ValueSubtracted

The quality isn't great, but it's hard to find better prices, which is enough for most people, I think.

I think the headline misrepresents it a bit, but:

• Tim's has a long history of playing to a sense of nostalgia and "shared Canadian values".

• Politicians have been using this association to try to seem like Regular Joes for years.

• The franchise is owned by one of the largest corporations in the world.

• Their menu increasingly contradicts the "traditional" vibe they promote, with newer items like Sweet Chili Chicken Loaded Wraps and Loaded Bowls, Tiramisu Cold Brew, and Blackberry Yuzu Sparkling Quenchers.

• They're also increasingly expanding options that discourage people from eating in-store, eroding their "de facto town square" image.

• Maybe the confused identity of the brand reflects the confused identity of Canada as a whole.

To be honest, it's a pretty muddled piece, but there are a couple of interesting points in there.

"Instead of really trying to bring in the best and the brightest to fill the labour market gaps that need to be filled, what we're doing is bringing in low skill, low wage, expendable and exploitable temporary foreign workers in the form of students," Banerjee said in an interview.

Refreshingly blunt. Also unsurprising. Also yikes.

Starfleet Academy (if that’s still a thing?)

Definitely still a thing, reportedly say to start filming later this summer.

As for S31, I don't know if you keep up with the news, but...

They have gone out of their way to portray L'ak as a doofus (and writer Carlos Cisco even gave an interview where he suggested that Breen are dumber in their fleshy form), so you may be right.

Okay, I was certain for a quite a while that L'ak's death was a fakeout...up to a certain point. L'ak said Moll wasn't going to like his plan, which made me think that dying, or appearing to die, was part of it.

But...that was before a Breen medic showed up to help - they should be a lot harder to fool than Culber, who has only a rudimentary understanding of Breen physiology. And the episode certainly framed it as real. And they've dangled a possible motivation for Moll, in a desire to use the Progenitor technology to revive him.

And yet something still screams "bluff" to me. Thoughts?

Edit: also...SEVEN OF LIMES

Let's be honest: at this point, they could make the greatest Star Trek film of all time, and it would only be 1/47 as entertaining as watching the executives at Paramount Pictures stepping on infinite rakes in infinite combinations as they try to make the damn thing.

The punishment for violating the prime directive is apparently a significant amount of paperwork. In “Bread and Circuses” it is stated that Starfleet officers swear to die before violating the prime directive.

Distinction without difference.

Local testing times for May 8:

Alberta: 11:55 a.m. MT

British Columbia: 10:55 a.m. PT

Manitoba: 1:55 p.m. CT

New Brunswick: 2:55 p.m. AT

Northwest Territories: 9:55 a.m. MT

Nova Scotia: 1:55 p.m. AT

Newfoundland and Labrador: 3:25 p.m. NT

Nunavut: 1:55 p.m. ET

Ontario: 12:55 p.m. on May 15

Prince Edward Island: 12:55 p.m. AT

Quebec: 1:55 p.m. ET

Saskatchewan: 11:55 a.m. CT

Yukon: 10:55 a.m. YT

Orrrrr...maybe Wilson Cruz is pregnant and they need to cover it up?

At the same time, "Demons of the Punjab" is probably a top 10 episode for me, I really love it.

"It Takes You Away" is delightfully weird, the New Years specials are generally pretty solid, "Fugitive of the Judoon" is pretty good even though the greater arc-stuff is not, and I have good memories of "The Haunting of Villa Diodati" and "Can You Hear Me?" even though I haven't revisited them since the first run.

Oh boy, I cannot get behind that Capaldi slander.

The Chibnall/Whittaker era...I don't think they're are many people who would say it's their favourite, but there were at least a few pretty good installments in there.