: I am reminded of W. B. Yeats’s warning: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / are full of passionate intensity.”
The Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance launched at COP26 in 2021 with 11 national and subnational governments as members; it is now at 24. Core membership in BOGA requires committing to “end new concessions, licensing or leasing rounds for oil and gas production and exploration and to set a Paris-aligned date for ending oil and gas production and exploration.”
“Ottawa to spend $1.2-billion on hospital for First Nations in Northern Ontario, after weeks of pressure” In the 1980s, I worked in the hospital as one of a long line of itinerant locum doctors. During breakup and freeze-up of the river, it was accessible from the mainland only by helicopter. This is detrimental to many people who actually live in housing, in particular tenants and their families. Governments should couple increased supply with stronger rent controls and protections against eviction, as well as investment in affordable rental housing.When I arrived there as a student in the late 1970s, rents were eye-poppingly low. Large apartments were often available, sometimes in the low hundreds of dollars monthly.
Methodological concerns over blinding in trials could make the study of psychedelics impracticable. But people know when they have received a psychedelic. This should not preclude research into these agents.