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In our case, the number of participants is relatively stable. Just like last Summer, we have a little less participants when the weather is nice. One difference, though, is that we are partly open for up to 25 persons in church. Numbers vary (2-4 in French, up to 25 at the English service), but...

There are a few advantages of contract work, like when work is cyclic or people can use their expertise in more than one place. The plumber you hire at home is one example. Contractors who help clean streets in Winter and work on highway construction in Summer are another example. But overall...

I have mixed feelings on that. As far as I am concerned, if their point of view affects their teachings, they should not be allowed to be a university, but they should neither be allowed to be a college, a high school or an elementary school. On the other hand, if they find a way around that...

I personally would prefer standard time all year round. A few reasons 1. As a question of principle, I prefer the clock to be in sync with the sun instead of being ahead by one hour. 2. Currently, most people on fixed schedules (including me when I worked in the office) work way too early for...

One thing that bugs me in most editors, including this one, is the inability to use a hard space between words. If one wants to keep two words together (as in 90 km where you want to make sure the number and unit stays on the same line), a simple trick is to type a non-breaking space (code...

There is also competition with the NDP. NPD promotes social values and (most of the time) environment. Green party promotes the environment and, over the years, their social policies were sometimes great, sometimes not so great. There were a lot of fringe candidates that had a social agenda even...

In the few projects I have in mind, they use electricity coming from public Hydro poles. So there are still expenses in pumping water, having ceiling fans, and providing that supplementary heat between 13 and 22°C. Still, I am aware that in one case, they reduced their energy bill by 90%...

The principle is very easy, but expensive to install. Just put some pipes in the earth and run water or antifreeze from the building to deep in the ground where it typically stays at 10-13°C. These pipes going deep into the ground work like a heat-exchange system. So the relative warmth of the...

There was a provincial election in New Brunswick on September 15 which resulted in the Conservatives winning. And there are upcoming elections in BC and Saskatchewan at the end of October. My hunch is that if both elections end up in significant gains for the party in power in both provinces...

One of the issues with all these political appointments is that they often take someone with good credentials in one type of jobs and give them a totally different job. Previous governors such as Jeanne Sauvé and Ed Schreier were already in politics. As such they are used to functions where a...

And they also want to have voices from various regions, and honour past members. Also keep in mind that Andrew Sheer may not have been the best leader, but he could be a very good critic or even minister, just like Joe Clark was an effective Progressive Conservative minister of Foreign Affairs...

I think that's a wonderful concept, but I am not sure how it would work right now. Quite frankly, I don't see them that useful in New Brunswick or Nova Scotia as these are densely populated provinces. It might be better to have 3-4 smaller-scale nuclear plants than a larger one, and overall, it...

I am not sure what needs to be done at all. And no, it's not ignoring the subject but rather trying to find the proper response. We have started by creating four sub-committees that are looking respectively at the historic aspect, the current problems we have, education (in its broadest sense)...

I was not attending our first live in-person service and won't be either for the foreseeable future. It is both a question of personal preference and needs of our community (i.e. they find me "more useful" online). Our first service was limited at 50 persons, which was still the norm until...

I fully agree. It's one thing to edit for obvious blunders (not recording the sound, for example) and it's quite a different thing to edit for minor flaws to make it more "professional". Another thing I have noticed is that, the more it goes on, the more we see parishes that are performance...