Technically yes, but they're basically irrelevant these days. The Green party seems to have taken on their role.
The newly-elected premier Susan Holt of New Brunswick, Canada has followed through on a post-election promise. There's now a rent cap on all residential housing, 3% maximum increase at a time, only one increase allowed in a 12 month period. The law takes effect February 1st. It also requires a six-month notice of an increase, so even though it's not legally in effect yet, it's effectively in effect.
Prior to this it was basically open season on renters. There were no rent caps whatsoever. The legislation has a lot of other tenant-friendly changes. To use that overused phrase, I'm cautiously optimistic about the new premier. She may be the mildest of mild socdems at best, but so far so good compared to her electoral opponent who was basically New Brunswick's own De Santis with many of the same views.
Not mine. She knew like 4 different meals, most of them involving boiling all the taste and nutrients out of everything.
If being bi is a phase, it's been a 30 year phase..
Where I live, my apartment balcony windows overlook a school bus stop. It's a very racially mixed area. Lots of young first-generation immigrants as well. Seeing the kids from all those different religions and ethnicities talking and playing together is heartwarming.
I like to think that Nicole de Boer just showed up one morning to makeup looking like that and they decided to roll with it. If I saw someone wearing that in the street at any point in the last fifty years, I wouldn't bat an eye, it feels so timeless.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, I think Ezri should have replaced Jadzia several seasons earlier. One, so that Terry didn't have to suffer as much from sex pests. Two, because Ezri is a far more interesting character.
Lower Decks is doing this very interesting thing where we get to know Starfleet officers' flaws before we get to know their strengths. That's not really been a thing in prior Trek series.
First season, third episode, starting about 2/3rds in.
At least Trek was almost always (cough "Code of Honor" cough) good on racial issues, which I think laid solid groundwork for encouraging compassion in stories in general.
admittedly it's kinda hard to figure out a solid L representative
Got you covered.
I consulted with a real-world L about this option and she said, and I quote, "fucking fuck yes!" when I asked, so I take that as an official endorsement from the L community.
I've been thinking about what sort of utterly frivolous nonsense I could do for my next self-teaching coding project. A geek code reader/writer sounds suitably stupid.
After Bolsonaro lost the election, there were these camps and protests in front of military bases. It seems that the Federal Police have found evidence that Bolsonaro financed these protests and encampments with public funds. He also planned to kill Lula, the vice-president and Judge Alexandre de Moraes. They tried to do this with poison and even an RPG ambush. The CIA and the US Army pressured them not to do it, saying there would be consequences.
The CIA and the US Army pressured them not to do it
The CIA and the US Army
Mother of God. The American "advisors" were the voices of reason.
But the most critical part is the donair sauce companion.
To fight the enemy, one must study the enemy.
then fucked a bunch of buildings to death.
Did they steal that bit idea from Oglaf? (NSFW) If so, that's actually impressive.
38cm? Why would I want to downgrade?
Humanity has had thousands of years of written history, and tens of thousands of years of oral history prior to that. Countless charismatic spiritual leaders of all beliefs have created religions and cults of all sizes and traditions. A common factor in most of them has been their belief in an "end time" within the lifetime of a believer, at which time a Divine Power descends onto our Flawed Earth and brings the true believers into The Promised Land (whether literal or figurative). It would be a moment in history where truth becomes clear to all, believer and non-believer alike, and the spiritual leader is vindicated.
Of course that has never actually happened yet, or we wouldn't be chatting about it on an internet forum.
But unlike every single one of those spiritual leaders, we really are seeing a sort of end-times. The great climate change catastrophe unfolding before our eyes, the ur-catastrophe that all other future catastrophes are either a component of, or have contributed to. We are the first to actually witness something akin to what all those false prophets of centuries and millennia past had claimed would happen in their lifetimes. Why would I not want to witness something completely unprecedented in the history of our species?
And besides, when the shit really hits the fan, my parents will be into "living independently but will need help with physically-demanding tasks" age. I want to make sure I'm around to help them out.
Decapitation strike that kills Zelenskyy
If this happens, I would bet on it being by accident. I would bet good money on Russia trying their best to make sure the current Ukrainian civilian and military leadership senior remains in place, because the senior leadership in place are extremely predictable.
They're tied to the occupant. But this new legislation also requires that landlords apply to a government agency for permission to do a renoviction. So hopefully every bit of red tape helps.