This one's tricky. I share your revulsion, but on the other hand I'm quite pleased with the final outcome of his work with Higg's Conservatives.

This plant may well be a necessary solution, but NB Power has done themselves no favours in not being forthright in disclosing many potential aspects of this project.

They deliberately threw public trust out the window and are now facing the inevitable backlash.

And there has also been mention of selling capacity to NS and PEI.

Then there's the misrepresentation of the level of support from indigenous communities.

And at one of the public presentations there was mention of using these turbines to supplement the grid when turbines are taken offline for much-needed maintenance at Mactaquac.

The problem is that while that usage case is the official line, weeks after this plant was announced NB Power was reporting that we are at risk of surpassing baseline capacity in the next few years.

It's possible they have MERV13 filtration in place, reducing the pathogen threat, and just aren't introducing enough fresh air due to heat-recovery concerns, but as someone else pointed out those levels are unhealthy no matter what.

Thank you for this. I'd wondered about the Capitol every time they have a favourite Brit comic. Naively, I might have thought the massive air space would moderate CO₂ levels, but I guess once they start to rise and saturate the space achieving even a single ACH requires moving a huge amount of air.

"neurotypical" — It would be interesting to see a chapter exploring the number of disorders in the DSM that relate to denial, or the dismissal of or disconnection from, (willful or otherwise), the reality which surrounds one.

Oh, man. This is terrific.

Except now my departmental EDI committee is gonna be REALLY angry with me tomorrow.

Can I ask where you got these stats? I saw a CTV article that claimed 1,400 recent cases nationwide, with no citation, so I'm trying more and more to source actual published data. (Even though @govnb.bsky.social and health authorities are doing there best to suppress numbers through undertesting.)

In my circles 💜 is usually for Violet Affleck

I hadn't known he wrote 'til now..

And the words are certainly more understandable, the lyrics (meaning) still escape me.

(I've been looking into the song's origins and apparently he wrote it with a rhyming dictionary firmly in hand, as a bit of a lark.)