Jan. 11, 2022 "TLC's Shauna Rae Recalls When She Stopped Growing at Age 16: 'It Was the Lowest Time of My Life'": Today I found this article by Ally Mauch on Yahoo news:
Shauna Rae is opening up about her journey to self-acceptance ahead of the premiere of her new TLC show, I Am Shauna Rae.
The 22-year-old was diagnosed with a rare form of brain cancer when she was just 6 months. Though treatment helped her into remission, it also left her pituitary gland almost dormant and stunted her growth.
As a result, Shauna now stands at 3 feet and 10 inches tall, which is the average size of an 8-year-old. "I am a 22-year-old woman stuck in the body of an 8-year-old," she described herself in a previous trailer for the series.
During a recent conversation with People (the TV Show!) correspondent Segun Oduolowu, Shauna said she's often not treated "like a normal human" because of her appearance.
"And that's all I'm asking for, is for people to treat me like a normal human," she said.
"I believe that my story is relatable to everyone because I've felt different my entire life," Shauna continued. "And it's not my situation that makes me relate to other people, it's the feelings. It's the emotional things that we go through. A lot of people have different circumstances, but it's the same emotional turmoil that we go through."
She also reflected on how her condition affected her as a child and teen, noting that she first realized she wasn't growing at the same rate as her peers around kindergarten, but it wasn't until junior high that it began affecting her mental health.
Then, at 16, she learned that she wasn't going to grow anymore.
"It was a very difficult time," Shauna shared. "It probably was the lowest time of my life, because I always imagined that I would be tall. And getting that news, it just kind of was like a hammer crashing into glass."
"I kind of isolated myself in a way so I could find myself and be happy with who I am, because at the time I wasn't happy with who I was. I started doing online school, and I just really focused on me and what I wanted to do, and who I was as a person, and bettering myself," she said.
As for dating, Shauna says on the show that her "romantic life sucks" — "I think I've dated like 7 people. I attract creeps, a-holes — you know the typical 'bad boy picture' situation — and idiots."
Speaking to Oduolowu, she added that she has to make sure any potential partner understands her situation.
"I have to have in-person conversations before we even think about going on a date. I have to know how this person reacts in public areas. I have to know if they're going to be able to deal with all the issues I have, because I can't date someone unless they can take all of that on. And it's a lot to ask someone to take on," she said.
Shauna later said she hopes viewers who watch the show can learn from her optimistic outlook.
"Being positive is just the best advice I can give, because at the end of the day, the only person that controls how you feel is yourself," she said.
I Am Shauna Rae premieres Tuesday (10 p.m. ET) on TLC.
My opinion: I felt kind of sorry for her. Everybody has different challenges in their lives. Her challenges in dating seems hard.
May 20, 2022: Today I posted this on my blog:
"The life of a US teen bride"/ "24-Year-Old Man Finds Love and a New Kidney Through Tinder: 'Never Would've Expected That'"
Later, I get this email from Roger on Meetup and he mentioned about Tina Turner getting a kidney from her husband:
Oct. 6, 2018 "Tina Turner reveals her husband donated an organ for her kidney transplant": This was on USA Today:
LONDON (AP) — Tina Turner has revealed that she underwent a kidney transplant with an organ donated by her husband.
The 78-year-old singer says in an upcoming autobiography that she has suffered from kidney disease, and by 2016 her kidneys were at "20 percent and plunging rapidly."
She says her husband, Erwin Bach, "shocked me by saying that he wanted to give me one of his kidneys." Turner says she was "overwhelmed by the enormity of his offer."
Turner writes that afterward she felt "happy, overwhelmed and relieved that we'd come through this alive."
Turner, whose hits include "Proud Mary" and "What's Love Got to do With It?," married German music executive Bach in 2013 after a long relationship.
Extracts from "Tina Turner: My Love Story" were published Saturday in the Daily Mail newspaper and released by its U.K. publisher Penguin Random House. The book is published in Britain and North America later this month.
In the book, Turner encourages people to sign up to donate organs in order to save lives.
Tina Turner reveals husband donated organ for her kidney transplant (usatoday.com)
This week's theme is about dating:
"B.C. developer creating app to help disabled and neurodivergent people connect"/ "Pop stars looking for love from fans"
"Evolution of online dating" (36 questions)/ "Why we need to rekindle the art of flirting"
My week:
Jun. 10, 2022 "This is how Canadians are surviving the soaring cost of everything":
Today I found this article by Jaela Bernstien on CBC news:
Skyrocketing prices are forcing more Canadians to make tough decisions, leaving even middle-class families to choose between buying the food they need and paying their bills.
A recent survey from Food Banks Canada found that nearly one in five Canadians reported going hungry over the last two years.
With the war in Ukraine contributing to the largest cost-of-living crisis of the 21st century, according to a United Nations report released this week, even families in wealthier countries are feeling the squeeze.
Inflation in Canada hit a three-decade high in April, reaching almost seven per cent.
"The war in Ukraine has trapped the people of the world between a rock and a hard place," a briefing from the United Nations Global Crisis Response Group states.
"The rock is the severe price shocks in food, energy and fertilizer markets due to the war.... The hard place is the extremely fragile context in which this crisis arrived; a world facing the cascading crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change."
Surviving on oatmeal, eggs and tuna
Johnnie Barlow, a resident of rural Prince Edward Island, knows that reality all too well.
"In the last few months with the price of everything going up, there's nothing left. By the first week of the month, I'm out of money," he said.
Barlow currently relies on income assistance because he has a brain tumour that affects his thinking, making it difficult to work.
Since the financial support he receives isn't enough to cover rising costs, he said he's had to start restricting his diet.
This is how Canadians are surviving the soaring cost of everything | CBC News
"Canada added almost 40,000 jobs in May, pushing jobless rate down to record-low 5.1%": Today I found this article by Pete Evans on CBC news:
Canada's economy added 39,800 jobs last month, as a surge in hiring for full-time work pushed the jobless rate down to its lowest rate on record, 5.1 per cent.
Statistics Canada reported Friday that more than 135,000 people found full-time work during the month. That more than offset a decline of 96,000 part-time positions.
The jobless rate inched down for the third month in a row, settling at the lowest point it's been since comparable record-keeping began in 1976.
May's hiring surge adds to the expansion that Canada's economy has seen in recent months. After shedding more than three million jobs in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, Canada's job market has slowly and steadily recovered.
Canada added almost 40,000 jobs in May, pushing jobless rate down to record-low 5.1% | CBC News
There are a lot of negative comments on this positive article:
Brad Buttler Just now
Why do the dumb-dumb convoy types not like good news for Canada
Rob Laidlaw 1 minute ago
And how many don’t get counted as looking for a job the participation rate is atrocious under these liberals and cost of living is increasingly unaffordable
REPLY TO @ROB LAIDLAW:
EH follow Elsa Hanco 8 minutes ago
This number is actually quite low in a country of over 30 million people. It suggests the ‘roar’ is actually a ‘whimper.’
More interesting would be the non-participation rate. How many Canadians are not looking for work? Have provincial welfare numbers declined or increased?
Is ‘private’ investment in Canada increasing? That is where the jobs will come from.
Jun. 12, 2022 Saturday night at friend's house: My parents drove to Mei's house. Kevin and Andres was there. They're from the Vegetarian and Vegan Meetup I went to last month. I had joined the Whatsapp chat group.
I got there at 5pm. They were chopping potatoes to deep fry them. I brought a bag of ketchup packets. These were good.
There were zucchini/ carrots/ onions/ seaweed pancakes. It's veggies fried with pancake batter and it tastes really good. I like anything deep fried.
I also ate some leftover Panago vegan Mediterranean pizza. It was average.
We played the board game called Loaded Questions where we ask each other to get to know one another:
I brought the old digital camera to take some pictures of the house and the party.
Here's a video of the party:
Jun. 15, 2022 "After 27 years, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser hits retirement": Today I found this article on CBC news. I mainly use Microsoft Edge. I have a computer from 2004 and it has Internet Explorer. I guess I could remove that off my desktop:
Internet Explorer is finally headed out to pasture.
As of Wednesday, Microsoft will no longer support the once-dominant browser that legions of web surfers loved to hate — and a few still claim to adore. The 27-year-old application now joins BlackBerry phones, dial-up modems and Palm Pilots in the dustbin of tech history.
IE's demise was not a surprise. A year ago, Microsoft said that it was putting an end to Internet Explorer on June 15, 2022, pushing users to its Edge browser, which was launched in 2015.
The company made clear then it was time to move on.
"Not only is Microsoft Edge a faster, more secure and more modern browsing experience than Internet Explorer, but it is also able to address a key concern: compatibility for older, legacy websites and applications," Sean Lyndersay, general manager of Microsoft Edge Enterprise, wrote in a May 2021 blog post.
Users marked Explorer's passing on Twitter, with some referring to it as a "bug-ridden, insecure POS" or the "top browser for installing other browsers." For others it was a moment for '90s nostalgia memes, while The Wall Street Journal quoted a 22-year-old who was sad to see IE go.
Microsoft released the first version of Internet Explorer in 1995, the antediluvian era of web surfing dominated by the first widely popular browser, Netscape Navigator. Its launch signalled the beginning of the end of Navigator: Microsoft went on to tie IE and its ubiquitous Windows operating system together so tightly that many people simply used it by default instead of Navigator.
Fights with regulators
The U.S. Justice Department sued Microsoft in 1997, saying it violated an earlier consent decree by requiring computer makers to use its browser as a condition of using Windows. It eventually agreed to settle the antitrust battle in 2002 over its use of its Windows monopoly to squash competitors. It also tangled with European regulators who said that tying Internet Explorer to Windows gave it an unfair advantage over rivals such as Mozilla's Firefox, Opera and Google's Chrome.
Users, meanwhile, complained that IE was slow, prone to crashing and vulnerable to hacks. IE's market share, which in the early 2000s was over 90 per cent, began to fade as users found more appealing alternatives.
Today, the Chrome browser dominates with roughly a 65 per cent share of the worldwide browser market, followed by Apple's Safari with 19 per cent, according to internet analytics company Statcounter. IE's heir, Edge, lags with about four per cent, just ahead of Firefox.
After 27 years, Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser hits retirement | CBC News
"Mary Brown's Chicken to buy Ontario burrito chain": Today I found this article on the Financial Post:
MARKHAM, ONT. — The parent company of Mary Brown’s Chicken has signed an agreement to acquire Fat Bastard Burrito Co.
Financial terms of the deal were not immediately available.
MB International Brands says the acquisition will combine two highly complementary franchise networks and create one of the largest privately held quick-service restaurant companies in Canada.
The burrito chain was founded in Toronto in 2010 and operates or has under development over 75 locations across Ontario.
Mary Brown’s Chicken was founded in St. John’s, N.L., in 1969 and has around 215 stores across Canada.
The transaction is expected to close on June 30.
Mary Brown's Chicken to buy Ontario burrito chain | Financial Post
My opinion: I have never heard of the Fat Bastard Burrito Co. before because I don't go to Ontario. I don't know if that will have an effect on Mary Brown's menu in Edmonton.
I also don't like the name Fat Bastard because it's kind of offensive and others may not like the name either and not eat there. There's nothing offensive with Fat Frank's Hot dogs and Fat Burger.
"Harry Potter publisher says COVID reading surge is here to stay": Today I found this article by Irina Anghel on BNN Bloomberg:
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc said the surge in reading during lockdown in Britain is the new normal post-pandemic as the company, best known for the Harry Potter series, reported record revenue.
Full-year sales climbed 24 per cent to to £230.1 million (US$277 million) and profit jumped 40 per cent as people continued to buy novels and books related to hobbies and personal interests, the company said in a statement on Wednesday, beating analyst estimates.
Shares in Bloomsbury rose more than 6 per cent in early trading in London.
The publisher’s sales and profit are also up significantly on two years ago before the COVID-19 virus spread around the world forcing people to stay at home and shops to temporarily close.
Bloomsbury said COVID has converted many people into regular readers and book-buyers, even as social lives return to normal, and its sales in the first quarter of the current fiscal year are solid.
“The pandemic made us all re-evaluate how we spend our time and this has resulted in an increase in sales of books,” Bloomsbury Chief Executive Nigel Newton said in the statement. “The surge in reading, which seemed to be one of the only rays of light in the darkest days of the pandemic is perhaps now being revealed as permanent.”
Harry Potter publisher says COVID reading surge is here to stay - BNN Bloomberg
My opinion: I didn't increase my time reading over the pandemic. I read the business news 5 days a week on the internet like:
CBC
BNN Bloomberg
The Financial Post
Jun. 11, 2022 "Here are the 5 best Canadian cities for housing affordability and job growth": Today I found this article by Dina Al-Shibeeb on the Financial Post:
1. Regina
2. Saskatoon
3. Monton
4. Winnipeg
5. Edmonton
Most affordable places:
- Regina — $266,800 — 1.6 (per cent change vs. in the last year)
- Saint John — $273,800 – 29.1
- Fredericton – $281,900 – 30.8
- Saskatchewan – $291,200 – 3.1
- St. John’s — $294,400 – 9.2
- Sault Ste. Marie – $302,200 – 46.5
- New Brunswick — $302,300 – 33.2
- Quebec City — $327,700 — 15.8
- Newfoundland & Labrador – $332,200 — 12.3
- Greater Moncton — $333,200 — 36.6
- Saskatoon – $334,600 —-3.4
- Prince Edward Island — $338,700 — 26.3
- Winnipeg — $345,500 — 13.6
- Edmonton — $363,900 — 9.3
- Nova Scotia — $397,900 — 37.3
- North Bay — $450,200 — 42.8
- Halifax-Dartmouth — $499,000 — 36.9
- Calgary — $502,800 — 17.2
- Bancroft and Area — $532,300 – 40
Source: Zoocasa
Cities with the strongest labour markets
- Saskatoon, Sask. (up by 13 places in the past year)
- Guelph, Ont. (up by 19)
- St. Catharines, Ont. (up by 29)
- Peterborough, Ont. (up by 14)
- Regina, Sask. (up by eight)
- Oshawa, Ont. (up by 13)
- Victoria, B.C. ( up by one)
- Sudbury, Ont. (up by 23)
- Moncton, N.B. (up by 16)
- Winnipeg, Man. (up by 14)
- London, Ont. (down by four)
- Edmonton, Alta. (up by 11)
- Vancouver, B.C. (up by four)
- Toronto, Ont. (up by 14)
- Kitchener, Ont. ( down by one)
- Thunder Bay, Ont. (up by 13)
- Halifax, N.S. (down by 14)
- Sherbrooke, Que. (down by 9)
- Montreal, Que. (up by one)
- Quebec City, Que. (down by 15)
Source: BMO Economics
Top 5 Canadian cities for affordability and | Financial Post
Jun. 15, 2022 "Opinion: Taxing vaping promotes smoking. So why is Ottawa doing that?": Today I found this article by David Clement on the Financial Post:
Health Canada announced last week that warning labels will now be required on each and every cigarette in a pack. That global first is part of Canada’s goal to have fewer than five per cent of Canadians smoke by 2035. It’s hard to tell what effect similar measures have had in the past but for whatever reasons tobacco use in Canada has been on a significant decline over the last 15 years. In 2007, 31 per cent of Canadians identified as regular smokers. By 2020, that number was down to just 11 per cent. That’s certainly good news. We all know the devastating impact smoking can have. Approximately 48,000 Canadians die each year from tobacco-related illnesses.
Vaping, which is nicotine consumption without the combustion of cigarettes, is dramatically less harmful than smoking, and is therefore widely considered a useful harm reduction tool for smokers trying to quit. A 2017 study from researchers at the University of California found that U.S. census data showed vaping had contributed to a significant increase in smoking cessation.
It therefore recommended positive public health communications supporting vaping. That’s the approach being taken in England, with positive results. After Public Health England deemed vaping 95 per cent less harmful than smoking, the U.K. Office of Health decided to promote vaping to adult smokers as part of the country’s own plan to be smoke-free by 2035. It has even created a “swap to stop” program in which smokers can trade in their cigarettes for free vaping devices.
Why is not hard to understand. If you are trying to quit tobacco, being limited to vaping products that taste like tobacco isn’t very helpful.
Opinion: Taxing vaping promotes smoking. So why is Ottawa doing that? | Financial Post
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