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The outbreak in Southern Ontario seems to be mostly Mennonites. So the original anti-vaxxers.

It's been traced to a Mennonite wedding in New Brunswick, Ontario's chief public health doctor said, and has since spread across the country. The result's been the largest measles outbreak Canada has seen in more than a decade.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/ontario-public-health-measles-april-cases-1.7506748

https://www.kurthuggins.com/illustration

Google cut nearly a thousand other employees in its Pixel, Nest, Fitbit and Voice Assistant units in January this year, while it cut “only a few teams” in its Cloud Computing division in February. The largest round of cuts came in early 2023 when Google’s parent firm Alphabet announced it would cut 12 000 jobs, or six percent of its global workforce.

Ouch

I lived car free in Hintonburg for a while. It's about 3k away from grocery stores (you can make do with Giant Tiger and the lil market). I wouldn't do it again.

Westboro would be easier, if only for the proximity to grocery stores.

I'll second the vote for the Glebe. It's pricey, but it's the only neighbourhood where you don't need a car.

Two models of the BrightDrop Zevo are made on site and sales have lagged behind the competition, with numbers released by GM showing a total of 427 vehicles sold in Canada in 2024 and 1,529 in the United States.

That's 1.5 vehicles sold per employee.

It's been traced to a Mennonite wedding in New Brunswick, Ontario's chief public health doctor said, and has since spread across the country. The result's been the largest measles outbreak Canada has seen in more than a decade.

lol

They aren't gonna leave until it's untenable here.

That sounds totally reasonable. Thanks for handling it well.

Generally, porn is like booze. Too much can lead to negative consequences, but a little probably won't hurt.

But there are confounding factors:

1. Porn isn't real. It's cartoons for adults. Building your sexual expectations around it is unrealistic.
2. Depending on what you watch, it can be pretty degrading. See 1.
3. It gives the impression that sex is the same as intimacy and love. If you don't have healthy role models for romantic relationships, this can be a problem. I speak from experience.
4. OnlyFans &c are built on extracting money from lonely dudes. If someone is already in a bad spot, it can exacerbate their problems.
5. Some of the people in porn are treated badly, and end up worse of as a result.

In terms of positives: My sex ed classes didn't admit the existence of the clit or cunnilingus. So porn has had at least a minor positive impact on my sex life (and that of my partners).

Zowie. I guess they're banking on the whales.

Don't leave them hanging! Where can they find this "Lemmy" that you speak of?

“Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory” is mesmerizing and flawlessly produced. It became the most-downloaded episode of This American Life. There was only one problem. In almost every salient detail, the story was a fabrication.

This is the funny thing about trust. Before Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory, I treated TAL as a fun (probably fictional) story show. Then, when they tried to do something with a bit more weight, they fucked it up.

Often relegated to the background and overshadowed by major parties in the media, the Green Party remains one of the few to propose a truly fair taxation of multinational corporations. In a political landscape where most parties avoid confronting wealth and inequality, this position deserves to be acknowledged — a rare reminder that empathy and fiscal justice can still coexist in politics.

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We also need to name the fact that proposals like Pedneault’s often make people uncomfortable precisely because they challenge a certain class comfort. That comfort — deeply entrenched in many media institutions — inevitably affects how some political ideas are received.

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I’ll add this: true journalistic integrity also means being able to step back from one’s own assumptions — from habits shaped by class, power, and status. Within a public broadcaster, that expectation should be even stronger. In a media institution funded by the public, fairness should be championed.

(Reordered)

u r worng

Maybe treat them like a devil? They lose all experience gained in the previous iteration of existence and start again in their home plane.

https://www.canada.ca/en/privy-council/news/2025/04/update-on-canadas-actions-to-protect-general-election-45.html

The SITE Task Force observed large spikes of coordinated inauthentic behaviour preceding the election campaign, on March 10, and again during the writ period on March 25, 2025. Following increasing levels of engagement on the platform, the Liberal Party representative was briefed about the findings on April 6.

Poilievre is not destined to lose, but he’s vulnerable because the feeling that he was destined to win has dissipated. That feeling was an artefact, one he crafted with real skill, using [Trudeau]'s many flaws to distract from some of his own. He’s facing a new opponent, who is new to campaigning and can jettison only so much of the Trudeau record. It’s hardly obvious who’ll win.

I'm not sure that Poilievre needed to distract from his own flaws - Canadians often vote against politicians. There were a lot of people feeling the cost of living polycrisis who wanted a change. I suspect the CPC could have run a rock as leader and beaten Trudeau.

Carney is a similar case because some of us are using him as the option to vote against Poilievre.

Don't make Trump sound awesome. He's not.