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Must crush capitalism!
With ‘three times more deaths and three times the number of hospitalizations’ than the pandemic’s period of lowest risk, people still have reasons to wear a mask.
“Moriarty’s group publishes a COVID “hazard index,” a calculation based on wastewater data, health-care system impact and other variables.
The group put Canada’s hazard index for the week ending July 1 at 3.7, down from 6.2 in mid-May. The highest it reached since the group began tracking the index last fall was 10, which was for the last week of December 2022.
“We’re still seeing three times more deaths, and three times the number of hospitalizations than at the best point of the pandemic,” Moriarty said, meaning the period of lowest risk — late spring and early summer 2021, when people were getting vaccinated, and before Delta, a more infectious and deadly strain than the original SARS-CoV-2 strain, surfaced.
About one in 124 people in Canada are currently infected, Moriarty said. “It’s not hard to pick up Omicron if your immunity from vaccines and/or previous infections has worn off.” Last July, for the country as a whole, about one in 20 people were infected, the highest rate in the pandemic to date. “Atlantic Canada had really taken off by then,” Moriarty said. “And we no longer had much in the way of protections anywhere in the country, so the virus was really ripping through,” causing a crisis in hospitals nationwide.
Currently, the COVID risk is “elevated,” according to Moriarty’s team. The federal government frames it as low to moderate, but Moriarty’s group estimates that Canada as a whole has been under-reporting COVID hospitalizations by 1.5 fold, which would put the true number of people in hospital with COVID now at 2,862.
With an “elevated” hazard score, “we still recommend that people stay up to date on boosters, and wear N95-type masks in indoor settings outside their household,” Moriarty said.”
Covid is not done with us yet-
We all start with a heart. Then capitalism turns that heart black and grinds you into dust.
Humans by nature are NOT selfish and greedy
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Reblog to come play this stupid homemade board game we're all making.
The town of Grimshaw’s mayor is defending his town’s reputation after a photo of a person wearing a white hood surfaced on social media.
Mayor Bob Regal says he was disheartened by the reaction to the image posted on Friday.
“In no way shape or form does the town of Grimshaw, or its residents, find that kind of situation appropriate,” said Regal.
“Nor do we condone or the insinuation that the community is racist based on the comments of a few people.”
Regal says he has lived in the town for 40 years and is in his second stint as mayor after serving on council 25 years.
He rejects the idea that the individual pictured was necessarily making a racist statement.
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Email the mayor: info@grimshaw.ca
Good afternoon Mr. Bob Regal.
I am writing you regarding an image circulating portraying a member of your community wearing a mask resembling the white hoods symbolic of the Ku Klux Clan. It is alleged that this is not the first time your constituent has done this and I am disheartened and angry by the lack of response from the town regarding this issue. It is not enough to express concern that your town be labelled racist, instead I ask you to condemn racist behaviour and activity within your town. I ask you recognize that the harm done by racist individuals and a town that turns a blind eye is of greater severity than being given a reputation as racist, a reputation which so far your constituent’s actions and your lack of response seem to uphold. I ask you to condemn specifically the action of the individual wearing this mask, as well as the White Supremacist sentiment it represents. I ask that you further affirm that your town does not give truck to individuals seeking to make light of the actions of the Ku Klux Clan, and recognize that this is neither a funny “joke,” an excuse which many seem happy to lean on, nor acceptable behaviour in any light.
As an individual who grew up in the Peace Country, I can assure you that our region is not so ignorant as to not be aware of the sentiment this mask represents, as many have been pretending, and I am sure that you yourself are aware of the symbolism this mask holds. I find your CTV News Edmonton interview comment that folks are jumping to worst case scenarios in their concern for this issue condescending and problematic. It is abhorrent that the leader of a community would give passive approval in this way to those seeking to flaunt the racist legacies and crimes against humanity in our not so distant past. I am awaiting a response from you that reflects your consideration for the promise of potential harm this blatant act portrays and does more than show concern for the reputation and image of your town.
Best regards
Tracy Allard has resigned her position in the cabinet- still retains her seat as an MLA
A Reddit user set up a welcome home sign for the UCP minister Tracey Allard who went on a traditional Christmas Hawaiian vacay in the middle of a global pandemic
In mid-2020, during p@ndemic, the province of Alberta changed regulations to vastly expand the area where open-pit coal mining will be allowed. The region affected: the Rocky Mountain Front foothills, critical habitat of caribou and grizzlies, on the periphery of Banff and Jasper. Coal-mining had previously been banned for decades in this region.
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With the price of Western Canadian oil languishing around $35 a barrel and Canadian oil sands companies hemorrhaging both workers and money, the province of Alberta sees its future in another fossil fuel: coal.
A “coal rush” in the province could see at least six new or expanded open-pit coal mines built up and down the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains, mostly by Australian companies. Together, these projects could industrialize as much as 1,000 sq km of forests, waterways and grasslands, an area the size of Vancouver Island.
Alberta has eight operating coal mines and more than 91bn tonnes of mineable coal, but until recently, Alberta had a restrictive coal-mining policy that’s been in place for 44 years to protect drinking water for millions of people. […] In 2015 the previous Alberta government announced a plan to eliminate coal-fired electricity by 2030, a goal Canada’s federal government embraced three years later […]. Yet despite the commitment to eliminate coal-fired electricity, the new conservative provincial government has pulled out all the stops to increase coal production for export.
It [the province of Alberta] rescinded the 1976 coal mining policy without public consultation, after spending months wooing Australian coal companies. It also reduced the corporate tax rate from 10 to 8%, axed provincial parks in coal-rich areas, offered one percent royalties (Australia’s is a minimum of seven), and passed legislation to fast-track project approvals. […]
First in line is the Grassy Mountain mine, which is undergoing an impact assessment to determine if it can proceed. Australia’s Riverdale Resources hopes the open-pit mine will supercharge the state’s output and produce 93 million tonnes of steelmaking coal over the 23-year life of the mine. […] Located seven kilometers from the historic mining town of Crowsnest Pass, the controversial project involves removing the top of Grassy Mountain and digging a pit near the sources of two major tributaries of the Crowsnest River. […]
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Headlines and text published by: Jeff Gailus. “As oil prices languish, Alberta sees its future in a ‘coal rush’.” The Guardian. 15 December 2020.
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More about the Alberta coal regulations changes, from earlier in 2020.
First Nations leaders and environmentalists in Alberta are concerned after the provincial government announced updates to open-pit coal mining regulations. Open-pit coal mining has been banned in some parts of Alberta since 1976, when the province introduced regulations to protect the Rocky Mountains and foothills. On May 15, Energy Minister Sonya Savage announced changes to those regulations. But Jesse Cardinal, interim director of Keepers of the Water, says open-pit coal mining will cause a lot of harm. “The Athabasca River flows all the way to the Arctic Ocean,” she said. “So all of those communities depend on that access to the fresh water to feed into that river. Same with the South Saskatchewan River. That goes all the way to Hudson Bay, so that goes all the way to eastern Canada. You think about fresh water that is giving life to these rivers, to keep them clean, so this is a huge, huge concern.” The regulations protected four areas. Most of the Mountains themselves were category one. The foothills were category two. Categories three and four were further east.
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Headline and text from: Chris Stewart. “Regional chief says First Nations not consulted as Alberta loosens open-pit coal mining rules.” APTN News. 25 May 2020.
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Map of affected areas:
This includes sensitive aspen parkland ecosystems, and critical foothills habitat for caribou and grizzlies. The coal-mining region will border Banff and Jasper.
capitalism is fucking scary because it will commodify literally anything. it commodifies the rebellion culture that is supposed to strike against the system but capitalism turns it into “punk rock”. it commodifies spirituality to make you buy self help books that teaches you to stay away from capitalism. it commodifies minimalism and makes you buy things to maintain your minimalist aesthetic. it commodifies global warming, one of the deadliest consequences of capitalism itself and guilt trips you into buying “green products”. it commodifies itself and creates the idea that vanity is fashionable. it will eat everything up.
In the aftermath of the Halifax Explosion, Nova Scotia’s first Black physician worked day and night to help the wounded.
Dr. Clement Ligoure treated up to 180 patients a day at his private hospital on North Street that had survived the blast, said playwright David Woods.
“That hospital, which he called the Amanda Hospital, became a dressing station for people who were refused from the overcrowded hospitals and did not have life-threatening injuries,” Woods told CBC Radio’s Information Morning recently.
Ligoure’s heroism during those crucial weeks in December 1917 has largely been overlooked — and Woods is determined to change that.
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Anaknya Weki yg sudah sampai di Pacitan.
A rare water cat
Now let’s work on electing a socialist government in Alberta!
Fascism is not to be debated! It is to be smashed! Fighting Fascism is Self Defense!
Petition to officially rename either the UCP or the Tories’ Alberta caucus ‘Bloc Rednecois’
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Andrew Scheer trying to cut off Canadians from receiving an emergency benefit just months after he was caught appropriating money to pay for his kids’ private school is the height of hypocrisy
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