I've shared the fun & challenges in my earlier articles, wanted to share some of the pitfalls that #Canada's #Newcomers and #Immigrants experience in the "longer run" in my 6th full length article. Wish you all the luck in your journey!
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So let me get this straight...
Canada is in a recessionโthe only G7 country currently in one. Unemployment is up. Inflation is rising. Food insecurity is at a record high.
Yet the highest proportion of Canadians since 2017 now say the country is on the right track.
That's either a remarkable display of optimismโor a sign that many Canadians aren't getting the full economic story from the news they consume.
She's right.
15 years earlier, I used to buy 1 USD for INR 45 from FOREX market and use it to buy chowmien from the road side stall next to my house.
Today, while the cost of chowmien has remained at 1 USD, I have to spend INR 97 to buy the same USD.
Need to convince Chowmein wali didi to sell chowmein in Rupees. And her cousin how sells Momos also in USD.
The tweet about aliens 2,000 light years away seeing the Roman Empire is wrong, and the actual physics is stranger. To see one person on Earth from that distance, you'd need a telescope wider than the distance from the Sun to Pluto. That's 50 times farther than Earth is from the Sun. No civilization can build that, ours or theirs.
It sounds like exaggeration, but the math requires it. By the time light from a person on Earth reaches a planet 2,000 light years away, it has spread across so much empty space that catching enough to form an image would need that solar-system-sized lens. The geometry doesn't bend, no matter how clever the engineering.
A SETI Institute team led by Sofia Sheikh worked all of this out in February 2025. Our loudest signal is planetary radar, the focused radio beams scientists fire at asteroids and planets to map them. Beams from the now-collapsed Arecibo dish in Puerto Rico could reach 12,000 light years away, about a tenth of the way across the galaxy. After that comes radar leaking from airports and military bases. A giant ground antenna like the Green Bank dish in West Virginia could detect those signals from around 200 light years out, roughly the distance to a few thousand of our nearest stars. A next-gen NASA telescope still in development could spot air pollution like nitrogen dioxide from factories and cars at 5.7 light years away. That puts Proxima Centauri, our nearest star at 4.2 light years, just inside the range. City lights at night go dark past the icy outer shell of our solar system, around 2,300 times the Earth-Sun distance.
The famous "I Love Lucy" idea is also wrong. The story goes that aliens are watching our 1950s sitcoms because the broadcasts are still spreading through space. Astronomer Seth Shostak crunched the numbers years ago. A radio antenna the size of a city, sitting 55 light years away, couldn't pick that signal up. Not even close. At that range, the broadcast is a million times weaker than what the antenna can pick out of the background noise. Old TV signals fade out within the first light year of travel.
So at 2,000 light years away, an alien civilization with our level of technology would see Earth as a tiny dot of light next to the Sun, with hints of oxygen, methane, and maybe some industrial pollution in its atmosphere. They'd see weather. They might guess that something living is here from the chemistry. Continents, cities, individual humans, the Roman Empire, single events: none of those would be visible. The information was lost within a few light years of leaving Earth, well before reaching the closest star.
We're loud to anyone within 200 light years. Past that, we go silent. That signal bubble has only existed for 75 years, so the actual sphere of civilizations that could know we exist is small. And it's getting smaller. Television broadcasts are dying. Satellites use tight focused beams aimed at receivers on the ground, not the sky. Earth's window of being a noisy planet may already be closing.
Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme.
The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality.
This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme.
A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.
๐จLast night, India switched on a reactor.
Here are 9 numbers nobody is talking about:
โ 72 years: Time since Homi Bhabha conceived this plan
โ 22 years: Time to actually build it
โ โน7,700 crore: Final cost (started at โน3,492 crore)
โ 500 MW: Power it will generate
โ 2nd: India's global rank only Russia had this before
โ 25%: India's share of world's thorium reserves
โ 400 years: How long those reserves can power India
โ 200+: Indian companies that built it. Zero foreign designs.
โ 3: Countries that tried and quit - USA, Germany, UK
๐งต A thread that will blow your mind:
The @Dhurandhar2 is a HORROR.
It is a horror for all filmmakers who built their careers and their fortunes on dumbed down, over the top cinema.
The cinema that demanded the brain to be left at home .
The cinema that was rammed down our throats full of LOUDNESS and MASALA which will be now soon on a ventilator struggling for breath
#Dhurandar2 will scare the living hell out of every filmmaker who still worships the godly hero
In #Dhurandhar2 , @RanveerOfficial killed all those heroes who never bleed ,and never feel pain , and then over the dead bodies of those kind of outdated heroes ,he gave birth to a true real hero , flawed, yet dangerous and unpredictable and also his heroism comes from his actions instead of being thrusted upon the heads with ear drum shattering music
Compared to this new kind of hero , the godly heroes will suddenly look ridiculous, almost like clowns in a circus. And then their blind worshippers will feel naked, exposed and scared hearing of the collections
#Dhurandhar2 will terrify those who built their careers on action set pieces where physics is a joke and gravity is non existent . The scenes, where men are thrown fifty feet in the air, bounce off the ground like rubber balls, survive explosions that would vaporise cities, and still deliver punch dialogues while dusting their shoulders will be hunted and killed by the new audience
After the audience saw action that actually hurts, that actually bleeds, the flying goon brigade will suddenly feel cheap, fake, and embarrassingly ridiculous . The filmmakers who still swear by wires and cranes to fake uplift the heroes will now wake up shivering in cold sweat.
It will make the pan india directors tremble in their chairs , the ones who still believe characters are created by hairdos, costumes, photo shopped six packs, and designer clothes instead of intrinsic psychological depth
When the audience of #Dhurandhar2 saw a hero whose power comes from his mind and not his biceps, the hair and costume school of cinema will look like kindergarten dress up.
Dhurandhar 2 is not just a film.
It is a verdict.
With Dhurandhar 2 @AdityaDharFilms cut off the head of that kind of cinema , the one that insulted the intelligence of the audience , the one that replaced stories with bloated gaudy visuals , the one that turned heroes into gods and audiences into sheep
The collections of #Dhurandhar2 are now in the process of burying all those earlier makers beliefs in a grave so deep that even their ghosts canโt come out
And the screams you are hearing now of #Dhurandhar2 box office collections is the collective sound which is announcing their deaths.
If the makers of those kind of films which are already under production , or about to start shooting , donโt go back to their drawing boards and exorcise themselves by watching #Dhurandhar2 multiple times even GOD canโt save their SPIRITS
But the problem is , even if they intend to do that , they might have tonnes of money, but where will they get the brain of @AdityaDharFilms ? ๐ณ๐ณ๐ณ
Had a conversation with Iranian President, Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian, to discuss the serious situation in the region.
Expressed deep concern over the escalation of tensions and the loss of civilian lives as well as damage to civilian infrastructure.
The safety and security of Indian nationals, along with the need for unhindered transit of goods and energy, remain Indiaโs top priorities.
Reiterated Indiaโs commitment to peace and stability and urged for dialogue and diplomacy.
@drpezeshkian
๐จ ๐๐ฅ๐๐๐๐๐ก๐: Canadaโs REMOVAL INVENTORY has exploded to a RECORD ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ญ,๐ณ๐ฐ๐ฐ ๐ถ๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ถ๐ฑ๐๐ฎ๐น๐๐จ
Let that number sink in.
๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฑ ๐ฏ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ธ๐ฑ๐ผ๐๐ป ๐
๐ด WANTED: ๐ฏ๐ฏ,๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ด
๐ Removal in Progress: ๐ฎ๐ต,๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ
๐ก Removal NOT Possible: ๐ฎ๐ฒ,๐ณ๐ฒ๐ฐ
๐ข โNo Action Requiredโ: ๐ฐ๐ด๐ญ,๐ด๐ต๐ณ
That last number alone tells the whole story.
โก๏ธ ๐ก๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐น๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐น๐ณ ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ถ๐น๐น๐ถ๐ผ๐ป ๐ฝ๐ฒ๐ผ๐ฝ๐น๐ฒ in the removal system with NO ACTION being taken.
This is no longer a backlog: ๐ถ๐โ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ง๐๐ ๐๐ ๐๐ข๐๐๐๐ฃ๐ฆ๐.
๐จ Things are spiralling completely out of control for CBSA.
And @liberal_party is pretending everything is โ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐๐ฟ๐ผ๐น.โ ๐คฆ๐ฝโโ๏ธ
๐จHaha! ๐๐ --
Toronto man gives a "taxpayer's acknowledgement"
immediately after a woke Toronto councilor gives a "Land acknowledgement"
"lets reflect and remember that EVERY salary and lightbulb in this chamber is funded by us" ๐๐
Give him the ORDER OF CANADA!