It is now time for oral questions, and I recognize the leader of the official opposition. Thank you, Speaker. Good morning, Speaker. My first question is to the Premier. The Premier recently said that he would end hallway medicine by next summer. Is he on track? Questions addressed to the Premier? Well, through you, Mr. Speaker, we're well on our way. We're working hard to end hallway health care. As the Minister of Health has mentioned numerous, numerous times, one of the avenues, and there's many avenues of ending hallway health care, is making sure that we have long-term care beds. Through you, Mr. Speaker, we have committed to having 15,000 long-term care beds in the first five years, another 15,000 in the following five years. We're already, after a year and five months, well on our way with well over 7,500. I think it might even be closer to 8,000 moving forward. That is one avenue. Working with the doctors, working with the nurses, they have the ideas. We are super experts. My Minister of Health has become an expert, but we listen to the frontline doctors. Fine. And every doctor I talk to, Mr. Speaker, has new ways of delivering health care more efficiently. Home care is another area that we have to focus on. Technology, Mr. Speaker, we have to focus on technology. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. A supplementary question. Thank you, Speaker. Well, today the Independent Financial Accountability Office released their report into long-term care. Their findings show that the government's plan for long-term care will leave the waitlist growing longer. That we'll need almost four times as many beds as the government is planning just to keep the waitlist at a horrendous 37,000 people. And without other changes in the healthcare sector, the problem of hallway medicine will get worse over the next two years. The Premier said he would end the hallway medicine crisis that was created by the Liberals. Why is he taking things from bad to worse? Questions addressed to the Premier. Minister of Health. Further to the Minister of Health. Well, thank you again. Through you, Mr. Speaker, I would remind the leader of the official opposition of several things. One is that we did not create the system of hallway healthcare. That's a system that's been growing for 15 years under the previous government. But we did promise the people of Ontario that we would do something about it and we are. We have started. We promised the people of Ontario that we would create 15,000 new long-term care spaces within five years. We are in track to do that. My colleague, the Minister of Long-term Care, is continuing the work that was started in doing an excellent job at it. We're working on that, but we also recognize that our seniors population is growing rapidly. That's nothing new. I think everyone in this legislature knows that. And so we have to continue with our efforts. We promised 15,000 new spaces within five years, another 15,000 in five years thereafter. But we're also targeting new and innovative approaches, which I will speak with in the supplemental. The final supplement. Well, Speaker, the financial accountability officer is clear that the job of tackling hallway medicine is not going to be the walk in the park that the Premier promised. The report that he released today, or that their office released today, indicates that even if the government keeps its promise, and that is a big if, the government keeps its promise, for long-term care, we'll continue to grow in our province. And hallway medicine will get worse. Is the Premier ready to admit that his plan to eliminate hallway medicine is falling short? Minister of Health. We made the people of Ontario a promise that we would end hallway health care, and we are going to do that. We are working on a number of approaches. There is no one simple approach to ending hallway health care. No one has ever suggested it's going to be a walk in the park. We need to build more long-term care spaces. That's clear. We have an unacceptably high number of people who are alternate level of care, patients in our hospitals who don't need to be there, but have nowhere else to go. That is something we inherited, but it's something that we are dealing with. We also need to make sure that people who cycle in and out of hospital emergency departments with chronic mental health and addiction problems have the community care resources that they need. We are working on that in building a comprehensive connected mental health and addictions plan, because what happens so often is that people who end up in a crisis with their mental health care or addictions care end up in hospital because there is no other place for them to go. We want to create those places for them, and we want to create alternate types of spaces for people in our reactivation care centers where they can go, where they can be relocated. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you, Speaker. My next question is for the Premier as well, but I have to say, underfunding hospitals, forcing them to close beds and lay off front-line workers is not going to help with the hallway of the medicine crisis that we have right now. But the government goes, Speaker, that it increased spending in long-term care by $72 million this year, but the FAO report shows that this will not be anywhere near enough. When beds are actually built, funding needs will increase, and the board government is already moving in the opposite direction. Speaker, planning to cut $34 million in long-term care funding by next year. Does the Premier realize that cutting long-term care funding will make the wait times for long-term care even worse? The question has been addressed to the Premier. Minister of long-term care. The First Minister of long-term care. To the member for the question, we look back on 15 years in the long-term care sector, 15 years of runway that we would have been able to develop the beds and make that capacity and accessibility for those individuals needing in the community. That's 15 years. Our government has committed $1.75 billion for 15,000 beds over five years, five years. This is a problem that has been a long time coming, and our government is committed. We've spent $72 million more this year over last year in long-term care. We're spending millions of dollars improving care in the community, and we're improving the integration of home care, community care, and our long-term care sector. So this was many years in the making. Our government is putting the money behind our commitment $1.75 billion. And that will be done. We are committed to doing that. Thank you. The supplementary question. Well, Speaker, there's no doubt. The Liberals let the waitlist for long-term care balloon by 78% over seven years. That is a disgrace, and I think everybody in this chamber and everybody in Ontario would agree. But cutting $34 million next year is not going to help the problem, Speaker. They ignored the hallway medicine crisis. There's no doubt about it the last government did. But now the four government is carrying on the same tradition, Speaker. The FAO report is clear that the waitlists for long-term care are going to keep growing. And that the challenges of hospital hallway medicine will go from bad to worse. When will this government admit that they need to do much, much more? Minister of long-term care. The report from the FAO states that between 2011 and 2018, the number of long-term care beds in Ontario increased by only 0.8%. While the population of Ontarians aged 75 and over grew by 20%. Going to ask the Minister of Labour, training and skills development to come to order. Even when you have your hand over your mouth like that, I can still hear that it's true. Because you're sitting very close to me. It's the Minister of long-term care for having to interrupt. So I am actually very pleased that the FAO recognises our government's investments in long-term care, quote, is the largest new healthcare sector spending commitment in the 2019 budget and is a crucial part of the government's priority to end hallway healthcare. Our government is committing to make sure we can have residents in those long-term care beds when they need it and where they need it. And we are investing in that. I am working with the Ministry of Health and cross-ministries to make sure that happens and streamlining processes to... Thank you very much. Here's what families see. Hospital emergency rooms routinely operating at over 100% capacity. Weightless for long-term care that have more than doubled over the term of the Liberal Government and have continued to grow toward government. The FAO was very, very clear today, Speaker. This government's plan has us on track for longer wait lists for long-term care. It's in black and white. It's in the report. And he also says it's putting us in a position to have even more hallway medicine. Speaker, why does the Premier think that this is acceptable? Mr. Long-term Care. Thank you. To date, thank you for that question and thank you, Speaker. To date, our government has allocated almost 8,000 new beds. We are well on our way to creating the capacity that is needed. But it's more than simply bricks and mortar. Long-term care, people need it when they need it. We want to make sure that they get it when they need it. But we're also building capacities in the community with home care. And people want to stay in the community. The capacity is building. We're already at 50% of what we have promised to commit to. And we are getting there. So we look at the FAO report, Estimated Timing in March of 2021 is when our call for applications is designed to address those remaining beds. So we are making really, really important progress. And I must admit, again, we've lost 15 years of runway. Our government is committed to making sure that we have the capacity that is needed. And I'm working, again, with multiple ministries to make sure that we achieve our goal. Thank you, Speaker. My next question is also for the Premier. Yesterday, the Globe and Mail revealed more concerning news about the close ties between Mario DiTomasso, the person hired by the Premier to oversee the appointment of a new OPP commissioner, and Ron Taverner, that the process by which Mr. Taverner was appointed was flawed from day one, including the fact that Taverner was literally planning a party for the man who would hire him. When will the government start providing basic answers about what appears to be a glaring conflict of interest on the part of the person the Premier appointed to a senior role in the civil service? The question has been addressed to the Premier. Minister of Solicitor General. Thank you, Speaker. I understand that the members opposite of the NDP want to continue to build a narrative about an individual who has served in the OPS and in the Toronto Police Service. But I want to remind people that we have an excellent commissioner in Commissioner Creek with the OPP, the leadership that he has shown on mental health issues, ensuring that the individuals who serve in our communities protecting our families and our property is doing incredible work. And I only hope that as the member opposite continues to see the excellent work that is coming out of the OPP and the leadership there that they will embrace the commissioner and assist him in his work in our communities. Thank you. A supplementary question. This is not about a narrative. It's about a government that has been terrible with its appointments process. With the fishy appointments that it's made with the lack of due process, the lack of transparency. That's what the question is all about, Speaker. This is just one of many concerning instances where the Ford government has appointed friends and insiders to key government roles. It's actually troubling because it concerns Ontario's top policing job and the highest ranks of the civil service. Yesterday, the government house leader claimed that the government would be welcome to suggestions on how to improve the process by which people are appointed to appoint important public offices in hopes of making it more transparent and open for the public. Well, we would like to take them up on this offer, Speaker. So will the Premier back our motion to have the Justice Committee with the appointment process for the OPP Commissioner and ensure the committee hears directly from Deputy Minister Dieto Masso. The Solicitor General Well, thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Look, I think the Solicitor General was quite clear and I share her sentiments with respect to Commissioner Karik. He's somebody who served in York Region and I know that the York Region caucus are incredibly proud of his service and, of course, to the continuing service that he'll provide the people of Ontario with the OPP. But as I said yesterday, Mr. Speaker, there was more coming with respect to improving openness and transparency for a public appointment process. I would suspect that all members of this legislature would want that. So we have made some important changes. We've looked at some of the recommendations that the Auditor General brought forward. We've added some cooling-off provisions with respect to special advisors, which we'll know. That's something that the Auditor General brought forward. We've increased transparency. We're enhancing conflict of interest assessments. Some of these appointments will be referred to the Integrity Commissioner, Mr. Speaker. So these are all important appointments. Of course, special advisors will now be posted publicly. So these are important changes, Mr. Speaker, and I hope the opposition will support them. Thank you very much. The next question, the member for Brampton West. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Premier. Premier, as you know, our government was elected on a promise to help turn our province around economically. For far too long, Ontario was always having to play economic catch-up when it came to the rest of Canada and even North America. The previous economic policies in place caused fiscal stagnation while limiting job prospects and economic potential for families, small and medium business owners in my riding and throughout our province. Since our election, our main focus has been to put in place policies and regulations that will lead the way for economic expansion. Premier, can you elaborate on the positive impact that our policies have had economically in our province under your watch? Great. Questions to the Premier. I'd like to thank my all-star colleague from Brampton West, absolute champion. Things are booming in Brampton. For you, Mr. Speaker under our watch, we have helped create economic conditions for 272,000 jobs. That's 272,000 jobs. That's the size of Windsor. That's the size of almost Vaughan employing people. TD Economics recently published a great report that describes in detail Ontario's economic output for just a year alone. Mr. Speaker, only five times since 1981. Almost 40 years has there been at least three quarters in which the economy has created jobs at a faster pace than output has expanded. 80,000 new self-employed positions created have created this year alone. So these are true entrepreneurs going out there creating more jobs. And Mr. Speaker, the report even goes down the drain. We have hired 41,000 new public sector jobs so much for laying people off. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Back to the Premier. Premier, those are incredible numbers and shows what can be accomplished by the ingenuity and innovation of the people of Ontario themselves. It is refreshing that we finally have a... It now appears there have been a number of jobs created for Hamilton East Stony Creek and I would ask him to come door. I apologize to the member for Brampton West who has the floor. It is refreshing that we finally have a government that supports job creators instead of punishes them and works with them instead of against them. I know that both yourself and the Minister of Economic Development job creation and trade have been have major supporters of the open for business strategy sector. Can you elaborate on the continuing positive impact that immigration has on the economic success experienced in this province? Premier to reply. Thank you very much our great MPP from Brampton. I can tell you as I mentioned Mr. Speaker we created 272,000 jobs and our biggest problem right now we don't have enough people here in Ontario to fill the additional 200,000 jobs in Ontario. And in Ontario alone the first half of this year over 65,000 immigrants settled in Ontario that's 50% being classified as coming on economic grounds. So we're getting some of the brightest people here in Ontario but my call out to the world you want to work you want to contribute back to Ontario come to Ontario we have jobs our economy we have people to fill the production output of these companies that they're facing. We're going to continue on this economic growth we're leading North America we are on fire because of the policies of this great party and I can tell you what a great announcement yesterday 100 million dollars from DHL right in the leader of the opposition's backyard. I'm going to remind all members that when the speaker stands you have to cut off and that's a signal that you should sit down because your time is up I've stopped the clock please restart the clock Member for Hamilton Mountain Thank you speaker my question is to the premier for parents raising a child with autism the last year of this government's failed policies has been a nightmare. Last night we learned that the government's panel has submitted their recommendations for months even years and we have been calling for a needs based program and now even the government's own panel is calling for the same will the premier commit right now to make the OAP available based on a child's need and provide the funding to ensure that no child is left to languish on wait lists Questions to the premier Minister of Community and Social Services Children, Community and Social Services It's an honour to rise for the first time in this House as the Minister for Children Community Opposition critic today I want to thank the members of the expert panel the Ontario Autism panel who worked tirelessly throughout the summer Mr. Speaker they met 18 different times face to face and these weren't just one hour meetings Mr. Speaker these were all day sessions where they came together from various points of view parents with lived experience adults with lived experience with autism other clinicians and therapists and people from academia to come together to develop the foundation for a new Ontario Autism program here in Ontario something that people have been waiting for for a long long time I'm very proud of the work that they've done I want to thank them for the work that they've done many of them are here today Mr. Speaker Supplementary Questions Thank you Speaker I'm very happy with the recommendations I hope that he'll be implementing them immediately children have waited months and months because of the Ford government's failed autism program cuts and their constant refusal to listen to parents they shouldn't have to wait a minute longer every day that goes by without services is a day that a child's developmental potential is put further behind life is getting harder and harder for families scrounging to pay for expensive therapy out of pocket how much longer will families have to wait to get the help they need and have been promised Well thanks very much Mr. Speaker I received a draft copy of the recommendations from the panel last night I know that the panel's report is now public and it's online for the entire community to view I know that this program has been developed by the community for the autism community I'm very very proud of that and it's the first time in the province's history that this type of consultation has ever happened so again I want to thank them for the work that they've done the other important piece to this Mr. Speaker and for those of you who have been paying attention back in July I actually gave the panel some new guidelines to work within the previous liberal government funded with the June of $300 million Mr. Speaker under Premier Ford and our government that has doubled to $600 I look forward to looking at the full report later today with my team I know the community is going to want to provide input there's a lot of great strides that have been made thanks to the work of this expert panel and I know they're waiting for us to implement this as soon as we possibly can Mr. Speaker again I just want to thank the members who are here and the members who worked all summer members for John Valley West thank you very much Mr. Speaker my questions for the Minister of Health according to the World Health Organization growing vaccine hesitancy is one of the top 10 threats to global health in Canada an estimated 20% of parents are vaccine hesitant and what that means Mr. Speaker is that one in five families may choose not to have their children vaccinated against measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, polio, whooping cough, meningitis or chickenpox which allows the herd immunity that has protected generations of Canadians including hers and mine earlier this month the Toronto Board of Health accepted the September 2019 report of the Medical Officer of Health and its strategy to address vaccine hesitancy and the strategy calls on the provincial government to follow the advice of the Premier's own council to among other recommendations improve immunization information sharing set immunization targets for Ontario health teams provide financial incentives to promote local health providers in February of this year the Minister said that she was concerned about vaccine skeptics and yet in September just last month she said that the government has no plans to update the province's approach so I asked the Minister will she reconsider and will she in fact follow the advice of the Premier's council and if not why not thank you question is to the Minister of Health well I thank the member very much for the question it is a serious concern that we have a lot of people who are not getting the flu vaccine because of the lower levels of vaccinations that we're seeing as a matter of fact I just received my own flu vaccine this morning and we did some publications some announcements about it we do have a provincial wide advisory that's going out urging people to receive vaccinations last year we know that over 5,000 people were hospitalised because of not a particular can be deadly people die because of the flu and we want to encourage people I am encouraging everyone to please get the flu vaccine it's important for your own health and safety and it's important for the health and safety of those around you we do have that herd immunity we do need to have a high level of people vaccinated in this province so I urge people to reconsider if you have any hesitancy about it please get the correct information getting the flu vaccine is very very important it's absolutely safe it's free and it's readily available very much the supplementary question I certainly agree with the minister on the flu vaccine but I'm actually talking about the broad range of vaccinations particularly the childhood vaccinations that are so important and one of the ways in which vaccination rates can be improved is to tighten or eliminate the restrictions on non-medical exemptions and I know this is highly contentious I hope Mr. Speaker but there are other jurisdictions New Brunswick, California, Mississippi West Virginia, Maine, New York that are already moving to or have already put in place a prohibition on non-medical exemptions in other words a family can still get an exemption from a vaccination but only for medical reasons and there's evidence from the United States jurisdictions that where non-medical exemptions have been removed levels of large goes up. My personal opinion Mr. Speaker is that vaccinations have been so successful that there is a generation of people who do not know what can happen if you get measles if you get Monts Rubella what our generation had to do was we just had to get those diseases and build up our own immune system if we could so Mr. Speaker will the minister thank you thank you once again I will say to the member for Hamilton East Stony Creek we don't need the buzzer I would ask the minister of health to reply well I certainly agree with the member that there is a whole generation of people that don't understand the importance of vaccinations and that's where I think the education piece is so important our provincial campaign with respect to the flu vaccine but with respect to other vaccinations is really really important to remind people that they can become very ill or they can make other people very ill if they don't get vaccinated so my preference is to proceed with a more robust education campaign I understand that the non-medical exemption has been a very contentious but there is a very small number of people that rely on that we have no intention of subverting people's religious concerns there are some people that have true religious concerns with respect to vaccinations I believe that we should respect that it is a very small number of people though among the group that choose not to be vaccinated the larger group is the people that there's a lot of myths and misunderstandings with respect to vaccinations I believe it's important to educate people on the actual reality and the importance of being vaccinated it's for your own health and for the health of you very much the next question the member for Kitchener Conestoga well thank you Mr. Speaker my question is for the Solicitor General yesterday the Solicitor General introduced the Provincial Animal Welfare Services Act or the Paws Act for short this comes after the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ended its 100 year role as the enforcement agency of Ontario's animal welfare legislation our government stepped up with an interim solution to protect animals in the short term while we consulted with animal welfare stakeholders in order to inform the permanent solution we developed can the minister please tell this house how the Paws Act will help ensure that animals remain protected for the long term Thanks to the Solicitor General Thank you Speaker and thank you to the member for Kitchener Conestoga you know there's many of us in this chamber who feel very strongly that there were opportunities in Ontario to strengthen the animal welfare protection system and I believe that we have done that with the introduction of Paws so what we are proposing if passed will actually ensure that Ontario has the strongest animal protection welfare in Canada and I'm proud of that work I'm proud of the assistance that my parliamentary assistance and other colleagues in the chamber who have brought forward private members bill have participated in this process it is vitally important that we get this legislation right and I am pleased with where we have landed with the Paws Act and I hope that going forward we can have the support of all members in the legislature because I think we understand the importance and value of protecting the animals that we live and love with Thank you Supplementary question Well through you Speaker I'd like to thank the Solicitor General for her answer it is great to hear that if passed the Paws Act will implement the strongest fines for offenders in Canada with over 60% of Ontario households I know that animal welfare is a pressing issue for many of us with substantial public interest and a diverse group of stakeholders public consultation is critical for the development of a new animal welfare system to build public trust Can the Solicitor General outline to this house what consultations went into developing the Paws Act Mr. Solicitor General go ahead Thank you Speaker you know there was as I mentioned previously I'm interested in this issue in the three short weeks that we had public consultation open we had 16,000 individual members of the public participate and get involved but in addition to that we had round tables with colleagues and caucus members we involved and engaged in local humane societies the municipalities the police services veterinarians there are a lot of players in this field who are very very interested in ensuring that we get the balance right and I believe when members opposite had an opportunity to review the Paws Act they will see the input and engagement was large and fulsome and the inter model has been a successful process we intend to expand that and I would encourage people to use the 1-833-9 animal if they see any animal in distress or have concerns thank you Thank you very much The next question the member for ASICS Thank you very much my question is to the Premier for months the Premier has insisted that his government's appointment process is above board even after appointee after appointee has been forced to resign amidst evidence of cronyism and scandal OPP Commissioner and appoint his close personal friend to the civil service so that he could run the hiring process that stinks pretty badly Speaker even by this government's standards Speaker will the Premier I'm going to caution the member on his language and ask him to rephrase his question I am going to caution the member on his language and ask him to rephrase his question Thank you very much Premier the Premier has an opportunity to set the record straight here today Will he let the Justice Committee hear from the Deputy Minister Questions addressed to the Premier Absolutely Thank you very much What's disappointing is hearing from the members opposite who are trying to somehow impugn the work that these two individuals have done We're talking about an officer a police officer who many many years of services two individuals who have served the province of Ontario exceptionally well for many many years Mr. Speaker I think we should celebrate those type of individuals not take it to the floor of the legislature and bring those types of individuals down but at the same time we said we want to improve the appointments process we took a look at what the auditor general had to say and we are making changes I highlighted some of those changes in an earlier answer Mr. Speaker including adding a cooling off period for special advisers that was a recommendation of the auditor general I hope the opposition will support that Mr. Speaker some additional transparency measures that we're bringing forward Mr. Speaker we're seeking some comment from the chairs of the different boards so that we can update the skill sets of individuals that we're appointing these are people who do very good work for the people of the province of Ontario and they certainly don't be they don't deserve to be talked down to by the members of the opposition Thank you Good supplementary question Thank you Mr. Speaker I would like to look at what happened at every step of this widely criticized process to be in the words of the house leader open and transparent but by refusing to cooperate the premier is telling Ontarians that the transparency that they're looking for is just too much to ask from him if the premier really wants to correct his disastrous first year in office it's going to take more than simply throwing his chief of staff under the bus will the premier show that he's actually committed to the openness and transparency that he likes to talk about and allow us to hear from his deputy minister about this deeply flawed process Mr. Speaker obviously committees are the masters of their own domain Mr. Speaker will let them make that decision on their own at the same time as I said we brought in a number of transparency measures we're improving the public appointment process I would hope that all members of the legislature want to continuously improve that process I know that on our side of the house we are doing that always our ministers are working hard our members of the provincial parliament are all working hard to improve the public appointment process I've highlighted some of the things that we're doing but the member opposite talks about disastrous first year in government a disastrous first year tell that to the 280,000 people who are working tell that to the people of the city of Toronto who will be going on subways after years and years of not being able to do that tell that to the people who will have a long-term care bed for the first time in generations business people I would say that the first year in government for us has been spectacular but it's been even more important and more impressive for the people of Ontario who are working, who are paying fewer taxes who have better schools who have better long-term care facilities who will have subways who have better roads, transit and transportation I would say the first year was a huge success stop the clock the house will come to order let me ask the member for Richmond Hill thank you Mr Speaker my question is for the Minister of Long-term care I am very concerned with FAO report as well it is just released this morning it is disappointing that over the last 15 years the long-term care system was simply inactive it is reported that between 2011 and 2018 number of long-term care beds in Ontario increased by only 0.8 per cent, when the population on Terriers aged 75 and over grew by 20 per cent. This number is simply unacceptable to me. People in my riding are waiting to get into long-term care, and they simply aren't able to. Minister, can you tell me more how our government is taking a different approach and acting in the best interest of Ontarians to get these beds built? Thank you, Speaker. And thank you to the member from Richmond Hill for bringing this to light. I also want to thank the Financial Accountability Office for Ontario for his very comprehensive review of our plan. This report confirms that the previous government ignored the long-term care system and that our plan is headed in the right direction. In contrast to what wasn't done in the last 15 years, our government is investing $1.75 billion to create 15,000 new long-term care beds, and we develop another 15,000 long-term care to modern design standards. And in addition to that, $72 million more this year compared to last year to go to long-term care. So this is to support more beds, more nursing, more personal support care. Really looking at helping our residents get the care they need when they need it. Mr Speaker, those are real dollars. Real investment and a vision for a 21st century long-term care system will get the capacity and our residents the care they need. Thank you. The supplementary question. Thank you, Mr Speaker, and thank you, the Minister, for your encouraging answer. While 30,000 new and redeveloped long-term care beds, this is exactly the real investment that we're looking for. Communities across the province and the countless families will see their loved ones being cared for after all these long wait. After the 15 years of neglect and the long-term care system by the Liberals, this is a major improvement. Building more beds and redeveloping older beds will help relieve pressures on the hospital system, and we work to end the hallway healthcare. But I know that we need real relief in the long-term care system as soon as possible. Minister, along the investment you just spoke about, what further action is the government taking to make it best into long-term care system? Thank you, Mr Speaker, and thank you again to the member for the question. And to date, our government has already allocated almost 8,000 beds to long-term care. That's moving in the right direction. That is towards our 15,000 new bed commitment. In addition, we have started accepting applications from current and future potential long-term care operators to build new long-term care beds and redevelop existing ones across Ontario. And just this morning, the FAO validated our commitment to have these 15,000 beds built within five years. However, we are actively engaging with our long-term care sector to modernize development processes by reducing red tape, streamlining processes, and creating greater flexibility in expediting our processes. So we're putting shovels in the ground faster, and we'll get people into those beds faster, but we know our work has only just begun. Our government is committed to creating the capacity in long-term care, and together we can improve long-term care for all Ontarians. Thank you very much. The next question is from the member for Waterloo. Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. My question is to the Premier. Kitchener Waterloo is an established innovation hub in Ontario. Tech companies in my riding create thousands of good jobs and drive our economy, but across the province we've seen funding cuts to tech and research groups by this Conservative government. The latest on the chopping block is the University of Waterloo's Institute for Quantum Computing. This move puts good jobs and economic opportunities at risk due to short-sighted cuts from this Conservative government. This now jeopardizes our competitive advantage as a province. Will the Premier reverse this harmful decision for Waterloo and Kitchener Waterloo? The question is addressed to the Premier. Minister of Economic Development. I urge the Minister of Economic Development. Thank you, Speaker. We are indeed committed to ensuring Ontario is open for business and open for jobs. We have ongoing conversations with the tech sector about creating the conditions that will continue to allow companies to scale up and grow, and we continue to work with and support the tech sector because when our tech job thrive, our communities thrive. In September, our government announced we are investing nearly $41 million in 174 research projects across the province as part of Ontario's open for business, open for jobs plan. In fact, Waterloo University received 14 grants totaling over $2 million that will go towards funding research projects in quantum computing and other high-tech sectors. We will continue to work with the industry to ensure innovative business environment protects the workers, builds capacity, creates jobs, opportunity and growth. Thank you. The supplementary question. Thank you very much, Mr Speaker. In part, the reason why Waterloo and Canada are on the map for quantum computing is because we invest it early and we invest it often. Ontario has been a leader in this country investing in areas like quantum computing, AI and medical research, including cancer research. But since this PC government has been elected, the research sector has seen cut after cut after cut. And when a pattern of defunding emerges, it becomes more difficult to market the province as a leader in business and research. Does the Premier of Ontario really believe he is on the right track? The question has been referred to the Minister of Economic Development, job creation and trade. Speaker, we've seen job after job after job. In fact, 272,400 of them have been created. Our government understands the value of quantum computing and AI across multiple sectors in Ontario. We have over 300 AI-enabled firms and institutions in Ontario and we continue with our plan to protect good jobs in the tech sector today while investing in the skills and technology essential to remain competitive tomorrow. We have nearly 300,000 tech workers in Ontario today. That puts Ontario as the second largest IT cluster in all of North America. Quantum computing and AI will have enormous economic impacts thanks to our investments. By 2035, it is estimated that AI will add more than $14 trillion to the global economy. That is why our government remains committed to investing in quantum computing, facilitating an environment where the tech and the AI sectors can continue to grow and thrive. Thank you very much. The next question is for the Minister of Transportation. Yesterday marked a momentous day for public transit in the province of Ontario and I want to offer my personal congratulations to the Minister for receiving Toronto City Council's endorsement of her four priority subway projects. The Minister took over this portfolio just over 100 days ago and has successfully built on the foundation built by her predecessor. Our four priority projects will deliver rapid transit to communities that need it, like Flemmington Park, Forncliffe and Liberty Village, which will all directly benefit from the Ontario line and Scarborough, which will finally have the three-stop subway line that they deserve. Can the Minister please explain what yesterday's City Council vote means for the people of Ontario and Toronto? Question is to the Minister of Transportation. Well, I'd like to thank the member from Willardale for his question and his very kind comments. I was happy to take over this ministry, which is left in great shape by my colleague, Minister Europe. Very lucky to be working alongside the Associate Minister of Transportation, Minister Surma, who knows and understands the transit needs in the GTA. Speaker, this is a defining moment for public transit in Toronto. The City of Toronto and the Province of Ontario have endorsed one single unified plan for subway expansion in Toronto. I am grateful that City Council has endorsed our proposal of October 10th. This is a testament to the commitment of our Premier and the Mayor to get transit built. In order to paraphrase the Premier, what is good for Toronto is good for Ontario. We are one step closer to delivering public transit. Thank you very much for the supplementary question. Thank you for that, Minister. Our government's goal has always been to improve transit and to get Ontario moving. This region loses $11 billion a year to gridlock, a fact that is all too well-known in Willowdale. We recognise the urgency of building the transit network that our province needs. Our four priority projects, the Young North Extension, the Three-Stop Scarborough Extension, the Eglinton West Extension and the Ontario Line will provide the relief that my constituents and all Ontarians need and deserve. Yesterday's council vote was crucial, but there is plenty of work ahead of us. Through you, Speaker, can the Minister tell us what's next? Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm very happy to answer that question. We have been clear from the onset that our plan is ambitious and attainable. With City Council's support, the province has begun a new era of cooperation and partnership with the City of Toronto that will turn our government's transit plan into a reality. Now, the federal government must view our transit plan as the urgent priority that it is. I'm calling on Prime Minister Trudeau to fulfil his campaign promise and commit his full 40% funding share to get these projects built. I'm calling on the Prime Minister to respect his electoral promise for him to fund up to 40% this project. We are making serious headway on getting subways built in Toronto. The train is leaving the station. We are building transit for the future. I'm sorry, Speaker, I couldn't hear you. My question is for the Premier. Last year, this government voted against building 2000 new not-for-profit long-term care spaces in Scarborough, Whitby and Oshawa. Under the previous Liberal government, wait times to access long-term care in Durham region grew to be among the longest in the province. That was the Liberals. Under this government, wait times have grown longer. We've gone from bad to worse. I hear it regularly from families in my riding. I have been listening to families who are desperate on behalf of their loved ones. This is unacceptable. Why does the Premier think it is acceptable for seniors and their families to wait years on end to find an appropriate place to live and to receive the care that they deserve? The question is addressed to the Premier. The minister of long-term care. Thank you, Speaker. And thank you to the member opposite to the question. Our government is committed to building a 21st century long-term care system to meet the vital needs of our long-term care growing population. We are investing $1.75 billion over five years to create that new capacity. 15,000 new beds. 15,000 beds to be developed to modern design standards. And we have already allocated almost 2,000 of those beds new, reaffirmed another 6,085. So we're one step closer to fulfilling this commitment. And our recent call for applications on October 1st from current and potential long-term care home operators to build new long-term care beds and redevelop long-term care beds is part of our commitment. So we're modernizing long-term care and adding $72 million more this year than the year before. And with an aging population, these new and redeveloped beds will help more families. Thank you very much. Thank you, Speaker. And again to the Premier. As of this past September, there were nearly 1,500 people waiting to get a room at the long-term care home Hillsdale Estates in my riding of Oshawa. They will be waiting for over a year and that is the best case scenario. And that's for a shared room. It is years and years and years for a private room. In Whitby, there are over 1,700 people waiting for a room at Fairview Lodge long-term care home. Over 1,400 people are waiting for a room at the village of Taunton Mills. Under the Liberals, waitlist skyrocketed due to years of underfunding and willful neglect. Under this government, under this conservative government, as we learned today from the FAO report, those waitlist will only get longer. Why is the Premier allowing seniors to languish on ballooning long-term care waitlist just like the Liberals did before him? The question has been referred to the Minister of Long-term Care. Thank you, Speaker. And thank you to the member opposite for that question. You know, I want to thank you for raising that concern with me. We want to hear from our sector and we have been hearing from our sector over the last few months. And so our government knows that some facilities in the province are facing very long wait times and they have issues that we need to help them resolve. And we're committed to building a long-term care system for the 21st century so that our most vulnerable people can get the care that they need when and where they need it. And that means ensuring that each and every long-term care home in Ontario is fulfilling its potential. So I want to assure the member opposite that I will be looking into that and I will ensure that my office will be following up with you regarding that. We want to work with our sector and I appreciate you bringing forward that concern. Thank you. The next question, the member for York Centre. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. My question is to the Associate Minister of Transportation. Minister, yesterday I was thrilled to see the Toronto City Council voted to approve our subway plan. As someone who takes the subway daily, I know that it will reduce over crowding on line one and I may finally get a seat. After years of political squabbling, it's great to see that the province moving forward together with the city to finally build new transit. Can the minister please tell us more about this historic arrangement between the city and the province of Ontario? The Associate Minister of Transportation, GTA. Thank you very much to the member for the question. A, for the people of Toronto. The city and the province came together to finally bring relief for families and provide the service that the great people of the city deserve. City Council approved our transit plan, which includes four priority transit projects around Terrio Line, our three-stop Scarborough Subway, our young extension north, and of course the Eglinton Cross Town, which will be predominantly built underground. With this agreement in place, we are making a commitment to the people of Toronto that we will work together to build subways as quickly as possible. We will now be building and extending subways in the west and east ends of the city, connecting them to the downtown core. Yesterday's Council decision confirmed that we can now have discussions with the federal government, with a true partnership with the City of Toronto. This is a great day for the City of Toronto, the province of Ontario, but most importantly, Mr. Speaker, it's a great day for the taxpayer. Great day. It's a supplementary question. Thank you, Speaker. I agree with the Minister when she says that it's a great day for Toronto and it's a great day for our entire region. When I talk to people in New York Centre, they don't want to hear more excuses or delays when it comes to building transit. All they want is to see progress, shovels in the ground, and ultimately new stations built. Speaker, could the Minister please share more about our proposed projects and how they'll benefit local transit riders? Thank you very much for the supplementary question. Mr. Speaker, as I mentioned before, we will finally be bringing relief to families in the west end and the east end of the city. Our Ontario line is 15 kilometres in length and it is double the distance of the previously proposed city downtown relief line. And anyone that takes the subway knows how busy the young line is, Mr. Speaker, and that's why it's important to highlight that the Ontario line will be reducing crowding on the young line by 14%, reducing crowding at Bloor and Young Station by 17%, and reducing crowding at Union Station by 13%. The Ontario line will also run north of Pape to the Science Centre, serving communities along the way. Mr. Speaker, it's been an absolute pleasure to work at the Ministry of Transportation on this initiative and I look forward to continuing the good work. Great job. Thank you very much. Next question, the member for Scarborough, South West. Thank you, Speaker. My question is to the Premier. Last year, this Conservative Government voted against building 2,000 new not-for-profit long-term spaces in Scarborough and Durham Region. You all know this. You voted against it last year. We learned that today that by the FAO report, the number of people waiting for long-term care beds grew by nearly 78% under the previous Liberal Government. And that wait list is expected to grow under this Conservative Government. Premier, my people in Scarborough have waited long enough, so under the Liberal Government, and now they're going to wait under this Conservative Government. Why is this Conservative Government taking it from bad to worse? Questions have been addressed to the Premier. Minister of Long-Term Care again. Referred to the Minister of Long-Term Care. Thank you, Speaker, and thank you to the member opposite for addressing that issue. For the first time in Ontario's history, we are prioritising the long-term care sector and making long-term care residents and caregivers a priority. So we recognise that there has been a significant increase in the need for long-term care beds, and that's why we're investing $1.75 billion over the next five years to improve access to the long-term care system by creating 15,000 new long-term care beds and redeveloping another 15,000 beds to modern design standards. And we're adding $72 million more this year than last year. Building more beds, redeveloping older beds will help address the pressures in hospital. The hallway health care issue is growing. We understand that, but this is an important step to ending hallway health care and ensuring that every Ontarian who needs it can access our long-term care system. Thank you. Supplementary question. Thank you, Speaker. No, Minister, you're making a cut of $35 million. Speaker, my question is back to the Premier. Does the Premier know what happens when someone falls in a long-term care home in the washroom, for example? They wait about five to 10 minutes lying on the floor because there is not enough people in those long-term care homes to help when they press that buzzer. That's what happens in Scarborough. Scarborough has some of the longest wait times for long-term care beds in the province because of the previous Liberal government's underfunding. Wait lists will only get longer under this Conservative government, and we know this from the FAO report. Speaker, there are already 3,000 people waiting for long-term care beds in the Monchong Long-Term Care Center in Scarborough.  Thank you for that concern. Our government has been absolutely transparent about the need to increase access to long-term care, and we know it will take a cross-ministerry approach to serve people better. While we work to improve our system, we will continue to invest. We have not cut $34 million from long-term care. We are also working with industry partners to streamline processes and make sure we get shovels in the ground faster and those beds built. Thank you. The next question, the member for Perry Sound, Muscova. Minister of Infrastructure, Minister of Municipalities, the federal and provincial governments must work together to ensure our constituents have safe roads, bridges and transit. This summer I had the pleasure of sharing details of the local investments our government is making in Perry Sound, Muscova. $1.2 million in improvements to Dillon Road and Community. In Huntsville, we're investing $267,000 for the replacement of the Epwell Bridge and more than $122,000 for phase one of their transit ridership growth plan. I'm also pleased that our government is investing more than $337,000 for the replacement of Snyder's Bay Bridge in Gravenhurst. Can the minister tell this House if the province will continue to make these important investments in our communities? From Perry Sound, Muscova for his hard work on behalf of his constituents and his contribution to our government. And it is our government is and will continue to work together with municipalities, families, businesses to make smart investments in our infrastructure and keep it reliable for the people of Ontario. Our government is committed to making these investments and I can assure the member we will continue these important investments. Investments like over $851,000 for the replacement of Black Bridge in the town of Bracebridge and the more than $900,000 for road reconstruction in Waslaking First Nation. Ontario has committed infrastructure funding valued at more than $4.5 million in communities across Perry Sound, Muscova. To date, Mr. Speaker, Ontario has nominated 144 projects of road bridge and air through the rural and northern funding stream. Mr. Speaker, a total of $115 million in provincial funding and we're just waiting for the federal government to respond to these projects that have been nominated by the municipalities and the provincial government. Question period today is at a point of order. Before I entertain any points of order, I'm going to point out that we have had ample time to introduce visitors this morning before question period. We're not going to be entertaining points of order after question period to introduce visitors anymore. But the Associate Minister for Children and Women's Issues. Thank you Mr. Speaker. I would like to invite all of my colleagues from the house to join us for a picture on the stairs in honor of Child Abuse Prevention Month after question period. Thank you. Thank you very much. This house stands in recess until 3pm.


Hello and welcome to NewsClick. It is 10 years since 9-11 and the question has perhaps been asked but we will ask it again. Has the world indeed changed since 9-11? If so, how? And if not, in what ways? To discuss these, we have with us today Professor Ajaz Ahmad, well-known commentator on international affairs. Ajaz, has the world changed? Great many ways, yes. Starting with the semantics. If instead of 9-11, you simply said to entire bombings, it would have very different resonance. Let me put it this way. The world has changed a great deal, not because of what that particular group of terrorists did. Although they accomplished something quite unique, it is the most successful concentrated act of private terror in history. State terrorism has created that kind of, you know, those number of deaths and so on, but this is the only time that private terror has been able to do that. And they did it in a country which has not known foreign aggression of any kind on its soil since 1812, quite, almost 200 years. So therefore for the American population, it really was very traumatic. Now, how do you deal with trauma? Either you accentuate that trauma and use it for your own purposes or you start a healing process. On the 12th morning, Condoleezza Rice, who was the National Security Advisor at that time, collected her team and said, how can we use these opportunities? So it became an opportunity for the United States to change the world, instead of using, treating it for what it was, which is to say a crime against humanity and a matter of international law in which the entire state system of the world would have cooperated with the United States in apprehending the culprits and bringing them to justice. Instead of doing that, they unleashed a war on terror as they called it and by the 22nd of September, President George Bush described it as an endless task, a task that never ends and that it's a war that will be fought over 40 or 60 countries. I think one of the factors in it, I think the decisive moment is actually 1989 to 1991, that is to say the collapse of the Soviet Union. They now were in a position, they were sort of, you know, drunk on this fact that they had become the only power in the world. And they were going to reverse. So do you see this as a continuity, if you like, of the neo-conservative doctrine, which was advocated by Paul Wolfowitz and others, that this was the occasion to intervene substantively in West Asia and to bring about a transformation in the US presence? Colin Powell, who was the Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, who was the National Security Advisor, Rumsfeld, who was the Defense Secretary, the main team that executed this policy were not the neo-cons. The neo-cons worked under them. So the agenda is actually much larger of empire to which, yes, Wolfowitz and others, those people gave a certain content. And their unique contribution led by Dick Cheney, who was the Vice President of Bush, was to align US policy entirely with the Israeli policy in West Asia. Among other things, immediately after 9-11, Israel was given a carte blanche to treat any Palestinian as a terrorist. Any idea of Palestinian liberation movement as a terrorist action, to carry out what they call targeted killings, that is to say political assassination of any and all leaders that they wish to assassinate and so on. And a good deal of what was done in West Asia was partly in coordination with the Israeli policy. So in that sense, as part of this new form, which we have seen emerging after 9-11, do you think this has really catalyzed this new clash of civilizations? Let me put it this way. The clash of civilization phrase came from Bernard Lewis originally, who is the Dean of Zionist Scholarship in the United States. And the phrase, it actually came in the early 80s and then Huntington made it, picked it up and gave it far greater prominence. So this idea of the clash of civilizations is much older. And if you look at the original one, basically the target of these clash of civilizations are the Middle East, the Muslim people, Islamic civilization and confusion. Yes. So it has always been a camouflage for oil and China. So this was the new opportunity that 9-11 provided. Now the result now is that Islam, Muslims as a category exactly became the target. Both inside the United States increasingly. That's right. You know, over 120,000 Muslims living in the United States, many of them citizens, are openly on the list of surveillance of the intelligence agency. In Europe, of course, we've seen immense Islamophobia. Islamophobia today is in Europe, here anti-Semitism used to be. Exactly. In the past. Same kind of Islamophobia there in the United States, great flip to the Christian right. So turn very much towards the right and very much towards certain kind of the Christian right in the United States. Which in fact brings me to my next question. This shift to the right that we have seen manifesting as Islamophobia, xenophobia also has manifested in this new extreme security paranoia in attack on civil liberties in the name of enhancing security. And that's been another pronounced shift to the right in the US as well as Europe and in many of our own countries in the South as well. I would be very wary of words like paranoia because they indicate some kind of a psychological condition or you know and so on. I think these are very, very calculated policy decisions. I think the kind of extreme class warfare that they're waging internally the kind of fear and mass psychosis that need to generate all the time constantly are incompatible with democratic procedures of rational deliberation. So this creation of irrationalism is a very deliberate act and the suppression of civil liberties is very much a part of that. In that sense, I would say it is just simply a far greater, far more lethal version of McCarthy's in so far as the United States is concerned. And I fear that it is only going to increase in the United States as a state-generated mass pathology. It is not that the people in charge of the state are pathologists. They are creating a pathology for which the mass media plays the key role. Do you think these outcomes that we have seen were part of the responses that the terrorist groups expected to happen or is this an opportunity created by the US and its allies which may not have been part of the calculations? Well, their fantasy always was that and they said so from the beginning. I mean certainly some of it doesn't say from the beginning that I'm going to bankrupt the United States through my kind of warfare I'm going to bankrupt the United States. So that certainly was a part of their fantasy. Fact of the matter is that nothing that they wanted has happened that way. Yes, for example after 9-11 the United States at least has never known a significant director of terror. Quite. Even in Europe, one bombing in England, one in Spain and that's about it. That's right.  Can I turn lastly then to the situation we have today in West Asia, the uprisings that we have seen. If you look at the dream of Osama bin Laden and the others, it was to turn West Asia into a cauldron of uprising against the United States and Western democracy and so on. What's happening now seems to be going in another direction altogether. The notable feature of these uprisings is that they're not anti-periodists. Yes, precisely. Second, as the dust settles, the main beneficiaries seem to be ikhwanul muslimin and groupings of that kind. In cooperation with the Osama regime, it is not those young people in Tahirir Square who became 15 days of fame sort of a thing. The beneficiaries are them. I think the success of the jihadis which the Americans handed over to them, and I don't think Americans are really very upset about it either, is that it certainly increased the number of gun-torting jihadis certainly and they're a headache for the United States. Although in Libya they're fighting on the side of the United States. At least temporarily. Well, I don't know how temporary it is. My sense is that there's going to be a split among them. Some will continue to be with the United States and so on. But much more alarming, islamism as a political strain has increased exponentially in all the muslim countries, not in its jihadi form, but in what is called moderate, which is a very alarming development. A historic shift is taking place in Turkey. It's a very alarming shift in which after 80 years of kamalist secularism, there is a sort of a passive revolution going on in Turkey to islamicize the one truly secular muslim society. From Turkey to Pakistan, Pakistan to Morocco, islamism as a political current has become dominant. Thank you very much Ajaz for this wide-ranging discussion.


Happy Friday ladies and gentlemen I know a lot of you may be worried today or a panicking just a little bit But guys the main thing that we should be focused on this week is that Bitcoin said a new All-time high this week on Wednesday Bitcoin recorded. It's all-time high at 67,167 Dollars obviously this is the highest the price has ever been and the highest We've been sent back when we set our previous all-time high back in April now Bitcoin was not the only one Ethereum the very next day also set a new all-time high now It honestly wasn't by much as its previous all-time high was around 4383 and the new one is around 4387 so just a few dollars now I know many of you might be a little worried because Ever since we hit the all-time high we've had a pullback here. The pullback is currently sitting around 10% First of all, this is very common When we are dealing with all-time highs as of course people will take profits That is all part of the market structure perfectly normal now The question is how far back can this pullback go and where can we expect Bitcoin to go next? We will be talking about all this and more in today's video. 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So even if you sold, let's say where the day be closed That's still about 65% profit on that trade guys. The second trade We gave you guys was on a breakout above $65,000 if you guys were able to enter that and ride that You know more or less to the top that would have been around 3% move about a 30% profit on that trade If you guys want to trade with leverage on the platform that we trade You can use the link in the description below where we trade on a buy bid and you will receive a bonus on your initial Deposit depending of course how much it is is how much the bonus will be once you sign up Just go ahead and check their rewards hub and you can see all the information there. Alrighty guys So let's go ahead and jump into today's analysis. So I remember guys on a Monday's video We spoke about the RSI being in overbought Territory we told you that usually when things like that happens Prices tend to pull back So if we take a look at every time the RSI has gone into overbought territory You will see that there's also been a pullback here attached with it as you can see here again So we spoke about that on Monday's video That was the first sign of a possible pullback coming back at some point in time We also spoke about this on Wednesday's live stream if you guys were tuned in we covered this we spoke about You know what a pullback can and could look like so now how far could this pullback go is a question Where is the support? Where can we see a bounce here on the prices? So, of course the main support right now holding Bitcoin up is $60,000 as you guys can see the low of the day right now is $60,055 if for any reason we were to break below this low that next support level is going to be right around here Which is around $58,000 the next one below there is probably going to be around $55,000 beyond that then we're looking we're going to look back on history where we've seen resistances and supports That's going to be around $52,000 and then of course we have $50,000 now I do not expect it to go that low especially down to these levels the low 52 but those are the supports as we May go lower now if we look back at every time that the RSI Was oversold and then we had a pullback we can kind of take a look at how far that pullback went You see in this case when the RSI was you know kind of similar to here We had about a 12 and a half percent pullback where we're pretty much almost there at this point where we're at about 10% Right now now if we look at the next one over here, of course this one was a lot deeper as you guys can see here This one was around 22% and again if we take a look at this one right here This one was also a lot deeper around 27% on this pullback now how long each pullback was It kind of varies you can see this one right here was about three weeks it says about more or less 20 days the one over here was about a week or six days But you also have to take into account what was going on during those times when those pullbacks occurred What was a market structure at that time when we had the three week pullback here in the beginning of this year We had just come off you know basically running hot all the way from October through December basically of parabolic movement Right so if we take a look at last year when we had the same kind of movement during the same time You can see that the moves started basically beginning of October around October 4th You know we're just going higher consolidated a bit went kept continued up then we kind of grind it up Then we got our first real pullback here which lasted about one two three four five days Before we bounce back up and basically just continued up at that point until around the end of November Which we got the longest pullback that we saw here in consolidation period Which was basically between the end of November to about midway through December at that point Then the rise continued here we got a little bit of consolidation you know towards Christmas time And on Christmas we actually went up and continued up from then on All the way until the 8th of January before we had our first official pullback here So there was no real pullbacks you know anything severe the worst day we had was about 8% drop So we compare our current run you can see that it's very similar here We started the run up the end of September basically last day of September on October 1st We had a almost 10% candle and we've basically been running up ever since So yesterday we were down we had a candle that went down about 5.8% and today we're down about 2.2% So is there any reason to be worried right now I will tell you guys that I personally am not worried This is just the beginning of the next leg up and we have some on-chain analytics that backs this up As you guys can see here the number of active addresses for Bitcoin had a big drop off Starting in April all the way down to July and it has ever since been picking back up as of course the price has gone up So that means that basically retail people are the ones that were exiting and now they're starting to come back up But they're not even in yet. If we look at the number of new addresses you can see that again When we had the sharp sell off it dropped and now it's been climbing back up That means that new participants are coming back into the space which of course are mostly retail traders If we look at the realized profits to value ratio any time you see this huge peaks here you will notice that the price dropped Why is that? That is basically profit taking So you'll notice here the sell off in the beginning of the year then you'll see here This one right here is basically the sell off from April and June and then currently where we're at right now You'll see that it's very very low compared to all of these other ones when we've had really big sell off Basically as long as we're not in this red area here we are good because not that many people are currently taking profits Although they are taking profits currently If we pull up the hash rate here for miners you'll see that we had the drop off that's when China banned mining in China Of course ever since it's been going back up again very bullish for Bitcoin overall If we take a look here at the two year moving average you will notice that anytime we've hit the top We've been at the top we've been beyond this moving average you can see it right here You can see it again here and here anytime it's been green that's been the time to buy So of course the last time to really buy was back in last year 2020 the beginning of 2020 And when we set our previous all-time high we just reached it but we didn't quite get there And you can see in the previous run we reached it a few times we hit it twice basically and continued up beyond the moving average If we look back here we went beyond it again if we look here we tested it before going beyond it Which at that point you know those were the tops right so we have not we have yet to go beyond it If we look at that line that line is currently sitting around $120,000 So that means that Bitcoin will have to go above $120,000 to get to these price levels where it's above the moving average Looking at the logarithmic growth curves here we spoke about this last time the top is currently sitting around $135,000 Every time that the market has hit the top of this channel here the growth curve it has basically gone into bear market And we have yet to reach the top here the top currently sits around $135,000 So overall guys this is just a small pullback a small blip that we probably won't remember a month from now So I recommend you do not worry we do not panic sell you can always take profits It is never wrong to take profits as we hit all-time highs that is fine I always recommend you guys to build up cash positions I like to try to build up around 10% of my portfolio in cash So that when we have these drops like this I have money to enter and buy the dip So next we're going to jump into some trade setups that we will be watching over the weekend to try to make some profits on the inevitable balance back up If you guys are enjoying this video make sure to smash the like button If you guys are new to the channel don't forget to subscribe turn on the notifications And if you have any questions feel free to drop it in the comments Alrighty guys so the main trades that we're watching here today is of course $60,000 is going to be the first bounce back entry that we're watching and that we would like to take If we see the prices go below 60 and come back up above 60 We want to get into that trade above 60 try to catch the bounce basically and write it up Because it's inevitably going to ride back up to $67,000 as I believe that we will set up new all-time highs So if we enter at 60 and are able to write a position back up just to all-time highs that's an 11% move alone If you add in 10x leverage that's 110% profit on that move alone that's a move that I want to be a part of Now if this support does hold here because we do have a lot of people buying here and protecting that support You can see it here on the volume shelf where we have a bunch of people buying there's a lot of activity here You can also see it if we zoom out a bit you can see this right here that's right around that $60,000 to $58,000 area Which happened to be our next support area And as we go up you can see that there's not there's a basically a big drop off there So that's why we're able to jump up so fast when we finally do So on the way back up the entry that we're looking at is of course $62,000 You can see that that was a area of interest there there were a lot of people there And once we broke out beyond 62 we had takeoff all the way to set new all-time highs So that will be our breakout trade for this weekend I hope you guys have enjoyed this video if you did don't forget to subscribe to the channel and turn on notifications Also smash that like button it takes us hours to put this together takes you a few seconds to hit the like Thank you guys for tuning in again I hope you guys have an amazing Friday I hope you guys make tons of profits Let's go ahead and make some more profits this weekend I will see you guys on the next one as always peace and love


Gray-ass-tushy makes my wizard game fleek, hurr! Well shakin, my name's Cam, welcome back to another video. Welcome back to Writing Tips I Love, a bit of a mini-series that I'm doing on the channel at the moment where I talk about various writing tips and advice that I feel has helped me over time, particularly in very specific genres. Now I'm not in the business anymore of coming on here and trying to educate people on how to write good, I've learned by now that there are professionals on here that can and do do that, but as a writer and as someone who does want a future career in writing someday hopefully. I do still want to make videos sharing information that I feel has helped me, just in case it helps you too. Now in the last video we talked about horror, but today we're sharpening our swords and diving headfirst into the wild world of fantasy. Heroes, wizards, dragons, the whole greasy, delicious enchilada. And I want to make it clear, when I say fantasy I am not talking about stories that make you randy. Tip number one that helped me, write, write goodly, write, good, write good. Like there's bad, uh, bad writing, you want to write, uh, good. Now the phrase take it easy isn't just an absolute slapperoony by the eagles, it's also really great advice when it comes to writing, especially when it comes to writing fantasy. The thing is in most cases we are going to be writing about an epic and expansive adventure set in an enormous and insanely diverse world. That's literally one of the most challenging things that a writer can ever face. It is hard as hell that's what she said. The problem a lot of people have and a problem that I sure as hell ran into was trying to get as much information out to the reader as quickly as I could so that they could understand who these characters are, what they are, where they are.  You might have a great story filled with really rich lore, but if you dump it all on the reader chapter after chapter, they can get confused or overwhelmed or even worse, frustrated. The advice that I was given that I didn't take on board until way too late was to weave the world building into the actual story slowly. For example, rather than just starting the book with a prologue where you give an exposition giving information about the world or the gods or whatever, alternatively you would actually have your characters learn about those things during the adventure or during the story. The characters would learn about the world and in turn so would the reader. You know, there seems to be this misconception that when it comes to fantasy in order for it to be considered literary fiction, it needs to be complex or challenging. And while in some cases that can absolutely be a good thing and it even can be an attribute towards something being considered literary fiction, despite that it's not a requirement, it's been proven not to be a million times. Most of the criticisms you'll actually face writing within the fantasy genre is overwhelming world building. For example, if there's like 20 major characters within the first two chapters. When I first heard this writing tip I had to actually really think about it pretty hard. I had to think about it for quite a while before I really understood and in the end I thought of it like this.  More so than any other genre in my opinion when it comes to fantasy outlining is extremely important. Something I was told a really long time ago is that when you're crafting an entirely fictional world or universe or creature or race or magic system, you need to set very clear parameters for how those things operate.  If there is an inconsistency you can bet you're juicy but that they will spot it. I've always been a pretty thorough planner when it comes to writing luckily so this actually wasn't too difficult for me to start taking on board. I know there's a lot of people out there though where that's not really the case. Panthers. Otherwise known as the wild cards of the writing world. Wild card bitches! Yes! Oh my god! Oh my god! Absolute mad lads who will write by the seat of their pants but I think even panthers can benefit from at the very least taking notes as they go to ensure that they aren't contradicting anything else that they write. Character profiles help to keep your characters consistent believable and compelling. Having a bit of a map of the fantasy world that you created helps to keep the adventure or the storyline on track. A breakdown of your magic system helps with staying within the rules that you set for the magic. Assuming that it's a hard magic system. Hard and soft magic by the way isn't an innuendo that's what she said. It refers to your magic either having strict rules and requirements or on the flip side being pretty malleable. Flaccid. Something I do with outlining that I know wouldn't be for everyone is I actually plan where in the story the conflicts are going to be. Pacing has always been pretty tricky for me. I usually tend to write the story at too quick of a pace on the first draft at least but I do find that it's helpful to give myself an outline of exactly where the tension rises That's really all there is to it. Outlining or taking notes is in my opinion pretty vital to writing within the fantasy genre. Like 1994's Uncle of the Year said, be prepared. Go your own way. I missed an opportunity to name all the sections of this video after classic rock songs didn't I? Go your own way is a slap-tacular tuna rune by Fleetwood Mac, yes, but it's also something that I almost compulsively tell myself when I'm writing. This goes for any genre but fantasy in particular does run the risk of falling into one of the many dreaded cliches. So first of all, not all tropes are cliches and not all cliches are bad. However, there is a laundry list of specific story or plot devices that readers are just straight up sick of seeing. Funnily enough my most viewed video on YouTube ever was about exactly this. Let me tickle your brain for a moment if I may. When I say the phrase The Dark Lord, how many different fantasy books, movies, shows, etc come to mind? Kind of a lot, right? A mysterious faceless evil shrouded in shadow is a bit of a stable within the fantasy genre and unfortunately stands pretty tall in the cliches Hall of Fame.  Despite the video I mentioned before being titled writing cliches to avoid, the point here isn't actually to explicitly avoid these things definitively, it's just to identify the fact that you might be writing a cliche then to approach that thing in a more creative and fresh way so that hopefully it ends up not being a cliche. In fact in some cases you can even use a cliche to your advantage. You can make the reader think that they know exactly where the story is going because they've seen this so many times before and then you flip the script. I'm sure you know about this already but it's called subverting expectations and it's actually one of the most satisfying things to come across as a reader. I get that if you boil it down all I've really said in this section of the video is be original and that's pretty generic advice. I get that and that's exactly what I thought when I was first told this as well but to be honest it just doesn't need to be any more complicated than that. I tell myself that if I am going to be using a cliche in my writing there has to be something I'm doing with that cliche that is fresh or that makes it different from the rest. Well I guess I'm quoting Disney songs now. Poor unfortunate souls aka giving the heroes a few L's aka not having your protagonist be as strong as ultra instinct shaggy right from the get go. This isn't actually a writing tip that anyone like gave me but it is something that I have been consciously telling myself since I read The Name of the Wind. Don't get me wrong it's a great book but both is just one of the more notable cases of a protagonist or the story's main hero being literally brilliant at absolutely everything they do. Combat, they're the strongest. Studies, they're the smartest. Music, they shred. Great with animals, doesn't fear death and perhaps most unrealistic of all always amazing at making love. That's not real, that's not realistic. Is it? Is that realistic? I just know that one of my pet hates with fantasy is how common it is for the hero to be perfect in almost every instance. Their morals never falter and they win almost every conflict that they get involved in. It's just boring and you know it makes it harder to forge any kind of real connection between the reader and that character. How are we meant to relate with a character like that? We're all hot garbage right? That's not just me. Giving the character some faults makes sense of course but I'll also try to make sure that there are some fights or conflicts that they lose. That way when they win it feels all the more special. So those are some writing tips and advice that I have been given or learned over time. Advice that I think has been really valuable when it comes to writing fantasy. But what do you think? Like I said I'm not here to try and like educate people. I'm just trying to share some information that I think has been helpful to me. Go ahead and let me know what the most helpful tip you've ever been given when it comes to fantasy is. Well you know what? Hell just comment a single emoji just so I know that you watched this far in the video and if you did a really special thank you to you I really do appreciate it when people watch my videos all the way through. It means a lot. I still have a lot more writing tips that I love videos to come in different genres so stick around if that's your thing otherwise if you're just a fan of reading or writing hey you're welcome here too. BTdubs I'm nearly done with a delto request so I have a big video on this one coming soon too. I'm really excited for that. As always thanks for watching guys big love catch ya


okay this is nighttime Tuesday January 21st 2014 the second snowfall of 2014 alright the first two videos were during the day and now we have nighttime this is Janes P. Madonna of Megalife 21 for Megalife 21 mayhem and I did some shoveling even though it's still snowing let me take you for a stroll here in north northern New Jersey okay it's night naturally because you could see it and the winter wonderland wind is still blowing the wind shield factor is very severe the infamous polar vortex maybe right the house is nice and warm better than we leave the light on for you but we're much better than Motel 6 that's for sure all right I did some shoveling this just gives you an idea of just how many inches of snow we have all right just by looking at the walkway people have to still get the snow off their cars and that's about it somebody trying to shovel the neighbor so that's it second snowfall of 2014 January 21st 2014 Tuesday evening all right see you next time but an ex blizzard


Hey friends welcome back to this session on problem solving and today We are going to solve a problem related to number system and the question says represent minus 2 by 3 and 14 by 5 on a number line. Okay, so we have discussed this in detail in the concept lectures now time to problem Solve solve the problems. So how to do it? So this is how you have to do it, okay? So first of all draw a straight line in your answer scripts You should be using a scale and a or a ruler and a pencil to draw a number line and then Take a point as zero now depending upon what numbers are to be represented. You have to divide or graduate the number line into some Intervals or graduation. So let us say if you see the numbers are minus 2 by 3 and 14 by 5 It's not a big number. So hence I can afford to take big units here. So this is 1 2 3 Okay, and here it is the same thing 1 and 2. So now let me name it 1 2 and 3 Here it is negative 1 and minus 2. This is how you should first of all draw a number line Now if you see minus 2 by 3 clearly minus 2 by 3, where would it lie? It would it would lie between 0 and 1, isn't it because Minus 2 by 3 is definitely less than 0 because it's a negative number But since it's a fraction, it's not beyond 1. So minus 1 that is so hence it will be between 0 and 1 Isn't it now? So that means so that means how to find 2 by 3 between 0 and minus 1 minus 2 by 3 Sorry, so again the number is minus 2 by 3 So minus 2 by 3. What is the denominator guys? Denominator is 3. So you have to divide that interval in three parts. First of all, what is the step one step one is? This you know find out or identify which identify Identify what do you need to identify? the segment which you are going to the segment the segment where where the desired number Lies, okay. So where does this desired number lies which segment? So segment is between 0 and minus 1 How do I know it because 2 by 3 is definitely less than 0, but it is not more than my Less than 0, but it is definitely more than minus 1. So now next step is find the denominator find the Denominator right denominator. So in this case denominator is 3. So divide that segment into Divide the segment into divide the segment divide the segment into Number of parts number of parts Found in step 2 isn't it? So I in step 2 I found 3. So I'll divide in 3 equal parts, right? So 1 2 so 3 equal parts I divided 3 number of Equal parts number of equal parts found in 2 right now So hence minus 2 by 3 will be nothing, but this is 1 and this is 2. So this part is minus 2 by 3 This is how I represent minus 2 by 3. Similarly, the next is 14 upon 5 now What is 14 upon 5 guys 14 upon 5 can be written as 2 whole 4 upon 5 isn't it? So 2 whole 4 upon 5 now That means this number the segment to be identified is nothing but 2 and 3 because it is definitely more than 2 But less than 3. So it is lying between 2 and 3 Where in 2 and 3 so in the denominator here is 5. So I divide the denominator into 5 equal parts So I have to put 4 points 1 2 3 4. So this is not Properly divided. So I'll again so 4 parts are 5 parts are to divide. So 4 points. I would take 1 2 3 and 4 now if you see there 2 and 3 the segment between 2 and 3 Has been divided into 5 equal parts now 4 parts out of that. So starting from 2 so 1 2 3 and this one is the final Point right. So I usually you should encircle that and that becomes 14 upon 5 so hence this point here is 14 upon 5 this point here is minus 2 upon 3. This is how you'll Represent any fraction or a rational number on a number line


Ensuring inclusive education, it is also part of SDG4 and we see that significant progress has been made through different programs just like education for all as well as the millennium development goals. This may probably progress through here, but that's not enough. It is not sufficient, lot more to be done. We still see there are lots of inequalities among countries. We see that national averages in many countries, let's say, hide the striking inequalities within countries in levels of attainment and outcome of basic education. Children with disabilities are mostly very often overlooked. A very important factor is gender inequality. We are trying to move towards gender equality. We see that the majority of out-of-school children are girls while two-thirds of the youth and adults with low levels of literacy in the world are also women. If we want to help empowerment of the women, men as well as the boys must also be engaged in the fight against gender inequality. It is not simply the job of the women to fight for equality and empowerment. It is actually the men as well as the young population, the boys who should come forward for this mission. Traditional factors of marginalization in education such as gender, urban or rural residents continue to combine with income, language, minority status and disability to create mutually reinforcing disadvantages, particularly in low income or conflict affected countries. There is not a single factor when these factors are combined. We see a cumulative interaction as well as a cumulative effect. When we think that education has the potential to equalize, we also see that it produces inequalities. But certainly we are focusing on education as a means to equality. So, inclusive education processes are essential for equitable development and this appears to be true for various levels of educational provision. If we talk about different stages of education, early childhood education is important. Researches tell us that early interventions for young children are essential not only for their own well-being but they also have sustainable, long-term effects on the development of human capital, social cohesion and economic success. The foundation for this is that it becomes very important for sustainability of the development. So, especially for disadvantaged children, early childhood education has a lot of impact on them. But despite this, we see that this program is not so effective. So, intervening earlier requires fewer resources and less effort. At the same time, it is more effective. After this, if we take secondary education, the expansion of access to basic schooling worldwide has increased demand for secondary and tertiary education and concern for vocational skills development. Because at the lower level, primary school level or basic education level is being emphasized all over the world in all the countries which a lot of progress has been made. When progress is seen here, we expect that there will be demand for secondary education as well. Because they become aware of the importance of education, then they have higher aspirations and then they go for secondary education. So, the expansion of basic educational opportunities combined with pro-poor public policies have been shown to reduce inequality. So, people move forward in that. Investment in education, labour market institutions and regulations can change patterns of inequality. So, for that, we also believe that there has to be increase in public expenditure on education. So, this is connected to that. Talking about higher education, we see that access to higher education has shown a particular expansion over the past 15 years. Global enrollment in tertiary education has doubled since 2000 with today some 200 million students worldwide, half of whom are women. So, there has been a lot of expansion in this. Basic education has also been done, but it has also been done in the future. However, we see that there are lots of disparities. These disparities are based on income and other things like ethnicity and discrimination. So, we also see that there is a lot of social marginalization and that continues to persist. So, we see that learners from higher income groups have retained their relative advantage in access to tertiary education all over the world. The people who can afford to pay the fees because this is not something which is compulsory, which is not necessary, that may be considered as a luxury. So, therefore, those who can afford, they might go over there. So, we see that even in countries with high enrollment rates, the participation of minorities continue to lag behind the national average in these, let's say, tertiary education, which may have university level education. So, most of the growth in higher education has been and continues to be in the private sector. And when we talk about the private sector, they do not give education particularly at this level. Many a times, this private sector might be taking this, let's say, mission, not mission, but as a business. So, in that, they have to make the money, make the profit. And if this is the approach, then they will come who could pay for this education. And this trend of privatization of, let's say, tertiary education increases in inequality. This is the other implication side. So, therefore, we see that public sector may have to come forward for giving access to, let's say, everybody as well as looking after the equity of the people.


Hello friends, let's work out the following question. It says express trigonometric ratios sin a secant a tan a in terms of cot a. So let's now move on to the solution. Now first of all we'll express sin a in terms of cot a. Now sin a can be written as 1 upon cos secant a. Right, now we know that cos secant square theta minus cot square theta is equal to 1. So this implies cos secant square theta is equal to 1 plus cot square theta. So this implies cos secant theta is equal to the square root of 1 plus cot square theta. Right, so now here 1 upon cos secant a can be written as under the root of 1 upon under the root of 1 plus cot square a. Now we'll express secant a in terms of cot a. Now secant a can be written as 1 upon cos a or we can do it directly. Secant a can be written as square root of 1 plus tan square a. As we know that secant square theta minus tan square theta is equal to 1. So this implies secant square theta is equal to 1 plus tan square theta and this implies secant theta is equal to under the root of 1 plus tan square theta. Now we have to express this in terms of cot theta, cot a that is. Now tan square a can be written as 1 upon cot square a because tan theta is equal to 1 upon cot theta. So this becomes taking calcium we have cot square a plus 1 upon cot square a. So this is equal to cot square a plus 1 upon cot a. Now we'll express tan a in terms of cot a. Now we have already discussed that tan theta is equal to 1 over cot theta so tan a is equal to 1 over cot k. Hence the answer to the first part that is sin a is equal to 1 upon under the root 1 plus cot square a is equal to 1 over cot a and secant a is equal to under the root 1 plus cot square a upon cot a. So this completes the question on this session. Bye for now. Take care. Have a good day.