We have to be the grown-ups in the room, alas. That means no exporting of oversized birds that are probably infected with avian flu, even if we would be sending them to the US.
Much of the animation takes place outside Japan these days. If you watch enough recent anime end credits, you'll see a lot of what look like romanized Vietnamese names. And there was a scandal . . . about a year ago now? . . . when some material for an anime then in production was found on the server of a North Korean studio (probably because a Chinese studio to which the anime had been outsourced then outsourced it further without paying attention to little things like international treaties). And I don't think the teams remaining in Japan have any shortage of recruits.
This issue, as with any business, is "can AI produce more for cheaper at an acceptable quality?" If it does make real inroads, it'll be the outsourcing studios doing the less-important scenes that get replaced first.
We'll stop sending messages when it's clear that they've been received. That would require Trump to not only stop threatening our sovreignty, but officially apologize for it. This would not be difficult if Trump behaved like an adult, rather than a playground bully.
Most people aren't willing to pay extra money or do extra work for something they themselves don't need or use. Unless there's a massive marketing campaign behind it, or the law requires it. This has been the case throughout history, pretty much.
My primary browser profile allows only whitelisted cookies. It also allows only whitelisted Javascript, so I don't see the popups. If this breaks a site beyond usefulness, I seriously consider whether I really need that site (and if it falls into the <2% where the answer is "yes", I either whitelist it or open it in the window for the other profile that functions on a blacklist basis).
That's a lot more manual management than most people want to bother with, though.
If you think you can set up mail infrastructure with on premise everything that is available to your not on premise workers safer than Microsoft, you will be spending a huge amount of money to do so.
Even if they prefer not to self-host, there are plenty of providers out there that are more trustworthy than Microsoft. In fact, I would say that a medium-sized established company that derives most of its revenue from providing email and related services is likely to secure them better than an oversized tech giant that just does email on the side—they have more incentive.
Indigenous people are overrepresented among homicide victims in Canada: "The homicide rate for Indigenous people was over six times higher than for the non-Indigenous population (9.31 versus 1.46 homicides per 100,000 population)." ( source , which is 2023 data).
General Indigenous life expectancy is also lower—anywhere from 10 to 20 years difference at birth, depending on which information source and which subset of Indigenous people (Inuit lifespans are shortest overall). Here's some StatsCan data from 2011—I can't find anything more recent, although I'm sure it exists.
I haven't found any death statistics for Indigenous people in Saskatchewn specifically. They're ~17% of the population there, per Wikipedia, which is the highest % of any province I could find the information for quickly (more than double Alberta's, for instance), so Indigenous issues actually could be a significant contributor to Saskatchewan's statistical skew.
Well, the GG has two official residences, as does the PM (although one of those isn't currently usable). The Speaker of the House has one, and we have one reserved for visiting foreign heads of state. When Stornoway was given to the government, I guess the opposition leader seemed like the next most important person to give a house to. The government could try to sell it, but those kinds of large, multi-million-dollar historic buildings are always a problem to unload, and I understand that the area it's in is sufficiently high-rent that property owners in the area would fight tooth and nail against any useful redevelopment.
I suppose it could be offered to the Chief Justice of Canada instead.
Its hard to believe the polls could do a 180 like that, given the Carney and Pierre are ideologically opposite.
Not difficult to believe at all, once you remember that the average voter makes their decision based on emotions rather than rational thought. There were a whole bunch of people who wanted anyone other than Trudeau as PM. They would have agreed to vote for a pet rock as long as its name wasn't "Justin Trudeau", but they didn't really think much of Poilievre even if they saw him as the only alternative to The Guy They Didn't Want.
Politics in a democracy are more a popularity contest than anything else.
Canada at least has some privacy laws, even if they're weaker than the EU's and not always well-enforced. The US has no such laws. So keeping the data in Canada is an improvement over giving it to, say, Google, even if it's still not perfectly protected. Plus, if worst comes to worst, it's a lot easier to bring a lawsuit for mishandling your data against someone in your own country.
Given that it offers free email, I would be kind of surprised if no one had ever used it for spam.
As for https support, I had no issues there, and a quick check shows that the site has a valid certificate from Let's Encrypt. The security signature is given as "AES-GCM, 128-bit keys, TLS 1.2", which means it's one TLS version behind and has the exact same security signature as amazon.ca.
Rental housing makes sense for people who aren't intending to stay where they are in the long term (young single people or people whose situation is in flux in some way). If you're expecting to move on, lumbering yourself with an expensive asset that will take years to pay for and may require months to unload when you no longer need it isn't smart.
It may make sense to restrict rentals to multi-unit buildings, and also restrict the number of buildings or units under the same owner, but having none at all causes more problems than it solves.
There have been experimental deployments of Universal Basic Income, one of which lasted five years and involved an entire town, and none of those things ever materialized.
Price them appropriately—like, less than a dollar per month per square foot rent, or maybe the cost of a used RV to own—and you might see some uptake. As things stand, I expect these are unaffordable for the people who might be able to use them.
If the idiot owners won't budge on charging too much for too little, they deserve to go bankrupt over it.
Thing is, punishing children for stuff their grandparents and great-grandparents did ~50 years ago isn't a good look either.