It likely won't be the best received, but I wasn't a fan of the Ottawa Pride group making this decision last year to allow the pride parade to become a Palestine protest as well.
The largest reason for me is that here in Ottawa, we have had Palestinian protests each week through the summer. There was no shortage of Saturdays where Elgin and other areas were shut down for the protests to move through town. All of this I have no problem with, and it's part of living in the nations capital.
The problem I had with it was including the movement in the pride parade because I'm uncomfortable with a pro-palestinian message from the LGBTQ+ community because it just doesn't exist over there. There's a positive vibe during the pride parades about what the community has worked through and what it continues to work through, and I'm sorry but I still think too much about what some religions want to do to these groups, so mixing the messages doesn't sit well to me.
This inclusion of the Palestine protest in the pride parade ended up with it losing a lot of funding, and supporters as well who didn't want to get involved in the Palestinian protests, whether they supported them or not. For some of them pride is a celebration and seeing it turned into something else didn't sit well.
Just a local opinion and the vibe that I sensed from the less-online community (read:older). It's really not something that ended my support of anything, just something that I felt tried too hard to be inclusive.
If I had to guess for NFLD, it's likely it's distance from everything. Costs to ship foods, plus I don't know what sort of ability there is to grow their own food there, isn't most of the province just rock? Maybe someone from there would know that better but otherwise I think just fuel and shipping costs are enough.
Not sure what the need to be a dick about this it, but I don't agree that just because they are a "sliver of phone users" doesn't mean what they're talking about isn't still important. It's good for users to try and think of ways to keep things the least expensive for themselves, while increasing their technical knowledge. I'm seeing a lot of younger people without any basic knowledge of technology who are going to be at the whim of changes made by tech giants because they don't know how to modify their own systems.
The more people work together and ask questions to try and grow as well as try and share their discontent with design decisions of those tech giants in hope others might take note and stop, the better. It's a small effort by one person, but it's more than just throwing up their hands and saying "just get a thumb drive and stop crying".
Yeah I saw this and all I could think was "Mad! The guy is going to be mad about all of the stupid while also knowing he can't use his fists to make it (actually) better". A constant cycle of never having all of the solutions or a way to feel better.
Doesn't help that they haven't stood with labour groups enough that the Conservative party has had chances the past couple years to become "the labour party" with Unifor getting behind them recently. It was already sort of going that way with people in the trades generally leaning right on a lot of newer issues that are becoming the focus of the NDP.
There's not enough with these specific credentials. We could also hire these people to teach our next generation of scientists. These are highly skilled people and should be sought after the same way sports teams try and sign superstar players.
If bird flu is coming north, you want aa many of these people on your team as possible.
No, the American importer would pay the taxes. It's why people have been saying "tarrifs are a tax on your own people" for months now. They know the American people will hurt the most.
It affects Canada because then American businesses have less money to buy goods with. Lose-lose situation for everyone except for the rich getting the tax cuts elsewhere.
Highways above and underground. How about we all try and remember that stupid fucking "underground highway below the 417" idea to "reduce traffic" in that eternal hell hole. However many billions (possibly even trillions) that ends up being.
Feel free to come join us in Canada. We still appreciate doctors and scientists here and would be happy to let you continue work on curing Parkinsons disease.
We'll add it to our list of achievements that we give out for free, like insulin. That's sure to please Trump and your health insurance companies.
Fitting that DOGE went to war with the people working at the Insititute of Peace.
I swear this guy really thinks he's going to go down in history as the next Ghandi or something, his mind must be on a whole different level of dipshit.
From what I've heard lately of the Liberals trying to get their guy to step down so that they could keep the money that he's fundraised, as opposed to losing it if they removed him. Apparently he's raised somewhere north of 1.5M.
I'd also be interested to know how much this Conservative member raised, and if that might be a reason they were quick to remove him as opposed to waiting to step down. There's so many things at play in these decisions it's hard to know.
"It doesn't effect people, even if people are upset about it, so why should we do anything" is not a good and effective way for a government to work.
The same trust in self-governing is what made the Internet the shithole that we're dealing with now. I'd rather the parties make an adjustment before something is abused, not after.
It likely won't be the best received, but I wasn't a fan of the Ottawa Pride group making this decision last year to allow the pride parade to become a Palestine protest as well.
The largest reason for me is that here in Ottawa, we have had Palestinian protests each week through the summer. There was no shortage of Saturdays where Elgin and other areas were shut down for the protests to move through town. All of this I have no problem with, and it's part of living in the nations capital.
The problem I had with it was including the movement in the pride parade because I'm uncomfortable with a pro-palestinian message from the LGBTQ+ community because it just doesn't exist over there. There's a positive vibe during the pride parades about what the community has worked through and what it continues to work through, and I'm sorry but I still think too much about what some religions want to do to these groups, so mixing the messages doesn't sit well to me.
This inclusion of the Palestine protest in the pride parade ended up with it losing a lot of funding, and supporters as well who didn't want to get involved in the Palestinian protests, whether they supported them or not. For some of them pride is a celebration and seeing it turned into something else didn't sit well.
Just a local opinion and the vibe that I sensed from the less-online community (read:older). It's really not something that ended my support of anything, just something that I felt tried too hard to be inclusive.