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Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands

84. Do not let companies poison Indigenous communities.

"Though high rates of [cancer] persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated mining waste into the river system."

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/h...

No one wants this.

Carney Touts Telesat Lightspeed as Canada’s $7 Billion Rival to Starlink | iPhone in Canada During a visit to Australia last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney made it clear that Canada is looking to break its dependence on foreign tech, specifically pointing to a made-in-Canada satellite netw...

Carney Touts Telesat Lightspeed as Canada’s $7 Billion Rival to Starlink

How much of Telesat Lightspeed is U.S. owned?

If it's a majority U.S. owned corp. how does it secure Canada's sovereignty?

#cdnpoli #canada

www.iphoneincanada.ca/2026/03/09/c...

Let’s hope we follow Ukraine’s blueprint!

No one goes to war over a solar panel Fossil fuels aren't a shield against chaos. They are a conduit for it.

"Real energy security is about reducing strategic vulnerability. Every rooftop solar panel is an act of economic sovereignty. Every wind turbine is a barrel of oil that never has to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. Every MW-hour of storage makes a grid less dependent on a pipeline or a tanker."

Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands

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MAID has been embraced as a way to prevent needless suffering since it was legalized in Canada in 2016.

In the MAiD debates, the patient's voice must take precedence https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-maid-medical-assistance-dying/ ⦸
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Could solar panels help strengthen global food security? - Positive News A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels

A Canadian study suggests solar farms could increase global crop yields by hundreds of billions of pounds, thanks to the protective microclimate created beneath their panels www.positive.news/environment/...

Doug Ford says jets are coming to Billy Bishop airport ‘one way or another’ Ontario premier said the federal government had endorsed the plan that would see longer-haul jets at the Toronto Islands airport.

The only way this Doug Ford comment could be more Doug Ford is if he’d said, “These anti-plane yahoos just need to lie back and take it.”

Seems “Captain Canada” is going to spend all this money and ruin the city so that businessmen can get to America faster. Elbows Up!

'Beyond Evil': Medics Say Iran School Massacre Was Double-Tap Strike | Common Dreams "The second bomb hit," said one paramedic. "Only a small number of those who had taken shelter survived."

'Beyond Evil': Medics Say Iran School Massacre Was Double-Tap Strike www.commondreams.org/news/iran-sc...

At some point he'll govern in Canada though, right?

Lebanese parliament extends term by 2 years as Israel intensifies attacks on Lebanon On Monday, lawmakers approved the move after fighting displaced more than half a million people in Lebanon.

Human Rights Watch has accused Israeli forces of using white phosphorus incendiary shells in strikes on residential areas in a Lebanese village in violation of international law. https://to.pbs.org/46RZQDf

Me too!

Carney is trying to have it both ways: increase or maintain links with the US while also diversifying. But the easier trade is with the US, the less likely businesses will be to look elsewhere. His is a light hedging strategy, not a plan for actually creating the conditions for greater independence.

Carney should have consulted Grit caucus before supporting U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, say some Liberal MPs: 'what the hell' Liberal MP Will Greaves publicly criticized Prime Minister Mark Carney's stance in a social media post liked by many of his caucus peers. But B.C. Liberal MP Parm Bains says he’s received positive fee...

Carney should have consulted Grit caucus before supporting U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran, say some Liberal MPs: ‘what the hell’ www.hilltimes.com/story/2026/0...

Institutional Design of Price Controls in Canada | Perspectives Journal Market concentration in key sectors, including groceries, transportation, and commodity production renders Canada particularly vulnerable to the threat of sellers’ inflation. As a result, Canada shoul...

Sellers’ inflation explains how market power allows large companies to extend the effects of economic disruption, like energy shocks, to further profits even after the crisis has abated.

perspectivesjournal.ca/institutional-design-of-price-controls-in-canada/

Layoffs and the threat of AI: Why Irish tech workers are finally turning to unions “You know the people on the Titanic with the violins? That’s how we feel,” one tech worker said.

Tech workers to unemployed people in 2016:
Learn to code!

Tech workers to unemployed people in 2026:
Hey, have you heard about “unions??”

Records show Doug Ford’s claims are categorically false. Hospitals in Ontario are being defunded under his watch. #SV4A #NeverVoteConservative

It was never the rules-based international order that wouldn't allow us to kidnap leaders, invade other countries, or bomb the everloving god out of poor countries

It was that we agreed not to, because it led to very bad outcomes. And we created the rules to reflect this

The rules are not your mum

This is useful information for when we get hungry and want to eat them.

A left-wing populist is what the NDP needs in the age of obscene wealth inequality rabble.ca has not endorsed any candidate in the NDP leadership race. The views in this article are that of the author.

A left-wing populist is what the NDP needs in the age of obscene wealth inequality.

Story by @lindamcquaig.bsky.social #canpoli

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I would love to see an analysis of the environmental impact on the people of Iran and the region from blowing up oil facilities. The long-term impact of the US and Israel invading and bombing countries needs to be part of the discussion.

Ontario Nature has exciting news to share! We are thrilled to announce the acquisition of 66 acres of vulnerable habitat, expanding our Sauble Dunes Nature Reserve on the Saugeen Bruce Peninsula.
Read more about Sauble Dunes North expansion here: ontarionature.org/news-release...
#OntarioNature

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BREAKING: The US has upped its effort to liberate women by bombing Iranian oil tankers in the Persian Gulf

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Health experts say dual practice will backfire, Smith says 'they're wrong' - Medicine Hat News zmason@medicinehatnews.com Health and labour groups from across the country signed an open letter this week asking the federal government to intervene in Alberta’s plan to adopt a dual-practice health...

23 health and labour organizations issued a joint call to action to PM Carney and Minister of Health Marjorie Michel.

The two-tier system outlined in Bill 11 would allow physicians to bill the public system while simultaneously charging other patients privately.

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