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Only as long as the graffiti is bad/sloppy.

Absolutely a fair question, and to answer, I have a number of friends that I skate with who represent many swaths of the community. We get along great and enjoy each others company, but at the same time, most are also younger than me, mostly younger to mid 20s, so I'm aware that how engaged we are is different.

These youths are engaged heavily, being involved in the Palestine protests, and very vocal about the war since it began. I'll admit I've known about the settler issue in Palestine for the better part of a decade now, so I did find it upsetting that at the beginning it felt like there were a number of people "jumping on the bandwagon" of protesting, but after a little introspection I remembered that I was young and didn't know about these things, and it had to be taught to me too.

A few of my older friends who identify as gay though also had a similar hesitation of getting involved in the protests. I think there's a subset who have been harassed by the religions communities (and I don't just mean palestinian religions, Christian and others as well) and would prefer that the pride parade stays a reminder of what they fought for in the generations before, and have overcome to have a much more free society for them today. Liberation does mean liberation for all, just that some people don't feel like that group wants them to be liberated. I think the difference in age gap is what has interested me about this difference (is dichotomy the right word?

All of this to say, I just didn't attend. I was happy that the people attending felt seen or heard, and I went on with my day. It's a reminder that while I had an opinion and didn't agree how things were handled, it's not the end of the world and doesn't really affect me that much.

It likely won't be the best received, but I wasn't a fan of the Ottawa Pride group making this decision last year to allow the pride parade to become a Palestine protest as well.

The largest reason for me is that here in Ottawa, we have had Palestinian protests each week through the summer. There was no shortage of Saturdays where Elgin and other areas were shut down for the protests to move through town. All of this I have no problem with, and it's part of living in the nations capital.

The problem I had with it was including the movement in the pride parade because I'm uncomfortable with a pro-palestinian message from the LGBTQ+ community because it just doesn't exist over there. There's a positive vibe during the pride parades about what the community has worked through and what it continues to work through, and I'm sorry but I still think too much about what some religions want to do to these groups, so mixing the messages doesn't sit well to me.

This inclusion of the Palestine protest in the pride parade ended up with it losing a lot of funding, and supporters as well who didn't want to get involved in the Palestinian protests, whether they supported them or not. For some of them pride is a celebration and seeing it turned into something else didn't sit well.

Just a local opinion and the vibe that I sensed from the less-online community (read:older). It's really not something that ended my support of anything, just something that I felt tried too hard to be inclusive.

If I had to guess for NFLD, it's likely it's distance from everything. Costs to ship foods, plus I don't know what sort of ability there is to grow their own food there, isn't most of the province just rock? Maybe someone from there would know that better but otherwise I think just fuel and shipping costs are enough.

Narrowly avoiding a collision where someone pulls out in front of you unexpectedly is the sign of a good driver.

If someone was driving along and a deer jumped out from the side of the road, would they be a bad driver for hitting them? No, because there was no logical way they could have stopped in time, even while following the speed limit.

The same applies here, this is a heavy load and really doesn't seem to be travelling more than 30km/h. They can't crawl along a road at half of the speed limit just because they have a heavy load, otherwise every dump truck would have to be followed by route navigators like wide-load operations have to be.

The guy was a great driver and sacrificed a small bit of his cement load for someone's vehicle to not be totaled. I wholeheartedly agree with the other person who said they are a good driver.

Source: DZ Licensed driver who has driven plenty of these vehicles before.

These companies make hundreds of events like "spend up to x and earn 30,000 points", its very possible to accumulate that amount without spending directly.

The most confusing part of this to me is having this feeling of only remembering seeing floz on orange juice boxes, so it could have been Florida for all I knew. Thanks for the clarification that I'm only going partially insane!

I've chosen to read it as "fluid ounces" for years, never once questioning "how is a fluid ounce different from a regular one?".

Doesn't help that they haven't stood with labour groups enough that the Conservative party has had chances the past couple years to become "the labour party" with Unifor getting behind them recently. It was already sort of going that way with people in the trades generally leaning right on a lot of newer issues that are becoming the focus of the NDP.

There's not enough with these specific credentials. We could also hire these people to teach our next generation of scientists. These are highly skilled people and should be sought after the same way sports teams try and sign superstar players.

If bird flu is coming north, you want aa many of these people on your team as possible.

No, the American importer would pay the taxes. It's why people have been saying "tarrifs are a tax on your own people" for months now. They know the American people will hurt the most.

It affects Canada because then American businesses have less money to buy goods with. Lose-lose situation for everyone except for the rich getting the tax cuts elsewhere.

Not even the thin "poke your finger through" sheets in school bathrooms and corporate offices? Everyone can at least agree to hate those