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Yup. Today it's Rusyn (roo seen) sometimes Ruthenian aka "The Knights Who Say Ni!"
Rusyn, also known as Ruthenian, refers to an East Slavic ethnic group and their language, primarily found in the Carpathian Mountains region. They are also referred to as Carpatho-Rusyns, Carpatho-Russians, or Rusnaks. The Rusyn language is considered either a distinct language or a dialect of Ukrainian. Rusyns are known for their unique cultural identity, including their Eastern Christian traditions.
Key aspects of Rusyn identity:
- Geographic Location:
Rusyns primarily inhabit the Carpathian region, including parts of western Ukraine, eastern Slovakia, and south-eastern Poland. - Language:
The Rusyn language is an East Slavic language, with various dialects spoken across the Carpathian region. It is sometimes classified as a separate language and sometimes as a dialect of Ukrainian. - Religion:
The majority of Rusyns are Eastern Catholics, though a minority practice Eastern Orthodoxy. - Cultural Identity:
Rusyns maintain a distinct cultural identity, with traditions and customs rooted in their Carpathian homeland. - Historical Context:
Rusyn history is intertwined with the broader East Slavic history of Kievan Rus and later states like the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. - Modern Identity:
In the 19th and 20th centuries, Rusyn intellectuals began to solidify their ethnonym and identity, particularly with the rise of national awakening movements. - Variations:
There are regional variations within the Rusyn community, such as the Lemkos, who live on the northern slopes of the Carpathians.
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Arson is the new hobby for environmentalists.Canada’s 2025 wildfire season now second-worst on record, fuelled by Prairies blazes
Author of the article:Canadian Press
Canadian Press
Jordan Omstead
Published Aug 08, 2025 • 1 minute read
TORONTO — Canada’s 2025 wildfire season is now the second-worst on record.
The latest figures posted by the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre suggest fires have torn through 72,000 square kilometres, an area roughly the size of New Brunswick.
That surpasses the next-worst season in 1989 and is about half the area burned during the record-setting 2023 season, according to a federal database of wildfire seasons dating back to 1972.
This season has strained firefighting resources, displaced thousands of people and stifled communities across Canada in wildfire smoke, with Saskatchewan and Manitoba seeing the most area burned.
Canada has been at its highest wildfire preparedness level since late May, with around 1,400 international firefighters called in to help so far this year.
Scientists have warned climate change, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, is making fire seasons longer and more intense.
Canada’s 2025 wildfire season now second-worst on record, fuelled by Prairies blazes
Canada's 2025 wildfire season is now the second-worst on record.torontosun.com
Italy's Mount Vesuvius closed to tourists as wildfire rages
Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Published Aug 10, 2025 • 1 minute read
A wildfire has forced the closure of hiking paths on Mount Vesuvius, pictured here in 2024
A wildfire has forced the closure of hiking paths on Mount Vesuvius, pictured here in 2024 Photo by Tiziana FABI /AFP
Rome (AFP) — Italian firefighters on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the volcano near Naples closed to tourists.
The national fire service said it had 12 teams on the ground and six Canadair planes fighting the blaze, which has torn through the national park in southern Italy since Friday.
Reinforcement firefighters were on their way from other regions and the onsite teams were using drones to better monitor the spread of the fire, the service said on Telegram.
“For safety reasons and… to facilitate firefighting and cleanup operations in the affected areas, all activities along the Vesuvius National Park trail network are suspended until further notice,” the park said in a statement Saturday.
Nearly 620,000 people visited the volcano’s crater in 2024, according to the park.
The smoke from the fire could be seen from the Pompeii archeological site, which however remained open to tourists.
Experts say European countries are becoming ever more vulnerable to wildfires due to intensifying summer heatwaves linked to global warming.
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Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Published Aug 10, 2025 • 1 minute read
A wildfire has forced the closure of hiking paths on Mount Vesuvius, pictured here in 2024
A wildfire has forced the closure of hiking paths on Mount Vesuvius, pictured here in 2024 Photo by Tiziana FABI /AFP
Rome (AFP) — Italian firefighters on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius, with all hiking routes up the volcano near Naples closed to tourists.
The national fire service said it had 12 teams on the ground and six Canadair planes fighting the blaze, which has torn through the national park in southern Italy since Friday.
Reinforcement firefighters were on their way from other regions and the onsite teams were using drones to better monitor the spread of the fire, the service said on Telegram.
“For safety reasons and… to facilitate firefighting and cleanup operations in the affected areas, all activities along the Vesuvius National Park trail network are suspended until further notice,” the park said in a statement Saturday.
Nearly 620,000 people visited the volcano’s crater in 2024, according to the park.
The smoke from the fire could be seen from the Pompeii archeological site, which however remained open to tourists.
Experts say European countries are becoming ever more vulnerable to wildfires due to intensifying summer heatwaves linked to global warming.
Italy's Mount Vesuvius closed to tourists as wildfire rages
Italian firefighters on Sunday tackled a wildfire on the flanks of Mount Vesuvius.
How to measure dangerous heat
The condition kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme
Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Nick Perry
Published Aug 12, 2025 • Last updated 17 hours ago • 3 minute read
Heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme.
Heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme.
PARIS — As Europe and North America endure yet another wave of sweltering heat and out-of-control wildfires this summer, experts are sounding the alarm over heat stress.
The condition kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme, but what is heat stress exactly, and how is it measured?
‘Silent killer’
Heat stress occurs when the body’s natural cooling systems are overwhelmed, causing symptoms ranging from dizziness and headaches to organ failure and death.
It is brought on by prolonged exposure to heat and other environmental factors that work together to undermine the body’s internal thermostat and its ability to regulate temperature.
“Heat is a silent killer, because symptoms are not so easily evident. And when these underlying conditions are present, the consequences can be very bad, and even catastrophic,” said Alejandro Saez Reale of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Infants, the elderly, people with health problems and outdoor workers are particularly vulnerable. City dwellers surrounded by concrete, brick and other heat-absorbing surfaces also face an elevated risk.
The WMO estimates that heat kills around half a million people a year but says that the true toll is not known, and could be 30 times higher than is currently recorded.
As climate change makes heatwaves longer, stronger and more frequent, people across the planet will be increasingly exposed to conditions that test the limits of human endurance.
More than a maximum
Temperature might be the most widely used and easily understood weather reading, but headline-catching “maximum highs” do not fully tell how heat might affect the human body.
For example, 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) feels very different in the dry heat of the desert compared to the humid climes of a jungle.
To build a more complete picture, scientists consider a host of factors including temperature but also humidity, wind speed, clothing, direct sunshine, and even the amounts of concrete or greenery in the area.
All these play a big role in how the body perceives and, most importantly, responds to extreme heat.
There are many ways to measure heat stress, some of which are decades old, but all try to boil down different environmental readings into a single number or graph.
‘Feels like’
One of the oldest methods is known as wet-bulb temperature, a useful gauge in situations where the thermometer reading may not seem too extreme but when combined with humidity becomes unbearable, even lethal.
Just six hours exposed to 35 degrees Celsius with 100 percent humidity is enough to kill a healthy person, scientists said in 2023.
Above this limit, sweat cannot evaporate off the skin, and the body overheats and expires.
Copernicus, the EU’s climate monitor, uses the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), which considers temperature and humidity but also wind, sunshine and radiated heat to rank heat stress levels from moderate to extreme.
Extreme heat stress, as judged by this index, is a “feels like” temperature of 46 Celsius and above, at which point it is necessary to take action to avoid health risks.
The Heat Index, used by the US National Weather Service, offers an “apparent temperature” based on heat and humidity in the shade, and a colour-coded graph denoting the likelihood of illness from exposure.
Canada has developed the Humidex rating, which combines heat and humidity into one number to reflect the “perceived temperature” and presents the associated risk in a four-step “guide to summer comfort” chart.
Limitations
Other examples of “thermal stress” indices include the Tropical Summer Index, Predicted Heat Strain and the mean radiant temperature.
They are not without limitations, and heatwave expert John Nairn said that some measures worked better in some climates than others.
“It’s not the same all around the world, about the way you approach it,” Nairn told AFP.
The UTCI, for example, is excellent at reading heat stress in Germany, where it was first developed, but “a very poor measure” in global south countries, he said.
“It saturates and over-measures far too much. And it would over-alert for those communities who are chronically exposed to heat,” said Nairn, who has advised governments and the WMO on heatwave policy.
These locations might receive better heat stress readings using wet-bulb temperature, he said.
These indices also do not consider the impact of heat beyond health, he said, even though a heatwave could strand trains or overload air-conditioners.
“If your heat challenge is such that it gets to a level where your infrastructure is not going to operate, and it starts failing, that will have a return on humans no longer being protected,” Nairn said.
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The condition kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme
Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Nick Perry
Published Aug 12, 2025 • Last updated 17 hours ago • 3 minute read
Heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme.
Heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme.
PARIS — As Europe and North America endure yet another wave of sweltering heat and out-of-control wildfires this summer, experts are sounding the alarm over heat stress.
The condition kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme, but what is heat stress exactly, and how is it measured?
‘Silent killer’
Heat stress occurs when the body’s natural cooling systems are overwhelmed, causing symptoms ranging from dizziness and headaches to organ failure and death.
It is brought on by prolonged exposure to heat and other environmental factors that work together to undermine the body’s internal thermostat and its ability to regulate temperature.
“Heat is a silent killer, because symptoms are not so easily evident. And when these underlying conditions are present, the consequences can be very bad, and even catastrophic,” said Alejandro Saez Reale of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Infants, the elderly, people with health problems and outdoor workers are particularly vulnerable. City dwellers surrounded by concrete, brick and other heat-absorbing surfaces also face an elevated risk.
The WMO estimates that heat kills around half a million people a year but says that the true toll is not known, and could be 30 times higher than is currently recorded.
As climate change makes heatwaves longer, stronger and more frequent, people across the planet will be increasingly exposed to conditions that test the limits of human endurance.
More than a maximum
Temperature might be the most widely used and easily understood weather reading, but headline-catching “maximum highs” do not fully tell how heat might affect the human body.
For example, 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) feels very different in the dry heat of the desert compared to the humid climes of a jungle.
To build a more complete picture, scientists consider a host of factors including temperature but also humidity, wind speed, clothing, direct sunshine, and even the amounts of concrete or greenery in the area.
All these play a big role in how the body perceives and, most importantly, responds to extreme heat.
There are many ways to measure heat stress, some of which are decades old, but all try to boil down different environmental readings into a single number or graph.
‘Feels like’
One of the oldest methods is known as wet-bulb temperature, a useful gauge in situations where the thermometer reading may not seem too extreme but when combined with humidity becomes unbearable, even lethal.
Just six hours exposed to 35 degrees Celsius with 100 percent humidity is enough to kill a healthy person, scientists said in 2023.
Above this limit, sweat cannot evaporate off the skin, and the body overheats and expires.
Copernicus, the EU’s climate monitor, uses the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), which considers temperature and humidity but also wind, sunshine and radiated heat to rank heat stress levels from moderate to extreme.
Extreme heat stress, as judged by this index, is a “feels like” temperature of 46 Celsius and above, at which point it is necessary to take action to avoid health risks.
The Heat Index, used by the US National Weather Service, offers an “apparent temperature” based on heat and humidity in the shade, and a colour-coded graph denoting the likelihood of illness from exposure.
Canada has developed the Humidex rating, which combines heat and humidity into one number to reflect the “perceived temperature” and presents the associated risk in a four-step “guide to summer comfort” chart.
Limitations
Other examples of “thermal stress” indices include the Tropical Summer Index, Predicted Heat Strain and the mean radiant temperature.
They are not without limitations, and heatwave expert John Nairn said that some measures worked better in some climates than others.
“It’s not the same all around the world, about the way you approach it,” Nairn told AFP.
The UTCI, for example, is excellent at reading heat stress in Germany, where it was first developed, but “a very poor measure” in global south countries, he said.
“It saturates and over-measures far too much. And it would over-alert for those communities who are chronically exposed to heat,” said Nairn, who has advised governments and the WMO on heatwave policy.
These locations might receive better heat stress readings using wet-bulb temperature, he said.
These indices also do not consider the impact of heat beyond health, he said, even though a heatwave could strand trains or overload air-conditioners.
“If your heat challenge is such that it gets to a level where your infrastructure is not going to operate, and it starts failing, that will have a return on humans no longer being protected,” Nairn said.
STRESSED OUT: How to measure dangerous heat
The condition kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme, but what is heat stress exactly
All that to say "Its summer, wear a hat and stay hydrated".How to measure dangerous heat
The condition kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme
Author of the article:AFP
AFP
Nick Perry
Published Aug 12, 2025 • Last updated 17 hours ago • 3 minute read
Heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme.
Heat kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme.
PARIS — As Europe and North America endure yet another wave of sweltering heat and out-of-control wildfires this summer, experts are sounding the alarm over heat stress.
The condition kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme, but what is heat stress exactly, and how is it measured?
‘Silent killer’
Heat stress occurs when the body’s natural cooling systems are overwhelmed, causing symptoms ranging from dizziness and headaches to organ failure and death.
It is brought on by prolonged exposure to heat and other environmental factors that work together to undermine the body’s internal thermostat and its ability to regulate temperature.
“Heat is a silent killer, because symptoms are not so easily evident. And when these underlying conditions are present, the consequences can be very bad, and even catastrophic,” said Alejandro Saez Reale of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
Infants, the elderly, people with health problems and outdoor workers are particularly vulnerable. City dwellers surrounded by concrete, brick and other heat-absorbing surfaces also face an elevated risk.
The WMO estimates that heat kills around half a million people a year but says that the true toll is not known, and could be 30 times higher than is currently recorded.
As climate change makes heatwaves longer, stronger and more frequent, people across the planet will be increasingly exposed to conditions that test the limits of human endurance.
More than a maximum
Temperature might be the most widely used and easily understood weather reading, but headline-catching “maximum highs” do not fully tell how heat might affect the human body.
For example, 35 degrees Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) feels very different in the dry heat of the desert compared to the humid climes of a jungle.
To build a more complete picture, scientists consider a host of factors including temperature but also humidity, wind speed, clothing, direct sunshine, and even the amounts of concrete or greenery in the area.
All these play a big role in how the body perceives and, most importantly, responds to extreme heat.
There are many ways to measure heat stress, some of which are decades old, but all try to boil down different environmental readings into a single number or graph.
‘Feels like’
One of the oldest methods is known as wet-bulb temperature, a useful gauge in situations where the thermometer reading may not seem too extreme but when combined with humidity becomes unbearable, even lethal.
Just six hours exposed to 35 degrees Celsius with 100 percent humidity is enough to kill a healthy person, scientists said in 2023.
Above this limit, sweat cannot evaporate off the skin, and the body overheats and expires.
Copernicus, the EU’s climate monitor, uses the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI), which considers temperature and humidity but also wind, sunshine and radiated heat to rank heat stress levels from moderate to extreme.
Extreme heat stress, as judged by this index, is a “feels like” temperature of 46 Celsius and above, at which point it is necessary to take action to avoid health risks.
The Heat Index, used by the US National Weather Service, offers an “apparent temperature” based on heat and humidity in the shade, and a colour-coded graph denoting the likelihood of illness from exposure.
Canada has developed the Humidex rating, which combines heat and humidity into one number to reflect the “perceived temperature” and presents the associated risk in a four-step “guide to summer comfort” chart.
Limitations
Other examples of “thermal stress” indices include the Tropical Summer Index, Predicted Heat Strain and the mean radiant temperature.
They are not without limitations, and heatwave expert John Nairn said that some measures worked better in some climates than others.
“It’s not the same all around the world, about the way you approach it,” Nairn told AFP.
The UTCI, for example, is excellent at reading heat stress in Germany, where it was first developed, but “a very poor measure” in global south countries, he said.
“It saturates and over-measures far too much. And it would over-alert for those communities who are chronically exposed to heat,” said Nairn, who has advised governments and the WMO on heatwave policy.
These locations might receive better heat stress readings using wet-bulb temperature, he said.
These indices also do not consider the impact of heat beyond health, he said, even though a heatwave could strand trains or overload air-conditioners.
“If your heat challenge is such that it gets to a level where your infrastructure is not going to operate, and it starts failing, that will have a return on humans no longer being protected,” Nairn said.
STRESSED OUT: How to measure dangerous heat
The condition kills more people than hurricanes, floods or any other climate-related extreme, but what is heat stress exactly
Canada’s targets for cutting greenhouse gases fit the definition of insanity
Author of the article:Lorrie Goldstein
Published Aug 16, 2025 • 4 minute read
Liberal and Conservative governments have been setting and failing to meet emission reduction targets since 1988.
Liberal and Conservative governments have been setting and failing to meet emission reduction targets since 1988.
After almost four decades of Canadian governments setting and failing to hit eight consecutive targets for reducing Canada’s industrial greenhouse gas emissions, surely it’s time to admit the targets are meaningless.
Far from being “aspirational” as supporters claim, they in fact deceive Canadians about the effectiveness of federal spending of more than $200 billion of taxpayers’ money on climate change (as of 2023) on 149 federal programs administered by 13 government departments, since the Liberal government came to power in 2015.
In fact, Liberal and Conservative governments have been setting and failing to meet emission reduction targets since 1988.
Given 37 years of ongoing failures, these targets now fit the definition of insanity — doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
Here’s where things stand given the latest available federal government emissions data that comes from 2023.
Canada’s current emission reduction target was set by then prime minister Justin Trudeau in 2021 — a goal of reducing Canada’s emissions to at least 40% (and, ideally, up to 45%) below 2005 levels in 2030.
According to the federal government, which retroactively changes the historical data every year based, it says, on improved data-gathering methods, Canada emitted 759 million tonnes of these gases in 2005.
That means the government’s target is to cut Canada’s emissions to 455 million tonnes (40% below 2005 levels) and, ideally, to 417 million tonnes (45% below 2005 levels) in 2030.
Canada’s emissions in 2023 were 694 million tonnes which is 8.5% below 2005 levels.
To meet the minimum federal target of reducing emissions to 455 million tonnes in 2030 would require cutting 2023 emissions by 239 million tonnes.
That would mean the equivalent of shutting down Canada’s entire old and gas sector (208 million tonnes of annual emissions in 2023) in 2030 and still coming up short.
To reach the government’s interim target of reducing emissions to 20% below 2005 levels in 2026 (meaning 607 million tonnes) would require a cut of 87 million tonnes of emissions by next year, more than all emissions from Canada’s buildings sector in 2023 (82.7 million tonnes).
Earlier this year, the government announced another unrealistic target of reducing emissions to 45%-50% of 2005 levels by 2035.
A report by federal environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco following an audit of the Liberals’ Net Zero Emissions Accountability Act last year said it was still possible for the government to achieve its 2030 target, “but now the task is much harder because there are only six years left to do essentially 20 or 30 years worth of reductions.”
His findings, however, provided few grounds for optimism.
DeMarco said the government’s lack of transparency made it impossible for the average citizen to understand, much less believe, its emission reduction targets.
It claims current policies will achieve a 36.2% reduction in emissions compared to 2005 in 2030, close to its minimum target of 40%.
But when DeMarco’s auditors examined a sampling of 20 of the government’s 149 measures to cut emissions, they found only nine were on track to achieve their goals.
Of 32 additional measures the government claimed would help boost reductions from 36.2% to at least 40% in 2030, only seven were new.
The audit found cases where two different programs were funding the same projects and reporting the same expected emission reductions, raising the possibility of double-counting.
It also reported the computer modelling used to estimate the emission cuts of various government programs wasn’t updated in 2023 compared to 2022 and that some of the initial calculations were overly optimistic.
In addition, “recent decreases to projected 2030 emissions were not due to climate action taken by governments, but were instead because of revisions to the data used in modelling.”
Given all this, if the Liberals under Prime Minister Mark Carney won’t abandon unrealistic climate targets then they should at least come clean with Canadians about where things really stand.
This as opposed to their current practice of insisting they’re on track to meet their targets when the federal government’s own data tell a very different story.
It’s the same problem with the Liberals’ policy to mandate that 20% of all new car sales must be battery-electric, plug-in hybrid or hydrogen fuel cell starting next year, rising to 60% in 2030 and 100% in 2035.
The auto sector has warned that given lagging EV sales in Canada, the only way to achieve the 2026 target would be to pull a million new gas-powered vehicles off the market, limiting consumer choice, increasing delivery times and driving up costs for consumers at a time when our auto sector is under siege from Donald Trump’s tariffs.
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Author of the article:Lorrie Goldstein
Published Aug 16, 2025 • 4 minute read
Liberal and Conservative governments have been setting and failing to meet emission reduction targets since 1988.
Liberal and Conservative governments have been setting and failing to meet emission reduction targets since 1988.
After almost four decades of Canadian governments setting and failing to hit eight consecutive targets for reducing Canada’s industrial greenhouse gas emissions, surely it’s time to admit the targets are meaningless.
Far from being “aspirational” as supporters claim, they in fact deceive Canadians about the effectiveness of federal spending of more than $200 billion of taxpayers’ money on climate change (as of 2023) on 149 federal programs administered by 13 government departments, since the Liberal government came to power in 2015.
In fact, Liberal and Conservative governments have been setting and failing to meet emission reduction targets since 1988.
Given 37 years of ongoing failures, these targets now fit the definition of insanity — doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.
Here’s where things stand given the latest available federal government emissions data that comes from 2023.
Canada’s current emission reduction target was set by then prime minister Justin Trudeau in 2021 — a goal of reducing Canada’s emissions to at least 40% (and, ideally, up to 45%) below 2005 levels in 2030.
According to the federal government, which retroactively changes the historical data every year based, it says, on improved data-gathering methods, Canada emitted 759 million tonnes of these gases in 2005.
That means the government’s target is to cut Canada’s emissions to 455 million tonnes (40% below 2005 levels) and, ideally, to 417 million tonnes (45% below 2005 levels) in 2030.
Canada’s emissions in 2023 were 694 million tonnes which is 8.5% below 2005 levels.
To meet the minimum federal target of reducing emissions to 455 million tonnes in 2030 would require cutting 2023 emissions by 239 million tonnes.
That would mean the equivalent of shutting down Canada’s entire old and gas sector (208 million tonnes of annual emissions in 2023) in 2030 and still coming up short.
To reach the government’s interim target of reducing emissions to 20% below 2005 levels in 2026 (meaning 607 million tonnes) would require a cut of 87 million tonnes of emissions by next year, more than all emissions from Canada’s buildings sector in 2023 (82.7 million tonnes).
Earlier this year, the government announced another unrealistic target of reducing emissions to 45%-50% of 2005 levels by 2035.
A report by federal environment commissioner Jerry DeMarco following an audit of the Liberals’ Net Zero Emissions Accountability Act last year said it was still possible for the government to achieve its 2030 target, “but now the task is much harder because there are only six years left to do essentially 20 or 30 years worth of reductions.”
His findings, however, provided few grounds for optimism.
DeMarco said the government’s lack of transparency made it impossible for the average citizen to understand, much less believe, its emission reduction targets.
It claims current policies will achieve a 36.2% reduction in emissions compared to 2005 in 2030, close to its minimum target of 40%.
But when DeMarco’s auditors examined a sampling of 20 of the government’s 149 measures to cut emissions, they found only nine were on track to achieve their goals.
Of 32 additional measures the government claimed would help boost reductions from 36.2% to at least 40% in 2030, only seven were new.
The audit found cases where two different programs were funding the same projects and reporting the same expected emission reductions, raising the possibility of double-counting.
It also reported the computer modelling used to estimate the emission cuts of various government programs wasn’t updated in 2023 compared to 2022 and that some of the initial calculations were overly optimistic.
In addition, “recent decreases to projected 2030 emissions were not due to climate action taken by governments, but were instead because of revisions to the data used in modelling.”
Given all this, if the Liberals under Prime Minister Mark Carney won’t abandon unrealistic climate targets then they should at least come clean with Canadians about where things really stand.
This as opposed to their current practice of insisting they’re on track to meet their targets when the federal government’s own data tell a very different story.
It’s the same problem with the Liberals’ policy to mandate that 20% of all new car sales must be battery-electric, plug-in hybrid or hydrogen fuel cell starting next year, rising to 60% in 2030 and 100% in 2035.
The auto sector has warned that given lagging EV sales in Canada, the only way to achieve the 2026 target would be to pull a million new gas-powered vehicles off the market, limiting consumer choice, increasing delivery times and driving up costs for consumers at a time when our auto sector is under siege from Donald Trump’s tariffs.
GOLDSTEIN: Canada’s targets for cutting greenhouse gases fit the definition of insanity
Surely it’s time to admit that Canada's targets for reducing industrial gas emissions are meaningless.
If the liberal government was actually serious about reducing pollution, why did they allow several million newcomers to the country?
Why are government employees and politicians still jetting all over the world?
WHy is the CO2 based on per capita, instead of GDP? Or sq km?
Why are government employees and politicians still jetting all over the world?
WHy is the CO2 based on per capita, instead of GDP? Or sq km?
Because they know it is all b.s. , but it sells well .
Without a control planet, AGW will always be just a theory.
First case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever discovered in Quebec
Patient in Eastern Townships recovering after antibiotics
Author of the article:Montreal Gazette
Montreal Gazette
Aaron Derfel
Published Aug 19, 2025 • Last updated 4 hours ago • 3 minute read
Quebec has detected its first human case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Quebec has detected its first human case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever Source: Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ)
In the latest sign of climate change impacting human health in Quebec, authorities on Monday confirmed the first case in the province of Rocky Mountain spotted fever — a potentially life-threatening tick-borne illness more commonly found in southern regions of the United States but that is now making its way into Canada amid rising temperatures.
“We are aware of the situation and are monitoring it closely to obtain more information about the presence of this disease in Quebec,” a Health Ministry spokesperson told The Gazette. “In the meantime, the best way to protect yourself against ticks is to avoid being bitten by taking preventive measures” like wearing pants and long-sleeves when venturing outdoors and using mosquito repellant.
Dr. Alex Carignan, a microbiologist and infectious diseases specialist at the CIUSSS de l’Estrie, took to social media to inform the public about the case.
“Recently, we identified a case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) infection in the Eastern Townships,” Carignan said in a post on X. “This is the first case of transmission in Quebec. Fortunately, the patient responded well to doxycycline (antibiotic) treatment. This infection causes high fevers, a distinctive rash, and can lead to death if not properly managed.
“We knew that this bacterium (Rickettsia rickettsiae) would arrive in the coming years, but unfortunately it showed up a bit earlier than expected,” Carignan added.
Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases physician and scientist at the University Health Network in Toronto, noted that RMSF was “recently also seen in dogs in Long Point, Ont.” on the north shore of Lake Erie.
“RMSF is an uncommon but very serious tick-born infection,” Bogoch added on X.
RMSF is not to be confused with Lyme disease, which is an infection that can also be contracted from tick bites. In contrast with RMSF’s local rarity, Lyme disease has now become endemic on the Island of Montreal. Yet only a decade ago Lyme disease was considered somewhat of a rare occurrence in Montreal.
The outlook for RMSF is good if treated early. Still, the death rate from RMSF hovers between 5 and 10 per cent in the U..S, even with treatment, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
A 2019 study by Quebec and Manitoba researchers warned that the risk of tick-borne diseases in Canada was expected to rise in the coming years because of climate change.
“Climate warming and other environmental changes have contributed to the expansion of the range of several tick species into higher latitudes in North America,” the authors concluded in the study.
“As temperatures increase in Canada, the environment becomes more suitable for ticks and the season suitable for tick activity lengthens, so tick-borne diseases are likely to become more common in Canada. In addition to Lyme disease, four other tick-borne diseases (TBDs) have started to emerge and are likely to increase: Anaplasmosis; Babesiosis; Powassan virus; and Borrelia miyamotoi disease. Increased temperature increases the survival and activity period of ticks, increases the range of both reservoir and tick hosts (e.g. mice and deer) and increases the duration of the season when people may be exposed to ticks.”
And now authorities can add Rocky Mountain spotted fever to that list.
Climate change is not just responsible for the spread of TBDs into Canada harming human health. Lingering smoke from wildfires in northern Quebec and the prairie provinces — which are becoming more common because of human-induced climate change creating ever-hotter and drier weather conditions — is resulting is more respiratory and other illnesses.
In July, the Association québécoise des médecins pour l’environnement (AQME) sounded the alarm about the deleterious long-term effects on Quebecers’ health due to their chronic exposure to polluted air.
And during the heat wave last week, Montreal public-health officials confirmed three heat-related deaths and two cases of heatstroke. On Aug. 11, Montreal set a new temperature record of 35.1 C at Trudeau airport.
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Quebec has detected its first human case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever
Quebec has detected its first human case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever Source: Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ)
In the latest sign of climate change impacting human health in Quebec, authorities on Monday confirmed the first case in the province of Rocky Mountain spotted fever — a potentially life-threatening tick-borne illness more commonly found in southern regions of the United States but that is now making its way into Canada amid rising temperatures.
“We are aware of the situation and are monitoring it closely to obtain more information about the presence of this disease in Quebec,” a Health Ministry spokesperson told The Gazette. “In the meantime, the best way to protect yourself against ticks is to avoid being bitten by taking preventive measures” like wearing pants and long-sleeves when venturing outdoors and using mosquito repellant.
Dr. Alex Carignan, a microbiologist and infectious diseases specialist at the CIUSSS de l’Estrie, took to social media to inform the public about the case.
“Recently, we identified a case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever (RMSF) infection in the Eastern Townships,” Carignan said in a post on X. “This is the first case of transmission in Quebec. Fortunately, the patient responded well to doxycycline (antibiotic) treatment. This infection causes high fevers, a distinctive rash, and can lead to death if not properly managed.
“We knew that this bacterium (Rickettsia rickettsiae) would arrive in the coming years, but unfortunately it showed up a bit earlier than expected,” Carignan added.
Dr. Isaac Bogoch, an infectious diseases physician and scientist at the University Health Network in Toronto, noted that RMSF was “recently also seen in dogs in Long Point, Ont.” on the north shore of Lake Erie.
“RMSF is an uncommon but very serious tick-born infection,” Bogoch added on X.
RMSF is not to be confused with Lyme disease, which is an infection that can also be contracted from tick bites. In contrast with RMSF’s local rarity, Lyme disease has now become endemic on the Island of Montreal. Yet only a decade ago Lyme disease was considered somewhat of a rare occurrence in Montreal.
The outlook for RMSF is good if treated early. Still, the death rate from RMSF hovers between 5 and 10 per cent in the U..S, even with treatment, according to the Cleveland Clinic.
A 2019 study by Quebec and Manitoba researchers warned that the risk of tick-borne diseases in Canada was expected to rise in the coming years because of climate change.
“Climate warming and other environmental changes have contributed to the expansion of the range of several tick species into higher latitudes in North America,” the authors concluded in the study.
“As temperatures increase in Canada, the environment becomes more suitable for ticks and the season suitable for tick activity lengthens, so tick-borne diseases are likely to become more common in Canada. In addition to Lyme disease, four other tick-borne diseases (TBDs) have started to emerge and are likely to increase: Anaplasmosis; Babesiosis; Powassan virus; and Borrelia miyamotoi disease. Increased temperature increases the survival and activity period of ticks, increases the range of both reservoir and tick hosts (e.g. mice and deer) and increases the duration of the season when people may be exposed to ticks.”
And now authorities can add Rocky Mountain spotted fever to that list.
Climate change is not just responsible for the spread of TBDs into Canada harming human health. Lingering smoke from wildfires in northern Quebec and the prairie provinces — which are becoming more common because of human-induced climate change creating ever-hotter and drier weather conditions — is resulting is more respiratory and other illnesses.
In July, the Association québécoise des médecins pour l’environnement (AQME) sounded the alarm about the deleterious long-term effects on Quebecers’ health due to their chronic exposure to polluted air.
And during the heat wave last week, Montreal public-health officials confirmed three heat-related deaths and two cases of heatstroke. On Aug. 11, Montreal set a new temperature record of 35.1 C at Trudeau airport.
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First case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever discovered in Quebec
First case of Rocky Mountain spotted fever discovered in Quebec