Zlatan Ibrahimovic has sparked suggestions that there may be life in his playing days beyond the end of his time with Milan, stating that he will not "stop until I am kicked out" of the game.
The Sweden veteran, who turned 40 at the start of October, has continued to defy age to thrive near the top of the domestic game in Serie A, and penned an extension with the Rossoneri in April.
Given his advancing years, many have assumed that he would finish his career at San Siro - but now, the forward has stated that he could continue on if he does not prolong his stay once more.
What has been said?
“The secret to my longevity is in the mind, as I am trying to prove that 40 is just a number and I can continue to do what I love," Ibrahimovic told Telefoot when discussing his future.
“I want to keep improving every day. Obviously, I can’t play the way I did before, but I am more intelligent now and have more experience. I am not surprised by my performances, I am the best.
"I have nothing more to prove, but I don’t want to retire and then regret it, thinking I could’ve continued. I don’t want to stop until I am kicked out, well and truly finished.”
Ibrahimovic seeks another trophy
Across a career stretching over four decades now, the attacker has built a reputation for success, winning trophies across five different countries, including continental success with Barcelona and Manchester United.
But he still feels that he can add to his haul with Milan - with whom he was a Serie A winner a decade ago - after they pushed eventual champions Inter close last term.
“We can believe in our chances," he added. "The more you believe, the more it becomes possible. Without belief and hard work, you cannot achieve your targets.”
The bigger picture
Ibrahimovic will be looking to help further those chances for Milan this term as they continue to search for glory at home and abroad.
After they have faced Roma this weekend - reuniting him with former coach Jose Mourinho - they will turn their attention to Porto in the Champions League.
They will then play the Milan derby against Inter to wrap up their early November commitments before the final international break of the year.
Many people head to warmer climes during the winter months, but for one Vernon couple their annual trip is a lot more than a vacation.
For the past 11 years, Maureen and Andy Nyhuis have been travelling to the Zihuatanejo-Ixtapa region of Mexico where they spend six months a year working with locals to build secure roofs for their homes.
To date, they have completed 346 roofs for families in need.
And their work had them in the path of Hurricane Rick, which hammered the Mexican coast last week.
“We went to bed on Sunday thinking we would sleep through. it. How bad could it be? When Rick arrived there was no sleeping, heavy winds and rain and noise woke us up,” said Maureen. “As we watched out our patio doors, we could see 20, 30 foot trees almost lying down sideways and the rain in torrents then the wind would change and it all happened in the other direction.”
The Okanagan missionaries live in the relative safety of a cement condo, but watched helplessly as the “flimsy shanties up in the hills” were slammed by the wind and rain.
When the storm passed, the couple ventured into the community to survey the damage.
“Homes with no roofs, homes flooded and people sleeping on wet mattresses, dishes all broken, food spoiled, but people still smiling and thanking God it wasn't worse,” said Maureen. “This was a category 3. What would a category 4 or 5 been like? We cant even imagine.”
According to Accuweather, the hurricane, which weakened substantially as it moved inland, had sustained winds of more than 160 km/h and gusts of more than 200 km/h.
The couple volunteer in Mexico as part of the Zihua Roofs Society.
Zihuatanejo Roofing is based on the "Pay it Forward" principle where those who have received a roof help the next family build theirs, thereby creating community.
For more information on the society and how to donate, tax receipts will be issued, visit their website.
It started witha laboratory study on African green monkey kidney cells. While the dose used was much higher than what doctors would prescribe, the results were promising. Ivermectin could stop the new coronavirus from making copies of itself.
This drug, ivermectin, has acquired political overtones in some circles. It is a quasi-religious shibboleth, a belief that identifies the tribe you belong to. But underneath all of this modern baggage, ivermectin is simply a very useful drug. As a lotion, it can treat head lice. In a cream, it treats rosacea. When taken by mouth, it treats infections caused by worms, like river blindness and strongyloidiasis. Its discovery from soil bacteria and its application in medicine resulted in a Nobel Prize win, and it is listed as an essential medicine by the World Health Organization. And, yes, it comes in a horse paste for the treatment of livestock.
On the heels of ivermectin’s one-time win over the coronavirus in the laboratory, some critical care doctors started to administer it to hospitalized patients who were fighting against complications from COVID-19. And the drug, according to those stunned doctors, seemed to be working. Study results trickled in backing up their real-life experiences. Ivermectin was picking up speed. It was starting to look like the future.
But a year and a half later, this train, still ploughing ahead, is now riddled with holes. Scientists and physicians have pointed out that it is falling apart, that it should stop for repair or even be retired. But the train keeps on rattling along. Why? Why won’t the ivermectin train stop?
Trust facilitates fraud
Those holes were not spotted by your typical train inspectors. Rather, they were detected by volunteer scientists spending unpaid time to scrutinize data sets and pick up what would politely be called “inconsistencies.” Patients who had died before the trial to test ivermectin began. Hospitals that were claimed to have participated but which stated they had no record of the study. Data that looked to have been copied and pasted multiple times from one patient to the next. The smell of fraud is hard to ignore when you have the nose for it.
These data detectives—in this case Jack Lawrence, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, Nick Brown, Kyle Sheldrick, and James Heathers—have learned a hard lesson: the apparatus of scientific research is built on trust, which hinders the detection of fraud. As Richard Smith, a former editor of The British Medical Journal, wrote ina sobering opinion piece last July, “it may be time to move from assuming that research has been honestly conducted and reported to assuming it to be untrustworthy until there is some evidence to the contrary.”
Ina recentAtlanticpiece, Heathers, one of the data detectives, stated that, “in our opinion, a bare minimum of five ivermectin papers are either misconceived, inaccurate, or otherwise based on studies that cannot exist as described.” That’s at least five out of 30 randomized or influential ivermectin studies the group has looked at. One of them, apaper coming out of Egypt, reported such a large effect that whenit was withdrawn due to “ethical concerns,” ameta-analysis of the ivermectin literature that had once concluded the drug saved lives, oncere-analyzed, showed no significant survival benefit. The Egyptian study, which appears fraudulent, had swayed the entire body of evidence one way. With further studies removed due to a high risk of bias or concerns as to how they were reported, the benefit grows in insignificance. “At a certain point,” Meyerowitz-Katz wrote ina blog post, “you have to accept that the evidence-base is so corrupted that the message that has been pushed for months by eager promoters of the drug is very unlikely to be true.”
The loudest of these eager promoters may be the Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance or FLCCC, with Dr. Pierre Kory serving as their president and best-known spokesperson. Their website, to this day, is pro-ivermectin. Thefirst sentence of their ivermectin section is that “these pages contain the scientific rationale that justifies the use of ivermectin in COVID-19.” Their founding members are not quacks. They are not naturopaths who believe “chemicals” are bad and Mother Nature can heal all things. They are not unqualified men with a pseudoscientific understanding of health, peddling supplements. They are critical care doctors. Kory himself has treated many patients with COVID-19.
So how do these educated physicians, with real-life experience of the disease, who take COVID-19 seriously, not change their mind as the ivermectin body of evidence collapses? Why is the train they operate still moving forward?
The idea overcomes the process
What follows are speculations. It is impossible to know for sure what goes on inside someone else’s head. Asking them to explain what their blind spots are is oxymoronic. I have no idea what my own blind spots are, by definition. But paying attention to what the ivermectin promoters say and knowing a bit about how our brain can deceive us can help us understand what may be happening and how to avoid these pitfalls for ourselves.
In aJune 2021 appearance on Joe Rogan’s massively popular podcast, Pierre Kory said of ivermectin for COVID-19 that he had seen it work. But just because something happens after an intervention does not automatically imply that it was caused by it (in Latin, this fallacy is known as post hoc ergo propter hoc). Obviously, if a drug is known to bring patients back from the brink and a doctor’s patient gets better after receiving it, the doctor and the patient are both justified in thinking that the drug did its job. But in the absence of convincing data (or in the presence of a crumbling body of studies), casting ivermectin as the cause of the improvement is premature. Once that link is made, however, the accumulation of anecdotes, personally witnessed, can become very convincing. It’s a fever that can overcome the intellect.
Another interesting piece of this puzzle is when Kory brings up steroids. In May 2020, hetestified in front of the U.S. Senate to recommend, in part, that doctors should use corticosteroids to control the inflammation in COVID-19 and to denounce that health societies like the WHO and the CDC were recommending against it at the time. As he later told Rogan, when a trial showed that steroids were life-saving, “we were validated.” The way Kory tells the story, the trials and errors of his fellow physicians in the trenches led them to the correct answer before public health agencies caught on. If they were right about steroids, they must also be right about ivermectin.
But history holds a long record of scientists who were right about one thing and utterly wrong about another, the most extreme examples being those afflicted byNobel disease, whose discoveries were worthy of the highest honour but whose denial of AIDS or promotion of megadoses of vitamins has certainly puzzled many people. Truth should not be decided by eminence but rather by evidence. The hypotheses of experts are useful but they must be properly put to the test.
The sunk cost fallacy can also kick in. When you spend over a year promoting a treatment protocol, forming a group to advocate for it, doing multiple interviews and testifying twice in front of the U.S. Senate, calling ivermectin“a miracle drug against COVID-19” and saying that it“was slaying the Delta variant,” you have invested a lot of your identity in defending this drug. You identify with an idea—that ivermectin absolutely works against COVID-19—and not with a process—the scientific quest to evaluate if ivermectin works against COVID-19. Publicly backtracking on this notion when the results of the process refute your idea requires a very large dose of humility. As Korytweeted, he has “blown up” his career “because history demanded it.” The cost he has sunk into this is tremendous.
It’s easier to bend reality around this core idea in order to explain why so few doctors and scientists are witnessing this miracle. People who get it right during the pandemic “don’t have masters to answer to,” Kory said. There’s no money to be made prescribing ivermectin for COVID-19 (not true,asThe Interceptshowed). There is this “obsession” with large randomized controlled trials, which are “not appropriate for a pandemic” (they absolutely are). Scientists who say the evidence for ivermectin is unclear may be doing so “for another WHO paycheck in the future.” Public health agencies, social media companies, and traditional media outlets try to censor the discussion or promote “disinformation,” saying that ivermectin doesn’t work.
And whenKory himself got COVID-19 despite taking ivermectin weekly and insisting to the Homeland Security Committee that“if you take it, you will not get sick,” well, maybe the dose should be doubled. Especially because of the more transmissible variants, like Delta. Which ivermectin apparently “slays.”
Doing the sniff test with blinders on
Some skepticism of large organizations and corporations is justified. Large public health bodies can be slow in evolving their recommendations. Companies, by design, favour profits. That does not mean that these entities can never be trusted. And it certainly shouldn’t justify the belief that ivermectin works for COVID-19.
We see a similar way of thinking among the dogmatists of alternative healing practices. Science has been corrupted by financial incentives, they will say. The pharmaceutical industrial complex is poisoning us, which is why we can cherry-pick weak studies of our favourite, all-natural remedy—which has been around for far longer than Big Pharma’s latest wonder drug—to prove that it is both safe and effective. This is just bad logic.
Dr. Pierre Kory repeatedly refers to ivermectin as a wonder drug—a “gift to humanity,” he quotes his FLCCC colleague as saying—that guarantees you won’t get sick. But is this even plausible? When we know that a small minority of molecules make it from basic research to the clinic for a specific application, and when we know that our history of developing successful antivirals is actually very disappointing (the notable exception being HIV drugs), it’s hard to believe that a repurposed antiparasitic drug would turn out to be almost perfectly effective at both treating COVID-19 and protecting you from getting it in the first place. And one of the studies Kory mentioned on Joe Rogan’s podcast—saying ivermectin led to “100% protection” in the participants—was published in a journal that only has one issue. The manuscript was received anda mere seven days later, it had apparently been peer reviewed and was published. As for this miraculous efficacy, Nick Brown, one of the data detectives,toldInsider that “this would be an absolutely unheard-of level of efficacy.” This whole study doesn’t even pass the sniff test. But if you have blinders on, you simply can’t see these clues.
Ivermectin may offer a slight benefit or a slight harm to people with COVID-19, we still do not know for sure, but it is clearly not the saviour the FLCCC and other proponents of the drug want us to believe. Their obsession with ivermectin is not data-driven.
So the train keeps on moving. At the front are the people like Dr. Pierre Kory and the FLCCC, and their message trickles down to influencers, whose message makes its way to the back of the train, leading people to feel a false sense of protection against the disease, withsome experiencing toxic effects from livestock-grade dewormer.
The people conducting the ivermectin train have sabotaged the brakes. The train will keep on chugging along, even as it falls apart.
Take-home message:
-The idea that the antiparasitic drug ivermectin could be useful to treat or to prevent COVID-19 started with a laboratory study done in monkey cells, in which very high doses of the drug prevented the coronavirus from making copies of itself
-Many studies of ivermectin against COVID-19 in humans show signs of fraud or are at a high risk of having biased results
-Promoters of ivermectin may not change their mind in the face of these revelations because of personal anecdotes, the sunk cost fallacy, and a distrust of the pharmaceutical industry
The Arch Manning fall tour makes its fifth and final stop today as the nation’s No. 1 recruit in the Class of 2023 visits Clemson to watch the Tigers take on Florida State in an ACC Atlantic Division showdown. Manning, a quarterback for Isidore Neman High in New Orleans, has previously visited Georgia, Alabama, Texas and Ole Miss on game day during the 2021 season.
Clemson's offensive struggles are well-documented this season — the Tigers rank last in the ACC in both yards per game (321.3) and yards per play (5.0) — but head coach Dabo Swinney has a commitment from Cade Klubnik, the No. 1 quarterback in the Class of 2022. No program has signed the nation's top-ranked QB in consecutive years in the modern era of recruiting.
Last Saturday, Manning was at Ole Miss to witness his uncle Eli Manning have his No. 10 retired by the Rebels. Manning’s father Cooper and grandfather Archie also attended Ole Miss. His uncle Peyton starred at Tennessee in the 1990s.
As a member of the first family of quarterbacks, Manning has been on the radar for several years and now that he has emerged as the No. 1 player in his class, he figures to be the subject of the most highly scrutinized recruitment ever. As a member of the Class of 2023, he cannot sign a letter of intent until next December, at the earliest.
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New York Knicks (4-1, first in the Eastern Conference) vs. New Orleans Pelicans (1-5, 15th in the Western Conference)
New Orleans; Saturday, 7 p.m. EDT
LINE: Pelicans -5.5; over/under is 215
BOTTOM LINE: New Orleans is looking to stop its three-game home skid with a win against New York.
New Orleans went 31-41 overall with an 18-18 record at home during the 2020-21 season. The Pelicans averaged 26 assists per game on 42.5 made field goals last season.
New York went 41-30 overall with a 16-20 record on the road last season. The Knicks shot 45.6% from the field and 39.2% from 3-point range last season.
INJURIES: Pelicans: Zion Williamson: out (foot), Garrett Temple: out (left ankle).
Knicks: Nerlens Noel: day to day (knee).
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.
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After a year without craft and trade shows because of the Covid-19 pandemic both buyers and vendors flocked to the Whistle Stop Craft Show at the Moose Jaw Exhibition grounds. Vendors ranged from clothes, jewelry, woodcraft, to personal care products and baking
Millennia from now, Duke Leto Atreides, ruler of Caladan, takes over the sand planet Arrakis from the cruel reign of the Harkonnens. The mission is a ruse by Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV to strengthen his own cosmic dominion. But wait, ho!, the Duke’s son, callow mentee to swordmaster Duncan Idaho, heeds his own calling as a — no, sorry, I can’t do it any more.
The grandiose silliness of Dune cost me 155 minutes of LA sunshine. It might be the handsomest thing committed to screen since Lawrence of Arabia. I even detected one smirk in its po face: characters liken fear to a “little death”, which director Denis Villeneuve must know is French slang for orgasm.
The film is fun, even good. What it is not is profound. Showing a dust bowl of a planet is not an insight into climate change. Showing a case of imperialism is not a rumination on imperialism. Whispering a sentence does not make it wise. If the big idea is that power is a burden, it is a Harry Potter film. As for the old rule — show, don’t tell — let us say that Dune “transcends” it. Naturally, the adaptation of such a vast novel necessitates some shortcuts. At times, though, the exposition takes the form of a narrator with a British Airways pilot’s soothing timbre reading out all you need to know.
The problem is not the film. The problem is its investiture by critics and audiences with more meaning than it can bear. If it were unique in this regard, we could put it down to the giddiness of a world allowed back to the cinema. In fact, the intellectual aggrandisement of pop culture has been going since the millennium. Succession has joined The Wire, The Sopranos and a few dozen other series as alleged “art”.
Superhero fare is routinely parsed as though Verdi had made it. In my youth, to be seen at Forbidden Planet, the sci-fi store, was the short route to social death, perhaps worse. That was wrong, as is all bullying. But it should be possible to leave that world behind without arriving at one where smart men in their sixth decade hash out the DC-versus-Marvel “debate”.
I say none of this as a sophisticate. I watched no fewer than six football matches across four leagues last weekend. Musically, I am a Handel violin sonata man, on a brave night. I want to know that a painter can do hands. But precisely because I am so middlebrow, I can sense when fellow members of my tribe are putting on airs (or, rather, putting them on works of entertainment).
I can also venture a guess as to why this is happening. In the America of 1990, 24 per cent of men and 18 per cent of women had four years of college education. The numbers are now 37 and 38. The spread of higher education (a British trend, too) is an emancipating force. But no social change is without its perverse consequences. The academic Peter Turchin traces “woke” culture to the rage of a generation of underemployed humanities graduates, for instance.
There is now a large slice of society that has been drilled in a certain kind of conceptual waffle. It has the tools to over-analyse and ultimately overrate what would’ve been enjoyed as Jurassic Park-style fun in the 1990s. It has coincided with the tech-enabled expansion of the media, with its endless space to fill. The very finitude of newspapers and TV culture shows forced critics to be selective in what they took seriously or covered at all. Now, Netflix can count on essayistic treatment of what its latest jabbering emission “means”.
“The mystery of life isn’t a problem to solve,” says someone in Dune, “but a reality to experience.” That wouldn’t make it past the quality-control people at Hallmark Cards. When the original novel came out, it would’ve been taken for what it is: a fine line within its genre, a breather in a dense plot. We are now invited to turn it over in our heads like a Montaigne gem. The point of an ever-smarter society was to popularise the intellectual. It was harder to foresee the intellectualisation of the popular.
Our planet is changing. So is our journalism. This story is part of a CBC News initiative entitled Our Changing Planet to show and explain the effects of climate change and what is being done about it.
The blackened lava fields and billowing steam vents of an active volcano near Reykjavik, Iceland, are the backdrop for a new venture that could help change the global calculation on climate change.
The facility, known as Orca, captures CO2 right out of the air — essentially scrubbing the atmosphere of harmful greenhouse gases.
"Like, imagine when we started, 14 years ago, there was absolutely no support for what we were doing," said Christoph Gebald, 38, a German-born engineer who's now based in Zurich, Switzerland.
"I'm very excited about where we are."
A direct air capture facility, called Orca, sits on a volcanic plain outside the city of Reykjavik, Iceland. (Jean-François Bisson/CBC)
Gebald's company, Climeworks, which he co-founded, has emerged as one of the early leaders in a technology known as direct air capture.
The plant in Iceland is the largest of its kind in the world.
Scientists have known for decades how to take CO2 out of the air, but applying the technology on a large scale and in a way that makes economic sense has been elusive.
With the COP26 climate summit poised to begin Sunday in Glasgow, Scotland, and the world searching for solutions to de-carbonize faster, there's been a spike in interest in how new technologies can help get there.
Filters at the direct air capture facility trap the CO2 gas that is drawn in by fans. The filters are then heated with steam to shake the trapped gas loose. The gas is piped to the next step, where it is mixed with water and injected underground. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)
The Conference of Parties (COP), as it's known, meets every year and is the global decision-making body set up to implement the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, adopted in the early 1990s, and subsequent climate agreements.
Climeworks is now among more than a dozen companies around the globe — including some in Canada — blazing a new and, for some, controversial trail by attempting to capture dispersed greenhouse gases to counter the effects of climate change.
Detractors suggest carbon capturing technology is expensive and its impact on lowering atmospheric CO2 questionable.
In July, hundreds of Canadian and American environmentalists joined forces to call on governments to stop investing in carbon capture, arguing it takes the focus off reducing emissions, which should be the prime directive of climate mitigation efforts.
The Climeworks plant is located on the site of one of Iceland's largest geothermal plants about 50 kilometres outside the capital Reykjavik. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)
However, their fight appeared to be aimed largely at the oil, gas and coal industries and their investments to capture and sequester pollutants coming out of the stack.
Instead, direct air capture aims to collect greenhouse gases that have already been dispersed in the air.
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Indeed, proponents say since the gases circle the globe, such facilities can be built anywhere and used to clean the air of the entire planet.
Gebald said in a fight as all-consuming as climate change, the technology can play a crucial role.
"We need direct air capture as a solution for stuff we cannot reduce otherwise. It's emissions from agriculture, it's emissions from operations that physically have a hard time to avoid CO2, like aviation," Gebald told CBC News via Zoom as a CBC crew toured the Orca plant.
"Climate science is asking for this and Orca is delivering that product."
Kari Helgason, head of research and innovation with Carbix, holds porous basalt rock, right, and another sample that has been filled with petrified carbon dioxide gas. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)
The Climeworks facility is located about 50 kilometres outside Iceland's capital, next to the Hellisheiði Power Station, which is run by Reykjavik Energy.
It's a geothermal plant that taps into the heat of the Earth's core to provide a supply of clean, cheap electricity.
Pipes carrying superheated steam criss-cross the hillside and power the enormous electrical turbines at the power plant.
The Orca facility next door appears relatively modest in comparison.
It consists of a series of modules the size of a shipping container that are filled with dozens of fans, all attached to white, tube-shaped filter bags.
The fans draw in the air from outside and the CO2 molecules chemically attach to the filters. The filters are heated, shaking loose the captured gas, which is piped off for the next part of the process.
WATCH | Taking carbon dioxide out of the air and turning it to stone underground:
The world's largest carbon-sucking facility
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Two companies — Climeworks and Carbfix — have partnered in Iceland to scrub carbon dioxide directly out of the air, then pump it deep underground where it's turned into stone. 1:16
That phase is handled by Carbfix, a publicly owned Icelandic company that is part of the electrical utility.
Kari Helgason, Carbix's head of research and innovation, took our CBC crew into an igloo-like structure filled with yet more pipes.
There, he said, the CO2 gas is mixed with water and injected 800 metres below into the volcanic rocks, where it disperses. Over months, it interacts chemically with the basalt rock and petrifies, turning to stone.
Helgason said Iceland's capacity to seal away such harmful gases is vast.
"Iceland could store about 50 times the annual emissions of mankind," he said, noting Carbfix is exploring ways of shipping in CO2 from other countries and burying it the same way.
Iceland's geology is largely made up of porous basalt rock, an ideal place to store CO2, which chemically reacts with the rock and petrifies. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)
Helgason said the extremely porous volcanic rock that dominates Iceland's geology is ideal for storing C02 because there's no risk of the gas escaping. Nor is there a chance the process can have unwanted side-effects, such as earthquakes, which can sometimes occur during fracking.
"Nature cleans up after itself," said Helgason. "It takes CO2 from the atmosphere and stores it in rock. We are just speeding up the process using science and innovation."
Carbfix pioneered the process by entombing unwanted emissions from the geothermal plant but now deals with the CO2 from Climeworks and possibly other companies in the future.
'A bit overwhelming'
"It's a bit overwhelming, I must admit. Sort of like the Wild West, with everybody scrambling to decarbonize now, whereas we should have started 10, 20 years ago."
The Climeworks operation has the capacity to remove about 10 tonnes of CO2 per day, or about 4,000 tonnes a year.
To put that in perspective, that amounts to only a few seconds of the world's annual emissions. But Gebald, the co-founder, said that is just the beginning and larger plants will follow, with the hope of scaling up to 30 million tonnes annually within 15 to 20 years.
The final part of the capture and sequestration process happens in these igloo-like structures. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)
In fact, a Canadian company, Carbon Engineering, based in Squamish, B.C., is designing a facility in West Texas that would have roughly 250 times the capacity of the Iceland facility — or more than one million tonnes a year.
It plans to use the empty reservoirs deep beneath old fields to seal up the unwanted gases.
"We'll start construction next year and the plant will go operational, we think, in late 2024," CEO Steve Oldham told CBC News in an interview.
Oldham's firm has had a small demonstration unit at the company's site on Howe Sound since 2015. It's also building a new, larger demonstration plant in Squamish that will be opening in the coming months.
Turning CO2 into synthetic fuel
Carbon Engineering's other ventures include a $1.3-billion partnership with the Upper Nicola First Nation that will turn carbon captured from the air into synthetic fuel.
The Texas direct air capture facility is being bankrolled by Occidental Petroleum, one of the largest exploration and production firms in the world, with Carbon Engineering providing the design and technological expertise.
"Why are we building a plant in the United States? Because they actually have the policies in place today that close the business case," said Oldham, noting a combination of carbon taxes and tax credits has helped make a persuasive argument that there's a value for companies to remove carbon from the air.
"Our prices for permanent removal [of carbon] from our first plant start at $300 US a tonne. We are very confident those prices will come down."
Engineer Kari Helgason stares through a porthole in a piping unit that's used to inject CO2 gas that's been mixed with water underground. (Stephanie Jenzer/CBC)
Oldham, who formed his company back in 2009, said it's extremely rewarding to see years of work finally being validated.
"Direct air capture is hard. You know, CO2 in the atmosphere is 400 parts per million — that's the equivalent of a single drop of ink in a swimming pool. So pulling it out cost-effectively is tough. And that's why ourselves and Climeworks have been up this business for many, many years."
The arrival of Climeworks in Iceland created a lot of discussion at the recent Arctic Circle forum in Reykjavik.
Well-received in Iceland
The gathering brought together thousands of delegates from northern countries, with the fight against climate change topping the agenda.
WATCH | A glacier lagoon grows as an ice cap melts:
Iceland is losing its ice
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The Fjallsarlon glacier lagoon grows every year as the Vatnajokull ice cap above it melts, doubling in size in the past 20 years. 0:59
Although environmentalists elsewhere have voiced concerns about big oil companies backing direct air capture ventures, the Climeworks operation and the role of Carbfix in burying the carbon have been well-received in the country.
"We really are at this point that we just need to fight in every battleground and we need everyone to come together," said Tinna Hallgrimsdottir, a prominent young environmentalist who has tracked Climeworks's progress.
Tinna Hallgrimsdottir, a prominent Icelandic environmentalist who has tracked the progress of Climeworks, says 'we need everyone to come together' in the fight against climate change. (Jean-François Bisson/CBC)
"We can't just skip one thing. We just need to do everything at the same time. But the emphasis should always be on emissions reduction, but this will come as something to help us just to bridge the gap that we need."
In a conference call with foreign media on the eve of the Glasgow summit, the British politician in charge of COP26 refused to be drawn into a discussion about how important direct air capture will be in the global effort to reduce greenhouse gases.
A worker does maintenance on the fans at Climeworks. (Jean-François Bisson/CBC)
Still, Alok Sharma told reporters he believes it will play a role of some kind.
"I think we will see and you've seen embryonic technology starting to emerge and that will absolutely be part of the solution in terms of tackling climate change.
Antonio Pugliese scored three goals, including the game-winner 48 seconds into overtime, and the visiting Fort Erie Meteors defeated the Niagara Falls Canucks 4-3 Friday night at Gale Centre.
Marcus Regina, on the power play; also scored in regulation as the Meteors snapped a four-game losing streak and improved their record in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League’s Golden Horseshoe Conference to 4-4-1.
Tanner McEachern, power play; Matthew Riva and Blake Power, who forced overtime with 1:48 remaining in regulation, provided the offence for the Canucks, 8-3-2.
Fort Erie outshot Niagara Falls 49-36 and went 1-for-5 on the power play. The Canucks finished 1-for-4 with a man advantage.
Duncan Nichols-Delay earned the win in net for the Meteors. Mihailo Corovic went the distance between the pipes for Niagara Falls.
Saturday night’s junior-B schedule has the Canucks at the Caledonia Corvairs, 5-4-0-1. Fort Erie visits the Pelham Panthers, 2-6-2, in a Sunday matinee and is at the Thorold Blackhawks the following night.
Falcons 6, Panthers 0
At St. Catharines, Josh Johnson earned his second shutout in three starts – and the team’s sixth in 12 games – and the Falcons blanked Pelham to move back into first place.
Jagger North, Sam Williamson, with two each; Joe Colasurdo and Aiden Cupelli netted goals as St. Catharines, 9-2-0-1, won its fourth in a row.
The Falcons moved one point ahead of Niagara Falls and the idle Hamilton Kilty B’s, 9-1, in the Golden Horseshoe Conference standings.
Hamilton has three games in hand on St. Catharines, and the Falcons have a game in hand on the Canucks.
Pelham was outshot 31-24 as it lost its fourth in a row.
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St. Catharines finished Friday night’s game at Jack Gatecliff Arena 2-for-4 on the power play. The Panthers were held scoreless in two power-play opportunities.
The Falcons won’t return to the ice until Friday, Nov. 5, when they host Pelham.
Other Saturday night action in the Golden Horseshoe has Thorold, 3-6-1, visiting the Kilty B’s at Dave Andreychuk Arena in Hamilton.
Eighteen states filed three separate lawsuits Friday to stop President Joe Biden’sCOVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, arguing that the requirement violates federal law.
Attorneys general from Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming signed on to one lawsuit, which was filed in a federal district court in Missouri. Another group of states including Georgia, Alabama, Idaho, Kansas, South Carolina, Utah and West Virginia filed a lawsuit in federal district court in Georgia.
The states asked a federal judge to block Biden’s requirement that all employees of federal contractors be vaccinated against the coronavirus by Dec. 8, arguing that the mandate violates federal procurement law and is an overreach of federal power.
“If the federal government attempts to unconstitutionally exert its will and force federal contractors to mandate vaccinations, the workforce and businesses could be decimated, further exacerbating the supply chain and workforce crises,” Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, a Republican, said in a statement. “The federal government should not be mandating vaccinations, and that’s why we filed suit today — to halt this illegal, unconstitutional action.”
New Hampshire’s Republican Attorney General John Formella said in a statement that COVID vaccines are safe, effective and encouraged but that the benefits “do not justify violating the law.”
Florida sued on Thursday, bringing to 19 the number of states challenging the Biden administration mandate in four federal courts.
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Biden has argued that sweeping vaccine mandates will help end the deadly pandemic, but Republicans nationwide have opposed the vaccination requirements and have threatened to bring similar legal challenges.
Texas filed a similar lawsuit Friday in a federal district court in a federal court in Galveston, Texas, seeking to block enforcement of the mandate.
“The Biden Administration has repeatedly expressed its disdain for Americans who choose not to get a vaccine, and it has committed repeated and abusive federal overreach to force upon Americans something they do not want,” said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican, in a statement.
“The federal government does not have the ability to strip individuals of their choice to get a vaccine or not. If the President thinks his patience is wearing thin, he is clearly underestimating the lack of patience from Texans whose rights he is infringing.”
A number of states have also said they will challenge Biden’s plan to have the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration issue a rule that would mandate vaccines for all private businesses with 100 or more employees.
“We will not allow the Biden administration to circumvent the law or force hardworking Georgians to choose between their livelihood or this vaccine,” Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia said in a statement.
The Democratic Party of Georgia called the lawsuit a “dangerous political stunt.”
Florida filed a separate lawsuit against the federal mandate on Thursday. All the suits argue that the president doesn’t have the authority to issue the rule and that it violates procurement law. The suits also argue that the rule violates the 10th Amendment reserving power to the states, illegally uses federal spending to coerce the states, and that 60 days of public comment wasn’t properly allowed.
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The Georgia-led suit, for example, argues that such a rule could only stand if Congress passed it in a law.
“Biden has again demonstrated open disdain for the rule of law in seizing power Congress never gave him,” Republican Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall said.
The states argue that large number of federal contract workers will quit, meaning states will have to choose between breaching the contracts because of a reduced labor force that can’t do all the work, or breaching the contracts by retaining unvaccinated employees in violation of federal rules.
All but two of the states that have sued trail the national average in vaccination rate. Only New Hampshire and Florida exceed the nationwide rate.
The Financial and Consumer Affairs Authority of Saskatchewan (FCAA) has issued a Temporary Cease Trade Order (TCTO) against nine Saskatoon-based corporations and two Saskatoon residents, Alisa Thompson and Rochelle Laflamme.
The nine companies include:
Epic Alliance Inc.
Epic Alliance Real Estate Inc.
12099179 Canada Inc.
12195160 Canada Inc.
12195194 Canada Inc.
12262231 Canada Inc.
12693151 Canada Inc.
12767490 Canada Inc.
12884607 Canada Inc.
All trading in securities and derivatives by these parties must cease until November 5, 2021, and the order may be extended. The order also removes the companies' and individuals' ability to use any exemptions related to the trade of securities and derivatives in Saskatchewan.
In Saskatchewan, companies and individuals need to be registered with the FCAA to trade, sell, or give advice on securities and derivatives. These companies and individuals are not registered with the FCAA.
"Before you engage in an investment opportunity or follow guidance from someone offering investment advice, check to see if the company or individual is registered by visiting www.aretheyregistered.ca," said Harvey White, FCAA Director of Enforcement.
Anyone contacted by these companies or individuals should contact the FCAA's Securities Division at 306-787-5936.
Sackville Memorial Hospital will soon not be offering emergency care after 4 p.m. on any day of the week, Horizon Health announced Friday.
Starting Nov. 19, the hospital ER will only be open from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Anyone who needs medical care after 4 p.m. will have to seek treatment at another hospital, a release from Horizon says.
The time changes come on top of the current reduced weekend hours that have been in place since June.
The hospital's emergency room was already closed evenings from Friday through Monday, but the release says a shortage of doctors and nurses is forcing it to extend the evening closure to throughout the week.
Three times in the news release, Horizon describes the reduced ER hours as temporary, but there is no date for when this arrangement will end.
"We apologize for any inconvenience this temporary change in hours of service may cause," Horizon says. "This temporary change in service was necessary for Horizon to continue offering safe and quality care to our patients and clients."
Hiring more nurses and health-care workers
Horizon said one registered nurse has been recruited for the Sackville hospital since September, and another four positions, as well as a licensed practical nurse job, still need to be filled.
Normally, nine doctors cover the emergency department, but there are now only six regularly providing this service, Christa Wheeler-Thorne of Horizon Health said in a statement.
"We're actively working on a recruitment campaign and have been working closely with community partners to help attract health care professionals to the Sackville area," she said.
Wheeler-Thorne said the reduction in hours will help resolve some confusion in the public and Ambulance New Brunswick, who are affected by last-minute and sporadic decisions.
Vitalité asks public to reduce overnight ER visits to some hospitals
Vitalité Health Network is asking the public to limit overnight visits to Stella-Maris-de-Kent Hospital and Hôtel-Dieu Saint-Joseph de Saint-Quentin, except in cases of actual emergencies. This temporary measure is also the result of a staff shortage, a news release.
The request from the Saint-Quentin hospital is in effect overnight Friday and Saturday starting at 8 p.m.
Similarly, Stella-Maris-de-Kent Hospital's request is in effect until Nov. 3 between 12 a.m and 8 a.m.
Although the emergency room will remain available for people who need urgent care, the network is asking people whose health conditions are not critical to see their family doctors or a community pharmacist or to call Tele-Care 811.
People who still come to the emergency department for non-urgent reasons may be referred to another hospital or asked to return the next day if their condition permits.
People are encouraged to call Tele-Care 811 if they have any questions about the type of medical attention they need. As always, people who have a medical emergency should call 911.
Cyberbullying is on the rise. More parentsacross the world are reporting their children being cyberbullied.
At first glance, you may assume this behaviour is an unfortunate consequence of a generation raised online. But it’s not other children setting the standard for modern cyberbullying. Instead, it’s set by adult influencers who profit off “cringe culture.”
TikTok and YouTube have thousands of videos of adults going viral for laughing at content posted by children. The insults hurled at kids online would be identified as severe bullying if said on school grounds.
When we support this behaviour, we’re sending the message to children that it’s okay to be mean to their peers—as long as their insults are funny.
When I first learned what cyberbullying was, it had a very specific definition. It was the mid 2000s, and social media was just emerging. Cyberbullying only meant mean text messages or emails sent relentlessly to a victim.
Times have changed. Social media apps and websites like TikTok and Instagram have made everybody an online content creator. Cyberbullying is no longer being carried out by classmates, but by strangers online.
Mocking and sarcastic comments can be disastrous to a person’s mental health and emotional wellbeing. Unlike traditional bullying, cyberbullying is omnipresent, and can feel never-ending to the victim.
This doesn’t mean we have to be nice all the time. In some cases, content creators “cringing” at videos can be harmless.
In cases of “punching up”—when someone makes fun of a more powerful person or group—nobody really gets hurt. Creating comedy out of mocking celebrities, politicians, and corporations is a natural extension of critiquing public figures.
Online cringe culture is problematic because it’s rarely aimed at those with power. Instead, it usually mocks children and teenagers who’ve never been in the public eye before. Their only error was posting a “cringey” or awkward video. It’s common for these “cringey” videos to be recorded without their consent and posted by friends, family members, or even strangers.
By interacting with and boosting videos of content creators mocking children, we’re sending the message to children that this kind of behaviour is acceptable. This same bullying behaviour can manifest in classrooms and schools as kids try to mimic their favourite online creators.
I’m not exempt from this behaviour. I have often laughed at a video or image of a young person on social media that was never intended to be funny. It’s easy to forget how a like or comment can impact someone, especially if you were not the one to make the joke in the first place.
Before sharing a cringey video with our friends or liking an insulting comment, think first about who your action may be hurting. Will you be laughing at a child? Did they post the video themselves, or was it filmed without their consent?
If the video was never intended to be funny in the first place, it might be better to just keep scrolling.
Kirby is a fourth-year Global Development Studies student and one of The Journal’s Features Editors.
Despite entering the post-season with the worst record of any MLB playoff team, the Atlanta Braves have the opportunity to win their first World Series title in a quarter century. Their Cinderella story should be the only story – especially while facing a Houston Astros team still despised after an organization-wide cheating scandal.
Yet, that’s not the only story and it’s not easy to get behind the Braves precisely because they are called the Braves. Making matters worse, they’ve allowed and even encouraged fans to chant and chop during the 2021 season, perpetuating racist stereotypes in the process.
At home games, the team has been using digital tomahawk chop visuals accompanied with a drum beat during big moments. First used in the early 1990s, the chop has drawn increased scrutiny as sensibilities have changed and awareness has increased over time.
The organizational indifference flies in the face of the trend of organizations like the Washington Football Team, Edmonton Elks and Cleveland Guardians changing their team names. As the World Series moves to Atlanta for Game 3, the platform of the playoffs amplifies a conversation that’s been building in Atlanta for some time.
During Atlanta’s 2019 National League Division Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, Ryan Helsley, a Cardinals relief pitcher, and a member of the Cherokee Nation, referred to the chop and chant as “disrespectful.”
“I think it’s a misrepresentation of the Cherokee people or Native Americans in general. Just depicts them in this kind of caveman-type people way who aren’t intellectual,” he told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch at the time. “It’s not me being offended by the whole mascot thing. It’s not. It’s about the misconception of us, the Native Americans, and it devalues us and how we’re perceived in that way or used as mascots.”
On the eve of the World Series, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred weighed in.
"It's important to understand that we have 30 markets around the country. They're not all the same," he said. "The Braves have done a phenomenal job with the Native American community. The Native American community in that region is wholly supportive of the Braves program, including the chop. And for me that's kind of the end of the story. In that market, taking into account the Native American community, it works."
"That's just so stereotypical, like old-school Hollywood," Eastern Band Principal Chief Richard Sneed told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution in 2019. "Let's move on. Find something else."
In Atlanta, they’ve made some changes around the margins. The team replaced “Chop On” as a marketing slogan with “For the A” and removed a large wooden “Chop On” sign from the stadium last year. There is a Cherokee exhibit at Truist Park and the team sells a T-shirt that reads “ballplayer” in Cherokee with the proceeds going towards the Cherokee Indians Speakers Council and the New Kituwah Academy.
Last year an in-depth report by the AJC found that within the Native American community, there are varied opinions on the team name and associated imagery. Some groups called for the team to change its name and end the use of the chop. Others had an issue with the chop but not the name. Some weren’t offended at all.
When Games 3, 4 and 5 of the best-of-seven World Series come around this weekend, the conversation around the proceedings at Truist Park will be about much more than baseball. And that’s not just because Donald Trump will be in attendance as a VIP guest.
So, we asked those from the very diverse Indigenous communities to weigh in on what’s no longer acceptable and what the best way forward might be.
Stacey LaForme is the Gimaa (Chief) of the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation and has been dealing with the same issue with the Mississauga Blackhawks of the Greater Toronto Hockey League.
Jennifer Adese (Métis) is a Canada Research Chair and associate professor at University of Toronto, Mississauga.
Angela Mashford-Pringle is an assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto and the Associate Director for the Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health.
Sportsnet - Do you feel the Atlanta Braves name, logo, and tomahawk chop are problematic?
Chief LaForme - I do. Harmful stereotypes such as the tomahawk chop have no place in sports; sports are supposed to be something that brings us together, that we are to enjoy. These conversations about names, logos, and fan traditions are far overdue but I am glad they are finally happening, and we are starting to see some change.
Jennifer Adese - Absolutely. Not only are they problematic, but they are also racist and perpetuate racial stereotypes of Indigenous peoples. I'm surprised in 2021 we still need to have this conversation. If other franchises have figured it out, they need to, too.
Angela Mashford-Pringle - There are many problematic sports teams’ names. The history of the Atlanta area for Cherokee peoples starts with the murders and the pushing of communities far from the area. The Georgia Senator in the 1800s was determined to rid the territory of Indigenous peoples by any means necessary. This is part of what lead to the Trail of Tears in 1838 where thousands of Cherokee peoples were forced on foot without a chance to bring any belongings to march across the country to Oklahoma in the winter. Thousands of people died from the trip west. Atlanta was colonized to the area we know today.
SN - Does it matter that not all members of Indigenous communities find the name to be offensive?
CL - If you have an image associated with Indigenous people, you should be talking to those Indigenous people and finding out about the culture, heritage, respecting it, honouring it, and actually getting permission. If not all Indigenous people find this to be offensive, that is their opinion, and they have a right to it. But for those who do, it is important to take their feelings and concerns into consideration and discuss with them on how to move forward.
JA - Nope. No single person can speak for all Indigenous peoples. Even if Indigenous peoples weren't saying that it's offensive and racist, common sense should tell us that racist representations of Indigenous peoples is wrong and cause harm. And that's certainly not the case. Many, many, many Indigenous peoples have been working to see sports franchises be more accountable for mocking Indigenous peoples through racist representation.
SN - Would it make a difference if the team had more Indigenous representation on the field and in their organization?
CL - I think more Indigenous voices are needed across all major sports leagues. Our local teams do a lot of talk of reconciliation and are starting with steps in the right direction such as land acknowledgements, but it doesn’t stop there. We need these voices to teach these organizations the steps they can take to move forward to help with reconciliation.
JA - Well, that depends. Are the name, the logo, and the 'chop' going to be excised? If not, it's a band-aid solution that potentially puts Indigenous players and staff in a hostile situation via having to confront deeply entrenched racist ideologies - and at minimum the idea that certain forms of racism are 'acceptable.'
SN - If you were advising the team on a course of action moving forward, what would you say?
CL - Racism in sports doesn’t just go away when you take a symbol down or stop doing an offensive chant or movement. You need education, relationship building, and understanding with the local communities. Reconciliation takes time and effort, continue to involve local Indigenous communities moving forward, and have Indigenous voices at decision making tables.
JA - I would remind them that other franchises have changed their names, their logos, and their culture. The Seattle Supersonics became the Oklahoma City Thunder with a franchise move and the world didn't end. The Washington Football Team is in the process of making these changes, and the Edmonton Elks haven't suffered for the name change. Names and logos change. Fan dedication is to the sport, to the players, to the camaraderie built among sports fans.
This is why we have franchises in so many different cities - the name and logo, especially for non-Indigenous peoples, is incidental to the experience of being a sports fan. It's not the name or the logo or even the racist arm-swinging. It's the experience of being with family and friends and among their communities - united in a way and for a common cause that we rarely see among human societies at such a level.
I think it points to the fact that people want experiences, memories, and connection with each other. With community engagement and digging deep to think about what truly represents Atlanta and Atlanteans in the present, this could lead to a profound change that also demonstrates respect for Indigenous peoples.
Had it never been racist and contributed to such racist stereotyping, fans wouldn't have known the difference. But it exists and there is a moral and ethical imperative for the franchise to change and to be accountable to all.
AMP - While Canada still has a way to go to learn the history of Indigenous peoples, there seems to be a larger lack of knowledge about Indigenous peoples in the United States. The Atlanta organization should even take cultural safety training which entails self-reflection, understanding their power, privilege and position, and active listening – then they can understand the horrific history of the Cherokee in Atlanta and how using “Braves,” or the tomahawk chop are offensive and demeaning – especially when used in a sporting event.
SN - What should allies do in relation to the Braves or other teams who are still using Native American imagery for their logos?
CL - Continue to use your voice, now more than ever it is so important. We have seen with the Washington Football Team, the Cleveland Baseball team, the Edmonton Elks, that the change of harmful stereotypes in sports is possible.
JA - We've seen that the pressure applied through the mobilization of people on social media makes a difference. Corporations inevitably respond to such pressures because their bottom line is to protect profits and mass discontent easily circulated via media threatens that. Yet, surprisingly, it hasn't worked to date. Boycotts help, but there have to be more fulsome visions of what that looks like i.e., businesses need to, for one, commit to halting the sale of what many have argued is, actually, "hate" propaganda.
AMP - For allies, keep advocating! Tell sponsors like FedEx or Nike that it’s inappropriate – part of everyone’s power is their purchasing power! Talk with your money! Don’t buy team merchandise, don’t buy the sponsors’ goods or services. Speak up and tell the owners of the teams that this is inappropriate, and you want change. It will always make some angry, but it is where we are in 2021!
SN - How important is education through sport?
CL - It’s very important. Organizations and athletes are given a large platform and it is important to use that platform to stand for something larger than the game itself. Sports is not just about winning and losing, with sports you have the ability to make a difference. They have the opportunity to influence the next generation, and with that comes responsibility. By continuing to put Indigenous people in the place of mascots and logos you are further taking our current success, struggles, and lives out of context and keeping us in the past.
JA - Very. Inasmuch as sports are rooted in individualism and competition they are also often about teamwork and community-building with other athletes. But being a good sport means making sure we're all playing on a level field. Racist representations undermine these foundational core ideals of sports and athleticism.
AMP - Watching the Montreal Canadiens put a land acknowledgement up recently, shows respect and an understanding that we are all treaty peoples who need to be environmental stewards of Turtle Island. If sports teams and sports media spend a little time adding some information into their reporting, I think it can only help. However, it has to be measured and must pertain to the situation, otherwise people will tune out, or worse, become defensive or evasive about the information being shared.
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