A few things:
It might not work the first time, but after a few attempts it will. Oh, and no food or stimulants within 3 hours of your bedtime.
A young man living at one trailer we visited, who was granted anonymity to protect himself and his job, fit the profile: After a few more years working on a vast maple operation — where he said he often put in 70 hours a week — he said he planned to return to his hometown in Mexico. He said he arrived a few weeks after the April raid, having flown into Rhode Island last year for a seasonal job in Newport. He then relocated first to New Hampshire and then to Vermont, pursuing rumors of work.
Not all immigrants hop the border wall.
A portion of Abbotsford — about 80 kilometres southeast of Vancouver….
I don’t think I’ve ever seen Abbotsford referred to this way before.
I mean, Langley is a part of metro Vancouver, and those locations, part of the next city over, are only around 20km away.
In a submission to the 2025 federal pre-budget consultation—ahead of the Nov. 4 budget release—the company warned that exit and transfer charges on registered accounts like RRSPs, TFSAs, RESPs and FHSAs are spiralling out of control and need to be curbed.
Just bought a bunch of furniture. All made in Canada. Considered some Italian stuff, but the Canadian stuff was more configurable at better prices.
I was thinking copperplate.
if they fire me, no manager is going to ask me how I’m holding up or what my plans for the future are.
One of my coworkers fell victim to downsizing. My manager made sure to stay in touch with them to see how they were holding up, and shared with the rest of us (with permission) when they figured out what they were doing next.
The company also provides a year of psychiatric support (third party) for any employee who falls victim to downsizing.
It’s one of those reasons that that’s where I work (still).
I like the idea of using markdown to take you as far as it will go, and then having a function system to handle the edges and a mode system to switch to maths mode.
I’ve long left the field where I need to have precise reproduction of layout for large volumes of text, and haven’t touched LaTeX since the early 2000s. But it sounds like it’s currently doing most of the right things, has the support it needs, and most importantly, has institutional support.
Also sounds like it could be scripted to take my reams of markdown text and convert it to a stable layout format; I remember trying to script that for LaTeX with Perl’s mod:latex in the 90s, and eventually realizing I’d be better off to just re-type it.
Personally, I’m impressed that they’re maintaining ANY operations.
These people are heroes.
Now I’ve got to go use this. And hopefully encourage the spread of mycotoilets to everywhere with a chemical toilet today.
Yeah; I’d go more along the lines of saying Citizens United needs to be overturned.
At the end of the day, people need to be liable for their decisions and actions.
Corporations aren’t people; they don’t die, don’t have feelings, and can’t actually do anything by themselves.
It makes me think back to episodes of Lost and think “that’s so much more plausible than current reality.”