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All the highlights from climate activist Greta Thunberg’s guest edited programme, including Mishal Husain interviewing her father Svante Thunberg and Greta speaking to Sir David Attenborough for the first time.

Also, starting at 30 minutes, outgoing Bank of England chief Mark Carney on how the financial sector can tackle climate change, Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja on reducing the music industry’s carbon blueprint, and Shell’s Maarten Wetselaar on big energy’s environmental impact.

Here is an audio clip link.

Today, I noticed that this Petro-Canada near our house is now up and running with an EV Fast Charger Station.

According to the Petro Canada website, the company has completed a network of charging stations all across Canada, as shown on the map below.  You can also search by location to find the chargers in each area on their web site, see Introducing Our EV Fast Charge.

Right now, the charging is free.  The units seem to be primarily ‘superchargers’ meaning they can fully recharge a vehicle in 30 minutes or less.

The Tesla charging stations are already built out across North America, but the spread of other charging stations is essential as many EV brands become accessible to the masses.  The Petro-Can roll out is part of the evolution needed.  Ramping up renewable energy production to power the majority of the grid is the next major investment cycle underway.

Canadian Tire has also just announced plans to add 240 new fast chargers and 55 Level 2 chargers at 90 Canadian Tire locations by the end of 2020.

When I was a kid, casinos were only in Vegas and Atlantic City. Allowing them to go mainstream in Canada was a mistake.  Corruption and crime are natural byproducts.

An exclusive Global News investigation reveals the RCMP’s former Integrated Illegal Gambling Enforcement Team uncovered evidence of illegal activity, such as sexual slavery, child abuse, and corruption, within British Columbia’s casinos. But the B.C. government later deemed the IIGET “ineffective” and disbanded it. Global’s Sam Cooper looks at an IIGET report containing a catalogue of explosive allegations that experts believe were ignored. Here is a direct video link.