It was good to see the GDP per capita increase as well. I don’t feel like things are getting better, but I hope these job numbers get things moving in a better direction.

Growth last month was concentrated in full-time work, StatCan said, and was widespread across industries.

Construction led the way with a gain of 27,000 jobs, followed by the information, culture and recreation sector and the transportation and warehousing industry. Tariff-sensitive manufacturing also posted job gains in May.

The wholesale and retail trade sector took the heaviest hit with a loss of 35,000 positions in the month.

But Rabbi Grushcow wants to see action beyond the creation of more committees

Woah woah woah. Let’s not get hasty now.

/s

It’s nice to see some good news for a change.

And it’ll be harder for Walmart to close on a whim.

The one sticking out of the pelvis.

I’m also curious. Is there a particular kind of salt?

I was working at a music festival, schlepping cases of beer. Some guy hit me with “I’m Gord Downie’s cousin, give me one”, I didn’t know who he was talking about, so I told him that and ignored him.

Later, a bunch of Ontarians told me I did that in perfect deadpan. In reality, I grew up on the east coast, where the Tragically Hip wasn’t nearly as popular, so I legitimately had no clue who he was talking about.

The prime minister says there are positive signs in the latest economic report, including increased business investment and household income growth outpacing inflation.

I’m curious how household income growth is distributed.

The research showed that parents’ screen use could negatively affect their interactions with their children, and also established a connection between parents’ and children’s screen habits, with the children of heavy users developing similar habits themselves.

As another Lemmite mentioned, kids are learning behaviour from their parents.

Is there anything about restitution? I didn’t see it in the text.

“My mother and father borrowed the money and sent me here,” he said, “so that I could make a good future for myself. They had many hopes and dreams for me.”

His parents put themselves into debt so he can get an education and a start elsewhere, and instead, he ends up living with seven or eight other people and (allegedly) working for organized crime. Fuck.

I guess I have to rethink my opposition to engineering humans now. 😞

My downvote reasoning:

Do I think editorial cartoons have a place in discourse? Yes.

Do I feel that politicians expensing extravagant lifestyles are a worthy part of political discourse? Yes - Bev Oda May disagree.

Do I enjoy criticism of Carney? Yes.

However, AI fuckery displaces existing jobs, avoids royalties, and (in current form) builds dependence on scummy companies.

Hence the downvote.

I thought dilation was key.

It’s a new idea they were taking for a spin.

tbf, they’ve gotten away with so much that it’s really just professional courtesy at this point

The statement that the new commercial veneer is dying needs to be backed up: YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, and Reddit still drive traffic, despite the slop, and because of the commercialization. Meta and Facebook are doing fine.

I like what he says about the underlying protocols, but it is missing a bit of nuance: Google has been instrumental in the evolution of HTTP; SMTP became a very different game when Google (via Gmail) pushed authentication; DRM made it into browsers thanks to Google and media companies.

Commercial companies may be benefiting from open protocols, but they are also pushing them in new directions. The stack the author remembers still exists, but it has been changed by that commercial “veneer”.