Happy Dental Care Day Canada!! (at least if you're over 70 without private insurance)
I hope that in time this will become part of universal single-payer healthcare (along Drug Coverage) and eliminate private insurance for health needs, but it's a start at least. And it happened because a centre-left party, the NDP, has an agreement to work with the minority government.
Say hello to the CPC Modular. This is an #Amstrad#CPC built using a slightly modified #RC2014 backplane. Not exactly an RC2014 due to Amstrad IO quirks.
Current status: video is outputting at correct frequencies but SCART converter isn’t detecting a proper signal. But that means CPU and ROM are working and configuring the 6845.
The design uses SRAM and modifies a few signals in order to do that. Im suspecting an issue in those circuits.
The stupidity of this is the Conservative Party of Canada has somehow convinced people that they are better off with less money in their pockets, while also doing less to combat #climatechange.
Anyway, it's been on my list to attempt porting it to #Psion#EPOC16 for ages. It's not top priority, but the machine is perfectly designed for playing #textadventure games (see @root42's escapades with #Infocom).
Be great if it could decompile and play old games, too.
Far-right MP Leslyn Lewis, Pierre Poilievre’s “Shadow Minister” for Infrastructure and Communities, is sponsoring a petition which calls for Canada’s “expeditious withdrawal from the UN and all of its subsidiary organizations, including WHO.”
“Poilievre has played many different roles during his career — from political attack dog for Stephen Harper to champion of “freedom loving” trucker convoys — and because many of his past views and actions have been disturbing, if not outright dangerous.
…would Poilievre still embrace the controversial use of bitcoin, which he has in the past? Would he still march with anarchistic truckers blocking streets and highways? Would he ignore medical experts…”
I have asked the LPC, CPC and NDP for a list of their officially nominated candidates for elxn45. #LPC provided me with a list. #NDP has said they will but has not yet done so. #CPC says they will not be providing such a list. So: Help me out! If you know of a nominated candidate in your riding - message me! E-Mail me! Phone me! My contact info always at www.davidakin.com#cdnpoli
I’ve been waiting for this one. Sure, long time loser Trump gets all the attention, but this is Mike Roman. Back later but for now, I wanted to share this.
Mike Roman being indicted is important for more than the US.
#Canadians would be well served to think of our current political leaders, especially those building their profiles on dangerous and increasingly incendiary rhetoric, and watch this video. We can not properly address the spread of this cancer without being clear eyed about what we’re dealing with.