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The actual relevant source document appears to be this: https://crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2024/2024-121.htm. Judging from that, some of the money will go to funds that subsidize the production of local news programs in any medium (including radio), and there's a small amount earmarked for community radio. It's supposed to encourage the stations to create and broadcast content that's beneficial to the general public but not as profitable as what they might otherwise air in its place. If you consider that to be "helping" radio stations, then fine, I concede, but to be honest, the specific details of where the money ends up aren't the major point here, and will probably change over time.

I expect domestic radio stations pay into many of the same funds, although to be honest I've never checked. If we actually had a Canadian-owned streaming service that was willing to produce news programs or one of the other categories the government wants to encourage, they might get some money too. Including some of what's coming from the radio stations, because no one is making an attempt to keep the revenue streams coming from different sources separate . . . and really, why should they? It's extra administrative overhead to no real benefit.

I'm pretty sure that Ford would be overjoyed if everyone north of Parry Sound vanished spontaneously so that he no longer had to pretend to take us into account. He doesn't understand the North (or anything much outside of Toronto), and doesn't want to.

Not sure where you're getting that from—this isn't about anyone helping radio stations. The idea is that the government would impose laws and taxes on large streaming services operating in Canada that are somewhat similar to those currently imposed on radio stations in Canada.

Yeah, if that's what the footage shows then she appears to be at fault here, and a liar to boot. "Assault with a weapon" may be a little too heavy to stick, but hopefully some lesser charge will.

It would be pointless with my mother, anything involving technology developed after the 1980s goes were in one ear and out the other.

I just told mine, "If someone calls claiming to be me and says that 'I' am in trouble and need money, ask them [about thing from my pre-Internet childhood], and if they get the answer wrong, hang up, because it's someone else imitating my voice." No tech understanding required.

Unfortunately, it's rare that we can control what hashing algorithm is being used to secure the passwords we enter. I merely pray that any account that also holds my credit card data or other important information isn't using MD5. Some companies still don't take cybersecurity seriously.

intelligent regex

That would be much, much worse than what we actually have. Complex regex are positively Lovecraftian. You'd be chanting "Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn!" before you knew it.

Cracking an 8-char on an ordinary desktop or laptop PC can still take quite a while depending on the details. Unfortunately, the existence of specialized crypto-coin-mining rigs designed to spit out hashes at high speed, plus the ability to farm things out into the cloud, means that the threat we're facing is no longer the lone hacker cracking things on his own PC.

Only problem is that you wouldn't be able to visit most sites, because Mosaic only supports HTTP 1.0. You could go for Lynx, though. Just remember to disable the cookie support.

Open up the back of the device and check inside. If you see something that looks like a lump of modeling clay with wires sticking out of it crammed into the corner, your device has been compromised, and you should maybe try to remember whether you bought said device during a visit to Lebanon. After you put it in the middle of an empty driveway with a wall of sandbags around it and call the bomb squad, that is.

(Trying to associate literal exploding pagers with hacking borders on the surreal.)

For those unable to read the article, and who haven't heard about this through other channels . . .

The issue is that Quebec is actively throwing Francophone minorities in other parts of Canada under the bus, which goes beyond them being "reluctant to defend" them. The Quebec government doesn't seem to care that the weapons it's using against its Anglophone linguistic minority can be turned around to attack Francophones in the rest of the country. What they do doesn't necesarily stop at their borders.

It's been a while since I had any reason to talk to a Franco-Ontarian about Quebec politics, but Quebec used to be considered snooty, obnoxious, and out of touch at best.

One of the problems with this law is that it can strip people of their advocates. If someone is placed in a care facility 150km away from home, that means a three-hour round trip for anyone who wants to visit . . . assuming that person has a car and a driver's license and the weather and roads are good.

Let's say you live in Cochrane, don't drive, and your loved one has been placed in a home in Kapuskasing, which should be ~130km. If you want to travel to see them, your only public transit option at the moment is an Ontario Northland bus that runs three times a week. Incidentally, you'll arrive in Kap just after 1:30AM and will be stuck there until the bus back comes through just before 6:00AM the next day (assuming it is the next day and not the day after—the schedule's difficult to interpret). Kind of difficult to advocate for someone when visiting them is a two-day expedition, and they may no longer be in any condition to explain what's wrong over the phone.

I understand wanting to clear the hospital beds, but this is something that needed a lot more thought, especially when dealing with conditions in the north.