Marbled crayfish are pretty cool. A new species that evolved in captivity

These aren’t lawn signs that individual supporters put up on their properties, they’re signs that the candidates put up on public boulevards

Ain’t no rule says the bird can’t be pope.

thank god they’re putting these products under the auspices of an agency funded by oil and gas and deciding to just not do environmental assessments; I was worried building clean energy would actually help the environment

Alberta being created out of the NWT (Rupert’s Land had already been annexed by Canada decades before) has no bearing on what constitutional amendment formula would apply in case of succession; the Constitution Act 1982 makes no distinction. The Clarity Act though does say that the provinces should be included in the negotiation of the constitutional amendment granting succession. But it doesn’t give an opinion on whether their consent is necessary (ie which amendment formula to use). So yes succession could be under the unanimous consent formula or the 7/50 formula but it could just as well be under the “amendment to the Constitution of Canada in relation to any provision that applies to one or more, but not all, provinces” formula where only the House of Commons, Senate, and relevant province’s legislature need to consent. (The Quebec Succession Reference Question affirmed that a province’s membership in Confederation isn’t just part of that province’s constitution meaning provinces can’t just amend their own constitutions to unilaterally succeed)

And yeah since treaty are affirmed as part of the constitution by Section 35, the constitutional amendment granting succession would also require renegotiation/amendment of treaties 6, 7, 8, and 10, which would in turn require the consent of the federal government and all the party First Nations. Maybe you could argue that if Alberta stayed a monarchy then the Canadian Crown could pass its responsibility to an independent Alberta Crown the same way the Imperial Crown gradually became an independent Canadian Crown, but I doubt the courts in this day and age would just ignore Indigenous protests to that. Especially considering that the Crown had been represented by the Government of Canada for the entire time the Numbered Treaties have existed and all but Treaty 7 would then have to deal with the Crown splitting in two.

what would you look like without a jaw?

Surprised there’s no mention of the Conservative Party parachuting in Grant Cool without a nomination race to snuff out a local candidate

Note that these aren’t polls taken in each riding. 338 takes the voting data of the riding in previous elections and then uses national and province-wide polls (which are broken down by voter demographics and how people voted previously) to predict how voter intention is changing. So for example a middle class white riding that voted mostly NDP previously is going to be predicted more Liberal when Canada-wide polls are showing that the Liberals are polling well with the white middle class and former NDP voters.

He intentionally dodged ethical review and the law, the consent forms he had the parents’ sign obfuscated the nature of the treatment, the experimental treatment offered no benefit over the currently used treatment to prevent HIV transmission from the father (sperm washing), the parents likely only agreed because the law prevented them from otherwise having biological children (IVF isn’t available to HIV+ patients in China), the high risk of modifying non-target genes was well known, and he knew that the gene he introduced is believed to be linked to neurological differences.

…are we sure he’s not doing any more human germ line gene editing without ethical approval or patient consent?

I’m honestly a little skeptical here. Yeah it shouldn’t be difficult for regulated professionals to begin working in another province but idk about a blanket exemption. There’s stuff like the National Board Exam for oral health practitioners that’s unified across all the provinces’ regulatory colleges, but not every profession has that and even in that case clinical requirements vary and aren’t all held to the same standard of accreditation. Regulated professions are entirely a provincial responsibility and the colleges are organized along provincial lines, so I don’t see how you can say that someone in one province is as qualified as someone in another without further harmonization.

Also I don’t see how removing liquor restrictions is gonna do anything but weaken the State monopolies and control regimes, but considering Ford’s war on the LCBO I’m not surprised.

The upper row is from the EU’s Directive 67/548/EEC which has since been replaced with the international GHS (oddly enough a UN standard instead of ISO). The lower ones are in fact the DOT symbols from the US rather than the very similar GHS transport symbols (including the UN numbers). No idea where this figure showing EU-specific hazards for containers and US-specific hazards for transport together would’ve come from.

Yup. Last one closed at the end of 2021

Relevant SNL

A dogwhistle for “the Jews”

and now you’re even more hyped, surely?

Inadvertent eDNA research

BC is also pretty strict. Those who do software development in areas where failure could cause threat to life, health, or the environment are required to be (or overseen by) Professional Engineers, and non-PEngs can’t call themselves software engineers. The major universities offer accredited software engineering programs which are separate degrees from computer science. They focus less on theory and more on practice, and include first year sciences and professional ethics courses.

No actually. If you consider the plants to be Archaeplastida (glaucophytes, red algae, and Viridiplantae) or Viridiplantae (the green algae including Embryophyta) then the common plant ancestor is unicellular (greens and reds evolved multicellularity independently). If you consider the plants to just be Embryophyta (the land plants) then they already had highly specialized cells and looked plant-like before they split off from the rest of the green algae.

I’m not sure if the fungal common ancestor is believed to have been unicellular or multicellular but if it was multicellular then it would’ve been filamentous like modern multicellular fungi, rather than a sheet of cells

Fun fact: Animal embryos can be disassociated by depriving them of calcium (E-cadherin, the molecule that holds the cells together, needs to calcium to work) and then can be allowed to reassociate by adding back calcium. If you do this in early enough stages then the embryo will function and develop normally once reaggregated, despite all the cells being jumbled up