I will edit in episode descriptions once they are available. Please comment if you have them :)

I have scheduled this first episode only so far.

What is this

Some community members have expressed interest in having scheduled threads for Canadian content. I am scheduling a few posts myself, and as always I'm open to feedback and suggestions! If you want scheduled posts for a specific show, please let me know and give me a source which has the airing/release times. You are also more than welcome to post the threads yourself :)

About this show:

https://www.cbc.ca/life/greatcanadianbakingshow/the-great-canadian-baking-show-on-cbc-ten-years-9.7328237

Based on the UK's hit format, The Great British Bake Off, The Great Canadian Baking Show brings together 10 amateur bakers from across the country to compete in a series of culinary challenges that celebrate their diverse backgrounds, families and communities.

You can watch it for free with CBC Gem.

Full summaries INCLUDING SPOILERS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Canadian_Baking_Show_season_10

Episode 7 - Ghosted

Siaja is back home from her trip and is struggling with her duty to the Winter Ball, and with her relationships. A trip out onto the land with Neevee leads to an honest conversation and a tender moment with Kuuk at the store offers a glimmer of hope.

Episode 8 - Experrrrt

Ice Cove finally welcomes its first Winter Ball and Siaja has a plan for everything. Naturally, complications arise, testing her ability to stay cool under pressure. Thankfully, the community rallies together, but a new twist is about to change everything.

What is this

Some community members have expressed interest in having scheduled threads for Canadian content. I am scheduling a few posts myself, and as always I'm open to feedback and suggestions! If you want scheduled posts for a specific show, please let me know and give me a source which has the airing/release times. You are also more than welcome to post the threads yourself :)

About this show:

North of North is a Canadian comedy television series that premiered on CBC Television (CBC), the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), and Netflix in 2025, consisting of eight thirty-minute episodes. It is Netflix's first Canadian original series

Synopsis: A young Inuk mother in an Arctic town tries to reinvent herself after a spontaneous public exit from her marriage to the town's golden boy and her navigation through relationships, motherhood, and a new job.[7] North of North addresses issues faced in Inuit communities through a comedic lens.

Episode 5 - Beer Quest

Millie's birthday is a bust when the beer delivery plane is cancelled. Siaja, Millie and Colin go searching for a drink deep into the town's bootlegging world, and have a run-in with the law. In the midst of this chaos, Siaja receives life-changing news.

Episode 6 - Missing Pieces

Siaja takes a spontaneous trip to Toronto to meet her half-sister Olivia. Their meeting becomes a very real connection but it's also tested by long-held unspoken secrets. Back in Ice Cove, Neevee realizes it's too late to tell Alistair how she really feels.

What is this

Some community members have expressed interest in having scheduled threads for Canadian content. I am scheduling a few posts myself, and as always I'm open to feedback and suggestions! If you want scheduled posts for a specific show, please let me know and give me a source which has the airing/release times. You are also more than welcome to post the threads yourself :)

About this show:

North of North is a Canadian comedy television series that premiered on CBC Television (CBC), the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), and Netflix in 2025, consisting of eight thirty-minute episodes. It is Netflix's first Canadian original series

Synopsis: A young Inuk mother in an Arctic town tries to reinvent herself after a spontaneous public exit from her marriage to the town's golden boy and her navigation through relationships, motherhood, and a new job.[7] North of North addresses issues faced in Inuit communities through a comedic lens.

About this episode:

S12E10: "Dai! Dai! Dai"

Locations: Calgary, Alberta

What is this

Some community members have expressed interest in having scheduled threads for Canadian content. I am scheduling a few posts myself, and as always I'm open to feedback and suggestions! If you want scheduled posts for a specific show, please let me know and give me a source which has the airing/release times. You are also more than welcome to post the threads yourself :)

About this show:

The Amazing Race Canada 12 is the twelfth season of The Amazing Race Canada, a Canadian reality competition show based on the American series The Amazing Race. Hosted by Jon Montgomery, it features ten teams of two, each with a pre-existing relationship, competing in a race across Canada. The grand prize includes a CA$250,000 cash payout and a trip around the world. Filming took place from April 20 to May 15, 2026. This season visited seven provinces during ten legs. Starting in Whistler, racers travelled through British Columbia, Alberta, Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Manitoba before finishing in Calgary. New elements introduced in this season include every team receiving an Express Pass at the start of the race, the Intersection, and a U-Turn penalty vote for a non-eliminated team. Elements of the show that returned for this season include a double elimination leg. The season premiered on CTV on July 7, 2026, and is scheduled to conclude on September 15, 2026.

S02E03. Code Blue

When a first-aid training session out on the ice goes wrong, Siaja and Millie team up to solve the crisis. Elsewhere, Kuuk and Alistair help each other process their respective romantic struggles.

S02E04. Fast and Flirtatious.

When Siaja discovers her ex has moved on, she and her friends organize a community speed dating event, leading to unexpected outcomes. Meanwhile, Alistair has his own adventure with Bun.

What is this

Some community members have expressed interest in having scheduled threads for Canadian content. I am scheduling a few posts myself, and as always I'm open to feedback and suggestions! If you want scheduled posts for a specific show, please let me know and give me a source which has the airing/release times. You are also more than welcome to post the threads yourself :)

About this show: North of North

North of North is a Canadian comedy television series that premiered on CBC Television (CBC), the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), and Netflix in 2025, consisting of eight thirty-minute episodes. It is Netflix's first Canadian original series

Synopsis: A young Inuk mother in an Arctic town tries to reinvent herself after a spontaneous public exit from her marriage to the town's golden boy and her navigation through relationships, motherhood, and a new job.[7] North of North addresses issues faced in Inuit communities through a comedic lens.

The author: "Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast."

For the past year and a half, the world has been forced to wake up to the great drawbacks that have come from dependence on the platforms, services, and infrastructures provided by US tech companies. What was once framed as a driver of economic growth and dynamism now gives an increasingly hostile US government an unimagined degree of leverage over other countries and their governments. It might seem to have come out of nowhere, but in truth it’s long been part of the plan.

I originally wrote this piece for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, but they’ve allowed me to share it with Disconnect subscribers. There’s some specific mention of Canada as a result, but the takeaway is the same for many parts of the world.

I wasn't familiar with the author before this article. You can see his wikipedia page here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_M._K%C3%BChn

He is best known for his efforts in GPL enforcement,[7] as the creator of FSF's license list, and as original author of the Affero General Public License. He has long been a proponent for non-profit structures for FLOSS development, and leads efforts in this direction through the Software Freedom Conservancy. He is a recipient of the 2012 O'Reilly Open Source Award.

Excerpt from the first part of the piece:

In this philosophical essay, I explore the question: “When (if at all) is it ethically and morally acceptable to use proprietary software in the production and/or improvement of urgently needed copylefted FOSS?”

The question presents a complex conundrum. I attempt herein to rigoriously examine it through both a priori ethical analysis and a posteriori (and folksy) consideration of my personal experience and the shared experiences of the early software freedom movement.

I surprised myself at the outcome of my analysis. I conclude that under some circumstances (of which we have already witnessed in key historical examples), use of proprietary software by FOSS contributors to create/improve FOSS becomes a moral imperative. And, that imperitive often supersedes the moral imperative to avoid using that proprietary software.

Seventy-three per cent of participants were 'not at high risk of fractures or falls,' with calcium, vitamin D or combined supplements having 'little to no effect on fractures.'

The study: https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj-2025-088050

Results This review included 69 trials involving 153 902 participants. Participants in most of the trials were community dwelling (87%) and not at high risk of fractures or falls (73%). For the primary outcome of any fracture, little to no effect was found from use of calcium supplements (11 trials, 9067 participants; risk ratio 0.91, 95% confidence interval 0.81 to 1.01; moderate certainty), vitamin D supplements (36 trials, 92 045 participants; 1.00, 0.95 to 1.06; high certainty), or combined supplementation (15 trials, 51 126 participants; 0.91, 0.84 to 0.99; high certainty). Calcium, vitamin D, or combined supplementation appeared to have little to no effect on other fracture and fall outcomes, based largely on moderate to high certainty of evidence. The findings remained robust after an extensive exploration of heterogeneity across multiple subgroup analyses. Evidence for high risk patients or those requiring residential care was limited for many outcomes for calcium monotherapy and for combined supplementation.

A calf at a ranch in Texas tested positive on Wednesday for the flesh-eating parasite, the first case confirmed in Texas since 1966.

If you have been following the Lemmyvision posts, then the sections in this article will be fairly familiar. We put this together to be a full summary/recap of our side of this year's event. Enjoy!

After buying and opening a box, Augustine allegedly replaced the plastic Lego bricks and figures with dried pasta. Investigators told FOX 11 LA that the dried pasta mimics the sound and weight of Lego bricks shifting around when the box is shaken.

Description:

Track NASA's Artemis II Orion spacecraft live as it travels to the Moon and back. Real-time 2D map with position, speed, distance from Earth and Moon, crew info, mission elapsed time, and trajectory replay for all Artemis missions. Free-return trajectory explained.

Have you ever thought about what makes GPS possible?

With the flip of the “Blue Switch,” or Selective Availability, GPS became dramatically more accurate, and a new kind of adventure known as geocaching became possible, turning the whole planet into a playground.

Before Selective Availability was discontinued, the U.S. government made GPS less accurate for everyone except the military, for national security reasons.

On May 2, 2000, the decision was made to discontinue Selective Availability, ending the intentional restriction on civilian GPS accuracy and significantly improving GPS technology for public use. This date is recognized by geocachers as “Blue Switch Day.”

The first geocache was hidden on May 3, 2000, marking the beginning of geocaching—a journey full of innovation and experimentation. Today, there are 3.4 million geocaches in 191 countries.

What better way to celebrate the evolution of geocaching than to represent the butterfly effect, which states that a small, seemingly insignificant action can lead to massive, unexpected consequences over time.

To celebrate this pivotal moment, there are two new souvenirs to earn for Blue Switch Day 2026!

Vote manipulation is getting more common. Some recent examples:

• https://piefed.ca/c/comicstrips/p/527462/new-anti-bot-rules
• https://lemmy.ca/post/57235699

While the accounts were banned, the malicious voting activity stuck around.

Should admins have the ability to discard votes, and if so, which admins? Should community mods have that ability? Can you think of any ways that tools like this could be abused?

Post has been scheduled for 01/03/2026, 01:00 AM on America/Vancouver

In data privacy, we often talk about the dangers of data collection and exposed data. It can get overwhelming to learn more about all the information that is collected on us, especially at the beginning. As a coping mechanism, some people react by downplaying concerns, disregarding dangers, and ignoring precautions altogether. Others react the opposite way: by isolating themselves, and no longer sharing anything with anyone. But neither is a viable solution.

Staying isolated to avoid all data exposure risks other dangers. Dangers that might not seem related to data privacy directly, but are nevertheless worth mentioning here: Suicide and depression are very real dangers that we cannot ignore.

Keeping our data safe shouldn't mean staying alone, and isolation is especially dangerous for LGBTQ+ people.

The better approach is to adopt a segmental perspective on data privacy.

While not ignoring nor minimizing the risks, it's important to develop an awareness of which exposed data represents the biggest danger to us, which we have no control over, and which we can actually protect better.

This is the balanced way out of this Orwellian nightmare.

There are ways to stay together, to support each other, and to stay connected while also protecting our data and becoming an informed advocate for privacy rights.

The article has more details, and includes the following:

How to stay connected while staying safe
Practices and tools that help in various contexts
Pseudonymity
Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Browser fingerprinting
File metadata
Mobile applications
Photo sharing
What to improve in each context
Social media: Improving, deleting, replacing
Private messaging: One-on-one and group chats
Online dating: Balancing authenticity and caution
In person: Groups and events
Stay connected
Resources to help

We will be closing the census this week, on January 15th, 2026.

Link: https://survey.fedecan.ca//s/cmjcnqzgd0002th01dh6naqm6

A lot has changed since our last census in 2023! We would like to take another opportunity to learn about our growing community.

Everyone is welcome to fill out this survey! While this census is being run by the admins of lemmy.ca, sh.itjust.works, piefed.ca, and pixelfed.ca, you do not need to have an account on these instances, and you do not need to be located in Canada. If you do have an account on one of our instances, you can indicate that on the census to be included in those separate graphs/visualizations.

No question is mandatory. You may skip any question by either selecting “no answer (skip this question)”, or by leaving the question blank.

Some questions will be hidden depending on your selections. For example, the Pixelfed specific questions will be hidden if you don't select that as one of the platforms you use.

Sections:

• Section 1: Location
• Section 2: Demographics
• Section 3a: Instance Usage (Forum/Threadiverse)
• Section 3b: Instance Usage (Pixelfed)
• Section 4: Feedback / Closing questions

When results are ready, we will share them on our website and with posts on the main/meta communities in our instances.

The questions were created with help from @[email protected], based on the questions from their census this year. The banner image was made with icons from flaticon.com.

Due to some issues with the survey platform, you won't be able to click on external URLs while completing the census. You can access those links here:

• Speed test: https://fast.com/
• Ethnicity options: https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/ref/dict/app/index-eng.cfm?ID=a2_5
• Education options: https://canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/settle-canada/education/school-types/post-secondary.html