Just a FYI, Canadian news agencies wanted social platforms like Facebook to pay for linking to their news articles.
The argument from Canadian news agencies was that by social platforms sharing links on their social platforms, social platforms were directly increasing their sites user traffic and benefiting with increased ad revenue. News agencies argued this decreased their own ad revenue by decrease site traffic.
Most people know a link directs a individual to the original site of the content. Since Facebook and other social sites did not want to pay a link fee they simply had chosen to remove links to Canadian news sites (as requested)
By removing links to these sites on social platforms like Facebook, news agencies decreased their surface area of exposure. Thus news agencies decreased the amount of individuals being directed to their site and news articles.
Simply put, Canadian news agencies wanted their cake and eat it too.
Now search engine like Google search for example were exempt from this mandate because they only link to the article or external site. The irony in this is real.
Obviously sites like Facebook "condensing a news article automatically" and presenting it on their own site, without a user needing to navigate away from Facebook as a example is a different issue and a valid point.
Though please be aware, generally when a link shows up on Facebook and gets formatted with a picture and a paragraph underneath it. This feature is controlled directly by the external sites integration with Facebook or social platform, and they can choose how much of the link is condensed or shown.
Also please note, some of the "Canadian news agencies" that were lobbying for this to pass are actually USA owned, and masquerading as Canadian.
I have some duplicate consoles where they are modded different ways just for the fun of it. Some of these consoles I have never actually played a game on for more then 20min.
Maricopa County Attorney rules there is enough evidence to lay charges on the victim. However the victim had not show up to their scheduled court date, allegedly detained by ICE in the lobby of the court, on the day of the hearing. /s
ICE agents have no boundaries, they would probably walk into a hospital and arrest a heart surgeon mid surgery. Probably even arrest the patient on the table as well.
Maybe location tracking from Google maps giving a date when the car was driven and where, with a simple excel of distances calculated and tallied up for a given month or two.
If the owner had a photo of the dash with the distance reported a few months earlier start there to see if the report distance matches what the excel table totals up.
Traveling down University Avenue either walking, cycling, or driving, it's some of the best infrastructure planning I have seen in the city by far. The addition of the protected bike corridor, the curbs, signage and bus loading platforms all working together.
It would be so counter intuitive for the city to be forced to rip these out.
University Avenue has actually become pleasant to travel along. As a driver I see no negative difference. The avenue still has parking and has two full lanes with dedicated left and right turn lanes, which have become safer and easier to navigate. Additionally there are now dedicated and clearly marked loading and unloading areas.
Rolling the Avenue back would not make travel by car any easier or efficient. The third lane on Universal Avenue like most of the second lanes on Toronto streets are always filled with parked cars or delivery trucks loading and unloading.
The Province should instead be using its energy to get the LRT projects finally open and a clear data should be on the table.
Self checkout (at least in my experience) is now just become "regular checkout" with extra steps.
Each time I scan an item it refuses to scan, so I need to wait for an associate to approach me.