Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦

The Gulf states & Israel depend on water desalination to live. If Israel & US break the taboo of bombing vulnerable desal infrastructure, they risk catastrophic harm.

Percent of drinking water from desal:
Israel: 80%
Kuwait: 90%
Saudi Arabia: 70%
Oman: 86%
UAW: 42%

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I see I have Seth Kantner, Ordinary Wolves, but haven't read it yet. A novel, not nonfiction.

Mm, I will look up that book. My article is called "The Ontology and Epistemology of Walking: Animality in Karsten Heuer’s Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd," and it's chapter 21, open access, in here: press.ucalgary.ca/books/978155...

I agree. One of my favourite books and films. I published an article on the book.

I don’t know whether they’re still doing it but there’s a bakery here which compels all its employees to sing out in unison a “Goood morning!!” When a customer walks in. I found it creepy and my first visit was also my last.

Just submitted another book review to Alberta Views Magazine, this one on Karsten Heuer's Buffalo Lessons: How Bison Returned to Banff National Park (to be published March 10, 2026). Buy the book; subscribe to and support the magazine.

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I can't grasp what Carney is thinking in removing the federal govt from the assessment process unless it is that if Albertans are so happy to breathe, drink and metabolize carcinogens, let them. However, the First Nations who ARE metabolizing those toxins against their will aren't requesting more.

This is barely even funny in the Alberta context, where our premier drove almost all renewables out of the province because she is an oil and Trump (and Noem) fan girl.

Congratulations, people of Olds.

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It's unnerving.

No $$ for address climate chaos though.

Google says fewer farmers are growing them because they have some issues re storage, disease, misshapen-ness. I liked them.

I have wondered that too. The closest I’ve seen have the not-very-evocative or appealing name “yellow-fleshed potatoes.”

Poilievre says he has reservations about Carney's suggested fiscal watchdog OTTAWA — Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he has “serious” reservations about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s suggestion for a new Parliamentary Budget Officer and is calling for the latest inte...

Of course Poilievre wants the interim guy, who disqualified himself through his antics at committee. Poilievre wants a guy who will keep up the antics, because Poilievre wants a Parliament that is nothing more than a clip studio for social media.
(Also, the PBO is *NOT* a "fiscal watchdog")

Yikes. 😳

Some poplars have decided to put out their “pussy willows” and I saw a lady bug on the parking pad. Waaaaaay too early. Way.

What would you see out of your eyes? Dollar signs? Landscapes as if they are cardboard cutouts? People as just pawns for the fooling?

I wonder what it feels like to inhabit a life in which everything is a lie. Nothing genuine.

Then similarly subscriptions will be futile.

Maple Taffy on the Snow?

I seem to recall that we studied parabolas and quadratic equations in Grade 11, but what I remember are the words, not the math itself.

Alexa seems to be panicking about daylight saving time approaching. No clock display. Unresponsive to voice. Purple ring cycling over and over. ⏳

Deepen security?
He doesn't even have security clearance!🤣

Python, Monty?

Doctoral student in the history of polar governance in the national polar research school

Last application date
12.Mar.2026

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I very highly recommend this wild novel.

This image shows gauges with the Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026 COVID Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, and territories. From left to right: Canada: HIGH - 6.7 Alberta: HIGH - 6.5 British Columbia: MODERATE - 4.4 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 10.0 New Brunswick: HIGH - 7.1 Newfoundland & Labrador: MODERATE - 4.7 North: HIGH - 6.7 Nova Scotia: HIGH - 6.0 Ontario: HIGH - 7.7 Prince Edward Island: MODERATE - 4.9 Quebec: HIGH - 6.6 Saskatchewan: HIGH - 8.1 A text box reads: 'The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red).'

Canadian COVID Forecast: Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026

SEVERE: none
VERY HIGH: MB
HIGH: CAN, AB, NB, North, NS, ON, QC, SK
MODERATE: BC, NL, PEI

About 1 in 99 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

This image describes the Canadian COVID Forecast for the fourteen-day period between Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026, which is produced by COVID-19 Resources Canada. Canada’s COVID Forecast outlook is HIGH [no change] with a COVID INDEX SCORE of 6.7 About 1 of every 99 people is infected. Estimated infections this week: 474,800-587,200 What these numbers mean: MODERATE 1-5, HIGH 5-10, VERY HIGH 10-15, SEVERE >15 COMPARED TO THE LOWEST POINT IN THE COVID PANDEMIC IN CANADA How much higher are key indicators compared to the lowest point in the COVID pandemic in Canada? Waste water, infections: HIGH; 7.4X higher Long COVID: HIGH; 5.8X higher Hospitalizations: HIGH; 6.5X higher Deaths: HIGH; 6.3X higher HOW TO HELP: EVERYONE: UPDATE vaccines every 6 months WEAR N95-type masks Who is HIGH RISK? People 60 and older, babies < 1 year, pregnant ALL AGES: immunocompromised OR medically at-risk OR no vaccine or infection in the last 6 months Recommendations are based on the COVID-19 Risk Index from the Peterborough ON Public Health Unit COVID-19 Resources Canada is a grassroots organization of volunteer scientists supporting Canadian COVID responses. Sources, data and methods for the COVID Index are available at www.Covid19Resources.ca

Canadian COVID Forecast Feb 28 - Mar 13, 2026

CANADA

HIGH [no change]

About 1 of every 99 people is infected.

Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada:

-Infections: 7.4 x higher
-Long COVID: 5.8 x higher
-Hospitalizations: 6.5 x higher
-Deaths: 6.3 x higher