🩺 Deborah O’Brien 🏥

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Emergency RN practitioner x25 years Academic who loves books 📚

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I'm remembering my great-granny Margaret O' Brien, most Bereaved Mother of WWII. She lost 4 sons and her husband: Maurice (HMS Forfar, 1940) Michael (SS Eastlea, 1941) James (Lost at sea, 1942) David (HMS Frisky, 1942) And my great-poppy Maurice, 1942 My family lived at the bottom of Signal Hill where Marconi sent the lst wireless transatlantic radio signal in 1901. My family lost so much and gave the ultimate sacrifice; I will never forget. How about you?
Headline: Canada's Inflation and What It Signals • The Core Trend: Canada's inflation rate is tracking lower than the United States, signaling a cooler domestic economy and softer consumer demand north of the border. • The Main Driver: Weak domestic spending allows the Bank of Canada greater flexibility to cut interest rates faster than the U.S. Federal Reserve. • The Mortgage Relief: Softer economic indicators bring quicker borrowing relief to Canadian homeowners dealing with high renewal rates. • The Currency Tradeoff: Shifting interest rate differentials put downward pressure on the Canadian dollar, making imports from the U.S. more expensive. • The Consumer Gap: While part of the gap stems from differences in how consumer baskets are measured, the overarching trend highlights a highly resilient American consumer compared to Canada.
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But there's no real distinction here. True, Orban has not declared the election stolen, but he stayed in power for 16 years the same way Republicans are trying to stay in power now—in ways no liberal-democratic party in the western world has attempted. Through capture. Orban supported gerrymanders in one partisan direction, just like Republicans. Orban extorted, then commandeered, the country's media, education, corporate, and judicial institutions—the same consolidation the Trump regime is attempting right now. "Both sides" emphatically do not do it. The implicit equivalence between authoritarian parties and broadly liberal ones rests entirely on insipid or dishonest right-wing tropes. An American conservative might complain that redistribution of income from rich to poor amounts to buying votes; Trump-aligned Republicans skip the highbrow plaint and cut straight to the racist lie that Democrats only win by importing illegal voters. In reality, the Democratic Party's approach to power-building in the U.S. bears no resemblance to the Republican modus operandi of claiming office, crushing rival power centers, and arrogating the residuals.