Friday, June 14, 2019
Following Hong Kong unrest, rally set for Saturday in Vancouver




Protest to demand authorities scrap a proposed extradition bill with China, in Hong KongThomas Peter / Reuters


The Chinese Embassy in Canada issued a statement Thursday saying: "People from the Canadian government made irresponsible and erroneous comments."

After days of unrest in Hong Kong, representatives of the Canadian and Chinese governments exchanged sharp words this week, while Vancouver community groups planned a rally to show solidarity with protesters in Asian port city.

Organizers said the rally, set for 11 a.m. Saturday outside Vancouver’s Chinese consulate at 3380 Granville St., has been planned to “condemn the violence” inflicted by Hong Kong police on protesters earlier this week during protests over a proposed law to allow China to demand extradition of suspects from Hong Kong. Saturday’s rally in Vancouver is being organized by the Canadian Friends of Hong Kong, the Vancouver Hong Kong Forum, and the Vancouver Society in Support of Democratic Movement.

Mabel Tung, chair of the Vancouver Society In Support of Democratic Movement, said citizens of both Canada and Hong Kong strongly value human rights, and it has been painful to watch coverage of the violent clashes unfolding in the streets of Hong Kong, which is a special administrative region of China.

“As Canadians, we have our universal values. We understand what human rights really mean,” said Tung, who emigrated from Hong Kong to Vancouver in 1979. “Our Canadian values I really treasure, and also I really treasure the place where I was born. So that’s why I have to speak up and do something about it.”

A rally outside Vancouver’s Chinese consulate last Sunday reportedly drew a crowd of hundreds. Tung expects this Saturday’s rally could draw more than 1,000 people, she said, because “people are very angry.”

Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, issued a statement Wednesday saying Canada has been “closely following” Hong Kong’s proposed extradition bill, adding: “Canada remains concerned about the potential effect these proposals may have on the large number of Canadian citizens in Hong Kong, on business confidence, and on Hong Kong’s international reputation.”

The day after Freeland’s statement, the Chinese Embassy in Canada issued its own message, saying: “Hong Kong affairs are purely China’s internal affairs. No other country, organization or individual has the right to interfere. … Recently, some people from the Canadian government made irresponsible and erroneous comments on the Hong Kong SAR government’s amendment to the ordinance and other Hong Kong affairs. We deplore and firmly oppose this.”

Jenny Kwan, the NDP Member of Parliament for Vancouver East who emigrated from Hong Kong to Canada as a child, issued a statement Thursday condemning both the extradition bill and the Hong Kong police’s response to the protesters.

“The government’s disregard of the protesters’ point of view and its unilateral decision making process has led to the escalation of the demonstrations and the violent confrontations that are now happening on the streets. There is no justification for a government to use such excessive force — tear gas and rubber bullets — against unarmed civilians in a peaceful demonstration,” Kwan said in the written statement. “It breaks my heart to watch so many young people, passionate about the fate of their birthplace, confront fully armoured riot police, and get beaten down and injured.

“It is my hope that the government of Hong Kong will restore peace and political stability to Hong Kong by respecting the wishes of the people and immediately withdraw the extradition bill.”

Hong Kong has deep ties with Canada and particularly Vancouver, said Fenella Sung, convener of the Canadian Friends of Hong Kong society. Immigration from Hong Kong, which ramped up in the 1980s and 1990s, has significantly altered the real estate, culture and business climates in Vancouver, Sung said.

“There is an old joke that Hong Kong is the 16th largest Canadian city,” Sung said, noting an estimated 300,000 Canadian citizens live in Hong Kong, a number that exceeds the population of cities like Burnaby, Saskatoon, and Kitchener, Ont.

“The exodus of the Hong Kong people because of political instability in Hong Kong and China, really, is very much a part of Canadian history,” Sung said.
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The Pentagon emits more greenhouse gases than Portugal, study finds
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    If it were a country, its emissions would make it the world’s 55th largest contributor.
    Global temperatures are on course for a 3C to 5C (5.4F to 9.0F) rise this century, far overshooting a global target of limiting the increase to 2C or less, the UN World Meteorological Organization said in November."




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A Woman Has Won the ‘Nobel Prize of Math’ for the First Time Ever
Karen Uhlenbeck is the first woman to win the Abel Prize for mathematics.
The prize, according to New York Times, cites “the fundamental impact of her work on analysis, geometry and mathematical physics.” Modeled after the Nobel Prize, it is awarded by the king of Norway to honor outstanding mathematicians who have greatly influenced their field, and includes a cash prize of Norwegian kroner worth about $700,000. The award has been given out since 2003, but all previous winners have been men.
Dr. Uhlenbeck is renowned for her work in geometric partial differential equations, gauge theory, and integrable systems. As the Times reports, she she helped pioneer a field known as geometric analysis, and among her most famous contributions were her theories of predictive mathematics, inspired by soap bubbles.
“She did things nobody thought about doing, and after she did, she laid the foundations of a branch of mathematics,” said Sun-Yung Alice Chang, a mathematician at Princeton University who served on the prize committee.
According to the Times, Dr. Uhlenbeck found out about her history-making award on Sunday morning, via text message, and said that she has yet to decide what to do with the cash prize that comes with it.
“When I came out of church, I noticed that I had a text message from Alice Chang that said, Would I please accept a call from Norway?” she said. “When I got home, I called Norway back and they told me.”

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Students barred from talking of climate change in graduation speeches - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

More than 350 students—typically valedictorians—had wanted to talk about climate change in…

"Schools and colleges across the US have been accused of censoring students who have attempted to use their graduation speeches to speak out on the unfolding climate crisis.

A youth-led movement called Class of 0000 is encouraging students to read out a prepared text at their graduation ceremonies that warns of “catastrophic climate change” and tells elected leaders to “have plan to get to zero emissions, or get zero of our votes.”"
The silence is deafening in most parts of the country.
Loud applause to the Victoria (BC) School District for the declaration of climate emergency!
Many educators say school boards and education groups should speak out on climate inaction, but those calls aren’t always being well-received.
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Andrew Scheer's Senators are working to block the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - just like Stephen Harper tried to do.

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Andrew Scheer's Senators are working to block the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples - just like Stephen Harper tried to do.

Tell them to stop blocking Indigenous rights - or this well become their legacy.

Send an email: https://www.adoptandimplement.ca/send_an_email_to_conservatives
Or call them: https://www.adoptandimplement.ca/call_scheer




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McKenna announces carbon tax on Alberta a week after province kills former tax



In 2020, a family of four in Alberta can claim $888 in carbon tax rebate on income taxes



Peter Zimonjic · CBC News · Posted: Jun 13, 2019




Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has written to Alberta 
to inform the province that the federal government will begin imposing the
 federal carbon tax in the province Jan. 1. 2020. 
(Fred Chartrand/Canadian Press)





Environment Minister Catherine McKenna says she has given notice to the provincial government in Alberta that the federal government will begin imposing its price on carbon in the province beginning Jan.1, 2020.


McKenna made the announcement in Ottawa today, a week after Alberta's Lt.-Gov. Lois Mitchell signed the province's Carbon Tax Repeal Act into law.

"As a result of Alberta's decision to make it free to pollute in Alberta, we will have the federal price on pollution," she said. "It's unfortunate, because Alberta had a made-in-Alberta plan to put a price on pollution."


McKenna said Canada needs Alberta to take part in the pan-Canadian framework on climate change because it's the province with the highest emissions in the country.

Under the terms of the framework — a deal agreed to by most of the provinces and the federal government in December 2016 — provinces had to develop policies to put a price on carbon through a carbon tax or a cap-and-trade system.

As a part of the plan, Ottawa said it would impose a tax on provinces that refuse to develop their own plans — at a rate of $20 on every tonne of greenhouse gas emissions starting in 2019, rising by $10 each year to $50 a tonne by 2022.


McKenna said that, by law, 100 per cent of the revenues collected federally will go back to Alberta — 90 per cent returned to families and the remaining 10 per cent directed to funding schools, hospitals, municipalities and green energy initiatives.

But because that revenue is being returned to families, a family of four in Alberta will be able to claim a rebate of $888 when they file their income taxes next year, she said.

"Its unfortunate that we're in this situation with another conservative premier ... who doesn't seem to understand that pricing pollution is proven, that provinces that have had a price on pollution have been the fastest-growing in the country and pricing pollution is the most efficient way to reduce emissions," McKenna said.

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'We will have the federal price on pollution,' McKenna says.


Environment Minister Catherine McKenna said the federal government will begin imposing a carbon tax on Alberta in January 2020. 1:12



Alberta's Environment Minister Jason Nixon said that with the provincial tax gone and the new tax not coming in until the new year, Albertans will enjoy some of the lowest gas prices in the country for the time being.


"Thankfully, Premier Kenney followed through on his promise of killing the carbon tax," he said. "We've removed that tax from our system and at least for the next several months, until January first, we won't have the burden of the carbon tax on our economy."

Nixon noted that the introduction of the federal tax hinges on the Liberals winning the October federal election.

"There will be a federal election in-between and many things can happen between now and January 1," he said.
Joining the conservative pack

Before losing the provincial election in April, NDP Premier Rachel Notley introduced a carbon tax in Alberta. The tax was imposed in 2015 but it did not take effect until Jan. 1, 2017.

It started at $20 per tonne of carbon emissions and increased to $30 the following year — but the annual price increases were put on hold by Notley after the construction of the Trans Mountain pipeline was halted.

The Carbon Tax Repeal Act was the first piece of legislation introduced by Premier Jason Kenney and his newly elected United Conservative government.







Kenney won the provincial election on a promise to kill the tax, saying it hadn't helped to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and took money out of the pockets of working families.


Kenney said his government will continue with a tax on large industrial greenhouse gas emitters and has promised to challenge the constitutionality of the federal carbon tax in court.

Alberta now joins four other provinces led by centre-right premiers — Ontario, New Brunswick, Manitoba and Saskatchewan — which have cancelled their provincial plans only to see the federal government impose its own.
Meeting the Paris targets

When Canada signed on to the Paris agreement, it pledged to cut greenhouse gas emissions 30 per cent below 2005 levels by 2030.

According to a report published today by the Parliamentary Budget Office, the pan-Canadian framework will not meet that goal without imposing a second tax of $6 a tonne in 2023, rising to $52 per tonne by 2030. If that plan was imposed on top of the Liberal framework, Canadians would have to pay as much as $102 per tonne by 2030.

In a statement, McKenna said that the federal government has "no plan to increase the price post 2022."

"We will meet our 2030 target through what we are already doing and new measures, including tackling plastic pollution, doubling the amount of nature that we are protecting, investments in clean tech and innovation," she said. 





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In Christian numerology, the number 888 represents Jesus, or sometimes more specifically Christ the Redeemer. ... In Chinese numerology, 888 has a different meaning, triple fortune, a strengthening of the meaning of the digit 8.
In Chinese numerology, 888 has a different meaning, triple fortune, a strengthening of the meaning of the digit 8. For this reason, addresses and phone numbers containing the digit sequence 888 are considered particularly lucky, and may command a premium because of it.
Octal: 15708
Cardinal: eight hundred eighty-eight
Greek numeral: Î©Î Î—´


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