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Carney temporarily suspending federal fuel excise tax on gas, diesel and aviation fuel | CBC News A day after sweeping three byelections in Ontario and Quebec that gave him a majority in the House of Commons, Prime Minister Mark Carney says he is temporarily removing the federal excise tax on gas ...

It’s time for price caps on gas to stop oil companies from price-gouging Canadians — and a windfall profits tax on war-time oil revenues, so the government can invest that money in the public interest.

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I just signed a bill to rename Minnesota’s community solar program after Speaker Melissa Hortman.

Melissa was a true champion of solar and I was proud to sign this in honor of my dear friend.

Good dude doing good works 🤘 Can you imagine President Harris & VP Walz being in the WH & what a fucking different reality all of us & the entire world would be living? Jesus fucking wept!

Alberta regulator challenges legal basis of Imperial Oil tailings spill lawsuit The regulator contends that the lawsuit is 'overly vague' and challenges the province's oversight system, but the First Nation behind the suit and its advocates argue that the effort is simply a 'delay tactic.'

Alberta regulator challenges legal basis of Imperial Oil tailings spill lawsuit
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Hungary election live: Viktor Orbán concedes defeat in Hungarian election after 16 years in power Long-serving prime minister beaten by opposition after early results showed clear lead

Orban concedes defeat. The support of Trump, Vance, Putin, Lavrov, Weidel, Milei, Le Pen, Fico, Babis and many others could not overcome Hungarian anger at a stagnant, corrupt regime

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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has signed a decree establishing Universal Healthcare for all Mexican citizens.

The United States could’ve had this, but people chose economic collapse, cruelty and death instead. I’ll never regret voting for Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris.

Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this. Proponents of immunity debt own this.

a picture of an ostrich in the desert was animated by dunker k billiha Alt: a picture of an ostrich in the desert with head in sand

When we realised COVID-19 was causing massive health problems, and was airborne, we should have immediately turned to improving air safety.

And we did know this in 2020.

Instead we chose lie and deny.

And here we are, in a “absenteeism” crisis.

It’s interesting. Because since decades measles *is* classified as an airborne disease.
So the current Public Health attempts of “de-airbornisation” of measles (by info-omission) are super weird.

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If they say #airborne, it's an occupational disease, #employer responsibility.

If it's droplet, then handwashing reduces transmission: #worker responsibility

I'm not sure why unions aren't on to this aspect of it, especially since #measles can cause one to become #blind #deaf & brain damaged

Hell hath surely frozen over when Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, Joe Rogan, Megan Kelly, Majorie Taylor Greene and Ann Coulter are all calling for Trump to be impeached or removed using the 25th Amendment. And yet there aren’t enough republicans in Congress that have the courage to do either.

My reaction to #DonaldTrump 's disturbing message today, please watch. Canada needs to be the island of sanity.

Why JD Vance is helping right wing populist Viktor Orbán’s failing election campaign in Hungary The US vice president is attempting to help Trump ally Viktor Orbán cling on to power ahead of a tough election

Evidence: www.aol.com/news/why-jd-...

Trump’s unhinged ranting reminds me of Macbeth‘s in the final stage of his kingship when Birnam Wood is moving towards him and he is losing his senses because of the deadlock he finds himself in!

This kind of stunt is unacceptable - and smacks of GOP -style Christian nationalist donor politics.

The CPC steps farther from plausibly representing average Canadians across the country every day.

Same as before = dangerous vascular virus that can lead to longterm disability or worse

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.

This is Europe's largest onshore wind farm. It can generate enough energy to power 1 million homes.

We have so many solutions to this crisis. Implement them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables #endfossilfuels

Repeat after me: fossil fuel companies will not lead us out of this crisis.

No time to wait. #ActOnClimate

#climate #energy #renewables

Airborne or inhalation transmission The process whereby aerosolized infectious respiratory particles (IRPs) are inhaled and enter the respiratory tract of a susceptible person, move through the upper and then lower parts of the respiratory tract, and can be deposited on the tissue at any point along the tract, potentially even reaching the distal alveolar region. This mode of transmission can occur when IRPs have travelled either a short or a long distance (range) aer emission from an infected person or aer resuspension of deposited particles from surface. World Health Organization, “Transmission-based precautions for the prevention and control of infections,” 2022. [Online]. Available: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/WHO-UHL-IHS-IPC-2022.2. Mechanism of transmission Distance from the source of infection & particles sizes The spread of an infectious agent caused by physical contact of a susceptible host with people or objects. • Direct contact transmission involves both a direct body-surface-to- body-surface contact and physical transfer of microorganisms between an infected or colonized person and a susceptible host. • Indirect contact transmission involves contact of a susceptible host with a contaminated intermediate object (e.g., contaminated hands) that carries and transfers the microorganisms. The spread of an infectious agent caused by the dissemination of droplets. Droplets are primarily generated from an infected (source)person during coughing, sneezing and talking. Transmission occurs when these droplets that contain microorganisms are propelled (usually < 1m) through the air and deposited on the conjunctivae, mouth, nasal, throat or pharynx mucosa of another person. The spread of an infectious agent caused by the dissemination of droplet nuclei that remain infectious when suspended in air over long distances and time. Airborne transmission c…

A reminder when medical institutions talk about "through the air" or "inhalation" transmission, that means "aerosol". The infection control leads who botched COVID and called it "droplet" pretend the new terms mean the science has changed. That's disinformation.
#medsky
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Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

SPRINGSTEEN IN MINNEAPOLIS: “This is still America… and this reactionary nightmare and invasion of American cities will not stand.” 🇺🇸

(From ablackpolitical)

U.S. brought back $100 million of gold from Venezuela, Interior Secretary Burgum says The Interior secretary said Venezuela's interim president, Delcy Rodriguez, wants foreign investment in the country's mining sector.

We invaded Venezuela, kidnapped their leader and installed a puppet, and are now pillaging the country's resources just like the fascists in the 1930s did, and somehow this has already been normalized and isn't being treated as the crime it is

The Alberta government continues to say that it is not bringing in US-style, two-tier health care

Have a read of this update from an ophthalmologists' office

A clear and blatant violation of the Canada Health Act and the principle of access based on need, not ability to pay

#cdnpoli #abpoli

Monday - Send more troops
Tuesday - Say we’re ending war
Wednesday - Send more troops
Thursday - Say ending war
Friday - Send more troops
Saturday - Golf
Sunday - Golf

Wind and solar — the cheapest energy sources Contracted energy costs for wind and solar projects in Canada have fallen to half of what they were 10 years ago, new analysis shows. Now, they’re the lowest-cost form of new electricity generation.

Wind and solar — the cheapest energy sources

Contracted energy costs for wind and solar projects in Canada have fallen to half of what they were 10 years ago, new analysis shows. Now, they’re the lowest-cost form of new electricity generation.