Author: Robert Richardson

With British Columbia five days away from a provincial election October 24, and mail-in voting already well under way, Premier John Horgan’s New Democrats are taking fire for doubling down on the subsidies the previous Liberal government had extended to the province’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) industry.“Right now, B.C. hands over a billion tax dollars a year to the oil and gas industry—that’s twice as much as we spend fighting climate change, and five times as much as we get back in royalties,” Dogwood B.C. states, in a sign-on asking supporters to contact their MLAs about fossil subsidies. “We’re paying rich companies to pollute, we’re getting ripped off in the process, and it’s got to stop.”

Source: Horgan Takes Fire for Boosting Fossil Subsidies as B.C. Election Nears [Sign-On] – The Energy Mix

MONDAY, Oct. 19, 2020 — A coronavirus strain that has plagued the swine industry in recent years may have the ability to spread to people, researchers say.Swine acute diarrhea syndrome coronavirus (SADS-CoV) has infected swine herds throughout China since its discovery in 2016, according to a new report.In lab tests, scientists at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill showed that SADS-CoV can replicate in human liver, gut and airway cells.While in the same family as the betacoronavirus SARS-CoV-2 that causes COVID-19 in people, SADS-CoV is an alphacoronavirus that causes gastrointestinal illness (severe diarrhea and vomiting) in swine. It’s especially deadly to young piglets.SADS-CoV is also distinct from two common cold alphacoronaviruses in humans, HCoV-229E and HCoV-NL63, the study authors explained.

Source: Swine Coronavirus Could Jump to People, Researchers Warn – Drugs.com MedNews

WHEN YON SHIMIZU HEARD THE news that Japanese forces had bombed Pearl Harbor in December 1941, he was on his hands and knees, scrubbing his family’s linoleum floor. Living in a rented house in Victoria, British Columbia, with his sister, two brothers, and their widowed mother, he was listening to the radio while completing his chores. He raced from the room to tell the rest of his family. “I was frightened and dismayed,” he recounts in the prologue to his book, The Exiles. Life had never been easy for his family, he adds, “but none of us were really prepared for the devastating events which were to unfold in the coming months.”In 1942, the Canadian government declared a “protected area” along the Pacific Coast—a buffer zone between the water and the Japanese-Canadian communities that had flanked it. Under pressure from officials such as Ian Mckenzie, a cabinet minister from British Columbia, elected officials at federal, provincial, and local levels insisted that the Japanese Canadians who lived there be forcibly relocated. Nearly 22,000 people—roughly 90 percent of the Japanese Canadian population at the time—were uprooted.

Source: How Japanese Canadians Survived Internment and Dispossession – Atlas Obscura

Have you ever dreamt of racing on a magnificent sailing superyacht that looks like a classic vessel from the 1920s and ’30s? During that golden era of sailing, J Class titans like Shamrock V, Yankee, Ranger, and Endeavour II became royalty of the sailing world. Those massive, powerful vessels, with their sleek wooden hulls and billowing sails, along with dozens of crew hanging over the gunwales, became icons for the world’s wealthiest families.A century later, Rainbow exudes the same sense of grace and power, but is a thoroughly modern recreation of its 1930s namesake. Launched in 2012 by Holland Jachtbouw, she faintly resembles the 1934 J Class America’s Cup winner. Because she mixes classic design with modern technology, this new-generation Rainbow packs more pedigree into her 140-foot aluminum hull than most other modern sailing yachts combined.

Source: This 140-Foot Sailing Yacht Combines 1930s Design With Modern Tech – Robb Report

Joni Mitchell, James Taylor, Chilliwack and Phil Ochs volunteered and 10,000 people showed up at the Coliseum, paying $3 a ticket. The net profit was $17,164, which basically launched Greenpeace, the world’s foremost environmental organization.The concert was dreamed up by Irving Stowe, a 55-year-old lawyer who had become a full-time peace and environmental activist.“Brothers and sisters in green peace,” he announced at the show. “Green peace is beautiful! And you are beautiful, because you are here tonight! You came here because you are not on a death trip! You believe in life, you believe in peace, and you want them now!”

Source: Fifty years ago, a Vancouver benefit concert launched Greenpeace | Vancouver Sun

RG Richardson Employment Interactive Job Search App and eBook

There are hundreds of job boards, both generic and niche, as well as aggregators, social media channels, networking groups and staffing company websites to choose from.2020 presents a series of Career Interactive Job Search, Economic Interactive Notes, Financial Market, Money and Banking terms and definitions with over 9900 quick links! Great for student job search or anybody that wants to keep up with all the terminology. This is an interactive series that helps guide you and keeps you up to date on all the employment and job search terminology, tools and help guides; past and present including access to charts, graphs and video presentations on the subject. Educational learning tools! Google Play App for IOS and Android and searching in 10 languages. Your resume is your first opportunity to make a good impression with hiring managers. But how can you create a document that makes you stand out from the crowd? Your resume is your first opportunity to make a good impression with hiring managers. But how can you create a document that makes you stand out from the crowd?

Source: Employment Interactive Job Search | RG Richardson Interactive Career City Guide

Student Interactive Job Guide-Multi-language search 10 citiesUsing the power of the internet and 8 search engines with 9900 links this will guide you through an effective job search. Never out of date!Covers job boards, careers, permanent, part-time, hospitality, retail, IT, sales, marketing…etc.This is an interactive series using the power of the internet that helps guide you and keeps you up to date on all the job and employment search market in your city. Including access to resumes, job boards, charts, graphs and video presentations on the subject.Searches in Chinese, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Indian, Portuguese, Japanese.eComTechnology/RGRichardson ©2020 All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof, in any form under the International and Canadian Copyright.Published in Canada by:eComTechnology/RGRichardsonVictoria, BC. V8R 5G9eComTechnology/RGRichardsonAssign Centre, ISBN DivisionLibrary and Archives CanadaAuthor R.G. RichardsonUpdated 092020

Source: Student Interactive Job Guide – United States: Multi-language search 10 cities by R.G.Richardson – Books on Google Play

The president of the United States has, legally speaking, a ton of power. He can fire the head of the country’s federal investigative agency. He can decide, unilaterally, to give ultra-classified information to foreign leaders. He has essentially unconstrained authority to use nuclear weapons however he sees fit.But what if the president’s closest advisers were to conclude he was unfit for office?According to former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein briefly discussed just that possibility in 2017, in the days after President Donald Trump fired FBI director James Comey.Specifically, that’s Section 4 of the 25th Amendment to the Constitution. The amendment states that if, for whatever reason, the vice president and a majority of sitting Cabinet secretaries decide that the president is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office,” they can simply put that down in writing and send it to two people — the speaker of the House and the Senate’s president pro tempore.Then the vice president would immediately become “acting president,” and take over all the president’s powers.Let that sink in — one vice president and any eight Cabinet officers can, theoretically, decide to knock the president out of power at any time.If the president wants to dispute this move, he can, but then it would be up to Congress to settle the matter with a vote. A two-thirds majority in both houses would be necessary to keep the vice president in charge. If that threshold isn’t reached, the president would regain his powers.Section 4 of the 25th Amendment has never been invoked in reality, though it’s a staple of thriller fiction. But there’s been a surge of interest in it throughout Trump’s presidency, as reports of the president’s bizarre behavior behind closed doors have piled up, and as his top officials have kept anonymously telling reporters that he’s unfit to govern.

Source: The 25th Amendment, explained: how a president can be declared unfit to serve – Vox

This is a developing story. For the latest information on the status of resorts and protocol, visit individual resort websites.Ski season is going to happen this year. But it won’t look like it used to. Resorts around the U.S. are using input from state and local health guidelines to operate as safely as possible. In place of crowded après-ski bars and packed gondolas, you’ll see extra-long, spaced-apart lift lines, skiers in full-face coverings, and take-out lunches eaten outside. Many resorts will also require advance reservations, so be sure to check for capacity updates before you go.Beyond operating and safety protocols, we wanted to know what some of our favorite ski areas around the country have planned for this winter, so we called up places like Taos, Big Sky, and Breckenridge to see what’s on tap.

Source: What This Ski Season Will Look Like | Outside Online

A top communications and government relations firm led by long-time Conservative Party strategist Jaime Watt developed a confidential plan to undercut support for the federal Clean Fuel Standard (CFS) by convincing Canadians that “fighting climate change is a losing battle,” according to leaked documents released this week by Greenpeace Canada.The strategy proposal for Canadians for Fairness in Clean Fuel Policy “was prepared in January 2018 by the public relations firm Navigator, which bills itself as ‘Canada’s leading high-stakes strategic advisory and communications firm’ and has a registered trademark tagline of “when you can’t afford to lose’,” Greenpeace said in a release Wednesday. “The document does not name Navigator’s client but proposes to build a ‘broader than Big Oil’ coalition to oppose the CFS by recruiting industry associations, companies, think tanks, labour groups, and the opposition Conservatives. It proposes a ‘secondary role for industrial players (not front and centre): Industry must be present, but efforts should appear organic and not stage managed’.”

Source: Leaked 2018 Strategy Proposed ‘Broader Than Oil’ Coalition to Undercut Ottawa’s Clean Fuel Standard – The Energy Mix