Part of it's location. France Gélinas (NDP MPP for Nickel Belt; Health critic) gets a reasonable amount of time on the "local"[1] CTV affiliate here because they desperately cover anything remotely newsworthy done by any MPP in the northeast, and she's pretty active. I doubt she gets more than the occasional mention outside the area, though.

Stiles also gets some screen time here. Others, not so much.

[1] "Local" here means they're based more than an hour's drive away from me in Sudbury, and cover everything from Sault St. Marie to the Quebec border, and from Parry Sound north until you'd fall off into the Arctic Ocean. I forget how many provincial ridings that is—six or seven?

I sit corrected (because standing would be too much effort).

Probably not a deliberate effort on the part of foreign actors or domestic terrorists, but I question whether this would have happened without examples from the US. Remember, the last school shooting of any sort in Canada was the Ecole Polytechnique—which took place before the likely perpetrator here was born.

Perhaps it was supposed to extend an invitation to join the EU, and got lost on the way to Ottawa.

It isn't really so strange that they aren't used, if you think about it. Floating point is subject to fuzziness in the last several digits, and you can't guarantee that a given value is going to round the same way when you're dealing with multiple arches (or even multiple versions of what's nominally the same arch, since optimizations change over time). Undefined behaviour is nasty. Floating point is useful for many things, but I'd keep it out of a cross-platform system kernel unless I liked hard-to-diagnose bugs.

I'd assumed that they were following some sort of extremely stupid weapons-related rule. At least that would have been kind of understandable. But no, the complaint was about "decorum"—in other words, someone thought it was impolite by whatever idiosyncratic and culturally specific standard they wanted to apply. This is shameful.

Cracking down on this stuff on Facebook can reduce the number of instances of this kind of thing by reducing the scammers' reach (so still worth doing), but not make it vanish. Snake oil has a very long history, after all. It plays to a common element of human nature: the desire for a quick and easy fix where none exists. The only complete solution is to produce smarter humans, which, well, good luck.

Remember, Windows will install updates without user intervention. If you remove things, it just puts them back.

If so, it's a fitting way for them to die.

The cause of Sophie's APD diagnosis is unknown, but her audiologist believes the overuse of noise-cancelling headphones, which Sophie wears for up to five hours a day, could have a part to play.

Other audiologists agree, saying more research is needed into the potential effects of their prolonged use.

That looks to me like, "audiologists have no bloody clue where this issue is coming from, and are therefore throwing shit at the wall in the hope that something will stick."

We've known this was coming for a while now . . . but I suppose not everyone reads tech news.

Would everyone who is surprised by this please raise your hand? . . . That's what I thought.