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Can You Go to Canada if You Have a DUI?
Many Americans are surprised to learn that entering Canada with a DUI can be extremely difficult. This is because a DUI is a felony north of the border, and can consequently result in a visitor being considered “criminally inadmissible” and denied entry at the Canadian border. In December 2018, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Government of […]
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My #Movember Alex Trebek Tribute Moustache And Why I Almost Didn’t Bother
Posted November 24, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Plainly, 2020 has been an awful year.And I know that I haven’t been blogging, but it just feels wrong to be writing about nutrition, medicine, or weight management in the face of our tragic new realities.I do hope this post finds you and yours healthy…
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The tweet of the year
Posted November 24, 2020 by Anonymous
This is from September: Aliens: “Take us to your leader.”Me: “I would wait.”— Jesse Lifson (@DoYouEvenLif) September 12, 2020 Turned out to be pretty good advice.
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Pandemic Lockdowns Caused ‘Just a Tiny Blip’ in Climate-Polluting Emissions, WMO Finds
Posted November 23, 2020 by Sharon Kelly
Read time: 6 minsThere was some speculation that climate-changing emissions might drop this spring as the world went into lockdown to slow the spread of the coronavirus. But, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), thi…
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Oil Companies Can’t Find Any Buyers For Refineries Struggling Amid Pandemic Crisis
Posted November 23, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 9 minsMajor players in the U.S. petroleum refining industry — which is experiencing a historic downturn due to the coronavirus pandemic — are attempting to sell refineries, with little luck. Unable to find any buyers, several refineries are …
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New ‘No Corporate Cabinet’ Campaign Pushes Biden to Pick People Who Will Advance Public Good
Posted November 21, 2020 by guest
Read time: 5 minsBy Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US.
With two months until Inauguration Day and President Donald Trump apparently hellbent on lighting more figurative fires on his way out of …
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Saturday Stories: Antarctically Cold Vaccines, Cancelling Thanksgiving, And How Vermont Succeeded
Posted November 21, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Selinia Simmons-Duffin, in NPR Shots, on why Pfizer’s vaccine needs to be kept at temperatures lower than an Antarctic winter.James Hamblin, in The Atlantic, on honouring the meaning of the Thanksgiving holiday by cancelling it this year.Julia Belluz,…
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‘Historic’ Court Ruling Will Force France To Justify Its Climate Targets
Posted November 20, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 5 minsA French court this week issued what climate campaigners are calling a “historic decision” in the fight to hold national governments accountable for insufficient action to address the climate crisis.
Tags: Franceclimate lawsuitPar…
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Automakers Show ‘Concerning’ Lack of Engagement on Human Rights and Climate, Analyses Reveal
Posted November 19, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 8 minsThe world’s leading automakers are not doing enough to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with international climate targets and are failing to address or even report on human rights issues, according to new assessments released b…
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Introducing DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database
Posted November 17, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 3 minsThis article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database, where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate scien…
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Investigation: How Pesticide Companies Are Marketing Themselves as a Solution to Climate Change
Posted November 17, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 15 minsThis article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database, where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of clim…
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Climate Deniers Are Claiming EVs Are Bad for the Environment — Again. Here’s Why They’re Wrong.
Posted November 17, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 8 minsA new paper published Tuesday, November 17, by the conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), raises environmental concerns with electric vehicles in what appears to be the latest attempt by organizations assoc…
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Funny stuff
Posted November 16, 2020 by Anonymous
You know how when you’re going through an intersection and someone runs the red but luckily they just click your bumper on the way past, and you are shaken but OK and you just drive on?
That’s how I feel about Trump’s defeat.
America has avoided fascism by the merest click.— Cathie from Canada 🇨🇦 😷🏳️🌈 (@CathieCanada) November 8, 2020
Everyone needs to chill out please. They still have to count all of Hunter Biden’s laptops, Greenland, the lost city of Antifa and the hidden suburbs behind the revolving ObamaGate.
— Jesse Lifson (@DoYouEvenLif) November 13, 2020
Johnny Cash spent decades trying to warn us about this. https://t.co/EkqJhSUqdq
— Steve Reilly (@BySteveReilly) November 11, 2020
From the ‘Crap wildlife photography’ group on Facebook #womensart pic.twitter.com/pxMUG35LJT
— #WOMENSART (@womensart1) November 11, 2020
When you see your ex and try to play it cool.
📹: Imgur user anlyin pic.twitter.com/PSyXsmPZX3
— Paul Bronks (@SlenderSherbet) November 15, 2020
Ever since the owners got this trampoline, the dog spends more time on it than the kids
(viralhog) pic.twitter.com/ToBhFJM2ET— ༺❆ᗙ Martin 🏳️🌈 ᗛ❆༻ Party time🍷 (@KlatuBaradaNiko) November 10, 2020
Obstacle course skills… pic.twitter.com/modMjqwTqK
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 9, 2020
This good boy thinks the guys throwing darts on the TV are playing fetch with him… pic.twitter.com/tcLNrKpn0Q
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) November 15, 2020
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Can You Go to Canada if You Have a DUI?
Posted November 16, 2020 by Ben
Many Americans are surprised to learn that entering Canada with a DUI can be extremely difficult. This is because a DUI is a felony north of the border, and can consequently result in a visitor being considered “criminally inadmissible” and denied entry at the Canadian border. In December 2018, Justin Trudeau and the Liberal Government of […]
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Saturday Stories: We Know How To Control The Virus, There Is No Casedemic, And There Won’t Be Natural Herd Immunity
Posted November 14, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Tomas Pueyo, in Medium, explains what could be done by countries like Canada and the US to control the virus if they actually wanted to do so as evidenced by the successes of Japan, Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, New Zealand, Austra…
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Norway’s Supreme Court to Decide on Climate Lawsuit Challenging Offshore Arctic Oil Drilling
Posted November 13, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 5 minsThe Supreme Court of Norway is set to rule in a high-profile climate change lawsuit challenging the Norwegian government’s licensing of new offshore oil drilling in the fragile and rapidly warming Arctic region. The forthcoming decisio…
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Biden’s Climate Change Plans Can Quickly Raise the Bar, But Can They be Transformative?
Posted November 13, 2020 by guest
Read time: 5 minsBy Edward R. Carr, The Conversation. Reposted from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.
The day Joe Biden becomes president, he can start taking actions that can help slow climate change. The question is whether he can …
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Politicians Try to Rally Support for Coal Despite Economics and Biden Presidential Win
Posted November 12, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 10 minsThe election results are a stark reminder of just how divided the country remains on many issues. However, in the days since the results were announced November 7, two senators from both parties are finding common ground in a familiar…
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Massachusetts Locals Accuse Town Mayor Of ‘Colluding’ With Enbridge Over Controversial Natural Gas Project
Posted November 11, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 13 minsResidents of Weymouth, Massachusetts, are raising questions about a deal made between the city and multi-billion dollar Canadian energy pipeline company Enbridge, Inc., with some calling the situation a “complete sell-off” that could …
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Biden Urged to Be #ClimatePresident by Taking These 10 ‘Game-Changing’ Steps in First 10 Days in Office
Posted November 9, 2020 by guest
Read time: 5 minsBy Julia Conley, Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY-SA 3.0 US.
With Democrats anxious about the probability that President-elect Joe Biden will be forced to grapple with a Republican-led Senate after taki…
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Oh happy day
Posted November 8, 2020 by Anonymous
HEY, NEIGHBOUR
✌️❤️🇨🇦🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/9niMTfDPi8— Brittlestar (@brittlestar) November 7, 2020
#BestEpisode_EVER pic.twitter.com/n7oJx9BrhE
— Mark Hamill (@HamillHimself) November 7, 2020
You may want to mute this account for a while because I feel I may have to individually insult every member of the outgoing administration in crude and personal ways
— Hari Kunzru (@harikunzru) November 7, 2020
I drew this thinking of Georgia and Arizona. #Election2020 #TrumpIsLosing #TrumpMeltdown pic.twitter.com/5zBKjyDHwk
— Michael de Adder (@deAdder) November 7, 2020
People were ecstatic when Obama won too, but the energy was really different. That was like we were all on the cusp of a bright new future. This is more like we just beat the Nazis.
— Jan in the Pan (@mswhatsit) November 8, 2020
No joke: I’m in rural Mexico and cheers just erupted throughout the town
— Justin C. Cohen (@juscohen) November 7, 2020
From church bells in Paris to fireworks in London, Europe & beyond, America’s allies across the world are celebrating Donald Trump’s defeat and the election of President Biden and VP Harris! ❤️🎉🍾 pic.twitter.com/SYtIEgLTQ8
— Minh Ngo (@minhtngo) November 7, 2020
And finally, this:
Reminder: Hillary Clinton gets to cast one of the electoral votes that throws him out of office. 🙃https://t.co/yPlwzCgaJU
— Dennis Mersereau (@wxdam) November 7, 2020
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Saturday Stories: Complacency’s Price, and Minks
Posted November 7, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Andre Picard, in The Globe and Mail, on the price we’re paying for complacency with COVID.Helen Branswell, in STAT, with some reassurance on Danish COVID minks. Yes minks.
Related StoriesSaturday Stories: The E…
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Climate Deniers Boost Pro-Trump Efforts to Cast Doubt on US Election
Posted November 7, 2020 by Sharon Kelly
Read time: 5 minsIn unusual remarks made during a corporate earnings call today, Friday, November 6, Continental Resources founder and executive chairman Howard Hamm referred to counting “all legal votes” — a phrase used by President Donald Trump to su…
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Anti-pollution Advocates Cheer as Army Corps Reviews Formosa Plastics Permit in Louisiana
Posted November 5, 2020 by Julie Dermansky
Read time: 6 minsEnvironmental and community groups in Louisiana are elated after what they see as two back-to-back wins in their fight to protect fenceline communities from additional petrochemical industry pollution. This week, a key federal permit f…
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US Now Officially Out of the Paris Climate Agreement
Posted November 4, 2020 by guest
Read time: 3 minsBy Olivia Rosane, EcoWatch. Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.
The U.S. has officially left the Paris climate agreement.
However, the permanence of its departure hangs on the still-uncertain outcome of Tuesday’s U.S. presidentia…
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Environmental Groups Oppose Shell Request to Increase Air Pollution Limits for Pennsylvania Plastics Factory
Posted November 3, 2020 by Sharon Kelly
Read time: 5 minsCiting design changes, Shell Chemical Appalachia has asked Pennsylvania’s state regulators to issue air permits that would allow the company’s massive plastics manufacturing plant under construction outside Pittsburgh to emit significa…
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Hurricane Zeta Leaves Thousands Without Power, Oily Mess On Heels of Laura and Delta in South Louisiana
Posted October 31, 2020 by Julie Dermansky
Read time: 7 mins“I will evacuate next time a hurricane is forecast to hit the area,” Traditional Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi- Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe told me the day after Hurricane Zeta hit Louisiana’s coas…
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Faculty and Alumni Demand that University of Arizona Kick Koch Money Off Campus
Posted October 31, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 5 minsThis week, Kochs Off Campus!, a grassroots organisation of faculty members and alumni at the University of Arizona and local Tucson residents, staged a day of action to highlight the encroachment of corporate influences on public insti…
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State Backers of Anti-Protest Bills Received Campaign Funding from Oil and Gas Industry, Report Finds
Posted October 31, 2020 by Sharon Kelly
Read time: 9 minsPoliticians responsible for drafting laws criminalizing pipeline protests in Louisiana, West Virginia, and Minnesota did so after receiving significant funding from the fossil fuel industry, according to a new report by the Institute f…
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Saturday Stories: The Election, The World Series, And The Expectations
Posted October 31, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Ed Yong, in The Atlantic, predicts what the future of COVID in America will look like following a Biden or a Trump election win.Jeff Passan, in ESPN, discusses how this year’s World Series was a metaphor for 2020 America.Helen Branswell, in STAT, on h…
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Court Tosses Youth Climate Lawsuit Against Canada
Posted October 30, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 5 minsThe Federal Court of Canada has decided to dismiss a climate lawsuit based on constitutional rights and brought by 15 young Canadians against the federal government. The decision, issued October 27, effectively denies the youths the ch…
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Trump Approved Shipping Tar Sands by Rail to Alaska. The Project’s Owners Are Banking on a Melting Arctic
Posted October 30, 2020 by Steve Horn
Read time: 9 minsOn September 28, President Donald Trump signed a presidential permit to ship Alberta’s tar sands oil via a proposed 1,600-mile private rail line across the U.S.-Canada border into Alaska.
The permit, given to the company Alaska-Alber…
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The Koch Operatives Behind the Trump Energy Department’s Renewables Research Censorship
Posted October 28, 2020 by Ben Jervey
Read time: 5 minsTwo Trump Energy Department appointees with deep ties to Koch Industries and the Koch donor network have been burying reams of agency research that looks favorably on renewable energy, according to an in-depth investigation by Grist an…
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Detroit Knew: GM and Ford Were Aware of Climate Risks Decades Ago Too, Investigation Reveals
Posted October 28, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 10 minsGroundbreaking reporting this week by E&E News revealed that, similar to major oil companies like Exxon, American automakers Ford and General Motors (GM) engaged in early cutting-edge climate science research and that the companie…
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A Right-Wing Think Tank Is Behind the Controversial Great Barrington Declaration Calling for COVID-19 Herd Immunity
Posted October 26, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 12 minsAn open letter that emerged earlier this month opposing COVID-19 shutdowns and calling for a “herd immunity” approach to addressing the coronavirus — which already has claimed over 220,000 American lives — is one of the latest example…
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Trump Pledges to ‘Save Your Fracking’ and Biden Says No Ban — But Most Pennsylvania Voters Oppose Fracking
Posted October 26, 2020 by Sharon Kelly
Read time: 8 mins“To all the people of Pennsylvania, hear this warning,” President Trump said at a campaign rally last week in Erie, Pennsylvania. “If Biden’s elected, he will wipe out your energy industry.”
“Only by voting for me,” Trump added, “can …
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Affordable Housing Developers Set their Sights on Former Toxic Oil Fields in LA
Posted October 24, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 14 minsPhotography by Peter Bennett
On a busy corner in Vista Hermosa, a neighborhood just west of downtown Los Angeles, early signs of construction have begun on a 7-story, 64-unit apartment building called Firmin Court. The project’s deve…
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Saturday Stories: Respecting Uncertainty, Rapid Home Testing, And Herd Immunity
Posted October 24, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
George Davey Smith, Michael Blastland, and Marcus Munafò, in the BMJ, on how when it comes to COVID, certainty is a red flag.Amy McDermott, in PNAS, on how it’ll likely be rapid home COVID testing that brings back some sense of normalcy – it can’t com…
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Book Review | The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil
Posted October 23, 2020 by guest
Read time: 9 minsBy Frank Kaminski. Originally published by Resilience.
The Crash of Flight 3804 is a triumph on two fronts. First, it’s a comprehensive history of U.S. involvement in the Middle East that manages the uncommon feat of placing this hist…
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Polling Shows Growing Climate Concern Among Americans. But Outsized Influence of Deniers Remains a Roadblock
Posted October 22, 2020 by Anonymous
Read time: 9 minsMore Americans than ever before — 54 percent, recent polling data shows — are alarmed or concerned about climate change, which scientists warn is a planetary emergency unfolding in the form of searing heat, prolonged drought, massive w…
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RDs! We’re Hiring! Looking To Fill A Full-Time Permanent Position With My New Venture Constant Health (Telecommuters Welcome!)
Posted October 22, 2020 by Yoni Freedhoff
Since 2004, Constant Health’s expert team has been at the forefront behavioural weight management, and now, by leveraging the best that technology has to offer, the goal is to share that expertise while eliminating geographic boundaries. Our headquart…
