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[Kevin Pacey]

Meanwhile, here's a link re: the latest on a colossal boondoggle that may be shaping up for the city of Ottawa - the initial phase of LRT (Light Rail Transit) is now not expected to be completed and ready for the public to use by Canada Day, in the latest of several delays:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...-day-1.5161347

LRT Phase 1 unlikely to be finished by next Friday (16 Aug 2019), sources say:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottaw...ains-1.5241500

[Kevin Pacey]

thehill.com/opinion/international: Iran's grand strategy: Gulf crisis keeps US from helping Israel in a two front war:

https://thehill.com/opinion/internat...srael-in-a-two

Israel to join US-led Coalition in Persian Gulf - Gulf tensions - TRT World:

https://www.trtworld.com/middle-east...tensions-28056

[Kevin Pacey]

nationalpost.com/opinion: Rex Murphy: There's no hypocrite like a rich jet-setting anti-global warming one:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex...al-warming-one

nationalpost.com/opinion/Rex Murphy: Apparently world-savers don't need to worry about the little people:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/rex...-little-people

[Kevin Pacey]

torontosun.com/opinion/columnist Brian Lilley: (Conservative leader) Scheer critical of Prime Minister Trudeau's inability to take responsibility for own failures:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...r-own-failures

torontosun.com/opinion/columnist Brian Lilley: Scheer promises to make life more affordable if elected:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ble-if-elected

[Kevin Pacey]

DEAD FISH DON'T TALK: Neither was Environment Canada or Quebec minister Mathieu Lacombe:

https://edmontonsun.com/news/local-n...b-9023973075d0

[Kevin Pacey]

torontosun.com/opinion/columnist Brian Lilley: Trudeau is shortchanging Ontario on immigration payments:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ation-payments

torontosun.com/opinion/columnist Brian Lilley: Trudeau finally pays up part of his refugee bill:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...s-refugee-bill

[Kevin Pacey]

torontosun.com/opinion/columnist Brian Lilley: Ditch hug-a-thug approach when dealing with gun crime:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...with-gun-crime

[Kevin Pacey]

notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/08/01: Greenland ice sheet meltdown scare - except it's not true:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.word...-its-not-true/

notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/04/19: Attenborough's climate change: The facts:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.word...nge-the-facts/

[Kevin Pacey]

notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2019/04/19: Attenborough's climate change: The facts:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.word...nge-the-facts/

On the other hand, here's the sort of increasingly alarmist view we're hearing everywhere, of late:

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...-leaked-report

[Kevin Pacey]

Below is an interesting link on the apparent recent monarch butterfly population increase:

https://globalnews.ca/news/4927062/u...erfly-habitat/

This reminded me of a conversion I had last year at the RA Chess Club's building's bar & grill with someone who has retired from the Privacy Commission, and more to the point is also an NDP voter. The latter is remarkable given the many views he had that were atypical of left-wing dogmatic beliefs/propaganda, namely that he believed (besides that the internet has a lot of garbage on it):

1. Monarch butterfly population has not ever been declining;
2. No manmade global climate change;
3. Arctic [sea] ice levels are fine, so-called satellite images be damned;
4. No decline ever in the world's honeybee population;
5. No decline ever in the world's bird population;
6. No decline ever in the world's fish population;
7. No great island of trash in the Pacific.

Re: relatively recent Arctic Sea Ice levels:

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.word...-ice-update-3/