If you think you can set up mail infrastructure with on premise everything that is available to your not on premise workers safer than Microsoft, you will be spending a huge amount of money to do so.

Even if they prefer not to self-host, there are plenty of providers out there that are more trustworthy than Microsoft. In fact, I would say that a medium-sized established company that derives most of its revenue from providing email and related services is likely to secure them better than an oversized tech giant that just does email on the side—they have more incentive.

Indigenous people are overrepresented among homicide victims in Canada: “The homicide rate for Indigenous people was over six times higher than for the non-Indigenous population (9.31 versus 1.46 homicides per 100,000 population).” ( source , which is 2023 data).

General Indigenous life expectancy is also lower—anywhere from 10 to 20 years difference at birth, depending on which information source and which subset of Indigenous people (Inuit lifespans are shortest overall). Here’s some StatsCan data from 2011—I can’t find anything more recent, although I’m sure it exists.

I haven’t found any death statistics for Indigenous people in Saskatchewn specifically. They’re ~17% of the population there, per Wikipedia, which is the highest % of any province I could find the information for quickly (more than double Alberta’s, for instance), so Indigenous issues actually could be a significant contributor to Saskatchewan’s statistical skew.

I wonder if there’s any studies out there about how much space a single person needs to be comfortable.

Culturally dependent, I’m pretty sure. Housing in Japan can be pretty tiny. Canada’s on the large side.

It also depends on the person and their habits: introverts and people who spend more time at home are likely to want more personal space.

Well, the GG has two official residences, as does the PM (although one of those isn’t currently usable). The Speaker of the House has one, and we have one reserved for visiting foreign heads of state. When Stornoway was given to the government, I guess the opposition leader seemed like the next most important person to give a house to. The government could try to sell it, but those kinds of large, multi-million-dollar historic buildings are always a problem to unload, and I understand that the area it’s in is sufficiently high-rent that property owners in the area would fight tooth and nail against any useful redevelopment.

I suppose it could be offered to the Chief Justice of Canada instead.

Shinesman, if you can find it, has an amusingly silly dub that you should be able to follow without paying too much attention to the visuals. They took an already rather silly sentai show parody and just let the English voice actors run away with it.

Its hard to believe the polls could do a 180 like that, given the Carney and Pierre are ideologically opposite.

Not difficult to believe at all, once you remember that the average voter makes their decision based on emotions rather than rational thought. There were a whole bunch of people who wanted anyone other than Trudeau as PM. They would have agreed to vote for a pet rock as long as its name wasn’t “Justin Trudeau”, but they didn’t really think much of Poilievre even if they saw him as the only alternative to The Guy They Didn’t Want.

Politics in a democracy are more a popularity contest than anything else.

Canada at least has some privacy laws, even if they’re weaker than the EU’s and not always well-enforced. The US has no such laws. So keeping the data in Canada is an improvement over giving it to, say, Google, even if it’s still not perfectly protected. Plus, if worst comes to worst, it’s a lot easier to bring a lawsuit for mishandling your data against someone in your own country.

Given that it offers free email, I would be kind of surprised if no one had ever used it for spam.

As for https support, I had no issues there, and a quick check shows that the site has a valid certificate from Let’s Encrypt. The security signature is given as “AES-GCM, 128-bit keys, TLS 1.2”, which means it’s one TLS version behind and has the exact same security signature as amazon.ca.

I remember a blind person posting to the Gentoo mailing lists for install help a couple of years ago. They were having considerable issues getting screen reading working at the command line so that they could continue forward from there. Yeah, definitely a fair number of bugs that aren’t being prioritized at the level they should be.

Of course, detecting it doesn’t mean you can do anything about it, as some homeowners in Elliot Lake discovered.

Rental housing makes sense for people who aren’t intending to stay where they are in the long term (young single people or people whose situation is in flux in some way). If you’re expecting to move on, lumbering yourself with an expensive asset that will take years to pay for and may require months to unload when you no longer need it isn’t smart.

It may make sense to restrict rentals to multi-unit buildings, and also restrict the number of buildings or units under the same owner, but having none at all causes more problems than it solves.

There have been experimental deployments of Universal Basic Income, one of which lasted five years and involved an entire town, and none of those things ever materialized.

Also, the rear palace’s security is appalling.

The outer walls do seem to be like swiss cheese even when a certain strategist isn’t making big holes in them.

This is definitely stylish, but I feel like the lore is a little dense for beginners, even if veterans keep telling me it’s fine.

Speaking as someone whose prior experience with Gundam has been limited to series not part of the main continuity (Wing, part of SEED and I think the first few episodes of X, none of it recently) and a summary or two I read back in the day . . . it is dense enough that I was having a bit of trouble with some terminology that was thrown around in the first episode. The second, ironically, was somewhat easier to follow despite being a lot more lore-steeped, because while it also dumped a fair amount of terminology without proper explanation, it was stuff related to the brief history/political summaries I’d read before, rather than the nuts and bolts of mecha combat. I haven’t gotten to the third ep. yet.

Overall, I would rate it as more difficult for someone coming in cold to follow than Your Forma, despite the latter having been deliberately decapitated. I suspect that I would have dropped this if I hadn’t had those half-remembered old summaries of the Universal Century to fall back on.

Nah, those of us who are actually old keep our lists on paper, not on this newfangled Internet thing. 😉

Most likely just a mistake, but we need to make sure it never happens again.

Also, do the tanuki kids not age?

Ponko’s age came up in the episode where she first starts working and Yachiyo won’t agree to employ her unless she’s old enough. I think she says she’s 58 or something around there, which suggests that the tanuki people age ~8 times slower than humans. Assume 24 years for the whiskey development (9 years of experimentation and yearly tasting to get a decent formula + 15 years of aging to get the bottle Yachiyo serves at the bar when consoling the alien over her(?) breakup) and you get ~3 years of aging for the tanuki, which might not be reflected in their character designs.

Of course, this assumes that the human forms of the tanuki reflect changes in their biological development instead of being “fixed” forms that they’ve memorized somehow.

Price them appropriately—like, less than a dollar per month per square foot rent, or maybe the cost of a used RV to own—and you might see some uptake. As things stand, I expect these are unaffordable for the people who might be able to use them.

If the idiot owners won’t budge on charging too much for too little, they deserve to go bankrupt over it.

How much would setting the main registry file to read-only break on Windows 11? Someone may be about to attempt the experiment . . .

I am not a lawyer, but by my understanding, treason’s pretty narrowly defined as being involved in armed insurrection, assisting the enemy in time of war, or passing official secrets to an enemy country. If Smith has done anything like that, she’s managed to keep it very quiet. If she has, at any time, advocated the use of force to drive the federal government out of Alberta, she may have committed a different (also very serious) crime, sedition. I’m sure there are people trying to figure that out right now.

If she hasn’t done any of that, she’s in the same position as Quebec separatist politicians back in the day: stupid, misguided, and trying to harm the country, but technically not treasonous.

In the event she did hold a referendum and not enough of the remaining sane Albertans turned out to vote in it, the federal government would be best served by quietly dragging its feet on the messy proceedings required to let them leave (while pointedly going through the motions of setting up temporary border checkpoints), bombarding the population with propaganda, and hope that by the time Smith’s term ends, buyer’s remorse has made things swing the other way.