As with other wild populations, the animals’ health, ecological sustainability and whether they are reservoirs of infectious disease would be the paramount concern.

Not sure that the current provincial government has the credibility in evidence-based decision making to be able to sustain any interventions.

As Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Carignan is a General not a Lieutenant General.

It’s really unfortunate when a basic error doesn’t get caught in the vetting of an article as it undermines the rest of the story.

https://www.canada.ca/en/department-national-defence/corporate/organizational-structure/chief-defence-staff/cds-bio.html

Class sizes are up and supports are down.

Now attendance requirements for grades are being instituted.

It doesn’t occur to the government to enquire about why students are avoiding or refusing school attendance.

I’m not sure ‘lined up’ is quite right.

It’s more that Tom Jackson was considered the likely choice and was known to be under final consideration, but there were always others being tested for the role.

But it would have been a huge conflict, even in the 90s.

Jackson would have been leaving a groundbreaking Indigenous-focused show that laid the ground for authentic representation and storytelling to join the cast of Voyager. There is no likelihood he would have avoided questioning the consultant’s credibility.

I’m wondering if Jackson raised some soft concerns in the auditions such that Paramount decided they didn’t want to risk frictions, not realizing that their contract advisor was the issue.

I’m on a Voyager rewatch with one of our GenZ kids.

It wasn’t long before we hit the episode with Chakotay coaching Janeway to find her spirit animal guide — I had to stop to explain why I was finding it uncomfortable.

They’ve seen the whole series multiple times since middle school but hadn’t known about the entire fake ‘Indigenous consultant’ fiasco with Voyager.

Conceptually, I appreciate the intention to have an authentic but non specific Indigenous character and hiring a consultant for that. That’s definitely intentional representation.

I often wonder if the consultant pushed the EPs away from casting Canadian actor Tom Jackson in the role of Chakotay simply because Jackson, who is authentically Indigenous (Cree mother, raised on-reserve in Saskatchewan) would have likely outed the consultant as a fraud very quickly.

Tom Jackson had played the role of Lakanta in the TNG 7th season Wesley-focused episode ‘Journey’s End.’ He was at the time, already in a senior main cast role in the groundbreaking CBC show North of 60 and had demonstrated his ability work in an ensemble with strong women characters.

By all accounts, Jackson was in very serious consideration for the role of Chakotay. Beltran was a surprising choice by contrast. While Latin American Indigenous descent is part of his heritage, there were sincere questions raised about why the showrunners had chosen not to cast an actor who was raised and connected to his Inidgenous identity.

I just realized there’s even a fried egg in there.

It’s available as a BlueRay screencap from TrekCore…

Might be best to download directly from there:

https://tas.trekcore.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=61

Definitely replicators, and ones that are presumably more sophisticated than the 24th century ones on Voyager given the general use of programmable matter by Starfleet in the 32nd century.

What’s challenging in the 32nd century setting is that more advanced technology exists but it’s availability is very uneven.

In Discovery, in the 32nd century, Admiral Vance makes the point that all the food at Federation headquarters is made from reconstituted waste. This is when Vance is negotiating with Osayraa of the Emerald Chain in season 3.

TAS and Discovery both showed the Enterprise has food synthesizers rather than replicators.

How significant is the difference? — it’s never made clear but picking up a meal from a food synthesizer is implied in TOS when Kirk gets a simple meal from a wall.

Also, it does seem that SNW’s food synthesizer is much more sophisticated than the one in TAS and Discovery, fabricating better quality basic materials.

Here’s compilation I made a while ago, of Scotty’s distain for the mayhem caused when the ship’s main computer gets hit by a ‘spatial anomaly’ and interacts with the ‘Rec Room’ 3D holographic simulator in TAS ‘The Practical Joker.’ At bottom right, Scott reacts to a misbehaving food synthesizer that is spitting out all manner of fruit — as shown later in the video OP attached.

Glad you enjoyed it. The artist has a few more on his channel.

Given that they regularly eat the fuzz off of deer antlers* after they are shed, I am open to any odd dietary choices from porcupines.

*this odd porcupine factoid was of great amusement to one of our kids when they were of kindergarten age and liked to play the “guess what animal I am game.”

Apppreciated.

And we appreciate the new subscribers who’ve been able to find us through this and other discovery-focused communities.

Glad to hear you liked it.

It’s so hard to keep track of shows when they’re only renewed after the season ends and the production timelines are so very long. That’s why it’s exciting to know that there’s a second show going into production and more in development.

Please do join in our weekly discussion threads on Monarch: Legacy of Monsters (aka M:LOM). Our community is just getting going and it’s grey to welcome other enthusiasts.

Not sure what specific canceled show you might be thinking of…

Monsterverse is specifically used for all the movies, comics, games, animated and live-action television made by Legendary (Pictures, Comics, Games, Television etc.) using licensed Toho Godzilla and other kaiju.

The Monsterverse continuity began with Godzilla (2014), then Kong: Skull Island and continued with several more cinematic features. At this point, with 12 years of releases, it is the second longest running continuity in the 70+ years of the Godzilla franchise, with the Showa era remaining the longest.

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, a partnership between Legendary Television and AppleTV, is viewed as a global success. Its second season is currently in weekly streaming release on AppleTV. It’s being very successful in attracting new fans and expanding the audience for Godzilla and other kaiju.

A second spinoff Monsterverse series focusing on Lee Shaw in a 1980s Cold War context has been greenlit by AppleTV and is starting production in June.

That said, while this community is featuring the Monsterverse continuity, we’re open to posts and discussions about all Toho, Toho licensed and related kaiju media.

Please feel welcome to post and comment about other eras and continuities.

Thanks! I’ll add that to the original post.

This is very helpful in putting the situation in context.

The key thing is that this is disciplinary and after the fact.

Some municipalities in other provinces do have provisions for extras floors to be permitted beyond regular zoning in exchange for a number of lower cost dedicated accessible units throughout the building that have covenants restricting them to tenants or owners (in the case of condos) with disability certificates.

This model has been successful in creating lower cost affordable and integrated housing for persons with disabilities.

However, it’s intended to function as an incentive, with accessible units designed in on each floor in exchange for more floors. It’s not a remediation.

On the blood products recipient end, we want to ensure safety and ethics in the products people need to live.

Unfortunately, donations are not adequate such that Canadian Blood Services buys blood products to make up the difference.

A significant portion of the product purchased and imported into Canada from the United States comes from incarcerated populations.

Paying Canadians for plasma donations is an arguably lesser harm than importing plasma and fractionated blood products from incarcerated persons in the United States.

A healthy adult should be able to make plasma donations very frequently. This raises questions about what was happening in that donation centre’s screening and drawing procedures.

In fact, there is a long history, when the blood supply was less reliable, where parents of children with bleeding disorders often donated plasma biweekly in order to make sure their children had a safe and timely supply of essential coagulation factors.

Ensuring that the donations are safe both for the person donating and the recipients is nonnegotiable. It’s also however essential that we have the blood products available for those who need them and not condemn those with inherited bleeding disorders to disability due to insufficient availability of fractionated products.

Then, since it sounds to be clear and recent, perhaps you could explore citizenship by descent in an EU country where you have a legitimate claim.