Well, he did have positions, stupid ones, but he did have some

This is the dumbest CBC article I have ever read and that’s saying something. Do they expect leadership candidates to hold no positions and have no standards??

Nor does the fact that they went back on the AI kill switch and sent my information that should’ve been private to someone else’s computer a good thing.

when did they do that?

Two of those seats were liberal, and the liberals are now polling ahead of where they were in election season. So a majority is functionally guaranteed.

Agree, but I want to note that PQ is a provincial party, I think you’re thinking of BQ.

Realistically there are decent odds of terrebone going to the BQ, so they might still not get one.

Also I really don’t want carney to have a majority, he’s a progressive conservative, basically.

The NDP doesn’t have a real chance of winning any of those seats, even with more campaign time. The next seat with a real chance is Rosemont–La Petite-Patrie, but they’re the incumbents there.

Disagree, this isn’t about giving citizenship to Americans, they just happen to be the primary beneficiaries. This is an attempt to right the wrong that was the mass deportation of french canadians by the british after they took new france.

Oh I 100% agree, we don’t even follow that law lmao. Take it up with the federal government I guess.

Although the minority french canadians in other provinces might view it differently, idk

As I understand in Quebec all private schools receive some funding (per student) from the government, regardless of religion. As I understand the only requirement for funding is teaching Quebec history. There isn’t a two-tier system.

(Quebec was granted an exemption from section 93 in 1998)

Of the 163 private schools receiving funding, there are 50 religious schools. There are 27 roman catholic, 14 Jewish, 4 Muslim and 5 that teach another denomination of Christianity. However, the same bill that banned hijabs also will gradually end funding for those religious schools. Note that they are mostly christian.

Kind of an over-explanation but it was interesting to research, since I realized I didn’t exactly know what the situation was.

So yeah the system is pretty different from Alberta’s.

Otherwise the general logic behind the law is that teachers and some other public sector workers should not reveal what religion they’re a part of since they represent the government, and the government is non-religious. Also, they argue the hijab (because let’s be real, the law is about the hijab) is inherently a way for a much more conservative view of women’s place in society to advertise itself.

It also should be understood in the wider context of the francophone vision of laicity, which is something perhaps more resembling “state atheism”, where organized religion is excluded from the public sphere. I think this mainly manifests in that anglo canada is generally more accepting of religious “reasonable accommodation” than Quebec.

This isn’t to say that I even support the law, I just wish the situation in Quebec would be less mischaracterized.

I have been to a private school that was softly catholic, but I didn’t include it in my list because it’s private. Private schools aren’t affected by this law.

At least when I was in high school we had ethics and religion class, where among other things we learned about all the religions, notably, the teacher wasn’t even allowed to tell us which one they subscribed to.

The reasoning for the law is that it wouldn’t be legal for a teacher to wear a head covering if it weren’t religious, so they shouldn’t be able to even if it is.

The whole “religious symbols” thing seems like a lot of pearl-clutching over nothing.

I see your point but up to relatively recently Quebec was completely dominated by religion to a scary extent. So now people here are really afraid of religion regaining a place of power in society and seeing Muslim people arriving and being much more visibly religious than other groups is reminding people of that.

I went through the quebec school system and I didn’t see a single cross or christian religious symbol in any of my schools. The closest thing was a cross in the (historic) stonework of another school I didn’t go to, but those get removed whenever they’re renovated.

I don’t disagree the bill primarily targets muslims, but it’s not like the schools here are super christian or whatever.

Firefox’s runs locally while google’s runs on their (much more powerful) servers, for something similar to chrome’s I’d just get the deepl extension, which does the same thing just better.

To be fair people liked the translation feature too

Bluesky is federated though. Like, you can selfhost every part of it and communicate with bsky users just fine: see wafrn and blacksky.

You can argue that it’s not decentralised because one instance has 99% of the users though

Misleading headline, it’s only one of multiple “addictive features” they’re considering banning to make social media less addictive.

That’s emberrassing, I misread people talking in an issue about an open pr (https://github.com/cinnyapp/cinny/pull/2599) with them talking about an existing feature. That pr does seem reasonably close to landing though.

afaik both fluffychat and cinny support it, but they don’t advertise it well.

This is only a part of france’s “LaSuite” (very original name guys), that seemingly will replace every equivalent american service.

https://lasuite.numerique.gouv.fr/

They generally work pretty well (demo on the site) and are a mix of homegrown solutions and rebrands of existing projects like matrix. All of them are open source.