"Is it too late to halt deep-sea mining? Meet the activists trying to save the seabed - If mining companies are given the go-ahead to exploit the ocean depths, the environmental cost will be devastating. As the clock ticks down to a crucial deadline in July, Michael Segalov (Guardian) reports"
"For almost 30 years, much of what went on at the secretive-sounding International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Jamaica was unreported and scarcely noticed ... There have been allegations of secrecy and interference against its governing body and of legal loopholes being exploited. After discussions chugged along quietly for decades, a growing community of campaigners, scientists and now governments are raising an urgent alarm about what’s happening within these walls. They argue that unless immediate action is taken, it might be too late to halt the devastating environmental and ecological impact of mining the global high seas. Their warning is simple: humanity’s insatiable appetite to plunder the planet for profit might mean some of the Earth’s most untouched corners are exploited before we even understand what it is we risk losing. As Louisa Casson, who is leading Greenpeace’s global campaign to stop deep-sea mining, puts it: “It’s a threat, continental in scale, that until recently nobody was even talking about ...
Regardless, due to a quirk in an ageing international treaty, deep-sea mining might happen in a matter of months after the pulling of a legal lever by a Canadian-owned company and the government of Nauru."
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The enormous #wildfires burning in western #Canada have produced vast amounts of smoke which has been transported across North America & the North Atlantic as far as #Europe.
Happy Victoria Day to all the Canadians out there who still aren't sure why we celebrate it, but aren't about to pass up a long weekend. :mstdneh: #mstdnca#canada#victoriaday
Dear my fellow Canadians,
Take this holiday to spend with family and enjoy the end of spring and coming summer. Also, spare a thought for the people subjected to the peak of the “brutal” expansion of the British Empire at the end of the 19th Century including the beginning of the Indian Residential School system and the hanging of Louis Riel all done in Queen Victoria’s name in the new Dominion of Canada.
Impulse buy: #RootBeer. My one foreign holiday was to #Toronto#Canada as a child. Root beer was everywhere and a drink like coke or irn-bru. This kind is non-alcoholic. Tasting it now confirns what I thought then...root beer tastes the way #Germoline smells🤣
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This is a tribute to my home province, beautiful British Columbia - with its #mountains and #ocean and overall incredible scenery no matter where you go. The image is part of my continuing series of artwork with a quilted effect (not a real quilt!)
Today in 1917, Raymond Burr was born in New Westminster, B.C.
He appeared in 50 films from 1946 to 1957 including Rear Window.
From 1957 to 1966, he starred on Perry Mason & from 1967 to 1975 on Ironside.
Nominated for nine Emmys, he won twice.
He died in 1993.
Pierre Trudeau, Ed Broadbent and Joe Clark before their election debate on May 13, 1979.
"The two-hour debate was the first since 1968 and it was moderated by McGill University principal, and future Governor General, David Johnston."
Photo pillaged from Craig Baird, Canadian History Ehx on birdsite but I''ve just now realized @canadaehx is here in the Fediverse!
Photo by Graham Bezant. #canadianhistory#canada#civility
Happy birthday to Dave Thomas, born in 1949 in St. Catharines, Ontario!
Rising to fame on SCTV for his many characters including Doug McKenzie, he has won an Emmy Award and two Junos. He has also been nominated for a Grammy.
In 2020, he received the Order of Canada.