China is a lucrative enough market that some trade with them is inevitable, alas (and, to be honest, Canada as a whole probably can’t support itself if it limits international trade to countries that have had fairly clean human rights records for the last fifty years or so—it’s just too small a fraction of the world). We just have to be careful that we don’t get in so deep that we can’t easily pull out again.

Please let the people in positions of power in this country have learned something from the consequences of the current US administration’s antics. We can’t afford to put all of our eggs in one basket, no matter how large or tastefully decorated that basket is.

The record coldest temperature in North America of -63⁰C was recorded in the Yukon (specifically, at Snag, Yukon, in 1947). Brrr.

The right to arm bears might be more pertinent in this case. They become much less attractive targets if they’re shooting back.

(Seriously, though, how much longer do we have to wait before we can employ cloning/vat-grown tissue strategies to feed the insatiable demand of traditional Asian “medicine” markets, and stop killing animals for ineffective superstitious bullshit?)

It’s really just institutionalization by another name. While homeless people are in involuntary care, the people who don’t want them around will have their wish, and from their point of view, having the homeless cycle back into the system within a few months of release is a feature, not a bug. It doesn’t actually do anything to curb substance abuse, but it isn’t really meant to.

If this involved any other province, I’d think it was a Beaverton headline.

Bagged dry beans require more prep before they can be eaten, though, and you have to have the clean water to rehydrate them on site, and the know-how to do it. There’s an energy cost (electricity in remote off-grid communities isn’t necessarily cheap either), and a time cost on the part of the people cooking, all of which has to be taken into consideration. That doesn’t mean that replacing canned foodstuffs with dried or freeze-dried can’t be part of the answer, but it may have to be supplemented with recipes or facilities or cooking classes or something.

If there’s a systemic issue here that goes beyond people in the supply chain profiteering, the solution may not be simple.

Sensible people had rather deal with ice than with ICE.

Being nabbed for dissent requires having a strong opinion on something that’s at odds with the preferences of the Powers That Be, and not being afraid to speak up about it. I would guess that that’s only a small percentage of social media enthusiasts—less than a third, and I’m being generous there.

Unfortunately, this won’t happen, because the people most interested in social media tend to be those with the least interest in privacy and least understanding of data breaches and how to prevent them. Would be nice, though.

To be exact, the geometry of a moose makes it so that a lower-built vehicle will hit it in the legs, knock it over, and cause it to land on the hood, and quite possibly on the people in the front seat. This is in addition to the deceleration from hitting a critter that can weigh more than 500kg. Best result, if you managed to brake before hitting it, is a completely shattered windshield and deformed vehicle hood before the moose gets up and flees back into the bush. Worst result . . . well, I grew up in moose country, and the uncle of one of my elementary school classmates died in a moose collision.

You don’t, really, although “crime spree traced to out-of-work voice actor!” sounds like a plot from a Saturday morning cartoon several decades ago.

It seems unlikely that keeping this service would make a significant dent in their bottom line, so why?

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Mirroring what happened in Ontario years ago. Used to be that northeastern Ontario had a bunch of mills. Now there’s only Kapuskasing left, and they’re not really viable—by my understanding, they’ve been hanging on by their fingernails due to being mostly employee-owned and so not having to do more than break even, but they’ve now had to approach the government for a bailout, and their future seems doubtful. The next-to-last was Espanola, which closed down a couple of years ago now.

Then they’ll complain about having nothing to complain about.

“Uttering threats” is an offence under the Criminal Code and, as I understand it, the requirements for it to be considered a crime are pretty steep—kids on schoolbusses wouldn’t qualify because their threats usually aren’t meant to be taken seriously. It’s more like “dude standing over you holding a knife threatens to stab you” stuff.

And this is why bribing foreign companies to set up shop here was a bad idea from the outset: they have no respect for us whatsoever.

Well, trees deserve protection too, but they’re unlikely to be on Snapchat in my experience. It just operates on the wrong timescale for them.

It might make a difference if it’s triggered right when he’s done something that’s caused his party’s popularity to dip.

It would look less suspicious if it hadn’t happened in Alberta.