U.N. aviation leaders cancel meeting in solidarity with climate change strikers

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I’m an older man and back on the dating scene. The only trouble is, I’ve started seeing a woman I really like, and she really likes me, but she’s more “old school” than I am. She wants me to pay for everything!

Support for combined approach

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Your news and reporting on the positive results of co-ordinated outreach coupled with enforcement combining social, medical and police services is important progress towards a safer and healthier Winnipeg.

As is often stated and conclusively researched, the poverty, mental health, addictions and desperation of too many of our brothers and sisters on the streets is a very complex dilemma. Let’s really get behind and support these new initiatives with vigour and sustained support through this combined co-operation with front-line engagement coalition partners.

DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: My grown-up family has no problem moving back home when they’re between jobs or going through broken relationships. My two “boys” are in their mid-20s, and both moved “home” after their live-in situations, but have found jobs since. COVID has eased up, so they’re going out drinking and partying again.

One asked permission to stay with us before Christmas, and got it, and then his brother showed up, after a break-up with his girlfriend on Valentine’s Day, and just moved right back into his old bedroom when I was away for work. I just didn’t know how to throw out my sad and upset son.

My husband’s younger sister, who’s been living in the basement room since her marriage broke up many months ago, is in her late 20s. So, these are not kids, but I’m cooking and cleaning for everybody, and also working full-time. My husband is not happy as we have no privacy, and he and I are paying the bills for everyone.

Prior to these “adults” moving in, I made these rules: They must buy their own groceries; do their own laundry; make their own meals; and everybody must clean up after themselves. No one listened, I guess. They just heard, “Yadda, yadda, yadda.”

MONTREAL - A climate strike in Montreal today has prompted some organizations to shut their doors in solidarity — including a gathering of U.N. leaders in aviation, a field that has faced criticism for its emissions output.

The International Civil Aviation Organization is discussing how to reduce the sector's environmental impact at meetings this week.

Experts say air passenger numbers will likely double by 2037, with commercial flying already comprising 2.5 per cent of global emissions.

The U.N. agency, which will resume meetings Saturday, says "everyone has the right and responsibility to reduce carbon emissions," but adds that "most air traffic growth is occurring where it's needed most" — in developing countries.