Yeah, I lucked out in having nothing better to do at the time. I’m not sure if I’ll be able to catch all of the rest of the series, but I’m definitely going to keep an eye on it!

I don’t really follow baseball at all, and haven’t watched any of the playoffs to date. But I did watch this.

“As the labour movement in this province, our leaders have made a commitment to rise to that challenge, defend the teachers and their rights, defend worker rights more broadly, and to defend our democracy. We have no choice.”

[Gil McGowan, president of the Alberta Federation of Labour] stopped short of confirming whether that response would include a provincewide strike, but said, “it’s one of the things that’s actively under consideration."

I’m not in Alberta, but pay doesn’t seem to be the sticking point here - the union is trying to negotiate on class sizes (which AFAIK the province is refusing to even disclose) and classroom supports.

Abuse of the NWS has been progressively normalized over the last few decades, and I think we’ve reached the breaking point.

Thank you - this is what I’m here for.

I linked to the article!

I took it from a news article from last week, which suggests pretty strongly that that proposal is exactly what was implemented, and they never produced an updated graphic.

But again, I’d welcome a genuine correction.

If you have additional information that contradicts it, I’d happy to see it. I don’t live in Quebec, and only know what I know.

Source

Deadline is actually an American Hollywood/entertainment industry trade outlet, so it’s definitely not a Canadian thing.

Weird metaphor to have in your style guide, though.

No, it says Canadian “beer” killed him. It’s an immediate signal that it wasn’t actually beer.

What’s misleading about it?

The product came from Canada.

The “beer” is in quotation marks, indicating that it wasn’t actually beer.

A 21-year-old was killed.

In New Zealand.

…not all low-income people are homeless?

I don’t think I’d call it a “catch”.

Carney said that Canadians who fail to file a return when they earn under the basic personal amount means Canadians “who most need benefits often don’t get them.”

Those benefits include the GST/HST tax credit, the Canada child benefit, the Canada workers benefit, the Canadian disability benefit and the disability tax credit.

*for low-income citizens who earn less than the basic personal amount

I agree, but…legally speaking*, I think they have a decent case?

*I’m not a lawyer, just your standard online idiot

we don’t have the technology or the expertise to perform the procedure here

I would say this is the part that’s unreasonable. Being the only G7 country unable to perform proton beam treatments isn’t exactly a point of pride.

Despite the move, Canada is still in active discussions with G7 allies to introduce an international tax, with Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne leading that work, the PMO said.

If this ends up happening, it’s important context to this decision.

If it ends up not happening…pretty weak shit.

I certainly agree that it’s very questionable to have an explicitly regional party in the federal debates, but for clarity’s sake, the criteria are 2/3 of the following:

• having at least one sitting MP who’s been elected as a member of that party

• having at least four per cent national support in opinion polls

• running candidates in at least 90 per cent of all ridings

After pulling the candidates, the Green Party only meets one of these criteria (the first).