Federal government invokes Emergencies Act for first time ever in response to protests

Source: CBC

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he has invoked the Emergencies Act for the first in time in Canada's history to give the federal government extra powers to handle ongoing blockades and protests against pandemic restrictions.

"It is now clear that there are serious challenges to law enforcement's ability to effectively enforce the law," Trudeau told a news conference Monday afternoon.

Trudeau said the measures will be geographically targeted and "reasonable and proportionate to the threats they are meant to address."

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6350734

I'm a horrible person

Was just listening to a jewelry commercial, something about "give her something that will take her breath away" and I was thinking it'd be less expensive to just give her Covid.



Don't bother alerting, I already did.

This is what convinced me man-made climate change is a thing

I was visiting Glacier National Park in Canada. Thry had a series of pictures showing the glaciers melting over a period of time. They melted faster during WW II because of all the smoke in the air. They progressed slower during the Great Depression.

The melting really picked up speed from the 60's onward.

There already has been for some time

Second Life started in 2003 as a closed system.

An open source version became available that now has dozens of interconnected grids with tens of thousands of users on each grid. Unlike Second Life everything is pretty much free unless you want large regions of land to build on. Optionally, you can do what I did, build your own server and set up your own grid or regions on an existing grid.

You have an avatar, you can change its appearance, get clothes, houses, vehicles, aircraft, boats, ships, or build your own from scratch. There's a sophisticated programming language and tools for landscaping and building simple shapes (prims) that you can combine into larger objects. I have a massive castle with working doors built of over 1000 prims.

To get around you can walk, run, fly or teleport including between grids.

You can see all this for yourself. The two biggest grids at the moment are

Http://www.osgrid.org
Http://www.aviworlds.com

You only need one account to explore all grids in the Metaverse as they are connected together into one Hypergrid.

This is normal here

Couple weeks ago somebody was trying to shoplift at the local grocery store. A clerk had caught him but the guy was giving him guff until he saw me and two other big guys in his face.

He shamefacedly emptied his jacket of about half a shopping basket of stuff and went out the door just as police rolled up.

Wimps

-25 C. Windchill here last night

CNN is doing a history of rock. Interesting the groups they ignored

Led Zepplin (two mentions but no music)
Queen (uncredited clip)
Pink Floyd
ELP
Rush
Genesis
Yes
The Who
Grateful Dead

...but they spent 5 minutes on the Cars

Somebody was looking for farm animal cookie cutters

Why do farm animals get cookies and why do you need a special tool to cut them?

Made Craftygal's conservative friend spit up her coffee

Craftygal is on a variety of medications including some fairly large pills. She was complaining about the size of them. I announce...

"Oh, come on...you've had bigger things than that in your mouth."

Weird things and people who knew what they were