Clearly Dad needs some cool dinosaur shorts (don't we all) (yes, I do have dinosaur shorts myownself).

Here's another thing I thought Canada had agreed was a bad idea: gerrymandering. Alberta begs to differ. There are several news pieces on this story but this one has the best headline rabble.ca/politics/can...

Pearson's closer to Doug's house, after all

I had the strangest dream. I dreamed that my shoes—my comfortable, unfashionable wool shoes—were pivoting to AI. "But you're a shoe company," I said. "Just go out of business! Keep your dignity!" My shoes thanked me politely for the great question and then tried to walk me off a bridge. That was how I knew that their pivot to AI was complete. From Allbirds to Allbirds (see, that L is an 1). Maybe I've cracked, I said to myself. Maybe this is the piece of Al news that has finally broken my spirit for good.

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Ontario government buys $28.9M private jet for Doug Ford's use | CBC News The provincial government has purchased a pre-owned private jet for $28.9 million to be used by Ontario Premier Doug Ford.

No no no no no. Doug needs to take public forms of transit. AND we need to get rid of private jets for environmental reasons. Take Via1, Doug. And if the train doesn't go where you want? Dude. Your fault. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Opinion: On Canada’s high-speed rail plan, the numbers just don’t add up Pierre Poilievre has found a principled, conservative position on the Alto project

And what's the business case for the $40B in public funds Canadian taxpayers shell out to maintain highways every year? (To access highways, Canadian car owners now have to pay an avg. of $12,000 a year for gas, insurance, parking, etc.)

Coyne proposes ending all subsidies to transport...

BC Health Experts Say the Province Has Solutions to the Toxic Drug Crisis. 10 Years In, Policies Still Ignore The Evidence. “We have this bizarre dichotomy where everybody agrees that this is a health issue, but the majority of the resources…goes to law enforcement.”

I always feel so sorry for Lisa Lapointe. Even in retirement, she keeps telling them what the answers are, and... they don't listen, and people keep dying. The worst kind of necropolitics. pressprogress.ca/bc-health-ex...

Of course they are.

Closing PHR because it ran itself into the ground trying to keep up with tripled demand will prove quickly to be an expensive proposition for Saskatchewan. You can fund harm reduction, or you can (expensively) pick up the pieces.

Yes. It makes me want to drag out that graph measuring the harms of various drugs INCLUDING ALCOHOL, where of course alcohol is miles and miles ahead of anything else. Not sure if Doug is literate enough to read graphs though.

I don't disagree, but every time Doug announces some sort of alcohol-regulation-loosening thing I wonder what scandal he's trying to distract us from

Back button hijacking to be penalised in Google crackdown The tech giant said it will punish sites that block back button navigation from June.

Good news. It's a seriously annoying behaviour. www.bbc.com/news/article...

And mine.

Attendance to count for sizable portion of high school final grades in Ontario It will count for 15% of final marks for Grades 9 and 10, and 10% in Grades 11 and 12, and written exams will be mandatory on official exam days

This is a terrible idea. We shouldn't punish people for getting sick or injured. We should encourage them to stay home and keep their germs to themselves and/or recover in peace. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

You can. And please do.

'The biggest shift of all is mental: trips that feel “car-shaped” can be performed as trips by bike.'

Does Tylenol Increase Autism Risk? A New Study Has Answers No link emerged in Danish cohort, with or without sibling comparisons

tl;dr: No.

www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

Yep, colour me unsurprised. I feel sorry for and about the birds. But.

Yeah, I walked out of a Tim's in rural Quebec a couple of months ago after waiting nearly 10 minutes for someone to take our order. They showed no signs of ever doing so, so... thanks for the free bathroom break, I guess

What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing in the Street In many ways, a world built for cars has made life so much harder for grown-ups.

From 2024 but worth a repeat: What Adults Lost When Kids Stopped Playing in the Street - In many ways, a world built for cars has made life so much harder for grown-ups www.theatlantic.com/family/archi... (your library probably has access if you hit a paywall)

Man found dead after canoe capsized in closed Brampton Lake: Peel police | CBC News A man has been found dead after he went missing following a boating incident Saturday night, said Peel police.

There's something off about this story. I suppose in time we'll find out whether someone wanted to propose on Heart Lake and it all went wrong, or whether someone wanted to rid themselves of their partner www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Seriously though, Preschool Swim 3 was offered at 9:30pm at our local pool. I boggled.

how can my coffeepot be empty already
how can it be raining AGAIN
where is my jetpack

The ones I really dislike are "Cyclists Dismount". And then what am I supposed to do? Dematerialize?

Weird.

In small-town Ontario, I once ate at a fast-food place where everyone went through the drive-thru and then sat in their cars to eat instead of coming inside (I was the only one inside). They rolled the car windows down so they could talk (it was about -2C and snowing) . It was very very WTF.

Just checked and mine was still there. Did yours use debit? Apparently they're phasing that out (why?).

That's terrible news indeed.

Have the Presto people even once anticipated something and then addressed it?

Trains are infrastructure. As such, we do not "subsidize" them, we *fund* them. As we do highway maintenance. Only non-car transportation modes ever get referred to as "subsidized," and it's such carbrained nonsense. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant