Some Canadian provinces have logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, with next of kin citing funeral costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones’ remains....
Cost is likely 90% of the reason. Make divorce free with nobody having to give up anything they own, and without any other support payment, and I guarantee the rates would skyrocket to at least 75% of all married couples. LOL
Families Minister Jenna Sudds said Monday some Ontario daycare centres have pulled out of the federal government’s national early learning and child care program because the province hasn’t stepped up with enough cash....
I always wanted to contribute to OSM but found it a bit daunting.
Any contribution helps! Hell, I went around town just looking for bike parking racks to add, and was able to put dozens of new ones on the map. You can even just label house numbers (with the aforementioned apps listed in the comment you replied to).
It should be highly noted that despite the substantial danger he poses to everyone, especially children, the courts decided it was OK to release this animal into the general population.
Until we start holding judges responsible for the actions of those set free, this “justice” system doesn’t benefit anyone except those committing crimes.
EDIT: Has Keith’s friends found this post? What’s up with the downvotes? Stop defending this violent pedophile.
This undercover warranty investigation is a one-year follow-up from our series that investigated ASUS for motherboards incinerating AMD CPUs, at the end of which ASUS promised a number of improvements to its then-anti-consumer warranty processes. Spoiler alert: They’re still anti-consumer. We sent our ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme...
Nurse practitioners could help fill the void, advocates for the profession say, if more provinces would adopt policies to integrate them into primary care and pay them fairly for their work. Some physicians’ organizations have pushed back against that approach, arguing that NPs don’t have as much training or education as...
As frustrations for Canadians grow along with grocery store bills, some say Canadians are ready to think outside the big box store when heading out for groceries.
Since the start of Ottawa’s $10-a-day program, Sandra Christian has had many families leave her private child-care centre in B.C. for a spot in a subsidized centre....
some of these families have said the money they’ve saved on child care has helped them buy a second property.
If this is true, everyone should be furious. We’ve been trying to find childcare for our two grandkids for YEARS. Their mother is in healthcare, and if we weren’t able to care for them (at our loss), she wouldn’t be able to work or survive.
Why are daycare services even offered to families who aren’t in desperate need? Those families can afford a babysitter.
Single parent homes, low-income homes, parents who work in an industry in crisis (education, healthcare, etc.) should be at the top of the list for $10 a day childcare.
Not only was I spending 100% of my grocery budget at a Loblaws owned store, but I can probably count on one hand how many times I’ve visited one in the last 6 years.
Switching to alternative stores saved me thousands over the years.
PICKERINGTON, Ohio (April 26, 2024) — In the wake of the most recent tragedy involving a fatal collision between a Tesla vehicle in autopilot mode and a motorcyclist in Washington state, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) once again urges the Department of Transportation (DOT) to strengthen Automated Driving System...
I don’t give a fuck if crash avoidance systems plow through test dummies sometimes. The times it doesn’t matter.
Would you be OK with human drivers plowing into pedestrians without any reason whatsoever, just because other people don’t the other 99% of the time?
These advanced systems should never fail, especially not in test scenarios that couldn’t be easier for them to pass. Some of these vehicles literally fail to even slow down while hitting the test dummies!
Add them into a random adventure that is the real world, and I wouldn’t trust them unless they don’t kill people like it was a lottery draw.
Here’s a video report from last week, showing how crash avoidance works, and that auto break simply fails to work in some vehicles. And yes, the feature does work in other vehicles, as they should in such easy scenarios.
The problem is, you have cars marketed and sold as having these features that simply do not work. And it’s clear that drivers who own vehicles with all these magical features get lulled into believing they don’t have to pay attention 100% of the time and at a moment’s notice.
A new report lends insight into Canadians who leave the country, estimated to number around four million in 2016, or about 11 per cent of the population according to Statistics Canada.
More than one in ten people in a single year?
I don’t think I know a single person in all my life who moved out of Canada.
Loblaw Companies reported $13.58 billion in first-quarter revenue — a 4.5 per cent increase from a year earlier — on Wednesday morning, the same day that a group of frustrated shoppers said they would begin a month-long boycott of the grocery retailer....
Animal advocates are celebrating after parts of a controversial Ontario agriculture law that made it illegal to get a job on a farm under false pretences to expose conditions inside were deemed unconstitutional....
If you need an anti whistleblowing law, that’s a red flag.
100% this.
Any company or industry that actively tries to get these laws instated should be investigated immediately, because they are doing some really, really bad things.
Apparently it’s a “tip” that’s been passed around to international students.
That doesn’t surprise me. I’ve seen people suggesting to others, who are NOT in need, to visit their local soup kitchen for free/low-cost meals. I don’t know how they can sleep at night with a clear conscience, but that’s disturbing.
… driving 16 hours straight, with only water and a bag of chips in the cab before resting at a pit stop.
No amount of training will “fix” the working conditions these drivers have to face.
The paper cited an aging workforce, demand for higher pay and difficulty attracting youth and women to the profession as the main reasons for the shortage.
“Difficulty attracting” and “demand for higher pay” are linked. Add in the horrific work conditions and there’s no wonder the industry has a problem! They caused it!!
Hey all, I'm trying to be a little more economical and reduce the amount of food I waste, and was wondering if there were any open-source apps that can track the best-before dates of the foods I buy so I can improve my meal-planning....
For me personally, I have a dry-erase board on my fridge and will note expiry/bb dates for items that are only fresh for a short time (i.e. the bread or almond milk I make). That way, everyone in my home can see it.
Pretty much all other food items like spices, flour, pantry ingredients, and frozen food are stocked in quantities that I would be able to use well before they “expire” (or diminish in quality). Some of these foods are fresh for years, so it doesn’t really worry me that they’ll go bad or anything.
Unless you’ve got a warehouse of food with moderate shelf life, I think there might be an easier way to do things without using an app, which I find just overcomplicates things. But even a simple spreadsheet, as already suggested, might be an easy option. Just my 2 cents.
A recent survey shows not all Canadians are ready to make the switch to an electric vehicle as they have concerns about charging stations, cold weather and battery life.
Would you be able to justify it if you only drove <4000km a year? An old beater gas guzzler might cost a few grand, and be perfectly fine for the occasional driver. What does the least expensive used EV going for?
The problem with EVs (among other things), is that they are inaccessible to a large number of people due to their cost, while regular cars might not be.
I know nothing of this brand or about the safety in Chinese EVs, and to what level their built-in spying extends to, but the car is still US$12,899.00 + whatever costs are involved to get it to you. Assuming you can get service for these Chinese EVs in North America.
For sure, it’s better than a $40,000 price tag if you don’t drive much, but still too expensive, IMO. My current car’s days are numbered, and I don’t think I would get an EV, even at $13,000.
Why not? You can purchase a used non-electric car for almost nothing. If someone needs a car and don’t have tens of thousands to spend on it, an EV isn’t even in the equation.
If I drive less than 4000km a year I would question if I needed a car at all, that’s a 7km one way commute. When my commute was that small, I rode a bike. Not for everyone of course, but that’s how I handled it.
This is my situation. I currently don’t need to drive, but my wife does, so a car is always going to be in our driveway. I ride my bike everywhere, and would easily replace my car with an e-bike if it weren’t for my wife.
The problem with society, is that people are REALLY hesitant to not drive. They see no way of replacing their car, or the desire to do so is extremely low. Until that changes, people will still want to own a car, no matter the situation.
This may be a uniquely North American problem, though. I don’t think most Europeans feel that they need a car.
Honestly, I understand EVs are a tough sell to a section of the population hopping from 4k beater to 4k beater, but the average new vehicle sale was $68,000 or so last year. That tells me the average new vehicle buyer can afford an EV.
That’s a sad statistic. With something like half of Canadians living paycheck to paycheck, I can’t even imagine how they could spend $68,000 on a goddamn car.
Even if money was no object, and I could buy a regular car or an EV, I still would hesitate to buy an EV. They are spy boxes, and I will absolutely not pay money for a car that spies on me.
Until that changes, I won’t consider an EV. Obviously, not everyone knows or care about privacy, so EV sales will continue.
I rely on Bitwarden (slooowly migrating from… a spreadsheet…) and am thinking of keeping a master backup to be SyncThing-synchronized across all my devices, but I’m not sure of how to secure the SyncThing-synchronized files’ local access if any one of my Windows or Android units got stolen and somehow cracked into or...
My wife does the same, and I can’t tell you how many times a day I have to help her reset passwords, figure out if something is an “1”, “i”, “l”, or “|”, or decide what needed to be capitalized.
Even though I have Bitwarden installed for her, she just “prefers” paper like some people prefer to stub their toes.
When the federal government announced an increase in capital gains taxes in its recent budget, the hike was defended, in part, as a way to ensure the wealthiest Canadians pay their fair share....
In a related article, liked to the one above, it was about donor anonymity.
One of the quotes said: “…there is no excuse whatsoever for donors to insist on secrecy.”
I can think of at least a dozen reasons, but I wonder how gay donors feel knowing that their right to anonymity might be in question if the wrong (right-wing) political party ever gets a say in the matter.
Legislation to enact the digital services tax is currently before Canada’s Parliament. Once it passes, “the tax would begin to apply for calendar year 2024, with that first year covering taxable revenues earned since Jan. 1, 2022,” the Finance Department said in budget documents published Tuesday....
Canada’s parliamentary budget officer has estimated the tax will raise about C$7.2 billion over five fiscal years.
That doesn’t seem like enough. The richest individuals can make that much in a month, so having every major corporation in the digital space only generate $7.x billion in digital services tax revenue over 5 years seems like nothing. Some of these companies are worth over multiple trillions of dollars.
Not to mention the toll it takes on your body. I know so many former construction workers who now have life-long, “wear and tear” injuries in their 40s and 50s, which makes it hard for them to find work without moving to an entirely different industry.
Here’s the location on Google Maps, if anyone wants to poke around.
That adds a LOT of context, since this green strip is only used for a short distance after the off-ramp.
However, I wouldn’t trust any vehicle to pay attention to cyclists during that transition, and I have no doubt there are a lot of conflicts there.
A solution would be to have a STOP SIGN at the off-ramp to protect cyclists. It’s not ideal for motorists, but it’s a far safer option, and there’s more than enough distance coming off the highway to allow for it.
I was commenting on the location given in the map link (off ramp), but I’ve just had a look at the on-ramp section and I do see the concern. I would be worried about cars crossing, too, and I’m not sure how that could be addressed.
Where I live (another part of Ontario), we don’t have any protections at all for cyclists near high on/off ramps, and it’s terrifying.
A class action lawsuit of several billion people would be kind of cool. Award everyone with $1000 minimum for the last decade+ of damages and see what happens 🤗
The new tax credit can stack with a 30 percent tax credit for the equipment costs of EV manufacturers, which was announced last year. The government projects the credit will cost $1 billion CAD by 2035.
A bit of a waste of money.
Why are we flipping the bill for companies who are going to turn a profit making these vehicles?
If we want to make a greater difference on the environment (and society), why not spend that billion on e-bike/micromobility rebates, since they make more of an impact than EVs.
Our return on investment would also be considerably higher with a national e-bike incentive program.
A Winnipeg business owner is fuming after being overcharged by a private garbage operation for something he says he didn’t do. Brad Wallin, president of Wall…
Has WM created perverse incentives that make their workers want to perform that kind of behavior?
The first thing that came to mind when I saw the video is “does the driver need to fill a quota or something?!!”, so it wouldn’t surprise me if that’s the case. Driver getting commission off of these bin collection runs, perhaps? LOL
In Canada, bodies go unclaimed as costs put funerals out of reach (www.reuters.com)
Some Canadian provinces have logged a jump in unclaimed dead bodies in recent years, with next of kin citing funeral costs as a growing reason for not collecting loved ones’ remains....
Divorce rates are falling: Are Canadians too poor to break up? (theconversation.com)
While multiple factors play a role in falling divorce rates, the costs of separation make going it alone a daunting prospect for many Canadians.
Feds blame Ontario as some daycare centres pull out of national child care program (www.cbc.ca)
Families Minister Jenna Sudds said Monday some Ontario daycare centres have pulled out of the federal government’s national early learning and child care program because the province hasn’t stepped up with enough cash....
What open-source software would you like more people to know about?
Durham police say high-risk violent offender released into community poses 'significant risk' (toronto.citynews.ca)
ASUS Scammed Us (www.youtube.com)
This undercover warranty investigation is a one-year follow-up from our series that investigated ASUS for motherboards incinerating AMD CPUs, at the end of which ASUS promised a number of improvements to its then-anti-consumer warranty processes. Spoiler alert: They’re still anti-consumer. We sent our ASUS ROG Ally Z1 Extreme...
Could nurse practitioners fill the primary care gap? (www.theglobeandmail.com)
Nurse practitioners could help fill the void, advocates for the profession say, if more provinces would adopt policies to integrate them into primary care and pay them fairly for their work. Some physicians’ organizations have pushed back against that approach, arguing that NPs don’t have as much training or education as...
Why these immigrants to Canada say they're thinking about leaving, or have already moved on (www.ctvnews.ca)
For some immigrants, their dreams of permanently settling in Canada have taken an unexpected twist.
Small grocers, co-ops receiving boost from Loblaw boycott: ‘A lot of anger’ | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
As frustrations for Canadians grow along with grocery store bills, some say Canadians are ready to think outside the big box store when heading out for groceries.
Subsidized child care not helping low-income families: operators (www.canadianaffairs.news)
Since the start of Ottawa’s $10-a-day program, Sandra Christian has had many families leave her private child-care centre in B.C. for a spot in a subsidized centre....
Anyone else doing the Loblaws boycott?
Is anyone else boycotting Loblaws? I don’t have many alternatives, but I’m doing my best to take my business elsewhere.
American Motorcyclist Association Urges DOT to Act on Automated Driver System Regulations Following Tragic Collision (americanmotorcyclist.com)
PICKERINGTON, Ohio (April 26, 2024) — In the wake of the most recent tragedy involving a fatal collision between a Tesla vehicle in autopilot mode and a motorcyclist in Washington state, the American Motorcyclist Association (AMA) once again urges the Department of Transportation (DOT) to strengthen Automated Driving System...
Growing number of Canadians are moving abroad due to lack of affordability: McGill study (nationalpost.com)
The study found the number of Canadians living abroad relative to the national population was five times higher than the U.S.
Loblaw reports $13.58B in Q1 revenue, as Reddit group's boycott kicks off (www.cbc.ca)
Loblaw Companies reported $13.58 billion in first-quarter revenue — a 4.5 per cent increase from a year earlier — on Wednesday morning, the same day that a group of frustrated shoppers said they would begin a month-long boycott of the grocery retailer....
Animal activists thrilled after parts of Ontario agriculture law unconstitutional | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
Animal advocates are celebrating after parts of a controversial Ontario agriculture law that made it illegal to get a job on a farm under false pretences to expose conditions inside were deemed unconstitutional....
B.C. moves to ban drug use in public spaces, taking more steps to keep people safe | BC Gov News (news.gov.bc.ca)
B.C. is taking action to make illicit drug use illegal in all public spaces, including inside hospitals, on transit and in parks....
Which are the F-Droid apps everyone should download?
Canadian food banks are on the brink: ‘This is not a sustainable situation’ | Globalnews.ca (globalnews.ca)
A recent spring food drive in Barrie, Ont. fell $100,000 short on their financial goal. It’s part of a growing trend across Canada.
Makeshift slaughterhouse in a residential garage points to growing concerns about illicit meat sales | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
New truckers in Canada aren't being trained well enough. How do we fix that? (www.cbc.ca)
Open Source apps to monitor the best-before dates of foods?
Hey all, I'm trying to be a little more economical and reduce the amount of food I waste, and was wondering if there were any open-source apps that can track the best-before dates of the foods I buy so I can improve my meal-planning....
Caged Cruelty: Hidden-Camera Footage Shows Hens Suffering in Tiny Cages (www.youtube.com)
Less than half of Canadians say they will buy an electric vehicle as their next car: survey (toronto.ctvnews.ca)
A recent survey shows not all Canadians are ready to make the switch to an electric vehicle as they have concerns about charging stations, cold weather and battery life.
How do you handle your passwords?
I rely on Bitwarden (slooowly migrating from… a spreadsheet…) and am thinking of keeping a master backup to be SyncThing-synchronized across all my devices, but I’m not sure of how to secure the SyncThing-synchronized files’ local access if any one of my Windows or Android units got stolen and somehow cracked into or...
Staples new plan is to recycle nearly everything — and pay their customers for it (www.thecooldown.com)
Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs....
Do wealthy Canadians pay enough taxes? That depends how we define 'fair share' (www.cbc.ca)
When the federal government announced an increase in capital gains taxes in its recent budget, the hike was defended, in part, as a way to ensure the wealthiest Canadians pay their fair share....
Health Canada lifts policy banning sperm donations from men who have sex with men (www.cbc.ca)
Canada to start taxing tech giants in 2024 despite US complaints (techxplore.com)
Legislation to enact the digital services tax is currently before Canada’s Parliament. Once it passes, “the tax would begin to apply for calendar year 2024, with that first year covering taxable revenues earned since Jan. 1, 2022,” the Finance Department said in budget documents published Tuesday....
Canada’s construction worker shortage stands in way of housing boost, CMHC says (globalnews.ca)
Bike lane in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada (video) (social.notjustbikes.com)
Canada to start taxing tech giants in 2024 despite U.S. complaints (www.bnnbloomberg.ca)
Should telecommunications be nationalized?
www.hilltimes.com/story/2024/04/17/…/418145/
Canada’s 2024 budget includes tax credit for building EV factories
mobilesyrup.com/…/canada-2024-budget-tax-credit-e…
Winnipeg business owner says overflowing bin that led to overcharge staged by garbage company (www.youtube.com)
A Winnipeg business owner is fuming after being overcharged by a private garbage operation for something he says he didn’t do. Brad Wallin, president of Wall…