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Source: https://thejenkinscomic.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/strongly-typed/

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TORONTO — GameStop Canada says it has been acquired by French-Canadian entrepreneur Stephan Tetrault from the video game retailer’s struggling parent company. > > Officially named Electronics Boutique Canada Inc., GameStop Canada says it will relaunch its 185 stores as EB Games Canada — a name associated with retail gaming from bygone decades. > > Tetrault is the founder of Montreal-area-based toy manufacturer Imports Dragon and co-owner of American action figure-maker McFarlane Toys, and last month became a partner at Canadian chain Mastermind Toys. > > U.S.-based GameStop Corp. said in February it was looking to sell its Canadian and French operations as it evaluates its international assets and doubles down on cost-cutting. > > GameStop was one of the companies at the centre of the “meme stock” craze on Wall Street, which saw struggling brands’ share prices soar as retail investors made risky bets. > > Its sales last year declined 27 per cent to $3.82 billion, though net income shot up to $131.3 million versus $6.7 million in 2023.

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Health Canada said the mix-up could cause patients to get a larger dose of painkiller than prescribed, possibly resulting in an overdose with 'potentially fatal health risks.'

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/43350212

I came across this article, and I don't think it has been posted yet. It is not a new announcement, and the article is from last month.

The Canadian space program is growing at a hypersonic pace.

NordSpace, the Ontario-based space tech startup, is establishing the Supersonic and Hypersonic Applications Research Platform (SHARP), which aims to grow the country’s hypersonic capabilities with three new products.

• SHARP Arrow: A fixed-wing, rocket-powered, uncrewed aircraft built for research, reconnaissance, and intercept missions, capable of launching from and landing on a standard airport runway.
• SHARP Sabre: A modified version of the company’s suborbital Taiga rocket, which held a successful rocket engine test in January, updated to reach hypersonic speeds with larger payloads on board.
• M2S-HyRock: A 3D-printed, multi-fuel, multi-purpose liquid regeneratively cooled rocket engine, built to provide the industry with a storable rocket engine.

“There’s been a lot more interest in national sovereignty and understanding what our own capabilities are here, so that we’re more resilient at home, but also, in NordSpace’s opinion, more capable allies to partners like the United States,” Rahul Goel, NordSpace’s CEO, told Payload.

In February, Canada announced a new defense policy, which committed the country to invest 2% of its GDP into national security by 2032. Canadian defense spending is expected to grow by C$73B ($51.1B) over 20 years, including a C$8.1B ($5.67B) increase in the next five years alone.

SHARP will help Canada develop and test next-generation hypersonic tech, build out its fleet of monitoring aircraft, improve its responsive launch capabilities, and get better at detecting rocket and missile launches from above.

“[It’s] really important to get eyes in the sky as quickly as possible, especially in our Arctic, which is almost entirely undefended relative to other parts of the nation. So, a key element of all our hardware, especially these two vehicles, is that they’re being optimized for extreme cold weather environments like the Arctic,” Goel said.

What’s next: NordSpace is building Canada’s first commercial spaceport—Spaceport Canada—which is expected to be operational for the company’s first test launch of its Taiga suborbital rocket this year. At the same time, NordSpace is working on a larger orbital vehicle, named Tundra, which it hopes to demonstrate with a flight test in 2027.

Spaceport Canada will have two launch pads, one each for suborbital and orbital launches. While the company plans to use the spaceport for its own rocket tests and flights, it’s also hopeful that it will attract foreign launchers to the great white north.

I remember seeing at least one other community related to this, which had regular math problems.

What I'm thinking is having a general community for any of the following:

• joke style riddles
• more complex riddles (ex. missing dollar riddle)
• math problems (geometry, infinite doors, monty hall)
• optical illusions
• those physics 'what would happen' questions (ex. which bucket would fill first, which way would the balloon move)

Keeping it open would allow for more content, and it will also keep things fresh, since having the same type of question every day might get boring for users.

What should the community be called? Some ideas so far:

• riddler: might be too specific to the character, or the concept or riddles
• ???: I thought this was fun, but it might cause issues with other fediverse platforms
• what: Not as fun, but solves the issue above

What instance should the community be on?

Any best practices? We could have tags for the approximate difficulty of the question. [easy] for mobile game ad type questions, [average] for common riddles, and [advanced] for the complex math questions? + [meme] for joke posts

cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/169902

"It's been heartbreaking. It's been devastating for our community," said Manitoba Filipino Business Council President Jackie Wild.

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The series is a co-production between Netflix and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in partnership with the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN). It originally premiered in Canada on Jan. 7 and on Netflix on April 10.

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