Thanks for posting. That’s interesting.

Banning hunting a species the province is trying to eradicate might sound counterintuitive, but Brook said there has been no evidence that sport hunting has lowered wild boar populations. That’s partially because the animals reproduce relatively frequently and have large numbers of offspring, averaging two litters of six piglets per year, he said.

“Unfortunately, not only does hunting not eliminate them fast enough … it also breaks up groups and spreads them around the landscape, because very rarely will hunters actually remove a whole population,” Brook said.

Huh. TIL.

Yeah, I’m not sure where they get the impression that we aren’t in the middle of a crisis right now. I guess average prices in TO dropped a couple of percent, but I don’t think anyone under 50 has seen their situation improve.

The federal government already plans to spend billions of dollars in housing through Build Canada Homes. The Parliamentary Budget Officer this week estimated BCH will add 26,000 homes over the next five years, half of them subsidized.

That is not enough. CMHC says we need something like 5 million new homes by 2035 to restore housing affordability to pre-pandemic levels. 5k houses/year is nowhere near what we need. It’s nowhere near the 500,000 housing starts/year Carney was promising during the election.

Everything you said is spot on.

I had kids older. I don’t agree with OPs advice for not having kids in your twenties. I’d argue a planned pregnancy in your twenties is the way to go.

No love for acid rain?

We’ve updated this article after realising we contributed to a perfect storm of misunderstanding around a recent change in the wording and placement of Gmail’s smart features. The settings themselves aren’t new, but the way Google recently rewrote and surfaced them led a lot of people (including us) to believe Gmail content might be used to train Google’s AI models, and that users were being opted in automatically. After taking a closer look at Google’s documentation and reviewing other reporting, that doesn’t appear to be the case.

lol

It isn’t the first time they’ve screwed up the NESS.

I generally listen and compare it to what I do.

If it’s useless, I silently feel smug and superior. If there’s something good, then I try to take it onboard.

Sign me up.

Go for it!

I do something similar a couple days a week. It looks just as good as a similar cut I’d get from a barber.

Ideally the federal government would have import requirements to prevent sweat-shop garments from making it in. But without that, sure.

Huh. I wonder what his story will be.

I’d rather see reform, but this is almost as good.

Actual reform would be the way to go.

UofT appears to have done a good job of keeping their books balanced, despite the glut of foreign students, but many others have not.

Thanks.

Used for what?

Our politicians are incredibly short sighted. It’s amazing that the same budget both defunds universities and says we want to attract the “best and the brightest” to those same universities.

Doran said the government needs to help regular people take part in the energy transition, with more support to retrofit their homes and enjoy lower utility bills, for example, or switch to electric vehicles that are cheaper to run. Overall, Canada needs to align better with the rest of the world on clean energy.

A federal inquiry into PRC interference—drawing on the insight of intelligence officials, diaspora community advocates, and national security experts—must not only ask hard questions, but also deliver enforceable recommendations. Like the Hillsborough Inquiry in the United Kingdom, or our own investigation into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, such an inquiry must run parallel to—not replace—any criminal investigations, ensuring that no stone is left unturned.

Didn’t the last one recommend the creation of a foreign influence registry? Wasn’t the legislation supporting it passed in 2024?

Another inquiry is fine, but that registry seems like it should be done first.

The single biggest item line over the five-year plan is an $56.6-billion investment in the Canadian Armed Forces. The second-biggest expense is actually the income-tax cut that the government passed in June ($27.2 billion).

Which tax cut? Oh, that tax cut:

“Those earning below the taxable threshold or relying heavily on non-refundable tax credits will see minimal benefit, while high earners will only benefit from the reduced rate on the first $57,375 of income.”