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Cake day: November 15th, 2023

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  • Kind of misleading to say that shaw.ca has been “shut down,” because it still is resolvable but now redirects to rogers.com.

    Interesting that Rogers is redirecting everything to “.com” rather than “.ca”, which they also own.

    I worked at Shaw for 11 years. It started out fantastic, and slowly slowly went downhill. It was only after I got out that I saw how shitty of an experience it had become. Then along came Rogers, and my friends still at Shaw universally said it had gotten immeasurably worse. Toxic work environments, incompetent micromanagement driving everything, a sense of fear and dread carefully cultivated by the executive.

    Rogers could be the worst company in Canada to work for, if they weren’t competing with BCE.

    Canadian telecom sucks.












  • No, they’re not really.

    Alberta (i.e. the provincial government) isn’t struggling to keep them, it’s actively discouraging them from staying. They’re getting underpaid, public schools are underfunded and overcrowded, the curriculum is being rewritten by racists to promote a Eurocentric perspective (along with “don’t bother with university,” and “O&G are our friends!”), and generally making things as horrible as they can.

    They are deliberately, methodically, maliciously driving good teachers away from the province and undermining public education, in order to force the adoption of charter and private schools.

    There is no struggle, only harm.




  • Watching it after the fact is never the same. Sports and elections (bloodsports?) are the two things I want to actually watch live.

    Also, in the US you can subscribe to NBC Sports+ or whatever it is for $5/month and watch it. If we had an option like that in Canada, I’d jump at it.

    But Flosports charges over three times that price, only does annual subscriptions, provides awful (unwatchable, often literally because their servers crash) coverage, and behaves in the most reprehensible, illegal way possible.

    Honestly, cycling fans in Canada are giving up. I might do so as well.




  • “We still love you as much as ever” said senator Tim Kaine.

    And we love you as much as ever - but it has never been as much as you think.

    Canada and Canadians have always harboured a quiet, seething resentment towards the US - even as our snowbirds have flown south in the winter and we’ve greedily bought crap on Amazon. As proud as we are of Canadian musicians hitting the big time, we’re slightly bitter that we spend more time listening to American content.

    I think it’s fair to say that we’ve always - at least in my 50+ years of awareness - felt the pressure of living next door to a ten-ton behemoth that fills our every waking moment just by merely leaking across the border.

    And now the dam has broken. Trump has made things so unbearable that we finally have the resolve to break free. It’s going to be tough, it’s going to hurt for a number of years, we’re going to suffer financially in the short-mid term, but I’m confident that we’re going to do it. We will not allow ANY country or trading partner to control our destiny as much as the US has done since 1959.

    So thanks for the love, but I’m afraid we’re still getting out of this toxic relationship.