Rooney’s old account @girls_can@social.cleverlibre.org

111 years ago today

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Peter Bethlenfalvy, the #Ontario MPP for the area where the largest piece of #Greenbelt was removed, said he only found out the day of the cabinet meeting 🤔​ He had "no idea about what the govt wanted to do in his riding prior" and says building on the Greenbelt is a “necessity” for the "future economy"

Fun Fact: Bethlenfalvy's chief of staff Mark Lawson is now VP of Comms & External Relations for #Therme - a luxury spa that #DougFord is planting on #Toronto's waterfront for 100 yrs. #onpoli

Fun fact: Premier Doug Ford's spokesperson, who is currently defending the government from charges of cronyism, is #Ontario Housing Minister Steve Clark’s daughter, Caitlin Clark.

Can't make this stuff up..

#onpoli #AuditorGeneralReport #greenbelt #DougFord #cronyism #nepotism via @bowker_john

Someone (maybe @johnefrancis ?) was asking about the sewage tunnel. Apparently the storm last week had ~7x more sewage than it can store flow into the Ottawa River.

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/more-than-300-million-litres-of-sewage-water-poured-into-ottawa-river-during-storm/wcm/cc456b85-f38c-418e-ba6d-398ffdd5e6c0/amp/

Australia's chief scientist says carbon production needs to be cut by eight times the current rate

"At the moment the requirement is we need to be reducing by 16 megatons of carbon a year, we are doing two, we need to increase by eight times."

"The problem with climate change ... because it is a long-term issue ... the way that democracies work, obviously is they are not thinking in the long-term ways, they are just thinking about, "how can I make sure that I win the next election'."

"That inability to think, to act long-term, I think, could be what destroys us ultimately."

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-08-15/chief-scientist-cathy-foley-carbon-reduction-climate-change-qa/102729476
#ClimateEmergency #FossilFuel #governance #GHG #ClimateAction

Hi Mastodon! My name's Dave, I study soil carbon in agricultural systems. I'm currently looking at the historical effects of land use on soil organic carbon. But also, I love reading and geeking out to anything tech.

If you see this toot (yeah this one right here), can you boost it for me? It will help my new server federate with the wider Mastodon network. 🚀 🙏

Thanks to anyone who can do this. It is really appreciated! This server is small but will be hosting several #peace #SocialJustice and #Humanistic groups, so it is for a good cause.

This is the last day of my Twitter account. I have over 52K followers there, but I can't remain on a platform that pays people like Andrew Tate to post. I do this knowing it significant limits my reach in the academic community, but the standard you walk past is the one you accept.

Ontario 'Secretary of the Cabinet' will be investigating the 15 recommendations from the #AuditorsGeneralReport.
Interestingly, #DougFord's Secretary of the Cabinet was President & CEO of Trillium Health Hospitals until 2019 when she was involved in a conflict of interest case where her husband's company was awarded a $5million contract from Trillium. She was temporarily seconded from Trillium to work as head of Ont. Public Serv. & deputy minister to the Premier.
#onpoli
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/hospital-network-employee-fired-after-questioning-deal-with-agency-run-by-ceo-s-husband-lawsuit-1.5813704

We at #SaveOntarioWetlands have released a mini statement about the #auditorgeneralreport on the #greenbelt scandal - https://saveontariowetlands.weebly.com/

The TLDR is: We don’t need to build on the Greenbelt. We can’t afford to build on the Greenbelt. And we can still choose NOT to build on the Greenbelt.

A perfect meme!

@gemelliz @lisawedmann They're absolutely trying to force a strike.

As a parent whose kids have already had many disrupted years (my 8 y.o. had his first non-interrupted year this past year), I'm tired of this government trying to force their privatization agenda and blame the teachers.

The second-last thing I want is the kids of Ontario missing yet more schooling because of the incompetence and agendas of this gov't.

The last thing I want is to let this gov't sell off our public education.

I wish I didn't have to tell you about this again, but I do. It's not being reported much in the news — and you know why?

Because it's not 'new' (the origin of the word 'news'), it's old. This has been going on for months now, and corporate news outlets are simply tired of reporting it. But it is still happening.

Canada's boreal forests are burning up.

At least 1100 fires are still active, more than 700 out of control. Over 13 million hectares have been burned so far, with no end in sight. It's an unprecedented climate and environmental disaster.

#Canada #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency

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