Sorry but this model of foodbank was roughly over 70% the norm in most places prior to covid because it cuts down on wasted food (i.e. the hamper box system distributes a lot of food people either don’t, or won’t eat). Post-covid most banks had to go back to the hamper model to limit exposure to the sorting and storage areas.
I’ve both volunteered and worked at, as well as drawn from, several food banks. Idk if sask is just decades behind or what’s going on with this article but, no.
Nobody had to shop at the place offering “the cheapest shit” while all the smaller businesses were forced out of the market. People literally had a choice to spend one extra dollar, or end up here.
If you fall for the rhetoric that money is everything then yeah alright… Nobody could do anything about it I guess.
Poor all my life prior till about three years ago. Like highschool dropout street addict poor. And still made it out to protests and food-not-bombs cookouts and other actions across the country. By the mid nineties when I was a late teen I could see what the Walmart and Starbucks were doing to my culture and I tried to do something about it.
Yeah. If spending my last dollar on ramen from the local corner store instead of 50 cents at the big box has ever been an option, I’ve taken it. Happily. I understand the economics of raising a family in suburbia is different than what I’ve experienced as a person but I also understand that if everyone swallows the capitalism pill without coughing on it we’re all fuckin doomed. And you don’t need to be a punk or a radical to have access to that information in this era. At all.
Addressing a crowd of 500 members of Canadian tech during the BetaKit Town Hall the CEO of Shopify said the country suffers from a “go-for-bronze” culture.
Worked at Shopify for over two years and left voluntarily ahead of wave three of mass layoffs. Watched dozens of great people get shafted for cost-cutting. And I am still close with someone who trains our overseas replacements. To be clear, I have zero bones to pick with our peers working overseas, they’re also great people. What I have a problem with is Shopify’s explosive growth over lockdowns necessitating over-hiring (in their words) and meanwhile the user base nearly tripled over the same period.
They didn’t lay people off because the workload eased up. They did it because they reached peak inflection enshittify status. They trimmed thousands of locals, contracted out for pennies on the dollar, and wall street and the enterprise clients now know they’re willing to spill blood to thrive. Shopify is now part of the tech cool kids club.
It’s not even ironic that they don’t want to chip in for the Canadian tax base. They don’t need Canada anymore. They’re only staying here on paper because our legal system is more forgiving than almost anywhere else. They’re laughing, heartily.
Protesters occupying a camp established by a First Nation in northern Alberta to defy drilling operations on its traditional lands have been ordered to vacate....
I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I’m a writer and it’s a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it’s got Windows and it’s unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it’s...
Obligatory Bunsenlabs plug. Nice light Debian based distro with no DE. It cleverly uses openbox wm and tint2 and some other tricks to make it feel like you have one though.
Yeah that’s a fun one. Not that I go a lot for this purpose (ahem) but three of the five times I went through Lifelabs at the behest of my doctor were for routine STI screens. When I saw news of that breach I was like well at least the darknet will know I’m free of sexually transmitted diseases! Not altogether stoked that they might have access to all of my other personal info though!
It’s kinda janky but I’ve been running HoloISO on my gaming rig for over a year and it was mostly pain free. To be clear I don’t use that system for much more than gaming but recreational browsing and music/movies etc as well. It’s fine.
Recent decisions by the maintainer to make that distro immutable have confused me and I’m thinking about switching to Endeavor. I was historically a Debian user. This was my first experience with Arch (btw) so I’d kinda like to get to know it a bit before we introduce thicker weeds and deeper rabbit holes thanks very much bye.
I do a lot of text editing for work and there are some phrases that I have to type frequently. What’s the best way to quickly paste those phrases into a document using a shortcut or keyword? I mainly use Kwrite and Kate as i prefer plain text editors and need no formatting.
Canada's 1st full-scale free grocery store to open in Regina (www.cbc.ca)
Imagine walking into a store, picking out all your groceries for the week and not having to worry about facing an expensive bill at the checkout....
Loblaws boycott: Costco and Walmart are Canadians’ top low-cost grocery store alternatives (cultmtl.com)
A new study by Léger has assessed Canadians’ perceptions on the Loblaws boycott, which is currently underway over claims of greedflation.
Shopify CEO says Canada must overcome “go-for-bronze” culture at BetaKit Town Hall (betakit.com)
Addressing a crowd of 500 members of Canadian tech during the BetaKit Town Hall the CEO of Shopify said the country suffers from a “go-for-bronze” culture.
First Nation protest camp in northern Alberta served with court injunction (www.cbc.ca)
Protesters occupying a camp established by a First Nation in northern Alberta to defy drilling operations on its traditional lands have been ordered to vacate....
What distro should I use on my potato?
I have an HP Stream 11 that I want to use for word processing and some light web browsing - I’m a writer and it’s a lightweight laptop to bring to the library or coffee shop to write on. Right now it’s got Windows and it’s unusable due to lack of hard drive space for updates. Someone had luck with Xubuntu, but it’s...
Stephen Harper’s firm behind spy tech Israel is using to target Gazans ⋆ The Breach (breachmedia.ca)
Over 200,000 small businesses took on new debt to repay their CEBA loan (www.newswire.ca)
Bank of Canada rate cuts could be delayed by high government spending: Scotiabank (financialpost.com)
You may be eligible for LifeLabs class-action lawsuit, but you need to apply soon (www.ctvnews.ca)
SteamOS as your daily driver?
Is this a totally crazy idea? Talk me down before I hurt myself.
Canadian businesses say housing crisis is forcing them to boost pay: survey (globalnews.ca)
Text editor with predefined text snippets?
I do a lot of text editing for work and there are some phrases that I have to type frequently. What’s the best way to quickly paste those phrases into a document using a shortcut or keyword? I mainly use Kwrite and Kate as i prefer plain text editors and need no formatting.