- In the first three days of advance voting, almost 70,000 Manitobans cast ballots - equivalent to 61% of the entire advance poll turnout in 2019. High turnout is often a sign that the public wants change. In other election news, the Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals has endorsed the NDP.
- A recent poll indicates that Manitobans are split almost evenly (47% for, 45% against, the rest unsure) on whether to conduct a search of the Prairie Green Landfill. Supporters of the search include 72% of NDP supporters, 50% of Liberals, and 18% of Conservatives. Notably, 55% of Tories don't just oppose a search, but strongly oppose it. Stefanson obviously knows where her base stand, and is actively courting the haters - perhaps to avoid losing them to the Keystone Party.
- Anthony Rota is resigning as Speaker of the House of Commons following the uproar over his honouring Yaroslav Hunka. Meanwhile, a member of Poland's cabinet is looking at requesting Hunka's extradition. The international attention this episode is drawing is not helpful either.
- Opening arguments are being made in Peter Nygard's sexual assault trial in Toronto.
- Renewable energy is growing by leaps and bounds, and the cost of solar power as well as energy storage has dropped by almost 90%. This is very good news, albeit probably too late for places like Tuvalu - or even New Orleans, whose water supply is currently in danger from too much salt water and too little rainfall. A huge amount of human migration can still be expected; the fact that suppressing the huge demand for air travel will be very difficult remains a serious problem as well.
- For the more distant future, the US is hoping to be generating electricity from fusion by 2035. Since we have yet to get a sustained, controlled fusion reaction in anything smaller than a star so far, though, this should be taken with sizeable quantities of salt.
- New York City is moving ahead with city-wide organic waste collection; other cities are expected to follow its example.
- NASA's sample return mission from the asteroid Bennu has been a success, however a feasibility study of such a mission to Mars is not looking promising, perhaps because of the much deeper gravity well.
- A Calgary bylaw limiting certain protest activities within 100 metres of the entrance to city-owned libraries and recreation facilities, aimed at suppressing hate, is being challenged in court by the haters.
- The US is lumbering towards a government shutdown as extremist Republicans refuse any sort of compromise. If nothing else, this shows the superiority of Westminster-style parliamentary systems over a presidential system like the US, which has no provision for early elections if a budget cannot be passed.
- UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has mooted the possibility of pulling out of the 1951 UN refugee convention.
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