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  • Mostly it’s just unpopular because Trudeau’s name is attached (just like Obamacare, aka the Afforable Care Act, was in the US).

    A few weeks back there was a comment made here (sorry, can’t find it) where the poster said he’d discussed the carbon rebate with a couple of guys who were adamantly against it and swore they never received the rebate.

    Turned out one guy owed back taxes (so the rebate was withheld to pay it) and the other guy’s wife received theirs.

    And that’s on the the lack of messaging to clarify the tax/rebate info for people.

    Wait until the Cons win the next election and the rebate stops … right wing voters will be pissed then.
















  • According to the American Cancer Society’s 2024 stats cancer deaths are declining in some areas (ie: lung cancer) but increasing in many others.

    In 2024, 2,001,140 new cancer cases and 611,720 cancer deaths are projected to occur in the United States.

    • Cancer mortality continued to decline through 2021, averting over 4 million deaths since 1991 because of reductions in smoking, earlier detection for some cancers, and improved treatment options in both the adjuvant and metastatic settings.

    However, these gains are threatened by increasing incidence for 6 of the top 10 cancers.

    • Incidence rates increased during 2015–2019 by 0.6%–1% annually for breast, pancreas, and uterine corpus cancers and by 2%–3% annually for prostate, liver (female), kidney, and human papillomavirus-associated oral cancers and for melanoma.

    Incidence rates also increased by 1%–2% annually for cervical (ages 30–44 years) and colorectal cancers (ages <55 years) in young adults. Colorectal cancer was the fourth-leading cause of cancer death in both men and women younger than 50 years in the late-1990s but is now first in men and second in women.

    • Progress is also hampered by wide persistent cancer disparities; compared to White people, mortality rates are two-fold higher for prostate, stomach and uterine corpus cancers in Black people and for liver, stomach, and kidney cancers in Native American people. Source