ah yes, the annual discussion about how it would be "impossible" to keep the Commanda pedestrian bridge open during winter for liability and maintenance risk reasons people also told me that was true about the Jacques Cartier pedestrian path in Montreal, then they did a pilot and the sky didn't fall

also I don't think many Americans view as "real foreigners," but rather people who live in some alternate universe America (which is why some do not seem to get that we might also be equally afraid of ICE as compared to someone with an obvious "foreign accent")

??? this series in English lol, what does Netflix mean by this

the two solitudes is really that francophones think the dîner/souper debate is unique but anglophones also have this colonial confusion around dinner/supper and whether this refers to a temporal meal or a size meal

horrors: some reel captioned "in case your mom didn't teach you" featuring simulation of applying various food ingredients in paste form to your pubic hair (apparently as a "natural" depilatory cream) I'm no derm or OB-GYN but common sense says this is a bad idea (irritating) and won't work lol

need this 😂 sbmsupplyco.com/products/dea...

there's also a prominent celiac paper author who tends to publish minimizer papers (you can share a toaster!) who has a diploma in holistic nutrition (a strip mall career college scam degree mostly 🤷‍♀️)

This so much! Parents (usually mothers) in car-centric areas are forced to chauffeur their kids around. It also means they emphasize predictable, scheduled activities (like sports leagues) that cost money. Youth mobility gives kids freedom, saves money, and reduces the unpaid-labor burden on women

I survived (barely 😅🥶). Someone felt so sorry for me that they offered me their coat off their back (should have said yes but I am stubborn!)

🤦‍♀️ Nearly all the eligible population got 2 doses of Covid vaccine without being forced to, it was the “this is all we need to do to end the pandemic” (and then this being untrue - omicron) that sowed distrust

Watching Warm Bodies and unfortunately I will just be distracted by how it is filmed in Montreal, where I too experienced the real pandemic early days

I have a folder called "old" in my resumes folder that is a graveyard of this type (I avoid looking at its contents)

goal: try to make most of day off and attend the big deal Remembrance Day ceremony downtown chaotic plan: do workout on canal, try to time things right so workout ends near monument, try not to get hypothermia during ceremony, jog home

I think this one is a winner. Maybe I'm being overly optimistic but I think even kids in elementary school would probably propose something more appropriate.

FB housing group post appears in feed, poster is non-binary many bigoted responses, one is "the Lord can save us all" response "well he didn't save you so I beg to differ 🥴" perfect

There are some legit concerns about "TUE doping" (which aren't new or specific to trans athletes... see longstanding controversies about asthma inhaler & thyroid med use!), but this seems like it could be easily addressed by developing some dosing regs instead of denying TUE use outright.

once again, I am proposing that someone do a crowdsourced app that tells me what the sidewalk/MUP conditions are like on a given winter's day

the rate of doping in MMA is also really high while doping isn't the same kind of moral failing as being a neo Nazi, it does fit within a sport that seems (to me) to be a bit of a chauvinistic fantasy (i.e. doping as much about performance as aesthetic), which is often a pipeline for this ideology.

just spent a couple hours trying to fix a PDF that Word couldn't read into a modifiable document which was also apparently created by someone who didn't know how to use Word's multilevel list format function THIS would have been a good use for AI lol

So, I think the clapback this article is getting is good. The hill I will die on is that it is not responsible journalism to heap accolades on "youth prodigies," whether that's due to academic accomplishments (going to university as a child), or sports (winning lots/impressive performances).

holy buzzkill on r/poutinecrimes man I am pretty sure everyone who did school in Canada knows (most of?) this lol

old enough to remember what schools opposed the women's XC distance moving up from 6k to find it ironic that many of those schools are now doing quite well under the new regime 🙃 (yes some of the coaches have changed) runningmagazine.ca/uncategorize...

not to pile on but this reminds of these two girls (sisters? bffs?) who were a few years older than me in HS. Everyone called them the "orange twins" because of a similarly unfortunate use of poorly matched caked on foundation/bronzer. I wonder if anyone ever told them it looked bad.

Been digging my lazy no layer deconstructed lasagna of late

yeah, sometimes celiacs will say "if only someone rich and influential had celiac! Medicine would care about us and label laws would improve!" there are plenty of rich/influential people with celiac, they just mostly lack awareness/think of it as an individual medical issue

things that make the sport hard to follow: - no link to live results on championship website (I'm sure there is one) - no link to where final results will be posted - no direct link to CBC stream (just CBC page)

beautiful

> "I take my celiac precautions very seriously..." > talks about eating at a normie buffet

I think my cat has the concept of object permanence, but she definitely does not have the concept of weather permanence... ask to go out, see it's raining, decide against going on... starts screaming to be let out 5 minutes later

In other provinces, journalists can use anti-SLAPP legislation to challenge lawsuits when they believe they are groundless or undermine the public interest Alberta has no such laws, leaving journalists vulnerable to long and expensive legal battles I believe that is fundamentally bad for democracy

A thing that seems lost in this dispute is that AFAIK the ostriches were being raised for the slaughter (meat, oils etc.), so I don't think there's any sensible argument that it's about animal welfare/saving lives.

the real story here is highlighting the issues with self-reg of professions like doctors "during disciplinary proceedings, patients are reduced to witnesses with no lawyers of their own, but doctors can draw on extraordinary legal resources" torontolife.com/deep-dives/w...

if I as a client received something obviously crafted with AI from my lawyer I would be looking elsewhere even if there was no professional liability issue with the content. Mostly I'd feel disrespected and wonder what I was paying for.

Following a link from a publicly posted QR code has to be the most insecure activity we trained people to do. I've been against the damned things from the beginning.

cool, always good to have more options. Hopefully may expand to the other fun colours?

as a kid one of my favourite meals was lasagna as an adult, realize that can get 90% of the joy of lasagna by using normal pasta shape, mixing it up with meat/tomato sauce/veggies, throw cheese on top, bake (many less efforts)

this is why I'm not about the QR code

cashier: you know you're the third person to buy this bread on my shift? me: yeah, it's because there's a shortage of this brand and all the other GF breads are some low carb/grain free keto nonsense. cashier: ? me: MY PEOPLE WANT BREAD WITH CARBS

I was once tasked with filling out this info for our lab's grant app and tbh even having me do this felt uncomfortable (imagine asking your coworkers if they identify as LGTBQ+, ethnicity, disabled)... not saying it shouldn't be collected to get equity metrics but privacy is important.

depends on where the couch came from, methinks. Ikea or Structube? Probably not.

chat, do we still think celiac isn't a "real disability?" fwiw this person's experience isn't atypical, you just won't see much of it because toxic positivity + limitations don't sell product placements

cat profoundly furious about time change and its impact on "fishies time"

many things aside, the point about Kenyan and Ethiopian runners dominating the marathon, while true on its face, belies a certain misunderstanding of the realities of talent & development in sport and is a racist dog whistle

>left home early, came home late on trash day > compost and recycling bin gone > "damn, I guess someone stole them... don't people know they're free from the city?" > go out later to canvass area in case taken by someone else (mine are labelled) > find on sidewalk on *other side of street*

yeah in grad school we just used the US ones because ain't nobody got $ for that CSA standard for a quick reference, and mostly they are similar enough that it wouldn't impact the research question/conclusions

Encountered a mask hater on the bus today. He asked if he could ask me a question and I already knew what it was going to be because when I sat beside him he turned to stare at me for a good 10 seconds. I was dressed in a conservative suit (going to court) so no reason to stare other than mask

Watching Dune 2 and now I have Spice Up Your Life stuck in my head, creating a deeply comedic high contrast pseudo soundtrack

Post vaccine pharmacy wait period - or as I call it, 15’ of market research on snake oils 😂

weird community drama: people publicly announcing canceling their subscription to GF Watchdog because she said that a particular chain brand of cakes made in a shared bakery shouldn't be labelled GF (since they admit they are not guaranteed <20 ppm... which is what GF means in the US)

no need to address this, n95s only, just ban live music and theatre forever /s (we will note that this level of CO2 is not actually good for you even if you filter out the pathogens on an individual level with an n95 or the system level with HVAC)