What's hot in real world news? - Thread 10.0

torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/LILLEY: Ford government's surplus is pure luck but NDP wants a deficit:

https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...ants-a-deficit

nationalpost.com/opinion/Kelly McParland: How to govern like the Trudeau Liberals: talk big, do little and spend lots of money [The Trudeau government's preferred approach to problems is to project an impression of activity while hoping the problems disappear]:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/kel...nsettled-world

reuters.com/world/us/Biden approval edges up to 41%, Reuters/Ipsos finds - 2022-09-27 [U.S. President Joe Biden's public approval rating edged higher this week, though he remains deeply unpopular, with just six weeks to go before the Nov. 8 midterm elections, a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll completed on Tuesday found.]:

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/bid...ds-2022-09-27/

nationalpost.com/news/politics/John Ivison: If Canada can't properly arm the Ukrainians, we can train more of them to fight ['We’ve been very cautious, even selfish, on equipment. We could take a lot more chances,' said retired Gen. Rick Hillier]:

https://nationalpost.com/news/politi...-them-to-fight

bbc/Ukrainians told to be ready to fight for Russia:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63049386

aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2022/9/25/ukrain-blog-2/Latest Ukraine updates: Kyiv receives US air defence system:

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveb...ukraine-blog-2

space.com/Contact with ET: How would humanity react? [after the rush on toilet paper at the start of the pandemic, what to expect but panic?]:

https://www.space.com/contact-intell...anity-reaction

From Quora (Google search blurb): Sept 27, 2018 — Cowardice is found in not overcoming fear and again is normal. Courage is feted as being noteworthy because it is rare. So yes most people are cowards.

nationalpost.com/news/Odds of China invading Taiwan up 'drastically,' government think tank says [Chinese President Xi Jinping may even decide to use an invasion to deflect attention from his country’s stumbling economy]:

https://nationalpost.com/news/odds-o...hink-tank-says

reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/Home to 28,000 U.S. troops, South Korea unlikely to avoid a Taiwan conflict - 2022-09-26:

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...ct-2022-09-26/

thehill.com/policy/defense/US military points to Ukraine in warning China against Taiwan attack [BY ELLEN MITCHELL - 09/26/22 5:00 AM ET]:

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/3...taiwan-attack/

bbc.com/news/health/Flu and Covid could make this a hard winter for UK:

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-63045190

Slightly old report:
publichealthontario.ca/-/media/Documents/M/2022/monkeypox-episummary.pdf?sc_lang=en/Monkeypox in Ontario: May 20, 2022 to September 20, 2022:

https://www.publichealthontario.ca/-...pdf?sc_lang=en

wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/22/Ocean acidification cut down to size:

https://wattsupwiththat.com/2022/08/...-down-to-size/

dw.com/en/Iran men's team shows support for Iranian women [In a football friendly to prepare for Qatar 2022, Iran's national team wore plain black jackets over their uniforms to support protests over Mahsa Amini's death.]:

https://www.dw.com/en/iran-mens-team...en/av-63273202