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The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.
The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.
We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.
Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.
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A very good thing! So much rain here in Thunder Bay. @weathernetwork #onstorm
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Canada's boreal forest is roughly the size of Europe (or 4.5x the size of Texas). Most fires are in remote areas far from habitation in that have never had a history of fire suppression or management.
And the amount that is burning is directly linked to temperature and rainfall.
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Canada is buying thousands of overpriced Vancouver condos in order to….checks notes
Convert them to affordable housing
The builder bailout keeps getting crazier.
Americans are worried about inflation and the economy.
The Conference Board #ConsumerConfidence Index® fell by 7.0 points in February to 98.3 (1985=100)—the sharpest monthly decline since August 2021.
The #PresentSituation Index—based on consumers’ assessment of current business and labor market conditions—fell 3.4 pts to 136.5.
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The Blindsight device from Neuralink will enable even those who have lost both eyes and their optic nerve to see.
Provided the visual cortex is intact, it will even enable those who have been blind from birth to see for the first time.
To set expectations correctly, the vision will be at first be low resolution, like Atari graphics, but eventually it has the potential be better than natural vision and enable you to see in infrared, ultraviolet or even radar wavelengths, like Geordi La Forge.
Much appreciated, @US_FDA!
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Looking for signals. Be observant. Signals tell you where to invest and what changes you need in your current business.
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Shocking stat of the day:
$2.1 TRILLION of excess savings have been wiped out of the US economy since August 2021.
From March 2020 until August 2021, $2.1 trillion in excess savings were built up after $4 trillion of stimulus.
Since then, US households have depleted these savings at a pace of ~$70 billion per month down to a -$72 billion in March 2024.
At the same time, US credit card debt has risen by $330 billion to a record $1.1 trillion.
Meanwhile, savings rates in the US declined from 3.5% in February to 3.2% in March, the lowest since November 2022.
Savings are now considered a luxury.
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Food retail sales in Canada still dropping, based on new data from Statistics Canada (February 2024).
The misery continues...
Important upcoming tax hike in Canada.
Tuesday's federal budget will include a tax increase on the richest Canadians, sources tell Radio-Canada.
Although the details are unknown, senior Liberal sources say that it will affect less than 1 per cent of Canadians. cbc.ca/news/politics/federal….
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Can’t wait for this robot to help me in housework.
NEW: Apple is exploring home robotics as a potential Next Big Thing after its car project has fizzled. Inside the work on a robot that follows you around, a table-top robotics device and more: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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See how the mobile game Monopoly Go! became successful.
Monopoly Go Spent Almost $500 Million On Marketing, More Than Spider-Man 2's Dev Budget dlvr.it/T4K3LL
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