Seulement en voiture? En avion, je pense.

They used to have that here too, but I haven’t heard the terms used in at least 25 years.

What you’re describing is the kind of cafeteria I ate at as a university student. Limited hours of operation, your choice of three entrees cooked in advance and served from steam trays, plus some stuff that was either prepackaged or could be made while they were closed and set out for self-service. And it works okay in those kind of circumstances, where you’ve got a large semi-captive audience who need fuel. It isn’t what most people are looking for in a nice evening out, though.

By definition, an addict can’t go without whatever they’re addicted to without extreme discomfort. That’s why most successful addiction treatments involve the person slowly and voluntarily decreasing their intake, to keep it to the point where the discomfort is manageable.

Nicotine withdrawal symptoms can include headache, nausea, and difficulty concentrating, and just one of those can result in you fucking up on the job—not a big deal if you’re in marketing, but if you’re a heavy equipment operator someone could end up getting killed. So I’d much rather that anyone trying to quit smoking do so in a controlled manner and with whatever aids work for them, rather than being forced to go cold turkey (or return to smoking) because of poorly-chosen policies. Y’know, just in case.

Well, that was always what it was for. It’s just expanded beyond Quebec’s bigoted bullshit now.

And they shouldn’t be. That’s the problem. Or perhaps the problem is that the police should be responding with, “School-aged kid? In broad daylight? Obviously going somewhere and not loitering? And it isn’t your kid, or one you’ve been asked to look after? Not our problem. Or yours.”

500 children between the ages of eight and 12 in the United States, they found something striking.

While most children said they weren’t allowed out in public alone, and more than half had never walked down a grocery aisle unaccompanied or used a sharp knife

Eighty-seven per cent of surveyed children said they wished they could spend more time with their friends in person outside of school.

Now, that looks to me like it’s a significant part of the problem.

While the free-range treatment I was afforded as a child, in an isolated small town in far different times than these, is obviously not appropriate in a modern city, if the average ten-year-old isn’t allowed to walk to the other end of a grocery store or to a friend’s house a couple of blocks away while carrying a tracking device in their pocket, the pendulum has swung too far in the direction of paranoia and needs to swing back a bit.

If it’s the one I’m thinking of, they are, appropriately enough, intending to build it in North Cobalt.

cons and libs are literally the same party

No, they’re not. Stripped of the rhetoric, their positions on the economy and climate change are uncomfortably close together, yes, but their social policies are still different. The Conservatives are pretty obviously anti-queer, for one thing.

I get that the Liberals aren’t as far left as you would like—they’re not as far left as I would like either—but don’t lose your ability to differentiate between bad and worse. That’s part of how the US ended up where it is.

I’m confused why governments and public funded organizations are allowed to use social media platforms.

They’re trying to meet citizens where they’re at. The idea isn’t completely without merit, but government—at all levels—should be treating these accounts as secondary while running primary accounts on their own infrastructure.

But wouldn’t farmed land increase if there is an abundance of oil? Needed for farming equipments.

Actually, most of the ground would have originally been broken using literal horsepower, which runs on hay rather than oil. Tractors didn’t become the norm until after WWI (maybe not even until after WWII, I’m not an expert on agricultural history, but I do know that the reason you used to see wooden grain elevators every few kilometers along prairie railways was to accommodate farmers who were still hauling stuff in horse-drawn wagons). By the time the oil was being commercially exploited, most of the useful land was already under the plow.

On the one hand, the government (specifically the MTO, the only ministry that cared at the time) has been using the “southern border of Parry Sound district” definition for at least 35 years. It was on the forms when I applied for my first driver’s license, if I recall correctly.

On the other hand, I don’t claim that “Parry Sound district” necessarily covers the same geographical location now that it did back then.

On the third hand, if I were drawing an “I think this is northern Ontario” line, it would be at about the latitude of North Bay, but that’s just my opinion and has no authority. At least the government definition is official.

On the fourth hand, I think I’ve visited the actual town of Parry Sound for all of one hour thirty-odd years ago, so I can’t speak to its demographics or culture. We’ve almost never had any reason to detour that far from the straight shot down to Toronto along Hwy. 11.

The actual border, per government definition, is the southern edge of the Parry Sound district. Which is north of Orillia.

Some of it’s actually rail and not roads—I’m pretty sure that one line running up to the bottom of James Bay is actually the Polar Bear Express’ tracks for at least part of its length. Some may also be clearance for seasonal (ice) roads, or high-tension power lines. And yeah, some of it’s probably logging.

Blame the Ontario Mnistry of Transport. The official definition, such as it is, came from them.

A corollary: Do not assume you want your child to be your caregiver in your old age, as they will not necessarily be inclined to do anything in the way you would prefer.

Let’s see. 9 + 12 + 6 + 8 + 7 + 6 + 11 + 5 = 21 + 14 + 13 + 16 = 35 + 29 = 64 So the arithmetic checks.

This, too, is buying into Trump’s agenda, in a skewed kind of way. There’s a reason that he publicizes every detail of his negotiations in the media. The average citizen isn’t capable of making a rational decision on anything about the US at this point.

Question: Has Mr. Eby asked the “young people” in question whether they actually want these specific jobs, a lot of which don’t pay enough to live on? This has to go along with an effort to make the minimum wage a living wage, or there will still be people filling the homeless shelters and food banks—it’s just that they’ll have jobs, too.

Of course you don’t take anything they say at face value, but keeping track of what they emphasise, what they downplay, and how that changes over time can give you some notion of where their weak points are. Don’t listen to what they’re saying, listen to what they’re trying to hide.

In the end, though, what we want is to keep the Americans talking, rather than shooting at us. Each diplomatic conversation buys time until they either course-correct or collapse into civil war. And if that requires some MPs to sit through a dramatic reading of Trump partisan trash while not visibly rolling their eyes, well, they’re being paid well enough for it. There’s a big difference between keeping someone talking and letting yourself be persuaded by them. (People like Danielle Smith don’t need to be persuaded over to the evil side—they were on that side from the get-go.)