On the DEWLine 2.0: Dwight Williams

For your information:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/carbon-tax-rebate-perceptions-believe-it-or-not-1.7079782

If memory serves...I've spotted examples of these over this past year:

- butterflies
- beetles
- ants
- crickets
- centipedes
- roaches (strictly outdoors, I hope)
- house flies
- mosquitoes
- grasshoppers
- mites

Not a complete list by any means.

1. Thwaites' Glacier is no more.

2. I'm not living in any of the affected houses. I've learned from my circles of family and friends, though, that basement window wells are...problematic as well during such rainfall.

3. Another side effect of recent rainfall here. One of the buildings affected houses a past employer of mine. I want to check in with them on Monday morning out of concern.

4. And yeah, we may have voted badly last year.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/residents-councillors-flash-flood-1.6933278

And switching from listening to The Current on CBC Radio One to watching Ottawa City Hall's Environment and Climate Change Committee meeting scheduled for this morning!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYHOotGLeso

Yes, my job search continues as I watch this. I consider watching city council meetings part of my job search intel-gathering process.

About the provincial "Blue Box" programme in Ontario?

https://pub-ottawa.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=128210

The "hamlet" - I'm having trouble thinking of a community of a thousand people as a "hamlet", as it seems more a small town - is a trivia point in the back story of Due South's central character Benton Fraser, being one of the communities in which his parents and grandparents jointly raised him. It's also a very real place, the most northern community in Canada that you can reach by road these days.

"Tuk", as it's known to many of its local people, is also one of many places across the planet now imperilled by climate derangement.

1. David Olive on the acquisition of Suncor - PetroCanada's parent company - by Elliott Investment Management LP in New York:

https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2022/07/21/the-big-takeaway-from-suncor-deal-run-your-company-right-or-someone-else-will.html?rf&source=newsletter

Looks like another plan for asset-stripping targeting an already vulnerable company to my eyes. "Vulture capitalists", they used to call such firms, right?

2. And this is another part of why Suncor's in trouble. They're not the only culprit involved here, of course.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/monarch-endangered-international-red-list-1.6527309

3. And now there's another nail in fossil fuels' collective coffin.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/enwin-ev-project-1.6526746

More on other topics later...

As promised.

1. CBC Sports: RIP Guy Lafleur

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/nhl/guy-lafleur-death-reaction-1.6427532

2. CBC News: Turnover at the Thunder Bay Police Services Board

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/tbay-police-board-resignation-1.6427787

3. Byline Times: Slow-walking to Genocide in India

https://bylinetimes.com/2022/04/20/werlemans-worldview-indias-hindu-nationalists-are-following-the-blueprint-for-genocide/?mc_cid=9086b6a084

4. Spacing: John Lorinc re: Doug Ford's Plans re: Climate Derangement

http://spacing.ca/toronto/2022/04/21/lorinc-doug-fords-electrification-plan-is-actually-a-gas-powered-climate-nightmare/

5. Globe and Mail: CRA vs. Indigenous People re: CERB

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-government-data-suggests-first-nations-hit-more-often-with-cerb/

6. CBC News: EV Rebate Programme News

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/government-expanding-electric-vehicle-rebate-1.6427488

Today is World Mental Health Day, for whatever it's worth to any of us. We're mostly trying to watch out for each other here in this corner of Dreamwidth. This is a good thing. I'd like it to continue.

I've applied for three jobs so far this weekend. I'm not sure that I'm sufficiently qualified for any of them, but the people I've sent the applications to will make that decision.

It's raining here in Ottawa-Gatineau. Environment Canada has - as of my original posting of this commentary - forecast an end to that rainfall at some point early this afternoon local time. That would be good.

Laundry is being done here. Vacuuming in the basement has been done anew (finally).

We have what appears to be one-inch-tall (above the ground-line) pine tree of some sort growing amid the stones between our house and one of our next-door neighbours. We're working out how to move, preserve, and grow it so that we can transplant it to a safer-to-housing-foundations location later.

More as it develops...