Comments by "TJ Marx" (@tjmarx) on "CBC News" channel.

When they met with Amanda Bligth and she said she's personally reviewed the call and confirmed the sale, they should have asked to listen to the call there and then so they could hear where she claims Brian said yes to the service. Then watched her fumble over herself about a recording that she suddenly won't have access to. And that's what you call a checkmate.
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@EatMyDick That is statistically VERY false. An overwhelmingly greater number of people have died from hunger than from greed. Greed is a problem, but your claim about hunger is nonsense
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Aussie here, our government said no for no other reason than the US has infiltrated our political system. Let's be clear, the facts are there is no evidence of any actual security concerns for Huawei. Canada shouldn't try to link a political outcome in another country to whether it allows a private company to do business. Those kind of tactics are ridiculous. I wish my government had a backbone to tell the US to get lost on this, I hope yours does.
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@EatMyDick What you said is factually false. How much wealth a person has is irrelevant to the accuracy of your statement "more people have died from greed than from hunger". It is an objectively false statement. Your frankly, ridiculous reply makes you appear to be simply a troll.
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S-trip. S-trip. Strip.... Enough said.
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No one offered this family a free home either... They're fighting over the right to have the mortgage that was promised to them, and the house sale at the price agreed. They did 500 hours charity work for HFH in lieu of a down payment, which is the equivalent to the amount of hours anyone would work to make a down payment. You don't seem to have understood the story
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You seem to have missed the story
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@rudy346 This simply is not true. Huawei is a multinational corporation that complies with the laws of the countries from within it operates. It was founded in China and is headquartered there sure, but that no more makes it a Chinese company, than you could call Coca-Cola or Google a US company. They're so massive that they're beyond countries. Indeed so massive that Facebook is literally attempting to take over the world with Libre and if allowed it could do so almost overnight. The USA regularly uses it's clout around the world to bully other nations in order to get better deals or protect the interests of private companies headquartered in the USA. Companies that generate local jobs and stimulate the economy. It's a practice the USA has been engaging in since WW2. Those private companies are private, the USA isn't protecting them because of a request or even an agreement from the company in how the USA might go about things. But when China does the same thing you want to pretend that it's different..? Come on mate, wake up. China is fast overtaking the USA and they're terrified. So they deploy their bog standard propaganda machine like they do anything else and pressure other nations to fall inline. Huawei is already a massive part of 4G infrastructure around the world. It likewise was a massive part of 3G infrastructure. Do you see the USA rushing to strip 4G infrastructure out? There is zero evidence that Huawei is a security risk, lots of evidence they aren't and they're completely open and willing to co-operate in whatever way they're asked to.
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I liked it when they said "what does prima facie mean" then said "either I'm guilty or I'm not".. Prima facie means unless they can rebutt the evidence the judge has, there is strong evidence for fraud.
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@rudy346 /headdesk What China does as a country to protect its nationals frankly has nothing to do with the private multinational company Huawei. The USA requested that Canada detain the CFO, not CEO, of Huawei. The CFO is a Chinese national and her detainment was on political grounds. It should also be noted that the charges against her relate to the repeated sale of goods to Iran which is illegal under US law due to sanctions on. US law doesn't extend to entities outside of the USA, so if Huawei is the Chinese company you're claiming those charges are unfounded because it doesn't need to comply with US law. If those charges apply, then Huawei can't be a Chinese puppet in which case the whole scare tactic about Huawei being part of some spy campaign is moot. Make up your mind mate. Stop buying US political propaganda
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"We're not socially distancing because we filmed this before the pandemic" The pandemic started more than a year ago when this video was posted.
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@spritebruhberry9069 No, a lack of food causes hunger. An inability to successfully survive and compete. Not greed, greedy people rarely go hungry.
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You're on antibiotics for food poisoning? O.o
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@MrToontuber What an utter load of rubbish
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Could we please stop referring to heavily addictive opioids as "pain killers" as if they're a paracetamol?
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How much money you're paid is irrelevant to the effective service of ones duties. Period. An employee is an employee regardless of how much they take home. There is no excuse for failing sanitation protocols. If you aren't willing to do the things required of your job, quit.
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What a load of nonsense. He thought the property was priced too good to be true then wants AirBnB to pay the difference to book something of the same quality that he admits was underpriced to begin with. Absurd. AirBnB shouldn't have to pay that difference, he was offered comparable priced accommodation at no charge, that is all he's entitled to. What this joker did is the equivalent of going to a travel agent and booking a budget hotel and expecting them to put you up in a luxury hotel because the budget hotel had to cancel your stay. And market place helped him do it. Why? He wants entitled to that.
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@MiuMiu-dq6xt Why highly doubtful? We know factually that Julien Huard had stalked her for years and had recently moved cities to follow her and tracked her down. What is so "highly doubtful" that she was actually being followed by someone? The evidence points to the likelihood that she was being followed by Julien Huard.
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As an Australian I was going to ask whether Canadian health departments are forcing stores to close for government run cleaning as part of contact tracing. But towards the end of the video they talk about something called Loblaws voluntarily closing for self cleaning. And of the guy being interviewed "it's too hard to pinpoint where his infection was acquired". So I guess that's a no to my question? Why isn't Canada doing proper contact tracing?
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You need a credit card to buy a plane ticket also, and she wanted to go to the airport immediately after buying it. That doesn't seem a coincidence. The real question is, how far could you travel by plane from Victoria Airport (YYJ) on $200 in 2012. YYJ is just 26km from The Empress Hotel where she was last seen. The Empress Hotel had lodgings starting at $419 in 2012 according to the wayback machine so it doesn't seem likely she was trying to stay there.
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I mean, an insurance company is only covering you repairs not the value of the vehicle. It's not the insurance companies fault someone rear ended you either. If you really care about diminished value go after the person that hit you in small claims court.
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What is this story and why are you trying to drive descent where there was none before? These apps aren't intended to be your full time job, if they're your full time job you're doing life wrong. They're intended to be extra disposable income on the side. They call themselves sharing apps, because you aren't becoming employed you're registering with an agency that will push work in your direction. Nothing is stopping any of these food delivery people going out purely independently and delivering food but they won't do that because the cost of marketing, app development and client acquisition will cost too much. The same costs exist for the delivery apps though. Get real. All business exploits something even CBC Marketplace
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Oh look more tabloid hype over labels that are truthful. You make non sequitur claims to make out products are trying to deceive that made no deceiving claim on the label. This show is so nonsense. What happened to the old Marketplace that was good?
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Man, all of those EEG traces are muddy and dirty af. You can't see any detail to the wave who did those placements?
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Who is basing life decisions entirely on review sites? If that's what you're doing , you're doing life wrong.
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It isn't a coincidence that your "conscience" was so strong. That's the affect of a particular kind of upbringing
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The Canada's Missing website is a joke. They list cases then don't actively pull them down if they're solved. They give very little information about the person and don't update listings. Instead they just have a line on each listing asking people to contact police to find out if the case is still active or not. What a waste of everyone's time including police.
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All you've done is take the ATM fee and changed who you gave the money to from the bank to a random retailer. Only now you've got 20 packets of gum you're never going to eat and a bunch of packaging to waste in landfill. You didn't solve anything. ATM fees are illegal in Australia
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Your own expert tried to bring some reality back to this and you lead things back down a rabbit hole. A dentist is just a person who has some training in teeth & mouths. The same is true across the board in the healthcare industry, they're just people. They're giving you an OPINION based on PERSONAL EXPERIENCE and nothing more. You know, the same as a mechanic (someone with training on cars) does and two different mechanics might disagree. That's why you can get second opinion.
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Sounds like a bunch of technologically illiterate fools are signing up without understanding what they're signing up for. Do you not know what trial means? All websites have their T&C at the bottom. Read them before you give someone a credit card number. If someone is offering you an unsolicited free prize why would you think that's anything other than a way to make money? No one wants to just give you free things with no expectations of any money being made, they'd go bankrupt overnight. Come on, use your head. I can't have sympathy for these people. These aren't scams, if you don't bother to read the terms you're agreeing to before agreeing that's on you. Based on the definition MarketPlace is using here for a scam, Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all "scam" people with a free trial of their online service that renews automatically. Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, HayU, Stan, TrlGo, and every other streaming video service including YouTube premium the very platform marketplace has this video on, are all "scamming" because they offer free trials then auto renew. Google and Apple both do it with their music and games services. Amazon does it with Prime and audible. Ancestry does it with their platform. Facebook does it with "free credit" on ad accounts. Even CBC Gem does this. A trial means you are signing up to something, if you're giving payment details it means they're going to keep taking money until you actively cancel. People need to stop hiding behind willful ignorance and take some responsibility for themselves. The only people scamming here are the ones complaining.
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Crazy that you're allowed to have an unlicensed daycare as long as you don't have more than 5 children. Wtf. Like safety doesn't exist as long as no more than 5 kids are in danger? What's the go with that?
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Why are you representing this as if it's a real business calling. A real business trying to generate leads doesn't operate like that even if they outsource to offshore telesales. You found a scam. That's why no one showed up and why they're happy to scream profanity.
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It always boggles my mind that so many people are shocked to find out they shouldn't trust the guy trying to sell them something.. A business is in the market to part you from your money, they'll do whatever they can get away with to make that happen. Why do these people think government has to explicitly make it illegal to lie in an ad? It's because without that law they'd be lying left, right and centre. Don't trust someone who has a financial incentive for you to make a purchase. That includes reviewers.
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By the logic of this piece we should be able to call up a central authority and find out about disciplinary actions, personal biases, organisational, personal and religious affiliations, addictions, etc of journalists, presenters, writers and producers of news, current affairs and investigative journalism. Ie. The people who made this piece. Because pieces like this sway public opinion across large segments of the community, so that information can be argued is more important in this kind of scenario than for a teacher. Because I can learn you have things that invalidate what you have to say and not listen, but learning about a teacher in a public school doesn't change the teacher being in the classroom. Is marketplace willing to commit now to making this information about it's employees easily accessible public knowledge?
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@laurent3415 You're not understanding what I'm saying.
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@laurent3415 repeating yourself only confirms you do not understand what is being said.
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They took it one step further here in Australia, not only can a home ban you but it is illegal for a journalist to report on it, or to report on the poor conditions inside the home.
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What? O.o A shelter doesn't mean you have no money. Sandy Merriman House is run by the Cool Aid Society who provide housing, meals, counselling and programs to help people find permanent housing, income and health services. She had been staying there for 9 months. Why wouldn't she have the money for a burner phone and a $200 prepaid visa? Come on
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