SRGray

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The inaugural season kicks off April 16th with Calgary facing Vancouver.

Personally, I have to wait for April 27th, when AFC Toronto faces Ottawa Rapid FC.

Can't wait for kick-off!

 

It's the Whitecaps' fifth appearance in the Champions Cup and their first time facing Saprissa, the most successful club in Costa Rica, with 40 domestic titles.

 

In addition to qualifying, the CanM17 squad set a new record for most consecutive wins (6).

With the team having qualified for five of the last seven U17 World Cups, it's a good window into the growth of the game here in Canada.

Some lads to keep an eye on!

 

Noonan talks about player sales, CPL expansion, pro/rel, growth of League1, and a few other things.

Kelowna & Windsor are front runners for 2026 expansion, but Kingston is a strong possibility.

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National Teams only? (self.canadasoccer)
submitted 2 months ago by SRGray to c/canadasoccer
 

Is this community only for the national teams & news related to Canada Soccer (the organizing body), or should it also include CPL / NSL / L1Canada / MLS (Canadian Teams), and/or youth/grassroots soccer across the country?

I know some Canada Soccer communities (Reddit / FB) tend to be restrictive on that. I don't want to post news about non-national teams here if it isn't welcome, and I also don't necessarily want to create new communities if it is (why fracture an already small community?).

 

It's a long article, but the TLDR:

  • Bridge of Nations & Frood/Maley roundabout work will continue through 2024.
  • Kingsway/Falconbridge will be starting up before winter once Kingsway/Barrydowne is complete.
  • All other current projects are expected to wrap up by winter
[–] SRGray 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

From what I'm seeing, these all need to be hardwired in, but maybe I'm just not digging far enough.

Is that correct?

[–] SRGray 3 points 2 years ago (7 children)

Ouch!

WAQI is currently pulling 196 ug/m3 for Sudbury into my Home Assistant.

Out of curiosity, which AQ sensors did you pick up? A link would be great so I can see if they'd be compatible with HA.

[–] SRGray 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's interesting. Did a Jazz bar open up somewhere in Sudbury in the past couple years, or are you just a huge fan? Would be great to have a new haunt playing something different than every other bar in the region...

[–] SRGray 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Adaptation is what you do when you've already failed to avoid causing the issue.

According to Carbon Brief, as of 2017 the region was already experiencing 1.8 C warming (https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-every-part-of-the-world-has-warmed-and-could-continue-to-warm/). From the climate atlas page linked in the article, it would appear things have worsened since (projected around 2.2 C).

We're lucky that a bit of warming helps some aspects in this region (ie. longer growing season), but there's a lot that we'll need to do to adapt to changes in the water cycle that comes from less snowmelt, increased freezing rain, changes in heatwave times/durations, etc.

From what I've read in the report, it's very light on the details of how the city will adapt to these changes. There are a lot of forming "working groups" to come up with ideas, but not a lot of real action.

Still, a step in the right direction is a step. So I'll take it, but we do need to get a bit of a move on here.

[–] SRGray 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Good stuff. I love how it's grown and look forward to seeing more voices discuss the issues that arise.

I'm working on growing [email protected] myself, and have tried to limit to 1 or 2 posts per day, just to keep them coming and leave openings for other locals to step in, but without the same kind of response.

Perhaps I'm the one that needs to take on a more aggressive seeding technique...

[–] SRGray 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

@[email protected]

I don't have an issue (I was replying to the previous post), especially as I do see value in seeding a community with posts. An empty community is a dead community.

However, it may be of more benefit to spread them out. After all, this is all federated. So anyone following the community from elsewhere (my prior reply was from a Mastodon account), they will receive a big wall of posts from this community all at once, but if they were to log in later in the day, they would see nothing (as it all posted earlier).

It would also allow other people to post something themselves and start a conversation in the post, as opposed to just an unexamined link.

Some might also see it as an attempt at spamming or karma farming (even though that no longer translates). Perhaps those thoughts may be something to consider.

[–] SRGray 8 points 2 years ago

Sounds good. Keep up the good work!

[–] SRGray 2 points 2 years ago

Definitely on OneSoccer. Can't wait to watch.

[–] SRGray 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm down to participate.

I guess we would need to lay out some base rules, maybe create/platform some "parties", launch some sort of "election" or appointment process, and then develop issues to debate. It could be a an entertaining/interesting experiment, but it does need a certain critical mass to launch.

[–] SRGray 4 points 2 years ago

They're just over 2.7k right now, probably be over 3k by end of day.

I wouldn't expect our 1.1k to balloon nearly as quickly, but it will be nice to snag more Canadians from the reddit-exodus.

[–] SRGray 3 points 2 years ago

I included wrestling because it always seems like they're hitting each other in their sportsballs whenever I bother to tune in. ;)

[–] SRGray 1 points 2 years ago

This kind of gatekeeping is why Arsenal is more popular that Spurs across North America...

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