Enough whataboutism, please. The Government has hundreds of MPs; it doesn’t make sense for all of them to spend all their time on the same small subset of issues, even if they’re critical. Like, it’s literally impossible to have that many people at a literal table.

Daylight in the morning is critical for circadian rhythm.

Exactly. People are being abducted off the street by plainclothes “officers” (who’s to know?), put in the back of unmarked cars, and disappeared. A Canadian died in detainment from being denied access to live-saving prescription medication.

Tariffs are so far down my list of reasons for not traveling to the US.

Yeah; that’s not much time, and I’m not a lawyer, but this seems a complicated legal question. I just assumed any tool that circumvents any sort of digital lock would be hosting in countries that DGAF about US laws. Even better if they have a .onion address to avoid any network blocking attempts, like z-library.

Poilievre said the Sovereignty Act would also include his campaign promise to exempt people from capital gains tax when they reinvest the proceeds of an investment in a Canadian company.

This one is insane. The 1% would accumulate so much more wealth, tax free, with this. JFC.

It works in Canada without a SIM. I know because my son did it on his “wifi-only” tablet.

Do you need a phone plan at all for emergency calling? It’s required for all carriers to take 911 calls in Canada.

I loved this game back in the 90s…

… But I’m not sure if it aged well for anyone without nostalgia for it.

The combat has two options, but they aren’t balanced with each other: real time or automatic/calculated, but 8-directional movement with a tiny FOV with absurdly fast hero characters on massive maps don’t play well. Yet, depending on the matchup/combat system choice, you can have 1 hero defeat thousands of troops, or thousands of troops die to 20 archers in a tiny castle that was built between the end of your turn and the start of combat. It’s a bit silly, and very exploitable.

Also, it can drag on for a long time after it’s patently obvious who’s going to win.

The level up system is pretty cool, though, both in individual matches and with your commander. And the story/challenge missions can be proper hard, for those looking for a challenge.

Great game. Highly recommended if you like the idea of challenging turn-based, tactical combat that plays like a puzzle game. Doubly so if you like the sci fi aesthetic.

There’s great replayability, too, since your starting mechs completely change your strategy. I played this game enough to win a few times, but I never figured out how some of the starting teams are supposed to be played. I’ll go back to it at some point, when I’m feeling the itch.

FTL (by the same developer) is also great and is a bit more forgiving of misplays, so I’m able to win more often (well, on easy/normal mode. Yes, I’m a scrub.) It’s real-time but with limitless pausing, so it plays more like a turn-based game.

Realistically, everyone should probably be updating their BIOS when building a new computer. Often, early updates have the biggest fixes, right?

We all should probably be updating our mobo BIOS periodically, at least for the first years or two when there are still significant potential updates/fixes, but I don’t blame anyone who doesn’t; it’s not as straightforward as Windows Update doing everything for people.

Even if the score is kept off, there’s the angle of the Sun and cloud cover. There’s just less sunlight to be had, even if the panels are kept clear of snow.

Hell, Vancouver Island gets practically no snow at all in many areas, and solar does much worse in its cloudy/rainy season (winter).

Liquid fluoride thorium reactors are designed to be meltdown proof. A fusible plug at the bottom of the reactor melts in the event of a power failure or if temperatures exceed a set limit, draining the fuel into an underground tank for safe storage.

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Nuclear waste is way overblown as a concern. The total volume of waste is miniscule, relative to the power generated. Nuclear also uses almost no land for the reactor, compared with solar, and is essentially 100% dependable 24/7/365.

Solar is great, and costs are diminishing incredibly rapidly. And if the news of sodium-based batteries at ~9% the cost of lithium batteries plays out, then storing solar becomes cheap. Still not dependable for Canadian winters, of course. Solar also uses lots of land, and lots of mass of semiconductors (which of course has its own climate impacts to produce, ship, and recycle/dispose of).

I’m not super looped in to the technology specifics, but I understand that some modern nuclear designs are meltdown proof, too, so there isn’t really any rational NIMBY case to be made against them.

Having read the whole article, they don’t have any specifics that justify their concerns. They quote the price of nuclear facility construction, but don’t contrast those costs against any competing technologies, so the numbers are effectively meaningless. They complain about nuclear waste, but their only evidence is quoting NIMBYs who don’t want a facility put in close to them.

I’m open to being convinced that nuclear isn’t in Canada’s interests, but this article did not make a compelling case.

Right, but if the beans they roast come through the US, then locally roasted beans will still have American tariffs applied, and it’s often not worth applying to get a refund. The goods were not for final sale in the US, the tariffs don’t apply, but the paperwork is more onerous than the refund, for smaller businesses. That’s the point.

Yeah, it’s owned by Burger King, and the new owners accelerated the reduction in quality that had started a decade before the buyout.

The reason for my particular gripes with Tim Horton’s is their over-the-top Canadian branding of an American company. It should be illegal, as clearly false marketing.

They’re also franchises, and are notorious for most franchise owners being borderline abusive to their largely teenage and immigrant staff, who may not know better or have the resources to fight back against illegal labour practices.

And the food is terrible, and the coffee is the second worst in the Canadian fast food industry (after A&W).

What is there not to hate about Tom Horton’s?

A lot of those same students would vote responsibly, if given the chance.

As a former high school teacher, I was very impressed with the political engagement of Gen Z. They are aware of issues and largely feel hopeless and ignored. If students could vote, schools would be an excellent place to teach students how to make an informed vote, and then take a field trip to voting centres to show them how easy it is to vote, too.

As it is, you’re partly correct that 16 y.o.s largely don’t pay close attention to party platforms, despite generally good awareness about local and global issues, but it’s because it seems useless to them since they can’t vote.

There’s also research supporting that people who vote when they are first eligible to vote are likely to become lifelong voters, and those who don’t will likely not. One of the biggest issues in Canadian politics is the demographic mismatch between voters, so “old people issues” are grossly over represented on party platforms—and fair enough that they are! They’re the only ones who consistently vote.

Lowering the voting age to 16 would be a statistical artifact on most election results, in how few ridings would actually change hands, but the knock-on effect of building civic engagement for life would be an amazing change for Canadian politics. You would be surprised with how mature 16 year olds can be when it matters.

The first game to legitimately scare me. I went in completely blind to beat the game in one sitting in an overnight play session in complete darkness, with good headphones.

My only stumbling point was early on, I incorrectly thought the way to advance was to stack things to climb higher in a sort of rudimentary physics puzzle (that’s never a solution in the game) when I was supposed to just push a button that was pretty much in plain sight.

You can cheese your way out of any scariness by ignoring the game mechanics (looking at certain things reduces your “sanity”, but looking closely at the scary stuff takes away a lot of the fear of the thing), but if you go into it with the intent to play it straight, it’s a fantastic game.

That is incorrect:

The Agreement does not apply to US citizens or habitual residents of the US who are not citizens of any country (“stateless persons”).

I’m not a lawyer, but that website says that this treaty is about asylum seekers declaring themselves as refugees in the first country (out of the two) where they land. Refugees can’t pass through the US en route to Canada, and apply as a refugee in Canada (and vice versa).

Americans (citizens or habitual residents) can still apply as refugees in Canada, according to this treaty.

Incorporates 3rd-party DRM: XIGNCODE3

Monitoring the full file system is a nope from me. I get that they want to protect their game, but there are non-invasive ways to do that.

I’ve been thinking about this a bit since I read it this morning, and I think the only reason they were able to get rid of STV is because it was only STV for Calgary and Edmonton. With a single party still able to sweep the rural ridings, they were given solid majority governments, which shouldn’t be the case with “real” STV.

I have no idea how we’ll get either half of the LPC/CPC to enact STV, when FPTP has them oscillating between consecutive usually majority governments, but I expect STV will be hard to get rid of once we’ve had a single election with it. Not much incentive for minority partners in a coalition government to accept moving back to FPTP, right?