Cougars absolutely can and do eat cats and dogs; their natural prey is primarily deer but they’ll absolutely hunt smaller animals if given the opportunity. It’s also not unheard of for them to stalk children and even adults.

Whether the Testimonium Flavianumin (Josephus’ description of Jesus in Antiquities) was entirely a Christian insert or the section was just edited by Christians is debated, however there’s consensus that Josephus’ reference to “the brother of Jesus, who was called Christ, whose name was James” in Antiquities is authentic.

of course it wouldn’t dim it in the same way as a dolphin; cows and dolphins are different animals. this is clearly a real photo, you’re just sowing confusion and distrust in order to break the beautiful fraternity between cows and dolphins

This completely fails to address the actual gaps in scientific animal care legislation, in this case lack of oversight to make sure they actually adhered to the CCAC guidelines and a major lack of transparency. This legislation just sets back science that has good reason to use dogs as model organisms while letting abuse of other animals continue (especially non-government-funded work which has no requirement to follow CCAC rules!)

Anne of Green Gables mention 🥳!! 🥔🥔🥔🥔

So not only is this significantly expanding government’s power to arbitrarily fuck with people’s immigration paperwork but this is a significant expansion of police powers in general:

• The Coast Guard is being turned from an emergency search and rescue service to an agency that also carries out surveillance for the police and military

• People convicted of sex crimes will have their personal information shared with foreign governments

• Police can more easily search your mail

• “Electronic service providers” will be banned from deleting certain user data just in case the police will want it

Totally different from when Trump talks about cartels /s

they really just called him poof huh?

These aren’t lawn signs that individual supporters put up on their properties, they’re signs that the candidates put up on public boulevards

thank god they’re putting these products under the auspices of an agency funded by oil and gas and deciding to just not do environmental assessments; I was worried building clean energy would actually help the environment

Alberta being created out of the NWT (Rupert’s Land had already been annexed by Canada decades before) has no bearing on what constitutional amendment formula would apply in case of succession; the Constitution Act 1982 makes no distinction. The Clarity Act though does say that the provinces should be included in the negotiation of the constitutional amendment granting succession. But it doesn’t give an opinion on whether their consent is necessary (ie which amendment formula to use). So yes succession could be under the unanimous consent formula or the 7/50 formula but it could just as well be under the “amendment to the Constitution of Canada in relation to any provision that applies to one or more, but not all, provinces” formula where only the House of Commons, Senate, and relevant province’s legislature need to consent. (The Quebec Succession Reference Question affirmed that a province’s membership in Confederation isn’t just part of that province’s constitution meaning provinces can’t just amend their own constitutions to unilaterally succeed)

And yeah since treaty are affirmed as part of the constitution by Section 35, the constitutional amendment granting succession would also require renegotiation/amendment of treaties 6, 7, 8, and 10, which would in turn require the consent of the federal government and all the party First Nations. Maybe you could argue that if Alberta stayed a monarchy then the Canadian Crown could pass its responsibility to an independent Alberta Crown the same way the Imperial Crown gradually became an independent Canadian Crown, but I doubt the courts in this day and age would just ignore Indigenous protests to that. Especially considering that the Crown had been represented by the Government of Canada for the entire time the Numbered Treaties have existed and all but Treaty 7 would then have to deal with the Crown splitting in two.

Surprised there’s no mention of the Conservative Party parachuting in Grant Cool without a nomination race to snuff out a local candidate

Note that these aren’t polls taken in each riding. 338 takes the voting data of the riding in previous elections and then uses national and province-wide polls (which are broken down by voter demographics and how people voted previously) to predict how voter intention is changing. So for example a middle class white riding that voted mostly NDP previously is going to be predicted more Liberal when Canada-wide polls are showing that the Liberals are polling well with the white middle class and former NDP voters.

The humble curbside compost pickup:

Hey, there’s plenty of benefits to UEFI! You can boot from different partitions of the same drive without setting up grub, you can uhh… um… you can use the mouse

That was a thing for DOS systems. Hell, for the Apple II, NES, and a bunch of other systems it was the only way to launch a program

I’m honestly a little skeptical here. Yeah it shouldn’t be difficult for regulated professionals to begin working in another province but idk about a blanket exemption. There’s stuff like the National Board Exam for oral health practitioners that’s unified across all the provinces’ regulatory colleges, but not every profession has that and even in that case clinical requirements vary and aren’t all held to the same standard of accreditation. Regulated professions are entirely a provincial responsibility and the colleges are organized along provincial lines, so I don’t see how you can say that someone in one province is as qualified as someone in another without further harmonization.

Also I don’t see how removing liquor restrictions is gonna do anything but weaken the State monopolies and control regimes, but considering Ford’s war on the LCBO I’m not surprised.

There’s been memes on Chinese social media since at least 2020 calling him Comrade Chuān Jiànguó (川建国) and saying he’s working to destroy the US to China’s benefit. Chuan is just a sinicized form of Trump and Jianguo is a given name from the first decades of the PRC (Trump’s generation) that means “to build/found the [Chinese] nation”

Hundreds of years of what?

Yup. Last one closed at the end of 2021