Canada: Looking south

...it is safe to say that we can say goodbye to whatever faint hope there was that the Conservative Party would announce, or be pushed by the opposition into announcing, a real plan for reducing industrial greenhouse gas emissions. It’ll be a surprise if the Conservatives do anything to implement or enforce the vacuous emissions-intensity based plan announced during the last session of Parliament, let alone assemble a plan with any teeth.

Unless, that is, there is pressure from the next US administration. Times sure have changed.

Pakistan: Earthquake survivors in need of proper shelter

WAM/ZIARAT, Nov 2: People rendered homeless by last week’s earthquake are in desperate need for proper shelter to survive harsh the winter, rains and snowfall.

Thousands of people in Wam and Ziarat complained that tents provided to them did not protect them from the freezing cold weather, and their children had fallen prey to various diseases, including pneumonia and chest infections.

They said that the weather would worsen in a few days.