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Anonymous ID: 5ac01f Feb. 2, 2022, 9:19 a.m. No.15528032   🗄️.is 🔗kun

https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1488195516567482369

Significant climate progress is possible in 2022 if we commit to bold action. With the support of our growing community of @Breakthrough Energy partners, we can accelerate the commercialization of the critical climate technologies we need to spark the green industrial revolution.

 

https://twitter.com/JonahGoldman/status/1488190611295391744

I’ve never been more optimistic about the world’s ability to build on pledges made by biz, gov, and consumers in 2021. But climate ambition won’t translate automatically into climate impact. We must now act on these commitments. More on BE's 2022 outlook:

https://www.breakthroughenergy.org/articles/2022-outlook

Anonymous ID: 5ac01f Feb. 2, 2022, 10:26 a.m. No.15528602   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>8612

Erin O’Toole is out as the leader of the Conservative party.

Tory MPs voted 73-45 to remove O’Toole during a secret ballot Wednesday morning. Only a 50% vote was needed to oust him as leader.

O’Toole issued a warning Monday night saying removing him as leader would mean a dangerous shift to the right and threw out the names of Derek Sloand and Randy Hillier.

““The other road is to better reflect the Canada of 2022. To recognize that conservatism is organic, not static, and that a winning message is one of inclusion, optimism, ideas and hope,” said O’Toole.

“It’s time for a reckoning. To settle this in caucus. Right here. Right now. Once and for all. Anger vs. Optimism. That’s the choice in simple terms. I will accept the result of this vote. The signers of this letter must accept it, too. They brought it. They’ll have to live with it.”

Reports came in that during Wednesday’s meeting O’Toole apologized and said he was willing to alter course on some of his policies.

The vote throws the party into another leadership race, the second in 18 months.

It only took minutes for MPs to throw their hats into the ring to become interim leader.

“I am running to be interim Leader of our Conservative Party. I will respect my caucus colleagues. I will listen to our movement. I know how to keep us united around the things that matter most to us as Conservatives,” said New Brunswick MP John Williamson.

A vote on who will be the interim leader will be held later Wednesday.

On Tuesday, Alberta Premier Jason Kenney pleaded with federal Conservatives to be careful what they do in “the heat of the moment.

“It doesn’t make sense to keep changing leaders after every election,” said Kenney who supported O’Toole when he was seeking the party leadership.

A disastrous 2021 election campaign was the beginning of the end for O’Toole.

He flip-flopped on the carbon tax — after initially opposing it, to bring in his own.

He waffled on other issues like firearms rights and balanced budgets.

Anonymous ID: 5ac01f Feb. 2, 2022, 10:30 a.m. No.15528642   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Blacklock’s Reporter says Canada’s chief public health officer, Dr. Theresa Tam, is refusing to appear for questioning at the Commons ethics committee.

MPs had asked her to explain a data scoop that saw the Public Health Agency collect information on 33 million cellphone users.

“She refused to come before committee,” New Democrat MP Matthew Green (Hamilton Centre, Ont.) said Monday.

“That’s not a small thing. I’m certainly not suggesting we subpoena the chief medical officer before this committee, but I do want to remind members of this committee we do have those powers.”

The committee on December 14 by a 10-0 vote summoned Tam and others to explain the collection of cellphone tower tracking data.

The Public Health Agency earlier told Blacklock’s it sought the information to monitor compliance with lockdown orders.

“It is the way in which we have allowed private corporations in the telecom cartel to take information that ought to be private and sell it, in this case to the government,” said Green, adding: “I have a deep concern that the chief medical health officer has turned down our invitation to come before this committee.

“To simply refuse to show up before committee to me is a problem. If this is going to be a characteristic of this government or of the senior bureaucrats of this government, to refuse to come before committee, then I think we’re going to be headed into a bit of a problem here.”

Conservative MP John Brassard (Barrie-Innisfil, Ont.), who earlier sponsored the motion to investigate the Health Agency data scoop, said Tam must appear.

“It was agreed on a vote of 10 to zero, 10-nothing,” said Brassard.

“It was clear and it was stated and it was unequivocal. I am very, very disappointed.

“We want the best results from a public health standpoint but we also need to be bloody well assured the privacy rights of Canadians are being protected. Until and unless we get to that point where we’re satisfied, I think it’s a concern of many Canadians their mobility data was collected without them knowing.”

The scope of the monitoring was only detailed when the PHA issued a December 17 notice to contractors to expand the program.

“No personal information was asked or was received,” Dr. Harpreet Kochhar, president of the PHA, testified January 18.

“The actual reason why we collected this data is reliable, timely and relevant public health data comes out of it for other policy and decision making.”