#Electrical Companies in Toronto

[astronelectriclimited]

Upgrade Your Home with Trusted Rewiring Services in Toronto

Astron Electric offers expert electrical wiring and rewiring services in Toronto and the GTA. We understand the importance of a safe, reliable electrical system in your home. Over time, wiring can become inefficient, leading to issues like flickering lights and tripped breakers. If you're experiencing electrical troubles or suspect outdated wiring, it's time to consider a full rewiring. Let Astron Electric address your electrical needs with professional, reliable solutions.

[margorelectric]

5 Key Factors To Consider When Hiring An Electrical Repair Company in Toronto, Ontario

Many electrical services claim to be licensed and insured in a vast region like the GTA but that’s not always the case. Make sure the electrical repair service in Toronto, Ontario, that you’ll hire is properly licensed and insured. Verify all their important credentials like licensing information to know whether they are accredited to work as per the local rules and regulation while having them insured is mandatory for you to avoid any liabilities in case of an accident or injury during the work on your project.

Read More : https://www.margorelectric.ca/blog/5-key-factors-to-consider-when-hiring-an-electrical-repair-company-in-toronto-ontario

[margorautomation1]

Exploring the Synergy Between Electrical Automation and Robotics in Toronto

The advent of electrical automation and robotics integration in industries around Toronto has been revolutionary. These two strong combinations would give way for companies to streamline their operations, increase productivity, and reduce costs. This amazing mix is redefining how businesses approach production, maintenance, and quality control and making sure to focus on an industrial automation company in Toronto, Ontario.

Industrial Automation and Modern Manufacturing

This is the backbone of modern manufacturing, where the processes are automated from effort-consuming repetitive tasks to repetitive results. In this regard, electrical automation is concerned with controlling the flow of electricity through systems such that production processes guarantee precision, safety, and efficiency. In Toronto, Ontario, a company on industrial automation offers solutions to meet the demands of various companies in the most individualistic and productive way.

Electrical automation, for instance, employs advanced control systems, including programmable logic controllers (PLCs), sensors, and actuators, which monitor and control machinery. These have been able to automate operations from simple tasks toward highly involved ones, with human error reduced noticeably and increasing the speed of production. In the high standard setting of quality and efficiency, companies would have to view electrical automation as the instrument of competitive advantage.

Robotics: Amplifying Precision with Flexibility

Machine inanimate liveliness with high efficiency and machine "accomplishments with flexibility and precision." Assemblies, welds, paints, and packages--all done by robots-with performance measurements humanly impossible. Thus it has turned out to be increasingly useful in sectors like: automotive manufacture, electronics, and food processing.

Automation and robotics are fast becoming the norm in industrial applications in cities like Toronto. With the application of robotics to electrical automation, companies would ensure increased operational efficiency and safety while addressing labor shortages. Unlike previous installations, robotic installations can be programmed to work alongside or apart from humans, carrying out dangerous tasks while focusing humans on even higher-value activities.

Efficiency with Robotics and Electrical Automation

It is indeed possible that coupling together robotics and electrical automation can offer businesses in Toronto wonderful competitive advantages. With this approach, companies can now offer industrial automation solutions in Toronto, Ontario, so that clients can take advantage of state-of-the-art technologies for the optimization of operations. Electrical automation ensures power systems that run the robots are optimized for maximum performance, while robotics provide the adaptability and precision required for complex operations.

Organizations wanting to adopt state-of-the-art technologies can easily partner with industrial automation electrical in Toronto, Ontario, bringing the needed expertise to install electrical automation and robotics worldwide. Such synergy has a bright future for changing industries across the region.

Conclusion

The increasing adoption of advanced technology by businesses in Toronto enters another dimension, heightening the importance of synergy between electrical automation and robotics. This is especially true for those businesses in Toronto that invest in suitable industrial automation solutions in Toronto, Ontario,  as they would ensure that these companies remain at the forefront of innovation, drive efficiencies, and harness their potential in the global marketplace.

To know more, visit Margor Automation.

[acelectrical]

Looking for Electrical Companies in Toronto? Contact AC Electrical Contractors Ltd.

Searching for reliable electrical companies in Toronto? AC Electrical Contractors Ltd. provides expert solutions for residential and commercial needs, ensuring quality work and customer satisfaction every time. For more information, visit the website.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ford-us-tariffs-trump-ontario-retaliation-measures-1.7473968

[toronto-tree-removal]

Tree Removal North York: When & Why You Should Take Action

🌳 Why Tree Removal in North York Is More Common Than You Think

North York is home to thousands of mature trees — lining residential streets, filling quiet backyards, and growing on commercial lots. While trees are essential to the neighborhood’s character and ecosystem, there are situations where removing a tree in North York is not only necessary — it’s the safest, most responsible thing to do. Below is your full guide to Tree Removal North York.

From structural issues to bylaw concerns, this guide breaks down the top reasons trees need to go — and what you need to know before calling an arborist.

⚠️ Top Signs It’s Time to Remove a Tree

Some tree problems can be resolved with pruning or cabling, but other cases call for full removal:

1. The Tree is Dead or Dying

If a tree has stopped producing leaves, is covered in fungi, or has hollow branches, it’s no longer safe.

2. Root Systems Are Damaging Property

In areas like Bayview Village or Willowdale, root systems can buckle driveways, lift foundations, or invade plumbing.

3. The Tree is Leaning

Especially after storms, trees may begin to lean dangerously toward homes, fences, or public walkways.

4. Disease or Pests

Invasive species like emerald ash borer can destroy trees from the inside out — making them brittle and prone to collapse.

5. The Tree is Too Close to Structures

Urban trees in Downsview or York Mills often outgrow their planting space, threatening roofs, windows, or electrical lines.

In any of these cases, it’s time to consult with a certified arborist in North York.

Full Article here > Tree removal company Toronto

[justforbooks]

Donald Sutherland

Commanding and versatile actor known for his roles in MAS*H, Don’t Look Now and The Hunger Games

Donald Sutherland, who has died aged 88, brought his disturbing and unconventional presence to bear in scores of films after his breakthrough role of Hawkeye Pierce, the army surgeon in Robert Altman’s M*A*S*H (1970), one of the key American films of its period. It marked Sutherland out as an iconoclastic figure of the 60s generation, but he matured into an actor who made a speciality of portraying taciturn, self-doubting characters. This was best illustrated in his portrayal of the tormented parent of a drowned girl, seeking solace in a wintry Venice, in Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now (1973), and of the weak, nervous, concerned father of a guilt-ridden teenage boy (Timothy Hutton) in Robert Redford’s Ordinary People (1980).

Although Sutherland appeared in the statutory number of stinkers that are many a film actor’s lot, he was always watchable. His career resembled a man walking a tightrope between undemanding parts in potboilers and those in which he was able to take risks, such as the title role in Federico Fellini’s Casanova (1976).

Curiously, it was Sutherland’s ears that first got him noticed, in Robert Aldrich’s The Dirty Dozen (1967). During the shoot, according to Sutherland, “Clint Walker sticks up his hand and says, ‘Mr Aldrich, as a representative of the Native American people, I don’t think it’s appropriate to do this stupid scene where I have to pretend to be a general.’ Aldrich turns and points to me and says, ‘You with the big ears. You do it’ … It changed my life.” In other words, it led to M*A*S*H and stardom.

Sutherland and his M*A*S*H co-star Elliott Gould tried to get Altman fired from the film because they did not think the director knew what he was doing due to his unorthodox methods. In the early days, Sutherland was known to have confrontations with his directors. “What I was trying to do all the time was to impose my thinking,” he remarked some years later. “Now I contribute. I offer. I don’t put my foot down.”

Sutherland, who was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, was a sickly child who battled rheumatic fever, hepatitis and polio. He spent most of his teenage years in Nova Scotia where his father, Frederick, ran a local gas, electricity and bus company; his mother, Dorothy (nee McNichol), was a maths teacher. He attended Bridgewater high school, then graduated from Victoria College, part of the University of Toronto, with a double major in engineering and drama. As a result of a highly praised performance in a college production of James Thurber’s and Elliott Nugent’s The Male Animal, he dropped the idea of becoming an engineer and decided to pursue acting.

With this in mind, he left Canada for the UK in 1957 to study at Lamda (the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art), where he was considered too tall and ungainly to get anywhere. However, he gained a year’s work as a stage actor with the Perth repertory company, and appeared in TV series such as The Saint and The Avengers. He was Fortinbras in a 1964 BBC production of Hamlet, shot at Elsinore castle and starring Christopher Plummer. He also appeared at the Criterion theatre in the West End in The Gimmick in 1962.

In 1959 he married Lois Hardwick; they divorced in 1966. Then he married the film producer Shirley Douglas, with whom he had twins, Kiefer and Rachel; they divorced in 1971. Kiefer, who grew up to become a celebrated actor, was named after the producer-writer Warren Kiefer, who put Sutherland in an Italian-made Gothic horror film, The Castle of the Living Dead (1964). Christopher Lee played a necrophile count, while Sutherland doubled as a dim-witted police sergeant and, in drag and heavy makeup, as a witch.

In an earlier era, the gawky Sutherland might not have achieved the stardom that followed the anarchic M*A*S*H, but Hollywood at the time was open for stars with unconventional looks, and Sutherland was much in demand for eccentric roles throughout the 70s.

He was impressive as a moviemaker with “director’s block” in Paul Mazursky’s messy but interesting Alex in Wonderland (1970), which contains a prescient dream sequence in which his titular character meets Fellini. In the same year, Sutherland played a Catholic priest and the object of Geneviève Bujold’s erotic gaze in Act of the Heart; he was the appropriately named Sergeant Oddball, an anachronistic hippy tank commander, in the second world war action-comedy Kelly’s Heroes; and he and Gene Wilder were two pairs of twins in 18th-century France in the broad comedy Start the Revolution Without Me.

Sutherland was at his most laconic, sometimes verging on the soporific, in the title role of Alan J Pakula’s Klute (1971), as a voyeuristic ex-policeman investigating the disappearance of a friend and getting deeply involved with a prostitute, played by Jane Fonda.

Sutherland and Fonda were teamed up again as a couple of misfits in the caper comedy Steelyard Blues (1973). It initially had a limited distribution due mainly to their participation together in the anti-Vietnam war troop show FTA (Fuck the Army), which Sutherland co-directed, co-scripted and co-produced.

Sutherland always made his political views known, although they surfaced only occasionally in his films. In among the many mainstream comedies and thrillers was Roeg’s supernatural drama Don’t Look Now, in which Sutherland and Julie Christie are superb as a couple grieving their dead daughter. Despite the dark subject matter, the film was notable for containing “one of the sexiest love scenes in film history”, according to Scott Tobias in the Guardian, the frank depiction of their love-making coming “like a desert flower poking through concrete”. The actor so admired Roeg that he named another son after him, one of his three sons with the French-Canadian actor Francine Racette, whom he married in 1972.

John Schlesinger’s rambling version of The Day of the Locust (1975) saw Sutherland as a sexually repressed character – called Homer Simpson – who tramples a woman to death in an act of uncontrolled rage. Perhaps Bernardo Bertolucci had that in mind when he cast Sutherland in 1900 (Novecento, 1976), in which he is a broadly caricatured fascist thug who shows his sadism by smashing a cat’s head against a post and bashing a young boy’s brains out. “And I turned down Deliverance and Straw Dogs because of the violence!” Sutherland recalled.

In Fellini’s Casanova, the second of his two bizarre Italian excursions in 1976, Sutherland coldly calculates seduction under his heavily made-up features. The performance, as remarkably stylised as it is, still reveals the suffering soul within the sex machine.

In 1978 he appeared in Claude Chabrol’s Blood Relatives, a made-in-Canada murder mystery with Sutherland playing a Montreal cop investigating the murder of a young woman. More commercial was The Eagle Has Landed (1976), with Sutherland, attempting an Irish accent, as an IRA member supporting the Germans during the second world war, and as a chilling Nazi in Eye of the Needle (1981). Meanwhile, he was the hero of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), who resists the insidious alien menace until the film’s devastating final shot.

In 1981 Sutherland returned to the stage, as Humbert Humbert in a highly anticipated version of Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita, adapted by Edward Albee. It turned out to be a huge flop, running only 12 performances on Broadway. Both Sutherland and Albee played the blame game. “The second act is flawed,” Sutherland said. “Albee was supposed to have rethought it, but he never did.” Albee told reporters that he had scuttled some of his best scenes because they were “too difficult” for Sutherland because “he hasn’t been on stage for 17 years”.

Continuing his film career, Sutherland played a complex and sadistic British officer in Hugh Hudson’s Revolution (1985), and in A Dry White Season (1989) he took the role of an Afrikaner schoolteacher beginning to understand the brutal realities of apartheid. In Oliver Stone’s JFK (1991), he held the screen with an extended monologue as he spilled the conspiracy beans to Kevin Costner’s district attorney hero Jim Garrison.

After having made contact with young audiences in the 70s with offbeat appearances in gross-out pictures The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) and National Lampoon’s Animal House (1978), the latter as a pot-smoking professor, he was cast as an unconvincing bearded stranger in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992).

On a more adult level were Six Degrees of Separation (1993), in which he played an unfulfilled art dealer; A Time to Kill (1996), as an alcoholic, disbarred lawyer (alongside Kiefer); Without Limits (1998), as an enthusiastic athletics coach; and Space Cowboys (2000), as an elderly pilot. By this time, he was gradually moving into grey-haired character roles, one of the best being his amiable Mr Bennet in Pride and Prejudice (2005).

The Jane Austen novel was also featured in the television series Great Books (1993-2000), to which Sutherland lent his soothing voice as narrator. Other series in which he shone as quasi baddies were Commander in Chief (2005) – as the sexist Republican speaker of the house opposed to the new president (Geena Davis) – and Dirty Sexy Money (2007-09), in which he played a powerful patriarch of a wealthy family.

Sutherland continued to be active well into his 80s, his long grey hair and beard signifying sagacity, whether as a contract killer in The Mechanic, a Roman hero in The Eagle, a nutty retired poetry professor in Man on the Train (all 2011), or a quirky bounty hunter in the western Dawn Rider (2012), bringing more depth to the characters than they deserved. As President Coriolanus Snow, the autocratic ruler of the dystopian country of Panem in The Hunger Games (2012), Sutherland was discovered by a new generation; he went on to reprise the role in three further films in that franchise, beginning with The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013).

He played artists in two art-world thrillers by Italian directors: in Giuseppe Tornatore’s Deception, AKA The Best Offer (2013), he was a would-be painter helping to execute multimillion-dollar scams, while in Giuseppe Capotondi’s The Burnt Orange Heresy (2019) he was on the other side of the heist as a reclusive genius targeted by a wealthy and unscrupulous dealer (Mick Jagger).

Aside from James Gray’s science-fiction drama Ad Astra (also 2019), in which he co-starred with Brad Pitt, Sutherland’s best late work was all for television. In Danny Boyle’s mini-series Trust (2018), which covered the same real-life events as Ridley Scott’s All the Money in the World, he played J Paul Getty, the oil tycoon whose grandson is kidnapped; while in The Undoing (2020), he was the father of a psychologist (Nicole Kidman), reluctantly putting up bail when her husband (Hugh Grant) is arrested for murder.

For the latter role Sutherland was in the running for a Golden Globe, having already received an honorary Oscar in 2017.

He is survived by Francine and his children, Kiefer, Rachel, Rossif, Angus and Roeg, and by four grandchildren.

🔔 Donald McNichol Sutherland, actor; born 17 July 1935; died 20 June 2024

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[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Toronto dumps Tesla from EV program, assistant mayor aims to shutdown Tesla

Toronto dumps Tesla from EV program, assistant mayor aims to shutdown Tesla

P.S. Elon receives his own medicine: Direct subsidies canceled for Tesla in Toronto....! Good...! To make the revenge sweeter, Canada can easily significantly reduce or cancel the import duty on electric cars, solar panels produced by Chinese companies...

[staticspaces]

The Ballroom Mansion

As always, there is a video to accompany this location!!

Moving along we take a look at the ballroom, the elaborate staircase, the hand painted ceilings as well as the rest of the main floor!!

This home was last owned by Rebecca MacDonald, she was the founder and executive chair of a huge corporation, Just Energy, which is an electricity and gas supply company. In 2020 she listed the mega mansion for sale for $18 million, the home took 5 months to sell and the buyer paid $15.5 million. Meanwhile in early 2021, Just Energy filed for bankruptcy and was later delisted from the Toronto Stock Exchange in 2022.

The mansion was built in 1966 and was much smaller, a tennis court was added in the 80s. In 2001 the home was sold to the MacDonald family, they added the ballroom, a large section to the back as well as another section on the left side of the house. Finally after 2005, a porte cochère was added to the front entrance of the home.

The 19,000 square foot mega mansion sat on 2 acres of land in a very prestigious area with other mansions owned by celebrities and CEOs. It had Venetian style features with coffered and hand painted ceilings, elaborate crown moldings, decorative wrought-iron accents and elegant chandeliers. The home was massive with 9 total bedrooms and even 10 bathrooms!

After the home sold in 2021, it sat abandoned for a few years before finally being demolished in the summer of 2024 and will be replaced with a newer and probably even larger mansion.

[thinkingcha0s]

⠀⠀ ⠀⠀﹒ %%﹐⠀ CHAOS THEORY, previously known as THEXPLANATIONS is a five-member rock band. the group originated in toronto, canada with JAEHWAN, and his cousin SUNGJOON, alongside jaehwan's high school best friend, QUINTON. a year into their garage performances, classmates of jaehwan and quinton, EIKŌ and ZHIXIN started playing with the boys. they began to tour in asia in 2013, six years into their career. during their tour in south korea, they were scouted at a concert by SOLARIA GARDENS and through the buzz of the record deal, the boys signed a week later.

after signing with solaria gardens, the boys began to exclusively promote in south korea, to generate a domestic audience to the company's headquarters. their first official release with solaria was a full length album consisting of old songs and new songs, titled 'GRANDMA'S DOWNFALL" while the group maintained their success in north america, they're new fanbase in south korea started to see tension within the group. after a scandal putting both jaehwan and sungjon on hiatus and the obsessive fandom getting stronger, GEMINI INC.'s head of pr, WILLIAM KIM personally opted for chaos theory to go back to their roots and tour north america.

⠀⠀ ⠀⠀❝⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ╱╱⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ THE BASICS %!? ❞

GROUP NAME: chaos theory, the explanations ( 2007 - 2013 )

LABEL: solaria gardens

YEARS ACTIVE: 2014 - present ( signed )

DEBUT DATE: june 16, 2014 ( signed )

DEBUT SINGLE: so far so good

DEBUT ALBUM: grandma's downfall

FANDOM: traffic lights

⠀⠀ ⠀⠀❝⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ╱╱⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ THE MEMBERS %!? ❞

SAMUEL "SUNGJOON" MYUNG ( '92 ) , lyrcist & base guitar

JACKSON "JAEHWAN" KIM ( '93 ) , lead vocalist

QUINTON ONG ( '93 ) , drummer

ENZO "EIKŌ" MASAKI ( '94 ) , electric guitar

FENG "ZHI" ZHIXIN ( '95 ) , keyboardist

⠀⠀ ⠀⠀❝⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ ╱╱⠀⠀ ⠀⠀ THE DISCOGRAPHY %!? ❞

TBD

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this story from Grist:

Solar panels and wind turbines give the world bountiful energy — but come with a conundrum. When it’s sunny and windy out, in many places these renewables produce more electricity than is actually needed at the time. Then when the sun isn’t shining and wind isn’t blowing, those renewables provide little to no electricity when it’s sorely needed.

So for the grid of tomorrow to go 100 percent renewable, it needs to store a lot more energy. You’ve probably heard about giant lithium-ion batteries stockpiling that energy for later use. But when providing backup power, even a big battery bank will usually drain in four hours. The need for an alternative has the United States government, researchers, and startups scrambling to develop more “long-duration energy storage” that can provide a minimum of 10 hours of backup power — often by using reservoirs, caverns, and other parts of the landscape as batteries.

A new study from several universities and national labs in the United States and Canada shows that large-scale deployment of long-duration energy storage isn’t just feasible but essential for renewables to reach their full potential, and would even cut utility bills. It looked specifically at the Western Interconnection, a chunk of the grid that includes the western U.S. and Canada, plus a bit of northern Mexico. The study found that building more long-duration energy storage there would reduce electricity prices by more than 70 percent in times of high demand. 

The technologies already exist to hold renewable energy for at least half a day, with more on the way. One technique is known as pumped storage hydropower: When the grid is humming with renewable power, a facility pumps water uphill into a reservoir. Then, when solar or wind power drops off, the facility lets the water loose to flow back down into another reservoir, turning turbines that produce electricity. It’s exploiting energy from the wind and the sun, along with the power of gravity. 

“Battery storage on its own — or what people call short-duration energy storage — is very important,” said Martin Staadecker, an energy systems researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and lead author of the new study. “But you can’t just rely on lithium-ion batteries, because it would be very expensive to have enough to actually provide power for an entire week.”

As of 2022, the U.S. had 43 pumped storage hydropower facilities with a combined generation capacity of 22 gigawatts. (For perspective, the U.S. has around 150 gigawatts of wind power and 140 gigawatts of solar.) According to the Department of Energy, the U.S. has the potential to double its capacity for that kind of energy storage.

Companies are figuring out how to store energy underground, too. A company called Hydrostor, based in Toronto, Canada, uses excess renewable energy on the grid to pump compressed air into subterranean caverns filled with water. That forces the water aboveground into a reservoir. When the grid needs electricity, Hydrostor lets that water flow back into the chamber, pushing the air back to the surface to drive turbines. “We’re kind of creating a piston underground of water,” said Jon Norman, president of Hydrostor. “We’re actually building a cavity out using techniques that they use in the hydrocarbon storage industry to store propane and butane.”

[astronelectriclimited]

Expert Electric Service Toronto: Reliable Solutions for Properties

Are you searching for top-notch residential and commercial electric service Toronto? Look no further than Astron Electric! Whether you need new wiring installed or repairs for existing systems, our skilled electrical contractors are here to provide safe, reliable, and efficient solutions. Known for our professionalism and dedication, we handle all your electrical concerns with precision and care. At Astron Electric, our experienced team completes every job promptly and ensures lasting results, so you never need to call for the same issue twice. Trust us for all your electrical needs in Toronto!

[margorelectric]

Why You Should Never Delay Electrical Repair In Toronto

The electrical repair in Toronto gets delayed, and it becomes very dangerous for the whole house to put off electrical repairs. Many people consider that they can postpone electrical repairs, but even the tiniest of problems could throw your property, family, and finances into peril. Here are the reasons that make it very important to avoid delayed electrical repair, along with possible hazardous effects. Read more: https://medium.com/@electricseomargor/why-you-should-never-delay-electrical-repair-in-toronto-9ad321922080

[hazyaltcare]

Typing quirk suggestions for a...

William Murdoch

(Murdoch Mysteries)

...with themes of the 1890s, early 1900s, science, math, mystery, and crime investigators.

Character Adjustments:

Capitalize "M."

Replace "🤨" with "(¬_¬")."

Replace all instances of "pi" with "ℼ." (Ex. "Spin" becomes "sℼn," "pipe" becomes "ℼpe," and "hospitality" becomes "hosℼtality.")

Replace "E" with "∑."

Replace "F" with "ƒ."

Word Adjustments:

Replace "add," "and," and "plus" with "+" or "➕️."

Replace all goodbyes with "au revoir."

Replace all greetings with "bonjour."

Replace "commitment," "obligation," and other synonyms with "duty."

Replace "diminish," "shrink," and other synonyms with the mathematical term "contract."

Replace "expand," "enlarge," and other synonyms with the mathematical term "multiply."

Replace "firm," "inflexible," "stubborn," and other synonyms with "rigid."

Replace "individual," "person," and other synonyms with "perp."

Replace "junker," "wreck," "jalopy," and other synonyms with the old-fashioned Quebec slang term "charette."

Replace "purpose," "use," and other synonyms with "function."

Replace "reason," "cause," and other synonyms with "motive."

Replace "subtract," "minus," and "deduct" with "-" or "➖️."

Text Prefixes & Suffixes:

【🔍🔬👮‍♂️．．．】 <text>

ᔕᑕIEᑎTIᗩ <text> ᗰᗩTᕼEᗰᗩTIᑕᗩ

↪ <text> 🕵‍♂️

<text> 𝚂𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚢, 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚏𝚞𝚕 𝙳𝚎𝚝𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚎

<text> 🚲💨

<text> - 𝓦. ℳ.

Phrases To Use:

"An investigation is only as thorough as its most oblivious investigators." A paradox that reminds the listener to mind the company they keep, as the weakest link can be a detriment to their overall goals.

"He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it." A quote from the famous Roman philosopher Seneca, this saying encourages the listener to do the right thing, even in tough circumstances, lest they become what they protest.

"If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world." A quote from Nikola Tesla, who William Murdoch is a known admirer of. This (arguably insulting) phrase informs the listener that their hatred is very potent, perhaps suggesting/warning that they try harder to keep it in check.

"I'm so stressed that I'm starting to see rorschach blots in blood spatter patterns." A darkly humorous metaphor that suggests stress is causing the speaker, who is presumably a crime scene investigator, to see psychologically disturbing imagery in blood spatters, just like in a rorschach ink blot test.

"Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?" A rhetorical question posited by Oliver Heathside; a famous English mathematician and physicist known for his work in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This phrase reminds the listener not to shun things simply because they don't understand them.

"The investigator should have a robust faith - and yet not believe." A quote from Claude Bernard, a French physiologist from the 1800s. It is to be used in investigative contexts and can remind the listener that, while it is important to keep their optimism and humanity when investigating, it is important that they also hold onto their skepticism.

"The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas." A quote from the famous late 19th and early 20th century writer, H.G. Wells. It can be used to remind the listener that conflict is a last resort used by those with limited problem-solving skills.

"You're searching for answers harder than a PI that's about to get their funding pulled." A simile that can be used to highlight the frantic nature of a subject's search for answers.

General Quirk Suggestions:

Use 1890s-1900s Canadian slang in your speech whenever possible. If you're struggling to find period-appropriate Canadian slang online or in books, try using American and/or British slang that is period appropriate instead, as Toronto slang of that time period was heavily influenced by it's American and British counterparts.

Use a lot of observational remarks, using terms such as "analyze," "inspect," and "investigate" when referring to what you are observing.

Mod Haze (🎮Greyson)

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"Mohammed Marikar’s typical commute to his office in the City of London takes three and a half hours. On a bad day, it is more than four.

The senior director at RBC Wealth Management is one of a growing breed of “super-commuters”, many of whom moved out of town during the pandemic to increase their living space in more affordable regions, and now travel long distances to their workplace for part of the week.

The proportion of commuters globally doing a journey of 90-120 minutes at least once a week has risen from 2.4 per cent in 2020 to just over 4 per cent in 2024, according to Euromonitor. Those with a commute of more than 120 minutes rose from 2.7 per cent to 3.4 per cent.

Marikar and his wife, who runs her own business, moved with their four children from Eastcote, north-west London, to north Wales in 2022. Instead of his previous daily commute of 75 minutes, Marikar gets up at 5am on a Tuesday morning and is at his desk at about 10am — working a later shift so he can overlap with colleagues in Toronto. He returns to Wales after work on Thursday. On Mondays and Fridays, he works from home.

Marikar sometimes ponders the wisdom of his move when stuck in gridlock traffic, but on balance is happy. “You notice a difference in the air. There’s a lot more we can do at the weekends with the kids.” Even when they lived in London, making it home for dinner was pretty rare.

Love Whelchel now travels to his job in New York from Miami, having moved from New Jersey. He typically spends a fortnight at home and then a week commuting. Although he is away more he says the time he does have with his family is better quality. “It’s given me some balance and focus. This has been an amazing time to spend with my teenage son. When I was commuting in New York, I barely saw him.”

Some employers are attempting to ease the financial burden on long-distance commuters beyond allowing them to work part of the week from home and offering rail season ticket loans. For Marikar, the game changer has been his company’s electric car financing arrangement paid through salary sacrifice — an increasingly popular benefit among employers — that spurred him to switch from trains, which can cost up to about £350 a week, to driving, which is just under £50. “The journey is longer. [But] I don’t need to stick to train times. If a train is [delayed] I’m not stuck.”

Adam Wyman, employment partner at law firm Travers Smith, says companies tend not to incentivise commuting but will reimburse travel and accommodation for some high performers. “Businesses that have a skills gap are looking more widely than before. They can recruit someone in another country and pay for them to come to the office where and when.” He also observes a post-pandemic trend for some companies to provide discretionary packages for staff they want to retain who are moving to other countries to be closer to family."

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The federal NDP's transport critic is worried a new high-speed rail project in Ontario and Quebec will kill off publicly-subsidized passenger service in western Canada, the Prairies and the Maritimes. MP Taylor Bachrach, who represents the riding of Skeena-Bulkley Valley in B.C.'s northwest, says he is in favour of improved rail service, but warns it must benefit the public, as opposed to private companies. The plan for a consortium of private companies to build and operate 300 km/hour electric trains to run between Toronto and Quebec City, with stops in Ottawa, Montreal and other places, was announced Wednesday by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The project is to be overseen by a newly created Crown corporation called Alto. Currently, train service in that corridor is provided by Via Rail, a Crown corporation, which also provides service from Prince Rupert, on B.C.'s North Coast all the way to Halifax, with stops at major cities in-between. But more than 90 per cent of Via Rail's passengers — and more than 80 per cent of its revenue — comes from those travelling between Quebec City and Windsor, Ont., according to the corporation's annual reports. Bachrach says all that could be lost should the new rail line come online in the years ahead. "The Liberals plan to essentially hand over ridership to the private sector ... and Via Rail is going to be left with the crumbs," he said in an interview with CBC News. "They're going to be left with a fraction of the revenue that they use to operate rail all across the country."

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