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Some gardeners may be able to grow palms and even cold-hardy citrus in parts of Canada, according to the federal government's latest Plant Hardiness Zones map — the first update since 2014.

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The plant hardiness zones come with accompanying species-specific models, which provide much more in-depth information for specific plants or treesmThe models look at how specific plants would do under different climate change scenarios.

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If we want to advance our economy, we need to embrace EV adoption. We already invested heavily into EV supply chains.

Taiwan's Representative to Canada Harry Tseng (曾厚仁) on Sunday dismissed Chinese ads placed in a Canadian newspaper, calling them a sign of “doubt” in their own claims.

In an interview with the Toronto Sun, Tseng addressed a paid op-ed by the Chinese ambassador to Canada, published in the Hill Times on July 2, titled “The One-China Principle is indisputable, and the victory of WWII [World War II] must not be tampered with.”

The ad, written by Chinese Ambassador to Canada Wang Di (王鏑) drew “a bold, red line under China’s position on Taiwan, continuing China’s tendency toward hard-handed ‘wolf-warrior’ diplomacy,” the Toronto Sun reported.

The Toronto Sun said that “a second ad, published on July 16, reads more like the usual public relations one would expect from a foreign embassy — with Wang celebrating a recent open house and the Ottawa dragon boat festival” in June.

In response to the ads, Tseng said: “If they consider the ‘One China principle’ as universal and accepted by most countries, why on Earth do they need to use this [the ad] to promulgate it?”

“Obviously, they are perhaps doubtful of what they claim,” Tseng was quoted as saying.

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Alan Kessel, a senior fellow at the Macdonald-Laurier Institute and a former Canadian diplomat, told the Toronto Sun that the ads were an attempt by Beijing to control the narrative.

“One message implies closer ties, while the other draws a red line around Taiwan, signaling the price of engagement,” Kessel was quoted as saying.

Kessel said that Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney should pursue a China policy grounded in “Canadian values” instead of being dictated by “foreign authoritarian sensitivities.”

“That means rejecting coercion, resisting influence operations and affirming that our decisions on Taiwan are not shaped in Beijing, but in Ottawa,” the Toronto Sun quoted him as saying.

Buildings are the third-largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Canada. In many cities, including Vancouver, Toronto and Calgary, buildings are the single highest source of emissions.

The recently launched Infrastructure for Good barometer, released by consulting firm Deloitte, suggests that Canada’s infrastructure investments already top the global list in terms of positive societal, economic and environmental benefits.

In fact, over the past 150 years, Canada has built railways, roads, clean water systems, electrical grids, pipelines and communication networks to connect and serve people across the country.

Now, there’s an opportunity to build on Canada’s impressive tradition by creating a new form of infrastructure: capturing, storing and sharing the massive amounts of heat lost from industry, electricity generation and communities, even in summer.

Just came across this video. I've never heard of him before, but he seems to focus on facts, which I always appreciate. May showed some promising results in the import/export front for Canada. Hopefully the trends continue.

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Author: Gabriela Perdomo | Assistant Professor, Mount Royal University

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A few weeks ago, in an overheated and packed room at the Centre for Social Innovation in Toronto, several journalists took the mic to speak about their work in a powerful new book — When Genocide Wasn’t News — about how Canada’s legacy media has been responding to Israel’s intensive military campaign in Gaza.

The book features contributions from journalists — some writing under pseudonyms — who describe newsrooms gripped by fear and a misguided commitment to a notion of “objectivity” that fails to serve the public.

Today, in The Conversation Canada, an article by journalism professor Gabriela Perdoma of Mount Royal University, points out that while Palestinians in Gaza have endured over 640 days of relentless military assault by Israeli Defense Forces, including attacks on children, hospitals and aid workers, Canadian mainstream media has too often remained silent or misleading in its coverage. She says one of the issues is that “journalists who support peace efforts can easily be accused of being ‘biased’ in favour of those promoting peace.” And such accusations, she says, “can have an outsized impact on reporting and be used to silence journalists.”

Perdoma’s article challenges mainstream news narratives and calls for newsrooms to urgently reflect on how journalism in Canada must evolve, especially in times of war.

Former Paramedic here. CUPE needs to pull all its medics off the job for this. That's what unions should be doing right now. Fuck these Zionists.

Those councillors and council need to be reprimanded as well for openly supporting genocide.

'The main issue is that people do buy the stuff that's announced there,' doctor says