StillPaisleyCat

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What can't you find a Made in Canada version of? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Good to know.

Perhaps the major changes in the market might lead to some of the foundries rethinking their willingness to do smaller runs.

There are so many Canadian small producers that have stopped producing as manufacturing moved south for economies of scale..

A River of Yarn - Peterborough Ontario based store with "Luxury crochet knitting yarns" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What I would like to see here is Canadian sourced yarn.

Canadian spun yarn from Canadian sourced fibres do exist but are harder to find.

There are also many small Canadian dyers but unfortunately many are buying imported merino yarn that is not ethically sourced.

There are lots of great yarn stores across Canada selling lovely imported yarns as this one is. Especially when this stores’ promoted partners, such as Pacific Yarns, are based in the USA.

I’m sincerely not sure what promoting them does for buying Canadian. I don’t see a focus on promoting Canadian yarn on their main page and the brands listed aren’t specifically Canadian.

Spinrite used to be a Canadian yarn maker but it’s more complicated now, and many of their yarns are available at big box stores.

"American Woman" by The Guess Who in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 week ago

Perhaps because there’s a big dose of misogyny intertwined with the critique of American Exceptionalism.

Think about how the song would play with genders reversed.

Trying to ditch Visa. Are Canadian store credit cards Canadian? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I think you’ll find that many store cards are really Visa or Mastercard.

Many Canadian store cards used to be owned by the stores. Some of the department store ones were very profitable.

However, many firms ‘rationalized’ by getting out of what was seen as a financial services business line to focus on their core retail. Weston’s with PC Financial is an exception - but for many consumers there are other reasons not to go with Loblaws/PC branded financial products.

What can't you find a Made in Canada version of? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

There are, or at least were, Canadian cast iron makers.

Unfortunately, they seem to rely on Facebook.

See: https://castironcanada.com/

Also, it’s not clear which of these businesses are actually still operating. For example, Bristol Iron Works in Huntsville ON has a danger flagged website and a FB page that hasn’t been updated in years.

Sales of US Travel guides have collapsed in Quebec, library owners say. People are now buying travel guides about New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

Also, you don’t want to be looking to log into dodgy wifi when travelling with a burner phone to another country.

Physical guides are more secure and don’t require downloading to a burner device.

Should we make a list of MPs who have Mastodon or BlueSky? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

I believe one or two of the new senators have joined Mastodon as well but haven’t seen much from them yet.

Mittens with QR code knit into them break when Google gets rid of its URL shortener in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Mastodon is very techy. It’s getting good traction there.

So I fell in love with a shawl design in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just be sure to wash and block before connecting the blocks.

So I fell in love with a shawl design in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I love making samples, so working up 8 x 8” / 20 x 20 cm samples of a lot of different stitches is fun for me.

There’s an old Bernat pattern that I have for an Afghan made of squares of very many different classic crochet stitches. It’s a great practice and skill building project.

If you choose a good palette of solid colour yarn, it works out nicely. If that kind of throw isn’t the kind of thing you like in your home, they’re always a gift or charity option.

Alternative for Burt's Bees? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Another excellent European product is Weleda from Germany.

We switched to that for lip balm because Burt’s Bees has soy in it and we had a family member with a sensitivity.

For hand and body cream, we’re just trying Nova Scotia Fisherman now. So far, after just a couple of weeks, it’s great.

For facial skin care, have been using Maritime Naturals for a couple of years. Excellent product.

Laundry Detergent and other Household in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Haven’t tried this one.

Can recommend BioVert. We’ve used their fragrance free laundry detergent for many years.

Nature Clean, another Canadian company, has oxy bleach and stain remover strips that we like too.

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Last day of Star Trek Day sale on STEAM - includes Star Trek Online (startrek.website)
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We picked up some good deals from the promotion this week.

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Last day for Star Trek Day sale on Steam (Sept 8-15) (startrek.website)
 

Several Star Trek licensed games are on Steam, now at a significantly discounted price for the annual Star Trek Day celebration.

These include the MMP Star Trek Online, but also single player games Star Trek Bridge Crew and Star Trek Resurgence (a choose your own path role play game).

We’d waited until Resurgence came to Steam, because we did want to buy it from Epic, but decided to be even more patient and wait for a sale so we could get it for our teens as well. I’ve been playing in parallel with one of our teens and debating the impacts of our very different choices.

I have had Bridge Crew since 2022, but we got copies for the teens yesterday. One is into it. It requires running an Ubisoft account synched to Steam which can be annoying, but otherwise G2G.

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Confirmed! - CTV has the Prodigy season 2 licence (startrek.website)
 

Having reached my exasperation on the total lack of information from Bell Media on a Canadian release, I asked @[email protected] if he or the Hagemans could share any information. Here is his reply on Mastodon.

It’s great to have EPs who will engage with us.

I’m still gearing up my recipes for a Star Trek Prodigy Soirée for the premiere!

In case you haven’t seen this, CBS entertainment sponsored a social media influencer to develop watch party ideas for the Prodigy Season 1 finale Supernova Soirée .

I’ve been experimenting and building on some of these ideas for the premiere of season two. One of Canada’s favourite ice cream brands has this interesting suggestion for A triple-berry yogurt sorbet float punch that seems very Star Trek Prodigy themed.

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Variety - Top Marketing & Communications Executive leaving Paramount Global (variety.com)
 

More departures of former Viacom senior executives from Paramount Global in the wake of Baklish’s firing.

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'Ivory Tower', likely aka 'Starfleet Academy' preproduction rumoured to start in March (startrek.website)
 

The Directors Guild of Canada (Ontario) ‘Hot List’ compilation of Ontario-based production information has been updated with a new CBS Studios show ‘Ivory Tower’ to begin Accounting & Art Department preproduction in March.

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Space.com poses the debate-provoking question whether SNW S2 overdid the gimmicks (www.space.com)
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An interesting, deliberately thought provoking 🤔 question for a lazy long weekend Sunday morning…

Setting aside whether specific fans like specific ‘gimmicks’ (crossovers, musicals, bringing back Kirk or Khan) or tropes (transporter malfunctions), Space.com is posing the hypothesis that the proportion was too high in Strange New Worlds second season.

There’s no arguing that the season was successful in drawing in large audiences week after week. Taking a look back though, was there too much trippy-Trek(TM) dessert and not enough of a meaty main course? YMMV surely.

For my part, I can both agree that trippy Trek is something I’ve been wanting more of, and that I would have welcomed 2 or 3 more episodes were more grounded or gave the opportunity to see more of Una as a leader and dug into Ortegas backstory.

The 90s shows seemed to be bit embarrassed by trippyness, although Voyager found its pretext allowed even stern Janeway to pronounce ‘Weird is our business.’ One can argue that the high proportion in SNW is a feature, not a bug.

I’d still prefer a 12-15 episode season though.

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Roxann Dawson (B’Elanna) passed on directing new Star Trek but has returned to science fiction with Foundation (www.slashfilm.com)
 

Interesting extract from a longer /Film interview with in-demand director Roxann Dawson.

I appreciate how she speaks with respect for the shows of the new era.

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Raptors sued by Knicks, accused of using ex-employee as 'mole' to steal scouting secrets (www.cbc.ca)
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US Trailer - SurrealEstate season 2 will premiere October 4th, Syfy (US), no confirmation yet of CTV Sci-fi Channel and European Syfy release dates or Canadian trailer (collider.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/1026553

Here’s something to fill some gaps in your viewing schedule. While not science fiction, this show could appeal to SNW fans and deserves a bigger audience.

SurrealEstate is a Canadian live-action supernatural drama with a light leavening of horror, produced for CTV Sci-Fi Channel, and picked up Syfy. The first season also ran on Hulu in the US after its linear run. It was canceled by Syfy US, then uncanceled when it got picked up by the Syfy channels in Europe.

It’s quirky, full of gentle ironic humour, in the way Canadian shows can be. Tim Rozon of Wynonna Earp stars along with Sarah Levy of Schitt’s Creek. Melanie Srofano (Captain Betel in SNW) directed two episodes in the first season and was reportedly back to do more.

Similar to SNW, SurrealEstate mainly episodic with light serialization coming from character arcs. It has a generally positive vibe, with a team of intriguing and diverse characters solving mysteries and clearing houses of supernatural detractions so that they can ‘achieve their true market value.’

From the season one promotional listing:

Real estate agent Luke Roman is the owner of The Roman Agency, a boutique residential real estate brokerage specializing in "metaphysically engaged" properties, also known as haunted houses. Luke has a special connection to the spiritual realm; he can not only sense the presence that might inhabit a client's house, he can often communicate and negotiate with it. Along with his team, Luke takes on the houses nobody else can or will.

If you haven’t seen season one, I firmly recommend catching it on demand on CTV (which is offering it currently offering it free to non-subscribers), on the Syfy app or on Hulu.

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Final StarTrek Canvas space (startrek.website)
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cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/715805

Thanks again to all who joined in the creative fun on Canvas. It’s been great getting to cooperate with you in this midsummer enthusiasm.

Our efforts have stood up fairly well, despite a touch of final hours encroachment by an enthusiastically growing flag of Ireland and what seems to be an extension of the Trans flag. I guess a wordmark in violet was too great a temptation for them to resist interacting with.

Edited: TIL the colours of the Trans flag. My bad for not knowing them already

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Jim Kirk on Pike’s Enterprise - Inverse dives into an analysis of canon constraints and lack thereof (www.inverse.com)
 

A fairly thorough piece.

Whatever your view on whether it’s a pro or con for the ensemble and storytelling, SNW ‘Lost in Translation’ having covered off the ‘met him when he made fleet captain’ reference to Pike in TOS, there seems to be a great deal of flexibility for SNW to keep bringing Jim Kirk into its stories.

Here’s one unexpected take.

So what does that mean for Kirk? We have to wait until 2265 for him to take over as captain of the Enterprise, right? Well, maybe not. Canon is oddly vague on the handover from Pike to Kirk. In fact, only one episode of TOS actually takes place in 2265: “Where No Man Has Gone Before,” the second pilot. There’s also nothing that indicates Kirk didn’t serve on the Enterprise in another role before getting promoted. If, in theory, Pike were to step down and someone else became an interim captain, then nothing is stopping Kirk from serving on the Enterprise before 2265.

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CanCon getting more primetime US profile - Shifting schedules - linear and streaming release dates are beginning to be pushed back in response to WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. (www.syfy.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://startrek.website/post/504533

The markers of the strikes’ impacts are beginning to appear.

CTV Sci-Fi Channel/Syfy’s SurrealEstate may not have been on your radar, but it’s one of the first cable announcements pushing back a premiere date (from ‘summer’ to late October). It’s a quirky and fun show that deserves the profile of a peak fall run.

We’ve also seen announcements of Canadian network shows (e.g., Kids Ruin Everything) being picked up by CW and other US linear platforms as they try to fill their schedules. Much the same happened when COVID stopped production, and shows from Canada and elsewhere were given a chance to break into American markets.

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