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Worth mentioning that once upon a time the #BurnabySouth by-election was going to be about a pipeline that suddenly had way more public support than it did before.

Why is Singh even running outside of Ontario anyway? Does the NDP still think Burnaby is their *only* shot?
I mean there’s nothing wrong per se with a leader getting parachuted into a BC riding from a million miles away... but why?

If Singh needs to be in the house *now*, why not run in a sooner by-election? Why is the NDP fixed on parachuting him in from thousands of kilometers away?
Parachuting a candidate is all about convenience. Parties do it because it’s an opportunity for something they can’t get any other way.

So why is *waiting* for the Liberals to call a byelection thousands of kilometers away from where Singh is from in Ontario a smart move?
“Help, the mean Liberals are making us wait longer to parachute our leader into a riding 3,400km away from where our leader is from and honestly we don’t even know why we want to run him there anymore because the pipeline thing fizzled somebody do something.”
Politics is the magical place where the leader trying to parachute himself into a riding 3,400km away from where he’s from in Ontario for no apparent reason anybody can see accuses *the other side* of playing political games.
There is a perfectly good byelection happening in Ontario right now, but the leader of the NDP is DEMANDING that one be called in a BC riding that as far as I can tell he has few if any connections to...

He’s from Ontario. If he wants a seat in the house so bad, run there.
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There is precious little in this 274 page court ruling that finds any deficiencies regarding spills of diluted bitumen.

The specific environmental concerns hinge on noise pollution negatively impacting the Southern Resident Killer Whales and Sec 79(2) of the Species at Risk Act
Actually, the specific concerns are that the Species at Risk Act was not included in the report that informed the Governor in Council’s decision.

The Court simply says Cabinet needed information that it didn’t have while making its decision, so the decision must be remade.
The Court makes no finding as to whether the decision is wrong — only that cabinet was not in possession of all the information it needed when it made the call.

That’s an important distinction.
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Because this is the misunderstanding that just won’t die, yes the 2007 Kinder Morgan spill WAS bitumen. A dilsynbit specifically called Albian Heavy Synthetic. It is NOT fully upgraded. At API = 19.2, it is among of heaviest dilbits in existence. If anything sinks, it will.
I’m just going to pin this and leave it here until further noticr. Use/copy/cite at your leisure. No credit to me needed. I’m more interested in the public being properly informed.
I can see why there is confusion. Albian Heavy Synthetic is not a synthetic in the proper term (synthetic usually denotes fully upgraded bitumen). It is a dilbit / syth blend that is *partially* (not fully) upgraded. It’s less acidic and has lower sulfur, but it is heavy as hell.
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2/ Some bought by gormless companies, by mistake, some in full knowledge or partial knowledge of what it could do. It will be interesting as time goes on to see who apparently DIDN'T CARE about the likely instigation of its more negative 'dark' capabilities looking to 'side-step'
3/ or even 'wrong-foot' Irish & EU regulation standards, & possibly law. This too is a kind of #climatechange & #ClimateAction in itself, a would be mammoth untouchable iceberg of 'dominion' & 'control' being melted out into an ocean of citizens' scrutiny & advancement for change
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I was raised to respect military heroes and show compassion toward anyone dying from a terminal illness. I was also raised to do the same to women and my elders, but @HillaryClinton never received this consideration.
When I was a kid, if you'd told me that Nancy Reagan would run for political office, I'd assume that there'd be some deference shown to her as a former First Lady who was eligible for social security.
The Republican National Convention regularly featured chants of "Lock Her Up!" directed at an almost 70-yr-old grandmother who was also a former First Lady of the US. (Note that once upon a time, the notion of jailing a former First Lady would be unheard of.)
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#WhyDoWeNeedAMentor..

I read a #TooGoodNotToShare short story .

It’s surely worth a read...

Once upon a time, a cow went out to graze in the jungle. Suddenly, she noticed a tiger racing towards her.
She turned & fled,fearing that the tiger would sink his claws into her any moment. She desperately looked for someplace to escape & at last, saw a shallow pond.Barely evading the tiger’s reach,she jumped into the pond & in the heat of the chase,the tiger blindly leaped after her.
To the surprise of them both,the pond was extremely shallow yet filled with deep recesses of mud. After toppling over each other, the cow and the tiger found themselves a short distance apart, stuck in the mud up to their necks.
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So sick of this. Feeling quite despondent about things, so a big rant incoming.

I'm not only sick of populism, but sick of those who object to fighting the populism with more vigor.

#FBPE
Over the past week or so we've had a Neo-Nazi thug taking video footage at court in order to rile up race hate in a manner reminiscent of the Brownshirts of old.

We've had numerous people call for his release in "mainstream" news like Fox and The Spectator.
We've also had a member of Parliament and one time leader of the Conservative party demand that people all line up behind his vision or literally leave the country entirely.

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Once upon a time in Italy ....

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Tomorrow could bring confirmation of a new government between the populist 5 Star movement and the hard right League
Predictably, this has already generated countless headlines warning about evil populists and misinformed voters
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Once upon a time, there was a prince named Gabriel who lived in a shrinking kingdom. A blight had swept in from the east, withering plants, sickening animals, and fouling the water. It left behind a great waste where nothing would grow and no one could survive.
For years, the king held audience with anyone who claimed to be able to halt the spread of the blight and restore life to the waste, but no one—from farmers with knowledge of the land, to sorcerers with arcane magics—could find a solution.
Rumor held that a powerful faerie had cursed the kingdom over a slight, real or perceived, and that was why no human magic could reverse the devastation. People were forced from their homes. Some fled west, toward the capital at the foot of the mountains, some to other countries.
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