But the Ontario Conservatives told me that privatization is the only way to save our healthcare system! They wouldn't lie to benefit their corporate donors, would they?

Diving into the Sources in Our World in Data, there's this in a linked PDF:

>Definition: This indicator presents the share of employment which is classified as informal employment in the total economy, and separately in agriculture and in non-agriculture.

>Concepts: Employment comprises all persons of working age who, during a short reference period (one week), were engaged in any activity to produce goods or provide services for pay or profit. Informal employment comprises persons who in their main or secondary jobs were in one of the following categories:

>- Own-account workers, employers and members of producers’ cooperatives employed in their own informal sector enterprises (the characteristics of the enterprise determine the informal nature of their jobs);

• Own-account workers engaged in the production of goods exclusively for own final use by their household (e.g. subsistence farming);
• Contributing family workers, regardless of whether they work in formal or informal sector enterprises (they usually do not have explicit, written contracts of employment, and are not subject to labour legislation, social security regulations, collective agreements, etc., which determines the informal nature of their jobs);
• Employees holding informal jobs, whether employed by formal sector enterprises, informal sector enterprises, or as paid domestic workers by households (employees are considered to have informal jobs if their employment relationship is, in law or in practice, not subject to national labour legislation, income taxation, social protection or entitlement to certain employment benefits). For the purpose of classifying persons into formal or informal employment for this indicator, only the characteristics of the main job are considered. An enterprise belongs to the informal sector if it fulfils the three following conditions:
• It is an unincorporated enterprise (it is not constituted as a legal entity separate from its owners, and it is owned and controlled by one or more members of one or more households, and it is not a quasi- corporation: it does not have a complete set of accounts, including balance sheets);
• It is a market enterprise (it sells at least some of the goods or services it produces);
• The enterprise is not registered or the employees of the enterprise are not registered or the number of persons engaged on a continuous basis is below a threshold determined by the country.

Switzerland is definitely one of Ukraine's top 50 supporters.

>Now I guess one of the sides decided on its own ( or with a little help even) to resolve it once and for all.

You seriously think Serbia is in any position to "resolve" this conflict militarily? May I remind you of what happened the last time that Serbian forces tried to carry out ethnic cleansing?

>Armenia keeps getting beaten up by Azerbaijan and Russia wants to stop this.

Isn't the whole point of Russia's glorious CSTO to provide protection for its members? "An attack on one is an attack on all"? Seems like it would be very easy for Russia to permanently stop Azeri attacks on Armenia if Putin wasn't obsessed with subjugating Ukraine.

Corruption in Ukraine deserves a lot of scrutiny, for sure. Fortunately, Ukraine has an active and resilient network of civil activists that the EU/outside NGOs can help, instead of trying to build an anti-corruption culture from scratch.

According to Ukraine's head of the armed forces, Ukraine most needs non-escalatory armoured vehicles, not intervention from NATO. They have the will and the people to fight, but are held back by the lack of equipment to conduct offensives in an intelligent way (so, not using thousands of people as cannon fodder against defensive lines like the Russians).

Yup, we can't say "the rules based order is fundamental" on one hand, and then say "we will stop the implementation of the rules based order because we are concerned."

In this case, appoint the judges to make the system function as intended, then look into reforms that are agreed by everyone.

These NGOs are saying "we cannot conduct our operations when thousands of our employees are banned from working for us, so you have forced us to shut down."

Some elements of the Taliban are now panicking and talking about exceptions for aid groups, but the religious authorities haven't publicized any rule changes.

Some people are grinches. For my part, thank you OP for sharing this very sweet story. It's a bit of light in a world full of dark news.

Better to start now then. The UK just finished a 6 week training course for unarmed NATO helicopters, so it's clearly possible to supply advanced vehicles (more complicated than artillery) if the political will is there.

Thanks to Putin, the economic reasons to learn Russian have evaporated. Learning it for conversation with family is still important for some people, but I would imagine that Russian language tutoring (which still exists in Lithuania) would be a faster and more efficient way to get conversational fluency than several years of school classes.

What would be the legal reasoning to use money confiscated because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine to benefit the EU?

Most of the billions "sent" is in the form of already paid equipment. But by all means, if you think you could use an armoured recovery vehicle on your commute, feel free to write your representative for a cut of the good stuff.

This is not a ban: this is the government deciding that they aren't going to fund Russian 2nd language teaching with limited funds and school hours. Students will still be free to speak Russian to each other.

A long time, considering that Turkey is very valuable geopolitically. Probably longer than Erdogan will remain in power.

If that was the official position of Finland and Sweden's governments, that would happen quickly enough.

The second and third line barrier troops, who would presumably shoot people deserting.

Germany had many of its Nazi leaders tried and executed for war crimes, and the rest fled the country to various safe havens in LATAM. Germany as a society also took full blame for their actions, which I don't see Russians doing without a German-style loss and occupation.

As a reasonable person, you do not understand the mentality of the Russian government. For them, the threat of millions of people starving is simply a bargaining chip to get a more favourable outcome in their war.

WW3, except on one side is all of the EU and most of North America, and on one side it's just Russia. China and India would be staying far away from the conflict.

Why don't you say what you're thinking? Surely only a coward would be afraid to defend their own views.

No what doesn't? Nothing in the comment above could be responded to in the way that you did.

You should have kept reading, because the rest of the sentence says "It's a culture." Obviously she is being (too) charitable towards people she works with, but the fact that she chooses to think that her aggressors are not at fault doesn't change the fact that the RN is institutionally responsible for fixing this garbage.