Sorry buddy, but being dragged up and offered where to be punched, I’m absolutely exercising my right to choose (and to be honest, I’m kind of thinking neck at the moment). I refuse to be a sad sack that gets punched in the balls and laments that there was no other option.
We have systems for that. We can join the various ‘teams’ of people doing the punching and we can, as a group, demand that they change their practices - next convention the group votes on replacing ball punches with a hearty ‘punchbuggy’ to the shoulder. Several leaders run and make promises on how hearty to make that shoulder-punch, and we select someone for the next election between face, neck and shoulder. You don’t get to complain about where the 3 parties are punching if you aren’t in there telling them to change their target - otherwise you got party die-hards saying things like “we’ve always punched to the neck, and that’s what Canadians want.”
Screw them. Let this be a lesson to any new business that thinks of investing in moving to the area. Kill any chance at a job in the area and let the community rot away.
Small cells and industrial plants are different. Charging some cells produces an off-gas of hydrogen, which requires you to change the air in the room with the cells, which means fans. You also have to ensure that the temperature of the room stays within certain bounds, which could mean bigger fans.
In terms of cells, batteries don’t really smell like anything I find. However, you need to top up the water levels which requires distilled or deionized water. Will they be doing water treatment on site?
All that being said, there’s more than enough room for a discussion about concerns. These yokels jumped right to death threats instead of progress. I wish nothing but rolling blackouts and a lack of jobs for them in the future.
The letter was sent to the Premier’s Office on Thursday, according to a lawyer representing Jama, and demands the premier retract the posts and publicly apologize within seven days....
Anyone can get a lawyer to write a Cease and Desist for any reason the client pays for. The proof is if anything happens if Ford doesn’t follow up with the demands.
The Saskatchewan Trial Lawyers’ Association (STLA) is calling out the premier for his comments in the wake of a court injunction over a controversial government policy.
This doesn’t bode well for the law profession in Saskatchewan. Moe is a terrible dirtbag, but this isn’t the USA where there’s an equal legal branch to the government and lawyers can spout off whatever they want; the supremacy of parliament will get exercised and the lawyers will find themselves in a tough spot.
STLA, though what will happen is that the government though the Lt-Gov will probably increase appointments to the LSS to start, and push for harder enforcement. If STLA and judges become too political over time, the answer just might be to remove self-governance through the LSS.
I have an idea for a get-rich-quick scheme: using the Bessemer process to create massive amounts of high-quality steel. However, I'm sure my #DM has not given a single thought to this (because I know her) so I'm worried that this might give God fun #worldbuilding ideas to fuck with our party. How do I tell my group my plan, without having the industrialized slave company I know is on the other side of the map spontaneously develop a similar process?
The title is a pun on the 2004 British horror parody television series Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace. The Ferengi dragging Boimler out of his room is using a Ferengithe Ferengi merchant Ulis in 2151 (ENT: “Acquisition”)....
The Canadian naval custom of naming ships after locales started in WWII, most notably as a alternative naming strategy for the ‘Flower Class’ Corvettes. While the UK found great utility of the thought of a German U-Boat getting sunk by a HMS Pansy, Canada wanted to give a sense of involvement in the war, so that the people of Chilliwack can feel a sense of pride when their HMCS Chilliwack participates in the sinking of U-744, for example. That cuts both ways of course, like for HMCS Lévis… The result of being able to fund-raise and create Navy Leagues to assist in the welfare of sailors at that time significantly helped with the life of RCN, RCNR and RCNVR sailors at that time.
In LDs though, the name ‘Parliament’ class is a bit odd. If they are naming after places with a Parliament, Toronto makes sense because Queen’s Park is here, but Vancouver wouldn’t have a Parliament. The capitol of BC is Victoria…
A Regina judge has ruled that the Saskatchewan government’s naming and pronoun policy should be paused for the time being, but Premier Scott Moe says he’ll use the notwithstanding clause to override it....
Drug Ford passed a law shrinking city council after the whole ‘election thing’ kinda started. People got a judge to say that’s unconstitutional (and reading the reasons to the verdict - it was all sorts of crazy talk about how it was unconstitutional. Drug Ford said he would use the NWC to pass a replacement law doing the same thing, but that wasn’t necessary as the next level of courts looked at the original ruling, went “yeah, the Government is TOTALLY going to win on appealing this - let’s just say they’re allowed to resize the council and call it a day.”
Actually, withholding Assent is the circuit breaker. The NWC is a mechanism to ensure that parliament makes the law, not judges. A judge may have a perfectly reason for making their verdict, and it totally makes sense to do so by a good number of the populous, but parliament is in charge and they’re allowed to set the rules.
Technically, what it’s the parliament saying “this is the law, no matter what anyone else thinks of it.” It’s not suspension of law - an equal legal branch forming government is a feature of the United States. Here, like a lot of Westminster Parliamentary style governments, democracy is supreme to any rise of a kritarchy.
Well, depends. It certainly can be used in a variety of situations. The basis of the notwithstanding clause doesn’t require that rights be set aside, it can be used to identify that an interpretation of rights is incorrect. For instance, where rights have been determined in the outcome of a case that isn’t deliberately mentioned in the relevant act, it would be perfectly acceptable for parliament to use the notwithstanding clause to say “no, that’s not what is written in the law we wrote.” The ‘threat’ of using the notwithstanding cause in Ontario recently in the Ford government is a good example of that. They ended up not needing it because the courts determined that the original ruling was probably ‘wrong’ before it was needed…
In this case, gender expression is a right that has been established repeatedly despite it not being explicitly mentioned in Section 15. (1) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom (the basis is that gender expression is related to the sex of the individual). So, it ‘technically’ could be used correctly in this situation, but they are certainly assholes for fighting people for expressing their gender when it has been firmly set outside of the language.
In fact, if Canada goes with a “President,” it would cost more. Just on the election alone, but then they will also need an enlarged staff for their political works. Also, electing a President has really been working out well elsewhere, like the USA, hasn’t it?
Probably no other leader, including Justin Trudeau, has landed in a party leadership with less real-world work experience than Pierre Poilievre, says Don Martin in a column for CTVNews.ca. But Poilievre's an able communicator, and this weekend's Conservative convention is a golden opportunity for him to sell himself as...
Hes’ a hypocrite of the highest order; a career politician that he ranted should not entrench themselves in our institutions in his early twenties before becoming an MP himself in his mid-twenties. He welcomed the Convey into Ottawa by handing out Coffee and Donuts. He recommends putting your money into Bitcoin, and those that followed his advice saw savings disappear when the coin crashed. He rails against the CBC being government funded while he himself, is largely government supported: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJpchk3s4hU
The joke goes that you tell a politician is lying because they are moving their lips. If you want to know the truth, just pay attention to who donates. We made fun of Scheer for being in the pocket of ‘big milk’ and this feckless twit is receiving donations from real estate executives while claiming he’s going to reverse course on our housing crisis: pressprogress.ca/big-real-estate-executives-among…
A vote for the CPC is a vote for a party lead by someone that doesn’t care about the people voting for him and will make years of poor decisions.
Aaron Erlich, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, said it’s important to make people aware of misleading information online. But he said the wording in the CSIS campaign was “not the most straightforward” and appeared to be an attempt not just to educate but to invoke fear....
In Britain after WWII there was a severe housing shortage and the solution they came up with was “row houses” basically large apartment blocks. The genius part of this was along with this you also got an allotment. A small parcel of land where you could garden and enjoy the outdoors.
The International Fencing Federation (FIE) also said it was reinstating Kharlan, allowing her to take part in the team competition at the world championships in Milan....
I’m surprised Russia isn’t complaining that Ukraine, which they believe should be part of Russia, isn’t arguing Ukraine isn’t a country and shouldn’t compete.
…it’s from a odd technicality where on ol’ blighty, a male can’t be “raped” because of how the laws are written. Call it a peculiarity of their system or sexism, but it results in oddly sounding charges like what you see reported at least.
Did anyone ever get a chat by someone, and you went to ‘ignore’ to get rid of the Redditor/notification but it didn’t work, so you ALWAYS had a notification to a chat that was probably a bot?
Oh, it felt more then that. After the pile of garbage was written, the editors and the showrunners were bypassed to the marketing department and senior execs who decided to cut continuity and plain “making sense” to “make sure we cram in more woke” (and not real “progress by a strong person that identifies as a certain way” but outright insubordination), poor decision making to make controversy at every level, or heroin induced flights of fancy… My favourite was that time some producer wanted a fight on top of a turbolift, so they showed that 90% of the interior of the ship is empty space where turbolift apparently just fly around. cbr.com/star-trek-discovery-turbolifts-season-3-f…
I'm rewatching it now, it's so well written that it almost stands out from the rest of the episode. It comes off like something from David Mamet or The West Wing. It's not Far Beyond The Stars or In The Pale Moonlight, the stakes of the episode are too low. But the material it gave all the actors to work with, the incredibly...
Federal government to announce details of dental insurance plan (www.cp24.com)
Poilievre threatens to delay MPs' holidays with House tactics, Gould warns of impact on Canadians (www.ctvnews.ca)
Could Bitcoin Millhouse be even less likeable? Yes, the answer is yes.
Power company says it's halting battery storage plan after backlash, death threat (www.cbc.ca)
Ban selling cigarettes to anyone born after 2008, Ottawa Public Health urges Health Canada (ottawacitizen.com)
What was behind that Conservative vote against the Ukraine trade deal? (www.cbc.ca)
Ukraine has had a carbon tax for years...
Remembrance Day: Canadian historian aims to honour the stories of Black veterans (www.ctvnews.ca)
Canadian poet Rupi Kaur declines White House visit, citing U.S. support for Israel amid war in Gaza (www.cbc.ca)
Doug Ford served cease-and-desist letter by NDP MPP Sarah Jama (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
The letter was sent to the Premier’s Office on Thursday, according to a lawyer representing Jama, and demands the premier retract the posts and publicly apologize within seven days....
Sask. lawyers call out premier for 'judicial overreach' comments (saskatoon.ctvnews.ca)
The Saskatchewan Trial Lawyers’ Association (STLA) is calling out the premier for his comments in the wake of a court injunction over a controversial government policy.
Thousands of young people are fleeing Toronto — economists say the city will suffer because of it (www.thestar.com)
Annotations for *Star Trek: Lower Decks* 4x06: “Parth Ferengi’s Heart Place” (SPOILERS)
The title is a pun on the 2004 British horror parody television series Garth Merenghi’s Darkplace. The Ferengi dragging Boimler out of his room is using a Ferengithe Ferengi merchant Ulis in 2151 (ENT: “Acquisition”)....
Bedbug crisis sparks political row in Paris as insect ‘scourge’ continues (www.theguardian.com)
Sask. premier to use notwithstanding clause to veto judge ruling on school pronoun policy (www.cbc.ca)
A Regina judge has ruled that the Saskatchewan government’s naming and pronoun policy should be paused for the time being, but Premier Scott Moe says he’ll use the notwithstanding clause to override it....
India urges 'utmost caution' in Canada travel advisory as bilateral crisis escalates (www.cnbc.com)
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Pastor gets 60-day sentence for role in Alberta border blockade (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
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Trudeau accusing Indian government of involvement in killing of Canadian Sikh leader (www.cbc.ca)
Pierre Polievre doesn't understand the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (globalnews.ca)
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Don Martin: Poilievre doesn't feel your pain, but he's sure good at communicating it (www.ctvnews.ca)
Probably no other leader, including Justin Trudeau, has landed in a party leadership with less real-world work experience than Pierre Poilievre, says Don Martin in a column for CTVNews.ca. But Poilievre's an able communicator, and this weekend's Conservative convention is a golden opportunity for him to sell himself as...
‘Star Trek: Lower Decks’ Season 3 Available For Free On YouTube, Prime Video And Pluto TV In USA (trekmovie.com)
A new CSIS ad campaign is using Soviet-style imagery to warn Canadians about disinformation (www.cbc.ca)
Aaron Erlich, a political science professor at McGill University in Montreal, said it’s important to make people aware of misleading information online. But he said the wording in the CSIS campaign was “not the most straightforward” and appeared to be an attempt not just to educate but to invoke fear....
Row Houses
In Britain after WWII there was a severe housing shortage and the solution they came up with was “row houses” basically large apartment blocks. The genius part of this was along with this you also got an allotment. A small parcel of land where you could garden and enjoy the outdoors.
Disqualified Ukrainian fencer Kharlan reinstated, awarded Paris Olympics place (www.france24.com)
The International Fencing Federation (FIE) also said it was reinstating Kharlan, allowing her to take part in the team competition at the world championships in Milan....
Kevin Spacey cleared over all sexual assault charges (www.bbc.co.uk)
Notifications (imgur.com)
Erdoğan backs Ukraine’s NATO bid, says Putin will visit Turkey ‘next month’ (www.politico.eu)
Star Trek Shows Exiting Crave Streaming In Canada, Will Continue Broadcasting On CTV Sci-Fi (trekmovie.com)
Infinite Diversity In Infinite Combinations: Star Trek Was Woke From The Beginning (subspacechatter.substack.com)
The first act of the second episode of season 2 of DS9 is possibly the best scene in all of Star Trek
I'm rewatching it now, it's so well written that it almost stands out from the rest of the episode. It comes off like something from David Mamet or The West Wing. It's not Far Beyond The Stars or In The Pale Moonlight, the stakes of the episode are too low. But the material it gave all the actors to work with, the incredibly...