Jenn Dowling-Medley
@aliasjdm
Lawyer with background in biomedical engineering. Semi-retired sub-elite hobby jogger. Reformed MS Paint meme artist, irredeemable shitposter. Celiac advocate (non-influencer kind). Not legal or engineering advice.
proof I can speak French lol. I hate this "but it might help other people!" argument so much. At 10 000 ppm, that's placebo.
lol, Coeliaque Quebec throwing shade at one very specific bread company that markets their product as being 1% gluten without naming them
anyways, here is the bad photo I took before I got intimidated out of the area by someone who thought I shouldn't be photographing the outside of buildings that people live in
Kitty didn’t like the cage or the car ride from Vanier too much because they just wanted to be held 🥹. An excellent addition to someone’s family no doubt!
lol at all the anglos who can't speak french properly thinking this was a sleight and not that "vie" is a feminine noun also weird to think that calling someone a woman is an own but ok
please stop or alternatively, someone sue over this so we can find out if "gluten friendly" evades liability for cross-contact the way some places seem to think it does
can we update drivers on this point lol? Many seem to act like you've committed high treason if you're not hugging the curb or white line (or, not getting off the road to ride on the dirt shoulder or parking lane!)
The language of the law is quite broad, and has recently included stuff like grocery stores slapping a maple leaf on shelving when the product is not Canadian.
this is what the asterisks lead to, if you want to know about it Now I'm guessing that the Kosher meal situation came into being due to advocacy from the Jewish community. I imagine if the celiac/food allergy community pushed a bit, we could get truly appropriate accommodation without a disclaimer
don't believe companies when they claim they can't provide a guaranteed CC-free gluten-free meal... they usually do provide this for Kosher folks 😉 (this is not me suggesting those following a Kosher diet shouldn't get this, but rather that those with celiac should too)
companies need to stop thinking that this is fine if you are not celiac but think that people with celiac shouldn't be taken advantage of, don't dine at restaurants or bakeries making these statements may as well sell vegetarian burgers from freshly slaughtered cow if that's what words mean to them
will the Snowbirds even be able to fly in this? They are scheduled for 4-4:30 PM....
CFIA is on a roll this year? (I think more recalls is good and not an indication of thing getting worse, much like how I think doping busts are good)
When people use CAM/similar phrasings it's mostly to vague-ify alternative medicine (or perhaps permit disingenuous arguments about how deponents seek to cancel say, Indigenous medicine or cultural practices) Here's a definition I came up with for a paper I wrote in law. school:
me screaming into void about anti-science/rationality people who think swimming in the Ottawa river at a public beach is inherently unsafe due to sketchy water quality
"well im not a graphic designer how do you expect me to make a poster" counterpoint, this probably not AI generated Canada Day event poster that someone probably made in 5 minutes in MS Offices:
lol if you're posting AI slop event poster like this, I'm assuming the event is trash and I'm not going
I decided to do some file archeology and resurrect all my high school era photos from corrupted back-up hell and I guess this is what I was doing in 2007-2009 Much to consider
You could probably also do a rural which is to have a "paved shoulder" (😉) that while not designated as a bike lane functions as one, though street parking would make complicated. My hometown has been adding these to regional highways when they do major work on them for a good 20 years.
but wait! there's more from the same intersection (just looking the other way) from the spring melt in March 2021
here is Laurier Est x Brébeuf (corner of Parc Laurier) after a bit of rain in July 2022
I also feel morally obligated to use my very cute glass pitcher with a lemon theme that I found on the curb many years ago (one of my better finds)
Quebec (unlike all other provinces, AFAIK) does impose a specific passing distance for cyclists (1.5 m if limit is >50 km/h, 1.0 m otherwise). From a practical perspective this means you mostly must change lanes and the law's wording does suggest this.
I thought I was doing something with this school computer lab mac photo booth selfie in 2006 and I was right
Behold, the definitive bird alignment chart (authored by me). I feel like the peacocks were a bit like turkeys (confused, but polite) when I was running at Beacon Hill park (but my experience is limited).