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Editor's summary of original article published in Science:

When intact, the Amazonian forest is dense and difficult to penetrate, both on foot and with scanning technologies. Over the past several years, however, improved light detection and ranging scans have begun to penetrate the forest canopy, revealing previously unknown evidence of past Amazonian cultures. Rostain et al. describe evidence of such an agrarian Amazonian culture that began more than 2000 years ago. They describe more than 6000 earthen platforms distributed in a geometic pattern connected by roads and intertwined with agricultural landscapes and river drainages in the Upano Valley. Previous efforts have described mounds and large monuments in Amazonia, but the complexity and extent of this development far surpasses these previous sites. —Sacha Vignieri

This is what a conservative majority looks like. Taxpayers paying for public assets to be given to corporations

Ahh immigration - the most sensational, convenient, uncritical, and least interesting aspect of the housing affordability issue in Canada. Seems on-brand for CBC

Original study: https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/1/6

Results/conclusion from abstract:

We found that for the 21 caribou local population ranges examined, 3 were at very high risk (>75% area disturbed), 16 at high risk (>45 ≤ 75% area disturbed), and 2 at low risk (≤35% area disturbed). Major changes are needed in boreal forest management in Ontario and Quebec for it to be ecologically sustainable, including a greater emphasis on protection and restoration for older forests, and to lower the risks for caribou populations.

Lifelong city dweller here. I have some perhaps dumb questions. 1) Is all that stuff in the sky truly stars and galaxies and whatnot? 2) Is this a 'naked eye' (versus telescope) picture? If this is something people can just look up at the sky and see - and maybe it is in the middle of an uninhabitable dessert - well, I'm questioning my life priorities a little bit lol

For those who don't know, Ford put a wage freeze on all healthcare workers who aren't physicians around 2020, while the cost of living continued to go up. I believe a court struck down that wage freeze - which was in effect for about 3 years - some time in the last year. Last I heard from Ford's gov't, they planned to appeal the court's decision

About BDS: Boycotts, divestment and sanctions (BDS) is a strategy that allows people of conscience around the world to play an effective role in the Palestinian struggle for justice

After the incredible climate change effects seen 2023 (e.g., wildfires), the amount of current political fixation on not collecting carbon tax sure is disheartening to me

And so are you for sharing such important articles :)

Wow, this is impressive journalism. The war on truth and efforts to sanitize genocide over the last few months have been incredibly troubling to see. The article has some great graphs! I think I'll start subscribing to Breach this year!

The soonest it would happen is the 2030s. I follow the NBA. There are currently 30 teams. Most around the Association believe that the next two franchises will be Seattle and Las Vegas, and afterwards the NBA will restructure from being 2 conferences of 15 teams to 4 conferences of 8 teams.

Vancouver could get in on the next expected expansion of 4 teams that'd stretch the league from 32 to 36. Mexico City might be in the running as well.

Upcoming TV deals are likely to influence Vancouver's odds of getting an NBA franchise. Currently, the largest TV deals are domestic US deals, like TNT, ESPN and NBC, and in these cases, Canadian viewers effectively don't count. More international and online TV deals for the league as a whole would probably increase the odds of more non-US teams in the NBA, like one in Vancouver.

Another factor is that Raptors owners, rogers and bell, are used to having basically no other competition in the Canadian telecomm and sports broadcast markets. I think that they would have the means and motivation to effectively block another NBA team from expanding into Canada.

The Vancouver Grizzlies were awesome :D

Perhaps "I'm NDP" is a succinct description of how a person leans in the Canadian political landscape that might be informed by decades of voting behaviour, or even personal involvement in the political sphere. Or, perhaps it is a rigid and irrational us/them orientation like how you personally have interpreted it