I almost always convert cash before I go, from CAD. VBCE has a decent rate even on low amounts of like 150 CAD. If your local exchange will match “any Canadian currency exchange” then check these rates and ask to match. If I didn’t bring enough, then I do a little research for no or low fee ATMs then cough up whatever it is.

If you convert from CAD to USD then EUR, you will pay forex fees twice unless you have some special card or US$ account. If you travel a lot, then a forex fee free credit card should be something you consider, unless your points or cashback program is worth more than 2.5%.

I’m not going to get upset at anyone using however many letters to describe an inclusive, group, all of them in the alphabet if they wish. Though if I were in her place I personally would just say MMIWG+, where + is other humans.

Like I think it’s bigotry when insisting on removing letters as a policy clearly motivated on exclusion, but in normal conversation, using GBLT+, 2S+, LGBTQ+ etc. for brevity when you are referring to all forms of gender expression, I also won’t get upset.

*Upon some more thought, why not just focus on the plus as the banner? Gender expression is a spectrum and unique to each of us. Gender+ (which would be inclusive of agender ppl btw) and Sexuality+ or Romance+ sound pretty cool to my ears, so we can talk about it like an upgrade to people’s life and freedom, not needing to conform to cis, binary and heterosexualism, and then we don’t have to fit people into one of a myriad of categories we force ourselves to create?

The ad-sponsor description is silly, but Boyle is a decent character and this is fine and thought provoking. He goes from a financial perspective so sure I don’t agree with him but he brings sound arguments.

What do you even get from a Luna subscription? Just a Amazon-only rental library of games?

Great list, but why the condescending opener? The question and your answer is a valuable resource for anyone looking for similar, with Google search intentionally making itself worse year after year.

You should definitely head to a place like Princess Auto and ask the folks there, they should be knowledgeable.

Sarnia and Lambton are very conservative. I wonder if some Oil & Gas announcement will come out of this deal?

TL:DR; It’s 'cuz we’re close, but Trump is helping us Canadians rediscover a healthy nationalism.

We were pretty well integrated with the USA over the last 30-odd years, to our mutual benefit and detriment. For the last 10 we’ve seen the vocal minority of Maple MAGA say with Maxime Bernier’s People Party, but also the Conservative moment aligning itself (if not merging with) MAGA.

Under the Trudeau government, his government’s foreign affairs philosophy was internationalism. Which generally made Canadians not really attached to their national identity, and our national symbols started to represent some of the colonial skeletons we were in the process of digging up. What made things worse is that the Ottawa Trucker Convoy was awash with Canadian symbols but they were a MAGA-coup-turned-nuisance-occupation. Most Canadians were either disappointed or disgusted at what national pride had come to represent the worst of us.

Though since Trump has been threatening Canada a lot, I think things have turned for the better, and non-MAGA people at-large have taken back the mantle of nationalism to decouple it from racism and bigotry. The !buyCanadian@lemmy.ca and !boycottUS@lemmy.ca movements are still active. I’ve not completely gotten rid of every American thing yet but like for 90% of stuff I have, and I actively look for alternatives every time before I buy, and discovered Canadian small to medium businesses I never would have come across otherwise.

While I am sympathetic to the government’s and non-Cowichan tribes’ issue, amending the DRIPA legislation to make it weaker and easier to weasel around isn’t the way to do it, if the information in the letter is a true reflection of the proposed amendments.

Edit: Sounds like Eby’s taking a different path (something along the lines of waiting for the Supreme Court case to resolve before fully implementing DRIPA) than the one proposed in the letter. I’ll have to evaluate Indigenous leader and member reactions to that.

Womp womp. The American negotiating team can go cry us a Fraser/Saskatchewan/Niagara/St. Lawrence.

YSK if you mention a Mastodon user handle in the body of a Lemmy Post, they will be notified to every comment in the thread, including second and third level replies.

I am glad Avi is on Masto and posts somewhat regularly.

I hope political pundits keep bugging him over these stances because his answers are popular and it keeps him in the news.

Legion TD2 is a game that was originally a Starcraft mod.

iCAN brand is Canada Computers’ store brand, though most of it is Chinese white label products shipped there. Memory express is another Canadian pc parts retailer chain (stores mostly in Western Canada).

In the GTA, I always recommend Sayal Electronics, they’ve got a variety of home electronic parts and chips and cables and a few other doodads, typically for less than Amazon.

I didn’t find a local supplier but I may give Legends a try https://legendsplayingcards.com/

Anecdotally, the local Iranian population seem very polarized over it, where my coworker is fine to talk about it with me but doesn’t want to bring it up with their family lest it inevitably leading to a big argument.

It was a little shocking to me tbh to witness a large group openly advocating for violent US-backed regime change there, but they do exist. Though after seeing how Trump handled Venezuela, I knew it would be fruitless. Khamenei is dead, long live Khamenei I guess.

I think the current situation doesn’t really please current regime or regime change supporters, but as far as I can tell, “more war” doesn’t seem like a credible way to fix that either like the article seems to suggest.

We’re just pretending now that wildfire smoke doesn’t count in our national emissions, and that whoever smelled it dealt it.

Some modern subway stations in North America are so ridiculously deep, perhaps we could call them bomb shelters…

Safeway has an agreement with the City of Winnipeg to disallow other grocery stores within 1km or something

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/manitoba-grocery-competition-property-controls-restrictive-covenants-9.7005562

The MB-NDP controlled legislature already banned those kinds of new noncompete clauses last year, and Kinew’s government is preparing to challenge all existing ones.

If you want to sleep on your commute, take the damn West Coast Express train, Miss.