Government sources say they're puzzled by Canada Post's refusal to receive the weapons, since the corporation already delivers guns that are sold online.
Are those online sales from just random people or from shops that can be mostly trusted to ensure that the gun is safe to ship?
Holy crap, I missed the /s😠 off to fix it...
We've been trying to go EV for 20 years. The first obstacle was lack of workspace to convert our little Japanese mini-truck (apartment dwellers).
The next obstacle was cost. We moved to where we had workspace, but then we couldn't afford either the conversion or an equivalently price used Leaf. It's also still a charging desert, with the nearest charger 150 km away and it's not even on the way to anywhere we go often enough to matter.
Then time became an obstacle. Our current vehicles will likely see us to an age where we have to stop driving. Does it make sense to live several years of our retirement as paupers to pay for a decent used EV? We've decided that it doesn't. For our current driving patterns, getting 100km of winter range would cover 50-70 percent of our driving. 50km of winter range would cut that to 20-30 percent. I keep my eye out for something under CA$10k, but haven't seen anything yet.
You still can. I do it all the time.
It's entirely possible that I've missed more recent legislation, so take this with a grain of salt. Canada has a "blank media tax" courtesy of the record lobby back in the recording tape days. There was much pushback from consumers when that fee was applied to things like video tapes, recordable CDs, hard drives, etc, but still exists as far as I know.
The recording industry was pushing for laws more in line with other jurisdictions, primarily the US. The government was open to it, but would then abolish the fees on blank media. Industry backed down because they get more from that fee distribution than they would ever get by having more restrictions. Of course, that doesn't stop them from trying to shame us or blow smoke up our asses.
That means we are already paying a licence fee allowing us to copy recorded or broadcast material for personal use. "Personal use" is defined by what it's not: rebroadcast, playing for the general public, and reselling. Thus, making a strictly personal copy is fine, as is making a copy for a friend, copying from an original you've borrowed (from a friend or from the library), recording legal broadcasts (like from radio, etc), and recording concerts unless the terms of admission expressly forbid it, etc.
Making nearly disposable clothes in short runs at high volume. Originally and still primarily an online phenomenon of quick knock-offs of "runway" designs, it is finding its way into retail outlets and can actually drive novelty (trends) separate from the normal fashion creation pipeline.
Here is a pretty good article that includes a brief history: https://www.cnn.com/style/what-is-fast-fashion-sustainable-fashion/index.html
You can't find these outlets on every street corner the way you can fast food, but pretty much every mall, department store, and supermarket will have something that comes out of the fast fashion pipeline.
In addition (my opinion), it seems to be driving a boom in clothing stores, most which seem to be speeding up their style turnover. It seems to me that the underlying model is bleeding over to other retail sectors like furniture.
Like fast food, it's more about artificially created demand than true consumer demand. More and more, I see that what's for sale is what someone wants you to buy rather than things you actively seek out.
Or how to stay the hell out of blind spots. When I rode, I was constantly amazed by the numbers of fellow riders who didn't understand that in order to be seen, you have to start by not hiding.
What does multiculturalism have to do with anything? Multiculturalism is about acknowledging, accommodating, celebrating, and even drawing strength from the diversity of those who live here, no matter their heritage.
Immigration is about who gets to come here and how many. If we're actually letting too many in, then that is something to deal with, but it's completely separate from whether we celebrate what we have to offer each other.
We also much preferred renting over ownership after trying both. And we were far from 1%.
Maybe? It just feels like that might be part of it...
Anything too big to fail is also too big to care. If they don't care, why should we? Provide proper supports and retraining for everyone below the c-suite and let 'er rip.
Okay, everyone who actually cares about what's going on and hasn't listened to it yet need to put this on your playlist instead of that next musician or audio book.
Even if it's shown to be a one-sided exaggeration, there can be no denying that there are deep, systemic problems with hockey culture and inside hockey organizations.
I haven't really followed that closely in recent years, but pretty much everything to do with guns is handled so badly, no matter who is in power. This is just one more in long line of screw ups.
The last few decades have been just a mess. Way too many emotions on every side. Way too many people with little grasp of guns and their legitimate, harmless uses. Way too many people who think that guns are some god-given totem of freedom as opposed to a tool or recreational skill. Way too many people who see a path to power by inflaming the passions of one side or the other.
Nobody seems interested in conducting actual research into what actually works for the safety of individuals and society. It's all intuition, gut feelings, different versions of "common sense", "just so" stories, and emotional attachment to an immovable opinion.