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.
Well, I guess maybe novelty has something to do with it for both of us. I will say though without a doubt, Sonic is by far worse than Tim Hortons and any other fast food I’ve ever tried.
Man you must’ve visited the best Tim Hortons on a good day and also the worst In-N-Out and Chick-Fil-A if you think Tims is better. I might forgive you if you haven’t tried Tim’s in the past 20 years though, back when everything was made in store.
If 107 didn’t exist I bet this would’ve been solved closer to February.
I think it’s a combination of their consistent and obvious decline in quality, combined with the fact that most people in this country have been regular customers for at least some period of their life. Very few fast food chains are as widespread and common in small communities (McDonald’s and subway come to mind). I don’t remember any other fast food chains getting worse almost overnight, but I do remember Tim’s switching to much worse bread on their sandwiches, and their donuts going from fresh, to frozen but decorated, to whatever you call the attempted smearing of nearly solid “icing” on top. Are other chains any better? I can’t say for sure, but I can say Tim’s at any previous point in history was.
How come no one made a big deal about Marine Atlantic, an actual federal Crown Corporation, buying their latest ship from the exact same shipyard? The whole reason BC Ferries is technically a “private” company (wholly owned by the government) is to keep the money separate from the government budget. If the government wants to dictate exactly how the company runs, they should re-absorb it (provincially) or properly fund it like transportation in the east (federally).
And for the record, I have no love for the company, but as an Islander we need ferries yesterday and arguing isn’t going to get anything built any sooner.
Not to mention bright mornings well before 4am all summer.