I've found this site to be a helpful breakdown of the different quality levels of CO2, along with an overview of what those contaminants can be. I personally prefer to keep the purity at food or beverage level, but your risk profile is unique to you.
https://www.co2meter.com/en-ca/blogs/news/co2-purity-grade-charts
The 2022 AB general election was 52.63% UCP, 44.05% NDP. The only reason they have a majority is the dumpster fire that is first past the post.
AB's about on par with ON, and it's 5% off from the difference between BC's two parties in their last election.
And in fact there are people taking steps to force a leadership change. I dont know why you don't know about it. Maybe you don't speak with anyone actually in Alberta, and just go off what you read in our right-owned media?
Likely not what you're looking for, but a note to consider: Most monitored security/camera/automation services (the ones with monthly fees) in Canada use the Alarm.com platform, meaning you're supporting american indirectly.
Telus launched its own competition to ADC, with their own cameras, etc. But when you dig into the coding a bit, you can see the platform uses Amazon's AWS, and the cameras are manufactured overseas.
If you have the patience and savvy, the self hosted Home Assistant suggested elsewhere is the way to go.
Personally, I'd rather have an effective politician, rather than an exciting one.
Either way, you apparently missed the AB NDPs electing Naheed Nenshi as their new leader. I'm not his biggest fan, but he's likely to be more "exciting" for you.
Joke's on you. My password is Abcd1234!
RUSA interference
The Apothecary in Calgary has a series of lip balms made in-house, that all have beeswax in them (they have complete ingredient listings for all their products on their site)
The tins are approx. twice the price of a Burt's tube, and you're also getting ~3 times the volume of product, so it's a decent trade off.
If there any hives around/outside your city, they may manufacture lip balms as well. Pop in if they advertise visits - or there may be a communal apiarist run shop like we have here - all the bee related products you could hope for, produced by the hives of the local beekeepers.
As was pointed out on the nearly identical post in this group earlier: this is one of several posts this user has created during their 8 days on Lemmy that read like attention seeking, or bad-faith posts.
2 topics in the Bi group about being a bi(?) woman only attracted to men, one in a trans community about being a cishet woman who faked being a trans man to be "gay online", one about being attracted to a 16 y/o boy. All written with click-baity titles like this one.
Please check the user's post history, and assess whether it's worth investing the energy before engaging.
Sounds great, epsecially for people less comfortable juggling multiple websites/apps while shopping. Hopefully the android version will be coming soon.
Maynard's wine gums are made in Canada, though they're now owned by Mondelez, which is American.
Well, they're American, and this is the "buy Canadian" group, so that's one reason.
That said, I also really like the idea of Framework, and spent a -lot- of time reading reviews and comments because it was one I was seriously considering, too.
General consensus is that the 13" framework is great, but that screen is too small for my use case (I do some graphics work). The 16" is....OK. More of a proof of concept than a fully finished laptop. As someone who buys once every 10 years, I'd rather not sink $3000 - $5000 on something I'll be frustrated with for 9.5 years.
(Edited to fix typo)
The last time I looked into it in 2021, Ecobee used google cloud for telemetry and analytics.