Mass protests were held in New Zealand this week over an effort to weaken the rights of the Maori, who often serve as environmental stewards.

“Indigenous rights have been one of the strongest roadblocks to corporate exploitation.”

“That redefinition could diminish Māori participation and environmental governance, as the treaty currently ensures that Māori involvement in managing national natural resources,” said Mike Smith, a Māori climate activist who has two climate lawsuits pending before the country’s high court. “So by limiting these rights, the bill may weaken the environmental stewardship practices that are rooted in Māori morals and values and thereby impact the country’s ability to address all the environmental challenges, and more particularly combat climate change effectively.”

Mass protests were held in New Zealand this week over an effort to weaken the rights of the Maori, who often serve as environmental stewards.

“Indigenous rights have been one of the strongest roadblocks to corporate exploitation.”

“That redefinition could diminish Māori participation and environmental governance, as the treaty currently ensures that Māori involvement in managing national natural resources,” said Mike Smith, a Māori climate activist who has two climate lawsuits pending before the country’s high court. “So by limiting these rights, the bill may weaken the environmental stewardship practices that are rooted in Māori morals and values and thereby impact the country’s ability to address all the environmental challenges, and more particularly combat climate change effectively.”

Real-Debrid, a popular streaming and download service, says it's implementing far-reaching anti-piracy measures, including hash and keyword filters, in response to a notice from the French Federation of Film Distributors. The API and instantAvailability feature are set for deactivation too, while content from "notorious" pirate sites will be blocked.

Letzte Hürde genommen: Der Bundesrat hat die umstrittene Krankenhausreform gebilligt. Der Bundestag hatte dem Vorhaben von Minister Lauterbach bereits zugestimmt. Nun soll die Reform schrittweise umgesetzt werden.

This came in a form of an email and isn’t on their website yet.

Canada Post committed to reaching negotiated agreements as CUPW strike continues

With the support of the special mediator, discussions have continued with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) this week, with the intent to reach negotiated agreements.

Canada Post is now in day seven of CUPW’s national strike which has shut down our operations across the country during the critical holiday period. Our plan has always been to continue operating and maintain this vital service, even in the event of rotating strikes by the union.

We have seen a significant impact in our volumes across the network. The strike activity has also created serious challenges for businesses of all sizes including yours, at the busiest time of year. 

What to expect

Mail and parcels have not been processed or delivered since the start of the national strike and some post offices have been closed. All mail and parcels in the postal network are secure and will be delivered as quickly as possible once operations resume. Service guarantees will be impacted for items already in the postal network. And no new items will be accepted until the national disruption is over, except for parcel returns – which continue to be accepted at post offices that remain open.

A national strike of any length will impact service to Canadians well after the strike activity ends. Processing and delivery will take some time to fully return to normal and your business should expect delays.

What we’ve offered

Canada Post is at a critical juncture. Even with losses mounting since 2018, we have continued to put forward offers that protect and enhance what’s important to our current employees. We’ve offered competitive wage increases and additional paid leave, while protecting the defined benefit pension and job security provisions. To help secure the future of the company and meet your business needs, Canada Post has put forward proposals to offer seven-day-a-week parcel delivery and other important improvements while allowing more competitive pricing. This new delivery model is essential for the future of the company, and critical to our ability to afford the offers.

Our commitment

We thank you for your patience at a time when we know you need certainty, and we value the trust you place in us to deliver for your business. We know you are looking for details to make informed decisions and will ensure you have the details you need to plan and prepare for when our operations resume.

Abstract

As observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow On (GRACE-FO) missions, global terrestrial water storage (TWS), excluding ice sheets and glaciers, declined rapidly between May 2014 and March 2016. By 2023, it had not yet recovered, with the upper end of its range remaining 1 cm equivalent height of water below the upper end of the earlier range. Beginning with a record-setting drought in northeastern South America, a series of droughts on five continents helped to prevent global TWS from rebounding. While back-to-back El Niño events are largely responsible for the South American drought and others in the 2014–2016 timeframe, the possibility exists that global warming has contributed to a net drying of the land since then, through enhanced evapotranspiration and increasing frequency and intensity of drought. Corollary to the decline in global TWS since 2015 has been a rise in barystatic sea level (i.e., global mean ocean mass). However, we find no evidence that it is anything other than a coincidence that, also in 2015, two estimates of barystatic sea level change, one from GRACE/FO and the other from a combination of satellite altimetry and Argo float ocean temperature measurements, began to diverge. Herein, we discuss both the mechanisms that account for the abrupt decline in terrestrial water storage and the possible explanations for the divergence of the barystatic sea level change estimates.

Democrats and Republicans can't seem to agree over what belongs in the nation's leading agricultural policy.

I have a 2012 Intel Macbook Pro (the version without a dGPU), right now it only has Pop_OS on it, the SSD on the device is only 128GB so I removed the preinstalled macOS, I want to know if I can replace Pop with Windows 10 since the gaming performance is tanked on the old iGPU, looking online I only find articles about dualboot with macOS which I don't want because of the low space, the only worrying thing is Windows doing some voodoo shit ruining essential partitions of the device while installing and maybe incompatibility with Windows boot manager

It's been a quarter of a century since Bedford Blues welcomed Bath to Goldington Road, but Mike Rayer's men are now able to test themselves against the best on Saturday...

Aren't you all surprised by them blocking public rights of way and trying to intimidate anyone who says they should live by the same rules as the rest of us?

Not asking for any specific purpose, just that it'd suck if all that was lost because threw a tantrum.

This is my first time visiting it and I'm eager for your input. What's your favourite way of getting calico eggs? What do you spend them on? Or do you just spend the whole day in the Skull Caverns? Please share all your tips.

Eklat im Bundesrat: Der Brandenburger Ministerpräsident Woidke hat seine Gesundheitsministerin Nonnemacher entlassen. Hintergrund ist der Streit über die Abstimmung zur Krankenhausreform.