Does anyone know of any handicapped parking spaces around the market? The new North building has underground Green parking. Are there any spots there? They’ve removed parking from most of the streets around the market making it really difficult for those with mobility issues.
If one does 10 real lessons a week, how long does it take to finish the whole course. I know no one probably completes the course without a break, but I’d like to be able to set a goal. Thanks people.
I recently was in Florence and had a great pasta meal which I didn’t finish because I couldn’t leave the bread basket alone. I loved the fresh fragrant textured bread. Italian bread, even from Italian bakeries here in Toronto, all seem to produce light, airy loaves. Do any specialize in bread with a more chewy texture? Anywhere in the city. Thanks you guys who know everything.
In your opinion is it better to study verb conjugation lists or to practice phrases containing the correct verb tense. Both maybe? Verbs are my bête noire, so to speak.
I get this message from time to time (on the free version). No idea what it means so when it asks me if I want to increase my energy I say no and close down. I see if I opted for the big upgrade it says I would have unlimited energy, so I assume this is something I would have to purchase somehow. How is energy awarded and how is it depleted. Could someone explain?
I have been using the free version for French. Still new. I’ve been on it for about two months. As most of you know you get bombarded with “free” Upgrade enticements at almost every lesson. I’ve been saying no thanks. Yesterday I did three lessons, but before I could complete the third it was interrupted by another free trial upgrade offer. I said no thanks, but the offer remained on the screen. I said no thanks again, and I got a message saying I would lose “all my progress”, whatever that means. I may want to sign up for an upgrade at some point but not until I am sure it is the right French program for me. It’s mostly just a game at this point. I just abandoned the lesson. Is this going to be how it goes from now on - accept the “free trial upgrade” or no more lessons. I assume the free trial would mean I have to hand over credit card information which I certainly do not want to do. If you used the free version, how did you handle this?
Do you tip a percentage of the bill, like 10%, or a set amount like a Toonie, assuming the cashier just hands over the bag and runs your credit card. I sometimes do one or the other. Neither feels right.
It could have been renamed Wallowing in Grief. To be human is to have encountered death. Early death of a pet. Later deaths of friends, relatives and siblings, partners and even children. The older we become, the more the toll adds up. We deal with it. Or don’t. This episode of Ideas turned one person’s mental illness into a blame game. Canada is to blame. Why? It didn’t grieve sufficiently along with the wronged families of the Air India disaster 40 years ago. Oh, we had the usual professors describing the biological machinations of the grieving brain, but the resentment of Canada was the underlying message. The Irish were so much more empathetic. Let’s ignore decades of their own sectoral murders, often with bombs, as it doesn’t fit the narrative. Irish Good. Canada bad. A life centred around unhappiness and thrashing around looking for outside reasons is a sad life indeed. Once more Shakespeare comes to mind. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings."
No bees around. How do we make sure the flowers get fertilized? Is it necessary. First timer.
I was on search, looking for an old news story. I use Safari. I am aware Google’s AI answers quests. The story didn’t come up, instead a question came up, “Search with Google” with Google’s icon. I pressed the icon and found my story. An hour later my husband asked me if I bought anything on Google as our credit card was charged $31. I said no, but explained what happened. We sent notice to our credit card that we we dispute the charge. And we froze our card, We then called Apple, who have our credit card on file and asked if they put the charge through. They did not. Further searches about the charge brought up the notice “Pre Authorized”. We did not authorize Google to charge our account. We have never given Google our credit card number. A search showed we had never had a previous charge from Google. More digging finally produced a number which referred to memory storage. So many questions. How did Google get access to our credit card number. Why was our account charged with no explanation. Was the $31 a one time only charge, a monthly charge, a yearly charge. No explanation. Got an email purportedly from Google, sort of an after the fact invoice. On it we could reject the charge by saying the order (?) was in error. We chose that option. Is this just happening to us? Check your credit card statements folks. This is so unprofessional it’s hard to believe it is Google’s regular business practice.
Looking for a place for a sit down lunch with friends. Suggestions?
Odd to me that on Ideas today it is being stated that no one knew there was a separate hospital system for First Nations. I knew. Medical care has always been a Provincial area of responsibility. Medical care for what were then known as Indians was a Federal responsibility by law. That they were underfunded and racist comes as no surprise. Remember treaty First Nations did not vote until 1960. And that was at least partly by choice as there was resistance for sovereignty reasons. To wit -
“Bill Erasmus, national chief of the Dene Nation in the Northwest Territories, told CBC News on Wednesday that he is cautious about applauding the anniversary.
Erasmus said Diefenbaker went ahead with something that fundamentally affected the nation-to-nation basis of treaties with the Crown, and he did it without any meaningful consultation with First Nations people.
"That's what the whole exercise was about. It was to make us Canadians, and we never had a discussion about that," Erasmus said.
"So yes, I think people want to participate in Canadian society, but they need to participate on conditions that they entered into with the Crown. So that's why my feelings are mixed on the question."