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It's funny how the "Trudeau bad, Trudeau worst, Trudeau sucks, blah blah blah folks so commonly use this tactic to respond in defense of Harper. You should not be typing while you're driving your bus. Go home, think about things and then try again.

I'm assuming you mean it wouldn't save the planet. True enough, but considering it was implemented 15 years ago and provided a foundation for countries to work towards reducing carbon emissions, I don't think it can be so easily dismissed. Harper, being the first to repudiate it altogether, did less than zero to advance the initiative.

Yup. Consider who the National Deputy Chairmen for the RNC Campaign were: Michael Cohen Steve Wynn Elliotte Broidy Louis Dejoy "Little did we know at the time what would soon become of the four men listed in this press statement. Steve Wynn, for example, was forced to resign from his RNC post following sexual misconduct allegations. (The RNC was pressed to return his money. It refused.) Elliott Broidy, as regular viewers of The Rachel Maddow Show know, found himself at the center of multiple controversies. Michael Cohen, of course, was recently released from prison, and will apparently soon release a highly provocative book. And then there's the fourth name on the list: Louis DeJoy, the nation's current postmaster general, who appears to be helping Trump sabotage his own country's postal system, and who appears to be facing some awkward ethics questions." *Broidy was charged for an illegall lobbying scheme yesterday. https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/usps-s-louis-dejoy-makes-his-mark-part-motley-gop-n1236729

If wealth distribution is a byproduct of saving the planet, I'm all for it.

Not at all. Harper tried to use the power of government to discriminate against Muslims before Trump did (Barbaric Cultural Practices Hotline) He refused to speak out against anti-Muslim violence before Trump had the opportunity to ignore it. Harper muzzled scientists before Trump did Harper government removed the word "Environment" from the Environment Canada website. Trump admin has removed climate change references from gov websites. Harper called the Kyoto Protocol a "socialist scheme" before Trump started talking that way. The Harper government gutted protections for fresh water before Trump could do it. Tell me how Trudeau is more like Trump than Harper was, because your simple assertion does not make it so.

So..... an American Stephen Harper?

Bringing the chill of the cosmos to a warming planet Scientists are tapping into a law of physics to create cooling systems that work without special fuel or electricity By Sarah Kaplan OCTOBER 7, 2020 Long ago, in lands that were always warm, people got ice from the heavens. At sunset, they poured water into shallow earthen pits or ceramic trays insulated with reeds. All through the night the water would radiate its heat into the chilly void of space. By morning, it turned to ice — even though the air temperature never dropped below freezing. This wasn’t magic; it was science. For centuries, desert dwellers in North Africa, India and Iran tapped into a law of physics called radiative cooling. All objects — people, plants, buildings, planets — give off heat in waves of invisible light. On a clear, starry night, that radiation can rise through the atmosphere until it escapes Earth entirely. Coldness, which is really the absence of heat, is created through this invisible connection to the cosmos. The world now cools off with the help of more than 3.5 billion refrigerators and air conditioners, a number that is quickly growing. But those appliances are also a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. In seeking relief from the heat, humans are making the globe even hotter, compounding the demand for cooling. To break that cycle, University of California at Los Angeles materials scientist Aaswath Raman wants to turn ancient technology into a 21st-century tool. Working with colleagues, he has developed a thin, mirror-like film engineered to maximize radiative cooling on a molecular level. The film sends heat into space while absorbing almost no radiation, lowering the temperature of objects by more than 10 degrees, even in the midday sun. It can help cool pipes and panels — like a booster rocket for refrigerators and cooling systems. Incorporated into buildings, it may even replace air conditioning. And it requires no electricity, no special fuel — just a clear day and a view of the sky. “It sounds improbable,” Raman acknowledged. “But the science is real.” Generations after people learned to make ice in the desert, he hopes that same science can help us survive in a rapidly warming world. https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2020/10/07/radiative-cooling-climate-change/?arc404=true http://www.aaswathraman.com/

Not to mention that these staff are represented by some pretty good unions. If they were put in danger, the unions would have let everyone know.

I have no stake beyond trying to preserve truth, regardless of the topic. It just so happens I have a pretty good idea about what actually happened in this case, although I had no direct involvement. What I do have is a very good idea of the measures that have been taken to protect patients and staff since March. I don't know why this staff person didn't get or process the information. There's a lot of places communication can break down and the fault doesn't always lie where someone claims it does. Is the claim that no one knew or just this one person didn't know? Is the claim that they didn't know a person was tested because they were suspected of having COVID? Is the claim that they knew that this person was a potential risk, wasn't put into isolation and staff were exposed? Is the claim that they knew this person was a risk, but MB Public Health wouldn't provide results, even though proper/enhanced isolation, sanitizing and screening had been implemented? It's a pretty broad claim that has a lot of potential holes.

Trump must have missed the part at the end where Holt said NBC has offered to host a town hall with Trump and the offer is still open.

Your claim was that they were not informed for a week without saying by who. Not sure that was on purpose to make it harder to refute or just an honest omission of an important detail. I can tell you that this came as no surprise to anyone on campus when it was first reported (less than a week after the test result came back).

A. That was not your original claim B. Still not buying it.

I remain anonymous for reasons, but I'm close enough to the situation to know that your source not being informed was not the fault of Bethesda Place.

This is 100% false.

A propagandist's work is never done.

@Stonekettle Hey, remember when Republicans told us how Grandpa should be willing to take one for the team because Wall Street? NormalHey, remember when Republicans told us how Grandpa should be willing to take one for the team because Wall Street? 9:23 AM · Oct 2, 2020·TweetDeck

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A couple other cases come to mind: Ezra Levant unsuccessfully tried to avoid a libel suit by arguing that he was not a reporter, but a pundit and therefore was not subject to libel laws. He had to pay $80,000. Climate skeptic Tim Ball initially avoided a libel lawsuit because the article he wrote about Andrew Weaver was so full of errors and inaccuracies with such an "indifference to the truth" that the libels directed at Weaver should not have been taken seriously either. Weaver has successfully won an appeal and an award is pending.

Wow! I hope this isn't paywalled, because it sure illustrates the failures of the U.S. response. The code: How genetic science helped expose a secret coronavirus outbreak https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/national/genetic-science-coronavirus-outbreak-iowa/?itid=hp_dontmiss

"But when you end up with a new Rome and it’s hyper dominated by people of one race and one gender, many of whom are disproportionately socially unintelligent, running the platforms through which most human sociality now occurs — democratic discourse, family community, so on and so forth — we all start to live in a world created by people who are just quite limited. They are smart at the thing they’re smart at and they’ve become in charge of a lot of how the world works." https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/24/writer-anand-giridharadas-on-techs-billionaires-are-they-even-on-the-same-team-as-us/

https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/protesters-boo-trump-during-visit-to-ruth-bader-ginsburg-s-casket-92459589983 Sept. 24, 2020, 9:42 AM CDT / Updated Sept. 24, 2020, 10:16 AM CDT By Allan Smith President Donald Trump was greeted with boos and chants of "vote him out" as he attended the outdoor memorial service for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, visiting her casket at the Supreme Court Thursday morning.

QAnon Key Figure Revealed as Financial Information Security Analyst from New Jersey Published: Sep 10, 2020 12:40:15 PM A Logically investigation identifies a key QAnon figure as New Jersey resident Jason Gelinas. The investigation ties QAnon properties to a company owned by Gelinas, an information technology specialist who has held prominent positions at both Credit Suisse and Citigroup. Ever since the shadowy figure known as Q made his first appearance on the 4chan imageboard in October of 2017, the author’s identity has remained a mystery. Since then, Q has posted thousands of ‘drops,’ converting legions of followers to the belief that Donald Trump is leading a global fight against a satanic cabal of child trafficking elites, commonly referred to in the QAnon world as the ‘Deep State’. Over the years, Q’s posts would move from the 4chan forum to 8chan, and finally to its later iteration, 8kun. But these forums weren’t where most of Q’s followers would go to access the drops: most would find them neatly compiled on a site called QMap, now the main platform on which Q’s drops are published. For years it was believed that QMap was an endeavour that was independent of both the chan forums and the person or people posting Q’s drops, but recent discoveries concerning an IP address behind QMap raised questions as to whether Jim Watkins, the owner of 8chan and 8kun, an elusive figure in his own right, could also be Q. As some QAnon researchers have pointed out, however, the story of Q’s operations does not end with Jim Watkins. (more) https://www.logically.ai/articles/qanon-key-figure-man-from-new-jersey

Not sure how the definitions apply in Manitoba, but there are lots of stories in the States about long-haulers who are technically considered "recovered". I believe that means they are either no longer considered to be contagious or they have been released from the hospital if treatment was required. Many of them are still too sick to work.

How Big Oil Misled The Public Into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled September 11, 2020 Laura Leebrick, a manager at Rogue Disposal & Recycling in southern Oregon, is standing on the end of its landfill watching an avalanche of plastic trash pour out of a semitrailer: containers, bags, packaging, strawberry containers, yogurt cups. None of this plastic will be turned into new plastic things. All of it is buried. "To me that felt like it was a betrayal of the public trust," she said. "I had been lying to people ... unwittingly." Rogue, like most recycling companies, had been sending plastic trash to China, but when China shut its doors two years ago, Leebrick scoured the U.S. for buyers. She could find only someone who wanted white milk jugs. She sends the soda bottles to the state. But when Leebrick tried to tell people the truth about burying all the other plastic, she says people didn't want to hear it. "I remember the first meeting where I actually told a city council that it was costing more to recycle than it was to dispose of the same material as garbage," she says, "and it was like heresy had been spoken in the room: You're lying. This is gold. We take the time to clean it, take the labels off, separate it and put it here. It's gold. This is valuable." But it's not valuable, and it never has been. And what's more, the makers of plastic — the nation's largest oil and gas companies — have known this all along, even as they spent millions of dollars telling the American public the opposite. For more: https://www.npr.org/2020/09/11/897692090/how-big-oil-misled-the-public-into-believing-plastic-would-be-recycled

No one I know said we'd "beaten" it - suggesting that it was all over. I can't remember reading anyone saying we had beaten it. I couldn't believe our good fortune at the time because I don't think our Provincial Govt has taken this seriously enough.