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I spent the morning trying to convince my brother's friends that you don't need google maps to find the Byward Market from the National Art Gallery. Herding cats and it's fecking hot.
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drat near got heat stroke while cleaning up and decorating the garage with some swag from races I've done over the past year and also installing a doodad to hang fishing poles from the ceiling. Gonna spend the rest of the weekend with family sitting in the back yard grilling meat and relaxing. Unless those thunderstorms that Environment Canada says might happen do happen, in which case it's batten down the hatches.
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priznat posted:Ottawa in the summer in a place with no a/c was preeeetty close to hell for me. Thank god for my basement room and strategically positioned desk fans.
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Arcsquad12 posted:I spent the morning trying to convince my brother's friends that you don't need google maps to find the Byward Market from the National Art Gallery. Herding cats and it's fecking hot. Depends on how peckered you are.
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infernal machines posted:Holy poo poo. It's 33° in the shade here in Toronto, with just under 60% humidity. I was just outside and the heat is suffocating and I live in northern Oshawa.
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Southern Ontario humidity is another thing I really don't miss. 30c above? Find some shade and you're comfy, or just drink water and the sweat will keep you cool. I did the last 25km of a 100km gravel race at 30c no problem. 30c below? You can dress to be comfortable out in that for an entire day. In the GTA being outside in either of those extremes would be unbearable for any significant length of time.
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Come up to Barrie where the temperature peaked at 37 and the humidity at 70%. In the spirit of Canada Day lets travel back in time to when I was young and went to Ottawa with some friends to watch these guys play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV1X0eo190U
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Yeah the weather in Vancouver right now is pretty much perfect. I went out at 8am to get some antihistamines and juuuuuuust barely didn't need a hoodie. That's basically the perfect weather if you ask me.
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I'm always hot anyways so today was sweltering but not unbearable.
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I finally cracked open a bottle of Dillon's three oak rye whisky. Honestly, I'm not sure I care for it. Should've cracked open the duty-free scotch I've been holding on to for a year.
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I'm supposed to be predisposed to like Dillon's because they're local and whatever, but outside of their rose gin, dry gin, and absinthe, everything tastes kind of strange. That unfiltered gin for instance comes off like a whisky somehow. Anyway that's like Canadian politics becaus
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I hope you all enjoyed national cultural genocide day. I’m enjoying my day off as we speak with a Tim Horton’s coffee 
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littleorv posted:I hope you all enjoyed national cultural genocide day. I’m enjoying my day off as we speak with a Tim Horton’s coffee So you are celebrating two genocides?
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Yellow Ant posted:Happy Canada Day! I love everything about this.
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What a day! A little cool and overcast here in Edmonton after the rain we had last night, but at least the fireworks went off and I was able to see some of them from the strip club downtown. I just saw this posted on my Facebook feed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiG211tR01w Electioneering at the AGM for the Provincial riding of Calgary-NE, ballot boxes being stuffed, votes being bussed or driven in from other ridings, ballots disallowed en masse, general pandemonium ensues when people try to address it. Business as usual in Alberta, I guess. 
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Some international papers have started to pick the Trudeau sexual assault story. Going to be hilarious if Trudeau gets thrown out of office before trump.
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If he'd acknowledged the truth and renewed his apology for the thing he definitely did, this would be a non-story.
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flakeloaf posted:If he'd acknowledged the truth and renewed his apology for the thing he definitely did, this would be a non-story. No, the usual suspects would still be calling for his resignation. He should do it anyway, but it wouldn't make any difference
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zapplez posted:Some international papers have started to pick the Trudeau sexual assault story. Going to be hilarious if Trudeau gets thrown out of office before trump. Lmao what the gently caress, he's not going to get "thrown out of office"
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Bring on Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland and an easy 2nd liberal victory.
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Justin Trudeau will win a majority in 2019 
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THC posted:Justin Trudeau will win a majority in 2019 Someone doesnt get why Harper has been down talking to Trump so much. He wants his house back now that the smell of cat urine has been eliminated.
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CLAM DOWN posted:Lmao what the gently caress, he's not going to get "thrown out of office" But, but, but, there was an article in the Buenos Aires Mundo about it!!!!
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Our PM might be a rapist lol no big deal -canpol 2018
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patonthebach posted:Our PM might be a rapist lol no big deal 
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Our former PM is probably undermining the current administration by colluding with a foreign terrorist organization.
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doug ford 2024
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EvilJoven posted:Southern Ontario humidity is another thing I really don't miss. 30c above? Find some shade and you're comfy, or just drink water and the sweat will keep you cool. I did the last 25km of a 100km gravel race at 30c no problem. 30c below? You can dress to be comfortable out in that for an entire day.  Actually, below -10 or so, water vapour has a really tough time hanging in the air and humidity drops like a rock. Ottawa is loving cold at -5 let me tell you that
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patonthebach posted:Our PM might be a rapist lol no big deal Inappropriate groping, that thing that's definitely the same as rape. Math You posted:
It's not cold until your eyelashes freeze together from your own breath.
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I grew up in Yellowknife so talk of humidity at all bemuses me. That said it's got the cold in spades.
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To go along with his hiring freeze, Doug Ford has also gone forward with a pay freeze for managers and other non-unionized employees Note that the Liberals already had a five year pay freeze for managers through 2017 so if you thought the government had a hard time attracting talented leaders before... The freeze also includes The Globe and Mail posted:a stop to any pay adjustments for employees with compensation linked to union contract increases. which sure seems like a general pay freeze as well. This is nothing compared to the general misery of cancelling OHIP+ for youth, but the fact that both those things were announced immediately into the new government in the media dead zone before a long weekend means we have a very long road ahead.
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We're in for a rough ride. This morning on CBC there was a guy talking about appliance costs going up by at least 4% not including the "tariff fee" companies can impose so their bottom line remains the same while us consumers get hosed.
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Because American products weren't already arbitrarily overpriced up here.
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Segue posted:To go along with his hiring freeze, Doug Ford has also gone forward with a pay freeze for managers and other non-unionized employees How much do these managers get paid on average and how does their compensation compare against the same job in the private sector? I don't have enough information to know how emotional to feel about this pay freeze. quote:This is nothing compared to the general misery of cancelling OHIP+ for youth The general misery manulife will feel? Y'all get so dramatic quote:In a further move to reduce government spending, Health Minister Christine Elliott announced on Saturday afternoon that the OHIP-plus pharmacare program created by Ms. Wynne’s Liberals would now be more limited.
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Lol. How much more are they going to waste trying to determine eligibility for that bullshit and reviewing claims rather than just having blanket application to people under 24?flakeloaf posted:I don't see a problem with means-tested pharmacare, especially when it's a private insurer's means being tested and not the patient's. How long until they float "OHIP, but only for people without private insurance"?
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infernal machines posted:Lol. How much more are they going to waste trying to determine eligibility for that bullshit and reviewing claims rather than just having blanket application to people under 24? Oh, much more than it would've cost them to just buck up and give someone their drat test strips I'm sure, but if you don't create inefficiencies you can't find efficiencies.
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flakeloaf posted:but if you don't create inefficiencies you can't find efficiencies. Good point. DoFo's mission in Toronto was to prove that government didn't work, I have absolute faith in his ability to succeed as Premier of Ontario.
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