- Not surprisingly, among contenders in the Manitoba election the Conservatives are far away from all the other parties on how to solve the problem of hard drugs.
- Danielle Smith doesn't hate all electric cars. If the electricity is made in a fuel cell, which is powered by hydrogen produced from fossil fuels, she's all for it. At least until it becomes cost-effective to use solar energy to split water for the hydrogen, then fuel cell cars will suddenly become un-Albertan again.
- Speaking of Alberta, they're well-known for their disdain for rules and regulations. Maybe that's why they gave daycares so much freedom from red tape (though the fact that it seems to have made a whole bunch of kids sick ought to make them reevaluate this).
- In other EV news, a corporate landlord in Toronto is banning electric vehicles, including personal ones such as e-bikes and Segways, ostensibly due to the fire hazard from lithium-ion batteries. Yet curiously, this only applies to transportation-related uses of these batteries; no ban on cellphones, laptops, cordless vacuum cleaners, etc.
- The two sides in the MPI strike remain far apart. The matter has not been helped by a letter sent by the corporation to striking workers advising them that it's bound to go to binding arbitration anyway so you should just push to end the strike now, oh and by the way here's how to turn scab if you want to.
- Wales has reduced their default speed limit in built-up areas to 20 mph (32 km/h). Predictably there's a lot of outrage and consternation about this, and cries of a "war on the car", but many major cities in the UK and EU have a 30 km/h speed limit, and the sky hasn't fallen (though apparently road deaths have).
- There has been speculation that Ukraine might be preparing to retake Crimea. This would not be easy, though, and Russia's response would be unpredictable. Could Russia accept the loss of Sevastopol? What would they do if they decided that they couldn't?
- The far right likes to claim that the various outrages they promote and do are in the name of protecting children. Yet somehow, child abuse - and child labour - is at its worst in Republican-run states. Funny that.
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