This is a genuine question. June is generally accepted to be Pride Month in Canada, but that seems to be the case more or less to line up with Pride Month in the U.S., where it marks the month of the Stonewall Riots in New York City.

Now one can say we also celebrate Pride Month in June because that's apparently the same month same-sex activity was decriminalized back in 1969, but if we're going to have a Pride Month that represents the struggle of 2SLGBTQ+ folk, why not base it in August?

Basing it in August makes sense since that's when the We Demand Rally took place in 1971, Pride Week 1973 took place, and it's better weather-wise than having it take place in January when the Brunswick Four were arrested.

I'm in Calgary, and having Pride Month recognised as August in Canada would also help out with regional difficulties here, where Pride Month is held in September because of June being the insanely busy Stampede season.

This is just my thoughts here. I just think it would be better to recognise and commemorate Canadian pride history rather than attach our pride history to that of the U.S., and the thought of having these major events in our pride overshadowed by American pride history honestly worries me.

Absolutely disgusting tweet by the owner of the Florida Panthers. Here is more context.

US road border crossings by Canadians down 35.2%

Canadian returns from the US by air down 19.9%

Data from Statistics Canada

The University of Toronto Faculty Association (UTFA) has voted to divest from Israel, the association announced on Friday.

This decision stems from Israel’s “illegal occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory,” the UTFA said.

The motion, which passed by 52% of the vote, calls on the Ontario University Pension Plan (UPP) to produce a rapid timeline for complete divestment from all direct and indirect holdings in entities that support or sustain Israel’s “occupation and/or which manufacture” or distribute arms, ammunition, or munitions of war where “there are reasonable grounds to suspect they may have been used by Israel in Palestine.”

THE NIGHT Zachary Green responded to the call that sidelined him for six months with post-traumatic stress, he was asked if he wanted to finish his shift. It was May 2021, and he had just witnessed the death of a child.

Green chose to go home but found his deputy commander’s question “ridiculous.” Most paramedic services pull staff from duty, which “is how it should be.” Instead, there was the expectation he would keep working. “This call is going to stick with me for the rest of my career,” he says. “You shouldn’t be going back to the ambulance after something traumatic.”

That choice, however, reflects the harsh reality of working in Rainy River, a remote Northwestern Ontario town near the Minnesota border. Even by the standards of a province where paramedic services are regularly short staffed, Rainy River paramedics face gruelling conditions. Covering four communities over 15,000 square kilometres, paramedics often drive more than an hour to meet patients, longer if one of their ambulatory stations is closed or down staffed—which was the case for 170 days last year. Sometimes, they must respond to calls alone, operating equipment meant for two, increasing the risk of physical injury.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/43889999

Originally posted at ShopCanadianStuff.ca/blog which has no affiliation to NorthMail.ca

I noticed NorthMail.ca which I had previously only know for being a Canadian hosted and owned free webmail provider was now listing Video Calls and an office suite as features.

Oddly enough Northmail was featured in a recent monologue joke on Late Night with Seth Meyers. You can see the joke on TikTok here or at 7:15 on this YouTube video of the show.

I tried out the video calling and it works pretty well though it is not obvious how to do it.

I made a brief guide on how to use the video calling feature in this blog post at ShopCanadianStuff.ca/blog

NorthMail.ca has many other features, a calendar, file and photo storage, dark mode and other theme customization. Language settings allow for both English and French as well as many other languages.

The paid premium version of NorthMail.ca provides 100 GB of storage (1GB for free version), no ads, and promises a faster smoother experience for $0.99/month.

If you sign up soon you can get a pretty good pick of the available email addresses so you don't have to go with something as long a BuyCanadianElbowsUp_1867@NorthMail.ca unless you want something that long.

If anyone is concerned about if Northmail.ca is actually Canadian, the owners name is listed on their website, I checked their linked in page which lists the same person as their CIRA domain registration.

To find more Canada made products and services check out ShopCanadianStuff.ca

This is an idea that needs to be revisited. A shorter marine route from the prairies to export markets.

It would open up the West to greater trade with Europe.

"All ideas of nationhood are fictions. The fiction cultivated by the #Canadian studying abroad may be more likely than that of the Canadian educated at home to eschew regionalism, depending on a more overarching, all-embracing idea of nationhood."

London-based Shell owns 40 per cent of LNG Canada. Malaysia’s state-owned Petronas acquired its 25-per-cent stake in 2018. The other participants in the venture are PetroChina and Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp. (each with a 15-per-cent stake) and South Korea’s Kogas (5 per cent).

Is that even possible? If so, it is an eye opener for what is happening in the American economy and what is causing the MAGA movement.

Let's follow the evidence.

According to this article https://www.npr.org/2025/05/09/nx-s1-5375146/trump-tariffs-factory-jobs-nostalgia?

there are 12.7 million manufacturing jobs in America, down from an all-time high of 19.6 million in 1979.

According to this data base,

https://www.statista.com/statistics/437763/employment-level-in-canada-by-industry/

there are 1.8 million manufacturing jobs in Canada. Applying the standard 1-to-10 ratio (population ratio) that means scaled up proportionate to population Canada would have the equivalent of 18 million manufacturing jobs, just short of America's all time high of almost 50 years ago, let alone the current US job rate.

That caught me completely off guard. Puts a whole new perspective on what Trump is saying about the dire state of the US. Even compared to Canada, the US is in the pits.

Here is another data bomb. One quarter of those US manufacturing jobs are held by immigrants. Not sure WHAT to make of that one.

America does have a problem regarding manufacturing jobs. But tariffs certainly are NOT the solution. If Canada can out-perform the US per capita without the trade barriers of tariffs, exactly what does that say about the condition America is in?