The premier's family actually has cottages near Wasaga, so really have to wonder what is going on here and why he would want to shoot himself in the foot so to speak.

They're doing a complete redesign of beach area 1 (the party beach zone) as well. Definitely really upsetting, provincial park areas once lost are going to be next to impossible to get back.

I don't 100% remember how Idid it but I completely removed AI (I couldn't function with the obnoxious button much less the AI 'help'). I think I did some combo of unclicking an 'enable generative AI' option and reverting to an old(?) UI. Still live in fear of an update though.

As someone who moved away from home for school and expects to move around more, access to a doctor has become a huge consideration. It's wild to me that family doctors get fined if their patients access care while in another city. I'm not an expert, but imo the billing system seems very punitive.

I can't find the post by the organizers of the petition but the petition itself is here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I saw a petition against this going around, if I remember it was going to be retroactive and link names with edi statements. Is this correct?

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The local toothbrush house was one of my classmates so I always went partially for the fun of seeing their parents but they also did a lit of decorating!

That said, the science faculty does a great job w. student contracts and I suspect that they also have a much more comprehensive system for workplace injuries that occur in labs.

University labs can be dangerous. E.g. finding old chemicals that could explode in chemical labs is not uncommon.

In the end I didn't seek formal treatment if the concussion (I have had concussions before so I kind of knew what to do) since treatment was expensive and I had a very small income.

I think it really emphasized that for legal reasons all grad students should be regularly paid through a contract.

I did have to talk to health and safety so there was a report. I heard about someone else who got lung damage while in a university lab and it was the same deal, it was reported but the student wasn't entitled to any support. (Uottawa doesn't particularly believe in RA contracts).

I gave myself a concussion hitting my head on something in the lab while doing research and it was treated as a non-employee incident. I believe the prof incharge of the lab was looped in but ultimately the university didn't super care because I wasn't entitled to workmans comp or anything.

Of course exam grades are likely adjusted so a similar % pass courses and exams aren't identical year over year.

Are there stats at this point for student performance before and after these 'AI' tools? My edi survey picked up a big shift in students preferred tasks (they suddenly like report writing much more since chatGPT), and anecdotally exam performance has plummeted...

In higher ed (in my role as a grad student/TA) accessibility of chatGPT has correlated with a huge decrease in exam performance - students are using AI tools to get started on assignments and thus don't know where to start for exams. Very concerning imo.

My grandfather fled the czech rep. In part because his family was too educated (his father was a school principal, my grandfather was studying engineering in Prague) so I think looking at fords Ontario there might be something there.

Certainly though the communist era was not a walk in the park.