Here’s a challenge – count how many references to the word crisis you come across in the news media this week.
There’s the housing crisis, the affordability crisis, the opioid crisis and the health-care crisis, for starters.
Seems like we’re in the throes of a crises crisis in this city, province and country.
This past week TransLink CEO Kevin Quinn put on his best face on the region’s transit crisis, despite Surrey having four out of five of TransLink’s overcrowded bus routes and TransLink projecting a $4.7-billion deficit beginning in 2026 until 2033.
And the City of Surrey is worried that new provincial government housing and transit-related legislation related to the “housing crisis” is apt to trigger a real estate/land assembly “frenzy” in stable single-family neighbourhoods located within 400 to 800 metres of rapid transit.
It’s enough to make a big-city mayor bury her face in her hands.
But worry not – in the face of Canada’s current maelstrom of all kinds of social, financial security, public safety and other problems, we can all rest easy in the knowledge that our federal government has rolled up its sleeves to figure out how to make cows burp and fart less.
Seriously, hot off the presses this week, is the Draft Federal Offset Protocol: Reducing Enteric Methane Emissions from Beef Cattle.
This will rescue the planet from the “climate/greenhouse gas crisis,” apparently.
Seminal work, aka Draft Federal Offset Protocol: Reducing Enteric Methane Emissions from Beef Cattle.
Never mind the cattle. It’s difficult for the Canadian public to soar with the eagles when they’re running with government turkeys.
– Now-Leader
