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  • Josh Freed: Florida feels like another planet compared with Quebec

    01/23/2022 8:05:01 PM PST · by Hojczyk · 70 replies
    montreal gazette ^ | January 22,2022 | Josh Freed
    During my visit, I saw some customers shake hands with their waiter, as if to say: “Thanks, I’ll have some germs for dessert,” Josh Freed writes. I have a confession to make: I recently fled Quebec for a week, a refugee from Legault’s 2.0 curfew-and-confinement rules. A friend told me about an available condo in Florida, my wife and I made a last-second decision to briefly escape and work remotely. But the second we landed, it felt like we’d arrived on another planet. While Quebec is in full confinement mode, Florida is Cowboyland, where you barely know COVID is happening,...
  • Bernie's climate play: A federal takeover of electricity production. Sanders wants federally owned utilities to build massive amounts of wind and solar to compete with private generators

    02/02/2020 5:58:30 AM PST · by karpov · 43 replies
    Politico ^ | February 2, 2020 | Gavin Bade
    Sen. Bernie Sanders has put nationalizing health insurance at the center of his presidential campaign, but his proposal to fight climate change also calls for a government takeover of a fundamental segment of the economy — electricity production. Sanders has laid out a $16 trillion climate change plan that would transition U.S. electricity generation away from fossil fuels to renewable resources like wind, solar and hydropower by 2030. That’s far faster than any other Democratic candidate's target and sets a pace that rivals like former Vice President Joe Biden say is unrealistic. And like Sanders' healthcare plan, the green energy...