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 Tried to watch the live video feed on the CBC website about the storm. Bailed when the third pre-... 
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 @3409b63c ads are so toxic and disagreeable! Once you get used to not seeing them it’s really incredible how unsettling it is to have to again. 
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 https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-parents-should-be-defending-childrens-rights-rather-than-rushing-to/

It's been really heartwarming seeing the number of editorials across Canadian media that get things the right way around: kids have rights, kids need respect, kids need to be safe. The only "threat" to kids is from right-wing intolerance and bigotry. 
 I also suspect, based on precisely zero actual data, that:

— Older people are susceptible to t... 
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 @3409b63c https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09637214221121570 is an interesting study on how to encourage people to develop strategies that enable them to fight exactly that kind of SEO attention-grabbing.