SpankyMcFarland

2050, not long from now really. They were already committed to an 80% reduction.

Yes.

Britain commits to net zero emissions by 2050. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-48596775

We’ll be reading more headlines like this if people listen to the anti-vaxxer crowd. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/number-measles-cases-1000-us-time-eradication/story?id=63606750

Immunization is one of the great triumphs of public health. The benefits massively outweigh the risks.

I’m always looking for decent Canadian wheat beers. Tried this one tonight: Not bad.

Given the choice between those two, I would go with economics. Three of my cousins did it and went on to careers in economics, accountancy and business respectively.

I’m just bowled away by the bravery and sangfroid of the Apollo mission astronauts and I’m sure that applies to anyone else who has been up there too.

It should make a difference to some of our garbage, for which we are responsible.

Actually for everybody’s good. We do live on the same planet. The days of unloading our garbage on some cheaper foreign company with a laxer approach are drawing to a close. I see Malaysia is waking up to this problem as well and is sending back our trash. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/take-back-your-rubbish-malaysia-returning-unwanted-canadian-plastic-1.5152274

Call it what you like but it is the effective thing to do. We should be responsible for dealing with our own trash in our own country. The era of pretending that waste is being dealt with in the same way everywhere is coming to an end on this small, fragile planet.

Developing nations have enough difficulties already without having to deal with our garbage as well. At the very least we should keep our plastic waste in Canada.

A basic level of shelter should be made available to all. That proposition is quite separate from soaring property prices in some cities.

More fake news from those global elite lizard people regarding evidence of climate change: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/patagonia-ice-field-split-climate-change-1.5147759

In another election yesterday, the NL Liberals won half the seats and vow to form a minority government: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/nl-votes-2019-election-winner-1.5138888 Not much public enthusiasm was in evidence during the campaign. The spectre of provincial debt and deficits hung over the contest.

Just one his buddies. Nothing to see here.

It is rather irritating to read of this story when CRA is so keen on such items as foreign property worth over 100k. They seem to prefer the low-hanging fruit that requires little effort to pick.

Some of them take a pay cut. It’s a line of work better suited to the vain than the greedy.

Meow. Anyone who’s been PM can’t really be called a failure by ordinary Joe standards and ‘not that good looking’? Really? Exactly how demanding are you in that department? I’d happily swap physiques with him right now and if there was a woman in my life I’m sure she’d concur. In some ways Trudeau is a more modest Canadian version of the Trump phenomenon. A photogenic minor celebrity before entering politics and from a wealthy family, he dispensed with the long apprenticeship we usually expect from aspiring leaders. Let’s hope our parliamentary system pushes back against this trend. For the record, I preferred Garneau until that guy almost put me on a Max 8 with his dithering. And I’m pleasantly surprised that the ‘hate’ bait wasn’t taken by posters. In a humdrum, safe, well run country like Canada, we shouldn’t hate politicians of any stripe. They are generally doing their best in a very difficult line of work. Irritation is about as much as one should feel.

Negative campaigning is de rigueur these days. Everybody does it. Nobody is really surprised by JT's volte-face.

Some legal progress on the fentanyl front: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/3/18528123/insys-fentanyl-trial-verdict-john-kapoor-opioid-epidemic

Not even on the level of the Ottawa River? I see Goodale is announcing money for better flood-plain mapping in Canada, among other things.

Any story is hyped these days. Given that we’re talking about the nation’s capital there will be a fair amount of attention devoted to it.

These are record-breaking floods and it looks like worse is to come over the next few decades: https://globalnews.ca/news/5218234/the-new-norm-ottawa-mayor-floods/ Whatever plans there were to fight this problem will have to be radically augmented.

What I mean is we will be seeing record-breaking floods on a regular basis.