Thank you, and before I ask for oral questions I want to acknowledge that we are met today on the traditional territory of the mississaugas of the new credit first Nations Oral questions the leader of Her Majesty's loyal opposition Thank you speaker, and I want to begin by welcoming all members to our first question period of This parliament and congratulate the speaker again on his his election to his important role Speaker my questions for the premier People deserve a premier not beholden to lobbyists and insiders and someone who tells the people of Ontario Exactly what he's up to but instead this premier is not even three weeks into the job And he's already telling Ontarians one thing and doing the exact opposite Opposite behind closed doors why did the premier say that the CEO of hydro one would get zero Absolutely zero when he knew that the CEO would walk away with millions Mr. Speaker congratulations and congratulations to the leader of the opposition If I could remind the leader of the opposition when we were out campaigning That we ran clearly on getting rid of the CEO and getting rid of the board as the news media Went around and said it cost ten million dollars. I'm here to tell you that there was zero Severance absolutely zero We were given a clear mandate the reduced hydro rates by 12% and that's exactly what we're going to do unlike the opposition leader Next month if you were in charge there'd be 7,000 people without jobs out in the Pickering hydro facility Thousand people wondering where they get their next thank you. Thank you Thank you speaker looks like this premier is going to be as honest in this house as he was on the campaign I have to ask the leader the opposition to withdraw Draw The premier said that the payout to Mayo Schmidt was zero Absolutely zero But now we know that mr. Schmidt will actually walk away with incentives worth at least nine million dollars Maybe even more speaker will the premier tell Ontarians Exactly how much his back room deal will end up costing hydro one great pairs Mr. Speaker Again, thank you for the question. I just want to remind you that the CEO of hydro is getting a zero severance in 2016 2017 and 18 under the liberal government with your support You prop them up to have stock options the stocks of options is what you're talking about But I can assure you the CEO had the same benefits as any other employee with their pensions and their benefits Again, the CEO of hydro is gone The board is gone. We're turning the page when it comes to hydro rates We have the highest Final supplementary let's remind the premier of this province that the new Democrats are the only party that has firmly stood against the privatization of Government speaker that started the privatization of electricity in our province when they were in government last time Premier wins six million dollar man speaker is now premier Ford's nine million dollar man and county Thanks to whatever secret deal the conservatives cooked up behind closed doors It's time for this premier to come clean with the people of Ontario How much does this secret deal really cost and when will he make it public? Mr. Speaker as I campaign throughout the province and you were side-by-side in many cases We said very clearly to the people that gave us the mandate that we're going to reduce hydro rates by 12% That's exactly what we're going to do We're turning the page at higher one and I want to remind the public God forbid you ever got elected They'd be looking at the high-grades double the cost of what they're looking at right now Recognize the leader the opposition for a second. Thank you speaker. My next question is also for the premier It's the job of the premier to do more than respond to lobbyists and Repay backroom deals speaker, but since taking office We've seen this premier making backroom deals that are driven by what's best for lobbyists and insiders Not what's best for Ontario instead of helping everyday families? He's quietly delivering favors for big polluters Ticket scalpers and his social conservative friends Why is this premier making backroom deals that help insiders and conservative friends instead of helping the people of Ontario? For you mr. Speaker. I want to remind the leader of the opposition. We're here for the people We're here to reduce taxes here to reduce taxes. We're going to create good paying jobs We're going to reduce the hydro rates and get this economy going in the province of Ontario once again We will be the engine of Ontario We will create thousands and thousands of great paying jobs and putting money back into the taxpayers pocket instead of the Government's pocket. I know the leader of the opposition believes in big government everything should go through government We believe in empowering the people When the premier cancelled cap and trade he was doing what is best for big polluters speaker the cost of ripping up Ontario's cap and trade agreements and reimbursing Companies for billions and billions of dollars in suddenly worthless credits will be Massive and the cost of inaction on climate change will hurt Ontarians today and for generations to come Which big polluters lobbied the premier to let them off the hook and stick families with the bill Mr. Speaker leader of the opposition we campaigned on getting rid of the cap and trade carbon factor Remind the leader of the opposition. We're going to save $790 million by doing that for the taxpayers of Ontario We're going to say $285 per family putting again money back into the taxpayers pocket instead of the big government's pocket We're going to start respecting the taxpayers for the next four years Question is how many billions and billions of dollars is it going to cost to cancel those contracts? Mr. McGinty told us it was going to cost 40 million dollars to cancel two gas plants and it cost $1.1 billion so we're very much looking forward to seeing what it's going to cost look Decision after decision is being driven by the premier's desire to deliver for his friends and for lobbyists The premier made a backroom deal with Tonya Granik Allen Charles McVidi and other far-right lobbyists to force out dated sex except curriculum on students rather and drag Ontario back to 1998 doesn't help students It doesn't help the safety of students at risk it ignores the responsibilities that we have to teach children about You clear young people and their safety Care more about the favors that he owes to social conservatives than he does about keeping young Mr. Speaker through leader of the opposition, we're gonna be very clear We're gonna govern for the people instead of for the government. We're gonna lower taxes for the people Taxes on small businesses that have been struggling absolutely struggling It makes us uncompetitive the cap and trade and carbon tax It puts a burden on the backs of the small businesses medium and large businesses It also puts a burden on the taxpayers of Ontario We're gonna make sure once we get rid of the cap and trade and carbon tax We're gonna reduce gas prices by 10 cents and leader Next question Leader the official opposition. Thank you speaker. My question is for the premier Nobody voted for businesses business to be conducted in secret and behind closed-door speaker Nobody voted for that and nobody voted for Ontario to be dragged backwards But that's what this premier is doing on July 3rd It was revealed that the premier had secretly slammed the brakes on the new special investigative Special investigations unit act now this particular law with the new oversight tools to help increase public trust and Accountability was the result of two full years of consultation and two rounds of committee hearings But the premier ignored all of that speaker and ignored the voices of Ontarians who lobbied the premier speaker to quietly scrap the rules on police oversight to the community services and Correctional services Minister minister for Community safety and safety and correctional services The basically the SIU is a matter that that's presently being looked at It's our understanding that I'm being briefed on it presently So I don't have any actual information on that but I will report back to the house when I have a response Well, it's pretty worrisome speaker that we have a minister Responsible who doesn't know the file at all enough to even give a semblance of a response to a question in the legislature new Democrats stand support for updating the laws that govern police oversight and Protect the public trust in policing the two-lock review took over a year and involves 17 public hearings and received 1500 submissions Including from police the previous government's legislation took another year and involved two rounds of public hearings and submissions Including from police. It wasn't perfect But even the head of the police Association of Ontario says that he accepts the need for police accountability and transparency so who lobbied the premier apparently Not but not be known to the minister who lobbied the premier to ignore Ontarians and stop these new oversight rules from coming into play I think the leader the opposition No The minister community safety and correctional services if he wishes to respond or he has to respond or or he has to refer it to Another I will refer it to the attorney general attorney general Thank You mr. Speaker, and I thank the leader the opposition for a question and congratulate her on her victory We pressed pause on this legislation so that we could take the time to conduct a full and thorough review of the legislation By consulting with experts police services and the public that is what we have done We have pressed paused on this we want to work with our frontline police officers to make sure that we do we have the Right answer on this issue the special investigations unit is still in place And so that unit the SIU is still doing its work, but we've pressed pause on that portion of the legislation Expression the member for Perth Wellington. Thank you speaker Congratulations mr. Speaker on your election. I know you'll be a truly dedicated and capable servant of this house Mike My question is through the minister environment conservation in parks And I also want to congratulate the minister on his new job Premier Doug Ford and the government for the people campaign on a plan for making life more affordable for families And respecting taxpayers that starts with scrapping the uncompetitive and unaffordable cap-and-trade carbon tax It didn't protect the environment Instead it only jacked up the price of gasoline home heating and everyday items like groceries and clothing Mr. Speaker could the minister please update the house on the government for the people's progress Scrapping this tax and tell the people of Ontario how much this will save families Thank you very much mr. Speaker. Thank you also to the member for his tough but fair question I'd like to congratulate the member from Perth from Perth Wellington For his reelection, and I know that he is an expert an excellent representative of his constituents As the premier has already stated today our government is moving swiftly to scrap the Liberals cap-and-trade carbon tax Cabinet has already taken measures to this effect and will be introducing legislation this session to finish the job Scrapping the Liberals cap-and-trade carbon tax will save the average family $285 a year and it's a first step towards our commitment to reduce gas tax by 10 cents We received a strong mandate from the people of Ontario to scrap this ineffective tax and we're delivering on that promise Promise is made promises kept. Thank you speaker back to the minister of environment conservation in parks I'm glad to hear that the government for the people is delivering on his promise When I went to door-to-door, I heard time and time again that life was harder and more unaffordable under the previous government And I know the people of Perth Wellington will be happy to hear we are scrapping the carbon tax Unfortunately other parties in this house will stop at nothing to impose another carbon tax on the people of Ontario One member opposite has even said he will fight to impose the highest carbon tax in North America onto the people of Ontario Raising gas prices by 35 cents per liter Could the minister please tell the people of this house what measures the government for the people is taking to protect Ontario families from future carbon taxes Thank you for the follow-up question through you mr. Speaker our government has been clear no carbon taxes now no carbon taxes ever People of Ontario can't afford one. They can't afford one now and they can't afford one in the future So they won't have one our government will be introducing legislation to scrap the Liberals cap and trade carbon tax once and for all Our government will challenge any efforts from the federal government to impose a carbon tax on the people of Ontario While the members opposite may fancy themselves as carbon tax crusaders the government will be standing with the people Ontario families as I said will save $285 a year will lower gas taxes by 10 cents a liter and put more money in their pockets. It's real change for the people Next question member for Toronto Danforth. Thank you speaker. Beaker my question to the premier late on Friday the energy minister announced that he was ripping up 758 renewable energy contracts These particular projects were chosen the decision was made behind closed doors We do know that many of these projects Are owned by municipalities public utilities local farmers school boards and first nations and the premier says he will pass legislation To download the cancellation costs from the province on to these local communities Will the premier tell us how much cost and disruption he will force on local communities First nations households and farmers as a result of his back room decision Mr. Speaker and on my first occasion to rise in this place I want to thank my wife and children for their love and support and the constituents of the great canora rainy River district for Mr. Speaker to fill with humility the shoes of the great Leo Burnier the former emperor of the north as he was fondly Known from the canora rainy River district for the past couple of weeks. Mr. Speaker There is a palpable excitement across Ontario as projects that represented wasteful spending by the previous government Have been cancelled. Mr. Speaker make no mistake about it This is not about anything more than a savings of $790 million to It represents the first in a number of steps that we're going to take to make sure that every Ontarian sees a savings on their energy bills moving forward. Thank you, Mr. Speaker and back to the premier one of the affected communities is the small northern Ontario town of Blind River in the riding Algoma Manitoulin eight years ago the Minister of Energy the current minister Applauded the town's decision to take out a massive federal loan under the federal conservative government to build a solar energy project Under the Green Energy Act the deal went bad and the town of 3,600 is nearly 50 million dollars in debt with nothing to show For it instead of helping the town recover the minister is making things worse Instead of making backroom decisions forcing unknown costs onto small towns and first nations Why won't the premier review these contracts in a transparent process that is based on evidence and the public interest? Interesting question about northern Ontario coming from a member from downtown Toronto, Mr. Speaker, let me tell you after years of working for the people across northern Ontario What they were talking about an expensive way of life longer winters than most colder than most People making choices between heating and eating mr. Speaker the goal of this and the promise of this platform and Premier Ford was to reduce hydro weights rates. That's what northern Ontarians were focused on That's what they told us on June 7th, and that's exactly what we're going to deliver The member for Brampton South Mr. Speaker my question is to the Minister of Health I would like to start by congratulating the Minister for being tasked with this important responsibility I know that she will do great work for her constituents and the people of Ontario I was proud to see that the government for the people wasted no time getting to work Rolling up its sleeves and finding ways to ensure taxpayers are getting value for money and Programs are run as effectively and efficiently as possible This is evidenced by the government's for the people's positive changes to the OHIP plus program Saving hard-earned tax dollars without compromising the services families depend on mr. Speaker Could the Minister of Health please update the members of this house on the government's changes to the OHIP plus Mr. Speaker and thank you to the member for the question I too would like to congratulate the member for Brampton South for being elected by his constituents and for the trust that they have in him But within days of being sworn in our government announced our intention to fix the OHIP plus program By focusing on drug benefits for those who do not already have prescription drug benefits Children and youth who are not covered by private benefits would continue to receive their eligible prescriptions free Mr. Speaker I repeat Children and youth who are not covered by private benefits would continue to receive their prescription drug benefits free More efficient the new system will save taxpayers money and the new system will dedicate precious resources to those who need them the most Most importantly this ensures that children and youth who still need the prescription drug. Thank you. We'll need them and get them when they Mr. Speaker back to the Minister of Health Thank you for those kind words. I am proud the people of Brampton South put their trust in me I will not let them down and thank you very much for the important update I am glad to see that the government for the people is getting to work saving taxpayers money without compromising the services Families and children depend on it's great to hear that children and youth will continue to receive the prescription drugs They need could the minister of health update the members of this House on how they are working with insurance companies to make these changes and save taxpayers money Insurance plans can cover thousands more drugs than the 4400 covered on OHIP plus children and youth would have more access to medications than under the current program Private insurers had previously given some The government a grace period for some medication which was set to expire in july 1st And that's why we needed to move quickly We asked those insurance group to extend that grace period which they have kindly agreed to do And i'm proud to say that the canadian life and health insurance associations Welcome to these changes to OHIP plus and extend at the transition period beyond july 1st We are currently working with the insurance association to make sure that their transition period is seamless And that young people who need the drugs will be able to get them free of charge Yeah Next question the member What's your bourgeois hello, mr. Speaker my question is uh to the premier Why did the government drop a conciliation from the mandate of the ministry of indigenous affairs? And what is behind the decision to have the minister share his time between northern affairs mining energy And indigenous affairs The minister Thank you, mr. Speaker and miigwetch to the member i congratulate him on winning a region of northwestern ontario That's near and dear to my heart as i had served it in my former capacity as The member of parliament for the great kanora riding and spent several years there working as a nurse and a lawyer In those communities campaign that reflected the needs for all ontarians, and we appreciate the truth and reconciliation Represents a dark chapter in canada's history Moving forward mr. Speaker we intend as a government to honor the principles of truth and reconciliation But focus mr. Speaker on the things that indigenous communities are asking for a piece of the prosperity that all ontarians have come to expect In their communities and moving forward whether it's resource revenue sharing mr. Speaker for municipalities and indigenous communities in this province But particularly in northern ontario We're going to make sure that those indigenous communities have access to the kind of prosperity that we all expect from a government supplementary question Thank you. Again. It's all momo cough from a q. Aduk writing Speaker first nations are concerned about the government's step Backward away from reconciliation This is not basking nation grand chief alvin fiddler said It is difficult to see how progress can continue to be made when first nations are reduced to only On how they relate to the government's ability To access the resources within our lands During the campaign the the premier famously said he would Get on the boat dozer himself to get the ring of fire underway And he also said that he would stop talking and start doing But from the from the perspective of first nations The only way you can start doing anything And their territories and our territories Is to start talking to our territory Speaker, how does the premier propose to do this with the part-time minister? Thank you Thank you, mr. Speaker, and I can assure the member op is said that there's nothing part time about the devotion and the skill that I bring to this portfolio Stands this ministry stands alone with a minister who has spent more than eight years of his life living and working in indigenous communities Mostly in northwestern Ontario, but in fact across canada, mr. Speaker I have a keen sense and great relationships with indigenous leaders Some of these folks are some of my closest friends across the region, mr. Speaker We're going to ensure that first nations have prosperity the member mentioned ring of fire Those communities are doing more than just talking. They're working with the private sector, mr. Speaker Creating economic opportunities and creating jobs for those isolated remote communities It's high time. Mr. Speaker, and we're going to deliver on those promises for prosperity for indigenous communities Recognize the member for Ottawa south Thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Congratulations on your election and my question is for the premier Premier congratulations on your election and your government's mandate And congratulations to all the members of this legislature on your election Our caucus looks forward to working with all of you in the best interests of ontario families premier During the campaign we heard nothing about a plan from the conservative party for climate change Do you believe that it's important for your government to have a plan for climate change? Yes or no Premier minister environment Mr. The environment so mr. Speaker and thank you to the member for the question Our priority is of course to return Return our economy to the vibrance that it once had but we absolutely understand That climate change is real and we understand that man has played a role in that And so we will also be bringing forward a plan to make sure that the ontario economy is is Vibrant and is is strong, but also understands the impacts of of our own impact as as as human beings on climate That plan will not include a regressive carbon tax Thank you for your response Premier if the environment and climate change were important to you It would have been in your throne speech Climate change is the challenge of our generation It's what we need to do For our kids and our grandkids and our great grandkids And it is possible for a conservative to have a plan for an environmental challenge In the 80s, there was one conservative prime minister Brian Mulroney and he teamed with another conservative you may know Ronald Reagan On their environmental challenge of the time Acid rain they worked together. They understood they had a plan Premier I want to ask you What is your plan for climate change? You can't just tear something down and not put something in its place There is not an option not to do anything. Premier. What is your plan? Thank you Mr. Speaker through you, we appreciate the members confidence in in previous conservative administrations This government will will bring forward a plan a plan that that understands the importance of climate change But we will do so in a way that preserves the economic growth that's required that that understands that a regressive tax On individuals that that telling people that they can't drive their cars anymore is not an effective or a sincere way to approach this issue But a plan will be coming When gary press thought Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker my question is to the minister of economic development job creation and trade First of all, I'd like to congratulate the honorable member on his reelection and his new role I know That he'll do a fantastic job in putting our economy and businesses first and ensuring that good jobs are created all across our province Minister we know that our jobs across ontario that that depend on trade and our american friends and neighbors Mr. Speaker from the steel workers in hamilton and in so saint marie to our world-class auto sector So many industries and so many of our communities depend on trade with our american partners Mr. Speaker can the minister please tell us some of the steps He's taking to protect those jobs and to stand shoulder to shoulder with hard-working ontarians all across this province Mr. Economic Development job creation Congratulations, mr. Speaker and congratulations To the honorable member and thank you for the question. I know you'll you'll do a great job for the people at Mr. Speaker ontario is open for business once again Premier ford and one of his first acts is premier actually premier elect indicated that we will stand shoulder to shoulder with our federal cousins cousins On the trade issue I better clarify that for everybody And and one of the first things that he did and I did was get briefed by the federal government and the canadian ambassador On the NAFTA negotiations One in five jobs in ontario or 1.3 million jobs in ontario Depend on good relations with the united states and our trade relations And in the united states and we want to go down there this week and make it clear that nine million jobs depend on a good NAFTA Negotiations in the united states and that's what i'll be doing at the end of the week Thank you, mr. Speaker mr. Speaker back to the minister of economic development job creation and trade minister over the past 15 years ontario's economy has struggled under the weight of punishing red tape skyrocketing hydro rates and unfair taxes that have put our province at a competitive disadvantage Under the last government there was a steady flow of both jobs and investment out of our province Minister i'm sure that you and your ministry have been hard at work Taking early steps to not only keep good jobs in ontario, but to attract more investment and jobs creation Mr. Speaker, can the minister please explain how his government for the people is ensuring that ontario is once again open for business Well, I said Thank you as I said, mr. Speaker at the end of this week I'll be heading to the united states to prepare here before a commerce committee It's unprecedented that ontario is a sub-national government has this opportunity And we're going to make it clear we're open for business and the way we're open for business is to keep that border open between the united states And and ontario and canada 85 percent of our cars for example Go to the united states an auto park for example could go across the nafta region borders Seven times before it's finally put into a car either on the us side or the canadian side If we don't get this trade relationship right Some 900,000 cars might not be made in the next three years in ontario right now We make two million a year that will be thousands and thousands of families who can't put food on the table So we're counting on good relations with the us premier ford has already set that in motion Thank you. He's working on with the governors and we're going to open those borders Good job member for ashua Thank you very much mr. Speaker and congratulations and nice to see you in the chair And my question is for the premier Collapsing the ministry of citizenship and immigration into an afterthought in the middle of a global refugee crisis is wrong Although the ministry has been erased the issues have not Ignoring the fact that most asylum seekers and newcomers are not breaking any laws This government has continued to use divisive and inflammatory language Calling those who seek refuge or asylum illegals is appalling and it doesn't absolve this government of responsibility This government's rash decision to cut provincial refugee resettlement services forces our cities to shoulder the cost of housing And leads to greater cost down the road Neglecting this humanitarian crisis is not in line with ontario's values and it puts the 11 million dollars from the federal government in question Conflicting reports leave many wondering who this government is working for what the plan is So let me ask the premier clearly Who are you working for and are you walking away from 11 million dollars? Thank you Thank you very much for the question and welcome back to the house and as well to you speaker It's great to see you in that chair Um, I'd also like to thank the people of napien for once again for a fifth time sending me to this legislature It's the most diverse riding inside the city of Ottawa where people from um live raise a family and retire I'm also proud to be an ontarian and i'm proud to be a canadian And i'm proud to be a conservative party where we for the first time elected two tamil mps Logan canapathy and vj fang silliam. I re-elected the first korean mpp in reyman show the first Coptic egyptian canadian mp syarif sabi and the two persian canadian mpps Goldigamari and michael parsa and many many more complimentary the member for osha Thank you speaker Again to the premier Report after report shows that across ontario there is a growing and long-standing housing crisis And instead of fixing the crisis this government has chosen to fear monger and place the blame on people seeking asylum But let me be clear to this premier The premier is making things worse speaker just days before being elected Mr. Ford had a backroom conversation with meritori and councillor john cambell Urging them to stop the city from building a temporary homeless shelter two kilometers from his house This homeless shelter could have provided much needed temporary housing aid for asylum seekers So does this premier think it's appropriate for the premier of ontario to intervene in municipal plans for personal gain? We've been perfectly clear speaker that the federal government has an obligation to pay for its failed federal policies This is a situation where we have 800 people in college dormitories on august the 9th that need to be vacated So students can go back into those locations. I asked the member opposite. Where does she think they should go? We have a 175 million dollar crisis in order to pay for toronto housing costs, which are 75 million dollars Ottawa city's shelter costs, which are 11 million dollars and in my own department 90 million dollars on the welfare role So we're going to continue to welcome people to ontario and we're going to continue to support them We reckon we brought in 36 000 refugees in the last two years alone outside of the syrian refugee crisis But somebody's going to have to pay for all of that and it's going to be the federal government We love your support in the ontario pc party Next question the member for durham Mr. Speaker my question is for the minister of energy I congratulate the member from canora rainy river on his appointment in this important role I know he'll make the people of the great riding of canora rainy river proud The legacy of the previous government was the mess they made in the hydro system Ontario was home to some of the highest hydro rates in north america When I went door to door in durham during the election campaign I heard from families that had to choose between putting food on the table and paying their hydro bills Families should not be forced to choose between heating and eating I heard from small businesses who were forced to close their doors and shutter their windows because of skyrocketing rates Meanwhile insiders and friends of the previous government got rich and lined their pockets This is a mess started with the green energy act passed by both the liberals and the ndp And this is a mess that needs to be cleaned up. Could the minister of energy? Please tell me what the government for the people has done and thank you Thank you, mr. Speaker, and I want to congratulate the member from durham on her outstanding victory and her representation She'll bring to her constituents. There's no question Mr. Speaker The previous government made it their mission to expand renewable energy at unsustainable rates and unaffordable contracts industrial wind turbines and solar power mr. Speaker that constituencies communities Found unfavorable for them. Mr. Speaker. We're canceling them because imagine this mr. Speaker And this will be a new kind of concept for the ndp certainly unknown to the other one We're going to protect the interests of ontario taxpayers ontario people mr. Speaker that shareholder Called the ontario rate pair who owns 47.5 percent of hydro one mr. Speaker, so Over the past couple of weeks. We've had a lot of excitement and activity. Thank you. We're going to reduce those hydro rates Thank you, mr. Speaker. Thank you Mr. Speaker back to the minister Thank you very much for that update I'm glad to see the government for the people is moving swiftly to clean up the hydro mess This is yet another promise made and yet another promise cat But cleaning up the hydro mess will not be easy Nowhere is there more evident than at hydro one After 15 years of liberal scandals waste and mismanagement the people of ontario have lost trust in hydro one I heard it every single day when I went door to door in durham The government for the people will need to move swiftly and act fast Could the minister of energy please provide the members of this house with an update on what is being done to restore public confidence in hydro one Mr. Speaker and thanks to the tremendous leadership shown by premier ford mr. Speaker We we took uh an opportunity to renew the leadership of hydro one and we're taking important steps in the coming weeks and months to ensure That the ontario rate pair the ontario taxpayer colleagues is going to be protected and this Including another a couple of other important steps with my colleagues here today are going to ensure that hydro rates Come down mr. Speaker the renewal of the leadership at hydro one is going to represent a cost savings But that's not enough for us. Mr. Speaker. We want to cancel contracts that put an unfair burden On rate pairs here in ontario and ensure that moving forward. We're not subsidizing and punting that debt down the road to our families We're cutting it now. So families have real savings on their hydropower Thank you speaker. My question is to the premier speaker this government's dangerous decision to repeal the updated sexual health curriculum Is dragging ontario backwards? It is a harmful decision that puts children and youth at risk Speaker the people of ontario understand that this was a back room decision To appease a small circle of socially conservative insiders at the expense of our children's safety Will the premier admit that repealing the sex ed curriculum was about advancing his own political career Without any regard for the health and safety and well-being of young people in this province Thank you speaker and again It's great to see you in that chair and as I stand for the first time in the 42nd parliament I want to thank the residents and the voters of curing brews Not going to change and in that spirit speaker I would like to share with you today that contrary to what was reported last week We are going to stand firmly in support of students and the realities they face in 2018 We know they need to learn about consent. We know they need to learn about cyber safety We know they need to learn about gender identity and appreciation But we all the former liberal government's consultation process was completely flawed And that's where we're going to focus in and we're going to respect parents And allow them a chance to once and for all have their voices heard in a very fulsome thoughtful inclusive consultation Thank you speaker the repeal of the 2015 curriculum requires schools to teach an outdated sex ed curriculum from 1998 A curriculum written before same-sex marriage was legal Before texting and google and social media It denies the existence of lgbtq youth and families and the reality of our modern diverse society It does nothing to provide young people with the accurate up-to-date information They need to protect themselves about cyber bullying about sexting about healthy relationships most of all about consent Why does the government want to take away the critical information and tools young people need to keep themselves safe? Thank you Thank you very much speaker as I said before contrary to all the spinning and what was reported last week We the premier myself and our entire colleagues in the pc government stand with students and the fact that they Consent that includes texting sexting that includes even new elements like luring catfishing And we need to take a look at that and open up a consultation to make sure That every person who wants to share their perspective has an opportunity to do so And I am committed to a consultation that will absolutely ring true across this province And stamp out any misconceptions that this opposition party is trying to perpetuate and will improve upon what the liberal curriculum has done in the past Thank you very much Next question the member for whitby Thank you speaker. My question is to the minister of energy I'd like to congratulate the honorable member on his being named the minister and the Excellent work he is doing to make life more affordable for everyone in the in Ontario Speaker the pickering nuclear generating station is vital to Durham region 4,500 jobs in the region depend on the continued operation of this plan an additional 3,000 jobs across the province also depend on the continued operation of the plant That's 7,500 good paying job speaker across the province However, throughout the election campaign the future of this plant plant was under constant threat Radical special interests in downtown Toronto and opposition parties tried to shut this plant down in august And put 4,500 Durham region families out of work Speaker could the minister of energy, please tell the members of this house What action this government is taking to protect 4,500 jobs in Durham region? Thank you, mr. Speaker, and I want to congratulate the member from whitby on his reelection. I appreciate his contributions Mr. Speaker i'm proud that premier ford was able to Join the minister of environment conservation and parks the president of the treasury board the member from whitby and the member From durham to stand up now. Here's another here's another concept The opposition is going to get have to get used to to promise made promise delivered mr. Speaker Stood proudly with those workers mr. Speaker who were concerned about what they they could do to provide for their families moving forward If this facility was shut down mr. Speaker by an ndp government imagine that mr. Speaker We're going to move forward on an effective plan that offers safe and efficient delivery of hydro energy mr. Speaker And that's the promise we made But back to the minister of energy Thank you very much minister for this great news for the people of whitby and durham region Speaker keeping the pickering nuclear generating station open Not only protects thousands of good paying jobs across the province It's also great news for entero ratepayers family small businesses and entero job creators who will save hundreds of millions of dollars in their hydro bills Speaker, unfortunately radical special interests in downtown, toronto and opposition parties in this house Wanted to shut this plant down and jack hydro bills up making life harder and more unaffordable Could the minister please tell the members of this house? How much the government for the people expects keeping the pickering nuclear generation station open will save entero hydro ratepayers I pre i appreciate the member uh speaking out for another important principle that will guide this government's decision making mr. Speaker making responsible decisions That saved taxpayers money imagine that mr. Speaker premier ford as government commitment to uh govern for the People and keep the pickering Generating station open till 20 24 will in fact save ontario ratepayers 600 million dollars It will ensure that 60 percent of our electricity that comes from nuclear power will include this important asset And as importantly mr. Speaker speaker, it will ensure that 60 000 people in ontario Will have work in nuclear power now this represents a wide range of skillset people that we want working in our province mr. Speaker What does the end do if you want to do? They want to shut it down. We'll take no lessons from that party when it comes to the back Take your seats Please take your seats Recognize the member for nickle bell. Thank you. Mr. President. Thank you. Thank you, mr. Speaker. My question is for the premier The premier's decision Let ties ohib plus will not fix the gap in drug coverage It will not help the millions of people who can't afford their prescription And it will not lower the cost of prescription drugs instead It is a huge step backwards from the universal public pharma care program that family needs How can the premier defend his decision to privatize pharma care When it will leave the people of ontario with higher drug costs and lower drug coverage Premier Thank you very much mr. Speaker and thank you to the member for the question That is not what's happening What we're trying to do is use the very limited resources that we have in ontario right now for the people that actually need it That's what we're working with the insurers to do and that's what the people of ontario want Thank you The minister seems to be ignoring the facts The decisions to privatize pharma care is not fiscally responsible Economists and health care leaders all say privatizing pharma care is the absolute wrong thing to do In fact, the leading economist on pharmaceutical costs in canada Dr. Stephen Morgan says the premier's drug plan costs will hit the middle class the hardest He says this cut and I quote Benefit narrow interest at the expense of the majority of ontario's businesses and households So my question to the minister is simple Which back room insiders and lobbyists are telling the premier to privatize pharma care? And why is the premier listening to them? Why In fact what is happening is a common sense solution and what we're doing is reversing a decision that was made by the previous government That made no sense to anybody at all Access to more drugs than currently exist so that people can get access to those prescriptions So right now there are situations under the previous ohib plus which we're changing Where people couldn't get access to the medications they needed because a formulary was so old So we need to move forward. We need to make sure that the insurers continue to cover as the first line So that the money will be available for the people that need it to do not have prescriptions Next question member for sue st. Marie Thank you, mr. Speaker my Thank you. My question is for the minister of natural resources and forestry Firstly, I want to congratulate the honorable member on his reelection and on the important role He has taken in our new government Mr. Speaker last week many residents of tamagami faced the scare of their life when a mandatory evacuation order was placed on them Due to the intensity of active wildfires in the region At the height of the blaze over 70 fires were burning and over 600 brave firefighters were putting their lives on the line to bring These fires under control Can the minister please tell the house what steps his ministry has taken to ensure support for first responders and the safety of the local residents Thank you Thank you speaker and I'd like to thank the member from sue st. Marie on that question and Welcome back to our caucus and I look forward to continue working with you as we go forward Speaker I first of all like to thank all the firefighters and their families from across the province And across this country has answered the call to help those in tamagami Our wildline fire and emergency response personnel They're working closely with the Ontario provincial police local authorities and agencies to fight the fire near the town of tamagami And to make sure that people are moved to safety People in communities threatened by this fire responding in a calm and orderly way And I want to thank them for supporting their neighbors incorporating with local officials during this emergency Their continued cooperation with emergency personnel will help keep people safe in areas affected by the wildfires Thank you supplementary Thank you again. Mr. Speaker back to the minister. Thank you minister for your answer The intensity of these fires has required a tremendous amount of effort from first responders all across Ontario I understand in fact that we have asked for and received support from other provinces as well It takes an incredible coordination of efforts between first responders fire rangers support staff and teams from other provinces to respond In such a timely fashion to help execute execute an evacuation in this period of time without injury Mr. Speaker, can the minister please provide this house with more details on the responses and the actions taken to battle these fires In order to keep the residents of tamagami safe Speaker we have requested and received support from Provinces from across the country and on behalf of premier florida and the Ontario government We want to thank those premiers from these provinces for helping Ontario in our time of need by sending Aircraft and fire rangers to help fight these fires in a significant another other active fires throughout the province I also want to thank the tremendous effort of our fire rangers and support staff have been working tirelessly to protect this community For the sons and daughters and partners of these first responders I wanted to give them my full promise That we will do everything and give them full support in battling these fires in tamagami and across north of Ontario To ensure their safety and I want to give personal thanks to each and every one of them I would also like to assure the house that our government is continuing to monitor the situation closely And we will continue to provide updates on a timely basis. Thank you Thank you very much. Mr. Speaker. I have a tough but fair question for the premier One of the first actions your government took was a hiring and wage freeze on the broader public sector What you don't seem to understand is when you freeze the public sector and And prevent people from working for the people of this province You shut out the public services for those people The hiring freeze was followed by a firing of a string of high-profile senior bureaucrats Ontario's first chief scientist. We don't know what the premier has against fax Ontario trade representative in washington dc the list goes on Already we see a pattern with your new government get rid of anyone who might be critical of your agenda Did the premier impose a hiring freeze and fire senior civil servants so that you could replace them with your own bureaucrats Who will tow the conservative party line? Thank you Thank you, mr. Speaker for the question and uh the member opposite I also would like to thank my family who supported me in my election And the great people of the riding of Pickering Uxbridge Mr. Speaker our government is committed to improving the efficiency and effectiveness of government Spending in all sectors and bringing a balanced budget to the people for the people A public service hiring freeze is the first step towards a balanced budget and bringing real change to the province of ontario To that end one of our first acts has been to direct all ministries to implement a hiring freeze until we can get a true look at the picture Of the state of ontario's finances Mr. Speaker, let me be clear the hiring freeze does not apply to our frontline workers like nurses and teachers The freeze will be implemented in a manner that ensures the government remains able to deliver the high quality public services The people of ontario depend that concludes the time we have for all questions today But i'd like to remind all members That when you're speaking in the house when you have the floor of the house when you've been recognized by the speaker You address your comments through the speaker And you if you're speaking of other members you speak about them respectfully and you speak about them in the third person Point of order the member for bruce gray owens out Thank you very much speaker I'd like to introduce furg devins chair of bladder cancer canada and a survivor and a proud resident of canora in northern ontario Who's in the members gallery? Thank you? Minister of education on a point of order. Thank you so much speaker I would like to share an appreciation to all of our pages welcome back and thank you for helping us out during And I would too would like to express my thanks to the staff of the ontario legislature for all the work that they've done To prepare for this special summer sitting at the house. They've worked very very hard There being no deferred votes this house is in recess until 1 p.m. This afternoon


I'm Darren Marlar and this is your Daily Dose of Weird News. Facebook is apparently testing a feature called Send a Wave. It allows people to send their nearby friends a waving hand emoji to say hello and help them beat up.  You'll like this one – two babies were born in a South Carolina hospital in rooms right next to each other. The parents of the respective babies have never met and their babies were born just 18 hours apart. The babies' names? Romeo and Juliet – no kidding. Morgan and Edwin Hernandez welcomed Romeo into the room at 2.06pm Sunday, then 18 hours and 8 minutes later, Christiana and Alan Schifflet announced the delivery of Juliet. The babies' names had been chosen long before they were born, but after the coincidence was realized, the parents called a photographer in to take pictures of the babies laying side by side. Romeo's mother says it's funny because we didn't even name him Romeo after Shakespeare. We named him after a singer named Romeo Santos that my husband and I both love.  We wanted a J-name to go with our son's name Jonas. We picked Juliet because we were watching the TV show Psych and the character's name is Jules. Sears and Kmart might not have enough money to stock their shelves. The company that operates the department store chain warned this week that it faces substantial doubt about its ability to stay in business unless it can borrow more and tap cash from more of its assets. Hey, you know what?  Here we go, problem solved. White House spokesman Sean Spicer's press conferences have become must-watch TV, with ratings that sometimes even beat soap operas like The Bold, The Beautiful, and General Hospital. Plus, the acting at the press conferences is a lot more believable. English teachers are shaking their heads in dismay. Only 43% of U.S. adults read at least one book of literature last year, that is novels, short stories, poetry, or plays, making a three-decade low, according to a report from the National Endowment for the Arts. It is the long, steady decline of literary reading, laments the Washington Post. The NEA has been tracking adult reading and arts participation since 1982, when the literature reading rate was an impressive 57%. The survey counts only those books read for pleasure, not because they were required for work or school. In an attempt to capture the broadest possible range of leisure reading, there was also no distinction made between physical books and books read on e-readers, such as the Amazon Kindle. We do read tweets, though. How about you create pretty pictures of war and peace and then send out the entire novel, 140 characters at a time? Payless shoe stores are said to be getting ready to file for bankruptcy as soon as next week. Perhaps allowing people to pay less isn't such a great business strategy after all. If you want to be happier, cancel your Facebook account. That's the conclusion from a Danish think tank that insists quitting Facebook will not only make you happier but also less angry, less sad, and less worried. The Happiness Research Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark found that after only seven days away from Facebook, those users reported feeling happier, less sad, less worried, less angry, and less depressed. For more information, you can read the whole article on my Facebook page. If you liked this video, please give it a thumbs up and be sure to subscribe if you want to see more. And click that little bell next to the subscribe button to be notified when I post new videos. This episode is made possible in part by my Patreon supporters. For daily news of WeirdNews.com, I'm Darren Marlar.


Going on everyone Sam here with late sports cards ripping four boxes of the sports card Almanac multi-sport personal box edition volume 5 for brand and a we've got number 67 67 number 30 number 24 and number 85 85 that's we do not 85 And 85 Box number 85 there it is. Good luck here, Brandon. Let's do it. We'll start with 67 Nice Jake Ferguson seven to ten on the cracked ice That's nasty. Hell. Yeah, man. That is a rookie ticket 22 contenders He's actually a really good tight end for the Dallas Cowboys as well big time good start on that one for sure my Starting fantasy tight end actually very nice 22 on the craft ice interesting It's number to 10 to must he must have been a shorter printed auto. So that's 67. I'll be number 30 next number 13 is Lamar Jackson On the power surge 2019 Panini one. Let's go dude. He of 10 Jersey number one of the chase cards. Congrats Brandon Let's go man. Oh That's so sick That is nasty this isn't I mean this is obviously a card that I do want but Not the one that I want I will tell you guys when we pull at the card that I'm really interested in Lamar was I was at the game last night to Dean. He was awesome. All right number 24 Brandon number 24. Good luck, buddy You've got a Dion Sanders all-pro ink 5 of 15 from 2021 flawless little prime-time action. Let's go dude fire. That is sick congrats Brandon Also to answer your question Nathan. This is We call this the sports card Almanac. It's our repack product and this was 170 a spot 170 a spot pick your number style That is 24 and then number 85 number 85 Yeah, you're Someone say power We've got a that's sick and do a lot of from NT Jonathan Taylor and Michael Pittman, Jr. That's gonna be a rookie as well 25 of 25 and that's the latent right there. That is from 2020 NT Jonathan Taylor and Michael Pittman, Jr. That holds at a very very very good Draft class there that is sick Brandon congrats on all of your hits on that one, buddy. Thanks again for the support We'll get him around to my man


Governor Andy Beshear and other public officials held a press conference at Valley Elementary School Tuesday morning to give updates on the flooding situation throughout Pike County. Here in Kentucky we have good people. We open our hearts and our homes to one another and that's what you're seeing here today in Shelby Valley Elementary. You're seeing a school which is always a beacon of light in the darkness turned into a staging area where we can make sure people have water. But they have the cleaning supplies and ultimately the food that they need. This is devastated portions of eastern Kentucky. The biggest takeaway from the governor's message was that individual assistance through FEMA has been approved for Pike County. President this morning signed the documentation to provide through FEMA individual assistance to Pike County and also out in Floyd. That is now seven counties. They're going to have to go through a process that is too complicated. We're going to help everybody but it's going to mean that dollars are there for individuals to help them start rebuilding. We are grateful for that and this is the fastest I've seen individual assistance granted after natural disaster admittedly when I had an opportunity to talk to the president. He said whatever you need I said Mr. President I need individual assistance. I do want to say that this is the fastest that I have ever seen in my time in government that individual assistance has been declared. I reached out I've talked to the White House's emergency disaster coordinator. They promised us help and the White House delivered. Experienced heart specialist and sub specialist collaborating for the benefit of your care. Top 10 percent national hospital rankings for patient safety and heart attack and heart failure treatment. The technology is skilled to perform extraordinary complex minimally invasive cardiac electrophysiology interventional and structural heart surgeries. This is a heart and vascular institute at Pikeville Medical Center. When it comes to your heart place your care in our hands. The process for filing a claim for individual assistance can be complicated but that process can now be started online. The governor is also hoping to soon have a location available for people to go to in order to speak to an individual from FEMA in person to assist in the process. Within a day we think we are going to have a set location where people can come in and talk to people face to face. It is not an easy process. I would recommend talking directly to a FEMA person even if it's just starting your claim online make sure you do that. We've also been promised people in the field. Seven months ago we had them out there with tablets walking house to house making sure that they get the pictures and everything else and I personally asked the president the FEMA do a little bit better this time on the number of people that are ultimately approved talk to the head of FEMA that's the administrator I've talked to our regional head on that and I'm going to continue to push it so we will have a location out for FEMA as soon as it is set and then our goal is to have the transportation cabinet there to replace your driver's license to have unemployment insurance there to help people who aren't going to be able to go to work for a while we're going to try to bring every service under one roof and walk people around because they've already been through too much the governor is working diligently to get as many people approved for individual assistance as possible for those wishing to file a claim you can visit disaster assistance dot org for mountaintop news i'm kelsie dean


Some people believe that spirit only speaks to us in certain ways or through certain people. But truthfully, spirit is always speaking to us and can do so in literally any way it wants to. Said in another way, we can't put God in a box. In the moment we try, it stops us from being able to receive all of the other infinite possibilities of what we might perceive otherwise. So let go of your attachments and look beyond what you might be perceiving right now. Who knows? In the next 20 seconds, spirit might just show up in your life in a mysterious way. So put your phone down and pay attention and see what naturally rises. Go.


Good morning. Good afternoon, everyone. My name is Aleksandar. I work at Pivotal. I work on Cloud Foundry Container Runtime and Crenate. Hi, my name is Akshay Mankar. I used to work on the Cloud Foundry Container Runtime as an engineer. Now I've moved to the closed-sourced part of the PKS program. And this is our friend, Octo. He's the octopus at Pivotal. He'll be helping us present this talk. Yeah, so we will talk about off-top-reading Bosch packages and avoiding boring work. So important part that this talk is will be most helpful for the Boschers' authors. We expect you to know what Bosch list is, how you can develop it, and yeah, usually, if you develop it, you'll see benefits. So what we will talk about. I'll talk about why do we need to do this. Probably you know, but we'll just take up a little bit, then how you can do it and how we're already doing it. And we'll raise some concerns during our talk, what we can do better. Okay, let's start. So I joined Pivotal almost three years ago, and after deploying with Chef, Bosch was incredible. Bosch deployments are so nice. You can reproducibly deploy all the time. You can deploy it in different infrastructure, manifest the versionable, so new manifest, new version of your deployment. It's so nice. And part of it, it's Bosch list. Bosch list contains all the packages. It's reproducible and it's self-containable, so you don't have to access Internet to deploy something. And the self-containability is done by Blobs. So Blobs help us to use some versions. It's Bosch packages that usually some other authors provide. You upload them to the cloud, and you have to commit on your source code. And Blobs are awesome. There's actually one problem. Problem with Blobs is that, yeah, problem we want to solve is this Bosch dance. I think all of you saw it. It's when something got upgraded, you need to add new version of Blob, then remove old version of Blob, then upload. There's a new Blob to the cloud, then commit, push it. Seems very easy. And, yeah, looks very easy. Unfortunately, not as easy. So here's just two months ago, I forgot to upload Blob. That happens. It was, I added new Blob, forgot to upload it. Before that, I forgot to remove it. And I do this mistake even with Octahelp. What about you, Akshay? Yeah, I did something, but I would very much prefer Octo to not hear it. It's really, really bad practice. I once uploaded Kubernetes version 1.6 as 1.7 while upgrading 1.6 to 1.7. So we all thought it got upgraded, but Kubernetes was still old. And guess what I did? Why don't we have a commit message here? I was so embarrassed, I forced push on top of it. Please don't tell Octo, he'll probably kill me. Yeah, so that's even part of bigger upgrade thing, isn't it, Akshay? Yeah, so that dance was small, but look at this bigger dance. How do you even know when upgrades are going to, when you have to upgrade a package? You have to wait for some team member to notice the package has updated, like they have released an upgrade. Then they would create the same old boring story in Tracker or whatever your project management thing is. You have to find the old story, copy paste things, and be like, yeah, update things. And then next thing, you have to convince your project manager, your team that we need this upgrade. Then again, that condition goes on, people go like, okay, we'll put it somewhere in the priority. It makes it to the top of the backlog, and then developer starts doing all of these things. Again, you hope they don't make mistakes. And then pipeline runs the test, and then you ship it. So all of this, how do you feel about it, Alex? I personally like it with Octopus. We like it, but it feels repetitive and little bit boring. Maybe a little bit, just a little bit boring. Some boring things. So first of all, this find new version. It's relatively easy. So we work on CFSR and Kubernetes, package and Kubernetes, and this Kubernetes is relatively easy. Okay, new version of Kubernetes, there will be some post on hack and use or somewhere, like okay, let's do it. But if we do some dependent package that no one cares that much, even Flannel or some container images that we use, you need to go somewhere, probably to GitHub and check the new GitHub release. And I need to do it every day, once a week. It has to be procedure. It's quite boring. And that fun part of the boring thing that I can see is, yeah, development work. And since it's boring, we all do mistakes, even Octo does mistakes here. It can be just one script that can do this for you. And if it's boring, I'll ask you to do it, actually, obviously. As the doer of boring things, I would probably make more mistakes or I'd just hire a Terminator to do it. And if it's boring, it'll terminate it. Like, what's the point of doing this boring thing, right? So again, what would Terminator do? Terminator would be my bot. I call my bot Terminator. It would be like it notices the upgrade. It'll create a story for me. And then maybe wait for us to prioritize it. And then we'll talk to PM, have that conversation. And then when it reaches the top of the backlog, Terminator will pick it up and do it, right? It's simple. Does this sound good? Like, if I don't do it and terminate it? Yeah. So, okay, you saved your time. That's fine. But I know, I think that probably Sean, who is here, he won't enjoy if I ask him every time to prioritize a bump of new package, especially it will be some very, very boring package. He'll ask me, why didn't you prioritize it? Can we, like, sneak it? Yeah, I think you're right. And waiting is human-like. We, as humans, like to wait for things alike. Make sure we're doing the most important work that the customers would benefit from. And because our time is valuable, we prioritize things. But bots' time is not that valuable. No offense to any bots that are here. But their time is not that valuable. They are sitting, they're just... And also, it's cheap because what is bots' time? It's some CPU time on some VM on cloud, right? It's cheap. So, how about this new world where the bot will notice things and the bot will ship things and we can go to Alps and hike? Yes, that's good. I mean, that usually works good, but unfortunately, unfortunately, we work on Kubernetes and it has some, sometimes there are some problems happen that sometimes they introduce some breaking changes, even in patch versions. I won't even talk about minor versions where contract may change or something will happen. And if some new features appear, bots usually don't expose it because bots can't read release notes. So, maybe let's optimize this bot and make him read the release notes. I don't know. Maybe automating bots to these release notes. Sometimes I can't understand them. I don't know how to write code for bots to understand them. I would much rather take some compromise here and bake in some flexibility in the bot. If I notice that bot has upgraded something wrong, maybe I would say, hey, how about you stop for a bit, don't upgrade things, and I will revert the bot's things, right? Revert whatever changes bots made. I have to make sure the bot is not super reckless and just doesn't... Like, I revert bots in and bot goes, oh, you're using wrong package. Let me upgrade again. So, you don't want that. So, let's... We should have a pause button in our bot. Like, it should be able to pause. There are other problems that we could... Other ways to solve this is like Semware. It is the next best thing after reading release notes. Yes, release notes give you much more depth in depth detail, but if the packages you depend on religiously follow Semware, they would not break contracts in miners or they would not make major changes in patches. So, we could make bots listen to only minor changes or patch changes depending on what package we depend on, right? As a next step, we could also say that, hey, how about you don't push to master? Our master is supposed to be much more tested, much more stable thing, send us a port request. If bot sends us a port request, we run a PR pipeline. We make sure everything works. Maybe have a person go through it and see. Maybe have a person go through release notes, check out deprecations and see if there can be any minor enhancements they can make. So, we could do all of those things. And not only we could do, we actually do. You can do this, all things. So, we do all the things. So, we have several pipelines that you can access by this URL or they will be linked to our Git repo. So, for example, in Docker release, we just say Docker will only use supported version of in Kubernetes. So, we won't bump it much. We won't bump it higher. So, we won't go on the latest. And in Kubernetes, it will use both. It will bump only for patches and send PRs because sometimes break scenes. And, yeah, for HCDN funnel, just go ahead. If it's a break, we will think what to do. And for GoLand, we'll talk about it a bit later because it's a bit more complicated. But how does it work? And it's like, can you tell us? Yeah. How would the bot notice things? Like, you might think it might be super complicated by its six lines of JSON in concourse. Thanks to concourse. Sorry. So, you just tell where the repository is. You just say, hey, use this access token. And there's this GitHub release resource which comes with concourse which can monitor releases on GitHub. So, whenever somebody makes a release, it will trigger a pipeline. And when the job gets triggered, what does the job do? It does exactly as I would do or any of you would do, but much more precisely. That is the blob dance. At least half of it, right? And then it will have to do some changes to the packages because ideally what you want is you want your blobs to have versions in them. As in, if you have Flannel and your Flannel file in the blob is just called Flannel, you might get confused like, did I really upload it or not? Did it really work or not? So, for visibility at least, you would ideally want Flannel 0.10 and next 0.11 comes, you would remove 0.10 and add 0.11. So, because this name changes happen, you might have to change something in your packaging, script and specs of the packages. And usually those are very, very tiny things. You just basically change them with said or if it's more complicated, you could do things. Our things are very, very simple, so we just use said. Yeah. Now you would be like, how does it push code? Just like we do. Just check out a branch and push, add everything and commit it, right? You could also make it push to master, but again, as we discussed, it's up to the package and how comfortable you feel upgrading that package. Now let's talk about the Golan thing that we used. Yes. Bosch vendor package. So, when I joined updating Bosch, languages was quite annoying and until someone pushed me, I was like, no, maybe later. Unless there's something important because I have to go in each release, update this blob and even with automation, it's doable. But luckily, Bosch team heard us, or maybe they had this problem as well, so they introduced this vendor package. What it will do? They actually maintain the release with package, with version package for languages and CFCI. And when new version release, they automatically add it to their release and we can use it in our package with simple command, which will be on the next slide. So, for example, for Golan, they support, you can either follow the major version or follow the minor version and you just run the same command again and again, which is this command. Very simple. If you want to know more, go to tomorrow's talk by Maya and Maria. It should be very interesting. And yeah, this is what we do in our pipeline and I want to explore a little bit more here, what's happening. So, we get the version of Docker release and why we do this because we want to bump it in Docker that we use for our unit tests. And that's what probably you should do as well, because sometimes on bumping of major packages, go becomes more strict and you don't want it to fail on your integration time, on your deployment time, but fail in your unit test time. So, that's why you should bump your versions in your Docker image that you use in CI. That's like a minor caveat. And one more interesting thing about vendor packages, basically all your releases, all your packages in all your releases can be vented. So, as for us, for example, we can use kubectl and we thought about extracting more small releases that will use kubectl so they can get this kubectl from our main release. And one of the benefits is that you won't have to bump packages in all Bosch releases and others that it will be single blobs, so less uploading, less compilation if you don't use precompiled releases. And it just works. And now when we bump everything in our Bosch release, we finalize it. Next step is the manifest. So, you want to bump it in the manifest. It's very simple. Again, concourse pipeline. Code is not readable, but you can read from our repo. You just get the release URL and run Bosch interpolate command for the manifest and push it. As simple as that. So, links to our CI and to our CI repo. Check our bump pipelines. They're very simple. If you still have questions about it, we can answer them now or we can answer them after the talk or ask us in our Slack channel. And thanks for all these sources for our images. And have a nice CF summit. And happy October.


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This is the making of Cinderella the Cat. I'm Ivan Capiello, and along with my three colleagues that are San Roc, Dario San Soni, and Marina Guarnieri, we are the four directors of this movie. And we made this movie with the same team that released our previous animated feature that was called The Art of Happiness and won the European Film Award in 2014. So for the next movie that is named Cinderella the Cat, it was the first animated feature ever presented in a standard movie festival. The film festival is the oldest film festival of the world and never admitted in competition and animation movie, and this was the first time. So we were very excited to be there. And we also had the thank you. And I think it's also the first animated feature ever running Made in Blender. So Made in Blender. And this was our international movie after the screening. This is from Variety. And this is for The Hollywood Reporter. And this was great. So before going on in the presentation, I would like to share with you the official trailer. It will be in Italian but subtitled in English. So I think you can understand it. Can you lower the lights, please? So I didn't expect to see you this day. Look, look, that's how it should be. I had to stay in your place. But you see, we are only the first part of the story. The best is yet to come. The marriage is the only true tool of social evolution. Now the film is under my whole body. I come back to take you mine. If it weren't for you, you would make a terrible movie. The ship is on its way. It's recording us. It's in the water. It's coming to me. Sara! Where are you going? And where are you going? Mom, how nice it is! Very soon you'll be left with an old, great, funny story. Where are you going? And where are you going? You're the same. And if I'm wrong, you tell me now. Tell me now. Where are you going? On the ship that takes you so far. Without love, where are you going? Where are you going? Where are you going? So, last year I was here and I showed you some basic stuff about how we did the backgrounds and some lots of working process and so on. So, this year I want to start showing you something more. But before going on, I'd like to show you the actual sequence I was talking about last year. So, can you please look over the light again? It's about three minutes then we talk about how we did it. Mr. Batile? Hello, Dad. Oh, it's you two. Did you find the shoe of my principal? It's nothing to do, sir, it's mine. I don't remember where I lost it. I don't know. Don't despair, my little one. I'm sure that Mr. Gemi will find it. Since we can't move, I'll take a step without him standing between the legs. Look, I've never decided to do it on purpose, sir.  And this is done by the technological field. The field of science and memory. Yes. Is this the project you put in an uncomfortable position? It's pure. I know, I'm going. I've been working for a lifetime. I've obtained the concession of the port for 80 years. And there are already many people at work. And that's exactly the point, sir. I don't like these people who turn around. Very well. And then? They turn around. Let's go, I'm serious. I should take a look at some things. You're always serious, Gemi. You're always troubled. But today is a day of celebration. Maybe you'll give me at least the day of my marriage.  It's true. You're right. But this ship... I don't understand. I don't think you've ever given birth to a child. Something that I can't explain to you. These? But no, all this is... It's magnificent, wonderful, sir. I don't have any idea how it works, but I'm still doing it for a reason. And then? I know it doesn't make sense. But sometimes I have the feeling of seeing things. The ship is on its way. It records us. It elaborates us. It puts us back on stage. And in short? In short. You think you're here now. And maybe it's just... an ungrateful hologram. An old memory. What a joy in its future. You're playing the game of mine, sir. From the day he put his foot on this ship, I admit it, at least I took a smile off of him. It's all right. But now you have to take me seriously. I'm an essayist. His wife will be almost ready. The ceremony is about to start. And you're still here.  Hello, my love. Will you stay with Gemito until dad is finished? Yes. Ah, Gemito. Disactivate the communication with the outside. Do you remember how to do that? Yes, but... Why did you reactivate me? Your father is incorrect, my dear. Yes. So this time I want to focus on how we develop the look of the movie. First, we have to search for key elements. Maybe you have recognized someone in the previous clip. So first, clean fields and gradients. We use this kind of feeling. There's not lots of textures, just basic feeling. We are looking for overlaid paint strokes. So the strokes is not on the same pixel each frame. And we are looking for fragment brush strokes. And as final step, we have this underpaint layer. There is a living underpaint layer. And you may have recognized it on the scene. Okay, so which part of the pipeline we use? In our work, as we said, we started with having the... Without texture and having vertex color to paint the mesh. So this is a... This benefit I discussed last year. But it also affects the polygonation. The modeling is affected by vertex coloring, because you cannot draw a line if you don't have vertex there. So we have what I call an high quality low poly. It means it has low poly, but it's not strict like you have to be not using triangles or so. We do use triangles in some cases. Obviously we don't use it in the particular deforming angle so where the loop has to be continuous, but we use triangles. Let me show you behind me what the model looks like in this kind of look. This is the actual model we use. This is the topology. It's low, but every detail is in the topology already. And when it comes to this... Cloth falls, you can see clearly what I'm talking about with triangles and clean topology. We also use to detail topology more in the parts that are always more visible. Like when you made a shot, you can have a distance shot so every polygon can count a little, or you have a medium or close shot. This might probably be the face or the hands or the feet, so that is the part that are more detailed in the model. About the rigging, since we have really low poly models with high details, the rigging is almost, in some cases, one-to-one bind with bones. So you always have what you see is what you get because that kind of vertex is moved by the exact position of the bone. This is how I see a look in the animator. We try to be as much as we see what you see is what you get. So this is the rig moving and then you will see the animators start animating or looking at the playback or we basically split the character from the background. And the background, as you remember in my last presentation, is linked in another scene. So it's a scene linked in this file and the object is linked through the two scenes you will see in a second. This way the animator can focus on the only animation. This is the background and we can link the background elements to the other scene. We usually use the second part of the layers for the background so the animator can easily disable the view and have a fast and clean update. As I told you last year, we worked on Rigify. We worked a lot on Rigify to make this movie. And as I promised, these new features are merged already in Blender. What are the new features? We have new metrics. You may see animals, lots of people are starting using it. That's new advancing to generation options. It means you can have multiple rigs generated by Rigify in a single scene and you can easily select which rig has to be overwritten with the new one. We have revamped the layer system so you can in the MetaRig define bone groups and selection sets and have it automatically merged in the final rig. We also had lots of features for our limbs. So we have the FKIK snapping. The rotational pole is now merged with the new system so you can easily select which one kind of rotation pole you want. We have new animation tools that can easily transfer animation in time range from FKIK and vice versa. We also have rotation converter from Quaternion to Euler and vice versa. More important for me, the wiki, there was never been a wiki for Rigify. We have completed the task. So I think it would be useful if someone before posting bug reports that are not bugs or feed requests start looking in the wiki. Please do it. For more updates on Rigify, we have another panel today at 2 p.m. Rigging is also affecting modeling too because we often use rigging with modifiers. I mean, if anyone has ever been in this mess before, generally when you bend something, it tends to compress.  A plane is not doing anything, and if you extrude it later with Solidify modifier, you can have now a banded, exactly banded without compression mesh. Moreover, you have this bonus feature that you can have three materials in the slot that you can use for your model. And this is very handy for us for cloting. You may have seen it. We have a surface, a rim, and inside, we have three different tones of the color. And we use this modifier. Moreover, if you use this technique and we use a lot, you can also reuse the obtained cage to the form and actual mesh, so you have no limits for that. And this way, you see our pipeline is a bit a mess because everything contributes to the final image. You have to model in a certain way to color. You have to model in a certain way to rig. You have to rig in a certain way to use that model, and so on. Going over, how do we get to the final frame? First, we have to split the processing passes. A bit of it was covered last year, so I will skip the first part. We create this image. This is the poster for the movie. It's also made in Blender. And basically, we have the background and the foreground and the shoe and the other key down the reflex. But what we do here is a standard color pass, shadow pass for the background, the freestyle line pass, and the basic proxy paper pass because we need some kind of rotational approach when you have the camera moving or the ceiling falling. And then we have specific masks. We used that for, in this case, the blood on the floor. And the more important Z-depth pass, I will talk about this later because, as you remember in the last conference, when the backgrounds are still are almost paint over because the artist just merges these layers in a painting program and paints it over. But sometimes the backgrounds are animated too. And so we treat them like we treat the characters. And let's see how we do this. We have the basic flat output again, the freestyle line pass again, and the Z-depth. And this is the most important pass for the rest of the process. So merging it up combines a lot of compositing. For the movie, we didn't succeed in using banner compositor because it tends to be really slow on this kind of process. But in the whole time of production, I succeeded in merging our pipeline inside the compositor and we hope to talk with the foundation, and the others to see what's possible to do it to bring it in real time or at least in the faster compositor process. So as you remember, I talked about overlaid brainstorms. How do we do that? We take the flat color pass and we bring in this node, this node group I created. This is special to the group. You can see as some canvas resolution, this defines the resolution of the noise used to deform the image. And then you can have this kind of effect. It's very slight here. You can see it. The image is a bit deforming. I'll push more over. Okay. Now you can see it more. Okay. And then we have to fragment this kind of jaggy brush. To do that, I use the same node, but with other option. Here is what happens with new fragmentation. Yeah. Okay. This node accepts as input the image process. The canvas resolution defines the size of the texture we are using for this sorting. This is the first stroke that is going to outline the jaggy edge. And this is the fragment edge. And we have also two debug passes here to see which is the texture is deforming now. This is the first deforming wave. This is the second deforming wave. So you can always check what's affecting your image. Then we can merge it together. This is the result of the two. And now that we have these jagged lines, we have to compose it with the original image. And this was again another task because the standard mix node in Blender doesn't have the lighter color mix. The lighter color mix does a cool thing. It compares the two values of the pixel between the two images and choose the brighter one. So you have one or another non-mixing of two. And this is the result. I can go back and forward. You can see the image starts to recover some of the detail we have lost. And we have this factor value of a factor that affects the borders. You can see the edge here. When it's 0.5, you have both of the distortion. Then we go on to how the node works. I think it's okay. Just I didn't tell you that keep original is basically making this node work as a standard mix node. So if you want to recover totally the first image, because in some cases, like when the character is very small, you want to keep detail there, you can recover by this. Then we have the lighting. The lighting in this movie is to make all the impulse process. There's no lighting, any light or shadow affecting characters. They only hit the background. But the characters are all, everyone is a 2D light. So the basic light we use in the 2D is this kind of offset lighting. I recreated this node. It's pretty easy, but you can offset the X and Y of the alpha channel. So you have this kind of rim effect. And you can customize the colors of the shadow and the light. And you can affect only the light or only the shadow of living in the light, the original color. This is how the node is done. And in some cases, or especially in this case, it's not enough for us. So we have to create a node that makes us do this. We use the Z-Depth to do so. Let's start with a discussion with Alessandro Racco, the other director, that told me what happens if we offset a 3D image. And after a bit of tricky calculation, I obtained this path. These are just 2D depth paths offset each other. So it's not like a normal lighting because you have an occlusion in this kind of effect. And we can use it, this is the standard path. This is the contrast path. And we use it like using these two values. They are like a color ramp output. And this is the medium filter. We use it for blending the edges together. Let me show you more in detail. Our models are in flat shading. And this is unconventional, I know. But we think that this could be like the brush strokes we can have in the mesh. So if we want, we can blur them to have this kind of gradient effect and use it in some scenes. I'll show you another 3 minutes of the movie where this effect is particularly visible. You're done with this dress! Listen, listen to me. You have to do the things I tell you to do right. Tomorrow you're 18. I think you're getting a little dizzy. Is that so? No. But you think you're making fun of me?   You don't even know how to sign. If it weren't for you, you would have a bad ending. Because I already told you.  Right? And then just listen to what I tell you to do. Tonight, after six hours, you have to go fix everything as you are. Are we clear, Vicere? Okay, now you're going to set up my room and remember to wash your hands before touching my things. My plan is to build a fortune in this city. In this town. If I had your intelligence, I would have tried to find another. You could ask me as well how you spent your time. You can find me in the next one. But I'm going to help you, so you can focus on it. This process... I wish I could. I wish I could control the slider of a cloud ramp from another group. This is not possible in Blender because, as you can see, only accept this value. So I have to build my custom ramp node group to use in the node group. This is a pretty easy math. I'm not a scientist. I did this in a couple of hours, so I think it could be easily implemented right in Blender. Again, we use a lot of the z-depth, but z-information has to be clamped to be used. I wish to use the normalized node or something like that to have this value clamped between the near and far clip plane, but I didn't. So I have to make my own normalization node. It's pretty easy again. It was not a complex task just for nodes. And I wish to control the lift color of my node from a node group again. I would like to add the driver here, here, and here, and it's not possible because when you go outside node group, it's not updated. I think it's a depth-scruff limitation. I hope in 2.8 it will be resolved, but I, again, I had to write my own color lift-cam again node, and this was a bit more messy, but it works. Moreover, to make it work correctly, since we use, if you want to leave an image, you want to go over the white, and you have to input value like 2. The RGB node can make input value above 1, but you cannot slide it because you have to manually enter, so I created this little node just to pass the values there. Then I wish I could output a freestyle pass. It's very surprising for me why it's not there, but it's solved by using a color pass without freestyle active, and the freestyle pass with freestyle-only active. Then my own bugs. Okay, the z-light node has some bugs. I show you, look at this part of the clip I show you. This is an actual turnaround made with the z-light node. Can you lower the light a bit, please, so we can see better? Okay, you can see there are two kind of lighting affecting the mesh, and it's all done in compositing. There's nothing else there. A more freestyle press that we created, and the, I don't know if you can see it, there is a painted overlay. Okay, so if you have noticed that up there, there was an error. This is the error. How do we solve this? We render it a greater resolution, but with the sensor we keep the image at the same position, and then we cut out the part that is jagged, because it only happens on the image borders. Now I have an extra clip. I don't know if I have the time to show it. I have time. No, okay. So I skip it. I skip it, and I go to what's next. What's next? We tried a lot to do this in real time. These are some examples of what we did in real time in the view part. We get quite close, but then we have not any access to the pixel filters, so we abort that test, but yeah, okay. Okay, so I'll go back to show you the clip. Okay, this is happening in real time, so the animator can easily do this, and I think it was a good compromise, but it was too tricky to go further with pixel shaders, so we aborted this test. Let's see. I want to show you when it works, because it's also affecting the depth value here. There was also an align style made through ambient occlusion here, to skin-place ambient occlusion. This can work too. Okay, I'll go back to the clip of three minutes. I advise it contains some mild violence and some bad words. So if there are a lot of bad words in the video, it's just a fact. We are in real time, not at all. But don't worry, because these are things that we have decided together. What I do, what I do, I do it for you, for me, for you. I think when we get rich, important, happy, I will be the king. You will be my queen. Salvatore, but how long do I have to wait? I don't have time for that. Remember that last night you were with a lady. I don't want to honor her, at least a little bit with this fight. And the creature? What are you doing with the creature? We are waiting for Durba to film the poor thing. And who gave it to you? You sent it? Oh, my daughter Angelica. I don't know who she is, but she is a little bit of a I wanted to show you this scene because it contains a really cheap trick. How many of you succeeded in rendering freestyle in the reflections? No one. Okay, neither do we. So we created a cheap, really cheap trick. We just recreated the other side of the mirror and rendered it normally. And then we clipped it in the scene. It's a normal movie trick. You do like that when you want to see the camera in the reflection. Okay, the last thing is, okay, we're trying to make some more experiments. This is an experiment made in Cycles. We're trying to experiment about the painting on the backgrounds. So this is the normal rendering of this pot, but this pot is made with... It doesn't play. Okay, there's a texture here that is done procedurally. It makes these paint strokes on every mesh you have without UVs. And we use a lot to create this kind of shader. And this is also working with our Z pass node. So you can also use it like that. I don't know if it's playing. No, okay, that's all.