The line that came to mind was "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;". Wow - what a great poem - describes our current mess pretty well
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Re: "Canada is broken"
I am far more interested in proposals to fix it than I am in proposals to punish those who Conservatives have named as enemies.
No-one should entrust power to angry people who are driven by a desire to inflict damage and are uninterested in repairing it.
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Mr. Blanchet blocked me ages ago for calling out his racism but I stand by my comments then and I stand by them now. Shame on everyone who is demanding resign. Give her a chance and check your white secular privilege.
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Bloc Québécois Leader Yves-François Blanchet says that not only should Prime Minister Justin Trudeau fire Amira Elghawaby from the role of anti-Islamophobia representative, but that he should get rid of the position altogether. trib.al/hFMm1VW
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Since "Chinese Spy Balloon" is trending: In 1945, the crew of USS New York spotted a sphere that they thought might be a Japanese balloon weapon. The captain ordered it shot down but none of the guns could score a hit. Finally, a navigator realized they were attacking Venus.
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Tucker Carlson's nonsense call to ‘liberate’ Canada is no laughing matter nationalobserver.com/2023/02/03/opi via
Mark & Ross hit it out the park ⚡ 👉🏽Why is it these folks can't ack the catastrophe & risk we're facing with the #climatecrisis🤔
And ack what ENERGY & climate experts keep telling us.. we HAVE TO get to #netzero asap or else society is toast.
Disruptive transition is needed!
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I see 's chief scientist Gill Pratt everywhere with his seemingly 'sober' claim that scarce lithium should be used in small batteries for hybrid cars (that Toyota is market leader in of course).
He's calling out "EV-only extremists".
And it's such utter bollox.
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I am also unsure about the *why*/how this came to be but how you pronounce Toronto basically points to if you're from Ontario or not lol.
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You know how people get louder when talking to someone who doesn't speak their language, as if higher volume makes a foreign language easier to follow?
I worry that happens with climate activism. When messages don't land, we shout louder, rather than look for a shared language.
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Alberta provincial voting intentions from Mainstreet Research
🔵UCP 46%
🟠NDP 41%
🟣ABP 6%
🟢WIP 4%
→ 338canada.com/alberta
[Mainstreet, January 19-20, 2023, n=646]
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This Friday I'm defending my PhD thesis 'Steel Beyond Coal'.
With nearly 6 years of research on steel decarbonisation coming to an end, here comes a very long 🧵about steel, coal and what we can do radically reduce carbon emissions in line with a just transformation.
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We pay for the disposal of our waste. But ... the petroleum business is above such obligations.
Carbon capture has marginal utility in certain sectors, but it’ll never save oil.
Isn’t it about time we called BS on CCS?
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This really happened and is wonderful. Establishing a broader understanding of climate change is a huge societal task, not only for news media & science communicators but equally for sports and the cultural sector. Well done, and
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Seeing world-class innovation in action is always a privilege. Thank you for visiting Greenfield’s sponsored lab where #agriculture waste-to-fuel is becoming a reality. 🗞️ globenewswire.com/news-release/2 #cdnag
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Today announced a Building Codes Acceleration Fund
Ask your provincial gov't to apply for this fund and to commit to making all new buildings net-zero energy-ready!
(read on for policy wonkery)
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The largest bank in Denmark is showing Canadian banks what a serious climate policy looks like. Danske Bank just adopted a policy that (among other things) refuses to finance O&G companies which have plans to expand oil and gas production danskebank.com/-/media/danske
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The largest bank in Denmark is showing Canadian banks what a serious climate policy looks like. Danske Bank just adopted a policy that (among other things) refuses to finance O&G companies which have plans to expand oil and gas production danskebank.com/-/media/danske
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🧵New Twitter hygiene twist:
1. Post something you know will elicit drools, growls and curses from countless swamp-dwelling RWNJ’s.
2. Reply to the first one saying “Are you really that stupid?”.
3. Copy 2. to clipboard and reply to all the rest, hitting Control V each…
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I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking and talking about the CCSA low alcohol guidelines. It’s frustrating because you hear the neo-temperance perspective with little consideration that this is ideological and damaging. So a thread to get it out of my brain.
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Shakespeare took great delight in confusing the audience about gender, and I’m gonna give you just two examples because I’m waiting for take-out. 1/3
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Scott and I are going to Haliburton tomorrow to be with Mom. Details about funeral arrangements, and a remembrance for Don in the summer will be forthcoming.
Love, Joan, Sandy, Scott, Cheryl, Kim, Susan, Vaughan
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Hi Friends and family,
I have some sad news to share with you. Around sunset today, my Dad Don Cameron rode off into the great beyond. Shortly before he passed, Mom was sitting with him, holding his hand, and calming him, and he was at peace when he passed.
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We asked 100 women what their favourite shampoo was..
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Anyone else find the silence from as Ontario hurtles towards private healthcare…deafening?
Yeah yeah health is provincial. But we also have a Canada health act.
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When I worked in the US, my hospital was part of a network that had got in trouble for doing cardiac bypass surgery on people with normal coronary arteries, because bypass surgery is a money-maker
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From the 2021 Auditor's report on Outpatient Surgery:
"The Ministry has no oversight mechanism to
prevent patients from being misinformed and
being charged inappropriately for publicly
funded surgeries."
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Private clinics upsell publicly insured patients
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Recently, comparisons with the WW1 stalemates on the western front from 1915 have been used by some observers of the war in #Ukraine. It makes for good headlines but there is one problem; it just isn’t true. 1/22
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Damn...CAPTCHAs getting hard.
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Your regular reminder that Canada has the perfect urban geography for successful high speed rail: large metro areas (with decent transit!) a few 100s km apart along a line.
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Today's population density map is Canada.
#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale
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OTD in 1975, a USAF board of inquiry ruled 38-year-old Maj. Harold Hering, a decorated pilot with 20 years of service, be discharged because two years earlier—during ICBM combat crew training at Vandenberg AFB—he asked how he would know a launch order came from a sane president.
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The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant disaster is teaching us a lot about chronic low-dose radiation exposure.
For instance, that the evacuation of 160k people and culling of ~1500 cows may have been unjustified.
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🇦🇶BREAKING🇦🇶 (literally)
This is Antarctica.
See the small highlighted area? That's one of the largest icebergs in the world, named #B22A.
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#B22A is the largest iceberg in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica (50 times Manhattan land area). It broke off from 's tongue and remained grounded for 20 years.. But now it's on the go (1/4).
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Researchers just found that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7% of childhood asthma cases.
Recently I read dozens of studies about gas stoves and indoor air quality.
I also installed monitors in our home and ran my own tests.
Here's what I learned.
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Who to blame when you message or post complete rubbish:
• 2015 “It wasn’t me, it was that damned autocomplete!”
• 2025 “It wasn’t me, it was that damned GPT assistant!”
• 2095 “It wasn’t me, it was that damned NeuraLink!”
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“It seemed absolutely crazy. The idea that an Iowa housewife, equipped with the cutting-edge medical tool known as Google Images, would make a medical discovery about a pro athlete who sees doctors and athletic trainers as part of her job?” propublica.org/article/muscul
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