What's hot in real world news? - Thread 5.0

[Kevin Pacey]

voanews.com/east-asia-pacific/Japan latest nation to contest Beijing's South China Sea claims:

https://www.voanews.com/east-asia-pa...ina-sea-claims

[Kevin Pacey]

Tough tests for Joe Biden in 'new' Middle East:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55752102

voanews.com/extremism-watch/experts - Israel likely to continue attacking Iranian targets in eastern Syria:

https://www.voanews.com/extremism-wa...-eastern-syria

[Kevin Pacey]

wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/18/Misinformation by activists on plastics [includes microfibers] - science is winning:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/10/...ce-is-winning/

[Kevin Pacey]

An old hot news item follow-up of an outrageous proposal made a couple of years back:
A [rare?] case where sanity eventually prevailed, at least for now...:
Federal minister cancels review, places proposed [2nd] Cape Breton airport (+golf combo) at taxpayer expense on hold:

https://globalnews.ca/news/5684172/f...reton-airport/

[Kevin Pacey]

torontosun.com/opinion/editorials/editorial - Keystone a captive of US Democratic politics:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/edito...ratic-politics

edmontonsun.com/opinion/columnists/Gunter: Protesters win, everyone else (including environment) loses in Keystone-XL cancellation:

https://edmontonsun.com/opinion/colu...l-cancellation

edmontonsun.com/opinion/columnists/Gunter: Feds' control over TMX-expansion has Kenney's hands tied over Trudeau's Keystone-XL failure:

https://edmontonsun.com/opinion/colu...one-xl-failure

[Kevin Pacey]

torontosun.com/news/national/Trudeau's 2021 is off to a bad start - vaccine malfunction, Keystone cancellation, and blowback from failing to vet Julie Payette:

https://torontosun.com/news/national...-julie-payette

torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/Kinsella: Trudeau's liberals are clearly nervous over vaccine-rollout:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...accine-rollout