Notices by M. Grégoire (mpjgregoire@mastodon.club), page 68

Amazing archery by Lars Andersen. Completely unlike what you see in the movies, supposedly similar to what ancient warriors would have done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEG-ly9tQGk

#archery

If you favour electoral reform, then start with municipal government.

I'm content with FPTP for provincial and federal elections, but I do favour ranked voting for mayors, e.g., https://www.rabit.ca/

#canpol #electoralreform

‘Electoral reform is finished’: B.C. voters reject switch to proportional representation for third time | National Post
https://nationalpost.com/news/politics/electoral-reform-is-finished-b-c-voters-reject-switch-to-proportional-representation-for-third-time

#bcpol #electoralreform

@lemonde Alors laissez-nous savoir l'histoire complète de Cardinal McCarrick.

@keithzg @Fralambert @ink_slinger Stephen Harper was indeed very #conservative personally, maybe the most conservative political leader Canada has had in sixty years (limited interest in social conservatism, to be sure). But he ran a relatively centrist, incrementalist government. His ambition was to be the conservative Mackenzie King.

Paul Wells describes it well in *The Longer I'm Prime Minister*.

#canpol

@ink_slinger @Fralambert @keithzg Didn't the Lougheed Conservatives want to diversify the economy away from the petroleum sector?

For better or worse, Albertans are not as #conservative as they think they are, and neither are their Conservative parties.

@Fralambert @keithzg @ink_slinger
First, it's not true that a vote for a candidate who has little chance of winning is a wasted vote in FPTP — more votes for the Greens make the other parties take the environment more seriously. They want you to vote for them next time.

Secondly, the Alternative Vote (AKA instant-runoff voting) would be a more obvious solution to Adam's concern that voting for the Green candidate would hurt the NDP candidate.

#electoralreform

@ivyl We have a workshop like that at the library in Brossard, Quebec.

#brossard

@keithzg What did they use for that sort of task back in the day? My understanding is that LaTeX was common in math/physics/economics, but perhaps your father was in another discipline.

It is /possible/ to make complicated documents in MS Word, but (for instance) I had to alter the Table of Contents manually to have the first page of Appendix B indicated as B-1. The resulting pdf had no bookmarks, so I had to create those by hand as well.

Both steps could be completely automatic in orgmode.

Submitted a 26 MiB report in pdf to Doc Control; 119 pages, of which I created about 22 in MS Word. The whole thing was assembled in Bluebeam Revu and then signed electronically in Notarius Consigno.

It would be so much faster to make complicated documents like this in #emacs. Easiest with #orgmode, but even plain #LaTeX would be easier than grappling with the tool chain in MS Windows.