The Kingston, Ontario bus should honestly be the 2 bus to downtown (as of writing it goes from Train station through Queen’sU campus to downtown), it runs half-hourly and doesn’t require any walking to the road.

Not gonna watch this but can Mark please take “Daddy” to the seniors’ home already, and keep him there?

Get angry, but not irrationally.

Give the Carney government and MPs grace by telling them about what change you want to see.

I still have some faith that Carney is smarter than most politicians, that if there is a popular push for more progressive reforms, he would go along with it.

If opposition is limited to “I’m angry that you canceled the DST! I’m angry that you passed Bill 5!” that can be passed off as too vague of a criticism and doesn’t really suggest a suitable alternative direction. Carney did a bunch of right wing stuff because they were confident they would get overwhelming house support, he would have something concrete to show for his first two months in this term. The NDP are kind of disarray and the party apparatus lost touch with local, grassroots campaigns that got people to support them. Even former NDP MP Charlie Angus would say as much.

Strictly based on where the jagged points are and where the strokes end, I would say the word written was uůẃnwu.

This is a September 2017 editorial article, yet:

It’s strange that we’re at the point where this needs to be said: a black politician is not necessarily the best politician to promote black interests, and a female politician will not necessarily serve women’s interests better than a man would. Race produces a set of lived experiences that inform our political perspective, but identity cannot be used as a mitigating factor for political shortcomings.

And

But writing off Clinton’s leftist critics as necessarily motivated by gender bias was sexist in itself.

Are a couple things that still are pervasive as then among the Democrat party and some of the left, after eight whole years.

Like racism, misogyny, transphobia and other xenophobia come out like a river of sludge from the conservative right wing, and Democrats pick and choose little bits of this bigotry to float in their messaging to write off their critics, as if they were going fishing in this sludge.

I think every bit of thought people put into their purchasing choices is a good thing.

If you can find suitable Canadian replacements to American products, and products from American owned or funded businesses, without going broke, all the power to you. But don’t think that if you haven’t been able to change all of it that you failed. Each person doing what the can adds up. Encourage people to do it to whatever level they can, suggest Canadian alternatives you use or become aware of.

Unlike a conservative political campaign, Pride is not measured by how much money gets poured in from corporate sponsors.

Go Councillor! Go Fediverse!

Good reporters only talk about how Trump is such a gweat wittle pwesident.

Good catch, seems like an oversight.

Meh, I see it as Carney as throwing the provinces a bone and an “attaboy” for collaborating. Costs him nothing to do.

Hey Republicans, to fix this issue, build a bunch of wind turbine power generators to blow the smoke away.

At this point, it should be clear that mirroring the US’s stance won’t get Canada any benefits anymore. So we should just drop the appeasement and speak for world order instead of for genocide.

The ADL would love the Netanyahu government’s idea of a “closed humanitarian city” for Jews or any other undesirables that espouse anti-government views. Definitely inspired by a famous 1930s German guy’s plans…

Can we please have a source for the YSK statement you made in the title and the graph?

I have seen data on not having kids being the biggest choice a person can make to prevent future emissions. You also didn’t mention flying less often, or not flying when a reasonable alternative exists. What is the relative impact of all of these things compared to dietary changes? Numbers on that would be helpful.

This [public service cuts, government financial austerity and all the other stuff in the first bunch of paragraphs] is a descent into fascism. By defunding the state and over-funding the military, Canada is careening towards disaster. And unsurprisingly, the voices that are paid by the corporate class, are cheering this descent on.

Come on, let’s get specific. Call out our fascism where the descent into fascism is happening under Carney’s government: Bill C-2, Trump ass-kissing, parts of Bill C-5.

I am diametrically opposed to wanton public service cuts, but let’s be targeted and accurate at what we are calling the descent to fascism.

Sure. That is assuming that someone is available on the LibreOffice side to support the ministry for a particular amount, and that the policy related to government procedures can be followed under this agreement.

They could spend 1~2% of the cost of their microsoft licenses to create their own plugins/development to make the UI more usable for their applications and workers, rather than relying on Microsoft themselves or creating plugins on outdated and proprietary frameworks.

Interesting how “top US official” now implies some idiot Trump blowhard more often than a competent experienced leader.

Senator Rafael ‘Cancún’ Cruz running away from his constituents during weather crises? Well, I never!