Were the curve starts to go down. I am hoping that is when small biz can re open. Though my sister today 65 years old lots of underlying conditions texts me and says call you later as her cleaning lady friend is over.
I had to give her crap and say she has a husband and son that work and you have her over? If you feel guilty just pay her to stay away.

Sadly I think you may be right

Yeah for me the project changed from June to August at the earliest. Majority of people I know who work in oil and gas were laid off in the last couple of days.

When does Trudeau just go full lockdown? I'm going to say by Friday. The damage this is causing and going to cause is crazy. Scary times.

I figured Alberta does it by Friday so yeah maybe he does. Problem is so many people just do not get the social distancing thing.

Though Trump figures by next week its all gonna be OK and workers can return.
Watching him speak is just scary

I love how Justin figures he can have a blank check for the next 18 months with a minority government. His ego is starting to show again.

It looks like Alberta is running low on test kits. Cutting back whom can be tested

Alberta showcasing its ability to sustain itself

cmon its a time of crisis we actually doing a great job handling it other than the usual idiots that cant social distance. Glad were the only ones with that issue

The liberals backed off that clause. It was kinda similar to the #trumpslushfund or whatever. Joly put it as basically saying in this crazy scenario normal parlimentary processes are too slow, and to some degree she is right, but regardless the cons put up a fuss and fair play so the most extreme version of it is gone.

I actually think it's really cool. The agreement to have only the 30 or whatever parlimentarians come, vote unanimuously on the stimulus, and go home is really amazing, especially in comparison to the us situation. gg canadians.

I agree and not like the USA putting all kinds of crap in the bill

Trudeau not looking good on giving 16 tons of medical equipment to the Chinese after the WHO warned him to stock up. Sadly we are short on this equipment now. Plus testing seems to be dropping across Canada due to shortages

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/poli...al-protective/

Also why would Trudeau push back at Trump putting troops on the border. Let him look like an idiot what do we care

Lol Alberta

I had a good laugh at that one. You do realize every $10 drop in a price of oil is 2 billion out of the federal coffers. That's 8 billion less for Trudeau.

Yes I know it's awful for the country. But I haven't heard anything about wexit in ever so that's good. And I also laughed lol.

How do you think the economy recovers from this? How many people are going to be stuck with huge bills they are currently deffering In 4-6 months? I dont know a single person who's company isn't currently going through layoffs unless they are in medical or grocery.

lmao can we please all enjoy peter Mackay anouncing on twitter the leadership election simply can't be delayed, only for the cons to delay it the next day

I think Trudeau will have to spend another 100 billion. Myself I am planning for not working for a full year

He looks so bad and if folks see his interview even worse. I am rethinking supporting him over this and may switch the the Tool Man

I'm super glad to have a lock solid job, even if I'm going crazy working at least twice as hard (math prof, so putting all my courses online)

I was watching the CBC and they were talking about how the numbers are starting to settle. What baffles me is if many provinces are cutting back on the qualifications to get a test how can you say that.

It seems like the media here just doesn't want to ask the tough questions about shortages of tests and equipment like they pound the US administration daily on.

Everyone says testing, testing. We should be testing everyone that shows symptoms.

Why LOL Canada? Surely they LOL at America?

well yes, mocking american politics is our national pastime, but like also not even canadians really care about Canadian politics all that much so LOL Canada too

I am at the point were I feel sorry for them. I get why folks voted for Trump 3.5 years ago and before Covid 19 I get why some may vote for him again. Now it baffles me.

The 100,000 minimum in the USA is mind blowing. Does that mean were 1/10th the population and Trudeau has done 1/2 as good a job that our number is 5000?

You mean twice as good.

Also, it could be the case that Trudeau did nothing better. Canada's lower population density and community spread starting later could account for the all that difference by itself.

Nah, he did a lot better, as did leaders from all the parties. They did not hinder nor stand in the way of the experts, and actions were taken on a federal level that are being handed off to the state level in the US, which creating a varied mess in the US. Canada did what it needed to do a lot sooner than the US, and even a leader like "buck a beer" Doug Ford has approached this topic with the appropriate seriousness from the start, and again got out of the way of experts in terms of what needed to be done. Added to that is that the US health system is a relative mess with how it is structured and it really showed with this, with different states and hospitals bidding each other up on supplies.

The US had some innate issues that all presidents would face, such as the way the health care system is constructed, but Trump definitely killed a ton of people with his "its a hoax" "let's have Easter services" disassociation from reality, until somebody finally snapped him somewhat into reality the last couple days. I kind of wonder if some people close to him threatened to quit if he did not accept reality, because its not like he suddenly discovered empathy and compassion as personality traits.

Here in toronto we're being told the stay home order could/will last ~3 months

I think Justin has done very well on the bailout and saying Parliament needs to go further. His press conferences have improved last few days as well. Give us the facts
Though his mistakes would be :

• Slow to react overall which many countries did
• Failed to close the border to the problem countries like China, Iran and Italy
• Failed to close US border when he knew it was a shitshow in the USA and told us closing borders doesn't help than closed it 3 days later
• Failure to put the country in a Full State of Emergency and close all air traffic other than cargo. Close provincial borders
• Restrict CDNS to only groceries and medicine and only one shopper at a time

Oh and I forgot giving 14 tons of medical supplies to China after they have been screwing up non stop

I think all the provincial leaders have done a very good job


I know a bunch of small businesses that can make it a month, 2 was tough but 3 just never going to work

That US border thing is tricky, as it is not hard to guess which side was eager to slam that door shut, and the reality is that all non US countries are dealing with a ego maniac who puts his own needs first as the leader of the US. I would not be shocked (and in time it will come out) that the 3 days was Canada scrambling very hard and fast to get it closed in a way that let Trump pretend he was a part of that choice.

Hell, Trump tossed a few troops at the border for the first time since perhaps the war of 1812 as the equivalent of a temper tantrum.

Nobody will get a 10 of 10 for this thing, as for nearly all leaders this is beyond their pay grade, but I have been generally impressed with the approach and organization we have seen here, and the communication jobs the leaders are doing, especially compared to the utter mess that has been the US, with the murderer as leader leading that charge for a long time. 15 to 0, full church services for Easter etc.