid $4.15 Canadian for a dozen large eggs. $2.92 USD

The lady must have been Canadian! 😄

That's hilarious!

Denmark should make a fake document sign in Greenland over to Canada just a really piss off Donald.

Perfect 👍

In Canada we got rid of our penny in 2012
and we changed our dollar bill to a coin in 1987.
Our two dollar bill was changed to a two dollar coin in 1996.

No thanks!

Canada and Denmark were at war for 49 years
Scroll down and read "Conflict".

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😄😄😄

My dad had it and he's happy about it too. As a matter of fact I haven't heard any negative comments about it.
It's free and I probably won't have to wear glasses anymore… what more could I asked for? I was offered a choice of three lenses, The one that is paid for by the healthcare system, a better one and the best one. I chose the free one because it will be a hell of a lot better than it is now.

I'm having cataract surgery on my right eye in March and on my left eye in June. Has anyone here had it? Did you get upgraded lenses?

Funny story about those condoms.
Last week Trump said there was $50 million in condoms
and this week he said there are $100 million in condoms.
Considering the fact that the population of Gaza is about 1.5 million
and only half of them are men so that makes 750,000 and probably half of those people are not sexually active i.e. children and seniors.
That leaves 375,000 people on the receiving end of $100 million in condoms.
For the sake of argument let's say the condoms cost a dollar each.
Here's your math lesson for the day:

100 million divided by 375,000 equals 266.666

So each sexually active male is getting about 267 condoms.

Did you guys know that Greenland, Canada, Panama and The Gaza Strip are all going to become part of the US at the same time?

When hell freezes over.
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Did you also hear that the American national anthem was booed at an NBA game and two NHL games in Canada?

I thought groceries would go down in price on "day one".

Cardboard boxes and guns.

I saw on the Canadian news this morning that a person could buy a handyman for $500 in the US and sell it for $5000 in Canada. There is a market for it and the purchasers are criminals. Yes phart, Canada does have criminals.

It is illegal for any American to cross any international border with guns.
I suppose the Secret Service would be an exception to that rule if a US dignitary is travelling abroad.
The guns are sold to gangs.
Tariffs are always met with counter tariffs. Trump knows that from his first go round with Canada.

I asked you earlier who do you think is responsible for stopping the flow of illegal guns coming into Canada killing our citizens? The question stands.

This morning it is -24°F or -31°C where I live.
Today is my day off and I'm going to stay inside and do fuck all!

The amount of fentanyl that goes from Canada to the US is roughly one percent of what comes from Mexico. Ditto for illegal aliens.
Of course everyone agrees that fentanyl is the worst thing in the world but where does it really come from? It comes from China. Almost all of the chemicals to make fentanyl come from China. Personally, I have a hard time understanding why drug dealers would want to kill their customers.

Do you know what the worst import from the US to Canada is? Illegal guns. Illegal guns killing Canadians. Whose responsibility do you think it is to stop those illegal guns from coming into Canada?

Your president campaigned on a promise to lower prices but this will achieve exactly the opposite. Inflation will go up in all three countries. Unemployment will go up in all three countries.
And just for the record Canada and Mexico will especially target red states and swing states.

Nobody will win in a trade war… ever.
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It was just announced that Trump has cancelled tariffs on Mexico for a month.

Last year Canada exported 4.3 million barrels of oil per day to the US.
Effective Tuesday this oil will cost Americans 10% more because of your president's tariffs. Prepare to see the effects of this at your gas pump within a week.

Let's be very clear, despite what your president has been saying for years these tariffs on products are paid for by the importer of them not the exporter. When this oil or other Canadian products cost 10 to 25% more the cost will be paid by the American Importer and then passed on to the American consumer.
Everything from China will go up 10% and everything from Mexico will go up 25% and that will come out of your wallet.
It's called a Trump tax for that reason.

Nobody wins in trade wars, it's a lose lose situation.

Just watch what happens In the Dow Jones on Monday. It's going down.
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I saw that! Crazy.

Holy shit! Another spectacular plane crash. This one in Philadelphia with five people on board.

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Six people.

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Of course Lake Ontario should be renamed to Lake New York.