People who order a well-cooked steak - we won't think any less of you if you just admit you don't actually like steak and have the burger instead. You'll save a few quid as well.

In Canadian disability news: Budget 2026 came out today, and there are a few things in it for people with the Disability Tax Credit and their families. These are proposals, so they still have to pass, but here’s what’s worth knowing:
If you have the DTC and work, even a little
The Canada Workers Benefit is being replaced by the “Build Canada Workers Benefit” starting in 2027. The disability supplement (which requires the DTC) would start once you earn $200 in the year, instead of $1,150. For people with very low earnings, that could mean close to $1,000 more.
If you care for a family member
The Canada Caregiver Credit would become refundable starting in 2027. Right now, if your income is too low to pay tax, the credit does nothing for you. Under the change, you’d get it as money back: up to $1,260 a year for caring for a parent, adult child, or other relative, and a smaller amount for a spouse or a child under 18. You don’t need the DTC to claim it.
RDSPs
Family members can already open an RDSP for an adult who can’t sign the contract themselves, but that rule was set to end this year. It would now be permanent.
Medical expenses, with less paperwork
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People with celiac disease could claim a flat $1,000 for gluten-free food instead of tracking price differences (starting with your 2026 return).
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A flat $2,000 for a service dog and a flat $500 for incontinence products, without keeping receipts (from 2027).
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Some devices, like CPAP machines and insulin pumps, would no longer need a prescription to claim.
Home accessibility
If you have the DTC (or you’re 65+) and renovate for accessibility, you could claim a flat $1,000 once instead of adding up every receipt (from 2027).
DTC changes from the spring are moving ahead
The budget confirms the changes announced earlier this year. That includes a simpler application for a short list of severe conditions (like dementia, schizophrenia, advanced Parkinson’s, and level 3 autism), where the doctor only has to confirm the diagnosis.

Most conditions, including ADHD, anxiety, arthritis and chronic pain, aren’t on the list and still go through the regular application, so there’s no reason to wait. More types of practitioners would also be able to fill out the form (physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists and podiatrists, for certain areas).
I put together a full breakdown, including which conditions are on the simpler-application list:
https://www.disabilitytaxservice.ca/budget-2026.../
If you have questions about how any of this applies to you, read the website.

#Budget2026 #DisabilityTaxCredit #CaregiverCredit

My softwaer catalogue (and that sounds crazy to me) continues to grow. All sorts of things up here from speech engines for NVDA and Sapi, to useful tools for everyday use like my accessible clipboard manager for all major platforms, and sensor readout tools for windows, to music-related things like easy-to-use apps for interacting with Eleven Labs.
Check out the full collection here:
https://onj.me/software

I received my order from @alyssa6595 business called Out-Of-Sight Creations LLC today! The snowflake stud earrings are so cute, and so well made! Great quality, great price for handmade ones too!! Packaging was also fantastic to protect my items! 10 out of 10!!! Go shop her products! https://outofsightcreations.com/collections/all

oh I thought they moved out. the elevator people who tell me I don't pray enough or I would have eye sight if I only did my faith correctly I asked them the same thing I have asked lots of people who went down this road. what if it is part of God's plan that I be blind. isn't it a bit presumptuous to assume that giving me eye sight that I never had is the correct plan? I honestly would love to know the answer to that question from a christian perspective. Like if there really is a "perfect plan" then maybe being blind is part of it and god didn't screw up and have to fix it. Not even trying to be a jerk, it just doesn't make sense to me.

I just discovered something cool I wanted to share.

If you live in or near Toronto and need free food or know someone who does, this website has collected a long list of soup kitchens, community fridges, meal programs, food banks, and other places that can help:

https://freemealsnearme.com

You can search by your postal code to see what is close to your home, workplace, or school.

Boosts are warmly welcomed.

#Toronto #Food

Your Windows PC has more auto-starting apps than Task Manager lets on, and you can find them in minutes https://www.xda-developers.com/task-manager-hides-auto-start-programs-a-few-simple-tricks-show-the-truth/

"Quebec has perfected such a vast variety of profanity that it's been called "the Amazon rainforest of swear words". But uttering these blasphemous terms could have once landed you in prison." https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20261104-the-swear-words-that-used-to-be-illegal-in-canada

Canadians had no idea we were this good at meddling

www.thebeaverton.com/2026/11/canadians-had-no-idea-we-were-this-good-at-meddling

WASHINGTON D.C. – In the most successful midterm election since 1974 Democrats have retaken control of the House and Senate thanks, primarily, to Canadian meddling. “Sure we started a hopeless war with Iran that drove gas prices up and put in place tariffs…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Vispero/117565501471781683

so if we don't get all the features outside the US, do we get to pay less? doubt it!

oh wow, a your computer is infected with stuff scam call. haven't had one of those in a while. I played along for a bit. You would think they could come up with at least sort of believeable reasons. no not even close.

I e-mailed the company who makes the Bluetooth transmitter just to say "Thanks for an accessible Windows app; this is why latency is important for screen reader users." I got a reply less than half a day later and thought it was worth sharing:

Hi Simon,
Thank you for reaching out and sharing your experience. We're very glad to hear that the FMA121 works so well for your setup and that you've had a positive experience with FlooCast's accessibility.
Yes, the accessibility support is intentional, and there's actually a bit of history behind it.
When we first developed FlooCast, we used Tkinter, Python's standard GUI library, to build the interface. In September 2024, a user contacted us about accessibility issues. We then discovered that Tkinter's UI components didn't provide proper screen reader support. This came as a surprise, as we had assumed a standard UI library would support accessibility. It was clearly something we had overlooked.
Following that feedback, we rewrote the UI using wxPython, which provides much better accessibility support, and released the updated interface in version 1.1.1. Accessibility has been a supported feature of FlooCast ever since.
We're very pleased to hear that this effort has made a real difference to your experience.
And of course, any further suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated!
Best Regards,
Ranson Sha
Flairmesh Technologies
www.flairmesh.com

"The Trial of the Edmund Fitzgerald: Eyewitness Accounts from the U.S. Coast Guard Hearings" by Michael Schumacher (Editor) My rating: 5 out of 5 stars. Published in 2019.

Book description: Drawn from testimony at the Coast Guard’s official inquiry, looks anew at one of the most storied, and mysterious, shipwrecks in American history, The sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. One of the most famous shipwreck stories in Great Lakes history. It is also one of maritime lore’s great mysteries, the details of its disappearance as obscure now as on that fateful November day in 1975.

This book contains so much detail, and the full reports of the agencies that investigated this tragedy. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested.

#nonfiction #history #GreatLakes #shipping #books #reading @bookstodon

if you need audio via windows setup, on this platform arm-64 snapdragon, get your usb sound card ready.
because the windows setup media does not have qualcom drivers for the audio dsp added, you won't hear anything via the machine's speakers.
a soundcard i can highly reccomend to you is the creative btw6 bluetooth transmitter.
it's really small but all bluetooth processing happens on it's chip
supports qualcom codex and the latest standerds.
plug it in to the usb-c port, turn on your bluetooth device of choise and pare with it I believe it auto pares.
when that's done assumeing you're booted to windows setup,
press the control win enter key to turn on narrator
you will hear windows-11 setup.
through the speaker.
this will also function in safe-mode.
same rules apply here.
corse I could export all drivers from my currently running system and integrate them to a windows image, but it's faf.
I have a backup of all drivers just incase.
for people who don't want to fiddle around with boot menues
use bootice
go to the uefi tab
go to the button that says
boot entries management
press it add a new boot entry
go to
your drive letter/efi/boot/bootaa64.efi and press open.
that boot entry will be added
go to the entry that is called new boot entry,
it's not named.
tab till you hear
boot this entry next time check that box.
tab once then press enter on
save this boot entry.
you will get a message telling you that the entry was saved.
this trick works with non arm64 systems.

On this day in 1979, six American diplomats fled the US Embassy during the Iranian Revolution. They were hidden for months by Canadians led by Diplomat Ken Taylor.

📸 USSD

Learn the real (not Argo) story in my Deep Dive 👇
https://canadaehx.com/2023/12/05/the-canadian-caper/

The really horrible TTS voice on my TV

A little levity goes a long way.

Why Hasn’t Abdul El-Sayed Accomplished Any Of His Campaign Goals Since Winning 2 Minutes Ago?
https://youtu.be/4vkqSigZeDI?is=AHwYLzByRvWknnHU

okay, while trying to consume election results from multiple sources, I have decided that my Roku tv has the worst tts voice I have ever heard. I don't imagine I can do anything about that can I? It is so terrible that it is hard to understand and listen to TTS all the time.

welcome to a night with not nearly enough sleep. that is my own fault. Also, today would have been my mom's 80th birthday. This is the first one and it feels a bit weird not to call her. don't think there is an app that can do that yet, call dead people.

They want you to believe teachers are performing gender reassignment surgery for kids at school. Right, in my day, teachers couldn’t even work the film projector.