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Langford considers $35M purchase of aquatic centre from Westhills
  • Sounds like it would save a ton of money on a project that the city is already heavily invested in, while allowing a developer to stop pretending to half-play landlord. Why is the developer even the landlord now? This seems so weird

  • B.C. coal mining company fined for more than 400 violations
  • When does the government step in, shut down the company, and sell the assets to another firm?

    Clearly, this company is irresponsible and cannot follow the law. You don’t have to shut down the operation and have people lose their jobs, but don’t let the company keep operating

  • it is what it is
  • That’s a great point, and that’s often exactly what I do for bugs of features that I find to be unlikely or uninteresting. My projects are always open to contributions, but I don’t provide free support and my projects aren’t paid for, so you shouldn’t expect immediate bug resolution

  • it is what it is
  • I am helping others already, by sharing it. It comes without warranty or guarantees.

    Personally, when I publish software, I’m happy to receive bug reports and work on them most of the time. But users use tools lots of ways, and sometimes they’re using it differently to how I designed it to be used. Their bug is my feature.

  • Who would you recommend opening a bank account with in 2024?
  • Wealthsimple Cash covers most of what one might be looking for in a chequing account.

    • 4.5% interest if you deposit your paycheque into it. 3% otherwise I think? It’s quite high
    • you can send e-transfers from a Cash account, or you send money using WS Cash to other Cash users. Both workflows are easy

    The Cash card also has 0.5% cash back on purchases IIRC and is essentially a prepaid credit card / debit card. I love WS Cash, the only reason I don’t use it more often is that I have an Amex.

  • Sask. education ministry says schools must get parental permission for pronoun changes under 16
  • What’s the benefit of this? I don’t understand how that benefits parents or children. Who cares if the kid is a boy or a girl? What if their parents are abusive? School is part of where identity develops, to rob kids of that seems messed up

  • Non-Profit Registration: Name suggestions.
  • FWIW I’m not sure I’d be excited that my donations to Lemmy.ca would be spent on disaster relief. Some related projects make sense (other federated communities, online Canadian content ,etc) , but I stopped donating to Wikipedia after getting tired of their tangential charity shit.

    To that end, some ideas

    • Chat Across Canada (CAC? Could do something with sea to sea, as well, although c2c is a band)
    • Canadian Federated Communities, although CFC is bad
    • Canada online
    • Some backronym for CANUCK
    • Federated Canuckistan (okay this one is particularly dumb)

    I’m not sure if the name will make a huge deal if you can do “business” under another name. If the society name is “Lemmy.ca and associated project deployments for Canadians by Canadians” can you “do business” (receive donations to, brand websites as) Lemmy.ca? There’s nothing really unclear about “the Lemmy.ca matrix server” or “an instance of mastodon run by Lemmy.ca”.

  • There Is No Housing Crisis
  • Is it capitalism to blame or the lack of controls on who can own how many rental properties?

    I agree, some proposed solutions would be good, but it’s also an excerpt from a longer work that could include some.

  • Does anyone use Shortcuts on your Apple device? If so, what are you using?
  • I’ve got a few on my phone:

    • one for playing a sound when my phone is charged
    • another for starting my Streaks timer when certain reading apps are opened, so that I can track how long I read every day across apps automatically
    • when my Sleep schedule begins (when I’m going to bed), I automatically change the screen colour to grey to help prevent being distracted. When I wake up, it turns that off.
    • I have one HomePod, and I don’t use it much, but it has a temperature sensor and when that goes over 25C I get a notification so I know to turn on the AC
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