There is a really easy fix for that. A proper training program instead of just expecting that people are born with the necessary skills. Having worked IT in a variety of capacities, including training and end-user support, I'm pretty sure cluelessness is a function of training and experience, not age.

How about Saskatchewan as an example? With Alberta, we are the butt cheeks of Canada, yet in Saskatoon, you can go to the city hall website, click the accessibility button, and get the site served in 19 different languages. Yes, they're just using Google Translate, so there are no Canadian Indigenous languages, but it's a start. In addition, I think those languages and more are available for in-person service through an interpretation contractor.

There are plenty of efforts to prevent languages from disappearing. I have no problem with Quebec doing things to preserve their French, but I'm not sure it should be via removal of other language services.

On the other hand, I have no language I'm trying to preserve, don't live there, and haven't visited in decades, so I'm willing to let them make their own decisions.

From what I read in this article and what I've read elsewhere, the police knowingly broke the law. How do we create a system in which police can and will be charged when they break the law? As long as they can act with impunity, they will always be above the law.

On a related issue, how much did this cost? Would that money not have been better spent on a few hot meals and maybe a warm-up shelter with washrooms and shower facilities?

Depending on where you drive and the current state of the streets, old rails occasionally show through pavement in Saskatoon. Ave H and 20th Street is one location that comes to mind from my days driving truck in the 1980s and early 90s.

In the late 60s, I rode the electric buses that replaced the trolleys. Then those buses were sold to Vancouver, where I got a chance to ride them again in 1986.

Did you miss the part where they've found a birth certificate showing that she was not born on any reservation.

She also made official reference to her birthplace as part of getting married in 1982, just to seal the deal.

"Hey, you know those rules designed to protect victims and those we are charged with supervising and protecting? Why don't we use those to punish them and protect ourselves?"

"We want our pilots to be entirely free from any financial consideration when they take a safety-related decision," WestJet CEO Alexis von Hoensbroech said.

Is it somehow coming out of their pay?

I just retired as a school bus driver. There were some rules that required I cancel for safety reasons. There was also a rule that said, in effect, I was the best judge of my abilities and local conditions and circumstances, making me free to cancel even when cancellation was not mandatory.

I both cases, I was still paid as if I hadn't cancelled. This was not just a secret little rule, but hammered in to us to make sure that we understood there was no penalty for cancellation.

I never once had an administrator question my decision to cancel. In the rare case that a parent questioned my decision, it was referred to administration who unfailingly backed me up. I'm sure there was a process in place to deal with malingering, but that's pretty much standard procedure in every workplace.

If there is not a similar regime for pilots, there should be.

Who, precisely, did they consult with? All I got from my letter to the premier was a form response that it has been forwarded to the appropriate minister.

Well, I did get spam asking me if I support the Sask Party. Not on any issue, just in general. Does that count?

What about my parental right to have compulsory schooling actually teach about the real world as it exists and help me prepare my child for life in that world?

You have no such right as a parent. As a child, you do in fact have an actual Charter right to an education, and your parents cannot interfere with that right.

Even better! That means, I think, that it is the duty of the government and the schools they run to provide the best education possible, not just the education they or activist groups desire.

Not using the platforms is a personal solution for any individual who wants to escape, not a general solution. For "don't use the platforms" to work as a solution for the masses, so few people would use the platforms that the platforms would cease to exist.

Are these the same doctors who insist on taking a wait and see approach to Paxlovid? If so, I'm not sure they should even be allowed to call themselves doctors.

My wife and I married at age 20. We're now 66 and still going strong. I still don't understand how or why anyone could be expected to reliably predict the future.

The one thing I can say that we've never done is to successfully predict how we would evolve as individuals over time and how that would affect our relationship. We're not still together because of some decision made over 45 years ago, but because of decisions we've made, if not every day, then at least every year.

Of all the flaws in any ideology or even individual belief system, the biggest by far is the idea that a position must be held at all costs or a decision be written in stone for all time.