On Tuesday night, at the beginning of the Ontario leaders’ debate, Kathleen Wynne emphatically apologized for the gas plant scandal.
Then she apologized again. And again and again.
If she was hoping that would be the end of it, she was sorely mistaken.
Related – Hudak wins Ontario leaders’ debate, poll reveals
Now is the time at SDA when we juxtapose!
Toronto Star, 2014;
The dramatic decline in the monarch butterfly population in eastern North America is due largely to the steady loss of milkweed crops in U.S. breeding grounds, according to a new study that researchers say provides the first proof of the critical connection.
Scientists at the University of Guelph say they picked apart the various factors linked to the drop in migratory monarch butterflies and confirmed theories that the lack of milkweed is likely responsible for the plummeting butterfly population.
Environmental Working Group, 2013
In recent years, millions of acres of America’s native grasslands have been plowed under to grow corn for ethanol to blend into gasoline. And new research is clearly pointing to the federal ethanol mandate as a main driver of this tsunami of land conversion in the Midwest.
h/t Jamie Mac
There’s A New ETF That Will Let You Bet Against People Who Are Betting Against Stocks.
Lest we forget, 70 years ago today, around 156,000 Allied soldiers descended upon Northern France as part of Operation Overlord. Undoubtedly, it was one of the most ambitious military operations the world has ever known and the first step in the Western Allies’ march into Hitler’s Nazi Germany.
Thankfully their efforts have not been forgotten. 359 Canadians died on Juno Beach that day. Remember them. Remember them proudly.
‘Stratfor was pwned because their mysql root password was null. How stupid could these folks be???”
The sound quality isn’t great, but it’s a lovely song: Here’s Israeli tenor Maksim Levinsky singing an old Yiddish Lullaby written by Abraham Goldfaden called Rozhinkes mit Mandlen (“Raisins and Almonds”).
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Lots of rumours in the past couple of minutes that the suspect may be in custody.
Seems some #Moncton news my be brewing. Stand by.
— David Akin (@davidakin) June 6, 2014
Now confirmed: Police in Moncton have apprehended the suspect who allegedly shot and killed three RCMP officers, according to the Telegraph-Journal.
Interview with a guinea pig.
The European Central Bank cut its benchmark interest rate to a record low on Thursday and, in an unprecedented attempt to stimulate the euro zone economy, said it would begin charging interest on deposits held by the bank.
The so-called negative deposit rate has never been tried on such a large scale and is a bid to push down the value of the euro and encourage banks to invest excess cash rather than hoard it in central bank vaults.
Ezra Levant is on John Gormley Live for an hour, talking about his new book Groundswell. Click the “Listen Live” link here.
Keith Leslie, Canadian Press “reporter”.
Ontario Progressive Conservatives raise eyebrows by criticizing OPP union while police shooter still on loose in Moncton. #voteon
— Keith Leslie (@CPnewsboy) June 5, 2014
The Student Union of University College London resolves to “fight the root cause of fascism.” Which is, of course, “capitalism.”
The Scientist; (link fixed!)
By 2001, Ug99 began appearing in fields in Kenya; in Ethiopia by 2003; Sudan and Yemen by 2006; and Iran a year later. It now plagues wheat plants in nine African and Middle Eastern countries. Should the pathogen establish a global presence, 90 percent of wheat varieties could succumb, with whole crops flopping over and rotting within weeks or months of infection. The annual global harvest of some 700 million tons of wheat would be decimated.
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One way to hasten the development of a long-lasting stem rust-resistant wheat variety is to engineer plants’ DNA to carry resistance genes, creating what are known as genetically modified (GM) crops. But at many of the facilities that develop wheat varieties–primarily led by academic breeding groups, in contrast to the commercial domination of corn and soybean development–such transgenic approaches are taboo, as public opposition, regulatory expenses, and genetic complexity have kept wheat transgenics off the market. “We could do millions of things [with transgenics],” says Jorge Dubcovsky, a wheat geneticist and breeder at the University of California, Davis, “but we have our hands tied.”
Because people who use the word “denier” believe in something called “Frankenfood”.
The RCMP is investigating how and why $1.5 million in payments made their way into Swiss bank accounts belonging to Michel Fournier, the former boss of a federal Crown corporation that operates the Jacques-Cartier and Champlain bridges in Quebec, QMI Agency has learned. […] Fournier, a long-time Liberal, is an ex-chief of staff to Jean Chretien when he was opposition leader.
h/t Kevin B
Smile Superpower – you’re on Taliban camera!
The Congressional Budget Office says it is no longer possible to assess the overall fiscal impact of Obamacare.
Tonight we listen to a stunning remake of the dramatic opening fanfare from Richard Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra, more commonly known as the theme music from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey.
h/t Gord
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Until the situation is under control, Twitter is likely your best source on breaking half truths. Thread is open, be respectful.