Ontario and Alberta. Why is this posted in Manitoba?

If the electric wheelchair is limited to walking speed I agree with that. If you have a disabled person on an electric scooter that hits 15-20Kmh, stick to the road.

E-anything don't belong on sidewalks.

Electric wheelchairs do, but other than that, I agree.

Now if only there were infrastructure for bike/ebike/scooter lanes everywhere this would be much better news. It might lead to that though since there will definitely be more collisions with cars. I imagine the govt will either make them entirely illegal to use on public roads, or actually do proper lanes for non car traffic.

I think this is great news. E-anything don't belong on sidewalks.

Fuck them, they fraudulently made fake sales to grab the rebates. Government should get the crown to charge fraud.

It got a bit more tense as the conversation goes on, and Marcy gets a bit flustered. I think Wab’s pushback was reasonable but there was definitely some tension there

A fairly relaxed and respectful argument.

Between 2 former co-workers who have known each other for 20+ years.

They know they can have a strong debate without losing respect for each other.

I only caught the very beginning of this interview live but it was hardly even an argument, she was just holding him to the question which is something every journalist and interviewer should be doing.

Agreed

A fairly relaxed and respectful argument.

Horrible ideal, it will be used to hunt down political dissidents.

But she was also very lucky. Keilback didn't realize until the firefighters removed it that a jagged piece of metal was sticking out of the soil behind her.

Sounds like it could have been a lot worse. And if a kid were to have found the hole first they might not have been able to hold themselves up like she did.

True, true. Unfortunately the way that these become illegal is by age-gating and I'm not handing my ID or biometric data to every platform, site or device manufacturer. That's the dirty side of "ban social media for kids" that the corporations don't want you to focus on.

Making it illegal en masse may sever the network effect that makes these platforms appealing to begin with. That's something that no individual parent acting alone can do

While you're at it, recycle harder and climate change won't be an issue.

We can only hope they all refuse to provide their "services" to our province as a reaction.

Bingo

Parents already have this backing or ability. Take responsibility, setup screen time limits on the child's device, use other parental controls. It's not hard, works wonderfully, just requires parents to actually parent.

I agree overall, but they need to regulate the companies, not the citizens

Fair enough, though I do think there social media needs to be regulated in some capacity. There seems to be a lot of pushback against age verification here. That's fine, but we should try to offer up alternatives. Right now public support is really high for age verification in Canada (about 70% according to a recent poll iirc) so I think doing nothing is just not politically sustainable. Politicians are going to respond to this public sentiment with regulation, so we should try to direct them in the right direction, towards whatever type of regulation the people feel comfortable with

No plan just popular words. Dude is an animal irl.

I think there's no one as motivated as a 10 yr old who wants to access something he's not allowed to access. But I also agree with Kinew that its time to do something and saying 'kids are going to find a workaround' is giving up before we've even tried. It will indeed give parents (who should know better) the backing to say 'no you cant be on TikTok for 12 hours a day, its rotting your brain'. Because it is.

Its still overly invasive. Its more secure for me to not send any information as an adult than to send something cryptographically

There are ways of using cryptography to make it guaranteed to be totally private. But secure methods like this haven't actually been ever used by any governments, as far as I can tell. They opt instead for the privacy-invading face scans or ID verification or something like that