Yeah it seems ineluctable at this stage:https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/covid-19-ontario-march-31-2021-icu-admissions-new-high-1.5970884We need to speed up the vaccination campaign posthaste.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 19:28 (three years ago) link
With easter and the weather being nice again, it’s going to be a nightmare.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 20:02 (three years ago) link
Warner weather helped a great deal last year but I have no idea how we’ll fare with the new variants.
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 31 March 2021 20:45 (three years ago) link
Hm, based on the details, I'm actually not clear on how much is changing from the status quo:
BREAKING: Premier Doug Ford will announce that the government is pulling the emergency brake on the entire province after Good Friday. This means the entire province will enter a shutdown.It will last at least a month. Deets below:#onpoli— Colin D'Mello CTVNews (@ColinDMello) April 1, 2021
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Thursday, 1 April 2021 02:33 (three years ago) link
What I read doesn’t sound like they’re “pulling” the “breaks” on shit. Either the plan is to sound like they’re taking it seriously, while doing nothing and letting people die, while the hospitals are overwhelmed; or there are more serious restrictions being announced tmrw than we’re hearing right now.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Thursday, 1 April 2021 04:30 (three years ago) link
so fucking sick of this asshole
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Thursday, 1 April 2021 04:33 (three years ago) link
Latest I saw is that indoor dining and gyms will not be allowed, no indoor gatherings, outdoor limited to 5, retail not closed completely but limited to 25% capacity. I also got an email from the halton school board to expect a return to online learning after the break.
That’s great about the vaccine appt, sund4r. Fingers crossed for copious and reliable vaccine delivery from here on out. Apparently they have 12000 leftover appointments in Toronto right now for over 75s, somehow, don’t know how that happens. Really hope it’s not down to vaccine hesitancy.
― Kim, Thursday, 1 April 2021 05:36 (three years ago) link
I watched Ford today. Depressing. They don't know what to do; nobody does.
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 April 2021 19:36 (three years ago) link
Meanwhile we’re stuck with these po-faced liars:https://montrealgazette.com/news/quebec/anglade-accuses-quebec-education-minister-of-lying-calls-for-his-resignation
― pomenitul, Thursday, 1 April 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
A new type of Shawinigan handshake
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/chretien-nuclear-waste-project-1.5971996
― Van Horn Street, Thursday, 1 April 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
Am I a bad parent if I’m not very concerned about small variances in co2 levels in schools? I mean, good ventilation is generally pretty important, but with covid it seems overly mobile air in the rooms is an actual hazard? (Thinking of all the inside restaurant transmission info that was circulating at the start of the pandemic that showed how hvac air currents moved it from one table of diners to others) - I’v been more concerned with their physical proximity to each other. Perhaps I am wrong about that though.
― Kim, Thursday, 1 April 2021 21:45 (three years ago) link
I had to laugh yesterday when, at my old school, there was a teacher sitting in a room with one other student; it was the "isolation room," where they put anyone who's not feeling well. This teacher has a good sense of humour, so I went up to her later and said something like, "Nice gig, where do I sign up?" It's like, this is the room where we keep the nuclear waste, we want you to stand guard over it.
The student will be just fine. I hope she is.
― clemenza, Thursday, 1 April 2021 22:35 (three years ago) link
My kid got sent home because a kid in her “cohort” tested positive. So now everyone in her class and the outdoor play group is home for two weeks.
― FRAUDULENT STEAKS (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Friday, 2 April 2021 01:11 (three years ago) link
"Canada has been the top supplier of nuclear fuel for many years, and I have always thought that it is only proper that Canada should ultimately become the steward and guarantor of the safe storage of spent nuclear fuel after its first duty cycle," Chrétien wrote.
There is a certain logic to this but the secrecy and extra-governmental nature of it do seem strange, based on this report.
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Friday, 2 April 2021 02:24 (three years ago) link
Yeah, seems potentially shady. He may have a point though - from a planetary, geological, perspective, would we rather this stuff is permanently stored in a bunker on the Pacific Rim, or in the stable Rick of the Canadian Shield.
― Kim, Friday, 2 April 2021 03:01 (three years ago) link
Err stable rock.
― Kim, Friday, 2 April 2021 03:02 (three years ago) link
https://www.hilltimes.com/2021/04/01/trudeau/291523
big polling lead for Trudeau
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 2 April 2021 03:40 (three years ago) link
Is the stable Rick of the Canadian Shield Rick Moranis? (Hansen and Mercer are disqualified as their origins are from outside the Shield zone)
― "The Pus/Worm" by The Smiths (hardcore dilettante), Friday, 2 April 2021 05:09 (three years ago) link
You know what this thread needs? More Amir Attaran:
https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2021-04-02/l-homme-qui-s-est-mis-a-dos-le-quebec.php
This is as close as we'll get to a villain origin story, it seems.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 April 2021 12:43 (three years ago) link
Fuck an Attaran, but calling Ezra Levant 'a right-wing commentator' without providing further context – especially since francophone audiences are less familiar with the man – is quite the euphemism. I also think the reference to Attaran's wife was uncalled for.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 April 2021 13:21 (three years ago) link
L’Université d’Ottawa, pourtant considérée comme le repaire ultime des wokes
Uh, by whom?
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Friday, 2 April 2021 14:32 (three years ago) link
Isabelle Hachey, duh.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 April 2021 14:36 (three years ago) link
I don't even think it's as woke as Carleton!
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Friday, 2 April 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
I doubt she’s ever heard of it tbf.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 April 2021 16:24 (three years ago) link
As a native English speaker with a PhD, I got 5/10 on this quiz from the "Language Portal of Canada" on the use of pronouns in English: https://www.noslangues-ourlanguages.gc.ca/en/quiz/jeu-quiz-peaceable-pronouns1-eng
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Friday, 2 April 2021 17:17 (three years ago) link
That reminds me of a statistic I read one time that 1% of all PhDs were illiterate.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 2 April 2021 17:23 (three years ago) link
wow that quiz is insane.I got 7/10 and I strongly object to the supposedly correct answer to number 8
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 2 April 2021 17:24 (three years ago) link
As a non-native speaker with a PhD who has a bone to pick with this kind of anal prescriptivism regardless of language, I also got 5/10.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 April 2021 17:25 (three years ago) link
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 April 2021 17:28 (three years ago) link
who is this site possibly intended for? exercises like that are actively harmful for language learners imo
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 2 April 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
got 5/10. I guess I should stop saying I'm fluent in English.
― silverfish, Friday, 2 April 2021 17:36 (three years ago) link
To get 10/10 you need to be a non-native speaker who learned English through the ‘Language Portal of Canada’.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 April 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
the pronoun must agree with the closer antecedent, father
What the fuck?
And because nurses can be male as well as female, the feminine pronoun her does not agree. The right answer is c) the.
Ugh, yes, thank you quiz, I know that nurses can be male, but all of the other questions were priming me to look for possessive pronouns. And what if, in context, I happen to know that all of the student nurses use 'she/her'?
I got 6/10.
― jmm, Friday, 2 April 2021 17:50 (three years ago) link
Neither the children nor their father had his picture taken.
Why does gender inclusiveness suddenly fly out the window in favour of some obscure antecedent rule here, quiz?
― jmm, Friday, 2 April 2021 17:54 (three years ago) link
exact same. also apparently canada has yet to learn about the singular "they/their".
― intern at pepe le pew research (Simon H.), Friday, 2 April 2021 17:55 (three years ago) link
who is this site possibly intended for?
My spouse is preparing to tutor a cousin's kid to get ready for an English board CEGEP in Gatineau - apparently, they linked this site.
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Friday, 2 April 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
Afaict, it seems to be based on a weird combination of old-fashioned quasi-Strunk & White grammatical prescriptivism with newfangled gender-woke linguistic prescriptivism that ties itself into knots to avoid having to use the singular "they" or "their".
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Friday, 2 April 2021 18:05 (three years ago) link
It’s uncanny.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 April 2021 18:06 (three years ago) link
yeah combining two terrible prescriptivisms to create a monstrous pedantry. nobody would notice the supposed mistakes in speaking in just about all those example sentences, and many of the wrong sentences would be fine in formal writing as well
― Wayne Grotski (symsymsym), Friday, 2 April 2021 18:17 (three years ago) link
lol I’m illiterate too.
― Kim, Friday, 2 April 2021 19:27 (three years ago) link
By the logic of their supposed antecedent rule, you would have to say "neither Jason nor Jennifer got her picture taken". I don't think I've ever heard a native speaker speak like that, nor do I recall seeing that type of construction in writing.
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Friday, 2 April 2021 19:51 (three years ago) link
Or does the rule only apply to number? What do they do with gender?
― Just Another Onionhead (Sund4r), Friday, 2 April 2021 20:03 (three years ago) link
going by the weird dictates of this quiz I would guess: "neither Jason nor Jennifer were one of the people who got their picture taken at the picture-taking location that we neglected to mention in the question part of the quiz"
― rob, Friday, 2 April 2021 20:20 (three years ago) link
btw I got 9/10 but only because I read y'all's posts first and knew what was going down. Even with that cheat, Q8's "ah, but you see the children are also male" got me
― rob, Friday, 2 April 2021 20:22 (three years ago) link
Question 8 doesn’t even say that they are male children though, I think? Some of the children could be female, but suddenly no one gives a fuck when the dad is the closest noun. Or something. Probably you all can’t even understand my incorrect sentences.
― Kim, Friday, 2 April 2021 23:13 (three years ago) link
Sent it to an English lit PhD friend of mine. He’s a native speaker, and he also got 5/10. His ESL wife got 8/10.
― pomenitul, Friday, 2 April 2021 23:22 (three years ago) link
I have three diplomas from Concordia and i'd like a word please
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:10 (three years ago) link
Seriously.
Then again, there was this back in 2015:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/university-ottawa-yoga-cultural-sensitivity-1.3330441
― pomenitul, Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:11 (three years ago) link
with a BA in English lit, 6/10
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Saturday, 3 April 2021 00:24 (three years ago) link
4/10, this is the hardest I have ever done.
― Van Horn Street, Saturday, 3 April 2021 01:15 (three years ago) link