Tom Moffatt

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Scorching temperatures, winds make fighting 4 out-of-control wildfires difficult While Newfoundland and Labrador has equipment and resources from other provinces, rain continues to elude the province. The biggest fire is now 5,000 hectares. The CBC’s Heather Gillis has this update...

Scorching temperatures, winds make fighting 4 out-of-control wildfires difficult

While #Newfoundland and #Labrador has equipment and resources from other provinces, rain continues to elude the province. The biggest fire is now 5,000 hectares.

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A rectangular poster with a black-and-yellow hazard stripe border contains the following text in black letters on a beige and orange background: Top section, beige background: "QUESTION Is Universal Canadian Healthcare still available in Alberta?" Middle section, grey background: "The primary goal of Canadian healthcare is to provide reasonable access to services without financial barriers. The system is guided by five principles: • Public Admin: Run by a public, non-profit authority. • Comprehensiveness: Covers all medically necessary hospital and doctor services. • Universality: All provincial residents are entitled to coverage. • Portability: Coverage is maintained when you travel or move within Canada. • Accessibility: Everyone has reasonable access to services without financial barriers." Lower section, light yellow background: "Actions taken by Premier Danielle Smith and Health Minister Adriana LaGrange have made access to COVID-19 vaccinations extremely difficult for many vulnerable people, including seniors, families, and healthcare workers. This has challenged the principle of accessibility and they have threatened to charge for access." Bottom section, orange background: "If you believe this is unacceptable, tell Premier Danielle Smith and Health Minister Adriana LaGrange."

❓ Is universal healthcare still available in Alberta?
The Canada Health Act promises access without financial barriers. Recent provincial actions on COVID-19 vaccines risk violating that principle. Speak up to Premier Smith & Minister LaGrange. #cdnpoli #ABleg #ABpoli

Alberta covered $150M in oil and gas companies’ unpaid rent | The Narwhal Issue of oil and gas companies’ unpaid rent in Alberta is ‘intertwined’ with unpaid municipal taxes, cleanup bills: law professor

thenarwhal.ca/alberta-oil-... #Alberta #abpoli

Your moment of calm today... an otter that was kind enough to hang out on an adjoining rock formation. For ten minutes!

‘Targeted assassination’: Israel’s killing of Al Jazeera staff condemned Israel’s killing of five Al Jazeera staff in Gaza prompts global outrage and calls for accountability.

Targeted assassination of Al Jazeera reporters & staff by Israel condemned aje.io/hjlcxx

Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel Last post from Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, decries failure to stop ‘massacre’

Israel kills most of the few remaining journalists in Gaza #Palestine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

"The study highlights how CO2 may negatively affect the metabolism of metazoans12 and human health in particular by altering the acidity of the blood, the oxygen transfer rate, and the body’s main metabolic processes, including human cognitive performance."

The Human Health Risk Of Breathing Carbon Dioxide - CleanTechnica The US government says we can never have too much carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. A team of actual scientists strongly disagrees.

The risks to human health of breathing carbon dioxide cleantechnica.com/2025/08/10/t... #cdnpoli #abpoli #yyc #yeg #yql #yvr #ClimateCrisis

Someone forgot to take down this webpage:

www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/v...

Finland charges tanker crew members of using anchor to sabotage undersea cables Captain and first and second officers of the Eagle S, understood to be part of Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’, charged over incident

Finland charges tanker crew members of using anchor to sabotage undersea cables.
Captain and first and second officers of the Eagle S, understood to be part of Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’, charged over incident.
#cdnpoli
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

When Sleeping Is a Crime With a new executive order and model state legislation criminalizing homelessness, the richest people in the U.S. are making it easier to lock up the poorest.

A man was charged with trespassing in New Haven, CT, on the very spot that the state Department of Correction had dropped him off when he finished serving a prison sentence. This is reality in a country where homelessness is criminalized, and it's getting worse, as Colleen Shaddox reports:

Thanks for the reminder. You need to be first in line in case Dani only buys a token case of vaccines.

Just booked

Complaints are piling up against a Canadian oil company — but there's nobody to hear them Experts are dismayed at the lack of progress from the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), which received the complaint in April 2024. Part of the problem is the head position at t...

Canada Is ghosting victims of corporate malfeasance #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/07/n...

‘Berta friends: don’t forget that today’s the day you can pre-order your COVID vaccine. bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

New pathway for south Lethbridge A fresh new route is coming to south Lethbridge.City officials say construction is moving forward on Pathway 1...

New pathway coming in South Lethbridge lethbridgenewsnow.com/2025/08/11/n... #cycling #bicycle

Australia to recognise Palestinian state in September It follows similar moves by the UK, France and Canada.

Australia to join the list of counties recognizing Palestine.

The list is more than 75% of the world.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

“Somebody has to take responsibility for it.. Ministers @melaniejolycan.bsky.social & @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social & Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social has to explain. It’s a legal commitment we made, and it is a commitment under international law, this is not a trivial matter”

I hear he's looking to relocate homeless people to camps. Like Democratic Representatives in Congress - they don't have a home anymore #uspoli

Prince Gerry sounds like a cool guy

New wildfire spreading rapidly on outskirts of Moncton | CBC News Firefighters from Moncton, Dieppe and Riverview are battling flames north of the Irishtown Nature Park.

New wildfire spreading rapidly near Moncton www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

More structures destroyed as N.L. Kingston fire grows to more than 5,000 hectares | CBC News High temperatures and high winds saw the Kingston wildfire grow to more than 5,000 hectares over the weekend. In a live media briefing at 5 p.m. Sunday, N.L. Premier John Hogan said the fire is expect...

More structures destroyed by Kingston fire in NL www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Misleading leaked information about key witness in dodgy health care contracts probe smacks of political interference - Alberta Politics If the already constrained investigation by a retired Manitoba judge into allegations of dodgy health care contracts pushed by influential figures in the Alberta Government is now beset by leaks from ...

Misleading leaked information about key witness in dodgy health care contracts probe smacks of political interference. albertapolitics.ca/2025/08/misl...

MEDITERRANEAN HISTORIC HEAT WAVE -part 1

All time record (POR over 1 century) pulverized in Al Ayoun (Layoune) right on the coast in Western Sahara with 49C (first 48C and 49C in history).

This is nothing to what it's coming: A week of hell

‼️DEADLY HEAT IN MIDDLE EAST

Extraordinary 52.6C Basra IRAQ Monthly record

Records in Iran,Saudi Arabia,Emirates,Jordan,Syria

45.2 Zahle LEBANON HOTTEST AUGUST DAY IN HISTORY

TURKEY
47.5 Adana,46.0 Incirlik,45.6 Osmaniye all time records
44.4 Silifke,43.5 Iskenderun monthly

Table of records in France by Meteociel

HISTORIC HEAT WAVE IN EUROPE

FRANCE >42C with several records in secundary stations.

SWITZERLAND 35.5 Visp tied its August record.

Hundreds if not thousands of records will be pulverized in Western and Eastern Europe next week:
France might attack its national August record.

Deadly heat in CHINA.
Suffocating heat 24 hours with record hot nights.
In particular brutal Minimum of 32.2C at Shanghai which is the hottest night in history for one of the oldest observatories in Asia
Nearly all countries in the world have broken heat records in the past weeks.
Unprecedented

Wildfires close Mount Vesuvius trails while fierce blazes continue in France French officials says heatwave in southern Europe complicates efforts to contain biggest wildfire since 1949

Wildfires close Mount Vesuvius trails while fierce blazes continue in France. French officials says heatwave in southern Europe complicates efforts to contain biggest wildfire since 1949 www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a... #ClimateCrisis #eupol

Alberta lost nearly 40,000 FT jobs in July 2025 And our unemployment rate is the highest it has been since October 2021.

Alberta lost nearly 40,000 FT jobs in July 2025.
And our unemployment rate is the highest it has been since October 2021. albertaworker.ca/news/alberta... #abpoli