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A plea for vaccinations

I am writing this letter to encourage everyone to get the COVID vaccine. I have aprimary immunodeficiency and my body does not produce antibodies to fight off infection from bacteria and viruses. I have been on stay-at-home physician orders since March of 2020, except to attend to my medical needs.

My husband quit his job to decrease the risk of COVIDtransmission between us. I cannot leave my home untilthere is 75% herd immunity in the community and that means 75% of Ohioans must be vaccinated.

If we do not get to 75% herd immunity, my husband and I will never have a life outside of our home. I will never be able to go to holiday gatherings, restaurants, grocery stores, malls, concerts etc. I will always be dependent on others for help. Right now, I can be in a room with fivevaccinated people and that is it. I encouraged family members to get vaccinated, but there is hesitancy. I will never be able to hug or have a life with those family members who are not vaccinated.

So please, get vaccinated for COVID! If not for yourself, do it for others in our community. It is my America, too.

Susan C. Foster, Mansfield

The idea of a citizen commission to oversee public art projects requiring permits for murals on public property or an art work visible from a public road or street appeals to me. I agree promoting Mansfield with art works would enhance our city's landscape. I think guidelines are absolutely necessary and would best be overseen by a citizen commission.

I hear the concern regarding adding more work responsibilities for the Codes and Permits Department, but surely these concerns can be addressed with candor and thoughtfulness by persons who are willing to do the organizational work involved.

As someone born, raised and who has lived in Mansfield my entire life, I sincerely hope a Mansfield Arts Commission is adopted. Art matters! It is a creative component in the Mansfield City Rising tapestry when it comes to reinventing our once industrialized city.

Marian Haring Blahnik, Mansfield

I hear President Joe Biden talk about "infrastructure" and wonder if he can spell it or if he can define it, which is like Bill Clinton, who didn't know how to define "IS."

Another good word is inflation. Sure, let's tax the rich and the companies that make the everyday products we use. Unless you're stupid or a liberal, do you really think they just won't raise the prices to make up for this? Just look at a few things likegas, lumber, milk, andfood to feed your family. Rememberall the companies that left because of high taxes and former President Donald Trump got them to come back, but Biden won't let that happen.He's a man of the peoplejust ask the pipeline workers, which is another thing, even his own people say it's the safest way to move oil.

The liberals think socialism is so greatbecause everyone is the same. Well, take a good lookbecause what the whole thing boils down tois if you have $2, then give me one. In other words, all you liberals reading this, I want half of what you've got.

I think the most disturbing thing is that rightafter Biden got in office some of the Democratsthought that someone else should hold the nuclear button.

Joe Stransky, Mansfield

Another holiday was recently celebrated and another one is coming up in June that's Mother's Day and Father's Day. Remember?

Did you or will you celebrate with your parents and share your love of them? Did you hug them and say, "I love you"?

Just think if your mother had aborted you because she didn't want a baby or your father didn't want to become a daddy.What a beautiful gift you have been given life!

Pray and pray even more that all preborn babies will be given the gift of life as you have been blessed with. What greater gift can an unborn receive than the gift of life.

Barb Riley, Mansfield

In the days since George Floyds murder, protests have turned aspotlight on racial inequality in corporate America. In response,businesses have scrambled to hire leaders focused on diversity, equity,and inclusion initiatives, adding to what was already a growing numberof diversity execs.

In the five years leading up to September 2020, the number of peoplewith the title head of diversity rose 107%, director of diversity75%, and chief diversity officer 68%, according to LinkedIn.

Diversity and inclusion hiring spiked last June following global BlackLives Matter protests. And in the last year, some of the bluest-chipnames in biz have tied executive compensation to diversity targets,including Chipotle, Starbucks, McDonalds, Nike, and Apple.

But hiring a CDO isnt a quick fix. HR experts warn that a successfuldiversity strategy needs to tie into business results, rely on more thanone leader, focus on longer-term changes, and with the tone at the topembedded in the DNA behavior of the entire organization.

Diversity and inclusion is not a simple problem to throw money at, forcepeople to complete some forgettable training, or subject personnel torandom performance metrics to merely demonstrate the appearance ofaction. As a relatively new field, most CDOs lack competence in systems thinking. Working to address a major systemic issue goes far beyondsurface level behaviors like conventional leadership programs. Systemic

issues are not addressed at the individual behavior level, nor is itsimple employment quotas! Instead, it should be at the system level,such as learning systems, promotion systemsand performance managementsystems.

Maximize the results like increased number of innovations, higherefficiency, productivity, and talent retention. The success of your DEIinitiative requires metrics that matter, not the surface level vanity metrics.

Richard Szulewski, Ontario

I am concerned about our nation's firemen, policemen and paramedics being referred to as "first responders" a very bland tag to put on a very important aspect of public safety. A policeman, a fireman and a paramedicare our "heroes" in a crisis, so let's leave well enough alone. Let's scuttle "first responders." The three branches are now, and have been for years, referred to collectively as a city's "safety forces." Why change the wording?

David Spain, Mansfield

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Fredericton MP Jenica Atwin bolted from the Green party caucus today, crossing the floor of the House of Commons to join the governing Liberals.

Atwin accomplished a historic breakthrough for the Greens in the last election,winning their first ever seat in Atlantic Canada when she defeated Liberal incumbent Matt DeCourcey in Fredericton. Atwin,along with Paul Manly and former leader Elizabeth May, gave the Greens three MPs and their largest caucus in history.

Atwin'sdeparture is a setback for a party that has long sought more influence in Parliament and a coup for the Liberals as they look to rally progressive voters around the party ahead of a possible fall election.

In announcing her shock move today, Atwin, a former teacher and communityorganizer in Oromocto, N.B.,said there were too many "distractions" in the Green Party and she wanted to work in a more "supportive and collaborative" environment.

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Recent party infighting over issues like the Israeli-Palestinianconflict took her away from the issues that matter most to her constituents, Atwinsaid.

"It certainly played a role," she said, when asked whether a recent disputeover Green Party Leader Annamie Paul's public statements about the Middle Easternconflict pushed her to join the Liberals. Paulhas been accused of ignoring established party policy on Israel.

At a press conference alongside Intergovernmental Affairs Minister Dominic LeBlanctoday, Atwin said thatwhile she'll stand for a different party in the comingelection, "my priorities, my values remain the same."

She said she was never particularly partisan."For me,it was always difficult to choose whichparty flag to fly over my head."

She vowed tocontinue her fight for aggressive climate action and to oppose fracking and projects like the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, which the government is in the process of building afteryears of delays.

"I haven't changed my views," she said.

Atwin said the Liberals offered nothing in exchange for her floor-crossing and she was not promised a cabinet post.

"We haven't discussed anything like that,"she said."One step at a time."

A senior Liberal source saidAtwin initiated the floor-crossing several weeks ago when she reached out to the governing party.

The source saidAtwin expressed comfort with the Liberals' approach tocore issues such as the environment and reconciliation. Atwin's husband Chris Atwin is a councillor with the Oromocto First Nation.

Atwin's departure comes after the Israeli-Palestinian conflict exposed fault lines in the Green party ranks.

Atwin directly challengedPaul's position on the conflict, saying Paul's call for de-escalation and a return to dialogue between the two was "totally inadequate."

"I stand with Palestine and condemn the unthinkable airstrikes in Gaza. End Apartheid!" Atwin tweeted on May 11.

The day before, Manly tweeted that the removal of Palestinian families from the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah "is ethnic cleansing."

More recently, theGreen executive committee voted not to renew the contract of one of Paul's senior advisers.

The adviser, Noah Zatzman, had expressed solidarity with Israel in a May 14 social media post that accused many politicians, including unspecified Green MPs, of discrimination and antisemitism, sparking a letter-writing campaign calling for his removal.

After Atwin's tweet and pushback from Manly, Zatzmanresponded with a Facebook post stating that Greens "will work to defeat you and bring in progressive climate champions who are antifa and pro-LGBT and pro-Indigenous sovereignty and Zionists!!!!!"

Separately, two party executives recently announced they would step down early. One of them wasJohn Kidder, a vice-president on the party's governing body and husband to MP and former leader Elizabeth May.

In a media statement, May and Manly said they were "heartbroken" by Atwin's decision and thatZatzman was to blame.

"Unfortunately, the attack against Ms. Atwin by the Green Party leader's chief spokesperson on May 14th created the conditions that led to this crisis," the two said. The MPsadded that, while they were frustrated,they have "no intention of leaving the Green Party of Canada."

Speaking to reporters later Thursday, Paul said she was blindsided by Atwin's departure and only learned about the floor-crossing from media reports.

Paul said that while the party supports cross-party cooperation and rejects excessivepartisanship, she said there are "significant differences" between the Green and Liberal parties and calledAtwin'sfloor-crossinga "disappointment."

Paul said a byelectionshould becalled in Fredericton because voters there chose to elect a Green MP in the 2019 campaignand Atwin'sflip has now denied them that representation.

Paul said she doesn't believe the internal squabbling over Israel was what pushed Atwin to switch sides. She said she understands Atwin was in talks with the Liberals for "numerous weeks," before the internal debate overMiddle East issues flared up. She refused to say ifZatzman is still a member of her team.

In the 2019 campaign,Atwin said left-leaning voters felt "betrayed" when Trudeau broke a promise to reform the electoral system and said they were now looking at the Greens as a more genuine progressive choice.

"We think we're that option," she said."We think we're the ones to look to for voters looking for change, and looking to get better outcomes than what we've seen in the last four years."

She also accused Trudeau of "fear-mongering"when he warned voters that a Liberal-Green vote split would help elect a federal Conservative government.

But she welcomed his promise during that campaign to pressure the New Brunswick provincial government of Premier BlaineHiggsto fund abortions at Fredericton's Clinic 554.

"It is interesting that he hasn't brought it up before, but support is support,"she said at the time. "I want to see Clinic 554 stay open ... so I appreciate that he's now stepping forward. It would have been nice to see during the Gallant government as well."

Atwin criticizedthe government as recently as last month,saying the latest federal budgetshows the governing party"lacks the courage required to lead this country into a bold, new future."

"This budget is just another example of symbolism over substance, where we maintain the status quo under the guise of transformation," she said, addingthe government has not made meaningful progress on climate issues or reconciliation with Indigenous peoples during its nearly six years in office.

Atwin said Thursdaya lot has changed since she made those criticisms of Trudeauin the 2019 campaign, adding that the COVID-19 pandemic has dramatically altered the political dynamic.

"Canada is different. We're different," she said.

Asked about Atwin's past criticisms, LeBlanc said there's room for disagreement within the party. "All ofmy caucus colleagues don't have identical views on all of these issues all of the time," he said.

Wearing what he described as a "big smile," LeBlanc said Atwin's defection was a "very, very happy moment" for the Liberal Party. "We're convinced she'll make an enormous contribution to our government and the people of Canada," he said.

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Another one bites the dust. Another media lie, that is.

The latest lie to die is the false claim the feds cleared Lafayette Park of protesters last year so then-President Donald Trump could hold a photo op. The Interior Departments inspector general says police planned to clear the park so a contractor could install a fence, a decision unrelated to Trumps walk to a nearby historic church burned in a riot.

If the debunking feels familiar, its not your imagination. Only the details differ from earlier cases where the media mob got it all wrong. Sadly, the truth usually emerges not because of the press, but despite it.

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Take growing acceptance of the idea the COVID-19 pandemic started with a leak from a virology lab in Wuhan, China. The idea was always plausible, but the press and big tech declared it a "conspiracy theory" and snuffed it out of circulation.

But after China couldnt prove the virus jumped from bats to humans, the lab-leak theory gained credence. Suddenly, it became acceptable to share it on Facebook, which appointed itself guardian of all that is proper in American discourse.

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The pattern is so pronounced that its easy to assemble your own list of Top Ten Media Lies. On mine, the recent cases involving Lafayette Park and the lab-leak theory are Nos. 8 and 9.

No. 1 is the oldest and biggest: Trump colluded with Russia to win in 2016 and might be a Russian agent. That scam involved crooked FBI agents and led to the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller, who took two years to conclude there was no evidence to back the charge.

Yet the probe had enormous impact, with the drumbeat of anonymous leaks hampering the Trump agenda and helping Democrats take the House in 2018.

Even before it was gone, other distortions appeared.

Remember Lie No. 2, the "Muslim ban" that wasnt? Or No. 3, the mantra that the 2017 tax cuts were only for the "rich" despite studies showing 80% of the population benefitted?

How about the "kids in cages" firestorm, complete with gripping photographs of migrant children in metal containers?

That was Lie No. 4 and the hottest story going, with Democrats such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., rushing to the border with photogenic outrage. They vanished when it was revealed the Obama-Biden administration built the cages and the heart-wrenching photos were from 2014.

Apologies, corrections and retractions came in bunches, right? You must be kidding. Big media and big tech are too big to admit error.

Apologies, corrections and retractions came in bunches, right? You must be kidding. Big media and big tech are too big to admit error.

Even now, with historic surges of young people at the border, the press doesnt complain about Biden banning their cameras. Thats not journalism its complicity.

Lie No. 5 was the Ukraine impeachment of Trump, a creative fiction based on a complaint from an anonymous member of the swamp who never testified. But others did to say the president, in trying to get information on Biden family corruption in Ukraine, was guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors.

What Trump actually did was threaten the scam Joe Biden and son Hunter created that involved selling the suggestion that Joes influence could be had by hiring Hunter.

Thats the sort of thing reporters are supposed to expose, not protect.

Not so long ago, I saw such conduct as an outgrowth of bias. Because much of the press is an echo chamber of the far left, my assumption was that slanted coverage resulted from political prejudice.

That is true in many cases, but too benign to fully explain our new era. Five years after the New York Times and others abandoned standards of fairness to become anti-Trump activists, press misconduct is repeatedly exposed as willful malpractice. In a word, lies.

Over and over again, they are the boy who cried wolf. Its getting so where its safer to assume what the media insists is absolutely true probably isnt.

Just as liberals have become illiberal, media have become more focused on suppressing the truth than revealing it.

Take Hunter Bidens laptop, which is No. 6 on my Top Ten, although it rivals Russia, Russia, Russia in importance. When The Post first showed how the contents revealed his shady foreign business deals and how his father helped him, it was not unreasonable for the Times, Washington Post and others to hold off until they could confirm the explosive information late in the campaign.

The role Rudy Giuliani played in getting the material to The Post, which the paper disclosed, created additional concern because Giuliani was Trumps lawyer.

So there were legitimate reasons for caution up to a point. But the real motivation in avoiding the story soon became apparent.

The outlets that held their noses over the laptop had no trouble embracing the claim from Joe Bidens campaign that the e-mails on it were "Russian disinformation."

In what felt like a coordinated move, big tech instantly blocked The Post and other users from sharing them.

The final proof that media caution had morphed into coverup came when Tony Bobulinski emerged. A former partner of Hunter and Jim Biden, Joes brother, in a joint venture with a Chinese energy conglomerate, Bobulinski authenticated the critical e-mails because he had received them as CEO of the venture.

He also solved a riddle by saying the "big guy" slated to get a secret 10% stake was Joe Biden. Bobulinski told me he met with him in early 2017 and said Joe knew everything about the plan to introduce American mayors and governors to Chinese officials so the Chinese could buy U.S. infrastructure.

All this was public information because of The Post, Fox News and a few others, yet most media cast doubts on the revelations. They were especially loathe to report anything supporting Joe Bidens role, even though Bobulinski gave all his evidence to the FBI.

That cone of silence goes well beyond bias. That is Lie No. 7.

Finally, the 10th lie remains active, so the truth has not fully emerged.

The subject is ballot integrity, which the left demonizes as improper voter suppression. Joe Biden made the astonishing claim that demands for photo identification are the new Jim Crow.

Naturally, his claim was magnified by the media, with CNN creating a logo declaring "Voting Rights Under Attack." Even the normally sober Pew Trusts said, "Republican Wave of Voting Restrictions Swells."

One count had 361 bills introduced in 47 states, and Wikipedia labels all of them attempts to restrict voting access. Craven corporate leaders piled on.

Never mind that polls show overwhelming support for voter ID laws, with a March survey finding 69% of Black voters and 75% of all respondents favor such measures.

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The finding provides hope and reminds us there are antidotes to a corrupt press: Facts, facts and more facts. Or, as the late economist Herb Stein put it, "If something cannot go on forever, it will stop."

Media lies are no exception.

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The BC Liberal Party has released its post-mortem report on why it lost the provincial election so badly last fall and while it draws some obvious conclusions, it misses the bigger picture when it comes to the serious challenges the party faces as it

The BC Liberal Party has released its post-mortem report on why it lost the provincial election so badly last fall and while it draws some obvious conclusions, it misses the bigger picture when it comes to the serious challenges the party faces as it tries to rebuild.

The report written by three Toronto-based consultants concludes the party never really stood much of a chance of winning the election. It fails to examine why the party was in so much trouble before the election.

Former party leader Andrew Wilkinson comes in for heavy criticism and is portrayed as someone who comes across as stilted, combative and uncomfortable. When asked to rate his performance on a scale of one to 10 (10 being perfect), Wilkinson was awarded an abysmal average of four by those surveyed.

Wilkinson, however, was not deemed the only big problem. The partys platform was tone deaf and failed to connect with voters and even party members, its communications efforts were clumsy and ineffective, and what little campaigning actually did occur was amateurish and almost pointless.

Of course, the media comes in for some blame. The legislative press gallery was said to have been too cozy with the government of Premier John Horgan. In addition, gallery reporters spent most of their time covering the COVID-19 pandemic and the regular briefings and updates by Dr. Bonnie Henry (indeed, I spent much of my time during the campaign covering those briefings).

The central campaign team gets a clean bill of health, which is odd given the enormity of the loss and the fact so many missteps were made.

The reports authors based their findings on surveys sent to 3,000 party members and interviews with candidates, strategists, senior officials and campaign staff.

The approach of talking to only party insiders and members may have masked the true rot that has slowly eaten its way through the party during the past decade or so. The party did not just lose the last election it was absolutely hammered and the depth of its defeat can be seen in lopsided NDP wins in traditionally strong BC Liberal ridings in places like Vernon, Chilliwack, Abbotsford, Mission, North Vancouver and Langley.

This momentous loss had been building for years but the BC Liberals, smug in their feelings of invincibility because they unexpectedly won the 2013 election, simply failed to spot the warning signs until it was too late.

The report is sprinkled with quotes from those who were surveyed or interviewed. Near the end of the report this one jumped out at me: Seriously take on rebuilding! Dont be afraid to take on the tough questions and challenges. Hold our MLAs accountable for their past and present discretions. Clean house, change the mediocre mentality of the old guard.

Harsh criticism but indicative the massive rebuilding job the party faces.

The report ends with some recommendations about the usual things: attracting younger members, improving the partys nomination process, finding more volunteers and getting started on the next campaign as soon as possible.

Its the last paragraph which reads as if it was tacked on as an afterthought that nails the partys deeper problems. It says the party must be more diverse when it comes to recruiting and elevating people from every gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and economic background.

The province has changed, and so should the BC Liberals, reads the reports last line. It is also the most accurate one in it.

Keith Baldrey is chief political reporter for Global BC.

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Canadian gas company TC Energy announced Wednesday that it had terminated its Keystone XL pipeline project after President Biden revoked a key permit on his first day in office because of concerns over the pipelines impact on climate change.

This decision by TC Energy concludes a 13-year battle surrounding the building of the pipeline and represents a victory for environmental groups that have been calling attention to the harmful effects of processing oil-sands crude oil since the Keystone project was first proposed in 2008.

In its press release Wednesday, TC Energy said it will continue to coordinate with regulators, stakeholders and Indigenous groups to meet its environmental and regulatory commitments, ensure a safe termination and exit from the Project.

The proposed 1,179-mile pipeline would have eventually carried 830,000 barrels (35 million gallons) of tar sands oil from Hardisty, Alberta, to Steele City, Neb. Its construction was stalled in 2015 by then-President Barack Obama but resuscitated in 2019 by then-President Donald Trump, who signed a presidential permit that allowed TC Energy to effectively construct, connect, operate and maintain pipeline facilities ... for the import of oil from Canada to the United States. Since construction began last year, only about 300 miles of pipeline has been built.

Pipes for the Keystone XL in a yard in Alberta, Canada. (Jason Franson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Bidens decision in January to cancel the cross-border permit for the project was the final blow. The Keystone XL pipeline disserves the U.S. national interest. ... Leaving the Keystone XL pipeline permit in place would not be consistent with my Administrations economic and climate imperatives, Biden announced in an executive order signed on his first day in office.

In addition to the pipelines generation of excessive carbon dioxide emissions, Keystone XL would have cut through the Ogallala Aquifer, a source of water for those living in the High Plains, which includes many Native American communities.

Opponents of the pipeline, including environmental activists and tribal leaders, celebrated TC Energys decision.

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Larry Wright Jr., chairman of the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska, said in a Thursday statement: On behalf of our Ponca Nation, we welcome this long overdue news and thank all who worked so tirelessly to educate and fight to prevent this from coming to fruition. Its a great day for Mother Earth.

In another statement, Fort Belknap Indian Community president Andy Werk said, We were not willing to sacrifice our water or safety for the financial benefit of a trans-national corporation. We are thrilled that the project has been canceled.

A pipeline-resistance training camp in the San Juan Islands, off Washington state. (Tim Exton/AFP via Getty Images)

Former Vice President Al Gore joined the chorus of those applauding the pipelines demise, tweeting, Congratulations to the Indigenous communities & activists who for a decade have said #NoKXL. We must continue to put the planet and its people ahead of polluters by saying no to #ByhaliaPipeline, #DAPL, #MVP, #Line3 & other reckless fossil fuel pipelines.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., also celebrated on Wednesday. The Keystone XL pipeline was a giveaway to foreign oil lobbyists that put our communities, environment, and tribal lands at risk, she tweeted. Im glad its dead, and Im grateful to everyone who fought to make this day happen.

For many Republicans, however, the pipeline was seen as a way to create much-needed energy sector jobs.

President Biden killed the #KeystoneXL Pipeline & with it, thousands of good-paying American jobs, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., tweeted. On Inauguration Day @POTUS signed an executive order that ended pipeline construction & handed 1000 workers pink slips. Now 10x that number of jobs will never be created.

Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, has repeatedly criticized Biden over his decision to revoke the permit for the pipeline.

Keystone XL is a project that right now, today, has 1,200 good-paying union jobs. And in 2021, the Keystone pipeline was scheduled to have more than 11,000 jobs, including 8,000 union jobs, for contracts worth $1.6 billion, Cruz said during a Senate hearing in January.

A 2014 State Department report dissected those numbers, revealing that out of the 11,000 jobs Cruz cited, only 35 to 50 would have been permanent; the remainder would have been temporary construction jobs as the pipeline was being built.

In March, a coalition of attorneys general from 21 states sued the Biden administration for rescinding the pipelines permit. In their complaint they said: The pipeline would have a negligible impact on the climate but significant impact on the economy and American energy independence.

A depot used to store pipes for the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline in Gascoyne, N.D., in 2017. (Terray Sylvester/Reuters)

As the 2022 midterm elections approach, Republican lawmakers have made clear that the demise of Keystone XL will resurface as an issue on which they will attempt, despite a robust economy, to pummel Democrats as job killers.

Many Republicans are also attempting to portray Biden as a hypocrite over his decision to ease sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, operated by a German citizen with close ties to Vladimir Putin.

After facing insurmountable opposition, the company behind the Keystone Pipeline abandoned the project today, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted Wednesday. Thousands of jobs destroyed and our energy independence jeopardized. Meanwhile, President Biden is meeting with Putin next week to tell him he can keep his pipeline.

Along with 10 other Senate Republicans, Sen. Jim Risch, R-Idaho, introduced the Defending Keystone Jobs Act, which would require the Biden administration to submit a report to Congress detailing the number of jobs lost as a result of the canceled pipeline.

An Enbridge Energy pipeline drilling pad near the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. (Jim Mone/AP)

Despite this backlash from Republicans, the termination of the pipeline is a notable victory for those trying to hasten the U.S. transition away from fossil fuels and a model for the battle that lies ahead. Earlier this week, hundreds of activists from environmental and tribal groups blocked access to the site where the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline is being built in northern Minnesota. TC Energys withdrawal from Keystone XL has given hope to opponents.

The termination of this zombie pipeline sets precedent for President Biden and polluters to stop Line 3, Dakota Access, and all fossil fuel projects, Kendall Mackey, campaign manager of 350.orgs Keep It in the Ground campaign, said in a statement.

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