Nope:
The survey, conducted by the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO), finds 75 per cent of nurses in the province experiencing “burnout.” Hospital and frontline workers were the most likely to report higher levels of “depression, anxiety, stress and burnout,” according to the findings, which accompanies a report detailing the personal toll the pandemic has taken on nurses across the province.
The survey was conducted between May and July of 2021, “during the height of Ontario’s third wave,” RNAO said in a news release. Close to 5,200 Canadian nurses, most of them from Ontario, participated in the survey.
It found that 70 per cent of respondents were planning to leave their jobs in five years. Among those who wanted to leave the profession, 42 per cent said they wanted out for good and would look for work in a different field altogether or simply retire.
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Abbott Nutrition has finally provided a timeline for when new stock from its shuttered Sturgis, Michigan, baby formula manufacturing facility could hit store shelves in the U.S.: At least two months.
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Kingston-based Canada Royal Milk, owned by China's Feihe International, largest baby formula plant in Canada, ships products back to China. The plant uses Canadian cow and goat milk.
— The Food Professor (@FoodProfessor) May 14, 2022
We needed the Chinese to figure out how to export our own milk.
"Biden is sending pallets of baby formula to the border,” the Florida lawmaker said Wednesday in one of two online postings. "Meanwhile, store shelves across America are empty and moms are being told they don’t know when more is coming in."
It's not like we need to expand our resource sector or anything:
The Nunavut Impact Review Board is recommending the proposed expansion of an iron ore mine on the northern tip of Baffin Island should not go ahead.
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. is seeking to expand its Mary River iron ore mine near Pond Inlet by doubling its annual output from six to 12 million tonnes.
The mine, considered one of the world's richest iron deposits, opened in 2015 and ships about six million tonnes of ore a year.
The mine says the expansion would more than double employment at the mine to more than 1,000.
I'll just leave this here:
A few weeks ago, when the war in Ukraine was propelling gasoline and diesel prices ever higher – regular gas hit a record average of US$4.43 a gallon on Friday – he suggested that painful pump prices will speed the transition to electric vehicles (EVs), fear not.
Voila – no more hard decisions about filling your SUV or feeding your kids. “Transforming our economy to run on electric vehicles, powered by clean energy, will mean that no one will have to worry about gas prices,” he said on Twitter. “It will mean tyrants like Putin won’t be able to use fossil fuels as a weapon.”
Nice idea, except for one minor inconvenience: Gas and diesel aren’t the only commodities turning into luxury goods.
Most of the metals that go into EVs and their massive batteries – copper, nickel, cobalt, lithium, plus a variety of rare earth metals – have climbed even faster than pump prices because they are in exceedingly short supply and high demand. Cobalt two years ago went for US$15 a pound; today it’s US$40. Lithium carbonate prices have climbed about 600 per cent in the same period.
The metals’ scarcity means that the endlessly touted EV revolution will almost certainly be delayed, perhaps long delayed, barring the invention of batteries that use far less of these crucial metals, or none at all. Ditto then green revolution in general, for many of these same metals go into wind turbines and solar panels.
Gas grows on trees, apparently:
The Biden administration has canceled one of the most high-profile oil and gas lease opportunities pending before the Interior Department. The decision, which halts the potential to drill for oil in over 1 million acres in the Cook Inlet in Alaska, comes at a challenging political moment, when gas prices are hitting painful new highs.
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