AndrewHenry

AndrewHenry, 9 months ago to random

Chatting with a family friend who is a nurse. They work at a camp in the summer.

They said a family whose kids attempt camp had three of their children end up with diabetes after Covid.

#CovidIsNotOver
#COVID19

AndrewHenry, 1 month ago to random

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"We know in the U.S. about 40 per cent of police families experience intimate partner violence, compared to about 10 per cent of the population," she said, noting a lack of Canadian statistics on the matter.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/paid-to-stay-home-one-third-officers-accused-gender-based-violence-1.7181385

AndrewHenry, 26 days ago to random

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That connection, however, was not lost on U.S. Senator Ed Markey, a veteran Democrat and one of the co-authors of the Green New Deal. He introduced legislation earlier this year proposing stringent environmental rules designed to check the escalating carbon, water and land impact of the data centres required to handle the vastly more intensive processing requirements of applications powered by generative AI and large language models

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https://www.corporateknights.com/category-climate/canada-environmental-impact-ai/

AndrewHenry, 4 months ago to random

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What happened to that extra 56 pounds of nitrogen that you bought? Well, some might’ve ended up sequestered in the soil but a lot of it ran off into streams or leached into the aquifer (do you reckon that’s why the neighbor’s well is contaminated?), and some off-gassed to the atmosphere as nitrous oxide, a substance that has 300 times more warming potential than carbon dioxide. Agriculture is the source of 75% of all nitrous oxide emissions in the U.S.

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@chrisnelder
https://riverraccoon.substack.com/p/nxs

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

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There’s a simple explanation. expressed by a former analyst at the US DHS. “You don’t have a bunch of companies coming forward saying: ‘I wish you’d do something about these rightwing extremists’ The disproportionate policing of environmental protest, the new offences and extreme sentences, the campaigns of extrajudicial persecution by governments around the world are not, as politicians assure us, designed to protect society. They’re a response to corporate lobbying

'https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/02/plutocrats-powerful-laws-uk-rich-corporations

AndrewHenry, 1 month ago to random

Wrote something for the local, "Let’s call it the ‘climate inaction’ tax"

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Canada’s premiers have been riling up Canadians lately about the wrong climate tax. Stirring up anger over a tax on carbon pollution, a tax whose revenue is largely rebated back to Canadians, while the cost of climate inaction rises dramatically is something else, particularly when those premiers offer nothing in terms of policy or legislation to rapidly decarbonize their own provinces, ...

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https://www.lowdownonline.com/post/let-s-call-it-the-climate-inaction-tax

AndrewHenry, 10 months ago to random

The police will not allow themselves to be policed.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-officers-refuse-questions-bei-1.6914130

AndrewHenry, 22 days ago to random

If only there was a way to prevent this.

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"What we are seeing is we have people being admitted for other things and then becoming infected with COVID in the hospital because of visitors or sharing a room," she said.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/high-risk-albertans-covid-vaccine-1.7195855

AndrewHenry, 7 months ago to random

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For the first half of autumn 2022, this same creek was too shallow for coho and chum salmon to return upstream to spawn.

We watched the fish school in front of the beach and creek mouth; watched them jump and ripple the near-shore ocean waters with their fins. Those fish waited for well over a month. The usual rains that swell the creek waters to double, triple, quadruple their summertime size, did not come.

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https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/10/12/Rainforest-Without-Rain/

AndrewHenry, 6 months ago to random

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"We're in really dire circumstances. It's perhaps not an overstatement to say that, you know, these salmon are literally facing the verge of extinction if something doesn't turn around pretty quick here."

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-river-chinook-fall-chum-2023-season-1.7018446

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

Destroyer of a once great education system, from kidergarten to undergrad.

He'll let the universities go bankrupt. It has already happened with Laurentian.

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Ford not willing to raise post-secondary tuition in Ontario despite schools reporting financial struggles

Government-commissioned panel has recommended province unfreeze tuition, raise student aid

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-ford-post-secondary-tuition-1.7100406

https://www.tvo.org/article/the-details-of-the-laurentian-university-bankruptcy-story-are-damning-will-they-lead-to-change

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

From @TransitionShow transcripts:

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So I think at the IEA, we're very focused on thinking through what an orderly, rapid process looks like. And I think this has to be a collaborative one. And that was really the essence of that analysis that we released the other day on oil and gas industry and net zero transitions is an invitation to oil and gas companies, because the conclusion that we reached was that clean energy transitions are happening

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https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024/02/05/Trans-Mountain-Too-Busy-Held-Accountable/
https://xenetwork.org/ets/episodes/episode-215-iea-new-oil-and-gas-outlook/

AndrewHenry, 3 months ago to random

And so it begins...

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A large part of Île-Bizard and Île-Mercier are included in those areas, which were heavily flooded in both 2017 and 2019.

Desjardins said the risk is too high to continue offering mortgages to homes that have a five per cent chance or more of flooding each year, with some exceptions.

"The impacts of climate change, including water damage, are growing in importance and causing substantial damage," Desjardins said in a statement.

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/desjardins-cuts-off-mortgages-1.7125435

AndrewHenry, 10 months ago to Ottawa

Sad day. A lovely grocery store is shutting after fifty years. Always had great fresh fruit and vegetables.

#Ottawa

AndrewHenry, 7 months ago to random

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“Every seed company is facing these problems, but they probably wouldn’t want to tell you that,” said Alan Sparks, an industry veteran who consults for Baker Creek Seeds. “‘We’ve got everything in control! Everything’s gonna be OK!’ But it’s not OK.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/oct/16/seed-farmers-climate-change

AndrewHenry, 1 month ago to climate

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Normally, Evans said, his hunting spot is "teeming with wildlife," with three feet of water in some places. Now, it's dried up, with burns still obvious on the trees and ground.

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#drought #ClimateCrisis
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/no-water-nwt-fort-smith-hunter-duck-hunting-no-ducks-1.7186313

AndrewHenry, 1 month ago to random

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Alberta's respiratory virus dashboard shows 25.1 per cent of Albertans received their flu shot this season, the lowest vaccination rate in the last decade.

“As a result we see unfortunately a record loss of life in the province."

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-flu-death-toll-highest-in-15-years-1.7186261

AndrewHenry, 1 month ago to random

Having been extremely sick with Salmonella when I was a very fit 24 year old these rules are a very good step for public health.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/chicken-frozen-salmonella-usda-1.7186282

AndrewHenry, 22 days ago to random

Insurance will become unaffordable.

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Climate, like a preexisting medical condition, has become uninsurable. It is now a risk of substantial loss that is growing – and increasingly certain, frequent, and correlated – and so insurance’s spreading and pooling qualities don’t work. If the annual known climate loss is $150bn and rising, yearly premiums cannot be much less without direct or cross-subsidies that no one is budgeting. It’s insurance, not magic.

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https://www.climatechangenews.com/2024/05/03/seismic-shifts-are-underway-to-find-finance-for-loss-and-damage/

AndrewHenry, 19 days ago to random

Fort McMurray: be ready to evacuate

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/fort-mcmurray-wildfire-evacuation-alert-1.7201442

AndrewHenry, 10 days ago to random

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And yet Canada is the world’s largest oil exporter after Saudi Arabia, the US and Russia.

If you believe geography (rather than the popular will) is destiny, it shouldn’t surprise you that North America’s two liberal democracies are now making common cause with authoritarian petrostates.

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https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-19/climate-america-joins-its-frenemies-in-the-fossil-fuel-club?srnd=opinion

AndrewHenry, 16 days ago to random

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Thousands of residents in the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo have been ordered to leave their homes as a wildfire burning southwest of Fort McMurray continues to draw closer to the community.

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#wildfire
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/alberta-wildfire-grande-prairie-fort-mcmurray-1.7203695

AndrewHenry, 9 days ago to Ottawa

#ottawa #gatineau

Overnight camp for kids and adults with developmental disabilities needs staff urgently

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Currently we do not have enough staff to run our camp at full capacity. In order to avoid reducing camp registrations we are reaching out to you for help in reaching a broader staff network

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AndrewHenry, 9 days ago to random

Impressive!

Canada beat the Black Ferns in Christchurch.

That is a BFD.

https://youtu.be/cj-KqAeehWc?si=WbSlJ2no6Ql98yGE

AndrewHenry, 20 days ago to random

I despair that Canadian first nations might put equity into unconventional nuclear. They are being poorly advised.

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“It’s not going to happen twice. So, we demand to be a part of the small modular reactors opportunity. We see tremendous opportunity and growth with this new technology.”

— Jim Ward, general manager, North Shore Mi’kmaq Tribal Council

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#energytransition
@chrisnelder
https://windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/small-modular-reactors-game-changing-technology-says-north-shore-mikmaq-gm