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It's also biased by location: the worst cities for overdose deaths are mostly in the north. In general, it seems Doug Ford would be happier if no one lived north of Lake Huron and Lake Superior. He's been demonstrating depraved indifference to conditions up here for a long time.

While I can't recall ever having seen the numbers, I believe we may have a fentanyl deficit with the US. I demand that Trump figure this into his bizarre and biased trade calculations!

I'm not sure that "to keep the same level of service" is a good metric. Some parts of the country are chronically underserved when it comes to government services, and the nature of required services may also shift over time. The need for government workers in areas like environmental oversight and fighting cybercrime has risen a lot in the past few decades.

Hmm. In the absence of something like bodycam footage, difficult to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that there was anything more than a communications screwup going on here. Not pressing charges was probably the correct decision. That doesn't mean there was no wrongdoing (or that there was), just that hauling it into court with no chance of a conviction wouldn't have helped anyone.

The main lesson to be taken from this is that you probably shouldn't run off into the woods in winter without the correct clothing and equipment no matter who or what is chasing you. Ultimately, that's what killed this guy.

Probably the best possible result for everyone involved. I'll bet he was heavily pressured from inside the party as well as outside.

Silly awards time!

• Best dragon award: From Bureaucrat to Villainess. There was actually a decent amount of competition for this one this time, but cute little dual-elemental dragon won.
• Originality in hairstyling award: Zenshu, of course. With The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer as runner-up, because that elf with the afro (elfro?) was . . . memorable.
• Bad CGI horse award: Aparida. Unless I'm confusing it with the very similar Fugukan. The horses in that one episode were memorably bad, but the show itself is not very memorable at all. (And I seem to be using the word "memorable" way too much.)
• Rub-a-dub-dub award: Beheneko. I am in awe of how they managed to shoehorn a bath scene into every single episode, even if it was taking place entirely in a dungeon. Evidence that this is a show that knows it shouldn't take itself seriously, I guess.
• General hygiene award: Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time. I dropped this a couple of episodes in, but was impressed that they directly tackled one of my top-ten reasons for not wanting to be isekai'd into a fantasy world: the flush toilet, or the lack thereof.
• Cognitive dissonance in costuming award: Ubel Blatt. Sorry, guys, but grimdark + scanty women's combat outfits that protect nothing has been a combination that won't fly for at least the past thirty years. Go watch Berserk about a dozen times for some pointers on how to do it right.

The Liberals are centrist, not left. They're right smack-dab in the middle of the Canadian political spectrum. The NDP and Greens are left.

Growing oranges in a greenhouse in Canada is not impossible . . . but you're not going to do it on the scale or at the price you'd need to make store-brand orange juice from them. Selling the actual oranges as premium produce in select Canadian markets would be possible, although not many people would be able to afford them.

The problem is that the standards for "Made in [country]" labels are pretty lax. We need different ones for "Packaged in Canada", "Processed in Canada (but with some foreign ingredients)", "Made in Canada by a foreign-owned company", and "Actually 100% Made in Canada from domestic ingredients by a Canadian company".

Or maybe what we really need is a, "The US had a hand in producing this" label. I don't think most of us have much problem with buying something from, say, Belgium or Ecuador.

Oh, dear, she insulted his frog. Now they'll never be able to have a proper relationship. 🤣

(Somehow I knew that she was going to figure out that he was an intact male in that or a very similar way, even before these two episodes. It's just so . . . Maomao.)

I'm surprised he didn't request a corner office that didn't have plumbing that might leak on his head. (Also: nice tie.)

Well, that's one hell of an unresolved implication about Anna's and Grace's mothers to end with. I'm catching a whiff of Unfinished Manga Syndrome here.

The most unserious thing about this is that the author appears not to realize that Carney's job as a candidate is to, duh, campaign. That means emphasizing planned policies that will appeal to voters. Unfortunately, the carbon tax has become political poison and scrapping it is the only sensible thing he could do in the context of appealing to the public.

I'd think I was reading the Beaverton instead of the Globe, except that this piece, while unserious, isn't funny enough.