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Poilievre pledges Ring of Fire approvals within six months at Sudbury stop
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29Trump stated the truth when he said that he'd rather deal with a Liberal than a Conservative government. He knows that the Liberals are weak in so many ways and that he could have his way with them.
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Former premier Kathleen Wynne rallies town to protect its green space
SooToday 39As I look at the things Wynn is saying, I see evidence of her socialistic desire to have government control the decisions that landowners can make regarding their own land. Safeguarding farmland is an ideal, but for a socialist is code for not letting farmers do what they want with their land. If you own land determined to be ecologically significant, it means you may not even be able to farm it. Yet, when she was premier, building solar farms with solar panels taking 1000's of acres out of production was quite acceptable.Town councils should be very careful about adopting ideas from politicians with ideologies like Wynn's.
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OPINION: Fight climate disinformation for your children and the future of Planet Earth
SooToday 31Cathy asks why we don't act like climate change is an emergency. It's because we know disinformation when we see it. We see annual claims that "this year was the hottest on record" while knowing that the temperatures are adjusted upward and even made up every year. In Kent County in the UK, temperature data is 'recorded' from 103 stations that don't exist. The NOAA makes up data from 30% of their reporting stations that don't exist any more. The data from the 1930's, the hottest decade on record in North America, has been adjusted downward to make it look like it's hotter now than it was then.The claim that human activity is the primary driver of climate change can't be scientifically tested. The gold standard for testing this is experimental science, yet no experiment that factors in variables such as solar activity, jet stream movement, El Nino La Nina, etc., can be designed. One can only observe things like temperature, which is manipulated to serve a particular narrative.
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Mayor under pressure to address poor environmental performance
SooToday 24I can understand the ESC's concern over the mayor not meeting with them, but perhaps the mayor recognizes some things that the ESC doesn't. First, CO2 is not a pollutant and is not even the most potent greenhouse gas. It just happens to be easy to target and tax. Second, man is not the main driver of climate change. Third, climate change has been a constant for thousands of years, often with CO2 levels much higher than today's. Fourth, the futile attempts to stop it will be economically ruinous to economies and particularly the poor. Making everything more expensive through punitive taxes and fees, limiting housing growth, not expanding roads to accommodate increasing population are all idealistic ideas that will punish everyone, but the lower middle and poorest classes will suffer the most.I'd like to think that the mayor recognizes this, but I will admit that he should have had the courtesy to at least meet with them.
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Helicopters will drop weed killer on North Shore forests this summer
SooToday 23The MNR says that glyphosate doesn't build up in the environment and breaks down after sticking to plants and soil, to allay concerns people might have, yet it's deemed too dangerous for homeowners to use it on their weeds and is banned for them. The contradiction is obvious.
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How a handful of Toronto businessmen got their way on bike lanes provincewide
SooToday 22It's just common sense to realize that taking away traffic lanes to make bike lanes in some of the heaviest vehicle traffic streets would create serious problems. Traffic gridlock and loss of business for downtown businesses. The city politicians and urban planners who thought that adding bike lanes would convince car drivers to switch to bikes were naive. They didn't understand human behaviour and the big cities where they did this in Canada now experience traffic issues worse than they had before.
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Ontarians to begin receiving $200 'taxpayer rebate' cheques
SooToday 23The idea that this is a pre-election ploy is likely correct, just like Trudeau's GST exemption. Politicians do this all the time. The opposition party criticisms ring hollow because they would likely do the same thing if they were in power and were planning to call an election.
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'Scandals and failures' not unique to Trudeau: LU professor
SooToday 12This man is a professor of political science and he thinks that the policies of a Conservative government would be "virtually identical" to those of Trudeau's Liberals? I'm not a professor of political science and yet I can think of numerous policies that are significantly different between the two parties. Trudeau took pride in declaring how radically different he was from the previous Conservative government, and he was. His policies and his intolerance of anyone including media outlets and various organizations that didn't go along with them, was unparalleled in my lifetime of watching Canadian PM's.
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OPINION: Fight climate disinformation for your children and the future of Planet Earth
SooToday 10Give some examples of disinformation in the comments.
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Seven Ontario seniors in hospital fined $400 a day for refusing transfer to LTC home
SooToday 7The situation with LTC homes in Ontario being backed up, causing hospitals and retirement homes to handle the overflow is tragic, especially when it results in vulnerable seniors being sent to communities far from their homes. The problem with all this criticism in the article and in the posts here though, is that no one is proposing a worthwhile solution. This situation was predictable for the past 20 years, yet none of the provincial governments during that time, mostly Liberal, saw fit to be proactive. The Liberals had from 2003 to 2018 to create enough LTC spaces to meet the increased demand that they knew was coming, but didn't. The current Ford government bears responsibility too, but Bill 7 was a response to a crisis that was created years before. Hospitals are filled to bursting with seniors who should be in LTC but don't want to leave to go where there are openings. Families can't or won't take them. I'd like to hear what the critics would do instead of enacting Bill 7.
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Ford offers Poilievre some advice as he returns to Parliament
SooToday 11Ford is making this stuff up. During the election Carney was trying to portray himself as the tough one who can stand up to Trump, while Poilievre was talking about how one can negotiate with him without insulting him at the same time. So far Carney hasn't accomplished much with Trump with respect to tariffs. That's not to say that PP would have accomplished more by now, but obviously whatever Carney is doing isn't working as well as advertised.
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Mayor under pressure to address poor environmental performance
SooToday 11Realitycheck Your attempt to discredit my scientifically and economically valid points are well-documented environmental activist disinformation claims. My 1st, 3rd and 4th points are indisputable and not worth debating. My 2nd point might be questionable to one not well-versed in scientific methodology but not to real scientists. To compare man's influence on climate with variables such as solar effects, jet stream movements, el Niño or la Niña, ocean current fluctuations, etc., one would have to design an experiment that factors in all of those variables. That's impossible. Therefore the scientific gold standard of experimental verification can't be attained. What's left is observational science and computer modelling. Given how the predictions of the environmental activists based on those methods have been universally wrong, it's clear that despite what the "Ignorance Studies" you refer to might say about climate science, they are the ones who are victims of disinformation.
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Number of hallway patients at Sault Area Hospital increasing, stats show
SooToday 10There are multiple reasons for the numbers climbing. The largest demographic group, the baby boomers, are aging, so obviously there are more people with more health issues. There aren't enough doctors practising family medicine for a variety of reasons, meaning that people who can't see a GP have to go to hospital emergency departments instead. Hospitals refuse to hire back frontline staff who they fired for not getting the Covid vaccines, even though they legally can. Put these reasons together and we have problems with crowding that are even trickling down into Long Term Care Homes with long wait times.
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Algoma Community Legal Clinic hosts workshop on tenants rights
SooToday 12As Wallyhunter mentioned already, landlord rights are a big issue as well. For tenants, the problem is usually that the landlord isn't maintaining the rental unit the way it should be, and sometimes illegal evictions, but for landlords it's often a matter of either non-payment of rent or destruction of the unit or both. The Landlord/Tenant Board has no real teeth to enforce orders against these kinds of tenants as they usually give delinquent tenants multiple chances for many months or years to make right what they obviously have no intention of doing. In my opinion, one would have to be crazy to become a landlord in Ontario.
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Ford in the doghouse for joking people can get MRIs at the vet
SooToday 5It's kind of ironic to hear opposition critics, especially from the Liberals, blame the PC's for the current crisis in health care. It's true that the Ford government is making some mistakes, but the Liberals had 15 years to proactively prepare for the baby boomers entering the system in droves, and yet they didn't. The joke Ford made highlights the difference in animal health care versus human health care. Animal health care is a pay as you go system. The care is always there if you can pay. Human health care is a rationed system where the care is not always there, unless you are famous. Some blending of the two systems will be inevitable to ensure better human health care. This is recognized throughout much of Europe already, but to many Canadians, to even suggest such a thing is blasphemy.
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Seven Ontario seniors in hospital fined $400 a day for refusing transfer to LTC home
SooToday 4Getting on a waiting list at one's preferred LTC in one's own community is what has been done for years. It worked when it only took a short time to get in, but it doesn't work well anymore. Waiting lists in many communities take months and even 2-3 years to work through. The fact that hospitals were getting backed up from this backlog is what created the need for Bill 7. Do you have another solution?
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Opinion: Only MNR would ‘fix’ confused moose lottery with more confusion
SooToday 12This article addresses the complexity of the rules around applying for a moose tag, and the frustration of entering the process. I quit many years ago after several years of applying with no success, and seeing certain groups able to hunt and kill whatever moose they wanted without restriction. No one wanted to address that inequity, so I decided that moose hunting in Ontario was a lost cause. I believed that the moose population was likely going to go into a slow decline with no one daring to deal with some of the real reasons why. Thankfully deer hunting hasn't been messed up in the same way, partially because much of it is done on privately owned land which can be managed by the landowner. Landowners who have a vested interest in the success of their deer herds will almost always do a better job of preserving and managing the resource than government will.
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Ward 4 councillor broke code of conduct, integrity commissioner rules
SooToday 10Kinach said what most Sault residents would say about this. Staff who ignored councils direction deserve to be rebuked for that.
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Syphilis on the rise, but Algoma Public Health fights it with SPRITE
SooToday 4Not only have the rates of syphilis been increasing but also most other STD's in Canada. The proponents of increasingly graphic but morally neutral sex-ed in both elementary and high schools have told us for many years that this was necessary in order to stem the tide of STD's in teens and young adults. It hasn't worked and it should be fairly obvious why. Sex-ed that is not age-appropriate and without any mention of what is right or wrong, is going to fill the minds of young children with facts and images without the guidelines to know what to do about it all. The STD rates should tell us what many of them are doing about it.
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Medical journal cautions against easing access to booze
SooToday 11The Canadian Medical Association recently advised that we should provide safe consumption sites for opioid drug users, which studies in other countries have shown increases the amount of opioids on the streets due to diversion of the safe supply. Now this same association wants to increase the price of alcohol to keep people from being able to afford using it. It seems to me that the CMA is sending mixed messages. Highly regulate alcohol and treat those addicted to it, while giving opioids away free to the drugs users rather than treating them.
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