Kosova erasure smh
Every (non-Australian) house needs at least one corner spider
I just had a read through the bill and, as written, it would prohibit elementary school children from playing pretend as animals on the school playground during recess. Obviously, if a student were using that as pretext to, like, bite someone, you'd want a supervisor stepping in, but to straight-up ban harmless elements of play-pretend like this is frankly asinine.
Oh, the litter boxes are real...
It's just that their purpose is to be used during a school shooting lockdown.
On average, disposable plastic bottles shed microplastics much more prolifically than plastic water piping.
If the VIN matches and the vehicle fits the description when it was added to the plan it's not a big deal... Unless you're telling me I can't remove the free advertisement badges from the back of my car and have it still be insured.
Your eugenic sentiments aside, if you want people to have fewer babies, you don't just tell them to stop fucking; you teach them how to use contraception and make it as accessible as possible.
.loc and .iloc queries are a fun syntax adventure every time
Sometimes things only appear impossible when we don't think in more complex terms
Just because it isn't real doesn't mean we can't imagine a world where it can work
I'm not Canadian but I greatly support these measures, so if I may I'd like to weigh in.
I think that manufacturing country and ultimate ownership are probably the biggest key factors, as they dictate most where the lion's share of money flows in a consumer economy. For example, if there's American investment/VC/private equity for a company but it's like 10%, it's not great but definitely not as bad as a completely international company with locations in Canada.
If you want to get super fine-gained, you can even dig into whether a company outsources a significant portion of its auxiliary labor (e.g. digital infrastructure, customer support, shipping) to international firms, as that can make a difference as well.
Component sourcing is also important but there are a lot of cases where domestic isn't as feasible due to global supply chain reasons. That's one that's going to be much more industry specific. Like, if you're buying furniture and the wood comes from abroad when there's a robust domestic timber industry in your country, I think that should be a red flag.
Coming to a final determination on any company is going to be one of those things that exists on a sliding scale and probably would benefit from some sort of scoring effort. Either way, my verdict is that any measure that boycotts the US is worth the effort if it's done by enough people. Even a few loonies per person spent on local vs international over a broad enough group will make a noticeable impact.
I always thought huntsmen spiders were one of the coolest critters that live over there