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Next year, the EU will require cars to have buttons & dials -- not just touchscreens -- to get a top safety rating. This is a great move. Drivers can fiddle with knobs & buttons without taking their eyes off the road, but they can't do that with touchscreens. (Even better: Tesla will hate this)

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O Canada. #Not51 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

The phenomenon of “leftist language policing” is 99% a product of centrists whining about it constantly. I almost never encounter it in real life and requests for vocabulary updates are typically non-binding guidelines for formal written documents.

submitted 10 days ago • 258 comments

“Booing is your patriotic duty right now. It’s not very Canadian, and that’s the point. We’ve let this whole polite northerner shtick exist for too long…You know what rude people get? Service. They squeak, but they also get the oil.” #TeamCanada www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/artic...

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

If you drop #AEWGrandSlam spoilers on this app today…

submitted 13 days ago • 9 comments

Evergreen cartoon

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Ron Howard FTW 🎯

submitted 19 days ago • 487 comments

Who wants to be the 51st version of this?

submitted 24 days ago • 49 comments

Support Canadian alternatives!

submitted 25 days ago • 1327 comments

In case you're wondering what we thought of yesterday's federal announcement of $66m/year for TransLink: “In Canada, too many people are forced to go out and spend $30,000 on a car because transit in their neighbourhood is too slow and too unreliable.

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

In October 2023, a right-wing government swept to power in New Zealand on a wave of populist anger similar to Canada’s. The results so far? Government debt forecast to rise. The deficit got worse. Unemployment is increasing. Craig Renney writes.

submitted 31 days ago • 28 comments

“Someone with a 1-hr car commute needs to earn 40% more to be as happy as someone with a short walk to work. On the other hand, if someone shifts from a long commute to a walk, their happiness increases as much as if they’d fallen in love.” #CityMakingMath 50 reasons to want walkable streets.

submitted 37 days ago • 27 comments