This year will be my first time trying to grow food from seeds (so I may or may not do it right). I’m in Ontario (zone 6a/6b). I have started strawberries, red bergamots, thyme, oregano, basil, rosemary, tomatoes, zucchini, kale, bell peppers. I’m planning to start lettuces and spinach in early April. I also have seeds that I will simply sow outside (carrots, peas, beans, cucumbers, pollinators’ wild flowers).

Yes, doing your best whenever, wherever should be the goal and not perfection. No one is perfect but doing something is always better than doing nothing at all.

When I was a university student (on student loan), having to pay rent, utilities etc, I recalled surviving on pasta, bananas, frozen veggies, canned tuna/sardines and instant coffee. I would mix a can of tuna into simple tomatoes and frozen veggies pasta sauce, made lots of pasta and eat that for 1 - 2 days. My roommate taught me how to make congee (rice porridge). Very economical. Simply rice, broth, ginger and green onions. We’d make a big pot and eat it for breakfast for a few days. A silver lining though, eating less meat during my university years actually made me feel better and healthier. I continue eating meat only every 2 - 3 days to this day.

Back then, every weekend, my friends would invite me out to bars/pubs to let out steam and I would have to decline 9 out 10. If I went, I would simply purchase 1 drink and made that drink last all night. My liver, was thankful.

I am a P. Eng. in Ontario, Canada. It’s “Professional Engineer” license. As someone else has mentioned, you can be a mechanical engineer, a software engineer, an electrical engineer etc and a P. Eng. The requirement for P. Eng is passing an Engineering Ethics exam, receiving an engineering degree from accepted universities/college (doesn’t have to be a Canadian school) and completing an certain number of years of Canadian engineering work experience (ie. the work must be qualified as engineering type work, and must be in Canada). Now, I received my P. Eng more than a decade ago so the rules may or may not change.

Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO) is our organization which regulates the exams and licensing. It is also a sort of watch dog which ensures that engineers are ethical and don’t cut corners. PEO also provides networking (they may organize a plant tour or conferences etc) and volunteering activities for engineers. We, engineers, pay annual fees/dues to PEO but if you work for an engineering company, your company may pay your dues for you.

I agree with you. As well, if you want to squeeze out a little more profit, transferring usd to CAD while the spread is the widest is probably a good move.

I’m not a personal advisor though.

Don’t forget usa commerce secretary howard lutnick pimping tesla stock on fox news (last week or something?)

I agree with this. tesla is more about “vibes” than sales numbers and profit margin atm. This unfortunately does provide opportunities for “pump and dump” day trading. Another problem is that institutional investors have access to premarket/after market trading, creating an unfair advantage against retail investors.

This sounds delish, I will try it. Thanks!

I hear you. I don’t go to stores often either nowadays. Just to get my weekly groceries and every 2-3 weeks, I’d go to Home Hardware or Canadian Tire.

I think this is well thought and I agree with “This position doesn’t contradict support for proportional representation - in fact, they’re complementary. PR ensures citizens’ votes translate fairly into representation, while security clearances help ensure those representatives aren’t compromised by foreign interests.”

Security clearance is required. We can still allow politicians to put their names on the ballot even if they fail security clearance, but they need to go through it because I, as a voter, want to know who has the “kompromat” for any particular politicians, whose pockets are the politicians are holing up in.

This is what I don’t understand: did felon truly believe that average magas (so not fascists tech bros and nepo babies) are going to give up gas cars and buy EVs instead?

How are they going to lord it over cyclists if they can’t even spew out black emissions as they speed by?

This may or may not help you, but what I do is: store my reusable bags with my shoes, so every time I reach for a pair of shoes before I leave the house, I could also grab a bag.

As part of enforcing Canada Elections Act, we should make sure that all prime minister candidates complete security clearance.

I wonder what pp has to hide?

I have been using Organic Maps and I have no complain.

I worry about this: https://www.dhs.gov/real-id but from the website, it seems that many states id/driver licenses are “REAL ID compliant” and you only need it if you fly domestically or wanting to access “certain federal facilities”.

Stay safe, friend.

I have a question for you, do you actually need REAL ID to travel domestically?

This. I personally have no plan going to usa now and in the future. Unfortunately some Canadians may still have to go for work related trips. Just be aware that you may or may not need to register in the new “Alien Registration Requirement”.

My checked luggage used to be searched when I went to usa. I knew it was searched because tsa would leave a pamphlet inside my luggage saying that it was searched. I believe they have stopped leaving such pamphlet but I won’t be surprised if they still search luggages.

Labours are not expensive. CEOs are expensive and frankly, not worth their pay. Let’s cap CEOs’ salary to say max 10X average salary of employees. For example: average employee in that company earns $70K a year. CEOs’ salary will then be capped at $700K a year. We should also give equal percentage raises, ie. CEOs want 10% raise? Then all employees will also have 10% raise.

I would love to play felon a song but couldn’t find my microscopic violin.