[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 21 points 2 weeks ago

The whole thing was ill-advised, and the execution makes it even worse.

In the picture, the white line crossing it out looks more like vandalism than part of the actual ad.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 21 points 3 weeks ago

"There will be no taxes on Canadian consumers, no taxes on Canadian industries," Poilievre said on Monday at a news conference in L'Orignal, Ont.

At the same time, Poilievre said "provinces will continue to have the freedom to address" industrial emissions "how they like."

It seems almost laughably easy to use this to make him look weak and spineless?

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"Tariffs are now a global policy of the United States," said David Paterson, Ontario's representative in Washington. "And this is a historic change to global trading patterns, and [the Americans are] very aware of that."

Paterson said the American plan is to impose tariffs by sector across countries all around the world on April 2. From there, the countries that get along with the U.S. the best will be "first in line" to adjust or mitigate the tariffs.

[Ambassador Kirsten] Hillman described the meeting as "concrete" and appreciated the conversations, but she noted that nothing changed in terms of the ongoing trade war between Canada and the U.S.

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[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 22 points 1 month ago

This is good for unions and other above-board groups, but I can't help but wonder how this affects the various "dark money" lobby groups that have unclear ownership, but have been buying political ads across the country.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 21 points 3 months ago

Go ahead and post some alternatives if you're so upset about it.

Beyond that, how about letting people share what they want to share?

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 21 points 3 months ago

As I understand it, the original plan was that Captain Kim was going to be kind of like Admiral Shelby [Elizabeth Deneny], that was going to be you.

Correct.

So, I was wondering how far down the road did they go with you on that?

It went all the way to my manager saying, “You’ve been cast.” It was originally a three episode arc, which then changed to two, then then changed to one. But I was told by my manager that I needed to be in the LA area in January for a fitting for Picard. So it was there. It had progressed fairly far actually having Harry on that show, pretty darn far. The script was written. Harry’s name was in there… Jeri Ryan said to me, “It’s so funny because we got sent a script, and Harry was in there, and all sudden, the revisions, Harry wasn’t in there.” I was like, “Oh, wow.” So, it went pretty darn far. And I’ll be perfectly honest, being a sci-fi fan, I was depressed for months after that when it didn’t happen. I was literally crying into my own sleeve. [laughs]

I haven't listened to the audio, so I don't know what Wang's tone is like during this story, but...that sounds really shitty. Possibly worse than filming something that later got cut.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 20 points 10 months ago

Scott "Jonathan Archer" Bakula, Alex "Guy In Charge of the Franchise" Kurtzman, and Wilson "Hugh Culber" Cruz.

There's coffee in that cash grab.

To me, this is the crux of it:

Dr. Jitender Sareen is part of a group of eight university psychiatry chairs who wrote to federal ministers and urged the committee not to expand MAID to include mental illness.

Sareen said practice standards to guide psychiatrists and clinicians are inadequate, and Canada is lagging behind other countries in mental health and addictions funding.

"Offering death when the person has not had the opportunity to get better, with or without treatment, is, in our opinion, not acceptable," said Sareen, a professor and head of the department of psychiatry at the University of Manitoba.

If mental health supports in this country were anything close to adequate, it would be a different conversation.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 21 points 2 years ago

Paramount+, the streamer, cancelled it.

CBS Studios, the producer, kept it going and found a new buyer.

Two separate entities, even though they're both subsidiaries of the same parent company.

[-] ValueSubtracted@startrek.website 22 points 2 years ago

I don't want to be that guy, but given the state of the industry, and series being cancelled without warning, it feels more like 2004 to me.

And no, it's not a perfect comparison.

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