Then to be fair we should be backdating the fines for heavy polluters to when it first started, so the UK, Canada and the US pay our fair share of the cost.

There is a finite amount of H2O on earth, and climate change is altering weather patterns that used to be reliable. Increased evaporation in no way guarantees healthy ecosystems where humans can survive.

My fixed income is just over $16k per year. I’ve had to downsize from a house to a bachelor appt to a bedroom, so now have limited access to refrigerator and freezer space. But at least I live in a city where I have access to somewhat resonably-priced food. The same cannot be said for those living in small towns or remote regions where prices can be double (or more) of city prices.

I’m sure that our ideas of what is not very expensive are very different.

I recently found out why my beef gravies/soups didn’t have that depth my grandma’s had … seems you have to add a bit of tomato paste/sauce to it. Something in the tomato brings it out.

Made a world of difference.

Ham bones make a great soup base as well. And depending on where you shop beef bones are good too.

My easy soup is a bag of frozen veggies, yams, broth, spaghetti sauce ('cause it has spices already in it) and whatever meat I have available. Spices depend on meat used, ie: garlic and ginger, peanut butter (for a play on West African peanut soup), or a few tablespoons of spicy salsa.

Packaged foods are also very expensive. I haven’t purchased packaged food for years because I am poor and have to find different foods to get the nutrition I need.

I didn’t say I hoped for it. Watching murder unfold is never something anyone should hope for.

I just offered a scenario where Israel crosses yet another line in the sand, as they have previously done over and over again, murdering journalists, UN workers, and NGO food/aid distributors.

The opposite side of that coin is what would happen if the IDF accidentally-on-purpose hits UNFIL with a missile or two.

The US would be caught between a rock and hard place, forcing it to choose the non-genocidal side.

You know what would make a better headline?

US targets Israel and Netanyahu with sanctions to stop the Palestinian genocide

It’s the gift that keeps on giving.

And blame Poilievre for supporting genocidal pricks.

Dude just likes stirring the shit pot until it boils over, then demands someone else clean it up.

Or be poor, or live in a food desert, or live in remote regions where a bag of oranges can run $50 or more.

And yet there are still people who would deny it unless the facts were presented in an official report.

Lawyer and author Linda Hirshman believed that, in the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential election, Ginsburg was waiting for candidate Hillary Clinton to beat candidate Donald Trump before retiring, because Clinton would nominate a more liberal successor for her than Obama would, or so that her successor could be nominated by the first female president. After Trump’s victory in 2016 and the election of a Republican Senate, she would have had to wait until at least 2021 for a Democrat to be president, but died in office in September 2020 at age 87. Source

Seems she may have meant to retire but waited too long to do so.

The Beirut explosion was due to ammonium nitrate “having been confiscated by Lebanese authorities from the abandoned ship MV Rhosus” - then stashed in a warehouse for 6 years without safety measures.

On August 2, 2020 a fire broke out at the warehouse, which also housed a stash of fireworks.

Cue explosion. Source

So we agree to disagree then.

You seem to think that massive flood waters just stay in one place and don’t flow everywhere, mixing feces and storm debris.

My data is from StatsCan, who I trust more than your source.

RBG must be rolling in her grave over what’s happened to her beloved court.

China is attacking Canada economically for example.

China is doing that because our former right-wing asshole leader, Stephen Harper, locked us into a Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (FIPA) with China for 31 years, and they’re now forcing its usage upon us. Source