In urban areas, the speed limit has almost no effect on travel times or average speed. It just limits how fast someone can go between red lights.

Privately-owned delivery services that come to your door are profitable, and nicely fill the gap when Canada Post won't bring a parcel to the door, but I'm sure that's just a coincidence.

It's important to respectfully balance the wishes of drivers who want unimpeded, high-travel and unlimited parking anywhere against other road users who want to not be killed or injured by drivers.

Reckon George Lucas is sitting pretty at Skywalker Ranch thinking about all the people who said that a blockade of a major trade route was a stupid thing to base a movie around?

You might want to double-check that link.

Nigel Farage has said that he wants to move towards an insurance based healthcare system.

The NHS wasn’t built in Wales just to be a destroyed by Reform UK.

A vote for Plaid Cymru is a vote to protect and strengthen our NHS.

The UCP Tried to Kill a Health Story with Claims That Didn’t Stand Up | The Tyee The government cited numbers that its own data contradicted.

After the @theijf.org found Edmonton paramedics’ overtime jumped 81% in three years, staff from Premier Danielle Smith’s office messaged reporters and editors, claiming data was omitted and asking the story be rewritten or deleted.

At least one news outlet complied. @brettmckay.bsky.social reports.

Like I said. Kobo has been over there keeping on keeping on this whole time. If you don't know about them, it's a great time to learn!

News Orgs Are Placating Far-Right Forces Domestically and internationally, news orgs benefit from protecting power

NEW: @policornerca.bsky.social revealed that Tina Yazdani, a critical reporter covering Ontario politics, was fired from CityNews, two of her stories removed from their site w/o explanation. Then, a lawsuit claims Thomson Reuters fired an employee for speaking out against their ICE collab. It's bad.

a wall of Indigenous books

we’ve been growing our Indigenous book collection enough to now have an entire bay in the shop dedicated to Indigenous reads! we’ll be continually adding to it in the hopes of having the best selection in the region. pop into the store to shop or browse our categories online at kingsbookstore.ca

Israeli army officially reinstates soldiers caught on tape raping Palestinian prisoner Israeli courts dropped the charges despite video and medical evidence of the assault

The entity which attempted to justify a genocide by alleging Hamas engaged in acts of sexual violence has itself made clear that sexual violence is permissible when committed by its own members.

200km/h and drunk.

"Perhaps no quality is more alien to Trump than humility, spiritual or otherwise."

Ski-Doos are not as old as I thought they were, which explains why they were rare and very basic in the small northern town I grew up in.

Yes. Frequent freezes.

North Vancouver chlorine plant rejected from continuing operations after 2030 | CBC News Chemtrade, a liquid chlorine manufacturer in the District of North Vancouver, is "disappointed" that councillors rejected its proposal to continue operating past 2030. While it submitted a peer review...

Absolutely insane this is being allowed to happen. Chemtrade produces 40% of all domestic chlorine in Canada - primarily used to treat drinking water - and they're being forced to cease operations after an online smear campaign funded by their direct competitor.

Would help if the hospitals put any kind of preventative measures in place (and actually enforced them). January 2026 - 45% of people admitted to Canadian hospitals for other things ended up getting infected with COVID while there, according to a different article. Criminal negligence, imo.

An advert promoting an AI company at Bristol Airport has been pulled after backlash.

The advert showed a female AI worker who will 'never ask for a raise'.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay

Drivers who can't pass just ride your bumper, presumably wanting you to go faster - regardless of speed limit, congestion, weather, or traffic.

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AI learns language from skewed sources. That could change how we humans speak – and think | Bruce Schneier Large language models aren’t trained on real-life conversations. As we encounter their language, it could affect our own

Oh:

A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

Are there any Nova Scotian artists (visual arts, craftspeople, musicians, etc.) who want to talk with me about their work, their financial challenges, and how the provincial budget cuts are affecting them?

Does CompuServe count as a social media age?

Little lies everywhere.

Hey Nova Scotia.

Do you have a valid bridgewatch certificate, current MEDs and medical and a valid passport?

The ship I’m working on needs one more deckhand to do a vessel delivery from Port Hawkesbury to the Bahamas leaving tomorrow night for about a week.

🚨 BREAKING: Coalition of Concerned Wolves opposes local farmer's plans to fence in sheep; cites current, unlimited sheep access. Says it will retract opposition if farmer pays for and provides weekly allowances of fresh sheep steaks to local wolf packs. More at 6:00.

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#cdnpoli

As the world turns, and gently spews us out…

Why, it was only a few months ago that I danced madly around the house and streets and pretty well everywhere after receiving my acceptance to the prestigious University of King's College MFA program in Creative Non-fiction. I've been wanting to do this…

Children may be at greater risk of death or injury, but it's my understanding that stopping speed enforcement would be good for the economy, which relies on fast-moving traffic, so this report doesn't give the whole story.

/sarcasm

I don't know much about hockey, but even I can see that the defence seems weak here.