Disappointing to hear of this. He had a sharp tongue and I liked some of his critiques when he was still writing occasional columns for the Globe and Mail, but I didn’t realize he already lost his journalistic integrity…
Fear of losing bodily autonomy and control to mandatory vaccines, fear of government overreach (easy boogeyman to paint), but most of all, fear of unknown things they don’t understand (microbiology and immunology).
Too bad they will have to relearn the fear of losing their children to a formerly eradicated disease.
Of course, the bastards with a financial incentive to profit from any patsy that falls for it also perpetuate this cycle of fear and loathing.
I think the part that hurts is that nobody Israeli government has any idea what to do with Palestine and its people after the shooting stops, other than the far right nut jobs calling for expansion of Israeli settlements and de facto ethnic cleansing of the land.
Without a viable strategic end goal other than the destruction of Hamas as a military force and political entity, and a refusal to recognize a Palestinian state, what other conclusion can bystanders reach aside from seeing this war as an effort to destroy or displace the Palestinian people?
There’s several big problems that impede adoption of electric cars, one being limits to battery technology (like winter performance, charging speeds, and mileage off a single charge). Although they have gotten better over the years, there’s still more room for improvement. Another issue is that a sizeable chunk of the population lives in rural and remote areas, where the necessary infrastructure to support electric vehicles simply doesn’t exist. But even in more urbanized areas like Southern Ontario, the network of charging stations for electric cars is not consistent enough for many people to switch. There’s no excuse there - multiple Provincial governments failed to address this problem due to a lack of vision and forward thinking (or lobbying from automakers against green policies and infrastructure that hurt their bottom line), while most voters were too busy worrying about carbon footprints (corporate gaslighting) rather than discussing long term solutions.
I agree with all of you, though the fight for expanded public transit will be even harder than that of electric cars (just look at Toronto’s light rail/subway woes)
That’s a good point. It doesn’t have to replace all use cases, but just handle the most common ones more efficiently (without being prohibitively expensive to purchase).
Change is scary for people, but we must adapt to free ourselves of our addiction to oil and gas.
Try to remember that the internet is not fully representative of real life. The world outside will hopefully feel less angry and stressful than this online one.
Definitely avoid social media doomscrolling. It’s fucking toxic.
Shoppers Drug Mart in Ontario accused of price gouging after baffling grocery find (www.blogto.com)
A Shoppers Drug Mart in Ontario is being accused of price gouging on social media after one customer shared a photo of the store’s exorbitant peanu…
Rex Murphy, the sharp-witted intellectual who loved Canada, dies at 77 (nationalpost.com)
As he battled cancer, Murphy continued to file, writing about Hamas and Christmas and interviewing Pierre Poilievre with his usual panache
Anyone else doing the Loblaws boycott?
Is anyone else boycotting Loblaws? I don’t have many alternatives, but I’m doing my best to take my business elsewhere.
The carbon tax has its critics — do any of them have better ideas? (www.cbc.ca)
Citing poaching, violent incidents, Ottawa says elver fishery won’t open this year (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Quebec health officials report 10 cases of measles in Montreal area, confirm community spread (www.winnipegfreepress.com)
Non-Paywall Article
Man accused of smuggling Indian family that died near Canada-U.S. border arrested in Chicago (www.cbc.ca)
Are Canadian Journalists Accomplices To Israel’s Genocide? (www.readthemaple.com)
Alberta’s Brutal Water Reckoning | The Tyee (thetyee.ca)
City of Recovery (drugdatadecoded.ca)
Fill ’er up. Burn it down (www.nationalobserver.com)
It was in self-defence 🙃
Open your eyes! (lemmy.world)