Ontario

It's been over three weeks since Autumn Shaganash, a woman from Barrie, was last seen or heard from by her family. They are urging the public to help with the efforts, and told CBC Toronto that police in Barrie need to follow more leads.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/994941

For more information see here:

https://twitter.com/tMayor_McCheese/status/1674202905489068032?s=20

Apparently the attacker walked into a philosophy class about gender, asked what the class was about, then stabbed the professor and others.

Premier Doug Ford, standing in front of two garbage trucks, congratulates mayor-elect Olivia Chow and takes questions from the press this morning after speaking about investment and increasing diversity in the trucking industry.

Cursive is making a comeback. Relegated in 2006 to an optional piece of learning in Ontario elementary schools, cursive writing is set to return as a mandatory part of the curriculum starting in September.

Technically it was nonoperating before, but explicitly did not allow camping, and had really rough access, so this is nice. Though I was hoping the new park would have more canoe routes.

Seven thousand teachers and education staff being cut from public schools. Adjusting for inflation, per student funding has decreased by $1,200.

Hopefully this is alright to post here.

I live in the US and am trying to move to somewhere around the Ottawa area to be with my partner and her daughter, but I am having a lot of trouble trying to find jobs that would sponsor for a work visa.

I do IT sysadmin, AWS engineer, Linux work, but can't seem to find places that are hiring or will sponsor. Is this something that is very hard to find or am I just looking in the wrong places?

I have 2 kids and am trying to move there to keep them safe and retain their bodily rights as they get older.

If anyone knows anything or has any ideas for help, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you

You asked, I delivered. Picture taken at the Tim Hortons on Pinewood Park Drive. This one’s a doozy!

Teens in Ontario will be able to sign up for Uber accounts beginning on Wednesday, the company says.

Uber said the accounts are designed with extra safety features and must be enabled by parents or guardians in order for teens to use them.

The company said teens between 13 and 17 will be eligible to set up a teen account and must be invited by their parent or legal guardian. They will then set up these accounts through their guardian’s family profile.

According to Uber, when a teen requests a trip, their parent or guardian will be notified and will be able to watch the trip in their Uber app.

The parents will also be able to contact their child or the driver.

Uber said additional safety features including audio recording, live trip tracking and PIN verification will also be mandatory on the teen accounts. Parents can also call 9-1-1 directly from the tracking screen on the app.

What’s more, the company said only highly-rate and experienced drivers can accept teen trips.

Planning on camping around mid-July and even though many areas are low forest fire risk (green) in the map all of Ontario has a total burn ban in effect.

I'm not in Ontario and just curious what peoples' thoughts are there?

I intended this to be akin to r/Waterloo, since there's a ton of value in local recommendations and discussion. I've met some really cool people from the city subreddits and hope to rebuild that here.

Link: @Waterloo [email protected]

I was really hoping we'd get one and now I'm pretty disappointed. I can probably rustle up a photo of two of Ottawa potholes, by it just won't have that same North Bay Zazzle.

Hi folks! I created a directory that I will update over time as communities get built. If you would like me to add your city/town to the directory if you have created one, post on the Lemmy and I will add you in.

The directory is on the sidebar.

https://lemmy.ca/c/ontario_index

Hi guys, I was sitting at the bar a few hours ago with a flight of ideas surrounding the whole shibam that has been happening(people leaving Reddit for Lemmy), I've noticed it's very easy to get traction around here.

I think many of us are still grasping what the whole lemmyverse is, and how it works, and how inovative it is in the sense of it being a new foundation.

As my mind wandered, I decided to create communities for each of the different towns around me, and the I proceeded to look up towns in Ontario in order of population.

I've been going through the list top down, typing in the name of the town in Lemmy to see if there is an existing community, if there isnt, I create one. Even if the town is 5000 people.

I have this hope that Lemmy, or even website in general within the fediverse, gradually replace shitty social media platforms.

I want it to be more than just an online social space, but a space where people can even use to connect in real life.

I know Reddit had some of that, but it didn't feel like a useful tool for that sort of stuff, while I feel like Lemmy has a whole new potential.

Like I said, this is a project, over the next few days once I have all the communities and links compiled, I will create a Lemmy Ontario town index.

Edit: And it's done! https://lemmy.ca/c/ontario_index

We read the Ontario laws and it said that employers should not have kids working during school hours unless they were doing alternate schooling.

I don’t believe this kid is doing alternate school because the kid said “I can’t work tomorrow because my teacher’s coming to check in on me”.

Do we ask the employer if they know they are employing a teenager who’s skipping school? Do we leave a review?

Obviously we don’t want to tarnish anyone’s reputation unnecessarily but this is a very serious matter.