They have no infrastructure. It’s absolutely nothing here unless you get a great lot of snow, we got a huge storm three years ago and I couldn’t go anywhere that day but within a day or so everything was cleared.

Lots of lake effect snow where I am tonight, took forever to get home. Tomorrow is hoping to be icy. My dog is already really angry haha.

This is a photo of the lake effect snow coming in. It’s so wild!

Here’s a reporter in Buffalo last month when they had a wild lake effect snow storm.

I’ve seen a lot but nothing like this. A few years ago we got about 50-60 cm. I couldn’t get off the steps of my building that day because nothing at all was cleared, and I went inside and called in sick because what else can I do, and my spouse sneered at me for it, went outside and tried to dig the car out for 45 minutes, and then his boss cheerfully texted him it was a snow day and to enjoy LOL

Well I’m a bad Canadian, I didn’t know.

I sure do! Not my photos but just crazy to see!

Yes, the photos were wild.

I’m gonna wear my fleece onesie to work. I don’t give a shit.

Better go get him a bunch. I don’t even know where you buy them in stores anymore.

The last one I remember eating was in the 1980s from my grandmother, we used to buy them for her for Valentine’s I think? They were so so horribly sweet and drippy and gooey and not in a good way.

Yes the Maritimes is in mourning my friend says. The last one I had was probably 1980 but I hate fruit in chocolate by and large.

Well I took this photo from elsewhere so I am not wearing a hat.

I also find you really have to watch your yeast. It might say it’s not expired, but if your dough starts to not rise very well, dump it and get a new one. Yeast is finicky.

Yes once you get the hang of it after a few loaves it’s so easy. I make bread all the time, and so much cheaper too.

I think immigration needs huge reform in Canada, and that the private diploma mills should all be closed and have only publicly funded colleges and universities. I think the diploma to citizenship pathway needs to be closed. But also if the government is going to make these caps, they need to ensure funding is adjusted for the schools. Barring international medical students is going to hurt med schools, the Saudi government pays giant amounts of money to secure spots for their citizens here, as well as positions on faculty, etc. If they stop that it’ll really cause problems.

I don’t either. I do know med schools are definitely held up by the giant fees the international medical students pay, so it’ll be interesting to see what happens to them due to them being banned, aside from the Saudis whose government pay them to be here apparently and probably will always find a spot here. Apparently already 88 percent of med students are Canadian born so they say the change won’t be much, but honestly I work in a hospital and it feels like almost all of the students at whatever level are international.

Really it would make more sense to me to fix the family doctor problem in Ontario to provide a bridging program for doctors who already live here but aren’t able to practice because they don’t qualify, a lot of skilled people being wasted that way, or having to do dumb shit like a psychiatrist I know who had to practice as a GP in rural Nova Scotia for five years before they’d let him be a psychiatrist here in Ontario. That’s a waste of talent that already exists here that would be a win for everyone, rather than training a Canadian GP who will get burned out on the low pay and dogsbody work, and quit and go be a hospitalist.

I do believe the international students pay double the fees if I recall correctly.

Algonquin is publicly funded.

Just another policy wonk who probably won’t win. Hadn’t worked classically.