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I agree to a large extent! I would add onto that by saying government funding also acts as advertising dollars would, but that because the government has put some value onto transparency and has to be elected, Canadians can have a better chance to identify where the unspoken bias is based on who's got the wallet.

I would also say that because of all their funding and because of their need to establish themselves as a reliable source of news, CBC has to put a ton of effort into reporting on news that many would call 'useful' so that there's more of a benefit of doubt extended to them when they don't report on telecoms.

All that to say "let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater," but the genuinely useful articles and journalistic standards that exist for CBC do also operate in an environment that serves whoever's funding it. They're an excellent starting point for awareness, so I'm happy to see their stuff shared, but I'd never recommend having their word be law on what's "worth" reporting or sometimes even the angle they're taking while they report on it.

Me too! :D

You're gonna be needlessly confusing people but okay, I guess the name is really important to you

😅 I mean...

Ribfest and Poutinefest come to mind, but they're constantly shit on for being overpriced and not worth it. That's before we even get into the part about the organizer being pro-convoy.

I guess there's Bluesfest? Because Jazzfest is there but isn't nearly as popular.

Tulipfest... It's called that, sure, but it's iffy.

Glowfest - I think that's still happening. It's not huge but it's a known name.

Other than that, I don't think Ottawa does anything that's unique to just us.

... did... Did Ottawa give itself this nickname? 🥲

I guess this is where that advice to read in French as much as possible comes in, huh? That way you at least build up a Quebec French vocabulary that survives the France French education this owl is delivering :P

Exactly!

A mix of different perspectives isn't the issue.

A mix of different facts, with one sourced and cited and the other just being angry opinions, is the issue. Those shouldn't be equated with each other - not just because that angry opinions are cheap to pump. They can easily drown out researched articles.

That's not to say opinions aren't important! Many, many real-life experiences get ignored, overlooked, or purposely cast aside, and anecdotal accounts and subjective experiences are all we have. But I take issue with something presenting itself as a factual source of information when it only has very shaky citations, or when it has no citations and brushes it off like, "Well, everyone should know this, and if you don't, you're in on it."

NatPo is propaganda parading itself as news, and that's dangerous to put on the same level as news outlets that actually research their stories.

By not explaining it, sometimes that is the explanation. 😬

Well, the grass is greenest where we water it, so let's keep an eye out for the warning signs we had over there.

It can also be nice to learn as an art form! But in the same way I wouldn't expect mandatory calligraphy lessons - even though that seems like the more logical thing to introduce if we're talking about developing fine skills and learning how to read or write cursive - I don't really see the point of mandatory cursive lessons.

The option seems reasonable to have as an option. But kids are already so overworked in school, with homework and tests having increased exponentially over the last two decades, that getting to remove one thing off of their curriculum seemed like they were finally getting a break.

Was this something specific to cursive?

I'm not surprised that kids would've had awful experiences, especially because this is a skill that takes time to develop, and time is often the thing in the shortest supply when it comes to teaching kids.

But you wrote your post like there was something particularly unique to the awful experiences had with learning cursive writing. I wasn't expecting that. Does it have to do with how you can 'get away' with messing handwriting in math or even in English, but when you're being graded on the appearance of cursive letters, any fine motor skills a child is struggling with gets piled on?

Well, that's all true, but that's very much based on trying to change things in a vacuum.

More carbon emissions? Yes, if we stick with today's methods of transportation. So much progress keeps getting hamstrung to find cleaner ways of moving forward, in addition to the poor working conditions of those operating those modes of transportation. But through systemic changes, that could change. Carbon emissions might go up, but so could taxes or fines related to that pollution and inefficiencies. I know everybody rolls their eyes when that gets mentioned, but the lack of teeth behind it is often because those taxes or fines get hamstrung too. A larger transformation of shipping and transportation is well overdue, and the greater need to combat rising fuel costs to ship weightier products might lead to investments in more fuel efficient (or alternative fuel-based) vehicles on ground, water, or in the air. :)

And standardizing them - yes, absolutely! That's the systemic transformation. Especially once the use of glass goes up and the need to more efficiently recycle it can't be ignored any more, those are the changes you'd expect to see!

Zed, because one less 'ee' sound makes my life so much easier when I have to spell things out over the phone 🥲

Yeah, it devolves into wallowing in the negatives. If any of the major complaining came with a vibe that we were going to try to do something about it (even in just a broader 'this is one more thing to keep in mind as we build up to such-and-such'), it would've been more useful. I don't know if it's different on Lemmy, but Reddit did a lot of angry ruminating without much interest in going beyond that. Conversations would fall apart when it became anything else than agreeing about how much things sucked and would always suck forever.

So... I'm on board to have people bring up the bad stuff, but I don't want to get lost in it.

I'd love to get lost in the awesome stuff people are doing. Communities, outreach, events, plans, talking, sharing, alerts, hobbies, chances to change things - all that stuff. I'm not trying to put my head in the sand, but I don't want to circle the drain of negativity when there's a perfectly good pool of good stuff to talk about. It's all in moderation. :)