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  1. This is for readers on Bluesky. The weather is not ok, and Environment Canada is being cut.

    Please sign and share my House of Commons petition to restore Environment Canada funding.

    ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Pet

    Text below:

    Petition to the Government of Canada
    Whereas:

    Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) plays a critical role in protecting Canadians through weather forecasting, severe weather warnings, climate monitoring and scientific research;

    Canada is experiencing increasingly frequent and severe weather and climate related events, including wildfires, floods, atmospheric rivers, hurricanes, heat waves, winter storms and derechos;

    Weather radar research, observation stations, Weatheradio services and frontline meteorological staff are essential public safety tools, particularly for rural, remote and Indigenous communities;

    Recent and proposed reductions to ECCC staffing, research capacity, and public weather services risk weakening Canada’s ability to predict, monitor, and respond to dangerous weather events;

    Reliable weather forecasting and climate science are vital to emergency preparedness, transportation safety, agriculture, marine operations and public confidence; and
    Canadians deserve a strong, modern and fully supported public weather service.

    We, the undersigned, citizens and residents of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to

    1. Reverse cuts to Environment and Climate Change Canada that impact weather forecasting, meteorological research and climate science;

    2. Restore and maintain Weatheradio and other accessible public alert systems;

    3. Protect and expand weather observation and climate monitoring stations across Canada;

    4. Ensure adequate staffing and long-term funding for ECCC programs, scientists, meteorologists and technical experts; and

    5. Recognize weather forecasting and climate monitoring as essential public safety infrastructure.

    #canpoli #cdnpoli #canada #environmentCanada #ECCC #ePetition #houseOfCommons #carney

  2. "Labour has gone to great lengths to make clear that nothing substantial will change."

    "Centrist rule, typified by the incapability or unwillingness to take seriously the manifold crises humanity now faces, only increases the political dissatisfaction on which the far-right feeds. The […] Tories – or Reform itself – may well return renewed and worsened in 2029 when public frustration sees Labour’s exercise in political nothingness collapse."

    Francesca Newton writes: vashtimedia.com/election-labou 🧶

    #farCenter #conservation #rule #austerity #publicHealth #resentment #cultureWars #antiWoke #lifeConditions #healthCare #hostility #disdain #brutalization #farCentre #LabourParty #Labour #England #Britain #UK #centreLeft #leftOfCentre #takeOver #elections #UKPol #politics #SocialDemocracy #SocDem #triangulation #Starmer #ballot #UKPolitics #parliament #vote #campaign #government #HouseOfCommons #ambivalence #Shehecheyanu #hope #Macron #Jewishness #Judaism #Jews

  3. If, as seems likely, there will be a by-election, I hope the voters in Rutherglen and Hamilton West will hold steady and return another SNP MP - not everyone is an idiot like Ferrier.

    Also... why has Boris Johnson not been suspended from the Commons for breaking Covid rules? Just sayin'...

    #MargaretFerrier #HouseOfCommons

    theguardian.com/politics/2023/