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  • walktheplank@lemmy.worldtoCanadaPolitics@lemmy.ca•A private bill to give 16-year olds the vote is back in Parliament
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    6 hours ago

    I’d like to compare non voters and disenfranchised voters vs young people. I’ve worked with young people a lot over the years. I don’t think many give them enough credit in my experience. Teaching youth I have found that when given the proper information and having discussions openly about civics, history, the economy, sex, education, literature or any other “adult subject” these “kids” often make much more informed decisions than adults.

    I don’t think we should be enforcing voting restrictions on this age group. That’s my personal opinion but I also would like numbers. Yet, If my kid can get a job and pay taxes, Drive, take care of their own healthcare and mental health care (age of consent for mental healthcare in my province is 12. No parents necessary in fact they’re even asked not to attend) then why not voting. We are already giving them all the power to earn, spend, command a death machine, make choices about whether to take prescribed medications and then use them properly. That means they make many individual choices that affect society at large, themselves, their employers etc. daily.

    I personally feel that should give them a say in how those things occur. They should have input into laws and restrictions that affect them. Minimum wage. Driving laws. Work permissions. Trials as adults or youth. So many things. They have been proven to be responsible enough not to kill people after all. If they break the law and that crime is deemed serious enough they are tried as adults. Why not be welcome to assist in making the very decisions that will affect a very important time in their lives.

    Like I’ve said previously, I would also like to see some data. Not just knee jerk reactions. I’d like to think by giving voting rights to younger people we would also re-engage them in actual political discourse. When I was that age ( late 80’s/early 90’s) I was extremely politically engaged. Probably more than I am now. But we had open discourse and civics class. Our parents taught us not about political parties but voting in general.

    But I would also like to see parents actually parent again which would solve many of the arguments against younger people voting. Those two things seem far away right now.

  • walktheplank@lemmy.worldtoCanada@lemmy.ca•Alberta's measles outbreaks surpass case counts reported for entire US
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    8 hours ago

    Almost assuredly the majority are in that community. There is a very large Mennonite presence in Alberta. They are connected to the other Canadian, American and Mexican Mennonite communities as many are intermarried and related and travel between communities is very common. They have all derived from the original community in Mexico.

    That being said, I lived in Alberta for 20 years and worked as a paramedic there for much of that time. There is a vast population of people who believed all that 2000’s bullshit about vaccinations and autism and many never had their kids vaccinated, I can only assume that has continued through COVID shots as well. Thousands of families at least. It was very common so I imagine it has also spread outside those communities and if it hasn’t it will very soon.

    With the traitor tyrant in charge over there now it’s only going to get worse.

  • walktheplank@lemmy.worldtoCanada@lemmy.ca•We Should Really Just Steal Finland’s Baby Box Idea | The Walrus
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    2 days ago

    In our case there was no observation. We didn’t have a pediatrician. Yay Canadian healthcare. We went to a medical clinic with a nurse practitioner who did that and circumcisions. That would make me tend to believe it was considered a medical procedure in that province and not dental.

    Regardless it’s very inefficient and a good reason our healthcare systems are falling apart. There is a dental clinic in most hospitals. In large centers it’s staffed like an ER. There certainly was in the hospital we were in. Having worked in EMS I had been in that clinic before.

    We fed our baby through a tube for a month for no good reason at the very start of his life when he could have been feeding from his mother or a bottle. Further increasing his chances of needing more healthcare in the future. I don’t know. it’s frustrating that we have all the science and studies to tell us what is good and bad for us but the very providers of our healthcare don’t follow that information in many circumstances.