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Now young people can take the bus for free

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57353418

Provincial sales taxes will be removed from more grocery store items under Manitoba's next budget, and one researcher says the province may be the first to do so.

Currently, Manitobans pay provincial sales tax (PST) on prepared food and drinks sold for immediate consumption.

That includes "rotisserie chickens, salads, a case of Bubly — all the stuff that you're grabbing on the way home when you're in a rush and you gotta try and put a meal on the table for the family," Premier Wab Kinew announced in a post on social media Tuesday.

"After our budget passes — assuming it passes by July 1 — that will all be tax free," Kinew said.

It's a "bold move" that will relieve some pressure on Manitobans at the grocery store, says Sylvain Charlebois, director of Dalhousie University's Agri-Food Analytics Lab in Nova Scotia.

Manitoba may be the first Canadian province to eliminate the tax at the grocery store, he said.

"I think it should be welcome news for the rest of Canada, as far as I'm concerned, [and] I think perhaps other provinces should follow suit," Charlebois told CBC News.

For those unaware: algorithmic pricing is the practice of using data about a user to change how much to charge them. For example if a company buys your data and realizes that you just got paid, or that you’re that you’re really desperate for whatever product, or whatever, then they will charge you more. Usually this is done by a company requiring you to download an app so that you can “see” the prices, though it can be done more inconspicuously with online shopping.

This practice is becoming common in some areas. So its good to hear that Manitoba will be the first jurisdiction in Canada to outlaw the practice.

For me, its skating on the river trail

I’m not sure if this is the wrong place to post this; my apologies if it’s not.

Anyway, I have an inquiry about Mastodon replies seeming to not post to show up on Lemmy.

Earlier today I made a post on Mastodon and made it post to Lemmy as well, by @ing the community I wanted it to appear in. Here’s a link to the post on Mastodon, and here’s how it showed up on Lemmy. At first, everything seemed to work fine.

But something I noticed is that, though the Lemmy comments were visible to me on Mastodon, the reverse was not true: most of the Mastodon replies were not visible on Lemmy. So there seems to have been some federation issues there.

So my question is, does anyone know what caused this and if so how I can fix it?

Wab Kinew now seems open to moving to a consistent year-round time, abolishing the need for us to change the clocks twice a year. This seems to be a bit of a backtrack since he was interviewed on CBC Radio One and said that his government didn't have time for this since they were too busy focusing on affordability and healthcare.

Unlike BC, which is keeping with permanent daylight time, the NDP gov is open to keeping permanent daylight savings time. This is because there are a lot of health benefits associated with the extra hour of sunshine in the morning, though this comes with the tradeoff of having less sun in the evening when more likely to be out and about. But nothing is set in stone yet. Surveys with the public are ongoing.

Riverview, the Minnesota-based agricultural company that made the statement, is set to test the goal as it adds to its network of mega dairies by building two facilities along the North Dakotan stretch of the Red River before it flows north into Canada. One barn, near Hillsboro, will contain 25,000 head of cattle; the other, outside Abercrombie, will house 12,500. Together, the two will contain nearly the same number of producing dairy cows as the entire province of Manitoba (and will more than quadruple North Dakota’s quantity).

Sounds theres gonna be a lot of cows and the plans for cleaning up all the cow poop are a but shoddy. So there will probably be a lot of run off into the river, which will then flow into lake Winnipeg. This might make the water in lake Winnipeg kind of nasty as it will literally fill the lake up with cow poop and other pollutants. Not the kind of water want to go swimming in

I'm not asking about the ethics of lying, or whether lawyers may be justified in lying. That is beside the point. I am just asking: hypothetically, would it be possible for a lawyer to have a successful career while never uttering so much as a white lie?

Like, let's say the lawyer had some sort of spell cast on them, so they could never lie. If someone were to ask them a question, they'd either need to find a way to avoid answering or answer honestly. Would it be possible for a lawyer in such circumstances to still go on and have a successful career?

This is a bit last minute, but if you have any opinions on the provincial budget that you’d like to show, then now is your time to shine. Because the government of Manitoba has a survey put to gather feedback, and it’s open until March 12th