I can hardly wait for the 1st “solar compacting bin” personal injury lawsuit

Torontonians know these trash cans are a problem. Are solar compacting bins a solution?

Toronto has a trash problem with garbage overflowing onto streets and blowing into surrounding areas, and some councillors are now calling on the city to explore a new solution — smart, solar-powered compacting bins for both garbage disposal and recycling.

According to the Rochman Lab at the University of Toronto, the city generated 15,785 tons of litter in 2020, the majority of which was leakage from a poorly functioning waste management system, including trash that just didn’t make it securely into a garbage can.

Scientific breakthrough: City to ditch progressive trash bins and have them emptied in timely manner.

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Sexually confused insurrectionist cross-dressers & sexual mutilation fetishists invade Oklahoma Capitol

‘Trans Lives Matter’ activists occupy rotunda of Oklahoma Capitol

Transgender rights activists occupied the Oklahoma State Capitol’s rotunda on Monday to protest a push by Republicans to limit so-called gender-affirming care in the state.

About 150 people, many holding signs and banners, chanted “Trans Lives Matter” ahead of a new legislative session in which GOP lawmakers had pre-filed bills aimed at curtailing treatments like hormone replacement therapy, The Oklahoma Daily has reported.

Must know something…

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COVID-19 vaccine uptake plunges in Canada

Check the calendar. Has it been more than six months since you’ve gotten a COVID shot?

Experts are concerned with how many people have had any COVID-19 vaccine, regardless if it’s their first vaccine or fifth, in the past six months.

Those who are farther than six months from their last vaccine have a higher chance of a breakthrough infection and the viral load will also be higher, explained Dawn Bowdish, a professor at McMaster University and a Canada Research Chair in aging and immunity.

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Canada’s Electric Car Mandate to Increase Grid Demand 23%, Ratepayer Costs Unknown, Says Government

To power electric vehicle charging stations in the coming decades, Canada’s power grid will have to expand by 23 percent—and it’s uncertain how much that will cost ratepayers, according to Natural Resources Canada (NRCan).

The government announced in December that all new vehicle sales must be zero-emission by 2035. Conservative MP Warren Steinley asked NRCan to say how much this would impact electricity use and its costs. The answer came in an Inquiry of Ministry tabled last week, first reported on by Blacklock’s Reporter.

I have zero confidence in government studies promoting Trudeau’s Electric-La-La-Land.

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Hong Kong Simpsons fans can’t watch China episode

Disney’s self-censorship over labour camp joke fuels concern about national security laws

After Marge Simpson decides she wants to buy a “Pedalon” exercise bike, she is delighted to learn that it will let her travel the world from the comfort of a gym in Springfield.

On one such ride, an instructor called Jesse invites her to tour the Great Wall of China. “Behold the wonders of China,” he tells Homer’s long-suffering wife. “Bitcoin mines, forced labour camps where children make smartphones.” Though the scene might seem innocuous enough, Disney Plus, which screens The Simpsons, is taking no chances.

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John Ivison: Liberals could freeze beer taxes and show Canadians they actually care

It’s a risky business for any government to be out of touch because survival depends on being in touch.

That was why last week’s Abacus Data poll was so striking — it suggested that 72 per cent of voters feel the Trudeau government is not focused enough on the cost of living crisis. Half of current Liberal voters feel the same way, the poll suggested. The numbers were comparable for other issues that are preoccupying Canadians like housing and health care.

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Trudeau is meeting with Canada’s premiers to reach a new health care funding deal. Here’s what to know

On Tuesday afternoon, Canada’s premiers will meet with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss a new 10-year health care funding deal with the federal government. As health care systems across the country buckled during the pandemic, premiers demanded Ottawa increase health transfers to address the resulting problems, including staff shortages and ER wait times. They are calling for Ottawa’s share of health care costs to rise to 34 per cent, a significant boost from the current 22 per cent. Here is what you need to know about the meeting and what the new health care deal could include.

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‘It’s not bouncing back:’ Workers continue to return to downtown Toronto but recovery lags behind some cities

And you know as I do that most of the “benefit shoppers” will end up in Toronto so we have that going for us.

Torontonians appear to be returning downtown in greater numbers but the pace of the city’s economic recovery still lags behind many other North American cities, a new study suggests.

Researchers at the University of Toronto and the University of California, Berkeley have been jointly tracking cellphone data throughout the pandemic as a means of evaluating the economic recoveries in 62 North American cities.

Toronto does not have a reason to exist any longer other than as a mass-immigration dumping ground.

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Ottawa Didn’t Disclose China’s Spy Balloon Because There Were ‘Lives at Stake,’ Minister Says

Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino says Ottawa didn’t tell the public about China’s spy balloon that was spotted over North America because there were “lives at stake.”

“There are lives at stake. There are techniques at stake. This is complex stuff,” Mendicino told the Canada-China House of Commons committee on Feb. 6.

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Why is the government spending $21-million advertising on social media such as TikTok?

When the U.S. Senate passed a bill in December to restrict the use of TikTok on government-issued devices, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau noted that “we are watching what the Americans are doing.” But the government does more than just watch – it spent $21-million advertising on the likes of TikTok last year.

As we scroll these days, we may notice a government-promoted post, which means that we as taxpayers have paid to post information on a platform and push it into people’s feeds. The $21-million spent last year is at the crest of a steady increase over the years, up from $7.8-million in 2017. On TikTok specifically, the Government of Canada spent $1.7-million on ads last year, up 128 per cent from the previous year.

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Oh, Canada: Stefanik blasts Adams as helping migrants ‘escape law,’ Biden for ‘passing buck’

Mayor Eric Adams came under fire Monday from a top Republican member of Congress who accused him of helping migrants illegally leave New York for Canada in violation of US law.

US Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) of Glens Falls blasted the mayor following an exclusive NY Post report that revealed how migrants got free bus tickets to upstate Plattsburgh, then walked into Canada at an unofficial border crossing 20 miles north.

“New Yorkers deserve answers for why their taxpayer dollars are being spent to help illegal immigrants violate their parole and escape the law,” said the No. 4 House Republican, whose district covers Plattsburgh and the Roxham Road crossing into Canada.

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