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Parks Canada warns of ‘irreversible harm’ if Ontario proceeds with Greenbelt development

A letter reviewed by The Narwhal shows Parks Canada is warning Ontario’s plans to build houses in the Greenbelt could harm wildlife, ecosystems and agriculture

thenarwhal.ca/ontario-greenbel

I asked Elon if I should get a Ford EV truck or hold out for whatever GM releases. I figured he might have an opinion, and he should know a bit about electric trucks. He hasn't answered me though. Guess he's too busy burning his money.

I spend the first 10 minutes at any social event planning my exit strategy.

Just a shocking number of people don’t even know the bivalent boosters •exist•.

Folks, there is a newly forumated booster as of October.

If you got your last before October, you should get a new booster.

It’s available for kids 5 and up.

It’s free.

It will protect you ••much•• better against the newest variants, which are hospitalizing people en masse.

Tell your less-online-than-you family, friends, neighbors. Publicity has been terrible.

erictopol.substack.com/p/the-n

Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.

We don’t need to treat essential workers like heroes. We need to treat them like human beings with dignity.

Raise their wages. Give them hazard pay. Guarantee health care and paid sick leave.

“The internet is a space for the public with no publicly owned spaces. The 30 year old decision to fully privatize the internet without any public speech forums means that we live in a city without any sidewalks or parks or school auditoriums”
doctorow.medium.com/yes-its-ce @pluralistic

Our film and TV production sets have better Covid protocols than our public schools.

#TheKidsAreNotOkay #priorities #CovidIsNotOver #onted #Onpoli #HealthCareCrisis #maskup

River Liffey in (I think, I took this a couple years ago, in The Before Time).

A view of the American Falls, or “Lame Falls” taken from Table Rock near the Canadian Falls, aka “The Good Ones”😜 .

When you see long lines at a polling place, remember that it is a policy choice, not an inherent condition.

#gapol

​RTfrom former TO Mayor @iamdavidmiller
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The Ford Government should be under police investigation. It is not possible to believe that these land speculators paid tens of millions for land that could not be developed without knowing the greenbelt protections would be removed. Criminal.
#Toronto #Ontario #pavingover #greenbelt #environment #Onpoli

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Anyway, I’ve been pondering lately: what makes for this difference? And I think I’ve pinpointed it: it’s about each individual masking advocate’s degree of comfort with the idea that the 2019 normal is probably over. If that idea upsets you, a mask is a symbol of a change you’re still not feeling okay with. If you’re sanguine about that idea, though, a mask is a tool that makes it possible for you to do most of the things you did back in 2019 now, but WITHOUT contracting/spreading COVID. /4

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