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arthwollipot said:
The Green Shed is closing down and being replaced by Vinnies! This is a tragedy.
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I feel your sadness.

I contributed material to the recycling areas at the Mugga Lane tip (I'm assuming that's what became the Green shed) and also sourced material from there.

In other weird local(ish) news...

Armaguard (cash delivery company) are struggling to stay in business, despite having merged with Prosegur last year, because there are so few people using cash now.

Wasn't expecting to hear that on the radio this morning.
 
Shock as Green Shed contract goes to Vinnies

A Canberra recycling and secondhand goods institution is changing hands, but The Green Shed’s new operator says it will be business as usual for the public and the 80 or so employees if they wish to stay on.

Co-owner Charles Bigg-Wither dropped the bombshell on Facebook today (13 March) by announcing that the ACT Government contract for the Mugga Lane and Mitchell outlets had gone to St Vincent de Paul Society Canberra/Goulburn Ltd after operating the facilities for 13 years.

The post said he had just told his 84 staff they would be out of a job come 30 May.

“As you can imagine, we are all just a little devastated!” he said.

But Vinnies said all staff could reapply for their jobs if they wished, and the organisation would, in fact, be advertising more positions.
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It won't be the same.
 
More than 2500 fines handed out in first few weeks from mobile phone detection cameras

Potentially $1.3 million (at least) has been made in the first few weeks of fines being issued from the photos taken by the ACT’s mobile phone detection cameras.

Between 20 February (when the fines period began) and 6 March, 1.16 million vehicles were checked by both fixed and transportable cameras.

This has resulted in 2576 infringements being issued, which are worth $514 (and three demerit points) if you’re caught holding your phone for a call, or $632 (and four demerit points) for using the phone to send a text message, access the internet or check social media.

Of these infringements, 192 vehicles have received more than one notice.
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In political news Fine Gael (pronounced Blueshirts) TD Ciarán Cannon is resigning at the next election.

Hate to break it to Ciarán but people refusing to vote for him next year is called democracy, not "toxicity in politics". That brings to 10 the number of Blueshirt TDs not running next year, a full, just one shy of a full third of the party's complement. :jaw-dropp for a party that's supposedly doing well in the polls.
 
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Gord_in_Toronto said:
Bite from toilet rat hospitalizes man in Canada

One of my worst nightmares. :eek:
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That's a little more detail than I neither wanted nor needed to know. But I guess good reporting.

Lessons learned, avoid Canadian hospitals. Sorry, but it kind of makes sense if you don't want to get your ass bitten by a snake.

And now here's hockey Sport with a guy with a weird little goatee and can't totally tell unless you zoom in!
 
PitPat said:
That's a little more detail than I neither wanted nor needed to know. But I guess good reporting.

Lessons learned, avoid Canadian hospitals. Sorry, but it kind of makes sense if you don't want to get your ass bitten by a snake.

And now here's hockey Sport with a guy with a weird little goatee and can't totally tell unless you zoom in!
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How does any of this relate to the article posted?

Did you even glance at it?

He wasn't bitten on the arse, he wasn't bitten by a snake, it didn't happen in a hospital.

Seriously dude, WTF???
 
The Australian War Memorial has a new parade ground, just in time for ANZAC Day.

Revamped War Memorial parade ground all set for its first Anzac Day

It’s taken more than a year of construction workers toiling against unkind weather after dark under floodlights, but the Australian War Memorial’s new parade ground is ready for Anzac Day.

“My promise was to deliver this in time for Anzac Day, and due to some extremely hard work by my staff and the builders, we’ve been able to honour that commitment,” Australian War Memorial director Matt Anderson announced.

To kick off Thursday’s Anzac Day commemorations, more than 1500 veterans from 50 different regiments will march up Anzac Parade and around a new stretch of red crushed stone, pavers and turf in front of the memorial’s main steps.
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novaphile said:
How does any of this relate to the article posted?

Did you even glance at it?

He wasn't bitten on the arse, he wasn't bitten by a snake, it didn't happen in a hospital.

Seriously dude, WTF???
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Yeah, probably under the influence of a substance at the time. At least I'm honest.

You don't need to avoid Canadian hospital toilets, just Montreal area toilets in general.

Also a little-travelled road will be shut down somewhere between on Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 11PM to 5AM for repairs, so plan accordinglingly
 
One of our local rightist god-botherers, a sort-of journalist, is being sued for libel by one of his former colleagues.

Irish Times journalist Kitty Holland, winner of several awards and breaker of the Savita Halappanaver story back in '12 is suing John Waters for damages of up to €75k for defamation of character.

Waters spoke at a conference of a right-wing "political party" then called Renua in '17 and made a number of factually untrue statements regarding the Halappanavar case and accusing an unnamed journalist of lying. The statements were made in the context of the '18 referendum on legalising termination of pregnancy in Ireland. Renua opposed this (and had been wiped out in the '16 Dáil election). The referendum passed in '18 by 2-to-1.

Ms Holland claims his remarks meant she was a dishonest reporter, was not fit to be a journalist and was wholly inaccurate in her journalism, seriously injuring her reputation.
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Waters is an associate of former journalist and current conspiracy whackjob Gemma O'Doherty.

The libel case has been adjourned, presumably for Waters' lagal team to cobble together a defense.

Links.
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-la...n-waters-opens-in-dublin-circuit-civil-court/
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland...ation-action-against-john-waters-1617522.html
https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-tim...-halappanavar-report-comment-6363377-Apr2024/
 
Local resident video went viral here - about the crap - literally- Thames Water is discharging into the Thames.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-68821545

(Oh and as ever in any report you read that you know about - the BBC have got it wrong - it is in Buckinghamshire, not Berkshire!)

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Oh and no less than a famous Hollywood director James Cameron is all for a new film studio that is trying to get planning permission in Little Marlow. Which is where the story about the water quality is set, hopefully given his like of the water no one has told him about the toxic Thames! https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/oth...ow-film-studios-opening-its-doors/ar-AA1nveco As can be expected the Little Marlow residents are protesting this. If any film maker ever wants to make a movie about NIMBYs they should use Little Marlow.
 
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Heh. St Louis is doing red light cameras again despite their having been found unconstitutional last time. Nothing has changed in the state constitution since. The city acknowledges they're unconstitutional but is putting them up anyway. So in a few weeks there will be another court case, which the city will lose after spending lots of tax money to defend.

Then they'll do it again in a couple of years.
 
Huh. They've been kind of legal here at certain busy intersections, for awhile. Maybe a state thing.
 
catsmate said:
One of our local rightist god-botherers, a sort-of journalist, is being sued for libel by one of his former colleagues.

Irish Times journalist Kitty Holland, winner of several awards and breaker of the Savita Halappanaver story back in '12 is suing John Waters for damages of up to €75k for defamation of character.

Waters spoke at a conference of a right-wing "political party" then called Renua in '17 and made a number of factually untrue statements regarding the Halappanavar case and accusing an unnamed journalist of lying. The statements were made in the context of the '18 referendum on legalising termination of pregnancy in Ireland. Renua opposed this (and had been wiped out in the '16 Dáil election). The referendum passed in '18 by 2-to-1.



Waters is an associate of former journalist and current conspiracy whackjob Gemma O'Doherty.

The libel case has been adjourned, presumably for Waters' lagal team to cobble together a defense.

Links.
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-la...n-waters-opens-in-dublin-circuit-civil-court/
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland...ation-action-against-john-waters-1617522.html
https://www.thejournal.ie/irish-tim...-halappanavar-report-comment-6363377-Apr2024/
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And Waters has spoken!
Apparently everything said about the death of Ms. Halappanavar is a giant lie, part of a conspiracy to persuade the electorate to introduce legal termination of pregnancy.
:rolleyes:
https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-la...bout-death-of-savita-halappanavar-court-told/

Some highlights:
Responding to questions from his counsel, Feargal Kavanagh SC, Mr Waters said the lie was that Ms Halappanavar (31) had died as a result of the Eighth Amendment on abortion and that her pleas for a termination of her pregnancy had been “ignored by her doctors” because of their Catholic beliefs, “which was a complete lie”.
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