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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Huh, never even considered Quebec. I'll do some searching. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Way cool, thank you!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Find someone who looks at you like the foreign adversary honeypot do

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

I like feedbro too. Haven't found a standalone selfhosted solution that has the same degree of customization.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm trying out freshrss right now and don't like it. Possibly my issues stem from user error, but, I can't figure out how to automatically hide articles based on keywords, adding extensions is a pain, and the ui feels large and very in-the-way. By default it truncates article titles, which I find absolutely baffling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

SNC Lavalin, We charity scand, ethics violations, going back on his marquee promise of electoral reform and thereby salting the earth on the topic for a generation, weak response on foreign interference, Indigenous people's life expectancy going down instead of up during his tenure despite the tone of the party's messaging, inappropriate response to the Portapique shooting, their handling of protests and strike busting, there are more. A person doesn't need to dip very deep to find reasons to not like Trudeau and his tenure.

I think even Liberals have good reason to dislike Trudeau, for hanging on as long as he did when it was obvious he was polling as low as he was, leaving a leadership vacuum during a critical political transition to the South.

I think the people who 'hate' him seem irrational. Unfortunately, that small minority of people obscure what should be proper criticism of his policies and choices.

It's sad that we've come to expect Liberals to be corrupt and self-dealing, and seeing that expectation used as an excuse for their leaders is fucking depressing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This is the first article I've seen mention that the plan for interprovincial liquor sales is about direct-to-consumer sales.

It's a good thing, but I'm not sure how transformative it would be. The cost of shipping would easily exceed the price of beer or wine. Spirits would maybe be the product category that direct-to-consumer sales would make the most sense on. But even a $50 bottle of gin would cost nearly that much to ship from BC to Ontario.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I understand that. And I guess I'm not convincing anyone in this thread, but, things like this, and how the article gushes about Elizabeth's 'brooch warfare', I fail to see how these are things that Canadians ought to feel good about or empowered by. They don't benefit us in any way.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Canada needs allies now probably more than ever in its history. What we see here coming from the monarchy is not a meaningful gesture of alliance. That's what I'm bitter about. It's monarchs doing what monarchs do after they've squeezed all the benefit from colonial conquest - they bandy meaningless symbols about. That benefits them, because conveniently, it costs them nothing to 'stay out of politics'.

As a Canadian, it's truly frightening to see world leaders reluctant to simply say the words 'we stand behind Canada'.

What does the word 'Commonwealth' even mean if the British monarchy can't say that and mean it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm really surprised by this development. The fact that provinces sat down with Ottawa and agreed on something related to liquor makes me think whatever the proposed plan is, it's probably not transformative...

Devil is in the details of course, but I'm interested to see what this actually looks like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When I started out, I bought a few spools of M3D, and they were really good, so I buy it whenever I can. Works really well for me, and it's as good or better than similarly priced filament.

 

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith received 91.5 per cent support for her leadership from members of her United Conservative Party who voted in Red Deer, Alta., on Saturday.

"Our party is united as it has ever been," Smith told the cheering crowd after the number was announced.

The party said 4,633 ballots were cast in the vote. The result solidifies Smith's leadership of Alberta's governing party and confirms party members agree with the direction she has taken the province since she took over the party two years ago.

CBC

 

An Alberta woman was denied a medically assisted death in Vancouver this past Sunday after an interim injunction was granted in B.C. Supreme Court barely 24 hours before she was scheduled to die.

According to court documents, the woman was approved for medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in July by Vancouver MAiD provider Dr. Ellen Wiebe after her own doctors in southern Alberta wouldn't approve it.

Wiebe was scheduled to conduct the death at 8 p.m. on Oct. 27 at the Willow Reproductive Health Centre.

The injunction application and civil claim were filed by the woman's common-law spouse. Both names have been ordered anonymized by the court.

In the documents, the husband argues that his wife's condition — akathisia — does not qualify her for assisted death.

CBC News · Posted: Oct 30, 2024 6:24 PM MDT

 

I'm seeing a lot of users on my preferred instance with <1yr old accounts, that have thousands of posts and comments. Whether these accounts are people with nothing better to do than post mindlessly 24/7, or are bots pushing some narrative, it doesn't make a difference, I'd rather not see what they're posting, because chances are, it's hogwash. It would be nice to be able to filter out these highly active accounts, based on a set variable of max posts per day, and/or comments per day. Any account that exceeds that variable is filtered out, and any account below it is allowed.

Does anyone have insight on whether or not this sort of filtering is possible to achieve on Lemmy? Is anyone else interested in having this sort of functionality?

Edit: I'm not trying to throw shade on active users. I appreciate active users. I'm looking to block users with AI image generated profile photos and have on average 10+ posts per day and 20+ comments per day. Those accounts seem suspicious to me.

 

A new parliamentary report paints a stark picture of foreign interference in Canadian politics, characterizing the government's response as a 'serious failure' that could impact the country for years to come.

Link to the report (pdf)

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