My name is Brady Gadel. I'm the extension soil health specialist at North Dakota State University And I just want to give you a quick recap of what we've learned at the share farm up in Logan Center, North Dakota over the last Five years of the project. So a little bit of the history of the share farm project It started in 2019 as a way to provide Demonstrative field scale and regional research to the folks up in Logan Center, North Dakota So it's an entire full field of 77 acres that we farm under a pinto bean corn, soybean, small grain rotation, which is very common to this area here and We've overlaid that field with different soil health practices primarily no-till and cover crops So previous to 2019 that entire field was managed under conventional tillage practices And we wanted to track through time how the field responded to that transition to no-till the impact that has on Crop yield and along with can we consistently get a cover crop to grow using various different methods? So our first year we planted pinto beans out there and followed it up with a cover crop We had a fairly successful cover crop that year But also struggled because of the late harvest timing and just the poor weather conditions for a cover crop The unique thing though in that first year a lot of farmers talk about a yield slump That happens when you transition to no-till our research didn't show that Yields in the no-till plots and the conventionally tilt strip showed no yield difference And that was true for the last four years of this project following those pinto beans with corn with soybeans and with a small grain None of them showed a significant yield difference So for us and for farmers out there even though there's not a yield difference from one tillage type to the other You can already think of a cost savings by moving to a no-till the last times you have to cross your field Even though that yield isn't higher it's saving you money now That doesn't mean that we're not having challenges when we transition to this no-till there's weed pressure difficulties that we have to deal with the Population of weeds shifts when we move to no-till we no longer have that tillage to terminate perennial and biennial weeds So as we move into this project, we're starting to learn about different approaches. We have to take to weed management following up on one of the other things that we're studying on that field is cover cropping and In general what we've learned from cover cropping on the share farm is it depends on your year Weather is the most important factor and also the most important factor. We can't control We had a lot of success interceding our corn with the cover crop, but that's not always practical in every situation The year that we thought we'd have the most success with a cover crop was following the small grain However, that was 2022 we had a very dry summer And it just wasn't enough to germinate that cover crop and have enough biomass to make a lot of difference So to recap what we've learned at the share farm over the last five years is We're not seeing a difference in yield up in the slogan center area for any crops as you transition from Conventional till into no-till and also we're really considering some of the difficulties in planting cover crops and some of the considerations We have to take in when we think about planting a cover crop and what are the benefits we want to get from it are


Something we always have in our kitchen is a ground meat of some kind, whether it's chicken, beef, pork, turkey. It fits our style of cooking perfectly, reheats great for meal prep. And over the past couple of years, we've started making it at home. It's surprisingly easy to make, it's very cost effective, and it gives us complete control over what fat percentage we want and what goes into it or does not go into it. Like, do you actually know what's in your extra lean ground beef? Well, now you will. In this video, I'll show you what cuts of beef to buy, whether you use chicken breast or thighs or break down an entire chicken. And I'll show you three methods to do it, whether it's using a knife, a meat grinder, or a food processor. And by the end of this video, you'll be a ground proteins pro. Let's start with chicken. I think it's the easiest to grasp. You don't have to worry about which cut to buy or which are the leanest. You can just go with chicken breast or boneless skinless chicken thighs or a blend of the two. I like to use a blend when I'm looking to get a bit more fat in my ground chicken for things like meatballs or burgers. We're not talking a lot of fat, still probably 93, 95% lean or better. Chicken breast works perfectly fine on its own. And if you're making something like the knife method, chicken breast is honestly a bit easier. You don't have to worry about connective tissue or fat or anything like that. While you could buy and break down an entire chicken for the most economical option, I think it's a bit more work than I'm after. And I don't necessarily want to use all the leg meat and wings and things like that. So I just like buying either chicken breast or thighs or both in bulk. I find you can get them really cheap and in really big packages with places like Costco or Sam's. And in case you're wondering about turkey, you could totally use turkey breast in place of chicken. Treat it just like every other meat in this video and make your own ground turkey. Let's move on to the other white meat, which is actually red meat, pork. Pork is another easy one because you can just go with pork loin or pork tenderloin. With your red meat, so you'll see this with pork and beef, you will want to trim some of the excess fat on the exterior. And underneath that fat, there might be a layer of silver skin. You'll see this kind of silver bluish hue tint and that's just not really going to break down in cooking. Even when you're grinding this into small pieces, your ground pork or beef will be better if you remove that silver skin first. Helps to have like a sharp, flexible knife here. Just be careful, get as much off as possible. You can buy, especially pork tenderloin, you'll see where it's been trimmed pretty much entirely and is good to go straight out of the package. But for your most economical cuts, you'll see things like this whole pork loin and just do a bit of trimming before you slice it. Grind it. Moving on to beef, this is where things get a bit more complicated. There are so many different cuts and different butchers and grocers call different cuts different things. So what do you look for when you're trying to make extra lean ground beef? There are four primary cuts you can look for. I have round roast, top and bottom roast and sirloin. If you see these words, you're probably looking at a leaner cut of beef. You will want to look for roasts or the big chunks of meat to make this the most budget-friendly and economical choice. There are leaner cuts of steak, like flank steak, for instance, that you probably just want to leave for making carne asada instead of going to the trouble to grinding it. You'll also want to pay attention to the grade of the beef.  If you're looking for the most marbling and the fattiest, juiciest cut of steak or beef, go with prime. But for making extra lean ground beefs, select and choice are the way to go. And they're much cheaper than prime cuts. Let's kick things off with my preferred method and that's a meat grinder. I'll be honest, when I first purchased a meat grinder, I wasn't sure if the investment would be worth it. How often am I really going to grind my own meat? How difficult is it to clean this thing? And I've been so impressed, money well spent. This is the stainless steel kitchen aid attachment. So if you or the cook in your house has a stand mixer, I think you can get this for 100, 120 bucks, something like that. Of course you can use a standalone meat grinder, but this is the only meat grinder I have experience with so it's the only one I can recommend. This is my preferred method because it just makes the most uniform ground meat. You can control with the little different rings, the grind consistency or size. So if you want really thick grind, you can do that. If you want it really fine for something like sausages or even meatballs, whatever, you can do that as well. Usually go somewhere right in the middle. It's really hard to beat this. It's super easy.  Just feed it through, push it down. Of course, keep your fingers away from any moving parts. And I mean, it is just so easy. Look at it. So let's say you don't have a meat grinder. You have no interest in adding one to your kitchen. That's totally cool. My second favorite method is just using a knife. All you need to do is freeze your protein for about 30 minutes. You don't want it frozen rock solid, but freezing will make it firm enough to slice and really help you out there. I will say this method is not going to be perfect for things like meatballs, burgers, anything where you need to form the protein. It's just gonna be a little difficult to get this very fine and very even. This will be best for one pan dishes where you're making like with a sauce, say firecracker chicken, or you're making a stir fry and you want really small pieces so they cook evenly and quick and reheat well. That's gonna be your best application for this. I will say chicken breast is the easiest followed by pork loin and tenderloin. When you get into beef and even chicken thighs to a certain degree, you kind of get some connective tissue and marbling and fat and some odd pieces where it's probably best to run that through the meat grinder or a food processor. And last but possibly least, at least my least favorite method of the bunch is a food processor. A food processor is the easiest way to go. Most people have a food processor. You just throw the meat in, barely chop it and just give it eight to 10 pulses depending on your food processor. It is easy, but the product you're left with is kind of imperfect in a lot of ways. You may still want to run it through the food processor and then kind of like hit it with a knife. I think maybe that's the best of both worlds because you kind of do get some stringy textures. It almost looks like you Wolverine went at this and just kind of like hand-treaded it. It's fine, you know, it's fine and it gets the job done. If you look at it in like a side-by-side comparison, you can get it a bit finer grind than you can with a knife. Like I said, it's easier, bonus points and it cooks all the same. And a lot of times you're really hammering this with a spatula anyway, so you could break up parts of that stringiness or parts that don't fully get blended in or mixed in. So the food processor, like I said, the easiest, imperfect, just probably depends on what you're using it for, similar to the knife. Okay, to wrap things up, let's talk about storage. If you're grinding your own meat, I highly recommend doing it in bulk, five, 10 plus pounds at a time just to maximize your effort and cleanup. If you're doing that, unless you have a massive family or a massive appetite, you're not gonna eat it all. So I recommend storing in plastic bags, Ziploc bags, vacuum seal bags are great and freezing. If you want precise measurements, I would weigh things out or at least know your starting weight of the meat so you don't have to calculate your yield later and then divide this out, package it up. I like to put it in flat, kind of like form it into flat bricks. I guess you could call them, that way they're stackable in the freezer. And then when you're ready to cook, I would just set these out. I would kind of package based on how you plan to cook. If you're a cook one pound at a time type of person, maybe you package one at a time. We typically do two pounds, so you're seeing about two pounds here per bag. You know, plan accordingly, you can of course thaw this, like transfer it from your freezer to your refrigerator and take out half and cook one to two pounds and then it's gonna be fine in the refrigerator for a few days after it thaws. So you don't have to cook it all at once as it thaws. And yeah, I think that's everything you need to know about grinding your own meat. At least that's pretty much everything I know to tell you about grinding your own meat. I may have forgotten something. Oh, one big important thing would be recipes. I have probably 200 plus, I don't know, 300 plus recipes with ground beef, ground chicken, turkey, pork. You name it, like homemade chorizo, stir fries. Got all the sauces. You can do all kinds of stuff with this. Meatballs, burgers, you name it. I will link down in the description below some of my categories so you can kind of sort through and pick out things you might wanna make with ground meats. But I'm guessing if you watched this video and you made it to this point, you know what you're doing. If you liked this video and you made it to the end and you haven't liked or subscribed already, hit those buttons and we'll see you in the next video.


Um, the Supreme Court, uh, you know, Biden, uh, it's hard to imagine him not messing something up. Uh, you know, as he goes into the, uh, Supreme Court nomination, he literally comes out. The very first thing he says is I am going to nominate a black woman.  And if that's what he really wanted was a black woman, then he could have picked that. Exactly. Exactly.  So which is actually that probably runs afoul of a lot of the hiring and discrimination laws we have in this country. I mean, maybe this whole court, maybe if she, uh, his pick gets appointed, maybe that'll all come back to the Supreme Court so they could decide if he broke the law in appointing her. I wonder how she would vote on that. Yeah. But anyway, so Biden has, uh, I come out with his pick and she is currently going through the, uh, the process, uh, with the, uh, uh, Congress to vet her Senate, Senate, Senate confirmation. Yes. Yeah. So the Senate confirmation hearings.  So, uh, this is a picture of, uh, of, uh, uh, our, uh, nominee and I can't remember her name. Leon, do you remember her name? It's, uh, Kitanji, Kitanji, Brong, Jackson. Ah, that's it. I knew Jackson, but I, uh, the, the, the print was a little too small on the article. Ice cream. But, but anyways, um, uh, so, so the point is, you know, I appointed her and, um, you know, it's, I'm not sure that we necessarily would have expected, uh, anything great coming from a Biden appointee, but, um, you know, for the most part, it didn't sound too bad before she went into the hearing, but something surfaced today or no, it came out in the news today and I think it surfaced in the questioning yesterday. Yes. And that's that, uh, uh, apparently she had, uh, she, so they were trying to essentially defuse the whole CRT critical race issue that has, uh, been sort of, uh, stinging the, the Democrats since they've been sort of pushing, uh, this kind of toxic racial division in our schools and, and employment in other places. And so I think the Democrats sort of wanted to distance her from any of this. And so they set her up with questions saying, Hey, look, have you had, uh, any experience with CRT in your, uh, as you've been a judge or have you had to rule on anything or, uh, has that influenced any of your decisions? And she emphatically came out and said, no. And so then this was followed up by, uh, Ted Cruz starting to ask some questions and Ted Cruz actually, um, he came out and, uh, tried to explore a little more closely with her, the CRT angle. Uh, and if she, what she knows about it and everything else. And she said, you know, I look, you know, this is not something that's involved in any of my decisions and says a judge. And so I really don't know that much about it. And then he pulls out a speech where she had apparently cited CRT in the speech that she gave to, uh, Leon was telling me the University of Michigan. I think it was Michigan. Yeah. And so, uh, you know, right away, she seems to be contradicting herself. And then I guess there was also another, uh, person who she had endorsed before, who's only, uh, I think you said his name was Bell, Leon, Derek Bell, Derek Bell. Yeah. And I guess his main, uh, notoriety is the fact that he has a CRT proponent. So, so the fact that she's kind of claiming to have this, uh, no connection with CRT, uh, sort of disinterested, it's, it's starting to look like she might have lied going right into these hearings. So, uh, you know, it's, it's funny. I mean, it's not that, you know, if she'd just come out and said, yeah, this is what I think I don't think it would have surprised anybody if she said, yeah, I'm forced the RT because that's what you would absolutely expect from a Biden pick. But the fact that she's lying or might have lied here really starts to raise some significant concerns that you're going to put somebody on the court who's literally lying during their, uh, you know, confirmation hearings. So you guys want to jump in on this whole racial identity stuff and picking our justices and, and the potential problems that the nominee is running into? Well, she's, she's going to lie her way. I mean, the Democrats has, has the number, have the numbers. So they're probably going to get her through to the, to the Supreme Court.  It's unbelievable. Biden said he's going to pick a black woman.   So which is it?  Well, she's eminently qualified as black and a woman, which is a big deal nowadays. Cause what it means to be a woman is apparently even an issue. Apparently I've lost him. There's even an issue about, about, about her and woman. Senator Blackburn, Senator from, from Tennessee asked her if she could define what is the definition of a woman? Well, she said she's not a biologist. So she cannot define what a woman is. Now this is a woke garbage that we're going to have on the court. Right? These are the people who are going to make rulings that are going to affect our lives.  This one believes in CRT. This one believes in some of the woke garbage of the left. And this person is going to end up on the court. The only saving grace out of this apparently is that so far the, her, her getting on the court will not change the ideological makeup of the court. It will not. But it does raise some real concerns if Biden get any more picks. I mean, the kind of people you're going to be putting out there is not people that we want making decisions that's going to affect us and affect our daily lives. This is really problematic. Well, you raised a great point. I mean, can you imagine if having, if you were able to have a conversation with founding fathers, Ben Franklin or, or, you know, George Washington, you say, well, we're, we're potentially going to have people nominated to the court who might not be able to define what a woman. And that's going to be a question that comes up. Well, you know, I know, I really wish, you know, well, Marsha Blackburn, Senator from Tennessee, as I said, she, she is the one who asked about the definition and she said she could not. So I wanted Marsha Blackburn. I really wish she didn't say, well, are you a woman? I really wish she didn't. Yes, no, that would be a great question. Are you a woman and how do you know, right? Well, Tim, what do you think is, is she a woman? Are we, what's, are we still on that subject about? Yes, yes, we're still talking about the nomination. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. I'd have to do a little bit closer inspection to know for sure. But I could probably be pretty sure once I once I had the closer inspection. I'm not, I'm sure that's ever going to come about, however. I just wanted to say before I was ceremoniously interrupted that the these people, these politicians should have aides and advisors that have read the art of war, because in that, the first thing you do is you don't broadcast your intention. OK, you just don't do that. You just do them.  That's not much of a compliment. It's probably not, but it may not be. It may or may not be, but I mean, it's solid advice. Don't don't tell them who you're going to nominate. Just say, I'm going to pick the best nominee. And then if it happens to be a black woman, then that that's fine. If that's what you intend, you know, but don't broadcast it ahead of time ever. You just don't do that. And there you have it. It's funny because you mentioned broadcasting. We're literally in a war now, potentially. Because Biden projected that, hey, if you just have a minor incursion, we might not do it. Exactly. Exactly. Broadcasting your your your intention. But there's a little issue here. Can I just say one more thing, Leon, just about that whole thing is that I can understand that you would never want Joe Biden to be the one deciding what to say. But is it got to this point here where he doesn't even have advisers that are strong enough to take over and say, look, you can't be doing this, can't be doing this. Here's what you're going to do. But what's going on? Is it that just haphazard there that they're actually letting Joe Biden do what he wants to do? Maybe there's no ice cream truck rolling by and taking the vertical move. Joe is the ice cream truck. All right, I'm sorry, Leon. Go ahead. No, there's no problem. But there's a serious issue here that I really want to raise and it's somewhat offensive to me, OK, personally. So I'm a little biased on this. But this is how you see these racists in the Democratic Party. This is how they poison the accomplishment of blacks. OK. Now, this woman may indeed be eminent and qualified. I don't think she is, but she may be. OK. She she has some things that she could point to that suggest some qualification. But Joe Biden have poisoned it by saying he's going to pick a black woman.  But this is how this affirmative action and all these other things you set aside programs have for minorities. This is how it poisons our qualifications and our hard works and our experience. It just poisons it.  And every time we make a mistake, which we will do. Oh, it's because he really didn't get to school properly.  It just poisoned our experience and our hard work. That's what it does.    That's unless unless that's racism isn't an insult to them. Maybe maybe they're proud of that. And maybe that's part of the problem. I'm not sure. Thank you for listening to the Knuckleheads of Liberty podcast.


I'm for members statements, so I recognize the member from, excuse me, Beaches East York. Thank you, Speaker. Hundreds of residents of apartment buildings in Crescent Town in Beaches East York, as well as elsewhere in the riding area across the city, are terrified. Crescent Town is a warm, vibrant community of primarily racialized people, many of whom are newcomers, many of whom are essential workers, many of whom lost their jobs due to COVID-19. This is a community that has been hit hard. Some people work multiple, poorly paid essential jobs to which they must take public transit. If they become ill, they can't self-isolate. They frequently share apartments with large families, so Michael Garan Hospital has been seeing multiple members of the same family hospitalized with COVID-19. Now many are haunted by eviction. They have followed the Premier's advice to feed their families first if they didn't also have money for rent, but the landlord, Pinedale Properties, has not heeded his advice to work things out. Instead, they have been served eviction notices. In some cases the manager has banged on their doors with a debit machine in hand, telling them COVID is nothing and threatening them with immediate eviction if they don't pay. Bill 184 enables landlords like Pinedale to evict tenants without a hearing if they believe that those tenants have reneged on a payment plan.  We need immediate rent subsidies and we need a plan to ensure that no COVID-related evictions will ever be permitted in Ontario. Anything less is cruel and it's absolutely crucial that the government act now. Thank you. Thank you very much. Member Statements, the Member for Thorin Hill. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And I just want to say that this has been a tough period with the COVID pandemic. But good news is ahead. We're seeing the patio start to open in York Region. Thorin Hill is very excited and anxiously awaiting. And I have some good news to report, which is that smart centres, which operates the stores and restaurants around DeSera Drive just north of the Promenade Mall, has agreed to work with myself, the City of Vaughan, and Councillor Schiffman, and see about closing off a block of DeSera between Centre Street and the light where CIBC is so that we can enjoy a street-wide patio. And I'm looking forward to actually seeing a lot of the residents there. I think that Thorin Hill can set an example for the rest of the province in terms of finding opportunities for people to socially distance, but socialize all the same outside in the nice weather in the coming months ahead. So some of the restaurants that are there are Mezzanotte, Begaworld, Maple Sushi, Subway, Marble Slab, Copper Branch, Boneyard, Halibut House, Moron Togo, Maple Arc Grill, and the Greek Stop. So there's lots of opportunities to eat and also to socialize. So I want to wish everybody good luck to all the businesses. It's tough on them. I hope everybody's going to have patience as the various regions open. And let's all work together to make sure that this is successful. Thank you very much. Member statements, the member for London North Centre. When COVID-19 hit, London acted quickly and decisively. City all passed measures to support businesses, help the vulnerable, and collaborate with stakeholders in their many task force meetings. Wise and prudent stewards of the public purse, London boasts a triple A credit rating and earned consecutively for the last 43 years. But COVID-19 has put London on the brink of financial crisis and we need direct financial support from the province immediately. As the hub of Southwestern Ontario, London is a leader in healthcare, medical innovation, education, digital creative, arts and culture, tourism, agribusiness, and many more. London supports a variety of communities including Middlesex, Elgin, Oxford, Lampton, Chatham Kent, Huron, and Perth. To ignore London is to ignore all of Southwestern Ontario, which the previous Liberal government did at their peril. Tax dollars travel from London to Queen's Park, but rarely are seen again. During this crisis, we need those same tax dollars to travel back down to London. As Mayor Ed Holder states, when it comes to essential services, municipalities represent both the front line and the bottom line. Today I'm asking the Premier and his government for $30 million in emergency funding for London. Without provincial support, cities will have to hike taxes, cut essential services, and every day Ontarians will bear the cost. It's time for this government to step up, help with the heavy lifting, and bring much needed relief to London. Thank you. Thank you. The next member's statement, the member for Chatham Kent Leemings. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. The date, March 17th, the year 2020. That was the official beginning of Ontario's state of emergency and global pandemic. The results of this pandemic have been devastating. It's been three months since the province declared a state of emergency. Remember, our primary goal was to keep Ontarians safe and healthy. There was no playbook. We had to create one. Now, in reopening the province, some of us want to go faster while others say, slow down. Regardless of one's point of view, our government is taking a deliberate, well thought out approach to getting Ontario back on its feet. On a local level of my writing in Chatham, Kent Leemings, DASH Core Aluminum, located in Chatham, were able to quickly adapt their operation to produce medical sector products, some of which were in the form of modular partition systems. And they were able to maintain a large percentage of employees in order to work on these products. Nice going, DASH Core. You helped answer the call as a result of this pandemic. Now, one thing has been true throughout this crisis. Ontarians are stronger together. We have seen countless examples of this form from all corners of the Great Province, from drive-by birthday parties to window visits at long-term care homes to our small and medium-sized businesses, retooling to support the fight against this terrible disease. Together, we will get through this pandemic, and our economy and employment will rebound. We will be even stronger than pre-COVID. I'm sure 2020 will be a year marked with an asterisk. Member Statements, the member St. Catharines. Thank you, Speaker. Today in Niagara Region across this province, essential frontline workers are calling a day of action to extend pandemic pay to everyone. I am tempted to list the number of valuable members of our frontline healthcare workers currently excluded from the pandemic pay. It is so tempting to point out how many of them deal directly with COVID-19 patients and just don't make the Premier's All-Star list. I could do that. You know, it is worthwhile statement, but I think it misses a story. Iphone find more interesting about pandemic pay because as many times as I get frontline workers reaching out to me, I get an equal amount of executive directors, administrative leads, senior levels of management reaching out on behalf of their frontline staff. One executive director at the Martindale Place at a congregated care facility in St. Catharines reached out to my office twice on this matter. For them, it is not about the extra few dollars. It is recognizing the real work, the real sacrifices frontline workers do. These local leaders care so intensely for the people that are sacrificing so much right now. It's the non-profits and service managers who reach out because their shelters, community outreach teams and or hospital staff, that is excluded. For them, it is about appreciation of their sacrifices. So, Mr. Premier, do what is right. Expand this list. These heroes deserve more than empty words during a press conference. Thank you very much. Member Stevens, the member for Ottawa 7th. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. It's been months since we've seen the first case of COVID-19 in this province. And we've learned that physical distancing, frequent handwashing and wearing a mask are the three most important things we can do to protect others and ourselves. We've yet to get one critical part right and that's universal masking. As we're starting to reopen our economy, people will inevitably come closer together. Universal masking will play a greater role in allowing our economy to continue to open. We've seen how places around the world, like Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan, have been able to manage the spread of the virus effectively with universal masking, whether it's mandatory or a societal norm. It's simply not good enough for us to say, wear a mask when you're outside. I'd like to thank everyone in Ontario, the United Way of my city, masks for Canada, for all the work in this area. But we know that you can't do it alone. So I'm calling on the government to do the three following things, actually us. So we need to leave by example, wear a mask when you're indoors, when you can't physically distance. When we're here in the legislature, I know it's hard in here, but we're in the building when you're shopping. It's about protecting others. Undertaken, aggressive, and the public advocacy campaign so that people can understand why we need to do it, both for health and for our economy. And the government must, like the federal government, procure masks for people who cannot afford them. I think it's critical that the government do that so they can work in concert with municipalities to ensure that the most vulnerable, people who can't afford them, are able to get non-medical masks. Thank you, Speaker. Thank you. The member for Aurora, Oak Ridges, which we've heard. Speaker, the month of June is Scleroderma Awareness Month, and today I'd like to draw your attention to this little known, but often debilitating condition. Scleroderma refers to group of rare disorders that involve the hardening and tightening of the skin and connective tissues. Depending on which area of the body is affected, this can result in stiff joints and reduced mobility, as well as digestive, lung, kidney, and heart issues. In severe cases, it can even be life-threatening. Speaker, while it affects more women than men, anyone can get Scleroderma, and it can be caused by a variety of factors from environmental to genetic. Speaker, I'm sad to say that as of this moment, there is no cure. That's why it's so important to use this month as an opportunity to talk about Scleroderma and to raise awareness and funds so that someday soon no person ever have to deal with these symptoms again. Since 2007, the Scleroderma Society of Ontario has done amazing work by advocating for and improving the quality of life of those living with the condition. They raise awareness, support research of those living with the condition. Mr. Speaker, because of the pandemic, no traditional walk or run will be held this year, but you can still visit the Scleroderma.ca to join the virtual event and support this worthy and important cause. Speaker, Scleroderma can be an incredibly difficult and painful condition to live with, but as long as there is hope for a cure and there is a great deal of hope, we need to find it. Thank you, Speaker. Member Statements, Member for Hamilton Mountain. Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. Today, I wish to speak about the changes that this government has made to foster care. During this pandemic, when children and youth in care need more protection than ever before, this government has quietly loosened the rules that keep them safe. In May, the government increased the number of children that can be placed in a foster home. The previous limit of four, which doesn't include biological children, was already high. Further, while increasing the size of homes, this government reduced the important oversight measures that keep kids safe. In-person home visits and interviews were scrapped and replaced with inadequate phone inspections. There was even a government communication early on in the pandemic asking agencies to refrain from requesting police record checks. These rules are meant to ensure that the living situation is safe and healthy for children. It's the responsibility of this government to make sure that inspections of care settings can be done safely. Rather than cutting these regulations that are meant to keep children out of harm's way, they have changed the rules that make children and youth in care more vulnerable to abuse. We need these oversight mechanisms to be restored immediately to ensure our children's safety. Thank you. Thank you very much. The Member for Peterborough, Co-Ortham. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. COVID-19 has hit the hospitality and tourism industry especially hard. In total, all of the industries that are part of the Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries represent 75 billion in economic activity for our province. Sport and the tourism industries associated with sports are a major contributor. That's why I'm happy to stand here today and talk about an event that was held in my riding just this past summer. We had the great opportunity and pleasure to host the World Women's Under-19 Lacrosse Championships. It was a collaboration with our local Lacrosse Associations, Trent University, Sir Sanford Fleming College and the City of Peterborough. We had a great opportunity and we had a great opportunity and we had a great opportunity and we had a great opportunity and our official was able to secure provincial funding for. We had teams from Australia, Belgium, China, the Czech Republic, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Kenya, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Scotland, Chinese Taipei, United States, but we also had First Nations proudly represented by Haudenosaunee. The 10-day event generated $3.4 million in economic impact for our community alone. There are so many volunteers I'd like to thank but I don't have the time for it so I'll center it just a couple whose leadership made it happen. Fred Blows, Lois Tuffin, Shera McNeill and Kelly Roberts. Thank you. Thank you very much. A member for Don Valley North. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm pleased to report that two long-term care homes just where Gibson and expanded care bay view in my writing of Don Valley North are now COVID-19 free. Currently, no resident, no staff has the virus. They will remain resident going forward as they rely on all health and safety protocols to keep the vulnerable seniors health and safe. Thanks to the concerted efforts of the home dedicated staff with the support and cooperation of the long-term care residents, their families and the community. This is a wonderful achievement words to celebrate. Both homes update the COVID-19 situation weekly to residents, their families and to our office as well. They communicate all outbreak information with honesty, transparency, compassion and hope. Speaker, when the Don Valley North community realized that long-term care homes in our area needed help, they didn't hesitate to rally around the coast from food and PPE donations to kind words of encouragement. These long-term care homes receive the support when they need it most. Mr. Speaker, I'm grateful to the excellent people of Don Valley North who care about the struggles of others and show up to offer help. Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Thank you very much. That concludes our member statements for this morning.