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Our Premier, who dropped out of Humber community college after only two months, is in no position to advise anybody on how to navigate university.
Premier Doug Ford had choice words for students expressing concerns over cuts to OSAP grants Tuesday, telling them to "not pick basket-weaving courses" and to invest in education that gives students in-demand jobs.
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I don't know anything about dance, but I do know that this is brilliant.
One reason Norway does so well at the Winter Olympics is that their flag contains the flags of six other countries, which confuses the scoring system.
I don’t know who first observed this — the design of Norway’s flag contains those of six other countries: The similarities are apparently accidental — designer Fredrik Meltzer had chosen the Nordic cross to reflect his nation’s ties with Denmark and Sweden and the tricolor to evoke the liberal ideals of France, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States. (Thanks, Nic.)
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The Winter Olympics confirm something Canadian men already knew: Canadian women are awesome.
@jfmezei True - I think curlers spend more time actually on the ice than the hockey players do (they're on the bench for 2/3 of the game)
It's probably even more extreme at the summer olympics. Weight lifting? High jump? You're done in a few seconds.
Here's the random Olympic thing I'm wondering about today.
Who spends the least, and most, actual time competing?
For instance, some of the speed skaters might do one 500m sprint, lose, and they're done. Less than a minute.
Contrast with curlers. Even if you're in last place, you play nine matches before the medal round, each of which lasts about 90 minutes. That's a lot of time on the ice. (Albeit with a lot of "standing around.")
This, btw, is the official sheet music for "O Canada" from the National Anthem of Canada Act.
But even IT HAS A FREAKING NOTATION MISTAKE IN IT. (The dot on 'The' in bar 10 should be beside the eighth note, not on top of it. It's notated here as staccato, rather than dotted, meaning that, officially, legally, our anthem has 27 bars of 4/4 and one bar of 15/16.)
No wonder the Olympic version is confused.
Ok I listened to it again - yay! - and there are SIX musical errors in the Olympic version of "O Canada" we hear in Milan. (Five instances of what should be a dotted-eighth/sixteenth that are played as straight eighths - on "with" in "with glowing hearts", for instance - and the doubling in length of the ending.)
Grrr.
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I like this. Encapsulates the angst I find myself feeling about whether it was worth spending decades getting good at programming only to discover that AI agents can, you know, just do it.
I think I retired just in time.
