I don’t know, they’re a very American brand, maybe not as much as Tim’s is Canadian (in the sense of brand perception/ cultural significance). Even though McDonald’s is American, it’s been here so long and is so global it doesn’t feel American.

Crimea 2

The problem is that once you get into lifetime costs the variables go through the roof and any numbers you come up with are almost meaningless to anyone but yourself. (Not to mention needing to calculate increasingly volatile energy prices over decades) I tried to do a bit of basic math. I calculated with BC Hydro home rates at $0.12/kwh and fast charger rates at $0.40/kwh, and with gas at its (local) year low of $1.40/L as well as rounding up to $2/L. I also am taking my basic search for efficiency data at face value.

Cost/100km

Kia Niro EV ~17kwh/100km = $2.04 home $6.80 fast charger
Hyundai Kona ICE ~7.5L/100km combined = $10.50-$15

Nissan Leaf ~18.9kwh/100km = $2.27 home $7.56 fast charger
Nissan Versa ~6.8L/100km = $9.52-$13.60

There’s no doubt there are many people saving tons by driving an EV, just as I have no doubt many people will never break even (and if they’re ok with that I have no issues).

$45k+ still isn’t what I’d call affordable, especially when their closest ICE equivalents (Nissan Versa and Hyundai Kona) are about $20k cheaper new.

At least it looks like used EVs with triple digit ranges are starting to show up around $10k. The state of EV affordability is improving but there’s still a long way to go.

That sounds like an argument the other way to me. I work rotating shift work, permanent DST is going to be awesome for me. I’m going to love having at least 1 hour of sun after my commute home after a winter morning, as well as not doing almost my entire night shift in darkness. I’m also thankful we won’t have standard time in the summer. I’m ok waking up in darkness, I already would for a morning shift 365 days a year. Right now I can easily make it to bed in darkness, but standard time it would be getting noticeably lighter by the time I get home.

Not to mention bright mornings well before 4am all summer.

Circadian rhythm is personal, so I don’t know if what the clock says makes as much of a difference as when things are scheduled. And time zones are so wide that being at the extreme east or west of a zone can make more than an hour difference in sunrise/set times anyways.

It’s awesome we’re sticking to daylight savings and not standard!

You definitely have bigger toast.

Maybe regionally. From the west coast I have never heard of Second Cup as anything other than making coffee flavoured granola bars years ago, and up until now I thought Robin’s went out of business in the early '00s.

Once again they’ll carve out exemptions for the stuff they can’t get anywhere else. And for those things, we need to slap on an export tax.

That’s a very nice way of describing legal slavery.

It really feels like they’re trying to pull a Crimea. They’ve already been amplifying (if not outright fabricating) the voices of the very few sincere separationists to make it look like it’s a majority position. Now they’re setting up a referendum, which will likely be accused of being rigged if it fails or used as pretext if it passes, because it’s obviously not legally binding.

I mostly agree with that, except I think we’re missing a few steps in the middle too. I had a close family member struggle with mental health, to the point it severely affected their livelihood. In moments of crisis, every option essentially came down to “calm down and figure it out yourself, or call us back when you’re actually considering suicide”. Thankfully we were eventually able to find a counsellor, but even with decent insurance they’re very expensive. I’m sure a lot of people don’t have that option, especially if they don’t have a family support network to fall back on if they lose their job (and housing, and if they even had it, insurance).

I don’t mean to sound crass or dismissive, but making the choice to go out in such a public way is pretty selfish. I know a guy who used to be in the coast guard and he had to clean up a few people who missed. I’m sure it’s even worse for someone like a train operator. While you’re absolutely correct the prevention needs to be directed at the root cause, it doesn’t mean we shouldn’t also try and prevent it where it’s happening.

Isn’t that why they’re making every non-american staying for over a month register and get fingerprinted?

Western-er Canada: “your tracks are in trainworthy condition?”

I’m not sure if it’s pixel only at the moment but they recently expanded the previously US only feature to screen calls like that automatically. You get a live transcript and if you missed the call you can listen back to the recording. But the biggest feature is actually hidden, if I go look at my call history I’d say a good 75% of it is confirmed spam that was detected and effectively blocked without bringing it to my attention at all.

To me a standard American accent sounds like they’re replacing the OU with AW, “abawt”. Or maybe “abowt” if they pronounced it like the bow of a ship (not like a fancy knot or the weapon).

Don’t forget the other >80 million who, at best, didn’t care enough to vote against it.