Canada NarrativeBear • 1 month ago • 100%

London woman stopped to help man who'd collapsed at in the sidewalk at Richmond and Oxford But what made her challenge particularly difficult was that the drivers trying to get through the intersection honked with impatience and anger, swerving around her and darting through the intersection as she tried to help the man. "They were acting like I was a delinquent and I was just trying to help someone," she said. "Drivers will stop for Canada geese but you've got a man in distress and no one cares." Paramedics arrived shortly after and took the man who'd been struggling to hospital. Litsas doesn't know what caused him to collapse or how he's doing now. After the ordeal, she posted on the social media site Reddit about how some of the drivers chose to honk instead of help. "I was frustrated, I was a bit shaken up just having the traffic whiz by you and it's just an unnerving position to be in," she said. The purpose behind her post is to ask that drivers show some patience and empathy if a pedestrian appears to be struggling. "Stop, put your hazards on," she said. "It's a car against a human being and I'm not going to win against a five-tonne vehicle."

Toronto NarrativeBear • 1 month ago • 90%

toronto@lemmy.world Pre-construction work for the Scarborough subway extension project began in 2021 at the northeast corner of Sheppard Avenue East and McCowan Road in Scarborough. Toronto City council and Metrolinx are fighting over who will pay for a proposed link at Kennedy Station between the subway extension and the planned Eglinton East LRT. (Metrolinx)

Canada NarrativeBear • 2 months ago • 100%

Vandertop, a co-founder of Don't Mess with the Don, says the restaurant chain Tim Hortons has a big problem when it comes to litter. The registered charity, run by volunteers, cleans up trash from ravines in the Don Valley and says it has picked up about 136,078 kilograms of garbage in the past six years. The number one brand it finds in its garbage cleanups is Tim Hortons, Vandertop said. "Imagine — Tim Hortons has more than 4,000 stores across Canada now and that would be millions and millions of cups and lids all strewn out throughout our parks, streets, wild spaces. And this is only cups and lids. There's also food wrappers, containers and other beverage containers," she said. "I think Tim Hortons, as a flagship Canadian company, has a tremendous opportunity here to do something good for the world and for the environment that we live in. This is not in line with the times." Karen Wirsig, senior program manager for plastics at Environmental Defence, an environmental advocacy organization, said it's important to hold corporations accountable for the waste they produce. Wirsig said Tim Hortons is a major generator of single-use plastic waste when it comes to its takeout packaging.

Toronto NarrativeBear • 2 months ago • 100%

Vandertop, a co-founder of Don't Mess with the Don, says the restaurant chain Tim Hortons has a big problem when it comes to litter. The registered charity, run by volunteers, cleans up trash from ravines in the Don Valley and says it has picked up about 136,078 kilograms of garbage in the past six years. The number one brand it finds in its garbage cleanups is Tim Hortons, Vandertop said. "Imagine — Tim Hortons has more than 4,000 stores across Canada now and that would be millions and millions of cups and lids all strewn out throughout our parks, streets, wild spaces. And this is only cups and lids. There's also food wrappers, containers and other beverage containers," she said. "I think Tim Hortons, as a flagship Canadian company, has a tremendous opportunity here to do something good for the world and for the environment that we live in. This is not in line with the times." Karen Wirsig, senior program manager for plastics at Environmental Defence, an environmental advocacy organization, said it's important to hold corporations accountable for the waste they produce. Wirsig said Tim Hortons is a major generator of single-use plastic waste when it comes to its takeout packaging.

Toronto NarrativeBear • 2 months ago • 100%

canada@lemmy.ca The province is in the midst of shifting the cost burden of trash away from municipalities (and municipal taxpayers), onto companies that make and sell products that generate waste.   For material that fills up blue boxes — including non-alcoholic drink containers — industry began paying an increased share of the costs last year and is to cover all of the costs from 2026. How it works: companies pay fees, based on the amount of waste material they create, to organizations that manage their sector's recycling programs.  The theory of the system — known as extended producer responsibility — is that it gives companies an incentive to reduce their packaging waste and increase recycling rates. Otherwise companies have to absorb the fees as a cost of doing business or pass them on to consumers.  When the government kick-started work on the deposit-return system last year, Piccini said it would "enable consumers to receive a refund for returning used beverage containers." For more than a year, momentum was building toward a key shift to try to improve things. Premier Doug Ford's government was seriously considering creating a deposit-return system for soft drink containers, a system that's already in place in eight other provinces and that already exists for beer, wine and spirits in Ontario. Then suddenly, with zero advance notice and no public announcement — and with a potential LCBO strike dominating the news — senior government officials scrapped plans for the deposit-return system. What follows is the inside story of how, in a battle with big financial implications for companies and big environmental implications for Ontario, Doug Ford's government sided with Big Grocery over Big Beverage. By abandoning deposit-return, the government bowed to pressure from the supermarket chains, said Wallis of Environmental Defence. "It's frustrating the amount of power that they seem to have and the amount of influence that they seem to have over policy," Wallis said. "These are companies that make money, lots of money from selling these drinks to us," she said. "Them refusing to participate in the kind of program that would actually keep these containers out of our environment is honestly shameful." The notion that consumers could face added costs under the deposit system is now the government's key justification for scrapping it.

Canada NarrativeBear • 2 months ago • 97%

The province is in the midst of shifting the cost burden of trash away from municipalities (and municipal taxpayers), onto companies that make and sell products that generate waste.   For material that fills up blue boxes — including non-alcoholic drink containers — industry began paying an increased share of the costs last year and is to cover all of the costs from 2026. How it works: companies pay fees, based on the amount of waste material they create, to organizations that manage their sector's recycling programs.  The theory of the system — known as extended producer responsibility — is that it gives companies an incentive to reduce their packaging waste and increase recycling rates. Otherwise companies have to absorb the fees as a cost of doing business or pass them on to consumers.  When the government kick-started work on the deposit-return system last year, Piccini said it would "enable consumers to receive a refund for returning used beverage containers." For more than a year, momentum was building toward a key shift to try to improve things. Premier Doug Ford's government was seriously considering creating a deposit-return system for soft drink containers, a system that's already in place in eight other provinces and that already exists for beer, wine and spirits in Ontario. Then suddenly, with zero advance notice and no public announcement — and with a potential LCBO strike dominating the news — senior government officials scrapped plans for the deposit-return system. What follows is the inside story of how, in a battle with big financial implications for companies and big environmental implications for Ontario, Doug Ford's government sided with Big Grocery over Big Beverage. By abandoning deposit-return, the government bowed to pressure from the supermarket chains, said Wallis of Environmental Defence. "It's frustrating the amount of power that they seem to have and the amount of influence that they seem to have over policy," Wallis said. "These are companies that make money, lots of money from selling these drinks to us," she said. "Them refusing to participate in the kind of program that would actually keep these containers out of our environment is honestly shameful." The notion that consumers could face added costs under the deposit system is now the government's key justification for scrapping it.

Toronto NarrativeBear • 2 months ago • 100%

www.guelphtoday.com

Charlie Pinkerton, who explains why Doug Ford is featured in a new video flipping burgers and talking booze. He also breaks down the big revelations contained in newly released documents about the Ontario Science Centre.

Toronto NarrativeBear • 2 months ago • 83%

A small, odd traffic island was recently installed in the middle of the cycling lane that runs along the north side of Adelaide Street West, at the northwest corner of York Street.

Canada NarrativeBear • 2 months ago • 96%

nowtoronto.com

In a video message posted on X on Monday, Premier Doug Ford announced the release of the tech tool that allows Ontario residents to locate stores, other than the LCBO, selling alcohol. “Our new interactive map shows thousands of convenient options where you can still buy beer, wine, spirits and other drinks across the province.” The release of the map comes days after LCBO workers walked off the job prompting  province-wide closures of the government-run liquor store.  The announcement is stirring up angry reactions from many residents and city officials, who accused Ford of union busting and failing to address pressing socio-economic issues. “While the Ford government wastes billions of tax dollars, schools need fixing, hospital wait times need attention, cities need support for transit, services & infrastructure, the science centre needs saving and people struggle to make ends meet. Yet, this guy’s priority is beer,” Councillor Josh Matlow wrote on X on Monday. “You’re using public dollars to break a strike, undermine workers rights and to destroy an agency that generates $2.5 billion for healthcare and other services. But this app looks cute. Why didn’t you use this kind of tech to save lives from COVID19 or to find ERs,” one X user wrote. “Can I get a map of where I can find emergency clinics that are open?,” another person said.

Toronto NarrativeBear • 2 months ago • 96%

nowtoronto.com

In a video message posted on X on Monday, Premier Doug Ford announced the release of the tech tool that allows Ontario residents to locate stores, other than the LCBO, selling alcohol. “Our new interactive map shows thousands of convenient options where you can still buy beer, wine, spirits and other drinks across the province.” The release of the map comes days after LCBO workers walked off the job prompting  province-wide closures of the government-run liquor store.  The announcement is stirring up angry reactions from many residents and city officials, who accused Ford of union busting and failing to address pressing socio-economic issues. “While the Ford government wastes billions of tax dollars, schools need fixing, hospital wait times need attention, cities need support for transit, services & infrastructure, the science centre needs saving and people struggle to make ends meet. Yet, this guy’s priority is beer,” Councillor Josh Matlow wrote on X on Monday. “You’re using public dollars to break a strike, undermine workers rights and to destroy an agency that generates $2.5 billion for healthcare and other services. But this app looks cute. Why didn’t you use this kind of tech to save lives from COVID19 or to find ERs,” one X user wrote. “Can I get a map of where I can find emergency clinics that are open?,” another person said.

Toronto NarrativeBear • 3 months ago • 100%

globalnews.ca

All we know is that the Eglinton LRT will not open for another three months, every day that Metrolinx does not give a defined opening date.

Trams, Trolleys and Streetcars NarrativeBear • 4 months ago • 100%

Police said emergency crews were called to the intersection of Frederick Street and King Street East shortly after 9:30 a.m. on June 1 after receiving reports of a crash involving a streetcar. While it remains unclear what caused the collision, police say the driver of the vehicle involved was taken to hospital with serious injuries, while two people on the streetcar were also injured. In an update, police said a 62-year-old man was charged with careless driving under the Highway Traffic Act.

Canada NarrativeBear • 4 months ago • 100%

www.guelphtoday.com

Months after cancelling the construction contract for a new downtown pedestrian bridge in the face of “unforeseen challenges,” city officials have called off the project altogether. As stated in a post on the city’s website on Friday, plans to build a bridge over the Speed River connecting The Ward with Downtown Guelph have been scrapped. Instead, city officials will look for ways to include pedestrian flow into another nearby project over the river.

Fuck Cars NarrativeBear • 4 months ago • 96%

www.standard.co.uk

Campaigners have called for “mini Holland” walking and cycling schemes to be introduced in towns across Britain after the first London pilot scheme produced dramatic results. London’s pioneering “mini Holland” low traffic neighbourhood is “synonymous with the changes that need to happen around the world”, according to the capital’s walking and cycling commissioner.

Not Just Bikes NarrativeBear • 4 months ago • 82%

www.bbc.com

Yet more hate towards cycling, and somehow if a floating bus stop is located between two care lanes its perfectly acceptable.

Canada NarrativeBear • 4 months ago • 98%

cultmtl.com

“What is up with some people’s complete disrespect for our public spaces? It doesn’t require a huge amount of effort and discipline to keep our streets, sidewalks, parks and shorelines clean. Yet some of us appear incapable.”

Toronto NarrativeBear • 4 months ago • 88%

Why does the TTC suck so much in customer service, and what's with the constant delays every single day. Sometimes going into the office (when I'm stuck between station for 30 minutes in a non-moving train), I wonder how much better it was during covid with a full WFH mandated. The TTC main complaint those last few years were no one is riding, but now they have ridership and they can't keep up with demand.

Canada NarrativeBear • 5 months ago • 95%

The bridge had just gone through extensive renovations and updates with construction finished late summer of 2023. https://www.blogto.com/city/2024/05/driver-lodged-truck-bridge-downtown-toronto/

Uplifting News NarrativeBear • 5 months ago • 96%

www.bbc.com

A cyclist's new hobby of cleaning street signs has already taken him as far afield as Belgium. John Edwards, from Shrewsbury, took up the hobby after spotting a video of a man improving signs during lockdown. Since then he has posted clips of his cleaning around the county, and has even been tidying up the signs in Belgium after watching a cyclist race. Mr Edwards said he was delighted to clean the signs and the response from the public was "gangbusters".

Canada NarrativeBear • 5 months ago • 97%

amp.cnn.com

The largest gold heist in Canadian history was carried out with remarkable ease: A fraudulent shipping document for a load of farm-raised Scottish salmon was used to brazenly snatch $14.5 million in gold bars and nearly $2 million in bank notes

Canada NarrativeBear • 5 months ago • 75%

www.thecooldown.com

Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs. https://www.staples.com/stores/recycling#workingtowardsabrightertomorrow More companies should start to follow staples lead and offer return points for packaging and products that reach their end of life.

Today I Learned NarrativeBear • 5 months ago • 94%

www.thecooldown.com

Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs. https://www.staples.com/stores/recycling#workingtowardsabrightertomorrow More companies should start to follow staples lead and offer return points for packaging and products that reach their end of life.

You Should Know NarrativeBear • 5 months ago • 96%

www.thecooldown.com

Check out the full list of what staples accepts now part of their expanded recycling programs. https://www.staples.com/stores/recycling#workingtowardsabrightertomorrow More companies should start to follow staples lead and offer return points for packaging and products that reach their end of life.

Canada NarrativeBear • 5 months ago • 100%

Ontario is in the process of shifting the cost burden of trash away from municipalities and onto companies that make and sell products that generate waste.  With this shift — called "extended producer responsibility" — industry now bears the full costs of recycling or recovering such items as tires, batteries, light bulbs and electronics.  Under the system, companies pay fees, based on the amount of waste material they create, to businesses that manage recycling programs, known as producer responsibility organizations (PROs).  It's up to the companies to choose whether to pass those fees on to consumers or to absorb them as a cost of doing business. The theory is that the fees provide the companies with an incentive to reduce their packaging and other waste. For material that fills up blue boxes — including beverage containers, paper, plastic, glass and metal — the transition to industry paying the full costs only began last year and is to be completed by 2026. Right now, companies are seeing their blue box fees shoot upward exponentially.  The government is facing corporate pressure to change Ontario's plan that sees industry taking on the full cost of blue box recycling programs. The industry is "trying to shirk its environmental responsibilities," "If producers are not paying for this packaging, it's going to be taxpayers, it's going to be the environment or it's going to be human health, and that would be a massive step backwards," Wallis said in an interview.  

Canada NarrativeBear • 6 months ago • 72%

nationalpost.com

The GTA has been showing signs of the urban ills that are commonly associated with city life south the border. Downtown infrastructure has been deteriorating, as have cleanliness and order, which were once the city’s strong suits. In Ontario, growth has shifted to lower-cost places like Kitchener-Waterloo (110 kilometres from downtown Toronto), as well as Guelph (95 km), Peterborough (140 km) and London (195 km). Even long declining areas, like the Maritimes, have been gaining population in recent years. Clearly a new approach is merited. Leaders in Toronto have to accept dispersion and find the city’s niche within a wider range of settlements. Downtowns themselves, as Calgary’s urban leadership now suggests, will have to morph from primarily business centres to places more oriented to housing, academic and cultural activities. To be sure, swank high-rise projects may appeal to the wealthy and the childless. But the urban future lies in places that are walkable but not hyper-dense and can attract middle-income families.

Canada NarrativeBear • 6 months ago • 90%

www.change.org

Join the petition to ask the Canadian government to adopt Standard Time all year round. "Changing clocks twice a year is hazardous to your health.  There are many studies showing that changing the clock and staying on Daylight Saving Time negatively impacts our circadian rhythm, causes increases in strokes and heart attacks, impacts people with depression and seasonal affective disorder and causes more car accidents.  I ask the Canadian Government to finally stop Daylight Saving Time and enact Permanent Standard Time. Even if one person is saved from having a stroke or heart attack or is saved from a car accident, it's worth it.  Support the health and safety of Canadians and set an example for the rest of the world.   Follow the scientific research. Do the right thing and not just the easy and uninformed thing.  Don’t change the clocks. Leave them on Standard Time year round. Do not spring forward."

UNRAID NarrativeBear • 8 months ago • 83%

I have been having a hard time finding sata power connectors, specifically ones that have the caps. Molex seems to have discontinued the caps for the following product number 0679260002. Here is a link to one site with the connector, but caps are impossible to source for this. https://www.digikey.ca/en/products/detail/molex/0679260002/3468570 I have also been looking for Corsair style sata power connectors (type 4), but have had no luck finding if they sell these. datahorder@lemmy.world

TrueNAS NarrativeBear • 8 months ago • 100%

I just finished the process of adding 8 new Seagate Exos 20TB drives to my TrueNAS core system. This question has been asked a lot and it's known seagate drives are loader then most durring operation. Though i could not find anything related to a consistent "shudder" through all my new Exos drives. I have attached a audio clip in the link below. Have any of you come across this specific sound before. The drives are in a Fractal Design 7 XL case with rubber bumpers in all trays. The case hold 9 WD Red's 12TB, and 8 Segate Exos 20TB. All 17 drives are connected to a SAS 9305-24i in IT mode. Running TrueNAS Core 13.0-U5.3 Audio Clip: https://whyp.it/tracks/151914/seagate-exos-20tb?token=X8hOc

Fuck Cars NarrativeBear • 9 months ago • 95%

www.youtube.com

We need to make our cities and towns more family friendly. This is called the "missing middle" in housing, and it's why in north america all we see are either large condo towers or single family homes, which also drives our urban sprawl problems. Which exacerbate out dependency on cars. Almost all new large towers/buildings in north america prioritize bachelor's units 1 and 2 bedroom units. Trying to find a well priced 3 or 4 bedroom in a "lively" downtown center, close to transit and work, with plenty of schooling in the area is almost impossible. It's also a factor in why cities became so empty during the pandemic, ie. Not to many families living permanently in cities. Here's a good article that also talks about the same issue with some different apparment layouts, and why developers don't provide adequate family units. https://www.centerforbuilding.org/blog/we-we-cant-build-family-sized-apartments-in-north-america This together with zoning requirements in north america is pushing most cities and developers to only cater towards large towers or single family housing.

Canada NarrativeBear • 9 months ago • 90%

www.youtube.com

We need to make our cities and towns more family friendly. This is called the "missing middle" in housing, and it's why in north america all we see are either large condo towers or single family homes, which also drives our urban sprawl problems. Almost all new large towers/buildings in north america prioritize bachelor's units 1 and 2 bedroom units. Trying to find a well priced 3 or 4 bedroom in a "lively" downtown center, close to transit and work, with plenty of schooling in the area is almost impossible. It's also a factor in why cities became so empty during the pandemic, ie. Not to many families living permanently in cities. Here's a good article that also talks about the same issue with some different apparment layouts, and why developers don't provide adequate family units. https://www.centerforbuilding.org/blog/we-we-cant-build-family-sized-apartments-in-north-america This together with zoning requirements in north america is pushing most cities and developers to only cater towards large towers or single family housing.

3DPrinting NarrativeBear • 10 months ago • 98%

I am hoping someone may have the ability to scan the front and top of a utility gas meter that looks like the one above. I would like the use this scan to model a front cover similar to the one shown in this link below, but suited for this type of meter. https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4845512 The purpose of this project is to hold a esp32 board to get consistent meter readings and feed them into home assistant. Here is the project below. https://github.com/jomjol/AI-on-the-edge-device Any help would be appreciated.

Canada NarrativeBear • 10 months ago • 96%

www.cp24.com

Google hits a paywall. On the heels of a deal struck last week between Ottawa and Google, the search behemoth will pay Canadian news publishers $100 million/year for the privilege of hosting their content. Is that a win for Ottawa? Well, on one hand, Canada is now one of the first countries to compel digital platforms to pay (and help keep alive) news publishers. On the other, $100 million is the exact number Google offered pre-standoff and 42% less than what the government wanted. Either way, at least the public can once again access news through Google. Ottawa has agreed to set a $100-million yearly cap on payments that Google will be required to make to media companies when the government's controversial online news legislation takes effect at the end of the year. The legislation is called The Online News Act passed earlier this year and would force platforms like Google, Meta, Facebook and Instagram’s parent company, to strike deals with Canadian media publishers for sharing, linking, previewing, and directing users to online Canadian news content.

Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ NarrativeBear • 10 months ago • 92%

I downloaded a BDMV folder that should be a copy of a six disk box set. All the files seem to be numbered with .#.ext in them. All the files came in one root folder. Once I organized this into a streams/playlist/clip/meta folders by file type and feed it into makemkv I can only see disk one. There are also 12 index files called index, index.1 index.2 and so on. How do I rearrange this to see disk 2-6?

Fuck Cars NarrativeBear • 10 months ago • 85%

www.theglobeandmail.com

canada@lemmy.ca Link with no paywall: https://www.removepaywall.com/https:/www.theglobeandmail.com/drive/mobility/article-if-im-at-a-crosswalk-do-drivers-have-to-stop-even-if-the-lights-arent