Friday, July 09, 2021

And the Rest of It

Yep:

Most Canadians looking at federal rebates to buy an electric car have six-figure incomes and university degrees, says in-house research by the Privy Council Office. The Commons environment committee in a report on the plug-in auto market acknowledged zero emission vehicles remain out of reach for many: “Tesla has received the most subsidies from this program.”



Some people need to stay relevant, no matter how utterly wrong they were and still are:

Candidates in an expected Covid election must campaign with masks on, Canada’s chief public health officer said yesterday. Dr. Theresa Tam said even candidates who are fully vaccinated should be masked in the company of strangers: “Is it safe to do this right now?” 

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Chief public health officer Dr. Theresa Tam says she is concerned that vaccination rates among younger Canadians aren’t high enough.

 

Maybe some people don't want their hearts enlarged, Theresa.



Indeed:

The Liberal government’s new online hate speech legislation, Bill C-36, will likely lead to “many unfair witch hunts” according to Independent MP Derek Sloan.



I'd say that being poisoned to death isn't safe, O Unaccountable Bureaucracy That Screwed Everybody Over COVID:

Health Canada has essentially rejected two complaints about an anti-abortion group promoting a controversial process to “reverse” medical abortions, as the niche issue earns growing attention from both sides in the heated abortion debate.

 

 

And now, the stranger side of things:

Area 51 is famously off-limits to the public. The government refused to acknowledge its existence until 2013, when they finally admitted there was indeed a “flight testing facility” in the Nevada desert. Its restricted status didn’t stop people from planning a raid on Area 51 in September 2019. Though more than 2 million people RSVP’d to the “Storm Area 51” event on Facebook, only a few dozen showed up at the gates at the appointed time. The would-be stormers were quickly forced to leave by authorities, meaning the truth is still out there.

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After deciding the man probably hadn’t been killed by a person or one of the area’s land predators, the researchers came up with another theory: shark attack. They enlisted George Burgess, director emeritus of the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Florida Program for Shark Research, to help evaluate the evidence. As Smithsonian reports, their process involved using CT scans to create a 3D map of the victim’s wounds. They also used radiocarbon dating to calculate that he may have died sometime between 1370 BCE and 1010 BCE.

 



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