What does Northern Ontario look like?

“We would never tell municipalities what to do, unless they want to put in a fucking bike lane, use communist ranked ballots, or are the City of Toronto” - Doug Ford (paraphrased)

"A wave of magical thinking is sweeping over Cdn. politics, with politicians on the right and now the left fantasizing that there is such a thing as a pain-free way to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions." I like 🦄s and 🌈s too, but not with my climate policy. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Globe editorial: Mr. Singh, meet your ‘big polluters’: all of us

Sparing everyday Canadians from the pain of climate change policy simply doesn’t add up

Imagine the systemic issues we could address in Canada if we talked about anything as much as we do about the carbon tax.

Electric vehicles sales continue to grow in 🇨🇦, breaking yet another record. ↗️⚡️ The latest data from Statistics Canada show the share of fossil fuel car sales continuing to decline after peaking in 2017. #cdnpoli 👇

"The Ontario government abruptly ended its wastewater surveillance program earlier than planned this summer, despite having funding in place until the end of September & being warned that the move could leave gaps in crucial information for public health, internal documents indicate." 👀🚨 1/?

Ontario dropped wastewater testing early, with no plan for feds to step in: documents

Ontario ended its wastewater testing program earlier than planned this summer, despite having funding in place until the end of September.

The Globe's Jeff Gray is making sure we know Health Minister Sylvia Jones is lying about the wastewater testing program. "a spokesperson for the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC), Anna Maddison, provided a statement directly contradicting Ms. Jones’s claims."

Ontario Health Minister defends end of COVID wastewater program

Sylvia Jones says move ends duplication, even though a similar federal system set to continue is only a fraction of the size

Truly astonishing how often power generation and storage ends in "and then water turns a turbine"

It's not just COVID, we could make SUCH A DIFFERENCE if we improved indoor air ventilation. Because it turns out a virus LOVES high CO2. It is still baffling to me how our society managed to turn COVID into personal masking decisions and not BETTER BUILDINGS. www.statnews.com/2024/06/04/c...

A new discovery about carbon dioxide is challenging decades-old ventilation doctrine

CO2 is a good proxy for how much exhaled — and potentially infectious — air is in a room. New research suggests the more CO2 there is, the more virus-friendly the air becomes.

“Cancelling Ontario’s program is a bad idea. It’s stupid. It’s a blow against common sense and science. It leaves us less prepared for the next public-health crisis.” — @mattgurney.bsky.social#onpoli

Cancelling Ontario’s waste-water program is an affront to science and common sense | TVO Today

OPINION: It’s useful, cheap, and poses no direct personal-privacy risks. It’s a godsend. So, of course, the province has decided to scrap it.