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Disagree. You can draw a direct line between party policy and most politicians' ambitions. There's a certain party that believes that the strongest should survive and screw everyone else. It's not a big jump to guess at their own motivations from there.

Just watched CFL wired for this week. The Bombers (admittedly Darvin didn't play) don't do a lot of yapping on the field it seems. Actions speak louder than words.

We covered a lot of the "merit-based" hiring issue in the Gender Wage-Gap thread over in General Discussion. The thread got locked because *some* people could not accept simple facts. Strange that most of them over there aren't locked for the same reason.

Not surprisingly, you're just making stuff up. Hodge was fired for criticizing the CBC during a broadcast because they went to news instead of finishing broadcasts of in-progress games. https://www.cbc.ca/archives/why-dave-hodge-was-cut-from-the-hockey-night-in-canada-team-1.5491241 I am knowledgeable enough to remember it like yesterday. Black comes across as someone who is too self-important to care about the game playing out before him. That's kind of fatal for a play by play guy. I would hazard a guess that he actually does pbp for half the plays and rambles (or let's Suitor talk over him) for the rest. He is brutal. My cousin went to Cre-Com with him and he was full of himself then. Seems to me that he still thinks he's more important than the game. He fails the ear test in every conceivable way. Try listening (if you can handle it) and not watching a quarter of football during his broadcast. You would have no idea what is happening. Suitor needs to shut the hell up when a live play is happening. He was also talking over Rod Smith a lot too. The Producer & Director really need to can Black and have a serious discussion with Suitor about respecting the live game. And yes, I have done some time in radio and TV production before leaving for more predicatable paycheques and know a lot of people who are still in the business.

Bombers once again won the turnover battle (3-0). Only had 5 penalties for 45 yards. Almost like being disciplined matters.

Rod Black does pbp like he's talking to someone in his back yard - beer in hand - and not even watching the game. Atrocious.

A critical ocean system may be heading for collapse due to climate change, study finds ‘The consequences of a collapse would likely be far-reaching’ By Sarah Kaplan Today at 11:01 a.m. EDT Human-caused warming has led to an “almost complete loss of stability” in the system that drives Atlantic Ocean currents, a new study has found — raising the worrying prospect that this critical aquatic “conveyor belt” could be close to collapse. In recent years, scientists have warned about a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which transports warm, salty water from the tropics to northern Europe and then sends colder water back south along the ocean floor. Researchers who study ancient climate change have also uncovered evidence that the AMOC can turn off abruptly, causing wild temperature swings and other dramatic shifts in global weather systems. Scientists haven’t directly observed the AMOC slowing down. But the new analysis, published Thursday in the journal Nature Climate Change, draws on more than a century of ocean temperature and salinity data to show significant changes in eight indirect measures of the circulation’s strength. These indicators suggest that the AMOC is running out of steam, making it more susceptible to disruptions that might knock it out of equilibrium, said study author Niklas Boers, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany. If the circulation shuts down, it could bring extreme cold to Europe and parts of North America, raise sea levels along the U.S. East Coast and disrupt seasonal monsoons that provide water to much of the world. “This is an increase in understanding … of how close to a tipping point the AMOC might already be,” said Levke Caesar, a climate physicist at Maynooth University who was not involved in the study. Boers’s analysis doesn’t suggest exactly when the switch might happen. But “the mere possibility that the AMOC tipping point is close should be motivation enough for us to take countermeasures,” Caesar said. “The consequences of a collapse would likely be far-reaching.” .... It’s happened before. Studies suggest that toward the end of the last ice age, a massive glacial lake burst through a declining North American ice sheet. The flood of freshwater spilled into the Atlantic, halting the AMOC and plunging much of the Northern Hemisphere — especially Europe — into deep cold. Gas bubbles trapped in polar ice indicate the cold spell lasted 1,000 years. Analyses of plant fossils and ancient artifacts suggest that the climate shift transformed ecosystems and threw human societies into upheaval. “The phenomenon is intrinsically bi-stable,” Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution President Peter de Menocal said of the AMOC. “It’s either on or it’s off.” But is it about to turn off now? “That’s the core question we’re all concerned about,” said de Menocal, who was not involved in Boers’s research. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/08/05/change-ocean-collapse-atlantic-meridional/

Today I learned from someone on reddit (who learned today) that the city of Winnipeg has inventoried their trees and made the map available. Not entirely accurate or up to date, but cool, nonetheless. https://data.winnipeg.ca/Parks/Tree-Inventory-Map-using-New-Visual-Experience/n7eq-raej?referrer=embed

“Ninety-eight percent of hospitalized individuals with covid in Arkansas are unvaccinated,” Williams said. Even though treatments are better than they were originally, a larger share of patients are ending up in intensive care, and the fatality rate for those patients remains high, experts said. “That’s just indicative of the more virulent quality of the delta variant,” Williams said. “It will make people sick, even people that are young and would not have felt any consequence from the original wild variant.” Frighteningly, he said, far more children are being hospitalized, which was very rare until recently. As of mid-July, a dozen children were in Arkansas Children’s Hospital, he said, and two were on ventilators. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/unvaccinated-case-rate-delta-surge/?itid=hp_mr_3

The Washington Post has crunched the numbers and has adjusted them to calculate infection rates for the unvaccinated. Startling... and coming to a certain Southern Manitoba city near you. "Almost half the U.S. population is fully vaccinated, however — and mostly protected from infection. In Missouri, if we remove vaccinated people from the population used to determine the case rate, the numbers paint a better picture of Missouri’s cases among unvaccinated people. The result is startling: Missouri’s case rate among unvaccinated people is as high as its overall case rate in mid-January, near the state’s peak of coronavirus infections." https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/interactive/2021/unvaccinated-case-rate-delta-surge/?itid=hp_pandemic

As an Honorary Witness to the TRC, Kinew was obligated to speak up at that moment. This seems lost on so many people.

Except that there were only 3,084,760 doses of AZ distributed across Canada, so the one in a million calculation is not far off. https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/2019-novel-coronavirus-infection/prevention-risks/covid-19-vaccine-treatment/vaccine-rollout.html

This claim is a bit dubious. More than a bit. As of July 5, suspected side effects reported in the EU due to vaccination of Vaxzevria (formerly AstraZenica) occured at a rate of 0.2%. (152,250 of 58,400,000 doses) If the 33.5 million infections are calculated against total EU population, (512.6 million), you have an infection rate of 6.5%. Suspected Vaxzevria mortality rate was 0.0017%. (938 of 58,400,000 doses) COVID mortality rate calculated by deaths vs total EU population is 1.45% So a person was 853 more times likely to die of COVID than by the vaccine. Not sure avoiding the vaccine really was the right decision. https://www.ema.europa.eu/en/documents/covid-19-vaccine-safety-update/covid-19-vaccine-safety-update-vaxzevria-previously-covid-19-vaccine-astrazeneca-14-july-2021_en.pdf

The vaccines are free and no one in government is telling them not to get vaccinated. Actions (or lack of, in this case) have consequences. If they want to shop for essentials, there's an easy way to facilitate that. If they want their kids in public schools past the age of 11, there's a way to facilitate that too. Every state in the U.S. has increasing case counts. There are 7 different climate zones in that country alone. Who know what kind (or how many) variants this hesitancy is going to allow. Ontario already has $1000 fines for parents who don't vaccinate their kids for specific disease. Alberta has legislation to prevent kids from enrolling in public school if they don't meet specific immunization requirements. It's not like this is our first rodeo in some respects.

What choice does that leave immuno-compromised people who can't get vaccinated or transplant recipients who show no active COVID antibodies after 2 vaccinations? https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-19-vaccine-antibodies-transplant-recipients/ It is a public health issue, full stop. The longer we allow variants to develop, the worse this will get. Screw anyone that is physically able to get vaccinated and "chooses" not to.

Agreed. Just wanted to kick Queen Victoria while she was still down. I think she's still down.

And we haven't even talked about what the British Empire did to other Peoples on other continents.

I think the vast majority of people simply consider Canada Day a day off with fireworks at the end and few even consider that it is the anniversary of confederation. If I were to guess, the people who appreciate it most are immigrants and refugees and the one's who say they appreciate it most are racist nationalists like CanadaProud, OntarioProud, AlbertaProud etc. etc. Below is the best advice I've seen: An extremely gracious and thoughtful response from Cowessess First Nation Chief Cadmus Delorme on The National last night, when CBC host Ian Hanomansing asked what his message is to Canadians: "From a First Nation perspective, I love living in Canada. I went to university, I grew up on Cowessess, I have the best job I think I ever wanted, being chief. It's not an easy task. But there is an accidental racism and ignorance in this country when it comes to history. You know, Indigenous people - and I'm speaking from Cowessess perspective - we don't want to live in our current state. We want to be part of the economy. We want to be part of the growth... the social lives. Sometimes in this country, being Indigenous, it's as if you gotta prove yourself a little more. You're so used seeing maybe, someone asking for change and being Indigenous... you know, there's a story behind every one, of the history that we inherited. So my comment to everybody listening is, from Cowessess, we're not asking for pity. We're asking for understanding. We're asking that you stand beside us, that as we are gaining our control again - as Indigenous people - in our Treaty relationship, that we have better understanding. That our kids going to school understand the impact that residential school made, but also even pre... what great economy Indigenous people had prior to Treaty. This country would be so much more well-off, when Indigenous ideology and understanding is welcomed in, and not just brought in on certain days of the year. (On the debate over whether to cancel Canada Day) I would never tell somebody what to and what not to celebrate. You know, in 2021, we all inherited this. Nobody today created residential schools. Nobody today created the Indian Act. Nobody today created the Sixties Scoop. But we all inherited this. And if we want to say we're proud Canadians, then we will accept the beautiful country we have today, and we will accept what we all inherited. And what I would challenge is: Everybody on Canada Day in this country, if you say you're a proud Canadian, read the Truth and Reconciliation 'Calls to Action.' Over 100,000 residential school survivors told their story - including my parents - and they created the Truth and Reconciliation 'Calls to Action.' Bring that into your personal life, your social life, your business life. And read the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls 'Calls to Action.' There's 231 Calls to Action. If we can all own those a little bit in this country, in one generation we would overcome so many challenges today, that our next generation won't inherit this. We will make them more as Dreamers."

Except that the Habs deserve every success they get by the way they're playing. They seem to win almost every puck race and their sticks are unbelievable. I've found reasons to hate them, but I'm pulling for Price and Weber.

Seems like such a little thing, but I love a DB who looks back for the ball instead of watching the receiver's hands/eyes. It's what made Winston Rose sooooo good.

While you might be technically correct, people in our rural neighbourhood also referred to the pigs' feet version as "head cheese".

If it wasn't Minnesota, it would be less than a black woman who voted when she didn't realize she was ineligible.

Then they should be called "benchmarks". This is certainly not a "plan" in any sense of the word.