Man of the people, working families /s

Canada’s managed forests have in recent years started to release more carbon they absorb, reinforcing a climate feedback loop. In the most striking example, the 2023 wildfires released more planet-warming emissions than almost any country on Earth, save for China, India and the United States, a NASA study found.

Extreme wildfire behaviour is also becoming more common, Flannigan said. Wildfires such as the Jasper 2024 complex can burn so intensely they generate their own thunderstorms that spawn lighting strikes and start new spot fires. The 2023 season saw the most fire-generated thunderstorms recorded in a season, with more than 140 in Canada alone, Flannigan said. The previous global record was 100, set two years earlier.

and let the rest of us keep building renewables (eg, solar, wind)

A prime example of the sentiment “billionaires are a cancer” (that we need to beat)

Right on, CMA!

“The notwithstanding clause should not be a tool to end public and legal debate,” CMA president Dr. Margot Burnell said in a statement.

The CMA says being able to obtain Charter rulings, even when laws remain in force under the notwithstanding clause, remains critical for transparency, accountability and evidence-based health policy.

The CMA warns the outcome could have ripple effects beyond Saskatchewan, including its own legal challenge of Alberta’s Bill 26, which it argues interferes with evidence-based medical care and physicians’ freedom of conscience.

Alberta has also invoked the notwithstanding clause to shield that legislation.

Make Nazis afraid again ✊

An investigation by the fifth estate has found the website known as Entropy, which launched in Calgary, is in fact a safe haven for white supremacists and other extremists seeking to monetize the hateful content they livestream to online audiences.

Within two years after it launched in 2019, Entropy processed more than $3 million in transactions and experts say it has since grown to become an essential service for dozens of neo-Nazis and white supremacists.

Many creators have found a home on the Canadian platform after being kicked off and blocked from making money on mainstream platforms such as YouTube for posting antisemitic and racist content that violates the streaming giant’s terms of service.

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City council is expected to consider the motion at its next meeting on March 25th. If approved, the pilot program would move forward with plans for four locations across the city, though exactly where those stores could go hasn’t been decided yet.

Allow me to provide some context that’s glaringly missing from the article. There was a major under-adoption issue that was a factor in the scrapping of this program. This identifies a new target for intervention: incentivizing primary care offices to get off fax so that we can successfully roll out a more efficient electronic systems like this.

Doctors are still faxing prescriptions in 2026. Ottawa’s $250-million program to change that was just shut down

Despite the number of providers on board, use of the service has remained low. Less than 5 per cent of prescriptions are sent electronically in Canada each year, according to reports from Canada Health Infoway and Telus Health.

The public system gets to pay for treating these patients seemingly made sick by a for-profit business and the investigation of said business. I’m so glad we let for-profit companies back into blood collection after kicking them out after the tainted blood scandal of the 1980s in which 1000s were exposed to HIV or Hep C /s

if she believes this is the best way to represent her electorate and that’s her motivation, fine

I’d have liked to see a town hall meeting or other community consultation at the very least. Absent that, I can’t help but think it’s motivated by self-interest

Legal, yes. Ethical?

That is shocking and maybe setting a very worrisome precedent of Carney clearly implementing a “big business can regulate itself” (wink, wink) style of ‘government’ (or, more cynically, a government that represents clearly represents big business not people)

Ty!

I hope whoever wins can breathe some fresh life into a party, political system, and country that truly needs it right now

Please correct me if I’m wrong, but you had to have registered for this in advance to vote.

If Avi wins, I’ll volunteer for the NDP

If I voted for such a floor-crosser, I’d feel so betrayed

The person you’re discussing this with is clearly more knowledgeable than you are. So you resort to “they must be a bot.” Good grief. Blocked

Why are you being so litigious about this? I’m blocking you because you’re detracting from my Lemmy experience. I have a honours degree in psychology, I work in hospital research, I have 20 publications. I’ve tried to avoid saying “I can tell you two both don’t know much about [social] sciences” but refrained from that out of civility

There’s nothing more Reddit like than “I think what you mean / you should be saying” and a “this is such a Reddit moment” to boot lol

We can agree to disagree. I was respectful. I didn’t say the person or their viewpoint was wrong - I just pointed out what I think is inaccurate in their comment. And, most importantly, I fully explained myself so that others could examine my argument and disagree with it. In retrospect, I should have used “cloaked” instead of “disguised” for connotative language’s sake. I’m trying to help Lemmy remain a place for respectful and accurate discourse, not bots, disinformation, and dunking on people (edit: censorship too)

Studies have shown that racism is often caused by a lack of intelligence

Social scientists don’t speak in such certain terms. I think what you may mean is, anecdotally, the people you’ve seen be racist seem unintelligent. Me too. But the answer to get rid of racism isn’t to get rid of unintelligent people. It’s more complicated than that. Hearing anecdotal experience disguised as scientific evidence (“studies have shown X is caused by Y”) feels like reddit not Lemmy

Neither Corus Entertainment, the parent company of Global News, nor Mulroney himself responded to multiple requests for comment about whether The West Block host sharing video game footage in the middle of a war is in alignment with Global News’ journalistic standards.

The debunked video continues to remain visible on Mulroney’s X page more than 24 hours after PressProgress first contacted the media outlet and its host.

Corus and Mulroney did not address other social media postings by Mulroney over the weekend.

There are a lot of other posts…

Another post shared by Mulroney celebrated the military strikes and warned readers: “Don’t let the left fool you with their anti-war propaganda.” The post continued with “Long live America. Long live Israel. Long live Iran.”

Global News has previously fired its own journalists for sharing opinions about Palestine on their personal social media accounts. In 2023, Global fired Palestinian-Canadian journalist Zahraa Al-Akhrass, suggesting her social media posts violated the company’s policies and created a “perception of serious, journalistic bias.”

Internal emails reviewed by CBC News showed Global News managers had ordered the journalist to remove postings that included hashtags like #freepalestine, #gazaunderattack and #gazagenocide.

Corus provided no response to questions about why sharing content on social media with hashtags like “#freepalestine” could give rise to perceptions of bias but not posts that declare “long live America” and “long live Israel,” let alone posts suggesting left-wing “anti-war propaganda” is a lie.