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Cake day: October 11th, 2026

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  • director of operations for Conquer Transport, told CBC News in June 2026 that he helped his son and daughter-in-law set up the Alberta operations in 2022 after the Manitoba branch was closed.

    I’ve heard this is a common play when running shady businesses. Keep going until you get shut down or someone gets sent to jail, shuffle the assets around, reform the business with a different family member running it. Maybe someone serves some jail time but it’s ok, the family will take care of him once he’s out.

    When I write it out like that it sounds a lot like organized crime.



  • I believe so, but this guy wants to go after everything else like getting trades to use it and make metric the default setting on electronics.

    IDK if thats the best plan or if he realizes what an uphill battle certain things might be. Like ovens; our oven somehow switched over to metric on thanksgiving and it totally messed me up, I spent a LOT of time figuring out how to change that back to F. Another issue is industries that just aren’t going to want to change: aviation, boats I think are imperial, railways are, home building, etc.




  • When it comes to misogyny or rasicsm you wouldn’t tell someone to just try and do less of it.

    Idk, these are very different things. If I think about how much I hate (some group) then I may be a racist based on that alone. If I don’t consume animal products but I fantasize about eating a cheeseburger I would still be a vegan.

    Nobody is going to literally say “just do less racism” but in practice we often only deal with small parts of someone’s racism.





  • As I said in another comment, it’s a national company so we operate in several different time zones. The issue comes from the fact that Ontario and Quebec (I think) are still changing their clocks. Otherwise I’m sure they could just change the clock on whatever server is running these legacy systems.

    It’s also a mainframe system so we are all logging into one system.

    Also also (and I didn’t find this out until this shit show happened) our employees in Saskatchewan have already been dealing with work time vs town time for like… well forever it looks like. So maybe the system NEVER could adjust for DST and the only reason it worked was because someone is manually adjusting the clock on the server. Idk. I’m at a complete fucking loss as to why this is an issue now, let alone how this could have been an ongoing issue in Saskatchewan for DECADES without anyone figuring out how to deal with it.



  • They would have to figure out changing a bunch of location’s time zones though and that *may* be beyond their capability. Also I don’t know if the system has Yukon’s time zone or not since we don’t operate there.

    Its starting to cause a whole ton of small issues and now some relatively minor pay issues due to this potentially allowing the company to dodge shift differential pay.

    I would go into more detail on a lot of stuff but I don’t want to name the company or anything.