The Canada Revenue Agency will be issuing the long-promised 'grocery rebate' payments to eligible Canadians on July 5. The food-inflation focused affordability measure is set to roll out to approximately 11 million low- and modest-income Canadians. Here's how much money those eligible can expect to receive.
Today, at exactly 17.11 CEST, the European Space Agency’s newest mission was launched in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. Called Euclid, the 2-tonne, 4.5-m-tall and 3.1-m-in-diameter space telescope will be used to map the geometry of the Universe, in particular to explore the nature of dark matter...
kbin is like a month old and has been slammed very recently by a large number of new signups. I think they were migrating to new servers over the past week and likely more improvements are on the way.
Quebec’s housing agency says almost 200 households have been forced to find temporary shelter after being unable to find a new place to live on the pr...
The prime minister says he's not opposed to the idea of changing the lyrics of Canada's national anthem, but said any rewrites will only come after consultation with Canadians.
I think you're exaggerating. There have never been so much media in human history. Anyone can make their own blog and publish anything they want. Yeah, the big social media platforms have the issues you mentioned but there are tons of options out there for people to be heard and voices to get representation.
PARIS — Tensions remained high in France on Saturday after hundreds of people were detained in another violent night of unrest unleashed by the fatal police shooting of a teenager earlier this week.
Some fear Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem is poised to raise rates again in July in a bid to drive inflation down to its target. ‘It’s two per cent or bust,’ says one economist.
I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how...
Fireworks in the Ottawa night sky. Photo by Jamie McCaffrey, from the OttawaStart Flickr pool Saturday, July 1, 2023 is Canada Day. Most businesses and offices
Former CRTC head proposes compromise between Liberals and Big Tech over news blocking (ottawacitizen.com)
The Liberal government can solve the ongoing impasse with Meta and Google by making the Big Tech platforms pay into a fund for news outlets.
CRA issuing one-time grocery rebate payments July 5 (www.ctvnews.ca)
The Canada Revenue Agency will be issuing the long-promised 'grocery rebate' payments to eligible Canadians on July 5. The food-inflation focused affordability measure is set to roll out to approximately 11 million low- and modest-income Canadians. Here's how much money those eligible can expect to receive.
CERN tech to help investigate the dark universe (home.cern)
Today, at exactly 17.11 CEST, the European Space Agency’s newest mission was launched in a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida, USA. Called Euclid, the 2-tonne, 4.5-m-tall and 3.1-m-in-diameter space telescope will be used to map the geometry of the Universe, in particular to explore the nature of dark matter...
HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray
Imma start by prefacing that I like kbin way better so far....
Nearly 200 households in need of shelter after moving day in Quebec (www.thestar.com)
Quebec’s housing agency says almost 200 households have been forced to find temporary shelter after being unable to find a new place to live on the pr...
Rays left fielder Randy Arozarena will participate in the Home Run Derby (www.thestar.com)
Tampa Bay Rays All-Star left fielder Randy Arozarena will participate in the 2023 Home Run Derby, Arozarena announced Saturday on social media.
Trudeau 'open' to changing O Canada lyrics, says it's up to Canadians | CBC News (www.cbc.ca)
The prime minister says he's not opposed to the idea of changing the lyrics of Canada's national anthem, but said any rewrites will only come after consultation with Canadians.
'Rate limit exceeded;' Twitter down for thousands of users worldwide (www.cbsnews.com)
Thousands of Twitter users across several countries were unable to access the social media site or faced difficulty and delays Saturday.
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A website to randomly explore the IndieWeb. (indieblog.page)
A website that gives you a random post from a personal blog.
Tensions high in France on day of funeral of teen shot by police (www.washingtonpost.com)
PARIS — Tensions remained high in France on Saturday after hundreds of people were detained in another violent night of unrest unleashed by the fatal police shooting of a teenager earlier this week.
Canada has one of the lowest inflation rates in the G7. Does the Bank of Canada really need to push rates higher? (www.thestar.com)
Some fear Bank of Canada Gov. Tiff Macklem is poised to raise rates again in July in a bid to drive inflation down to its target. ‘It’s two per cent or bust,’ says one economist.
Greece boat disaster: Survivors blame Greek coastguard for tragedy (www.bbc.com)
Survivors of the Greece boat disaster say an attempt by the Greek coastguard to tow the boat made it sink.
Is there any one else who feels like their life has been disrupted by this whole debacle with Reddit.
I really do like KBin and Lemmy and the fediverse on the whole, but development is still young and the userbase still growing. KBin is still basically early access, and Lemmy is buggy. I spent alot of time in reddit and I'm feeling the pain of trying to ween myself from it. Just wanted to here community perspectives and see how...
What's open and closed in Ottawa for Canada Day (ottawastart.com)
Fireworks in the Ottawa night sky. Photo by Jamie McCaffrey, from the OttawaStart Flickr pool Saturday, July 1, 2023 is Canada Day. Most businesses and offices
Anti-sex activists are picking off sex workers on Instagram—and Instagram is letting them (jezebel.com)
Inflation in Europe falls again in June (www.cnn.com)
Inflation in Europe slowed for the second straight month in June.
Treasury Yields Resume Climb as Investors Bet on Growth (www.wsj.com)
U.S. government yields rebounded in the second quarter as strains from bank failures and the debt-ceiling crisis eased.