I'm glad you capitalized it so that I looked up that Beaver Tails are pastries. I might have got it in my head to hunt a beaver if I thought that their tails are as good as poutine =p

TIL Canadians bowl with 5 pins and small balls that have no holes

He certainly had access to experts who understood that I have no doubt tried to impress on him the reality of what would happen.

But he saw his problem "Journalists need money" and tried to find a way to treat a foreign company as a cash pinata for that need even though they had neither the justification or even the necessary leverage to do it.

He's a smart guy and definitely had the matter explained to him. Problem is you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. There's another saying that doesn't perfectly apply in this situation but is definitely in the same vein: "Don't bother trying to make a man understand something that his paycheck depends on not understanding".

Did he or did he not understand when crafting this legislation that Google would never agree to pay to list a site and as a result would de list sites subject to this legislation?

And I'm assuming too much by taking him at his word that he didn't understand this would happen?

If he understood it he wouldn't have been surprised by the result.

It's under the privacy tab in user settings

This is a perfect example of politicians legislating on things they clearly don't understand

>“It really surprises me that Google has decided that they’d rather prevent Canadians from accessing news than actually paying journalists for the work they do,” Trudeau said.

Really? He's surprised a company isn't willing to pay to provide a service to another?

Every website on the internet has the power to not be listed on search engines, hell as a redditor you can even flag your account to not be listed on search engines, and yet all of these news orgs still choose to be listed without needing to be paid for the privilege. Because it benefits them.

How do you think we know about it if she wasn't found?

It definitely varies region to region, in water rich regions it's easier to find such sources. Of course the point of this article is that the quality of the water doesn't even have to suffer if you are sourcing from wastewater

But in water poor regions where most major cities exist along major rivers that often struggle to make it to the ocean it really isn't an over statement, and these are the regions that need closed loop wastewater recycling the most

I understand perfectly well that that very same water is released into the river after treatment only to be uptaken into the next city's water system.

Obviously an apprehension over unsafe water sources is a natural and healthy response but the point is that we are already drinking that tampon water, so we may as well be more efficient about it

What a lot of people that are squeamish about waste water recycling fail to grasp is that you live in a city that gets its water from a river you already are drinking recycled waste water. To say nothing of recycling of the water cycle in general

If there are a few cities on a river that is essentially a river of (hopefully) treated waste water.

We can make this process much more efficient by recycling water in more closed loop systems but for some reason people think drinking the recycled waste water from people upriver is preferable to drinking the recycled waste water from your neighbors