Ban All The Things!

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The leftwing corporate media is eager to pick up on sex education books that get banned in various school districts, but oddly enough they don’t seem to notice the other books that are being removed from the shelves.

Toronto’s Catholic school board has banned from its classrooms all books by non-Black authors that contain the racist slur known as the N-word.

Since September, the policy has forced the removal of familiar literary classics from high school curricula, such as Of Mice and Men. Other books that would be caught in the ban include Lord of the Flies, a common high school classic, and Gone with the Wind, less so.

What’s really interesting is seeing what kind of mental pretzels supporters can create in order to rationalize this idiocy.

….the teacher might be good at explaining, and they might be politically aware, but will the child know and understand and appreciate? Or will English class feel like humiliation, re-inscribing the ugly language of racism on the modern high school student?

“We can’t take that chance,” James said.

The Part I Like Best

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About Safe Supply programs is the way it keeps drugs off the street and away from the kids.

In what constitutes a clear trampling of parental rights, British Columbia recently authorized the provision of “safer supply” fentanyl to youth across the province, regardless if parents are informed of, or agree to, this measure.

The provincial government has provided limited access to safer supply fentanyl since at least 2020, primarily through small-scale pilot projects. However, last August the British Columbia Centre on Substance Use (BCCSU), an influential research organization, published protocols permitting doctors and nurses to prescribe “safe” fentanyl tablets to adults and minors. The organization confirmed to me in an email that it had been contracted by the province to produce these documents “to further support clinicians prescribing safer supply across the province.”

Wait Til They Hear About Wab Kinew

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The disgrace is all theirs;

One of highest honours Manitoba bestows upon individuals has been posthumously stripped from the disgraced former director of the Winnipeg Art Gallery. […]

Kinew drew a line through Eckhardt’s signature in the ledger of recipients to the award, established in 1957 to recognize individuals who have demonstrated outstanding skills in the areas of leadership, service and community commitment.

More at Black Rod.

h/t KP

There’s No Business Case For LNG Exports

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Bloomberg;

A huge wave of liquefied natural gas is about to flood a world that’s supposed to be transitioning away from fossil fuels.

More than $235 billion has been plowed into the next slate of projects for the super-chilled fuel since 2019. The first of those plants will come online later this year, and a further $55 billion may be invested through 2025, Rystad Energy forecasts show.

That will help drive an historic 70% jump in LNG export capacity by the end of the decade, according to Baker Hughes.

The industry is essentially betting the world will need a lot more of the fuel as Europe rushes to replace piped Russian gas and Asia — particularly China — shifts away from coal.

Just today, US producer Chesapeake Energy Corp. agreed to snap up a key rival, capitalizing on demand for shipments from the Gulf Coast.

Massive export projects from the US to Qatar will cement LNG in the global energy mix for decades, especially with some purchasing contracts going into the 2050s — beyond targets set by many nations to become carbon-neutral.

Related: It’s not an easy time to be a politician.

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