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  • WPG @ CGY

    Bold of the Bombers to start their bye a week early. Basically a disaster from top to bottom, though their one TD was pretty cool.

    Calgary really brought it, they're one to keep an eye on in the West.

    The on-field graphics were glitchy and distracting.

  • STO Alliance @startrek.website

    Double Experience Event

    Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website

    July Star Trek Merch Roundup: New Voyager Plaque, Animated Series Soundtrack Music, EXO-6's PICARD Worf, and More!

    STO Alliance @startrek.website

    STO Livestream: Summer Event Ship Release Stream

    STO Alliance @startrek.website

    The Sale of the Summer

    Canada @lemmy.ca

    Analysis: Ottawa avoided a trade setback. But Trump could come for supply management next

    Hockey @lemmy.ca

    2025 NHL Free Agency Blog

    STO Alliance @startrek.website

    Patch Notes for 7/1/25

  • The writing really gets the era right here - mid 00s, 24hr news, a few years after 9/11, after a major event this is exactly what people would be doing.

    Good point, and shame on me for not giving Trinity Wells the acknowledgement she deserves!

  • Winnipeg @lemmy.ca

    1965, Downtown and driving around in winter, people and billboards, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

  • Throughout the spring federal election campaign, Mark Carney as Liberal leader repeatedly vowed to "eliminate" interprovincial trade barriers and create "free trade by Canada Day."

    But Canada's internal trade barriers won't all be eliminated by then — not even all the federal ones.

    Canada's supply management system for dairy products, which sets provincial production quotas, will remain. Quebec also has language requirements that will stay in place.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    Ottawa removes all federal exceptions from Canadian Free Trade Agreement

  • It's geographically impossible for Canada to completely eliminate trade with the US.

    I absolutely agree that it should be minimized, though.

  • Agreed. If there's a greater purpose here, keeping it from Canadians is a pretty big blunder.

  • Even if we reach a deal, it’s not like Trump is stable or trustworthy enough to honour it.

    I don't think this is entirely true - Trump is obviously not trustworthy, but the government has been able to leverage CUSMA to lessen the impact of the attempted tariffs. There seems to be some benefit to having a formal deal in place.

    But I'm definitely not comfortable with this capitulation at all.

  • Despite the move, Canada is still in active discussions with G7 allies to introduce an international tax, with Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne leading that work, the PMO said.

    If this ends up happening, it's important context to this decision.

    If it ends up not happening...pretty weak shit.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    U.S. resumed trade talks with Canada on Monday morning, says Carney

    STO Alliance @startrek.website

    The Federation Intel Holoship

    STO Alliance @startrek.website

    The 2025 Risian Lohlunat Festival

    Star Trek Social Club @startrek.website

    Review — Fanhome's New Luna-Class USS Titan Starship Model

    STO Alliance @startrek.website

    Command the Echelon Intel Science Spearhead!

  • Some sort of surprising outcomes last weekend

    It's funny, I was just about to say the narratives of the season seem to be taking shape, but you're right - there are still some things up in the air.

    Riders vs Bombers in the West Finals?

    I wouldn't be mad about that at all. But I do hope BC can get things more together - I like Buck Pierce.

    My Argos won without Chad Kelly yesterday

    I'd also like to see the defending champs gather some more steam.

  • That quote is...really something. RTD has a habit of overexplaining things to the point of incomprehensibility, but that takes it to a new level.

    I do think the basics of what he's getting at ring true - they certainly struggled a bit with "how much sexism should the Thirteenth Doctor encounter," and "how much racism should the Fifteenth Doctor encounter?" They both probably should have encountered more than they did, but if the story isn't about that, you run the risk of derailing the entire story. But if you include it "casually," as just a fact of the world, as they did in this case...that's not necessarily better. But maybe it's still worthwhile?

    I don't think there's a right answer, but RTD sure managed to find a wrong one.

    On this topic, I was certainly laughing right along with the show's depiction of Mickey-as-a-murder-suspect, but that has unsettling racial implications on its own, if you really interrogate the idea.

  • Hopefully, this launch will go without major hitches. Canada Day week is probably a good time to do it, since there will be fewer commuters.

  • Canada @lemmy.ca

    Doctors, writers and a UFC champion among 83 new appointments to the Order of Canada

    Canada @lemmy.ca

    Canada rescinds digital services tax to advance trade discussions with the United States

  • Oh boy, it's the one with the farting aliens.

    I don't care for this one at all. It's a very pure expression of RTD's "kid-friendly" vision of Doctor Who, but...it makes it kid-friendly by featuring farting aliens. No thanks.

    But there's still good stuff! Pretty much everything about Rose's return is pretty great. Jackie's anger and relief after Rose has been missing for a year, Mickey's status as a suspected murderer, all good stuff. We get to meet Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North, who's always a delight. We get to see UNIT, still with "United Nations" in their name. We also get to meet Toshiko Sato.

    The broad strokes of the plot are interesting. A crashed UFO, faked by aliens not as a diversion, but as a trap for the council of Big Brains that would immediately convene. I like that a lot. I also liked the way the Doctor immediately drops his dismissiveness of Ricky Mickey as soon as he says something intelligent.

    But at the end of the day, those farting aliens are always going to be there.

  • Doctor Who Social Club @startrek.website

    Retrospective Discussion | Doctor Who (2005) | 1x04 "Aliens of London"

  • Star Trek VI is generally considered one of the "good ones".

    Of course, the secret is, they're all the good ones.

    Yes, even that one.

  • I would probably go with "whatever was the most recent release," so West is canonical, but his identity as the would-be assassin is not?

    Which I prefer, to be honest - having the Klingon be a Klingon helps to reinforce this as a cross-faction conspiracy.

  • Some traditions need to be upheld.

  • Some picks were exchanged yesterday, but it's been pretty quiet.

  • Hockey @lemmy.ca

    NHL Draft Tracker 2025

    Manitoba @lemmy.ca

    Manitoba's accessibility minister apologizes for comments about sign language interpreter

    Canada @lemmy.ca

    B.C. MLA Bowinn Ma's constituency office targeted with explosive device

  • EDM @ WPG

    Well, that was a little too close for comfort. It looks like the Elks might be able to figure something out if their O line improves.