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@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social Downtown Bear!

Indeed. And I think the porcelain one was in the "Dean of the House" office, so the longest serving MP. For a while that was Bill Blaikie who wasn't allowed to use it, if I recall correctly.

I guess one challenge is that we don't all use AECOs the same way, as an example.

Yikes Stephen. Isn't Part 3 just simpler?

The new thing I'm hearing is that EU has better "post market surveillance" than North America, hence why we can't adopt their standards.

@cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social there is a specific Throne in the Senate chamber for the monarch; the speaker doesn't use it. If I recall correctly, there's also a reserved toilet in Centre Block.

There's never a stair *only* for emergency use - the theory is that one stair is redundant. Fire services arrive, designate one stair as the fire stair after investigation, somehow this is communicated to occupants.

And because it is in Part 3, it doesn't apply to Part 9

...though an escalator wouldn't accommodate a wheelchair. In other places we omit "escalator" and "inclined moving walk" as accessible paths of travel (3.8.3.2) though that may be because of occupancy type differences.

But - because 3.8 is our main zone for accessibility, I'm going to pin it there

We may do it differently by requiring accessible paths of travel in Part 3 (cf. 3.3.1.7, 3.8.2.3) but we sometimes allow vertical travel to be "a ramp, a passenger elevator, a platform-equipped passenger-elevating device, an escalator, or an inclined moving walk"...

well, now you've got me because i don't know the building code inside out ;) i'm looking, because I know we changed it to 3 storeys in 2023 and i'm not sure where or how

Ours has a similar rule but for 3 storeys. The code itself isn't perfectly harmonized yet, btw - that will be the 2030 code

Wasn't this the point of the beard?

Rounding I wager.

It's been warm for us too, which was a bit surprising. Had the fan on to help.

This is my memory of SEPTA as well

Man I remember when 350 was our hope and aim. Just blew straight past that

Or even like two or more booths for voting? They wouldn't begin ID verification until the person before had deposited their ballot.

I feel like it's the first time I've ever seen it like that, and as tedious as it was.

Yep, but I guess I didn't give up this time. At least I was in the door by 920, just had to sit and wait since they only allowed one person to approach the desk at a time.

Yesterday it was 1.5 hours and I gave up not getting near the door. Today I went at 815, was done at 945

I enjoyed greatly leaving the front door and seeing the line at the station I could not use.

This was a great irony as I had to go to Thurlow and Davie to vote.

@donoteat.bsky.social I felt it urgent to inform you that the IBC is not, indeed, used in Canada.

Love this

Yeah. The Electrical Code contains specifications that are defined in standards and tells you when to use them, it doesn't include materials testing rules because there are standards that do that.

Ultimately I think B44 is a code that references standards contains a lot of standards language in it.

All I know for certain is that the Canadian Electrical Code is a National Standard of Canada

I have one source that says that codes are standards that are adopted into law; another says codes are not laws but standards generally are. Then another says codes tell you what to do, and standards tell you how to do it.

Best kind of film, that