| Interests | Sustainability, climate resiliency, history, heritage, design, technology |
| Origin | Canada, westcoast, Vancouver, Victoria |
| Age | Over middle |
| Outlook | Optimist/Glass Half-Full |
Ottawa floats new rule to keep vessels one kilometre from southern resident orcas
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/24/news/ottawa-floats-new-rule-keep-vessels-one-kilometre-southern-resident-orcas?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Canada's National Observer @canada-s-national-observer-NatObserver
"I am here to state emphatically that bond market traders are not the problem, and they are not the threat. .. Instead let us salute the bond markets for warning the British public of the real threat posed to the British economy by the enormously powerful and unaccountable neoliberals governing the Bank of England"
Ann Pettifor
#BankOfEngland #BondMarkets #UKPolitics
Blame the Bank of England for Bond Market Turmoil
https://annpettifor.substack.com/p/blame-the-bank-of-england-for-bond
BIG NEWS: #Germany has just made the standard #OpenDocumentFormat (#ODF) mandatory
» Germany is the #EuropeanUnion’s largest economy, and its decisions have the power to influence the market. Suppliers serving the German public sector will be required to support the ODF standard, and this could serve as an incentive for all other #EU Member States that are building compatible infrastructure to follow suit. «
#DigitalSovereignty #UnplugTrump #DeutschlandStack
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03/20/big-news-germany-has-just-made-odf-mandatory/
The German federal government has quietly taken an extremely significant step: hidden amongst the technical specifications of the Deutschland-Stack – the rules that will govern the sovereign digital infrastructure supporting public administration at all levels of government, from federal ministries to local council offices – there is a short but highly significant line. Under the technological pillar “Semantic technologies and real-time analysis”, the document mandates the use of just two document formats: ODF and PDF/UA. That is all. Two open, vendor-neutral formats, defined by international standardisation bodies. OOXML, Microsoft’s closed, proprietary format, is not on the list. What is the Deutschland-Stack? The Deutschland-Stack is the German federal government’s project for a sovereign, interoperable digital infrastructure that complies with European standards. It is neither a pilot project nor a policy discussion paper, but the result of a coordinated decision between the Digital Minister, the Federal Chancellery and the Chancellor, backed by the coalition agreement. The document sets out the standards that will govern how all federal public administrations, at all levels, build, procure and manage their digital systems, and envisages concrete implementation by 2028. It is worth reading its architectural principles carefully. “Made in the EU first.” Reduction of lock-in effects.
Bingo
“the German federal government recognises that the greatest risk to interoperability, sovereignty and the long-term public interest lies with the proprietary format.”
Today, the Carney government joined the Conservatives and the Bloc to defeat Jenny Kwan’s No More Loopholes Bill — legislation that would have stopped Canadian weapons sent to the U.S. from being used to fuel the genocide in Gaza.
It’s a deeply shameful vote that suggests they would rather appease Trump than protect vulnerable civilians.
But this moment also shows why voices like Jenny Kwan and her colleagues in the NDP caucus matter so much. They continue to champion human rights, peace, and international justice with courage and persistence, even when few others in Parliament will.
Millions of Canadians share that vision. They want Canada to be a force for peace, not a junior arms dealer.
This is exactly why our country needs the NDP.
The crazy rhing is that #electrifyeverything and #renewables have brushed by price parity some time ago and financially, they are all lower cost.
#Fossilfuels like large SUVs and Detroits supersized pickups are propelled by a legacy marketing triumph, and now, pure disinformatiom by market players and their thinktank operatives.
Canada's National Observer
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JuneSim63 💚
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Avi Lewis
Brad
Ben Lockwood (broadly defined)
JA Westenberg