Peace Activists, Above The Law

"Throughout, York University has consistently emerged as an unambiguous focal point. It was the York Federation of Students that issued a statement in the immediate aftermath of the massacres deeming them a 'justified and necessary' act of 'resistance'. 'Chant sheets' distributed by the federation at protests also contain calls of 'long live the intifada!'; a reference to violent Palestinian uprisings against Israel."

"York University law faculty were disproportionately represented in a mid-November petition asserting that the massacres should be 'contextualized', rather than condemned."

"And CUPE locals representing York University staff have issued multiple statements accusing Israel of 'genocide' and 'apartheid', while making no mention whatsoever of the Oct.7 massacres that sparked the current conflict. 'We remain dedicated to fighting against Canada's own settler-colonial violence' reads one comment [from the union]."

Tristin Hopper, Journalist, National Post

 

"We know that fighting antisemitism requires fighting anti-Palestinian racism and all forms of interlocking oppressions; none of us will be free until all of us are free."

Naomi Klein protest faction advisory 

Red paint and posters on an Indigo bookstore in Toronto accusing CEO Heather Reisman of "funding genocide." Photo by Photo by Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Centre

Three York University staff members were arrested by police connecting them with vandalism of an Indigo bookstore in Toronto. They wore reflective vests and splashed red paint on the flagship store for the very particular purpose of accusing its CEO Heather Reisman of "funding genocide". Posters were pasted to the windows with that neat little accusation. In total, eleven people were arrested for what police deemed "hate-motivated mischief".

 

Following the arrests when names were released, three were identified as employees of York University. One, an associate professor. This was obviously publicity the school was less than pleased with, responding by placing the three on leave. A statement was released by the administration to the effect that its commitment to "free speech and open dialogue" did not embrace unlawful violations.

 

This led to 200 faculty and students walking out, characterizing the suspensions as "an effort to repress Palestine solidarity peace activism". The walkout was organized by a "coalition of York faculty", which took to carrying signage and distributing pamphlets for the walkout reading "Stop campus reprisals! Reinstate them NOW! Permanent ceasefire NOW!" 

 

 

"Canada Stop Arming Israel" banners were carried by protesters who massed outside the Toronto Police 52 Division downtown location with demands that the charges be dropped. Social activist Naomi Klein is set to head another demonstration outside the Indigo location at Bay and Bloor streets to put up additional posters denouncing "police intimidation tactics against peace activists". 

The protesters insist that the use of posters and ed paint to accuse a bookstore CEO of genocide is perfectly "legitimate and necessary" and should, moreover, be defended by administrators at York University. "Many faculty members are outraged that the administration has suspended these individuals rather than defending them publicly", huffed York  University associate professor Anna Zalik who specializes in critical development studies.

Indigo has been targeted by the Canadian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement meant to boycott any business enterprise with connections to the State of Israel. Reisman co-founded the HESEG Foundation, a Canadian-registered charity funding tuition of former "lone soldiers", foreign volunteers who join the Israeli Defense Forces.

This, according to the logic of the demonstrators, makes Indigo complicit in "war crimes", a "genocidal campaign" and "profiteering from Israeli war crimes". The Toronto police were denounced for "grotesque use of inflammatory language accusing the vandalism of connections to hate". The assertion is sanctimoniously put forward that simply accusing Israel and its supporters of genocidal war criminality cannot be interpreted as antisemitic. How can anyone reason with such logic?

On Nov. 10 the Indigo store at the intersection of Bay and Bloor streets in Toronto was found splashed with red paint and plastered with posters featuring the company’s CEO and founder, Heather Reisman.  Adam Cohen

Free Speech Defended Over School Transgenderism

"What happened here should not happen in a democratic society. The Human Rights Code does not prohibit public discussion of issues related to transgenderism or minors and transgenderism. It does not prohibit public discussion of anything." 

"They [school board] accused her of breaching the Human Rights Code, questioning the right of trans persons to exist and engaging in speech that included hate. She did not do any of those things."

"The chairman of the board acted with malice or at least, with a reckless disregard for the truth. He had made an embarrassingly erroneous and arbitrary decision to silence a legitimate expression of opinion and he was widely criticized for it. It is not a stretch to infer that, realizing that, he tried to justify himself with the public by assassinating the plaintiff's character."

"I find it regrettable that the defendant who is trying to shut down debate is an arm of the government. Regard for the historical and present plight of the transgendered ... does not negate section 2(b) of the Charter."

Ontario Superior Court Justice James Ramsay

Epoch Times

 

The Waterloo Region District School Board sought to have former teacher Carolyn Burjoski's defamation lawsuit against the board and its former chair, Scott Piatkowski, thrown out. Justice James Ramsay was rather less than impressed with their argument which led him to rule for Ms. Burjoski who was summarily ousted from a board meeting on January 17, 2022 for her insistence on her right and personal obligation to speak to an issue the board had no interest in hearing, but was of great societal moment.

During the board meeting she initiated a discussion of school library  publications, available to children from kindergarten to Grade 6. She just began pursuing her point that much of the printed material now in school libraries made it appear simple and "cool" to medically transition to another gender, when the board chair Piatkowski cut her presentation off. The event caused quite a stir, not only locally, but there were interested reports on the incident in the international press.

This seasoned and concerned teacher was by no means the first individual to voice similar concerns. Concerns which have become controversial, opposed by most advocates of transgender rights. Leading figures in the transgender movement itself have expressed concern that gender-dysphoric young people on occasion are too aggressively ushered toward medical transition.

The board chair, Piatkowski, explained his position, that Burjoski's comments were transphobic, and "questioned the right to exist" of trans people. He therefore had no choice but to expel the teacher from the meeting. Burjoski, he said was "disrespectful" toward transgender people and "not promoting healthy debate" at the meeting. The recording of the meeting which was a normal public session of elected officials, was taken down and the board persuaded YouTube to remove another copy of the video.

 

Carolyn Burjoski, who had over twenty years of experience as an English-as-a-second-language teacher, specializing in teaching immigrant children, was then served with a "stay-at-home order", and informed she was not to communicate with colleagues or students. An episode in her long career that propelled her into voluntary early retirement after having been hospitalized for extreme anxiety.

She then launched a defamation lawsuit which Justice Ramsay responded to by dismissing the bid, ordering the board to pay Burjoski $30,000 in costs. Her claims had merit and her lawsuit should be permitted to proceed, since the comments made against her were "defamatory". When the board decided to conduct a system-wide removal of books it considered "harmful" comprised of old children's literary classics, she had commented against the move.

The "affirmation" approach to children identifying as transgender now in wide use, has raised concerns elsewhere as well. Two psychologists in the transgender medical community, one a trans woman, had pointed out sloppy and dangerous assessments of young people presenting as trans, deploring the overly hasty resort to hormone treatment. Burjoski has filed a separate legal challenge of the decision to stop her presentation and now awaits a verdict in that effort.

Retired teacher Carolyn Burjoski launched a defamation lawsuit against the Waterloo Region District School Board and former chair Scott Piatkowski. Last week, a Kitchener, Ont., judge ruled the case can carry on after lawyers for the school board and Piatkowski put forward a motion to have the case dismissed. (Carolyn Burjoski/YouTube)

"It is a significant victory and vindication, not just for me, but for everyone who dares to voice their valid concerns publicly."

"I hope this decision sends a strong message to school boards that the weaponization of human rights codes against concerned citizens is an undemocratic abuse of the code."

(Now-retired) teacher Carolyn Burjoski

Managing Murderous Malevolence

"You can have inmates that may lack remorse or be a psychopath, but we can still manage their behaviour in a medium security environment."

"It's important to remember that in a maximum security environment over 95 percent of the inmates that are there are there because of their behaviour. They're assaultive, they're harming other inmates, they're assaulting staff. That's not the case with this particular offender; he can actually be managed in medium security."

"Paul Bernardo spent 30 consecutive years in maximum security. He was transferred to medium security, and at this point, there's absolutely no talk of going to a lower security level."

Anne Kelly, Commissioner of Corrections Canada

Commissioner Anne Kelly says that although Bernardo was transferred to a medium security institution, 'he's a psychopath and he committed horrific and unspeakable crimes.'  Still from video, CBC

"My question to you then: if not Paul Bernardo, then which dangerous offender, rapist, serial killer needs to be in a maximum security institution?"

"If not Paul Bernardo, the worst of the worst, then who?"

Conservative Member of Parliament Tony Baldinelli

Karla Homolka

Paul Bernardo is the most notorious rapist, child-killer in Canada. His crimes of predation on women and girls shocked the nation. He tortured and raped, then murdered two schoolgirls, then raped and murdered his obliging wife Karla Homolka's 15-year-old sister. He and his then-wife were responsible for the deaths of 15-year-old Kristen French and 14-year-old Leslie Mahaffy, both of whom were kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered. Before Bernardo turned to murder he embarked on a raping epidemic in the early1990s, was never apprehended, leaving an aura of terror in the St. Catharines and Scarborough area.

Paul Bernardo arrives at the provincial courthouse in the back of a police van in Toronto in a Nov. 3, 1995. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Frank Gunn

Appearing before a parliamentary committee on Monday, the Commissioner of Corrections Canada defended the decision to move Paul Bernardo, an unrepentant murderer of children, to a medium-security prison, averring he could be safely housed there. But the reasoning behind the decision to extract this man from the high-security prisons he was formerly kept in remains unclear. His wife spent a dozen years in prison for her part in his atrocities, but his term was an indeterminate one, that he never be set free into society. 

MPs on the House of Commons Public Safety Committee were tasked with studying the reclassification from maximum to medium security that was made in a surprise move earlier in the year. It seems that under the new 'consciousness' ideology that has swept the country with DEI, postmodernism, cultural relativism and empathy for the criminal class, the motivation though unspoken, may have been to enrich the incarceration experience of this man, who as a certified psychopath utterly lacks empathy for anyone else and feels no need to address the impact of his sadistic malevolence in sexual violence pathology.

The decision to transfer this monster arrived out of an extensive internal review at Corrections Canada. In their concern over improving the well-bring of Bernardo it appears to have occurred to no one in authority that it might be a good idea to alert the French and Mahaffy families prior to the transfer taking place; likely it did occur, but the decision was taken to act, rather than help set in motion actions brought by the French and Mahaffy families to stop the transfer from taking place.

When news broke, back in the summer of the fait accompli, the public was outraged, demanding an explanation. And that demand, naturally enough, led to the striking of a parliamentary committee to look into the matter, reflecting in part the disturbance felt by many parliamentarians at this flouting of a judge and jury's decision on the federal justice system's obligation to punish this inhumane transgressor of humanity's most sacred right; that of life itself.

 

A man watches an interview with Karla Homolka on television station RDI in Montreal. ((Ryan Remiorz/Canadian Press))

 

The Commissioner stood before the committee to state that irrespective of Bernardo's viciously savage history as a predator of the first order, he 'qualified' for the transfer based solely on the internal correctional system's rules. According to Ms. Kelly, the medium security facility to which Bernardo was transferred has the very same high walls, guard towers, food and size of cells. The difference, she stated, was that there Bernardo was permitted more time away from his cell and with other prisoners, enabling him to take part in more programming.

In previous testimony, she raised the issue of Bernardo's life being in potential danger from other inmates in maximum security. No one could possibly be over-concerned over harm being done to this man while in the prison system. Yet with that issue in mind, allowing him more time out of the protection of his cell, and greater time in the company of other prisoners viewed in the light of his personal safety, the original concern seems to have been set aside.

Because of the nature of the crimes he committed and the utter lack of remorse he has demonstrated, Ms. Kelly stated that Bernardo is considered a high risk to the safety of the public. Given these realities, any further reduction in his security classification is therefore made unlikely. The very thought of this odious killer being given even greater freedoms in a minimum security establishment is mind-boggling; one assumes that this was brought up as a reassurance it would never occur, given his ongoing public threat status. And this reassurance is meant to reflect well on the decision-making of the authorities at Corrections Canada?

The House of Commons is prepared to debate a Conservative private member's bill to prevent anyone convicted of first-degree murder more than once or classified as a dangerous offender, from being moved. When Ms. Kelly was asked to comment, she responded it would create major issues for Corrections Canada and needlessly, since the agency ensures at all times that people who cannot safely be moved away from maximum security must remain there.

"We might need more space at maximum security and also, at this point, there's no incentive for offenders to participate in rehabilitation programs, in terms of maintaining good behaviour."

"The fact is that, you know, we have security classification, we have processes, but they are inmates that will never make their way to minimum security."

Anne Kelly, Commissioner of Corrections Canada

Hear Ye, Hear Ye! Revenge of the Unrequited.

"Discrimination against religious minorities in Canada is grounded in Canada's history of colonialism."

"An obvious example is statutory holidays in Canada. [Where the Christian holidays of Christmas and Easter are officially recognized with 'days off' while non-Christians have to] request special accommodations to observe their holy days."

"In order to move forward toward sustainable change, all Canadians must first acknowledge Canada's history of religious intolerance."

"[A statutory holiday on December 25] may adversely affect non-Christians, some of whom may therefore need to seek out special accommodations to observe their own faith holy days."

Canadian Human Rights Commission: Discussion Paper on Religious Intolerance 

"Keep Christ in Christmas."

"For Christians around the world, this is a time to celebrate the life and teachings of Jesus Christ -- and his message of compassion, courage and empathy."

(Sikh) NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh

Photo by Minas Panagiotakis/Getty Images

 

The uber-progressive Canadian Human Rights Commission has spoken, and ruled Canada to be a 'racist' country, more or less reflecting the position taken by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau who has unleashed on Canadians 'woke' issues and ideologies such as obligatory DEI training, racial and gender diversity,  intersectionality, trans-inclusionary feminism, identitarian moralism, and more. All of which is just too precious, and being forced on the public, most of which is disinterested and quite happy with Canada as it is.

 

The paper published by the human rights group avers Canada's racism in its reflection of the country as a majority Christian country, yet Canadian law supports the free exercise of all religions and has done so since before Confederation, where in the 19th century most religious majority countries had no such minority-protective religious law. In very fact, non-Christian religions with freedom to worship have been established in Canada for the past century.

 

The Al-Rashid Mosque in Alberta was built in 1938 and financial support disproportionately was donated by the non-Muslims living in the area. In 1908 Vancouver, Canada's first Sikh temple was opened as an "inter-religious space where non-Sikhs also held executive positions", according to the Vancouver Heritage Foundation. As for the Jewish community; the oldest Jewish congregation in Canada dates to 1768 in Montreal.

On 11 April 1807, Ezekiel Hart, a Jew, was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada (Quebec) over three other candidates, obtaining 59 out of the 116 votes cast. Jewish settlement in Canada dates back over 300 years, and while up until the first third of the 20th Century antisemitism was rife, Jews found their place in the country, a country where they were able to enjoy a level of security totally absent throughout Europe. 

 

A tree is adorned with Christmas lights on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. Photo by Tony Caldwell / Files /Postmedia Network

The Colonial Province of Canada in 1851 enacted the Freedom of Worship Act, protecting "free exercise and enjoyment of religious profession and worship, without discrimination or preference". The exception to Canada's record on religious tolerance was a movement meant to eradicate traditional Indigenous spiritualism in favour of Christianity, and to the present day, most Canadian First Nations, while staunchly Christian, also practise traditional spiritualism.

For the Canadian Human Rights Commission, Canada's is an "identity as a settler colonial state", in full expression of their progressive wokeism. Created in 1977 to enforce the Canadian Human Rights Act, the Commission exercises its mandate through the quasi-judicial Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, funded by the federal government to the tune of $32 million annually. It has adapted itself recently into the "anti-racism" doctrine that legal equality is ineffective since outcomes disproportionately affecting one group over another must reflect a product of "systemic racism".

All roads lead to the discussion paper which cites Christmas holidays, as a statutory form of "religious intolerance", constituting a "form of discrimination". This is a position supported as well by the Ontario Human Rights Commission which refers to Canada's statutory celebration of Christmas as an example of "systemic faithism". Both commissions have the power to enforce sanctions and exact penalties against employers it deems to have engaged in "discrimination".

Interestingly enough, a Leger poll from a year ago asked people with grew up as non-Christians in Canada, whether they felt it to be offensive when hearing the seasonal "Merry Christmas" greeting -- 92 percent of those questioned responded 'No'. In the same poll Canadians of all religions were asked whether Christmas and other 'religious' holidays should be struck from official statutory holidays and a mere six percent responded, 'yes'.

 

Cultural Importation Incompatible With Canadian Values

"I wouldn't suggest this is some novel condition that we're suddenly grappling with."

"[While the question doesn't appear often in polls, it's not the first time widespread Canadian endorsement of the notion that] there should be a little more of the melting pot than the mosaic [has been expressed by a large proportion of the Canadian public]."

Andrew Enns, executive vice-president, Leger market, research and analytics 

Canada's inimitable prime minister, Justin Trudeau, is extremely fond of expressing a trite little message to critics that "diversity is our strength", despite the increasingly obvious fact that the very diversity with which Canada has invested itself through its hunger for more bodies to populate this vast geographic area so that the workforce can be increased and more productivity can be seen, at the very time when he has himself shut down the operations of energy extraction production resulting in vast  unemployment numbers and a lack of responsible exploitation of natural resources. 

 

In the process overseeing an immigration system that has brought in populations from countries mired in conflict, religious zeal, and cultural traits incapable of integrating into Canada's value system. Canada's very security and that of its various populations from China, India, Africa and the Middle East have brought with them ancient and more recent issues of victimhood and violence. Now, a new poll reveals the extent to which Canadians in general react to these issues of discontent and importation into Canada of religious and tribal aggravations.

Canadians of every colour and derivation responding to a Leger/Postmedia poll have expressed skepticism of the prime minister's little maxim, believing that, given their experiences, that while diversity can have its benefits, it also brings with it problems. Respondents to the poll in the majority endorsed the belief that new immigrants should be encouraged to accept "values and traditions" already established within Canada's culture. And at the same time, discard the cultural identity issues that are "incompatible with Canada's".

A mixed view of diversity's benefits was favoured by 56 percent of respondents who, agreeing that "some elements of diversity can provide strength", nonetheless supported the reality that "problems" and "conflict" can also arise out of diversity. Only 24 percent saw diversity as an unambiguous "strength", while 21 percent characterized it as predominantly "problematical".

51 percent of respondents agreed that Canadian authorities "should do more to ensure newcomers accept Canadian values", and a higher 55 percent endorsed the idea that the country's immigration policy be premised on "encouraging newcomers to embrace broad mainstream values and traditions", leaving behind beliefs "that may be incompatible with that". 59 percent of white Canadians endorsed the "Canadian values" need, while 46 percent of non-whites did so.

 

Of Caucasians, 23 percent endorsed the counter-sentiment that newcomers be encouraged to "maintain and promote their own cultural and religious identities", that was endorsed by 38 percent of non-whites. Large, disproportionately immigrant-led demonstrations calling for the expulsion of "gender ideology" from public school curricula took place two months ago expressing social conservatism among immigrant communities not always synchronized with the various progressive frontiers championed by Canadian authorities. To be fair, many long-time Canadians found little sympathy with the "gender ideology" sentiments.

More latterly, Canadian cities have been gripped by the phenomenon of regular rallies responding to the Israel-Hamas conflict, since the national survey was conducted after the Palestinian Hamas terrorist group invaded Israel to commit an endless orgy of sadistic savagery victimizing helpless Israeli civilians, raping girls and women, mutilating and killing children, women and men and foreign farm workers on farms, in towns and villages and kibbutzim.

The well-attended, and raucous, normalcy-disturbing 'protests' billing themselves as 'pro-Palestinian' have been organized entirely by Israel-hostile groups such as Samidoun, the Palestinian Youth Movement and Toronto4Palestine, all of them on record as approving of the October 7 massacres in Israel, and all calling for the total destruction of the Jewish state. In the process creating a violent, threatening, disruptive chaos.

A few hundred Pro-Palestinian supporters held a rally on the steps of the TMU (formerly Ryerson) Student Learning Centre at Gould and Yonge Sts. on Friday October 20, 2023. Photo by Jack Boland / Postmedia Network

These groups have spared no effort to bring in official speakers who espouse Islamist extremism and using the vocabularies of pro-terror rhetoric, including a speaker in Toronto calling for Hamas to maintain control of the civilian hostages it took into Gaza for concessions forced on Israel. In Montreal an imam leading a street packed with demonstrators called out prayers to "kill" the "Zionist aggressors". The opening question of the survey found 78 percent of Canadians harboured concerns "over how the Gaza/Israel conflict is impacting Canadian communities".

The notion that non-citizens should face deportation "if they publicly express hatred toward a minority group or support a terrorist organization" was backed by 75 percent of respondents to the poll. That is a policy currently pursued across much of Europe, particularly in Germany when last month German Chancellor Olaf Scholz spoke to pro-Hamas rallies by stating his country should begin deporting ineligible migrants "on a large scale". In Canada, no mainstream Canadian political party has expressed similar solutions, as yet. 

 

A majority of Canadians, however rejected the basic tenets of "anti-racism" ideology -- now official federal policy --  which, through agencies like the Canadian Human Rights Commission and the Federal Anti-Racism Secretariat, openly pursue the belief that Canada's institutions are "systematically racist", and can be redeemed only through "deliberate systems and supports" that favour select "equity-seeking" groups.

In particular, the idea that "certain minority groups should be given additional rights and privileges in accordance with notions of decolonization, anti-racism and equity", was rejected by 50 percent of poll respondents, with only 24 percent backing the program.

Remembering SARS-CoV-2

"It is unclear if these are associated with the overall increase in respiratory infections previously reported by Chinese authorities, or separate events."

World Health Organization 

"I think we have to save our worry for when we need to worry."

"If  you had asked Canada last year, when we were having all those pediatric admissions, we would have had all sorts of undiagnosed pneumonia as well that were causing hospitalization in children."

"However, should [the reported clusters in China] end up being clinically different than the pneumonias the Chinese doctors are used to, or it looks like it's spreading, then we might start to worry that it's some new pathogen."  

Dr. Dawn Bowdish, Canada Research Chair in aging and immunology, McMaster University

"[Liaoning and other areas were] overwhelmed [with sick children, and] schools and classes were on the verge of suspension."

"[When the outbreak began is unclear] as it would be unusual for so many children to be affected so quickly."

"The report does not say that any adults were affected, suggesting some exposure at the schools. ProMED awaits more definitive information about the etiology and scope of this concerning illness in China."

ProMED, emerging diseases global reporting system

Mayur Kakade

 

The World Health Organization has undertaken an investigation of clusters of 'undiagnosed pneumonia' manifesting in children in China. To the casual reader, it may be a reminder of the mystery pneumonias that began to show up in Wuhan, China, in 2019 that took no time in spreading and bringing the world to its knees. WHO has registered a formal request that China provide it with detailed information on the clusters of children evidencing these symptoms of a mystery pneumonia.

Health scientists in Canada speculated on the situation in recall of last winter when an early crush of overlapping respiratory viral infections overwhelmed paediatric hospitals in Canada. Attributed at that time to the appearance of those viral infections following hard on school closures and masking measures having been lifted, enabling the spread of respiratory infections when the interventions maintained to thwart COVID were lifted. What was named a "tripledemic" in Canada, some medical experts feel, may be surfacing now in China.

In early November, Chinese authorities reported an increase in the incidence of influenzas, mycoplasma pneumoniae (bacterial infection typically affecting younger children), respiratory synctial virus (RSV) and COVID-19. The surge was attributed to the lifting of COVID restrictions, authorities felt, when China exited pandemic lockdowns much after other affected countries did.

 

People stand outside a children's hospital in Shanghai, China November 24, 2023. REUTERS/Nicoco Chan

 

ProMED, a global reporting system for emerging diseases and outbreaks this week reported clusters of undiagnosed pneumonia in children in northern China. According to Dr. Bowdish in Canada, not all pneumonias lead to a definitive diagnosis, even when lungs are filled with fluid. Other scientists were in agreement that too little data existed to produce a definitive diagnosis. 

According to Dr. Paul Hunter, professor of medicine, it's possible the children have pneumococcal pneumonia, his comment released by the Science Media Centre in the United Kingdom. Influenza can also cause "patchy changes" on chest X-rays, often because of secondary bacterial infections.

"The illness in children is fever with no cough or other symptoms, but in some cases, pulmonary nodules can be seen on chest X-ray."

"Overall, this does not sound to me like an epidemic due to a novel virus. If it was, I would expect to see many more infections in adults."

"The few infections reported in adults suggest existing immunity from a prior exposure."

Professor of Medicine Paul Hunter, University of East Anglia, England

State media says there has been an increase in pneumonia infections among children but stresses that most cases are mild. Photograph: Mark R Cristino/EPA