In the past, Liberals (under Chretien and then Martin) voted in favour of this resolution. Stephen Harper's government voted against it, and Trudeau's government continues to vote against it.
So, Trudeau is continuing where Harper left off. Liberal Tory same old story.
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I saw on the CBC last night a story of a restaurant worker who was fired because she wore a mask. That's how bonkers we in Canada have become lately.
Interesting article with some unexpected nuance.
Great move on the part of the BBC. Given all the issues on Twitter, hopefully the CBC will also make a move to Mastodon. I recall when Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, closed comments on Twitter due to abusive garbage, that I wrote her office and suggested Mastodon. Alas, they did not follow through. But hopefully this move from the BBC will inspire some of our Canadian institutions (particularly the CBC) to reconsider and to make the move to the fediverse.
Agreed that generally taking the lane is to force cars to notice you and not encourage them to pass when it isn't safe. For instance, in Toronto there's a lot of construction happening, so sometimes there will be two lanes that merge into one for a short bit because of the construction (Bloor around Parliament/Sherbourne is an example). In those circumstances, I'll clearly take the lane. But when it's a regular two lane road at a traffic stop, I won't, because there's enough room for a car and bike to be side by side in these circumstances. Yes, I realize it's perfectly legal for me to take the lane, but, just as I appreciate cars that give me space, I also feel it's a good practice to give cars space as well. To be clear, I'm not excusing the reckless and criminal behaviour of the car driver. The actions of the car driver were criminal and he should face the full force of law.
Despite knowing this province's rules, Toronto cycling advocate Alison Stewart says she regularly crosses early with the pedestrian signals.
"It's much safer. It keeps me in front of car traffic, and gives me the chance to be seen as I cross," said Stewart, director of advocacy and public policy for Cycle Toronto.
As a cyclist myself, I do agree with this. However, the article also mentioned the scramble intersection at Yonge and Dundas, and in that circumstance, I feel that cyclists should dismount and walk along with the other pedestrians. I feel that way because there are those crossing diagonally, and cyclists weaving in and out between walking pedestrians simply is not good. But, generally, if it's just a regular crossing (and not a scramble) then yes, cyclists should be able to go early along with the pedestrians.
No loss for me. I don't give a rat's ass about AI chatbots. And I myself have excluded Google from my online activities. I use Debian Linux. My phone has LineageOS without Google Play Services -- instead I use apps from f-droid, including OsmAnd~ for mapping. I never use Google search (I rely on DuckDuckGo). Any YouTube videos I may wish to view I use either FreeTube or Invidious (the latter via the Firefox addon LibRedirect). For translation, it's LibreTranslate. If I wish to see news articles I'll go directly to media sites such as The Star, The Globe and Mail, CBC, or via the news search on DuckDuckGo. Anyone who is still allowing themselves to be a product of Google is misguided, as far as I'm concerned.
Fabulous!
It's Lemmy from Motorhead, who was part of the inspiration for the name of the software:
Where does the name come from?
It was nameless for a long time, but I wanted to keep with the fediverse tradition of naming projects after animals. I was playing that old-school game Lemmings, and Lemmy (from motorhead) had passed away that week, and we held a few polls for names, and I went with that.
Here's a Lemmy themed logo which is indicative of where the instance is located (that being Canada).
The law makes sense to me. He says, regarding Google, that "Linking is what a search engine does." But Google, as we know, is gleaning information from users, who are its product, to sell to advertisers (for more targeted advertising.)
So, links are not its business. Links are props to attract the product (us, its users) to it, to prepare us to be sold. Like all other businesses (IE, pubs) that have props (IE, barstools), Google should pay for some of its props.
When asked about a perceived ignorance in computers, the judge proclaimed, "I'm not ignorant about computers! In fact, just last week I finished Space Quest, and I'm now getting through Leisure Suit Larry!" The judge's report, written using WordPerfect 5.1, is expected to be released soon.