Bill Saunders (special rapporteur)

Retired. Former Sec-Treasurer Media Union of BC, Gardener, Observer.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

In 2020, a resident in the Philippines entered his garage only to find a 'human-sized' bat hanging there. Known as Flying Foxes, these creatures boast a wingspan of almost 6 feet, making them the largest bats on the planet.

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

Time to go.

“Elon Musk restored far-right conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' account on X, formerly known as Twitter.

“Jones, most famous for promoting the conspiracy that the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting was a hoax, was permanently banned from the platform in 2018.”

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

“The ability of the far right to break into the castle has always been contingent on the center-right establishment lowering the drawbridge…”
- Rachel Maddow

[TDot Resident @TDotResident]

#CDNpoli

BUSTED:

Pierre Poilievre just went on a rant at his press conference where he claims that a "CTV News Tweet" was the source of his terrorist reports.

But, he made those statements in parliament BEFORE the CTV report was posted on their site or the tweet was made!

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

“European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde, admitted … that her son lost “almost all” of his investments in crypto assets, despite copious warnings.
“Lagarde has long railed against cryptocurrencies, calling them speculative and worthless”

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

“Electric-vehicle sales are expected to hit a record 9 per cent of all passenger vehicles in the U.S. this year, according to Atlas Public Policy. That will be up from 7.3 per cent of new car sales in 2022.
It will be the first time more than one million EVs are sold in the U.S.”

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

Threads is emerging as the clear alternative to X. I can be found there.

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

“A weekly update … by the BC Centre for Disease Control says COVID-19 cases, new hospitalizations and deaths are all declining from a peak in the first week of October.
“It says there were 25 deaths of patients with COVID last week, down from 70 three weeks earlier.”

[Judy Darcy @DarcyJudy]

Thank you @danieltetrault & local leaders for your courage & leadership in calling for a #ceasefireNOW, unrestricted access to humanitarian aid, release of all hostages & a just peace. As the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, I believe #Neveragain means never again for everyone.

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

“The USA has 15 million more housing units than households”.
How is this possible?

[Patrick Condon @pmcondon2]

Speaker at Lincoln inst for panel on housing. First speaker reminded me that the USA has 15 million more housing units than households. “15 million empty units”. With an 8 million shortage of affordable units. The housing shortage is not in units. It’s in affordable units.

[Seth Klein @SethDKlein]

Vancouver Jews for Ceasefire in Gaza, gathering outside dinner for ⁦@melaniejoly⁩

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

If you are paying private clinics more to perform surgeries, how is this “more efficient”?

[Canada Healthwatch 🍁 @CanHealthwatch]

Ontario government paying for-profit clinic up to 3.2 times more than hospitals for OHIP-covered surgeries

https://t.co/4yu5IfVy0Q
from @CBCQueensPark | @CBCNews

The most important health news, in one place, at Canada Healthwatch 🔗 https://t.co/To2293Qp1z 🍁

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

“A lot of copper is used in … building electric vehicles – 69 kilograms in each EV, or more than three times the amount of copper used in traditional gas-powered cars, according to Britain-based CRU International.”

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

@i24NEWS_EN @acoyne Blowing up more Palestinian housing. A constant theme in Israel.

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

Public health measures work!
“tobacco control efforts initiated decades ago … are paying off today … Statistics Canada and the Public Health Agency of Canada highlighted the drop in lung-cancer mortality rates – which have fallen by 3.8 per cent a year since 2015”

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

Not much reporting on this. Dems won.
“Daniel McCaffery, a Democrat and a judge on the Pennsylvania Superior Court, defeated Carolyn Carluccio, a Republican and a judge on the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas, for a seat on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court”

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

@stats_feed Ending the blockade against Cuba is so overdue. Any sane country would have done it decades ago when the cold war ended.

[Christine Boyle @christineeboyle]

✨ CAPTION CONTEST ✨

Caption the photo below and win Halloween candy and a promise that I will never make this face at you.

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

Hydro-Québec plans to spend up to $110-billion to triple wind energy and increase its hydro power generation by expanding current facilities and building new ones as H-Q charts an aggressive growth plan to replace fossil fuels with green energy and transform the economy.

[Bill Saunders (special rapporteur) @union_Bill]

“A cache of internal government records reveals for the first time the direct involvement of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s office in selecting specific properties that were earmarked for development when the province added land to the urban boundaries of several municipalities.”
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