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Friday December 24, 2021

December 24, 2021 by Graeme MacKay

Illustration by Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Friday December 24, 2021 (Two articles follow when clicking on the date above)

The pandemic’s terrible twos — lingering tantrums plague us

A pandemic is a hard, peculiar shape to wrap your head around, to fit your life, thinking, lungs and feelings around, to take sides about.

I’ll get to polarization and side-taking, in a bit. It’s true, this pandemic is not a world war, not global famine, but it is something. It has a shape. An ink blot maybe? Many things to many people? The shape of things to come?

Not a shape perhaps but more like a sensation, like walking through spider webs. It feels bad, you weren’t expecting it and, I mean, brrr, it’s spider webs, but then nothing bad happens to YOU and you feel silly because … I mean, like, it’s spider webs; gossamer. Chances would be slim that you’d be walking into actual spiders and even if you were, chances would be slimmer that they’d be black widows. Landmines don’t come in gossamer, do they?

You might feel that way sometimes.

Posted in: International, Lifestyle Tagged: 2021-42, antivaxxers, anxiety, covid-19, frontline workers, health, lungs, paint, pandemic, restrictions, Science, scientists, supply chain, Vaccine

Friday, January 31, 2014

January 31, 2014 by Graeme MacKay

Friday, January 31, 2014By Graeme MacKay, The Hamilton Spectator – Friday, January 31, 2014

Canada’s lonely tower on Hamilton Harbour

For SaleWhen the Canada Centre for Inland Waters officially opened in May 1972, it was described as the “finest of its kind in North America, maybe in the world,” by the federal environment minister at the time.

But 40 years later, critics say the sprawling agency on the Beach Strip is a shadow of its former self, a victim of a steady stream of downsizing and changing government priorities. They say it is backtracking on its Great Lakes research mandate and is no longer the steady hand of science it once was to guide the restoration of Hamilton Harbour.

Thursday, February 21, 2013The centre was intended to be Canada’s flagship headquarters for fresh water management, a 54,000-square-foot complex of six interconnected buildings with more than 520 federal employees (with claims, apparently unrealized, of eventually having 1,000 workers). Now it’s estimated there are closer to 350.

Environment Canada, the main government department in the facility, won’t say how many scientists work at the facility or how many used to work there.

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Spokesperson Mark Johnson said in a statement the department is focused on “achieving and maintaining a clean, safe, and sustainable environment for Canadians” and the government is spending “significant money each year in direct research to support these goals. Environment Canada’s Canada Centre for Inland Waters (CCIW) provides scientific information to support informed decisions about the environment…”

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the other main government department at the CCIW, did not respond to a request for staffing numbers.

Thursday, October 24, 2013According to the union that represents scientists in the federal government — the Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada — there are nearly 25 fewer scientists at the CCIW than in 2010.

But Tom Muir, a retired environmental economist who worked at the CCIW for 30 years, says that’s only part of the story. He says the decline in scientists — through attrition and layoffs — has been going on for more than a decade. And he estimates the number of positions has fallen by 40 to 60 over a 10-year period. (Source: Hamilton Spectator)

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This cartoon was somewhat of a sensation on Facebook, with over 30,000 hits over the Feb. 1 2014 weekend and over 750 shares. It was also featured on the iPolitics website showcase of cartoons. This cartoon is available for print through the Artizans syndicate.

For my edible friends at the Canada Centre for Inland Waters #cdnpoli #HamOnt http://t.co/JjjZqRq8Y8 pic.twitter.com/ZZL6UnN62K

— mackaycartoons (@mackaycartoons) January 31, 2014

Posted in: Canada, Hamilton Tagged: austerity, Burlington, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, CCIW, Editorial Cartoon, environment, Hamilton, print sale, Science, ScienceExpo, scientists, Stephen Harper

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