policyoptions.irpp.org The many dangers of Pierre Poilievre’s war on ‘woke’
Pierre Poilievre’s anti-woke crusade mirrors U.S. far-right tactics and risks eroding Canada’s democratic and inclusive values.
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The many dangers of Pierre Poilievre’s war on ‘woke’ - Institute for Research on Public Policy
"bare market" - A Canadian online bulk and refill store for body care and home products with Canada-wide delivery and pick-up locations in Toronto's East End
"Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants" - A Canadian documentary about Lucy the elephant who has lived at the Edmonton Valley Zoo for 48 years - Streaming on CBC Gem
gem.cbc.ca Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants | Films | CBC Gem
An investigation into the psychological and physiological impact on elephants living in zoos.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/42562799
Lucy is featured in this documentary filmed in Canada, the US, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Argentina and Swaziland, the docu-film contrasts the difference between elephants confined in zoos with elephants thriving in their natural habitat. The film is centered around Lucy, Edmonton Valley Zoo's 50-year-old elephant, and the work of animal rights advocates as they attempt to have Lucy moved from the Edmonton zoo where she can live with other elephants.
"Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants" - A Canadian documentary about Lucy the elephant who has lived at the Edmonton Valley Zoo for 48 years - Streaming on CBC Gem
gem.cbc.ca Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants | Films | CBC Gem
An investigation into the psychological and physiological impact on elephants living in zoos.
Lucy is featured in this documentary filmed in Canada, the US, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Argentina and Swaziland, the docu-film contrasts the difference between elephants confined in zoos with elephants thriving in their natural habitat. The film is centered around Lucy, Edmonton Valley Zoo's 50-year-old elephant, and the work of animal rights advocates as they attempt to have Lucy moved from the Edmonton zoo where she can live with other elephants.
VOTED today in the advanced polls. Let's go Toronto, get the vote out!
Got to my local voting station at 4:30 and was out at 5:00. Most of that was waiting in line with about a dozen people in front of me. I don't think they were expecting this many people, or maybe I just happened to be there at a busy point. The vote itself was quick with just a single ballot for the MPs.
Advanced voting is still open until 9:00 PM today, with the main election day on April 28. Check https://www.elections.ca/ for your info.
Grassroots group TTCriders adds temporary signage to King station to demonstrate better wayfinding for our transit
Signs and information are the front door of the TTC. When thousands of international tourists visit for the 2026 FIFA Men’s World Cup, we want them to be taking public transit.
Easy-to-use TTC information and signs will not only benefit visitors to the city, but encourage all Toronto residents to take transit again in the future.
You shouldn’t get lost while taking the TTC! Ask Toronto City Council to invest in upgrading signs and information across the TTC, including up-to-date schedule information on trip planning apps and the TTC website.
The TTC is creating a new "wayfinding" strategy, but it lacks funding. Wayfinding means the signage, information, and audio announcements that guide you through the transit system.
Here's a video explainer about the research: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trQWfmH2OO4
That research was more about the haptics. This new research is more about projecting a volumetric hologram that can also be interacted with directly.
CBC Vote Compass 2025 - Helps you compare your alignment with the parties
votecompass.cbc.ca Vote Compass - 2025 Canadian Federal Election
Use this interactive survey designed by political scientists to calculate your alignment with the candidate platforms.
Vote Compass is a tool developed by political scientists to help you explore how your views compare with those of the parties.
CBC also has interactive tools for reading the parties' policies and promises: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/features/2025/federal-party-platforms
And a poll tracker: https://newsinteractives.cbc.ca/elections/poll-tracker/canada/
www.durhamregion.com Pickering team builds LEGO robot, heading to world championships in South Africa
A team made up of seven kids has impressed judges with their recycling robot in Ontario and is moving on to a bigger competition.
The Pickering robotics teams is representing Canada at the FIRST Lego League Worlds tournament in South Africa. They qualified at the Ontario provincials and are raising funds for their trip to Worlds.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/705-cn-pickering-team-canada-goes-to-south-africa-worlds
Man, Waymo was one of the more exciting things I was looking forward to, but I guess I should have waited for the other shoe to drop. Disappointing.
History Professor Answers Dictator Questions | Tech Support | WIRED
This isn't about Canada specifically, but it feels like required knowledge given our proximity to the US
www.canadianlawyermag.com More Canadian law firms could scale down diversity efforts, says GC with DEI experience
Firms with US clients may feel pressure to downplay diversity programs, says Shari Hosaki
Yeah! The recliner seats at Market Square are great.
Sorry to be this person, but I want to warn the community about a pattern I've seen with flyweather's posts.
I think he has been running this grift for several months now, where he posts a sob story and suggests that he just needs ~$50 more dollars to pay for something or another. I've fallen for it and given him money a few times already.
He also posts on other Lemmy communities and on reddit as well. He goes by PaintRush and other accounts. He has been an atheist kicked out of his house, a queer person kicked out of his house, a homeless person looking for food, a stabbing victim looking to pay for an ambulance, a person diagnosed with ADHD, an amputee paying for a prosthetic, etc.
- https://archive.is/rK1WJ
- https://archive.is/HoW68 (where he replies to his alt account)
- https://archive.is/lrwWn
- https://archive.is/VcKoj
He usually deletes his posts shortly after someone actually sends him money.
I generally want to help people, but I think he's just taking advantage of several communities at this point. Maybe some part of his story is true, but he's changed it so many times now, it may all be made up.
No Other Land - Oscar winning documentary by Palestinian and Israeli filmmakers playing at TIFF Lightbox this week
www.tiff.net No Other Land
One of the most urgent films of the year and winner of jury and audience prizes at the Berlin Film Festival, <em>No Other Land</em> offers an essential and unflinching look at life under Israeli military occupation.
Basel Adra has been documenting the expulsion and decimation of his community in the small mountain village of Masafer Yatta in the southern West Bank since childhood. Adra’s early memories as a child are plagued with images of Israeli soldiers raiding his home, witnessing his father Nasser, a Palestinian activist, being arrested, and the ongoing Israeli military occupation and settler aggression. By picking up his camera, Adra continually speaks truth to power as he tirelessly documents his reality: impending forced removals, bulldozers destroying homes, and the violence that inevitably follows. The film takes place prior to October 7, 2023, when attention to the region was in shorter supply.
During Adra’s fight to preserve his mountain village community, he forms an unexpected friendship and alliance with Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham, who joins his resistance efforts. It is clear this bond is not one grounded in equity, with Adra living under occupation and Abraham’s freedo
Imagine Cinemas on Carlton is a hidden gem
imaginecinemas.com Carlton
Our movies are updated each week. Showtimes are available for online purchase starting Wednesday mornings for the upcoming week (Fri-Thurs). Our theatre opens approximately 30 minutes before the first advertised performance All online sales are final All Prices Plus Applicable
Imagine Cinemas' Carlton location is a small theatre that usually screens movies that are offbeat, indie, classics, anime, and documentaries, in addition to the latest releases. The company is local to Ontario and family-owned. They have $5 deals on movies regularly, especially when they're showing classics.
I'm a regular there and at their Market Square location too. This week I watched "Lucy: The Stolen Lives of Elephants", an excellent documentary about the plight of elephants in zoos, and a hope for their future in sanctuaries. The Canadian filmmakers are hosting Q&A's at all the 6:50PM showings this week (another thing that Carlton often does).
To be clear, I'm not affiliated with them. I'm just a movie lover :)
sourced.press Destroying Gaza’s Food, Obstructing Aid, and Killing Aid Workers
These stories, and those of far too many others who struggled to survive, were the result of a deliberate policy to starve Palestinians in Gaza. Strikes on food sources, attacks on aid workers, and the obstruction of humanitarian aid made this policy clear. All the while, Israeli officials publicly ...
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/40849390
The latest article from SourcedPress details how Palestinian civilians, children, mothers, have been systematically starved of food and aid, now going on 1.5 years. SourcedPress articles are dense by design. More than 80% of the article is backed by supporting documents, fact-checked by at least four verifiers. You can see the citations, source material, and fact-checking notes inline, as you read. You get transparent access to all the effort behind the journalism.
sourced.press Destroying Gaza’s Food, Obstructing Aid, and Killing Aid Workers
These stories, and those of far too many others who struggled to survive, were the result of a deliberate policy to starve Palestinians in Gaza. Strikes on food sources, attacks on aid workers, and the obstruction of humanitarian aid made this policy clear. All the while, Israeli officials publicly ...
The latest article from SourcedPress details how Palestinian civilians, children, mothers, have been systematically starved of food and aid, now going on 1.5 years. SourcedPress articles are dense by design. More than 80% of the article is backed by supporting documents, fact-checked by at least four verifiers. You can see the citations, source material, and fact-checking notes inline, as you read. You get transparent access to all the effort behind the journalism.
They are seeking an injunction first, with a court hearing later on. Last I checked, they plan to contest the removal as a violation of the Charter of Rights given that it will lead to injuries and loss of life.
Here are the grounds from the Notice of Application from December:
- The Ontario Government has embarked on an ill-conceived, arbitrary, and hurried legislative campaign against people who ride bikes in the City of Toronto by mandating the removal of approximately 19 kilometres of protected bike lanes in each direction on Bloor Street, Yonge Street, and University Avenue (the "Target Bike Lanes"). It has done so in full awareness of, or lacking all concern about, the increased number of injuries and deaths that will result.
- This reckless legislative act infringes the rights of people who ride bikes (used interchangeably with "cyclists"), other road users, and/or pedestrians in the City of Toronto under s.7 of the Charter by depriving them of life and security of the person contrary to principles of fundamental justice.
- There is no rational connection between the purported object of the law (reducing traffic congestion and gridlock) and its effect. The seriousness of the increased risk of death or serious injury to cyclists is entirely disproportionate to that ostensible objective.
Ontario aware bike lane removals may not reduce congestion, could make people less safe: internal documents
Ontario aware bike lane removals may not reduce congestion, could make people less safe: internal documents
Ah, well their donation link is on their website, under the "About Us" section. They just use buymeacoffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/isitfromcanada, if you want to contribute.
Buy Beaver app now on iOS and Android
www.buybeaver.ca BuyBeaver - Find and Support Canadian Products & Businesses
Discover and shop Canadian-made products on BuyBeaver. Find local manufacturers, verify Canadian products, and support homegrown businesses.
Buy Beaver was created by a couple of entrepreneurs based in Montreal. It's a free app and they're currently just supporting the project with donations.
I recently learned about this black-owned bookstore in Toronto, and their website has a filter for Canadian authors:
https://adifferentbooklist.com/browse/filter/b/canada/v/popularity
Are you talking about more dependencies from a developer's point of view? I get that to a degree, but from a user's point of view, isn't AMP technically better, especially now that it's open source?
I agree with the petition, but I wish it had mentioned that Twitter hides most, if not all, of an account's tweets behind a login wall. Same for Instagram for that matter. That's a strong reason not to use it for government communication.
thelogic.co Shopify lays off team supporting Black, Indigenous and women entrepreneurs - The Logic
The layoffs coincided with the closure of major diversity initiatives at Shopify, sources said, with major partners ghosted and Slack communities left abandoned
Thanks for the non-AMP link. Though my understanding is that the past concerns about AMP have been resolved now that it has moved to an open-source project under the OpenJS Foundation. Is there still reason to avoid AMP?
www.bbc.com AI cracks superbug problem in two days that took scientists years - BBC News
The lead researcher has told the BBC he was so astounded he assumed his computer had been hacked.
Swung by St James Park today to see Tiny Tiny Homes in action. Keeping people out of the snow.
Didn't expect to see Ryan Donais there, but the man himself was checking in on the housed, and I got to shake his hand. Keep it up Ryan!
Well said. Toronto has long been too dense for commuters.
I just lean towards it being a scam. I did some searching as well and couldn't identify the organization behind "Voter Research Services". If it was legitimate, they'd make that information readily available on some website. I think text message scammers consider it valuable information to find out if there is actually a person behind a phone number, so if they are scammers, even your first reply validated your number as a target for future unrelated scams.
Canadian creator of Pixelfed has smashed through their Kickstarter goal. Can we band together to get Lemmy.ca/Fedecan as a $500 sponsor?
I like this take. When I read some of Dan's concerning posts, I see someone who is really not used to working with others, not someone who is actively malicious
Canadian creator of Pixelfed has smashed through their Kickstarter goal. Can we band together to get Lemmy.ca/Fedecan as a $500 sponsor?
Oof, I wasn't aware of this. Thanks for the link. The sub-linked open letter about his behaviour towards others is particularly concerning: https://dansup-open-letter.github.io/appendix/#behaviour
I'm still a bit torn, because I think Pixelfed (the software) is still worth supporting, but we can let more of the community decide. Ultimately the Lemmy.ca/Fedecan representative would have to decide anyway.
Archive link: https://archive.is/eTzrX
Looks like Ryan is applying to be a registered charity. The gofundme should qualify for tax receipts after that.
I'm not aware of Canadian instances. /u/otter mentioned recently that Fedecan may setup a Pixelfed instance next: https://lemmy.ca/post/25251642/13926523