The host digs through Canadian bureaucratic records to find overlooked stories: PPE designed for 1950s men fits women so poorly that over 80% of female workers in federally regulated jobs get injured. Chinese firm CIMC faces 350% anti-dumping duties for truck bodies. The CRA revoked charitable status for 139 organizations including food banks and churches.
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I read the Canada Gazette so you don't have to, and here are this week's secret stories in Canadian bureaucracy that those cucks at the CBC don't want you to know. First, a huge overhaul of protective wear. About 8% of the Canadian workforce uses PPE in jobs like aviation, and rail, marine, oil and gas. That equipment must now account for different body shapes. The current shapes were based on US military recruits in the '50s, mostly young white men. One study found that more than 80% of women in federally regulated workplaces reported problems with PPE fit, and 40% reported an injury. They attributed to it. It looks like China's been dumping truck bodies into Canada. The Border Services people say that a company called CIMC Queefer Trailer— excuse me, Reefer Trailer— is dumping truck bodies here. Canadian manufacturers say they've lost sales, market share, and jobs because of it. The duties we charge non-cooperating Chinese exporters is 350% of the export price, which is, to use RFK Jr. math, at least a quarter. Another one of the riding associations for the far-right People's Party of Canada deregistered this week, this one in Hamilton. If you use Island If you put your savings in Nanaimo, your credit union is now a bank. At least in name. A couple of months ago, Island Savings, which was already part of a larger credit union called FirstWest, rebranded the whole thing as True Cooperative Bank, headquartered in Langley. Now, it's still member-owned, it's still a cooperative. I have no idea why they would want to call themselves a bank. Many of us who use credit unions choose to do so because we want to avoid big banks. It's like calling your dental office a Smile Studio. Next, Canada is opening up the ocean floor. The Newfoundland offshore regulator is offering 16 parcels of seabed for petroleum exploration. Minimum bid: $10 million per parcel. Per parcel, you have to drill at least one well within 6 years. Canada is also, separately, discussing its clean energy transition. I will leave those two sentences right next to each other and say nothing further. This week the CRA revoked charitable status for 139 organizations for failing to file their annual returns. The list includes food banks, scholarship funds, at least one group called Clowns Without Borders, animal rescues, and churches. Always a lot of churches. So pour one out for the Rubber Chicken Company in St. Catharines. It's gone now. It was also a church group, by the way. The Canadian snack food for this video is candied wild salmon from Suma'ast Seafoods from the Hupachaasat and Tseshaht communities on Vancouver Island. I have had smoked candied salmon before. Never this good. Never this fresh. You can get it at authenticindigenousseafood.ca/products. And that was the week in Canadian bureaucracy. Please don't make me do this again.
