It’s a coordination problem; your child is greatly disadvantaged in many ways by being the only one without a phone. So it needs everyone to fix the problem simultaneously; this isn’t really practical without a gov’t intervention.

I feel terrible for the people who were promised refugee status and now are thrown to the wayside. Why does this have to be retroactive? Is it really so important to ditch the last 6 months’ refugees?

reminder that palestinians are also semitic peoples.

No I prefer gmt-7 to gmt-8. I just think year-round gmt-7 should be called “mountain time.”

In BC, we’ve switched to permanent PDT. But why are we still calling it pacific time? It’s obviously Mountain Time.

What was the rationale?

I’m sure this probably includes some term like “extend copyright to 300 years” and “remove right to compute”

Promote fair digital trade by prohibiting unjustified data localisation requirements and forced transfers of software source code,

What is this forced transfer of software source code? Are they talking about prohibiting GPL?

Incredibly valuable piece.

I doubt it, big tech doesn’t really benefit from this as far as I know. I think it’s based on public outrage.

Article does not link the study. Article also does not indicate what % of women have the same views.

Age verification not mentioned. Wake me up when it is.

Quite a big cost increase. However, it’s not that big of a deal IMO – Poor Canadians don’t travel out of country much to begin with, so this disproportionately affects the wealthy and those who need to travel for business reasons (can probably get it expensed anyway).

The NDP have a good platform, ticks my boxes, but they seem kinda incompetent to me.

~~If I’m not mistaken, this makes it a liberal majority doesn’t it?

I kind of liked that the Greens held the balance of power so I’m a little disappointed here.~~ nvm seems they’d still be 1 short.

The Liberals aren’t woke leftists. Nor are they MAGA conservatives. They’re just sorta center, increasingly conservative but not particularly extreme. Not my ideal party but compared to what other countries have been electing I’d say it’s kind of a relief.

I’m not sure they actually shot that many before cancelling the project

yikes, it’s the third worst shooting by deaths in the history of the country.

Maybe we can make this an every-few-years sort of event, make it more special that way.

Was it not the Honda celebration of lights?

Anyway I sympathise, I’ll never call Science World the TELUS world of Science lol.

People who agree with me politically are generally opposed to this sort of thing, meaning that this will be primarily used to influence things in favour of my political enemies. Feels bad.