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It's not quite what you were asking for, but libro.fm -- which is American -- does give part of its profit from sales to a bookstore of your choosing, and you can select Canadian bookstores to receive that benefit. Not sure what the cut looks like exactly though.

Currently in a sci fi "Consider Phlebas" by Iain Banks, after seeing a recommendation for his books involving an optimism for the future. This was the one book available at my local library. Not far enough in to make a judgment on it, but enjoying it so far.

I have Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez also out from the library as a next up.

Recently read Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood, which was a fun cozy urban fantasy. I think if I were to recommend such a book, I'd recommend The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches above it, or recommend Legends & Lattes or The Spellshop for cozy high fantasy choices, but if you've read all the popular ones and are looking for more it's a great choice.

The judge's other main role in a trial with jury is to actually run the proceedings of the trial. Order of operations, keeping the two counsels in line, scheduling, etc.

Crypt of the Necrodancer.

Really fun roguelike game where you and enemies have to move to the beat of that floor's song. I think part of the reason I still play it a lot is that it's amenable to very short sessions. I've played enough that runs go fast and I either clear or die within 10 minutes.

Over 1200 hours now almost a decade after release, and a huge chunk of that is probably sessions of under 30 mins in length.

I only played the original one. I had a fair amount of fun with it for what it was. It can feel a bit empty and wide, but the gameplay was quite fun, even if the combat is kinda painfully easy most of the time. You can build basically however you want and become pretty OP.

Is the remake worth looking at for those who played the original? I was kinda ignoring it because I'd played through it once already. Wasn't super sold on a second go-through.

...I really did not expect to see Christy Clark on that list, even if at only 4%. If I'd seen her running as a Con, that would not have surprised me so much. Responsible in BC for legislating striking teachers back to work with the argument that they could not legally bargain on topics like class size, something that much later finally got thrown out by the supreme court. She was a member of the BC Liberals, which were really the right-wing party in BC at the time.

I'd wager both left- and right-leaning people in BC have some bad memories of that one for differing reasons. I certainly have to imagine she'd be a quick way to lose the existing liberal voters here.

I'm personally skipping because I already have what I'd want from this one, but I will say P4G is my favorite of the Persona series, and one of the few long JRPGs I've actually finished in the last several years. (P5R is also great, but 4's more grounded story and characters, relatively speaking, give it the edge for me.)

And Cassette Beasts is a truly great Pokemon-like that has so much going for it. If you feel out of love with the Pokemon franchise, or if you still enjoy it but would want more, this is a really fun game with its own take on a lot of the mechanics. Lots of depth combined with customizable difficulty.

I tried punching in 243 and it gave me an equation that resolves to 235.

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%28lim+%28%28x%5E2-100%29%2F%28x%2B10%29%29%2C+x-%3E13%29%5E5+-+%28%5Blim%28%28e%5E%288x%29-1%29%2Fx%29%2C+x-%3E0%5D+-+%5B%5Blim+%28%28x%5E2-36%29%2F%28x-6%29%29%2Cx-%3E-5%5D+-+lim%28cos%5E2+x+%2B+sin%5E2+x%29%2C+x-%3E36%5D%29

Tried it a few other times and it seems to sometimes like giving something that results in 3^5 (which would be 243 on its own) followed by subtracting a bit from it, which ends up making it the wrong answer. In the link above, it basically goes (3^5) - (8 - (1 - 1)), so if you only keep the first brackets it would be correct.

I believe the point is that the speaker typically doesn't vote unless needed to break a tie. So if the NDP select one of their own as the speaker, they would have 46 votes, to the 44 Con and 2 Green votes, an exact tie. Of course, they would still have the speaker as tiebreaker, so it doesn't really make a huge difference, but it's seen as a bit more tenuous than actually having the 47 votes in the typical fashion, which they could accomplish if a conservative or green MLA takes the role of speaker.

To be honest, I'm not 100% sure on why the tiebreaker is seen as worse exactly. I understand there's an expectation for the speaker to act neutrally, so maybe it's just an unpleasant look if the speaker is regularly voting in favour of the NDP to break ties.

Regardless, it wouldn't technically be a minority government as I understand it. It's not as though the NDP couldn't rely on their own speaker in matters of confidence. It just would give Rustad something else to rant about.

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Scoredle tells me after the fact that it was a sure thing, the path I was on, but man.

It seems feasible if you don't imagine they're all big novels. A lot of nonfiction you might borrow several of in one visit and not read front to back. Think recipe books, handicrafts, anything along those lines. Could also be smaller things like children's books, poetry collections, etc., or some of the books were unusually expensive.

We already got to those ones.