Decide your budget first, everything after that follows. Most likely like others have said ignore that old pc, you get get something much better second hand for very cheap.

Thank you! This is like the one thing it should have had

It seems like your ignoring that this will encourage tipping, that has tended to lower wages, as seen in USA. It doesn't seem like this is perfect or good

1. I've exercised options from a company in canada, they were taxed distinctly (and more favourably) from income.

2. He'd have no reason to take his payment this way otherwise. (FWIW Every CEO (both canadian and american) of a wealthy company i've seen has taken their pay in a manner similar to this: most of the comp is in stocks)

This all seems like it's part of the plan, and the title is super biased?

However, legislation governing pension funds restricts the size of accumulated surpluses to no more than 125 per cent of the plan’s liabilities.

Just like the govt guarantees the pensions if the fund fails, it can also take excess surpluses. That seems totally reasonable?

I don't get why the union is acting like it's their money when it isn't -- it's a defined benefit?

This shit happens all the time. Look at car settlements, it starts at the top. I'm not against a whistle blower framework at all, but it seems like executives get all the pay and none of the culpability (see headline).

In most cases yes. However in the cases of fines poor people are more penalized than wealthy, so there should be some proportional consideration there.

I think the question was retorical

I'm all for women's right to choose. How would we make money, I think we'd essentially be funding US medical treatments, which I'm ethically fine with, but would prefer to have my taxes go towards things for Canadians.

My understanding is that we can't have a private system along side the public system without "funding" the private system by WTO rules. Besides the fact that running a private system beside a public system is parasitic (i.e. we are assuming an infinite supply of doctors and nurses).

I think we should probably focus on paying our existing nurses and doctors better, and getting our hospitals back in working order.

I do what the linter tells me to: https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

I think it is hard. All their platforms look the same, it's difficult to find their voting records. Even their promises can't be trusted.

And since the candidates you hear the most about tend to be the leaders there's a bias to vote for a party, rather than your representative.

Beyond that issues are often things I'm not particularly knowledgeable about, so I don't know say how bad bringing in pay for healthcare would be for the public system (you've got to read studies to know that shit).

In make believe land I think that only impacted and experts would have a say. So corporate interests wouldn't get quite so much say, and distribution would be better. And farmers would get more say on ag related issues and technical people would get more say on things like DRM... But really that also probably just turn to shit.

Is it bad programming

No, it's bad requirements, well ok maybe the programmer came up with the requirements too.