sbv

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[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 25 minutes ago

I've been using something similar for a while. They're comfy.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 29 minutes ago
[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

They're swinging at Canadian employers and workers. It's unclear if this will include items covered by CUSMA - if it does, Southern Ontario is fuuuuuuucked.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 3 points 22 hours ago

When I was younger, my libido seemed to drive a lot of my decisions. I suspect I would have made much better choices if it had been turned down.

You decide if you inform your family. If you cannot take that decision by yourself, you may not be ready to take the other, bigger decision just yet.

Oof. I prefer to think that OP is trying to think through the consequences and wants our advice. On the big decision as well as the smaller one.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

To answer your question: you probably shouldn't tell them if you don't want drama.

I'm an older man. In the past decade, my libido has decreased significantly. I used to fixate on sex. I'd feel incredibly frustrated when a perceived opportunity for sex fell through. I spent an unhealthy amount of time looking at porn. A constant desire for sex complicated my romantic relationships.

Now that my libido is lower, sex feels like a fun activity. A missed opportunity is a minor disappointment, rather than severely frustrating. Porn feels like an occasional treat rather than a necessity. Wanting sex is something I choose, rather than a compulsion.

So I think I understand where you might be coming from. If I could have turned down my libido when I was your age, I think I might have considered it.

I don't know much about chemical castration. Other posters said there may be undesirable long-term side effects. You should discuss those with your family, since they might know about issues that run in your family. But there will be drama.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

I dunno what it's like where you are, but voting in Canadian elections usually takes 15-45 minutes (for the 80% of Canadians in urban areas). I'm hard pressed to think of something you could with 45 minutes/year that would have a greater effect.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In theory we have a principled stance on Ukraine, Gaza, Afghanistan, and whatever is going down in Myanmar. We don't depend on those countries, but I would be very surprised if we change our verbiage or actions toward those countries.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

I'd say we should open more business models and tax write-offs for legit news producers with majority Canadian ownership. I'd be ecstatic if there were disincentives for media concentration and foreign ownership.

But generally I'd prefer that the government avoid picking winners. The whole news subsidy thing feels like a bad idea: direct funding of legacy outlets creates a perception of bias, even if it's unjustified.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The key part comes from what Carney said about living in the lie: we can't just give lip service to those principles, like we did before.

I honestly have no idea what that would look like. Should we have put boots on the ground in Ukraine? What about the CCP's oppression of Uyghurs? Okay, now climate change?

Maybe the answer is that we be less principled, but honest about where we're willing to act.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I like how you avoided saying his actual name

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

That's a lot of hours. I'll give it another shot, but I'm taking it episode by episode.

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Holy shit, that Montreal logo is amazing.

 

Ontario Housing starts:

  • 2022: 91,885
  • 2023: 85,770
  • 2024: 72,118
  • 2025: 62,561
 
 

cross-posted from: https://ibbit.at/post/156444

Dr. Eva Grunfeld at Massey College in Toronto on Monday. Ms. Grunfeld, the founder of HELP, says the Canadian medical community is committed to ensuring the talents of newcomer physicians don’t go to waste.

Romel Castillo, a family physician originally from Cuba, learned much more than words when he joined a fledgling program to brush up on his medical English.

He learned the unspoken language of practising medicine in Canada, where concepts such as patient privacy, cultural competency and shared decision-making can be different than in an immigrant doctor’s homeland.


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cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/53463841

Before the cameras were installed four years ago, roughly 17 per cent of motorists followed the posted speed limits. ... In the last year before the cameras were banned, compliance reached 87 per cent.

Within a week of the cameras’ removal, that fell to 62 per cent, and three weeks later, it had dropped to 50 per cent.

...

Carlucci says it’s time for drivers to reflect and consider one simple question.

“Why are you speeding in a school zone?”

 

Before the cameras were installed four years ago, roughly 17 per cent of motorists followed the posted speed limits. ... In the last year before the cameras were banned, compliance reached 87 per cent.

Within a week of the cameras’ removal, that fell to 62 per cent, and three weeks later, it had dropped to 50 per cent.

...

Carlucci says it’s time for drivers to reflect and consider one simple question.

“Why are you speeding in a school zone?”

 

Debt writeoffs by the federal government climbed above the $5-billion mark during the last fiscal year, according to figures reviewed by The Globe and Mail, adding to a debate over Ottawa’s practice of keeping the identities of those who benefit from such debt relief secret.

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The upward trend in writeoffs inspired Conservative MP Adam Chambers to introduce a private member’s bill, C-230, that would require Ottawa to publicly disclose all corporate writeoffs worth $1-million or more.

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“This is a great legislative initiative,” said Liberal MP Ryan Turnbull, the parliamentary secretary to François-Philippe Champagne, the Minister of Finance and National Revenue, during the debate on the bill.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-ottawas-debt-writeoffs-climb-above-5-billion-mark/

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/45322079

Carney’s own department, the Privy Council Office, has been one of the worst performers in the access to information system. In the span of about two years, the office was peppered with an extraordinary 87 legal orders to release documents after initially refusing to provide them to requesters. That’s up from zero orders in the previous three years. Little surprise, then, that bureaucrats have been quietly recommending curbs on the information commissioner’s ability to issue such orders.

I couldn't find an archive link that works. I tried signing in and archiving myself but it still asks for an e-mail.

If you enter a throwaway e-mail it'll let you in without having to confirm.

 

A massive mud plain cutting north-east made it clear where the water had gone. It had travelled almost 10km overland into a bigger lake. Amazingly, no one had been hurt in this gigantic – was it a mudslide? A flood? Nobody was sure what to call it.

 

In the video, a large black and tan dog can be seen chewing the glove, which then begins smoking. The dog jumps off the couch and watches for a moment before leaving the room, while flames spread from the glove to a blanket on the couch.

 

With each passing decade since the mid-1980s, Canadians have been spending less and less time with their friends. Just 19 per cent said they hung out with friends on an average day in 2022, down from 48 per cent in 1986, according to Statistics Canada.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/social-trends/article-canadians-spending-less-time-friends-inventive-stay-close/

 

Contrary to concerns about cataclysmic traffic if the intersection of Portage and Main was opened to pedestrians, the actual impact was, well, almost nil.

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That fear made the intersection focus of countless newspaper columns, radio shows and bar-stool discussions. It made it an issue in the mayoral election of 2014, and the subject of an unsuccessful plebiscite in 2018.

The theme through these years was that change was too risky. Nothing happened until maintenance costs associated with the concourse under the intersection made the status quo too expensive. This past summer, traffic lights were installed in spite of the fear.

And in early December, about six months later, the city reported that … the traffic is fine.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/editorials/article-cities-reform-change-winnipeg-portage-main-toronto-bike-lanes/

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