Ah, Stilly, you're being disingenuous again.

"It's a brutal time of year to work outside and the Texas [legislature] just approved removing required water breaks for outdoor workers. Makes no sense at all."

Sure it makes sense, when seen through the "shrink government" lens preferred by today's rightest of right-wingers. The Texas legislature is currently committed to getting government out of the way of private enterprise, which to them apparently means cutting any and all regulations that don't directly benefit the people who give large sums to the Republican Party.

Oh, did I say that with my outside voice?

Sorry, not sorry. But maybe I should take a break from American news media.

Stratford is not large enough to attract homeless folks from outside the Huron-Perth region, so we don't -- yet -- have tent camps or shanty towns in this area. I'm always shocked by the prevalence of homeless people on the downtown streets of Toronto, where certain major parks have effectively become semi-permanent refugee camps. Because of the way taxation power is allocated in Ontario, Toronto can't afford the measures required to tackle the problem effectively; that would take a major infusion of provincial and even federal funding that just ain't forthcoming. I wonder sometimes if widespread rioting, or maybe a general strike, might get those levels of government to stop pretending that, like pandemic disease, homelessness is everybody's problem.