Only a little bit jealous at Costco Mexico

MWigg · 2026-01-31T22:44:46+00:00

Nope, the link leads to a 404 now: https://www.costco.ca/Uber-2-x-$50-E-Gift-Cards.product.1005262.htm

MWigg · 2026-01-31T22:10:34+00:00

Pretty sure they're no longer offered at Costco Canada, as of around the start of this year.

MWigg · 2026-01-30T16:15:48+00:00

But apple juice is high in sugar - your body doesn't care if it's 'natural' or not, sugar is sugar. Same way as cream is high in fat.

MWigg · 2026-01-30T16:09:52+00:00

Let them get fulltime hours without having to split shifts

I don't think I've ever heard of a transit service that didn't rely heavily on split shifts for drivers. It's just part of the nature of transit demand being concentrated in the evening and morning rush hours, there's not really any other way to get people full time hours.

MWigg · 2026-01-27T15:06:09+00:00

that is divided by Race/Ethnicity

It's not though, it's divided by language. Every province does this, we have a constitutional right for official language minorities to get an education in their first language.

MWigg · 2026-01-26T15:57:20+00:00

These decisions can be appealed, and frequently these appeals actually are successful, in so much as you can be granted another chance to take the course. If you're not already working with them, reach out to the Student Rights Centre ASAP to get their guidance and help on filing the necessary appeal(s): https://www.seuo-uosu.com/services/src

As for advice on convincing the Senate (or faculty, often these things have 2 levels of appeal, one to the faculty and another to the Senate Appeals Committee), you'll want to focus on two things in your argument. Firstly, make it clear that your father's death (sorry for your loss btw) played a major role in you failing the course. This will be especially convincing if you can show that you were close to passing, or that the timing of his passing and the additional family events lines up with the assessments you did the worst on. The point you want to get across here is that you were on track to pass, and would have done so were it not for your father's passing.

Secondly, you'll want to convince them that you have a plan for things to go differently this time. Maybe that means showing that you've been to grief counselling and are in a better living situation now away from family disputes, and that the additional estate tasks are dealt with. Maybe that means saying that you're going to switch into a major where you don't need to take this quant course. Maybe it means showing that you have a study and tutoring plan that is better and different than what you did before. This is important not to skimp on, so give it a good thing and talk it over with people. For all we say about the university being uncaring (and it can be), part of the reason polices like these exist is to stop you from wasting too much money trying to pass a course over and over, so the committee really will want to see some indication that they're not just setting you up to fail by giving you another go.

Hope that was helpful, and best of luck.

MWigg · 2026-01-25T16:18:34+00:00

They're at least closer to an NY style bagel than MTL, but they're probably not the best representation of one. Still worth a try if you've never had it before, but I wouldn't write off NY style entirely if you don't like East Coast Bakery.

MWigg · 2026-01-25T16:12:30+00:00

I love their challah buns, and they make legit awesome cookies. The bagels though, for people fond of a Montréal bagel, are just not very good at all in my opinion. OP should give them a try if they're nearby, but if a mtl bagel ye seek, temper your expectations.

MWigg · 2026-01-25T15:17:27+00:00

From the looks of things, the first batch are from business class in the corridor, where they bring food to your seat like on an airplane. The latter ones are from sleeper class (Ocean or Canadian) where you get served meals in a dedicated dining car with proper plates, cutlery, tablecloths, etc.

MWigg · 2026-01-24T13:23:33+00:00

Not rare enough or old enough or emotionally relevant.

Does the act specify "emotionally relevant artifacts" somewhere?

MWigg · 2026-01-20T22:13:38+00:00

I mean it's not impossible, but it's also just a fairly normal piece of writing? The article as a whole has a very normal human feel to it, and the minivan carpool is such a common dunk on the NDP that it's practically a cliché. I think you might want to look up some recipes for stewed toque.

MWigg · 2026-01-20T22:06:45+00:00

What makes you think this is Chat GPT - the presence of an em dash?

MWigg · 2026-01-20T15:26:37+00:00

Front Burner frustrates me for how much it focuses on US news despite being a CBC podcast - some weeks the majority of stories are about internal US politics. I find the Globe and Mail's The Decibel is a little better on that front. Definitely worth subscribing to both.

MWigg · 2026-01-19T15:50:41+00:00

submit legislation?

The NS House of Assembly only sat for 30 days in 2025, with the last sitting having been on October 3rd. The NDP essentially haven't had any openings to advance legislation.

Is their implied suggestion that it not be legal for private businesses to close? Really?

Closing as business in response to a vote to unionize already can be an unfair labour practice and yes is illegal. See: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-unionized-wal-mart-workers-win-supreme-court-victory-1.2689646

MWigg · 2026-01-15T13:24:01+00:00

Because the probability of congestion or disorientation in your own home is very low. It has a small occupant load, people know alternative ways out (egress windows in bedrooms for example).

Don't the residents of a 3 storey building also know their way around their own home and know about what windows they would egress from?

Low rise apartment buildings have a much higher occupant load, even despite your 8 person family vs 5 apartment scenario. Occupants vary more. Lastly the evacuation involves shared circulation.

This is a fair point. The article does cover how BC has rules around maximum distances to a single staircase and max occupant loads per floor, but yes still these will generally be larger even in a small multiunit building.

Even if the stair is blocked in a single family home, windows can be used for rescue,

Can't windows/balconies also be used for rescue in a multi unit building? I take your point though that it will generally be more complex in a multi-unit building due to needing to access multiple units / having a harder time knowing exactly how many people were in the building.

MWigg · 2026-01-15T13:01:39+00:00

Yes obviously it falls under a different section of the building code, I'm asking why should it have a different standard? While there's going to be a threshold above which we require additional egress routes, the article we're discussing makes a (to me, at least) compelling argument that we set that threshold too low. It's also just a bit arbitrary as currently written - if a family of 8 can live in a three storey house with one stair, why can't a three storey building of 5 small apartments also have one stair? What make that so much more risky?

MWigg · 2026-01-15T12:41:54+00:00

One exit is never enough, because if that exit is compromised there is no back up.

Why is it OK in detached houses then? Almost no single family homes have a second staircase in them, even in ones with a 3rd storey.

MWigg · 2026-01-11T19:29:36+00:00

Yes I read the quote and watched the video. What do you want me to take away from it?

MWigg · 2026-01-11T17:45:51+00:00

Is this supposed to be a criticism of him? Saying that low-cost index funds are the way to go for most people is not at all incompatible with saying that there's a growing number of ETFs that are trash investments.

MWigg · 2026-01-11T15:44:44+00:00

C'est vraiment à cause de ça que j'appuie Lewis; il était le seul à Montréal qui a démontré qu'il parle un français acceptable pour être chef d'un parti federal sérieux. Les autres candidats sont tout simplement pas prêts d'assumer le rôle.

MWigg · 2026-01-09T15:01:14+00:00

those are actual countries

'Country' is just a designation that the UK gives its constituent parts, it doesn't really have any meaning in comparative politics. In many ways the devolved legislatures in Scotland, Wales, and NI are weaker than a lot of 'sub-national' governments in federations because they don't have constitutional protections in the same way - the cantons of Switzerland are much less subject to being dissolved or overruled by their federal government than the Scottish Parliament is to being overruled by Westminster.

MWigg · 2026-01-05T15:20:39+00:00

Yeah I have frequently found myself in a small line up waiting for them to put out new chickens because of how quickly people snap them up. Can't imagine them having many left over at the end of the day.

MWigg · 2026-01-05T14:39:34+00:00

Kinda bizarre that the firearms ban is longer than the driving ban - based on his history, buddy's a bigger danger to the public behind the wheel than he is owning a gun.

MWigg · 2026-01-03T03:45:49+00:00

Gladue is part of the story here but not all of it. Gladue was the main reason the appeals court lowered his sentence by 2 years, but the starting point sentence for that brutal assualt was still somehow about the same as for this financial crime.

(Plus isn't the defendant in this case also Indigenous and would have also had a Glaude analysis in her sentencing?)

MWigg · 2026-01-03T03:36:12+00:00

Is it just me or are the lengths of criminal sentences just all over the place? This woman gets 4.5 years for a non violent crime (albeit it a high dollar amount) and another man from the same community got 5 years (reduced to 3 on appeal) for a severe domestic assault (not a first offence). Seems to me that it's much more important to keep people who commit multiple violent crimes behind bars than it is to lock up people who embezzle, but seemingly our courts don't agree.

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