They talk a lot about the high number of non-certified teachers that have been hired, but how many certified teachers have applied and not gotten a full-time gig?

If it’s 10, maybe the school districts have an issue.

If it’s 1, maybe the issue is with her?

I think it should be lower-case “karen” and equally applied to any gender.

This is next-level stupidity. The neighbour, the cops… absolute jokes.

If this had happened in my neighbourhood as a kid, the neighbour who called the police would be the target of relentless eggings, TPings, and just general mischief for years to come. Good luck buddy.

Otters, and eagles and orcas, oh my!

It should say “porn” on the drive.

I mean, they obviously didn’t put up this ad. It’s hilarious and well done, but it’s pasted over top of the glass.

Nevermind all the weapons that get through security unnoticed…

Not in 2024, it’ll be there in 2028 though! (OP asked what’s next 😂)

https://www.freep.com/story/sports/olympics/2024/07/29/flag-football-olympics-2024-paris-nfl-rules-los-angeles-2028/74336758007/

Flag football

Non-paywall archive: https://archive.is/PJQPe

Part of the reason to use the Red Cross (or any NGO) is because it can do things outside the full government purview.

It’s also a good way to get money from citizens across the country to assist the people affected. Think of it as AB spending $1 to get $1 from the feds and $1 from citizens/donations. Imagine how people would react if the AB government put out a request for donations directly.

it’s the f-ing government - either just go help people who need help because they’re your people or contract with red cross to do the helping for you with accountability for the job they do.

Agreed, and I believe that both of these are happening in Alberta. The Red Cross is contracted by the AB and local governments to provide certain services in disaster management, and the AB and local governments provide some of the services themselves.

I don’t feel like the government should be matching donations to a private organization

It’s an NGO, not-for-profit, registered charity, with a mandate to provide humanitarian aid. Calling it a “private org” is a bit disingenuous.

From the Red Cross:

Donations to the Canadian Red Cross will be used for assisting those impacted in Jasper and other affected areas in Alberta with immediate and ongoing relief including financial assistance, support to evacuees and the communities hosting them, recovery and resilience efforts in response to the wildfires, as well as supporting community preparedness and risk reduction for future all-hazard disaster events within Alberta.

I don’t know how (or if) AB audits this, which is the crux of your issue with it I guess, but in a way they don’t have to. If the Red Cross provides services for Albertans in a manner that is close to the value AB spent, they haven’t lost anything. Hopefully it’s (much) better than break even though.

And before we get into the efficiency of the Red Cross for dollars donated, remember we’re talking about governments here. They’re not exactly the paragons of efficient spending.

Air Canada forgot how to fly airliners during COVID.

Couldn’t CrowdStrike do this to Linux too? And couldn’t that be much worse? Like deeper network infrastructure?

I couldn’t find the tweet in the article, but found it in this one from last year: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/andrew-abbass-rnc-complaints-1.6967702

Abbass tweeted: “How about this, premier of N.L.: I’m going to bring down Confederation and have politicians executed. Ready to have me shot, coward?”

The tweet, he admits, was meant to antagonize.

“I figured they would arrest me.”

This is a pretty ignorant thing to say (let alone heartless, as you admitted.)

First, the amount of money that needs to be committed to deal with climate change is in the billions, and the mere millions they are talking about for matching Red Cross donations are a drop in the bucket.

Second, you clearly haven’t lost your property in a wildfire and have no idea about the devastation this would cause on a personal level. I can’t imagine what kind of person you must be to think the individuals don’t deserve help because our society has failed to keep climate change in check. What the fuck do you want to deal with climate change for if you don’t care about people?

Third, make them pay and maybe then they’ll stop denying climate change. (A pipe dream, I know.)

Username checks out.

This is why I quit hockey and ball hockey. I’m too old to recover well from injuries and every team seems to have one meat-head that is just there to be an aggressive, dangerous twat, and by definition they’re carrying a big stick. Sometimes it’s the whole damn team. And leagues don’t do enough to curb it, so I’m all for the law stepping in to enforce punishment for these assaults (on and off the rink).

I’m only asking that question because the article is about assault-style firearms, and OP said they are pushing the article based on shootings that may, or may not, involve assault-style weapons.

I wasn’t implying anything about general firearms issues or licensing.

Did they involve assault style rifles?

Central figures promoting the China interference scandal are funded by the US. One of the most quoted individuals decrying Chinese interference in Canada, Mehmet Tohti, has worked for various US-sponsored Uyghur groups, notably the Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project (URAP), which was funded by the US’ National Endowment Fund for Democracy for their “advocacy” in Canada. Tohti’s URAP also played an important role in pushing Parliament to adopt a resolution calling China’s treatment of Uygurs a genocide, which pushed the Trudeau government towards more conflictual relations with Beijing.

This doesn’t sound like a bad thing to me? The article seems to indicate this is proof that US funding got the Canadian government to do something bad, but it sounds like quite the opposite, unless I’m misunderstanding…