Hey all,

Been working on making a meal plan using Mealie as of late. I'm finding regular issue I have is constantly feeling hungry, so I'm planning to add a lot more protein and fibre in my diet as I make my swap to a vegan one.

I've found myself looking at red lentils as a staple for a number of recipes, and am currently working on finding a good recipe for Sloppy Joes that utilise them. My main issue however is worcestershire sauce, which is included in most recipes. While I know a vegan equivalent exists, I've tried before to find it in stores to no avail and really want to avoid using an online store like Amazon for something so menial.

Would I likely be fine just removing it entirely from the recipe? Specific recipe I'm eyeballing right now also calls for vinegar of choice and soy sauce, and my only worry is making the recipe too bland unintentionally. If I can substitute it for something else, what would be a good replacement?

Thanks in advance.

This week's featured artist is Doug and the Slugs!

Doug and the Slugs are a pop rock band from Vancouver that hit the height of their popularity in the 1980s, when they released a number of hits that became popular in Western Canada especially Too Bad, Making It Work, Day By Day, and Tomcat Prowl. The song Too Bad is especially well known for having been the theme song for The Norm Show, starring Norm MacDonald.

Unfortunately, Doug Bennett, the lead singer of the band, passed away in 2004 after struggles with alcoholism, though the band continues to perform today.

Feel free to check out the band's songs below!

• Too Bad
• Making It Work
• Day By Day
• Tomcat Prowl

A new poll finds Albertans largely support Medical Assistance in Dying, but are split on the province's bill that aims to control access

What You Do To Me (EP version) by Miray Klüg, released 23 January 2013

This week's Featured Artist is Morgan David King, known shortform as MDK!

Step into MDK's world of "wubstep" an electronic subgenre combining the sounds of dubstep, chiptune, complextro, and smooth jazz, a combination he created out of his hometown of Vancouver!

MDK has been making music since at least 2012, and his talents and style have only matured since then. He has also collaborated with a variety of big names in dubstep and electronic music such as Terminite, meganeko, Boom Kitty, Tokyo Machine, Hyper Potions, and more. Have any doubts? Ask the Geometry Dash community, a game for which he made the theme song for!

MDK is also very generous in offering over 50 of his songs available as free downloads on his website, so please feel free to check them out and support him by purchasing his music on sites like Bandcamp if you become a fan!

Check out these tunes:

• Geometry Dash
• Anxiety
• Hellfire
• Snowdown
• Hyper Beam

Sourced from https://dchp.arts.ubc.ca/entries/parking%20stall.

Found this pretty interesting, as I grew up with people around me calling them parking stalls, and used to call them that myself, but found that the more I interacted with people outside the province, the less I heard it from others.

This would also explain why "parking stall" rolls off the tongue more for me, as I've been using the term "parking spot" in more recent years, as that's what projects I work on call them, and it always feels slightly awkward saying it.

Edit: Trying to make this post federate.

Hey all,

I want to start being more active with signing petitions that I agree with that are open for signatures on the Our Commons website. The annoying thing is, while I do want to be active and be on top of things, I also don't want to have to check the website every day to see if anything new has popped up.

I've checked the site to see if there's an email subscription to be made aware of new petitions available, or if there's an RSS feed available there, but neither seems to be the case. Does anybody know off hand how I can be notified of new petitions, or am I SOL?

Reposting this as it didn't seem to federate last time (my instance has been having federation issues the last while)

Cover of Heat Abnormal using sound bites of Nyn from Cookie! Unfortunately original creator is unknown.

Both Paper Skies and Nadeau are based in Canada!

With the new move to PieFed.ca we are bringing back the weekly featured artist! Every Monday a Canadian musician will be pinned in the community, with their name added to the the Featured Artists wiki page (which will be made shortly after this post).

This week's featured artist is Anomalie! Based in Montreal, Anomalie has created a signature sound for himself that funk and jazz listeners are sure to enjoy! Whether it be listening to Métropole, his cover of Come Running To Me by inspiration Herbie Hancock, or any of his Holiday tracks, Anomalie's style of Future Funk and Nu-Jazz is sure to please the ears.

Feel free to acquaint yourself to his music with some of the following tracks!

Métropole
Come Running To Me
Madison
On My Mind (w/ Chromeo)
Sleigh Ride

Honestly this is absolute cowardice from Nenshi for distancing the party from the federal NDP, and for not charting a path of the party's own rather than letting Danielle Smith lead the charge on issues like has been the case since he's become leader. This shouldn't even be on the table let alone considered.

Extremely excited about the direction the party has decided to go in, looking forward to helping out wherever I can!

(Let's pretend my cursor didn't get captured in the screenshot)

Hey all,

Recently had the latest episode of The Breach Show appear on my Fedi feed. Decided to play it, and it was a great listen to supplement other things I was doing.

I was hoping to find more left-wing Canadian political podcasts. My issue with a lot of Canadian political content is either that it's too American-centred (Rational National is great but comes to mind as an example), or has important information, but is, to me, unexciting and boring to listen to (The Breakdown Alberta unfortunately comes to mind here).

I'm looking for stuff that's informative, Canada-centred, and entertaining to listen to. If anybody knows of stuff that fits the bill, feel free to let me know.

Been wanting to post videos for a while here, just the Video posting option on PieFed seems to be broken. Think this should work as a workaround.

Original on Pixiv via PixivFE .

[QUICK EDIT: This move is still in the works, just waiting for approval from FedeCan admins on PieFed.ca]

Hey all!

It's been about a year since the creation of this community, I wish I can recall the exact date, but regardless, the fact it's been that long gives me whiplash. When I made this community on my old Lemmy.ca account, I didn't expect it to gain over 300 subscribers, so before going into the rest of this announcement, I do want to say thanks to everyone for being a part of it, whether it posting and commenting, upvoting, or just silently interacting with the links posted.

Getting to the meat and potatoes of the announcement, in four or five days Maple Music will be migrating from Lemmy.ca to PieFed.ca. There's nothing wrong with Lemmy.ca, or the people behind it (especially seeing that the same people run PieFed.ca), but there's a bunch of key features in PieFed that will help the community grow in the long term.

To start off with, PieFed allows for post flairs. For a music community like Maple Music, this can be incredibly helpful for sorting posts by genres. If someone wants to find Canadian music of a specific genre, assuming they're using PieFed, they'll be able to click on the Flair of a certain genre like Country, Metal, Electronic, Hip-Hop, and so on, and be greeted with a curated feed of posts that include that Flair. For an example of this in action, feel free to check out the Obscure Music community on PieFed.social.

Secondly, an unfortunate annoyance in music and art sharing communities is people sharing content they like, only to receive downvotes. While the downvote feature is, in my personal opinion, important overall, it gets annoying when users share content they enjoy only to be downvoted by those who are not the target demographic. Moving to PieFed from Lemmy would help alleviate this, as PieFed software has an option to restrict downvotes to community members. Doing this will help build a more positive community by preventing new posters from feeling discouraged by downvotes from users with uncurated feeds, while also leaving the downvote feature open for legitimate use cases (controversial musicians, problematic lyrics, etc.).

A huge feature that PieFed has over Lemmy is the Wiki feature. Moving Maple Music to PieFed.ca will allow the development of a dedicated wiki for finding Canadian music and musicians which is readily accessible without needing to pin dedicated "Megathread" posts. This can be useful for easier sorting of music resources by region if one wishes to find music from a specific province or territory, as well as documenting weekly Featured Artists (Which will come back!)

Lastly, PieFed comes with various other improvements that will likely benefit the community such as polls, support for hashtags (which will help for finding music of specific sub-genres), and a number of helpful moderation tools.

Adding a personal opinion between the two, I'm personally of the belief that open source should support open source, and on top of the features PieFed has too offer, I personally just like the fact that the source code for PieFed is hosted on Codeberg rather than GitHub.

If anybody has any thoughts before the move, feel free to share them here. Seeing that Maple Music has been federated with PieFed.ca for some time now, posts from Lemmy.ca should be migrated into the new community, removing the concern of losing content contributed to the community.

[QUICK EDIT: This move is still in the works, just waiting for approval from FedeCan admins on PieFed.ca]

Hey all!

It's been about a year since the creation of this community, I wish I can recall the exact date, but regardless, the fact it's been that long gives me whiplash. When I made this community on my old Lemmy.ca account, I didn't expect it to gain over 300 subscribers, so before going into the rest of this announcement, I do want to say thanks to everyone for being a part of it, whether it posting and commenting, upvoting, or just silently interacting with the links posted.

Getting to the meat and potatoes of the announcement, in four or five days Maple Music will be migrating from Lemmy.ca to PieFed.ca. There's nothing wrong with Lemmy.ca, or the people behind it (especially seeing that the same people run PieFed.ca), but there's a bunch of key features in PieFed that will help the community grow in the long term.

To start off with, PieFed allows for post flairs. For a music community like Maple Music, this can be incredibly helpful for sorting posts by genres. If someone wants to find Canadian music of a specific genre, assuming they're using PieFed, they'll be able to click on the Flair of a certain genre like Country, Metal, Electronic, Hip-Hop, and so on, and be greeted with a curated feed of posts that include that Flair. For an example of this in action, feel free to check out the Obscure Music community on PieFed.social.

Secondly, an unfortunate annoyance in music and art sharing communities is people sharing content they like, only to receive downvotes. While the downvote feature is, in my personal opinion, important overall, it gets annoying when users share content they enjoy only to be downvoted by those who are not the target demographic. Moving to PieFed from Lemmy would help alleviate this, as PieFed software has an option to restrict downvotes to community members. Doing this will help build a more positive community by preventing new posters from feeling discouraged by downvotes from users with uncurated feeds, while also leaving the downvote feature open for legitimate use cases (controversial musicians, problematic lyrics, etc.).

A huge feature that PieFed has over Lemmy is the Wiki feature. Moving Maple Music to PieFed.ca will allow the development of a dedicated wiki for finding Canadian music and musicians which is readily accessible without needing to pin dedicated "Megathread" posts. This can be useful for easier sorting of music resources by region if one wishes to find music from a specific province or territory, as well as documenting weekly Featured Artists (Which will come back!)

Lastly, PieFed comes with various other improvements that will likely benefit the community such as polls, support for hashtags (which will help for finding music of specific sub-genres), and a number of helpful moderation tools.

Adding a personal opinion between the two, I'm personally of the belief that open source should support open source, and on top of the features PieFed has too offer, I personally just like the fact that the source code for PieFed is hosted on Codeberg rather than GitHub.

If anybody has any thoughts before the move, feel free to share them here. Seeing that Maple Music has been federated with PieFed.ca for some time now, posts from Lemmy.ca should be migrated into the new community, removing the concern of losing content contributed to the community.

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