Accidental Deliberations: Wednesday Afternoon Links

Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Crawford Kilian reviews two new books on the effects of an overheating planet. Damian Carrington reports on the science tracing unprecedented heat waves to climate change. And Jag Bhalla warns about the dangers of undue optimism about the state of our living environment – with the people with

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The Maple Monarchists - Blog: Prince William, Noblesse Oblige, and Ending Homelessness

Earlier this week Prince William announced his plan to end homelessness in the United Kingdom. The initiative is called ‘Homewards’ and takes inspiration from a similar program in Finland, which has nearly halved itshomeless numbers since 2010.Under the Homewards program the homeless will be given aplace to stay before other issues such as drug use, joblessness,or

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The Maple Monarchists - Blog: Prince’s Trust Canada Helping Preserve And Revitalize Indigenous Languages

The Prince’s Trust Canada (which isthe successor to The Prince’s CharitiesCanada with the name change occurringin August) has undertaken severalinitiatives to provide books and teachingtools in a range of Native languages.Announced in June the goal of thatinitiative was to have five different booksfor elementary school age children, distributed inthe Woodland Cree, Plains Cree,

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cmkl: Looking for your support

We’re right into the cycling season now and it’s time for me to seek your help raising money for the Toronto Sick Kids Foundation and for Parkinson’s research at the University of Ottawa. I reckon I’m heading out into the rain for a training ride today so some moral support

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cmkl: Giving back at 50

For 50 years I’ve lived a pretty comfortable, privileged life. Time to give something back. I’m giving up my birthday up to fundraise for the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Read more The post Giving back at 50 appeared first on cmkl.

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