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The cost? The cost in increased congestion when cycling is made less safe? The cost in pollution? In human lives from increased road deaths? How about those costs, Doug? The costs that matter most?

In Totalitarian Canada, Canadian spelling metres you!

*skilometre

Streetcars in Toronto are like this too. Cars are required to stop when the streetcar doors open; the needs of one driver do not outweigh the needs of the many passengers getting on and off. That said, yes, you should look before you step down onto the street.

Yes, but also narcissistic personality disorder.

"Your sound card works perfectly."

Editorial boards are supposed to be independent of ownership. Granted, that often isn't the case, but that doesn't make it OK.

So... their house was sinking?

Not at all. What I would suggest is improving pay—but even more than that, working conditions—until family medicine work is not such a shitty proposition that medical students don't even want to go through the residency process to train for it.

Why would you want to beat down someone else instead of demanding that everyone gets risen up?

Becoming a family doctor in Canada is a minimum 9-year (usually more) postsecondary education. That's life they're not getting back. And taxpayer-subsidized though it may be, most family doctors start their careers with six-figure student debt to pay off.

Being a family doctor is emotionally demanding, important to society, and increasingly complex. People can, and do, choose to make more money for less effort in other fields. It's no longer a promising career path for intelligent young people, which is leading to a shortage of people doing work we all depend on.

So OK, maybe you have no sympathy for them. But don't be surprised next time you need medical help and there's nobody there to help you.

True, but that was literally a hundred years ago.

Tell that to the copyright lawyers