Sharon U

Retired engineer. Coffee drinker. Fossil fuel user. Triggered by hypocrisy.

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

According to CBC, the “error” occurred under his predecessor. Guess time will tell whether the eye-watering deficits Carney is incurring are in fact sustainable. Personally I found them shocking and stupefying, coming from a twice-appointed central banker.

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[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@sentancej @TrendPolCa @simonchase123 Yes, he made the error of pointing out that Canada's fiscal situation is "unsustainable, stupefying and shocking."

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@sentancej @TrendPolCa @simonchase123 So was the last guy, but for some strange reason he’s not around anymore.

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@NRcn32 @erinotoole @dkreative1 Erin's flip-flopping track record is pretty impressive too, if I recall correctly.

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@MVdlJCardinal Bet he was the one who told Trudeau to say it.

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

"The big pricing story at the grocery store right now is chicken, not beef. Chicken prices have increased faster than beef in many parts of the country, yet the media is largely avoiding the topic — and we all know why. Chicken is supply-managed, and few are willing to criticize supply management ahead of the CUSMA review."

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@vesperdigital Well done. This snake in the grass has been slithering for a long time and too many naive Canadians still have no idea what's going on.

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Roadways cut into the pristine Amazon rainforest are leading to a slaughterhouse of animal life every year on an unimaginable scale.

A total of 475 million animals die on the roads each year in Brazil alone. Brazilian territory contains roughly 60% of the entire iconic rainforest, with the remainder shared among eight other nations, led by Peru (13%) and Colombia (10%). The scale of these deaths across South American transit routes is staggering.

The figure for Brazil breaks down to roughly 15 wild animals killed every second - about 1.3 million every day across a 1.7 million kilometre road network. This isn't a blind guess; the Brazilian Center for Studies in Road Ecology calculated it by analysing over a dozen regional field studies, adjusting for road types, local biodiversity, and traffic density. It remains the definitive peer-reviewed benchmark for transport ecology in the region.

The Amazon is the most iconic, threatened natural environment on Earth, rivaling coral reefs as a biological wonderland. Yet, it is steadily being fragmented by expanding human activity.

This clash between environmentalism and reality came to a head in the lead-up to the UN's COP30 climate summit in Belém. To facilitate road access to the event, a 13.4-kilometer highway project - originally shelved due to environmental concerns - was fast-tracked. Named the Avenue of Liberty, it gouged a deep scar directly through the protected Belém Environmental Protection Area.

Around 50,000 delegates descended on Belém for the summit, an influx into a vulnerable rainforest borderland. Under the banner of summit preparation, images showed mud-caked excavators demolishing native canopy. Rather than a grand highway, the Avenue of Liberty became a raw causeway of lifeless red dirt bulldozed through the dense green jungle, opening fresh pathways for illegal loggers, cattle ranchers and drug cartels.

The biological toll of these corridors is devastating. Small vertebrates - amphibians, reptiles, and rodents - make up 90% (430 million) of the annual casualties, flattened or scavenged before casual drivers notice them. Medium-sized animals like opossums, monkeys, and hawks account for 9% (40 million).

The final 1% represents a severe conservation crisis: 5 million large vertebrates, including threatened icons like the giant anteater, the maned wolf, and the lowland tapir (which can weigh up to 250 kg, causing fatal collisions for drivers as well).

Worse still, biologists consider 475 million a conservative estimate. It counts only the carcasses left visible on paved surfaces. It entirely misses the animals that crawl into the brush to die, the tiny creatures pulverized instantly under heavy truck tires, and the thousands of miles of informal logging tracks cutting deep into the interior where data collection simply does not exist.

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@WilliamLaceyYYC This isn't about the weather or pollution, of course. It's about ensuring the massive dollars that will be spent end up in the right pockets.

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@glendeb0 @TomPark1n Especially if it helps his Brookfield bros

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

This isn't just a pile of debris - it’s the future of green energy waste hidden in plain sight.

Millions of solar panels are hitting their end-of-life cycle, and the world is completely unprepared for the coming toxic avalanche. By 2050, the International Renewable Energy Agency projects up to 78 million metric tons of solar e-waste. Where is it all going to go?

The industry boasts that solar panels are '95% recyclable'. Technically, yes - because they are made of glass, aluminum and copper. But economics always trumps physics. In Australia and the US, it costs roughly $20 to $28 to properly disassemble and recycle a single panel, but only about $4 to dump it in landfill.

Because there is no financial incentive, up to 90% of decommissioned panels go straight into the ground.

Each solar panel is an industrial 'sandwich' bound tightly by heavy polymers. To extract the microscopic amounts of valuable silver and high-purity silicon requires energy-intensive chemical and thermal baking.
When they are crushed or left to fracture in landfills, heavy metals like lead and cadmium can leach into the surrounding soil and groundwater, turning 'clean energy' into a multi-generational hazardous waste problem.

The crisis is accelerating faster than models predicted. Because solar cells degrade and lose efficiency, and because newer, cheaper panels hit the market, consumers and solar farms are ripping out functional systems at least a decade early to upgrade.

This compressed lifecycle destroys the narrative of a long-term, stable asset and creates an endless loop of unrecyclable industrial trash.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Testosterone is made from cholesterol.

Oestrogen is made from cholesterol.

Cortisol is made from cholesterol.

Vitamin D is made from cholesterol.

Bile acids that digest fat are made from cholesterol.

Progesterone, which sustains pregnancy, is made from cholesterol.

Every cell membrane in your body contains cholesterol.

Every nerve is insulated by myelin, which is largely cholesterol.

Every memory you form requires cholesterol to build the synapse that holds it.

Your brain is 60% fat, mostly cholesterol.

Breast milk is rich in cholesterol because infant brains cannot develop without it.

Nature, given the job of designing the perfect first food, put cholesterol in it.

When you eat less of it, the liver makes more.

Because the body knows it cannot function without it.

We declared war on cholesterol in 1977.

Testosterone in men has dropped 25%.

Vitamin D deficiency is now endemic.

One in three adults over fifty is on a statin lowering the cholesterol the body is desperately trying to maintain.

Depression rates have tripled.

Infertility rates have doubled.

The war is going well.

[Vesper @vesperdigital]

🚨𝗕𝗢𝗠𝗕𝗦𝗛𝗘𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗢𝗧𝗔𝗚𝗘🚨

When Liberals OPPOSED state surveillance bills like C-22!

"The Charter itself simply expresses... that there are limits on the powers of the state to intrude into the privacy of people's homes."

Bob Rae
Liberal Leader (2012)
@CPC_HQ

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@neologica @MBrant75 It snowed in Calgary today so it must be working.

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@WayneMathison Hey it's snowing in Calgary today. We just need to keep paying the carbon tax for a few more years and we'll all be immortalized in blocks of ice.

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@MaidRita15466 @mgeist Guess we’re about to find out how far he’s willing to go with his newly acquired majority …

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@FoodProfessor When you have the Grand Poobah of Net Zero subsidizing said media, it's really not astonishing at all.

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@Osint613 Canada: "We'll take 49,000 of your spy cars please."

[Sharon U @UnserSharon]

@Martyupnorth Here comes the "National Electricity Code of Conduct." All suppliers will solemnly pledge not to fleece their customers any more than Carney does to taxpayers.