Sounds great - it’s sort of our “not directly about Star Trek, but maybe the people who like this instance would be interested” community.

It certainly seems to contradict the notion that VIA has no involvement - in fact, as near as I can tell, Alto is still a VIA subsidiary. But maybe that’s wrong, it’s a little unclear.

I don’t think it necessarily invalidates the idea of it being a “fast track to privatization,” or that ticket prices will be high.

The plan notably excludes involvement from VIA Rail, Canada’s only company with experience running a national daily passenger rail service.

Alto is officially known as VIA HFR – VIA TGF Inc., and their website says,

VIA Rail provides advice on the technical and operational aspects of existing passenger railway services.

Normally, this would be more of a c/quarks post, but fuck it, this is important.

It sucks.

All the major American media companies have done this, but that’s not an excuse. It still sucks.

If there’s any hope at all (and I’m not completely convinced that there is), it’s in statements like this:

To be the best storytellers and to continue to drive success, we must have a highly talented, dedicated and creative workforce that reflects the perspectives and experiences of our many different audiences. Values like inclusivity and collaboration are a part of the Paramount culture and will continue to be.

That might be an indication that the policies themselves are sort of still in place, but under a different name. However, if they’re discontinuing all metrics related to it, there will be no real way to know whether their “values” have a significant impact.

I think the design was originally intended for use on boats, and other places where tipping is a likely occurrence.

I wonder if those would fit - the article says that these “replimat-style” mugs are smaller than the Highwave “Quark’s” mugs, but I suppose they could have the same base.

I think the critical weaknesses identified in the article are astute: economically vulnerable/disadvantaged people, and disinformation, especially on social media.

It’s interesting that they didn’t bother replicating (heh) the rubber base of the originals. Too many added costs, I suppose.

I guess we’ll know more after the press conference.

I found this, too: CBC Music’s Top 100 Canadian songs of 2024

I’m hardly an expert, but I think the Navy is in notoriously bad shape, even by Canadian national defense standards.

Ditto for the last Polaris Music Prize short list.

If you have a helpful resource, such as a compilation of Canadian artists in the past year, let me know and I can edit it into this post.

The list of 2025 Juno nominees would probably be a good (but imperfect) place to start.

Is it? Because we seem to be highly dependent on investagative journalists for that sort of thing.

I would argue that we at least have the right to know who they are. In the case of unions, that’s certainly the case.

This is good for unions and other above-board groups, but I can’t help but wonder how this affects the various “dark money” lobby groups that have unclear ownership, but have been buying political ads across the country.

or is it just like regulation about what can be transported across provincial lines?

That’s a big part of it - this is a decent explainer.

NYCC 2024 - she’s a recurring guest star, not a regular.

Yeah, they announced her as a recurring guest star at NYCC last year. They’ve got a pretty killer cast lined up, at least amongst the adults. I’m not familiar with any of the cadets.

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