Unless people can develop space-age fuel sources in their garages, they might as well stick with oil instead of cancelling pipelines, letting people like Warren Buffet benefit from oil transported by train, cobalt mined by children or unreliable solar or wind power:
Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline carries Canadian oil east, running through Wisconsin and Michigan, supplying about half of the oil needs of Ontario and Quebec. Yes, half. For decades, the pipeline has safely shipped oil that is refined in Sarnia into gasoline, diesel, home heating fuel, and aviation fuel. It is also the main source of propane used in Ontario and Quebec. Many farmers use propane to heat homes, barns and commercial greenhouses, as well as to dry grain. Sourcing propane elsewhere could drive the costs of agricultural production up along with the cost of food for Canadian families.
(Sidebar: would that anyone could believe you now, Mr. O'Toole.)
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After President Joe Biden revoked Keystone XL’s presidential permit and shut down construction of the long-disputed pipeline that was to carry oil from Canada to Texas, opponents of other pipelines hoped the projects they’ve been fighting would be next.
Russia jailed opposition leader Alexey Navalny for about two years and eight months, ignoring Western calls to free him as President Vladimir Putin seeks to crush a resurgence in protests against his rule.
A Moscow court backed demands by penal authorities and prosecutors that Navalny, 44, serve time in prison instead of the suspended sentence he received for a 2014 fraud conviction, for alleged violations of his probation. The term of three and a half years was reduced by the period of about 10 months that Navalny spent under house arrest for the sentence.
The military has once more taken over the country, declaring a year-long state of emergency.
It seized control following a general election which Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party won by a landslide.
The armed forces had backed the opposition, who were demanding a re-run of the vote, claiming widespread fraud.
The election commission said there was no evidence to support these claims.
The coup was staged as a new session of parliament was set to open.
The military says that power has been handed over to commander-in-chief Min Aung Hlaing.
He has long wielded significant political influence, successfully maintaining the power of the Tatmadaw - Myanmar's military - even as the country transitioned towards democracy.
Will someone please oust Moon:
South Korea’s Defense Ministry dropped its description of Japan as a “partner” in the latest defense white paper published Tuesday, a move painted by local media as a “downgrade” that reflects worsening ties between the two countries.
In the previous white paper published two years ago, South Korea and Japan were described as “geographically and culturally close neighbors as well as partners cooperating for global peace and prosperity.”
The latest white paper states the two countries are “close neighbors that should cooperate not only for the two countries’ relationships but also for peace and prosperity in Northeast Asia and the world.”
A ministry official said in a briefing that given Japan’s stronger export controls implemented against South Korea in 2019, the ministry decided it was “reasonable” to call Japan a “neighbor” and stop at that.
The downgrading in description was not the first.
West informs me that only 34 per cent of Canadians believe life begins at conception.
Nearly half of Canada's population has a big roadblock ahead of them when it comes to post-pandemic economic recovery — and it's not the novel coronavirus but a fundamental set of skills for daily life.
Poor reading, writing and numeracy skills in adults make up a literacy gap in Canada with consequences for both democracy and the economy. Experts say the gap is due in part to an abundance of jobs in the past that do not require the daily use of reading comprehension and information synthesis skills.
Or, rather, the culture of education in this country resembles a puppy mill where one can say people graduate from high school but still cannot construct a simple, proper sentence. We do not emphasise the value of learning, not just education, at home or at school, we do not set the academic bar high enough, we do not recognise learning patterns or skill sets, we do not fail those who do poorly and encourage them to try harder or pursue other courses, we do not weed out the administrators where they should be weeded out and we do not reward success.
So there's that.
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