Bonsoir

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And TFW program aside, the same principle goes for the housing market. It's much easier to convince some europeans to pay 1500$ a month for a 3-rooms apartment because they are used to expensive housing. They will generally be less informed about our consumer protection laws and accept any lease, legal or not.
If you want to see it with a more humanitarian perspective, what's the point of getting so many immigrants if we can't house them properly or give them proper jobs? It's not helping them and it's not helping us that much.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

And then you have companies displaying highly skilled job offers at minimum wage knowing nobody sane will apply. Then they claim that no canadian can be hired for their job and they need foreigners. They end up hiring foreigners for half the wage they would pay a canadian and exploit them all they want.
Foreigners are attractive because they don't know their rights and their value and can easily be abused.
Sure, the program has been created because of a worker's shortage, but now that jobs are scarce there is no reason to keep it up. --And that's why the different governments are starting to say that it has to stop.
This year, the largest job fair in Montréal had the double of attendant they had last year. 8000 people looking for a job. Half of them were newly arrived, the other 50% were either jobless, already on the job market or recently graduated.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Yes, but if you facilitate access to foreign workers, let's say with a "temporary foreign worker program", like it is the case in Canada, companies will go after them first because they are cheap labor and are easy to abuse. Meanwhile, there are new graduates who struggle to find jobs.
It does not help canadians and it does not help foreigners. Sure, we can always blame the companies, but the government also has it's part of responsibility by enabling this.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (15 children)

To be fair, the canadian minister of immigration recently admitted that they should have slowed down on immigration sooner.
Landlords and shareholders do have incentives to drive rent up and wages down, and immigration is one way to do it. The housing and job market crisis aren't there for no reason, and it's partly due to immigration.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Because there's nothing to prevent it.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Why would anyone bother learning both Vim and LibreOffice when LibreOffice supports every file format Vim does, and more?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Because Canada has the trashied oil production of the world. It's all oil sands.
It's better for the environment to import petrol from the US rather than produce it "locally".

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Caesar is actually described as having a "neutral" karma. He doesn't think he is evil, since people he gets killed are all barbarians anyway. Let's say he just favor order above all.
I mean, sure, the legion is portrayed as the bad guys and the game don't give you that many occasions to get to know them, but if you search for some lore about Caesar, the legion can look like a valid option without playing an evil/bad karma character, just like any other faction.
Also, Nipton had it coming anyway.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Well, it would be a bit unfair to talk about "European" games and "Asian" games, and on the other side "USA-made" games.
There are three countries in North America, we should at least include the two others.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

You're right it was only published by Ubi. The Fractured but Whole was developed by Ubisoft*

[–] [email protected] 103 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)

Fallout, Wasteland, The Elder Scrolls.
Also smaller games come to my mind, like Child of Light or South Park: The Stick Of Truth which are made by Ubisoft Montreal.

 
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I certainly hope so. I stopped caring about them years ago for other reasons. I simply saw that story over the news when it happened. But I could argue that it still took them the departure of their social media manager to realize what they were doing. If she just left without talking about her experience, who knows how they would be today.

 
 
 
 
 
 
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