Sunshine (she/her)
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Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Right now, bike lanes make up 2% of Montreal's public space. Only 2%. For some car drivers, data doesn't matter. They genuinely see themselves as victimsEnglish83·5 days agoThey’re selfish pricks who think only they should catered to.
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.cato PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•Steam Deck / SteamOS hits 19,000 games rated Verified and PlayableEnglish61·5 days agoIt will be a magical day when it hits 51% of all games!
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Israeli weapons company wants Ontario to use its drones to manage forest firesEnglish141·7 days agoChoke on it.
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.cato Canada@lemmy.ca•Big streamers argue at CRTC hearing they shouldn't have Canadian content obligationsEnglish241·7 days agoThey must be expected to face the same requirements.
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Honest advertising for the 51st stateEnglish41·7 days agoTrump’s life mission is to reduce the US unionization rate to below 10% while cutting overtime pay and the male teamsters supported him….
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Gun control group urges PM Carney to ensure 'timely delivery' on firearm commitmentsEnglish21·8 days agoHere’s more whataboutism. Stay on the topic at hand.
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Gun control group urges PM Carney to ensure 'timely delivery' on firearm commitmentsEnglish31·8 days agoPolySeSouvient’s letter, dated last Friday, is copied to others, including Provost, current Public Safety Minister David McGuinty and Rachel Bendayan, a former associate public safety minister.
The group says the new public safety minister should be directed to:
— build an incentive package in the buyback program to encourage early compliance;
— conduct meaningful consultations with stakeholders before draft bills, regulations, directives and public education campaigns are made public;
— immediately launch an investigation into the classification of the SKS, a rifle that has been used in mass and police shootings, to find a solution that protects public safety and respects Indigenous rights to hunt;
— eliminate all loopholes, exemptions and exceptions related to magazine capacity.
We should hastily implement every recommendation.
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Gun control group urges PM Carney to ensure 'timely delivery' on firearm commitmentsEnglish12·8 days agoA prominent gun control group is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to swiftly implement Liberal election promises on firearms and avoid the foot-dragging that left many pledges under the previous government unfulfilled.
PolySeSouvient includes students and graduates of Montreal’s École Polytechnique, where a gunman killed 14 women in 1989.
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Gun control group urges PM Carney to ensure 'timely delivery' on firearm commitmentsEnglish51·8 days agoSafety regulations does not equate to “government tyranny”
That’s the same argument made against seat belts, masks and vaccines.
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Gun control group urges PM Carney to ensure 'timely delivery' on firearm commitmentsEnglish21·8 days agoFew recent Canadian mass shooters had criminal records of any kind, for example, and most obtained their weapons legally (although the Portapique killer did not).
the remaining 20 to 25 per cent of firearm deaths that are not suicide, the data is unclear but appears to follow the Canadian homicide pattern of 31 per cent resulting from family violence. The presence of a gun in a household struggling with heavy drinking, domestic violence and other stresses is inherently intimidating and deadly.
The family violence crisis is not just about deaths; it’s also about the health of the home environment. Thousands of Canadian women and children are forced to seek shelter from violence and abuse every day, while many more live in fear.
The northern and rural regions of all provinces experience significantly higher homicide rates than southern and metropolitan regions.
This tracks with data from the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians showing significantly higher gun ownership in northern, rural and Indigenous communities.
So although the overall picture is complex, the dominant themes are remarkably clear. Given the driving patterns of self-harm and gun violence, a phased-in reduction of easy access to weapons is likely to yield significant results over time. This isn’t controversial, as it’s worked for many other countries for decades.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2022/06/02/opinion/surprising-truth-about-gun-deaths-canada
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Gun control group urges PM Carney to ensure 'timely delivery' on firearm commitmentsEnglish27·8 days agoReally pushing the disinformation and gaslighting here. Pearl clutching about your weapons designed to kill others under the guise of “hobbies”
Illegal guns are sold from legal owners to criminals. So no they’re not “well intentioned individuals”
There was also an incident where a father used his legal gun to kill his wife, father in law then himself. Wouldn’t have happened if he wasn’t allowed access to guns in the first place.
“78.3% of gun-related domestic homicides in Canada were committed with firearms in the legal possession of licensed owners.”
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Lindt Responds to Canadian Vegan Cravings with Launch of LINDOR Vegan TrufflesEnglish8·9 days agoFinally! I won’t be fruitlessly searching for these in my grocers.
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Elections Canada says Terrebonne vote is final, despite ‘error’ with special ballotEnglish115·9 days agodeleted by creator
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Warning: Most media you consume has a MAGA biasEnglish6·9 days agoThanks for the recommendation!
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Map of the average homicide rate per year in 2013-2023 in Canada and the USAEnglish16·9 days agoQuebec proving once again they’re smarter than BC.
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Gun control group urges PM Carney to ensure 'timely delivery' on firearm commitmentsEnglish63·9 days agoWe unfortunately live in a world where guns exist and they can be used for oppression. People stand a better chance against armed opression when they themselves are armed.
That’s nonsense because gun ownership actually increases the likelihood of death for the owner. Not very self protective is it…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/apr/07/guns-handguns-safety-homicide-killing-study
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caOPto Canada@lemmy.ca•Gun control group urges PM Carney to ensure 'timely delivery' on firearm commitmentsEnglish64·9 days agoHopefully he actually listens to women who face a disproportionate amount of gun violence even from the legal ones.
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.cato PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•'Anyone Who Doesn't Include Five Trans Characters...': Ori Studio CEO Defends Closure CommentsEnglish94·10 days agoChecks modlog, sees perma banned from blahaj.zone…
Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.cato PC Gaming@lemmy.ca•'Anyone Who Doesn't Include Five Trans Characters...': Ori Studio CEO Defends Closure CommentsEnglish73·10 days agoLooks like Ori has been added to the boycott list.
Sign the EU petition to stop this madness:
https://eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#/screen/home