I actually caught myself counting fingers.

They voted for that, yes – but for people they hate, like brown people or LGBTQ people, not for themselves!

The electromagnetic forces surrounding a 50 MW 1000 kV undersea power transmission cable are insignificant. If the cable is shielded by a copper mesh, no electric forces escape the cable, and at 50 amps (50 MW/1000 kV), the magnetic forces outside the cable are barely above Earth’s ambient magnetic field. Right outside the cable, the magnetic field is 100 microTesla, which is considered harmless to all biological processes, and at 40 cm distance, it is already well below the Earth’s ambient magnetic field of ~50 microTesla.

I expect that Joly is going ‘by the book’, doing everything according to the legal procedure, so that if the American billionaire MAGA shithead defies the order to follow the agreement that he had signed when he purchased Stelco, the Canadian government will be legally covered for their (I hope full-strength) response.

We need to demonstrate to American billionaires that agreements should not be signed in pencil, that a signature on an agreement means that there will be severe consequences to breaking said agreements.

Permanent Daylight Saving Time is idiotic. It was tried before in the UK (1968-71), the USA (1973-74), Russia (2011-14) and Chile (2015). In each case, it was popular at first because it meant no more changing the clocks twice a year, but quickly became very unpopular because of early-morning traffic fatalities, children waiting for buses in pitch darkness, and general seasonal depression, made worse from it staying dark until late in the morning in winter.