Voluntary… What a waste of tax dollars developing something people won’t pay any attention to.

That’s also how rich people are rich, by being assholes.

If everyone gets to keep the cash to we then send equivalent cash to everyone else who didn’t apply at the time because they knew they didn’t qualify? Or do we just reward the people who made a mistake / lied and screw over the people who were smart enough / honest to not apply?

My parents are in a kerfuffle with some agency over COVID funds.

My dad got laid off around the time of COVID for unrelated reasons, not because of COVID or shutdowns in anyway.

He then applied for employment insurance since he qualified.

Without anyone asking, he somehow was instead put him on some sort of COVID EI thing instead of regular EI

Then later on someone decided the COVID EI thing needs to be reimbursed or something so they are asking for all the money back despite the fact he would have gotten more money from regular EI and never asked for the COVID stuff.

It’s been like 4 years now and they are still trying to get the money back and won’t even talk to them to try and fix the situation, just keep sending letters.

I’m not Arctic expert but I imagine icebreakers aren’t chipping away at glaciers.

They are probably only breaking ice that forms each winter and melts each summer so have no effect on the permanent Arctic ice.

If anyone know more correct me if I’m wrong.

Double Mozza burger from A&W (Canada)

Do the current laws not apply?

The companies have their standard “AI isn’t perfect take the information with grain of salt” bullshit disclaimer but I don’t see how that makes the current laws of libel, slander, and defamation any less relevant.

I just don’t think anyone had bothered sueing anyone yet for these companies to figure out the risk they are actually taking.

Why isn’t it a requirement that all sub-companies don’t have to have the parent company name somewhere on their store and advertisements?

Like, instead of just “No Frills” on the store it should be required to say “Loblaw’s No Frills” or soemthing so it’s more obvious where your money is going.

Is there any concern from your polish friend that they may be next if Russia wins in Ukraine?

The article I read which had this photo featured stated that Putin had invited a bunch of reporters to Kupiansk to see how the Russian forces had surrounded the city.

Then Zelensky went there and took this photo to be like “oh no, Russia has this place surrounded? I would have never known”

No Idea if that’s true, but that’s the gist I took away from that post.

I feel like the Nooksack river overflowing twice and flooding Canada might indicate we should make some sort of dike along the border to keep the water on their side.

I went to bed with a view of the forest and woke up to a view of the river.

All I know is that if I were in constant pain and shitting myself because I had no more bowel control and had no ability or freedom to move myself anymore, and I could no longer do anything I enjoyed like hobbies and I was confined to sleeping 95% of the day away…

I would put myself down.

Why would an oxygen rich Environment help trees grow bigger? They consume CO2 and exhale Oxygen. If anything they should grow better in a CO2 rich Environment.

Prehistoric insects were larger because of an oxygen rich Environment, but I don’t think that applies to plants.

It’s a similar concept with coyotes. If you leave them alone the population stabilizes, if you hunt them they spread out and reproduce like mad and you end up with more coyotes. Unless you methodically take out every coyote in an area it’s better to leave them alone then to hunt them if you want to keep the population down.

Boars are a different problem though, since they are so destructive. Definitely need a solution to clearing the area of wild ones.

If the artist did something heinous, I would say take the art and then forget the artist’s name. Make it common use, and no need to attribute the name of the artist to the art. Give it a pseudonym if need be, assign a random name to the piece, and let the actual artist’s name fade away.

Because there is no oversight or compliance and enforcement.

If they cut the tree, they potentially make tens of thousands of dollars if they don’t get caught. If they do get caught, they get a slap on the wrist and a small fine because if the province punishes them too hard people might lose jobs and the economy can’t have that now can we?

Reserve and traditional lands are different things

If the lake or river is one their traditional lands but not on their reserve, they wouldn’t be able to build the infrastructure that gets the water from the river to the reserve where they live unless they truck it in every day.

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It would also depend on other things. Even if they are currently on their traditional lands, they might still be limited by the size of the reservation they were given which could have no access to water other than ground wells, no rivers or lakes. Then the government should also be responsible for them.