Tuesday, October 17, 2023

thick not full of

There isn't much to report, a two necked albatross went running away with the iron that is used for pressing shirts and other items that are wrinkled.

I would be remiss to not mention that Hamas, a middle eastern terrorist organization had an effective and planned attack/invasion into Israel about a week ago; Israel intelligence was caught unprepared or unaware. To counter, Israel has bombed Gaza; giving the Palestinians there a day of warning to move south. Israel has also cut off food, water, fuel and electricity which is actually criminal.

While I know two people who live in and have their families in Israel and know no one in Palestinian territory, I feel terrible for all of the civilians for what Hamas has started. 

I guess there was something to report.

The CAQ government has decided to raise the university tuition rate for Canadian out of province students practically doubling it, but only for students attending English universities - Concordia and McGill in Montreal and Bishops in Sherbrooke. Their reasoning is that at the current rate these students are being heavily subsidized and many of the students leave the province once they graduate. In interviews I listened to today, these out of province students add something like 1.2 billion dollars of ancillary contributions to the economy for things like rent, food, entertainment, beer and so on. The subsequent interviewee was from the government who claimed that the subsidy given was about 200 million. This simple math alone says we should continue to subsidize them to get the big annual economic push.

Bishops university in particular will be heavily hurt by this increase, about 30% of their students are out of province, a higher percentage than either Concordia or McGill. If the bulk of those students cease to apply or enter the university it will be a huge hit causing irreparable damage not just to the university, but to Sherbooke as well.

A bucket of joy, freedom, hesitation and ignominy was sloshed about while being carried by a small selection of eleven year old children who's first name's second letter wasn't a vowel.

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