OMFG that's WAY better

Is "Starter" referring to who was the initial projected winner at..the beginning of whatever period US elections start? Which to an outsider just looks like "always"?

It's a feature; not a bug!

This is an accurate assessment of UCP voters

I'm still waiting for mandatory sponsor jackets in the House and Senate.

Trudeau, who spoke ahead of Poilievre, began his remarks by thanking those gathered and specifically naming members of his caucus.

"Thank you to the parliamentarians from all parties who are putting partisanship aside to be here today," Trudeau said.

LOL, I guess that non-partisanship lasted at least a few minutes until tiny angry PP had to yell at the clouds again.

Dude, that's for the odds someone might have hypothyroidism, not at all related to toxicity.

And as noted by the authors:

"Hence, the application of standard household water purification (such as reversed osmosis, electro dialysis, activated carbon filter, and other adsorption/ion-exchange methods) is recommended for patients with hypothyroidism since they have a higher consumption of drinking water. The purification systems can help remove fluoride that interferes with thyroid functions."

So, if you have a family history of hypothyroidism, and you care at all about trying to avoid this incredibly common and easily treatable issue; use a water filter. It probably won't help since family history and regular exercise are much more highly correlated with the incidence of hypothyroidism, but sure, why not.

Also, and this is fun, they conveniently ignore the fact that the people drinking the most water (5+ cups group) have a lower adjusted-odds-ratio (OR) of hypothyroidism.

How about the part where the level of fluoride in the water being in the higher end of the spectrum (0.3-0.5 mg/L) gives you a *checks notes* oh yeah, 3.4% higher incidence rate of hypothyroidism. Right.

Better hike up your bootstraps, fuckos. This is what corporate bankruptcy processes are for.

Uh, the for-profit prison system would like a word

Yeah, but this $100MM from Google is directly linked to C-18, which links the payments to full-time journalists employed.

So, while I don't love that it'll help a company like Bell's bottom line because it offsets journalist salaries at CTV, and I definitely dislike that the PostMedia and TorStar billionaire owners will undoubtedly just pass through all their journalist subsidies to personal profit, I do like that it will help pay for journalists at the CBC and other editorially or financially independent news sources.

So, not all sunshine in this whole C18 / Google story, but what does all that actually have to do with telcos not building infrastructure?

The residential heating oil concessions represent a miniscule amount of the total carbon taxes while maximizing carbon emission reduction intensity.

It's a good trade-off, although their messaging on why the change happened was sloppy. Keeping the tax as is and avoiding this debacle, and then further enhancing the incentives to change would have been my preferred method.

Cool, TIL, thank you