Many boroughs in Montreal have their own rules on short-term rentals, but the provincial regulation is getting tightened up a lot after that fire that killed 6 people in Montreal.

A lot of them are “laneway houses,” a way to subsidize your own home by renting out your alleyway frontage to someone else.

No way, they stopped doing this? I haven’t listened to Radio 1 for a week.

ADHD impacts many people’s most basic functioning. Routine chores like laundry or dishes pile up, you lose tools you need for the task at hand, you forget to do things that are necessary to maintain your health, and more. ADHD also has adverse effects on emotional regulation that can cause interpersonal conflict. None of these things would be alleviated under a different economic system.

We tend to focus mostly on the productivity gains of medication, but anyone who takes it will tell you how much it’s improved their personal lives as well.

Then you put it in the wash and grab another. I have four I cycle through.

Try a handkerchief. It’s life-changing when you’re sick: no more raw nose!

With many, many loopholes.

I thought Quebec had strict rent control? That shouldn’t have been possible. It’s the kind of thing I would expect to hear out of BC or Ontario.

Okay but this is literally the racist usage of the word.

They’re not the only ones calling y’all out. Stop defending using racist terms.

I was also very disappointed that the users there voted against the change. The name has a bad history, and there’s no better time to change a community name than when you make a move to a new platform.

This isn’t neatly as big of a change, though. I don’t think a poll should be needed. The mods should just take a stance against racism and enforce that the term not be used.

“Polished,” “tweaked,” or if we want to reclaim a term from the crafters, “bedazzled.”

Thank you for making this post. The number of times I’ve seen the term used here lately has been bothering me.

It’s also racist in car culture.

Just don’t watch video on data.

I have 200mb of data and it turns off when I run out. If I ever get caught in an emergency, I’m screwed.

Plus, half the time their website seems to crash.

Honestly, fuck the economy. Areas dependent on fossil fuels should have h started diversifying decades ago, but they stubbornly refused to — and continue to do so — to their own detriment. We’ve known for a long time that being entirely dependent on a single natural resource for the bulk of our jobs and trade was a bad idea: just look at the mill towns in BC when their mills closed. At how devastating the softwood lumber disputes were. It was pure hubris for provincial and local governments to push forward with continued dependence on single resource economies.

I agree that we’ll never entirely end fossil fuel use because plastics are an amazing material, but I absolutely do not agree that we need to continue fossil fuel extraction for the sake of the “economy.” This is shortsighted thinking: the “economy” will be destroyed in the longterm by climate change. Natural disasters, human displacement, crop failures, water shortages, wildfires, the list goes on and on.

It just doesn’t do much of anything. We’re not going to reverse, or even halt climate change with it. For any industry that cannot be made green that has to continue in the future, we should obviously do it, but the claims about it by the fossil fuel industry are severely overinflated.

The first time I read about CCS I actually laughed out loud. Somehow I’d assumed it would make some kind of usable carbon that we could bury to augment soil, but no. They’re literally catching ~30% of the CO2 gas from an industry’s tailpipe and putting the gas underground in an “airtight” chamber.

Like, are you kidding me?