Full press release here:
Interesting article with some unexpected nuance.
Great move on the part of the BBC. Given all the issues on Twitter, hopefully the CBC will also make a move to Mastodon. I recall when Her Excellency the Right Honourable Mary Simon, Governor General of Canada, closed comments on Twitter due to abusive garbage, that I wrote her office and suggested Mastodon. Alas, they did not follow through. But hopefully this move from the BBC will inspire some of our Canadian institutions (particularly the CBC) to reconsider and to make the move to the fediverse.
Yeah. So far as I know, Vancouver’s SkyTrain was not developed under a P3, and, as the article states, it functions reasonably well.
Good riddance to the OLP. I remember how they acted when it looked like the ONDP might win the 2018 election. They basically attacked the ONDP and advocated that people vote “strategically” to stop them from winning. Here’s a tweet from that time attacking both the ONDP and labour: https://twitter.com/OntLiberal/status/1001542343076536320
No loss for me. I don’t give a rat’s ass about AI chatbots. And I myself have excluded Google from my online activities. I use Debian Linux. My phone has LineageOS without Google Play Services – instead I use apps from f-droid, including OsmAnd~ for mapping. I never use Google search (I rely on DuckDuckGo). Any YouTube videos I may wish to view I use either FreeTube or Invidious (the latter via the Firefox addon LibRedirect). For translation, it’s LibreTranslate. If I wish to see news articles I’ll go directly to media sites such as The Star, The Globe and Mail, CBC, or via the news search on DuckDuckGo. Anyone who is still allowing themselves to be a product of Google is misguided, as far as I’m concerned.
Opposition politicians and other critics have raised concerns about what developers might have known in advance of the government announcing the policy.
As CBC Toronto first reported, property ownership and corporate records showed several developers bought land in recent years that was either wholly or partly in the Greenbelt — meaning they were fully or partially off limits to development at the time of purchase.
Methinks they must have been given some insider knowledge. No wonder this Rice man wishes to avoid questioning.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/michael-rice-auditor-general-greenbelt-1.6904603
#ONpoli #TOpoli
The law makes sense to me. He says, regarding Google, that “Linking is what a search engine does.” But Google, as we know, is gleaning information from users, who are its product, to sell to advertisers (for more targeted advertising.)
So, links are not its business. Links are props to attract the product (us, its users) to it, to prepare us to be sold. Like all other businesses (IE, pubs) that have props (IE, barstools), Google should pay for some of its props.
Here’s some facts and tips about repayment plans with the landlord: https://www.acto.ca/production/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/PaymentPlan_Tipsheet_tenants.pdf (taken from this site).
The best thing to do is to pay off the rent and arrears. If it’s possible to follow the “rosy” rent plan you put forward, then do it. But, if things don’t go well and the landlord begins to pursue eviction, then best to contact a legal clinic: https://www.legalaid.on.ca/legal-clinics/ You may wish to do that anyway.