It's always a concern when travelling to another country. There's the decision between biometrics, passcode and/or burner. When travelling, always keep in mind that legality varies, and a country's compliance with their laws varies as well...
Prepare ahead of time, always.
Celebrities, AI, Reddit, lemmy - a short and incomplete list of places to not take medical advice or diagnose from. Doctors have doctorates in their field of expertise for a reason. If I want to complain about my achy joints here, I will. But I sure as hell won't trust my personal health decisions to somebody without proof of competence.
Nvidia will prioritize AI and more than likely know when to bail before the bubble bursts. They will have made boatloads for shareholders while leaving so many others in financial ruin. Whether those caught in the bubble burst should have known better... I guess it's a case by case basis.
I am in support of helping Canadian businesses, especially in the current political climate. What I am not so confident in is the willingness of food suppliers to pass savings along all the way to the customer. Grocery stores have used inflation and price fixing tactics here for far too long for them to have earned my trust. Grocery stores must be seriously audited and regulated accordingly. By all means, make a profit - no brainer. But your profits now are bolstered by hurting 99% of Canadians who need food to survive.
Try a locally operated pharmacy or another option in your area if possible. Shoppers is hit and miss in my experience (majority misses).
Costco has a $5 prescribing fee and doesn't require a membership for pharmacy. If you have a pharmacy close to a Costco you can try asking them to price match the Costco dispensing fee. It usually works, and then you can support a local pharmacy instead of Costco. If you like the pharmacy and have the funds in the future, you're always free to pay the original dispensing fee as a show of support - I just mention this as an option, not suggesting anyone must.
Shrinkflation by greedy companies combined with our de-facto oligopoly of grocery stores trying to convince us that prices must go up because they’re barely scraping by.
I want to see how the new tax credit for groceries pans out. But it feels like a bit of a (maybe necessary?) Band-aid.
I would absolutely LOVE to see the government finally tackle the oligopoly issue with grocery chains and telecoms.
A bit of a tangent. I had a Bell rep knock at my door today, nice guy. But I told him that their deals are predatory, the way they lock in discounts but not the rate. Then they up the price while you’re locked in, effectively nullifying your discount. He told me, at least in my area that they are supposedly offering real rate lock ins. But it doesn’t fix the root of the problem spurred by blocking competition and blatantly predatory and misleading “deals”. I despise telecom companies in Canada.
Edit: I wanna add, it doesn’t have to be like this! I lived abroad for a while and any time essential groceries went up in price, people got mad and the government curbed it realllll quickly. And telecoms offered true unlimited for reasonable rates. It can be done. We have good infrastructure in much of the country (sorry to those in mega rural areas), now let’s get some legislation to manage and/or break up these oligopolies. I’m no politician so I don’t know what exactly is the best solution, I only know that it needs to happen.
Part of what ruins games for me are the massive publishers behind them. EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar.
The games may be great. The developers may be great. The studios (by and large) interfere in the process of development, the monetization, the end-of-life plan…
For me, when I have the chance to play games, I’ve found myself opting for smaller studios or indie games.
Also I want to shout out Ross Scott of Accursed Farms. He covers so many cool and obscure games. He has worked incredibly hard towards enacting pro-consumer business practices in the gaming world. He’s a very smart and pragmatic guy. I would highly recommend anyone who’s into gaming to check out his site and content.
To me, he’s been an inspiration in his uphill battle of the Stop Killing Games initiative. He’s been working through the apathy, the negativity, the doubt. It’s actually incredible what he’s achieved. A man with passion and a plan, who happens to also make some damn good game related videos.
Ok I realize this just turned into a love letter for Ross Scott. I’m okay with that.
Setting aside the main discussion for a moment (I think it’s been covered thoroughly by now), just a friendly reminder to diversify news sources and read past the title.
I think, we’re in a Canadian space, outside of the de-facto mainstream social media platform and further delegated to a Canada-centric platform. I really do think that we’re all going to benefit if we take this explosion in popularity here to make sure we better ourselves online at the same time. I have been guilty of it, so many of us have.
It’s easy to get caught in the negative news cycle, and even knee-jerk reactions from the headlines. But Trump is not our president and he never will be. Our helm is navigating the rough waters. Take solace in the captain’s fortitude and give him time to weather the storm. Unless the ship starts to sink, we’re all better doing what we can to make this ride as bearable as possible.
I am not saying outrage is invalid. Every Canadian has the right to feel strongly about what’s going on. But, let’s not play the game too much when we know the game is rigged. The house always wins, unless we realize that we don’t have to play against the house.
Much love from Canada.
The blatant disregard or lack of training on the Jay treaty needs to be fixed. These people have the legal right to both travel and work freely. This is something that isn’t even up for debate.
Unfortunately, treaties and the like are only as good as the good faith effort to both enforce them and understand them.
It’s one of many cogs in the machine that are breaking down right now. We have lots of things to address in the current political climate, of course, but this is one more thing that we’re going to need to add to the list of cog mending…
To add to this: pharmacists are able to prescribe medication of certain classes, for certain conditions, depending on the province. Here is a list with more details for anyone interested:
English: https://www.pharmacists.ca/cpha-ca/assets/File/pharmacy-in-canada/PharmacistPrescribingAuthority_EN_web.pdf
French: https://www.pharmacists.ca/cpha-ca/assets/File/pharmacy-in-canada/PharmacistPrescribingAuthority_FR_web.pdf