Great idea, thanks for the initiative

The proposed changes follow the government’s loss of a court battle, initially launched by Global News, over the call logs for Premier Doug Ford’s personal cellphone, which he uses for government business.

Blueberries aren't my favorite either but they're healthy and I've come to really enjoy a blueberry smoothie/slush if it's a third frozen pineapple and I use some pomegranate juice as part of the liquid.

I think part of why the combination works is the acidity, blueberry needs a bit of a boost in the tanginess department. Probably why blueberry + lemon is a common pairing in pastry.

Hadn't noticed a texture issue, you might benefit from a more powerful blender to more completely annihilate them

Why can't both be true? Inequality is increasing and one tech/finance/etc. person expensing delivery near daily offsets quite a few people who might have put in an order every month or two and can no longer afford the luxury.

So I suppose I'd have no hope of finding a therapist where notes are local-only on airgapped (eg. no nic, never online) devices and remote sessions, if offered, are over Signal?

And we're happy to cooperate by signing our own version of that into law since there's an underlying treaty behind this warrantless data sharing: https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-preliminary-analysis-of-bill-c-2/

I hope we can find a way to fulfill our treaty obligations with something that's not as terrible as the current one: https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/lawful-access-on-steroids/

I'm not talking about the overall price of coffee, that's merely what caused me to think about the tariff affecting us via intermediaries thanks to Subtext's unusual level of transparency in disclosing it. I would have assumed tariffs wouldn't apply and found it interesting that, while sorta true in theory, in reality it may not be practical for small scale shipments. This roaster buys direct much of the time also, you can try their stuff without supporting Americans.

This is from my favourite small roaster in my Canadian city. They're one of the only ones that give this kind of detail, almost all others I would have had no idea any Americans were involved in the process and might have bought these without realising as you undoubtedly buy from Canadian businesses with some US suppliers. Which is why I figured it might be an interesting topic for a post.

Sure, and this is a Canadian company roasting Ethiopian beans (as far as I know we don't grow coffee). There are many things we don't make here and even for those we do the supply chain likely intersects with the US.

Another example this had me thinking about is close to your goals: a Canadian baker making bread from Canadian wheat might use a mixer or an oven or whatever as part of that where the only way to get parts is from a US distributor because it's too niche a thing to have a Canadian presence.

I would be astonished if VPNs were allowed to continue if they actually succeed in identity-gating everything. eg. that's next. Best we can do is keep talking about it, help people understand what's happening.

Canada's version is currently hanging out in the Senate: https://www.parl.ca/legisinfo/en/bill/45-1/s-209

Here's some background and detailed analysis about it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBJe3gB2Po4
https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/05/herewegoagain/

And yeah C-2 is also bad. As you point out, these sorts of things are often coordinated and some of that is at least documented in the form of treaties. That was really not made clear in the case of C-2 but it very much is:

Given significant democratic, public interest, and human rights implications of Canada’s potential agreement to a data-sharing framework with foreign authorities in the United States and/or elsewhere, it is surprising that the federal government is now quietly introducing the powers necessary to ratify the 2AP, without making this intent explicit to the broader public when it introduced Bill C-2.

https://citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-preliminary-analysis-of-bill-c-2/

they likely have the capability to trivially decrypt TLS

Whoa. Anywhere to read more about this? Had not been paying close attention, didn't realise that was so starkly the case.