Lemmy.ca

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Lemmy.ca is run by Canadians, hosted in Canada, and geared toward Canadians. However, it is not restricted to Canadians, or Canadian culture/topics/etc. All are welcome!

To learn more about what Lemmy is, or how the Fediverse works, you can visit our simple Getting Started Guide.

This site is run by the non-profit Fedecan and funded entirely by user donations. You can help support us by visiting our donations page.

Rules and Guidelines

1. No Bigotry

Including racism, sexism, ableism, homophobia, transphobia, or xenophobia.

2. Be Civil

Argue in good faith, attack the argument; not the person, and promote a healthy debate. That includes implying violence, threats or wishes of violence and/or death.

3. No Porn

This instance is not made to host porn communities. You're free to access porn communities on other instances through your account, but be mindful of Rule 4.

4. Use the NSFW tag

Use your common sense: if you wouldn't want this image to show up on your work computer, tag it as such. In comments, use the

spoiler ::: tag for NSFW images, and put a NSFW mention beside links. Do not use NSFW images as your avatar or banner. :::

5. No Ads / Spam

This instance is not there to act as your billboard. If you want to promote your personal work, at least make the effort to be a contributing member of this community. Your account purpose shouldn't be to only advertise, make it natural.

6. Bot account

If you are the operator of a "bot" account, make sure to flag is as such in the account's settings.

7. Right to privacy

Do NOT distribute the personal information of someone else without their consent (aka doxxing). Information that is public domain can be shared, provided it is in good faith.
ex: The official email of an elected official is fair, the private phone number or the real name of a non-public person is NOT.

8. Report abuse

The report function isn't labelled the disagree button. You might not agree with someone, but that doesn't mean what the person says is against the rules. Using it repeately in this fashion will lead to actions being taken against the reporter.

9. Impersonation

Don't make an account with the intent to negatively deceive or defame someone on the fediverse.
ex: Parody of a famous person is okay, submitting outrageous content as appearing like another user, mod or admin isn't.

Contact an Admin:

Send us a message at @[email protected]
Send us an email at [email protected]

Guides:

You can find more guides at fedecan.ca by opening the sidebar.

Meta Communities:

!main: announcements & general discussion
!lemmy_ca_support: support requests
!communityrequests: become a mod of an existing community

Other Frontends:

Don't like how Lemmy looks? Try one of our alternative UIs:

old.lemmy.ca (Mlmym)
voyager.lemmy.ca (Voyager)
photon.lemmy.ca (Photon)
alex.lemmy.ca (Alexandrite)
tess.lemmy.ca (Tesseract)

Site Status: status.fedecan.ca

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founded 4 years ago

ADMINS

BC health officials announce 737 new COVID-19 cases | News (dailyhive.com)

submitted 4 years ago by kinetix to c/test

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Welcome to our piece of the fediverse! (lemmy.ca)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by kinetix to c/announcements

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Hello all, and welcome!

We're launching our reddit-like Lemmy-based site today! And, by launch, I guess it means we're just opening the doors, as everything appears to be in place and functional, as far as my testing-so-far has gone.

While the platform we're running on, Lemmy, is pretty beta software and has many items to refine, it's been in a very usable state for some time. Recently they were able to add in working federation, so sites can be linked together and not in small, individual silos (unless that's what one wants).

So you'll see some communities here that appear to be from elsewhere, and they have a more involved community name, and you'll see a variety of communities that originate here as well. It won't really matter to your experience, you'll be able to make use of either type without any real difference.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me or post in the lemmy support forum (which I'll link up here as soon as we have it federated here).

Thanks, and enjoy the service!

Something lighthearted to kick things off. (thetyee.ca)

submitted 4 years ago by kinetix to c/britishcolumbia

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The Tyee asked readers to submit art depicting life today. This is the resulting gallery.

From Winnipeg to Tokyo: Sports capitalism and the surveillance state (canadiandimension.com)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/canada

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Analyses of the relationship between intelligence services and sport point to a deliberate omission from mainstream security and sports discourse. These nascent examinations suggest a fully developed relationship between the two that has become inseparable (and deliberately kept in the shadows) in the wake of 9/11, and a process by which civilian and securitized life have become intertwined

Stupid churches fined for being stupid. (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 4 years ago by kinetix to c/britishcolumbia

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Why do some people insist on being so difficult about temporary rules? The entitlement is appalling.

Meet 'Moose Milk,' the Wintry Cocktail of the Canadian Military (www.atlasobscura.com)

submitted 4 years ago by sixohsix to c/canada

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Canada couldn't protect her, the slaying of political dissidents will continue if people don't raise their voices (techtudor.blogspot.com)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by kinetix to c/canada

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Happy Holidays! (self.announcements)

submitted 4 years ago by kinetix to c/announcements

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Howdy all!

I know we're a brand new instance, but as we're public and users are joining up, I felt that I should post this.

I know we're past Christmas already, but I hope everyone is doing as well as possible, staying safe, and having an enjoyable end of the year.

I'm very much looking forward to Lemmy developments and refinements, and lemmy.ca specifically being a fantastic and useful spot for people.

Here's hoping the bugs of 2020 take a hike in 2021 and that it's a much merrier year over all.

Peace to all!

Happy Holidays! (self.main)

submitted 4 years ago by kinetix to c/main

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Howdy all!

I know we're a brand new instance, but as we're public and users are joining up, I felt that I should post this.

I know we're past Christmas already, but I hope everyone is doing as well as possible, staying safe, and having an enjoyable end of the year.

I'm very much looking forward to Lemmy developments and refinements, and lemmy.ca specifically being a fantastic and useful spot for people.

Here's hoping the bugs of 2020 take a hike in 2021 and that it's a much merrier year over all.

Peace to all!

L'éthique des hackers et l'échange libre des idées (technodruide.ca)

submitted 4 years ago by jpeg to c/quebec

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Travellers to Canada will require a negative COVID-19 test before arriving to the country (ca.news.yahoo.com)

submitted 4 years ago by kinetix to c/canada

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About bloody time.

Dylan Cozens scores twice as Team Canada defeats Team Finland to win group at World Juniors (www.tsn.ca)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/canada

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Canada cruises past Russia, advances to gold medal game at world juniors (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/canada

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Quebec headed for full lockdown, curfews beginning Saturday: report (montrealgazette.com)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/canada

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Vacationers will not be able to claim sickness benefit to quarantine: PM (www.ctvnews.ca)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/canada

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The trillion-dollar question is how federal spending will position the economy for post-pandemic success (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 4 years ago by [email protected] to c/canada

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Testing from lemmur (self.test)

submitted 4 years ago by kinetix to c/test

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Testing from lemmur, will have to try and share something in

Something from the Beaverton (www.thebeaverton.com)

submitted 4 years ago by kinetix to c/test

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whee

Trumpism in Canada? Erin O'Toole be thy name - NOW Magazine (nowtoronto.com)

submitted 4 years ago by kinetix to c/canada

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Hmm, I'm posting this as it only came up after I was looking for more on the crap the CPC had on their website yesterday.

I think it may be time to reach out to my local (conservative) MP and demand better. I don't know about you, but we're going to have to do something to push out the blatant Trumpism that's occurring here. We're going to have to be completely intolerant of it, and demand better.

Thoughts?

See: Intolerance Paradox

First! (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 4 years ago by jonw to c/nova_scotia_general

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Because an empty community is sad.

Digital privacy law is being updated for the first time in decades, and it's imperative we get it right (www.cbc.ca)

submitted 4 years ago by Rumblestiltskin to c/canada

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