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Excluding gasoline, headline inflation would have been 4.0% in June, following a 4.4% increase in May....

I always enjoy Brittlestar’s stuff, but this week’s essay seem particularly appropos.

As laws around drinking in parks relax in cities across Canada, public health concerns are still being raised (Natalie Stechyson / CBC News)

I started using grocery self-checkouts during COVID, but I’ve kept using them because there’s rarely a line (and I’m a misanthrope). I’d probably go back to using regular human checkouts if I had to dig through all my crap to prove what I bought....

I’m kind of in a strange boat right now where I’m really comfortable in Canada yet I can’t shake this feeling I need to get over to the US of A in order to take advantage of that strong USD. I, like many Canadians, work for an American firm and have a TN visa. Recently, my employer offered to sponsor me for a green card,...

That’s it, just wanted to send it out there, hosers 🍁 🤗

While Bill C-18, the Online News Act, was designed with the aim of having social media companies take a more responsible role in how news is shared online, Facebook chose to ban news links entirely. This then had the unintended effect of elevating our ridiculous website to a position of godlike authority over the news that...

Allied Properties sale of their data centre portfolio to KDDI includes 151 Front Street W., the site of TorIX which is the main Internet Exchange Point for the country. While that’s not necessarily an issue, I kinda figured it was at least a little bit notable but I’ve not seen it mentioned aside from an investment context....

From one indigenous person to everyone out there, I’m happy I’m here with you all in this great country. The history may have terrible periods for my people but over the past few decades things are getting better. It is not perfect but to me it is moving in the right direction....

If you take a close look at the produce aisle of your grocery store, and look at the packaging instead of the vegetables and fruit, you’ll notice just how much plastic is in use....

Just when you thought extreme right wing rhetoric couldn’t get any lower … they start targeting children at their schools to hold their protests...

When you allow far right attitudes to grow … they are like weeds that start appearing everywhere....

A better option to treating the opioid crisis is to help those in need now … rather than waiting to see how their suffering will affect them and society as a whole....

Anyone else feel like we’re on the very early stages of something new? I know I’m not the first and this system has probably been active with many but it hasn’t reached thousands or tens of thousands yet so it feels exciting to be here....

Even the CBC is making an article about it! 😅

Steel bands tighten around my heart. My knees knock and my vision wavers. But then I remember I’m not on Reddit, and metacanada has not yet replaced the moderation team with pod people....

Peak canada

…the whole construct of Crown sovereignty is simply a legal fiction to justify the de facto seizure and control of the land and resources formerly owned by the original inhabitants of what is now Canada.