Very pleased with this news. Also interesting that they focused these fairly close together in an underserved region, rather than sprinkling them evenly across the country. I feel this could be a good strategy to ensure these new reporters are well-supported to thrive rather than being isolated. Assuming the success of this initiative, I hope that can do it again in a year or two, choosing another underserved region.

Good idea. I’ll do that next time. Thx!

Have you used the Apple App Store recently? It’s a cesspool of apps using dark patterns, gaming the rankings, stuffing keywords, tricking users who meant to install something else. Everything is “free” but needs “in-app purchases” to unlock the functionality that is implied. Apple is no longer protecting the user here.

Good to know. Thanks for this info. I’ll be watching this more closely.

I’m in BC and have accounts with several credit unions. My impression is that they are less consolidated than this, however now I’m not so sure. One of them (Prospera) did a merger last year. Their CEO has a total compensation of $921k. VanCity CU’s CEO total compensation is $1.1M. Blueshore CU was the hardest to find (latest numbers are from 2023 when a CEO retired a new one joined) but it appears to be about $750k.

This is a fascinating and thrilling interview. Thanks for posting!

If you have specific examples or sources I would be very interested to read up on this. Thanks!

It’s unclear why the council — which did not respond to an interview request — thinks the other provinces have something to do with the Nova Scotia Liquor Corporation.

Love this sarcastic tone in the CBC article. 😁

I’m pleased to learn about Uber drivers in Victoria successfully unionizing. My impression is that Uber is among the most exploitive platforms in the “service economy” so this is encouraging news. Hopefully they can expand the union to cover Vancouver and then all of BC.

LibreOffice is pretty good. I canceled Microsoft Office365 about 6 months ago and have not regretted it even once.

Use a credit union if you can. Invest in your community.

I use Navidrome and highly recommend it. Nice Canadian developer.

I also use GitLab.

One option is for you to mirror Navidrome on GitLab. I will happily use your mirror instead of GitHub.

Another option is to reach out to the Navidrome dev and propose moving to GitLab. If you open an issue to that effect, I would add a comment with my support.