London, San Francisco and Beijing achieve ‘remarkable reductions’ in #airpollution
- Cycle lanes, electric cars and other interventions have helped 19 global cities slash levels of pollutants by more than 20%
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
NEW: Carney Government Outsourced Consultation To Big Business Lobby Group
“We think it’s a bit strange that this labour-focused consultation is being run by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce.”
Latest from @emmapaling.bsky.social
www.readthemaple.com/carney-gover...
“They tell us they have 880 tons of melted fuel, and, so far, they have managed to remove a piece the size of a grain of rice. I estimate it will take 100 years or more. Future generations will be cleaning up Fukushima long after we’re dead.” #NoNukes
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As modern warfare weaponizes the very air we breathe, chemists should leverage their skills and knowledge to detect, neutralize, and reclaim toxic atmospheres in the world’s most devastated conflict zones.
#chemsky 🧪
“Doctors across Canada are deeply concerned about the Alberta government’s proposal to expand private health care”
www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...
‘We have survived too much:’ UN presses Canada to explain discrimination in Indian Act’s second-generation cut-off www.aptnnews.ca?p=284718
I don't care if a poll shows the entire working class is against trans people (they aren't) I will never ever ever not support the bodily autonomy and human rights of trans people and any politician who is swayed by polling over their own conscience is a coward who should fuck off
"Both Smith and Koren were charismatic physicians whose charisma seemed to overshadow the fact that they were out of their depth when it came to doing forensic work" #MedSky
A reasonable person would not expect case studies in a Medical Journal were fictional. The harm caused is immeasurable.
The opposition was loud when the Canadian government announced Bill C-5 and Ontario announced Bill 5.
Scott McLeod, the Lake Huron regional chief for the Anishinabek Nation, has been a vocal critic of the legislation from the onset.
This is not just cursed, its monstrous. The digital resurrection of a historian who died in January of this year, all so Grammarly can get some more clicks and engagement from students and/or scholars and/or others.
It feels so wrong on so many levels, these ghosts enslaved to AI forever
QTWTAI...it was a crap idea and always was. Electricity is so much more efficient than hydrogen. It's where buses are headed globally
"If you look at the commercial and technical framework around hydrogen buses, they just don't work'.. It was a house built on sand"
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The government wouldn't give us a list of data centres seeking power in Ontario.
So, we built one ourselves.
What @rorywh.bsky.social and I found: at least 15 projects drawing a combined 2,202 MW: more electricity than 2 million homes.
#OnPoli for @nationalobserver.com 🧵
A parallel private-pay system will worsen access to publicly funded surgery /via @cmaj.ca
www.cmaj.ca/content/198/...
This week Pierre Poilievre made a bunch of sketchy claims about people claiming refugee status in Canada. So we fact- checked him using research from the Migrant Rights Network.
Please watch and share our latest @breachmedia.ca
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#AlgomaCentral to aquire #LowerLakesTowing fleet. #GreatLakes #ShippingNews maritimemag.com/en/algoma-ce...
Do you know why this is dangerous? Because this law states that you can be jailed for six months, fined $10K, or both if you are merely *suspected* of having or using drugs. People will absolutely be profiled — and not just homeless people. www.thestar.com/news/gta/dou...
It really is fascinating how overt it now is that there are certain - really not controversial - ideas that you aren’t allowed to say on television.
“The targeting of the Special Rapporteur cannot be separated from the egregious international crimes and human rights abuses being perpetrated against Palestinians and the...efforts to delegitimise those who defend their rights.” #FrancescaAlbanese
mondoweiss.net/2026/02/fran...
To put an end to my endless ranting, i decided to write a thing.
iwouldprefernotto.substack.com/p/whose-stor...
Join me in support of a strong Global #PlasticsTreaty that cuts plastic production and use so that we can finally turn off the tap and end the age of plastic - for our communities, our country, and our planet. #BreakFreeFromPlastic act.gp/3G0t34p
ICYMI, this @policyalternatives.ca webinar is worth your time
Drs. Woolhandler & Himmelstein—international experts on for-profit health care & insurance—in conversation w/ me about the grave risk of US health care coming to Canada via Alberta, and how we fight back
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqQn...
Canadians say our border agents are nothing like ICE
This low bar ignores our partnership with ICE, and the deaths, deportations, and detentions overseen by the Canada Border Services Agency, or CBSA
Our latest at @breachmedia.ca
www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Wu...
NEW: ChatGPT and other chatbots are feeding users' fixations on real people, reinforcing users' delusional ideas and obsessions about others as they descend into unwanted harassment, stalking, and/or domestic abuse — traumatizing victims and profoundly altering lives.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
⛷️ Winter sports fans don’t want Big Oil at the Olympics.
New polling shows strong support for dropping fossil fuel sponsors from the Winter Games.
Learn more via @cape-acme.bsky.social
Incredible victory! After years of organizing across Canada, Scotia Bank has divested from Elbit Systems!
Elbit is Israel's largest weapons company, arming the occupation and genocide of Palestine.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
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Make it make sense 🫠
The #WinterOlympics says they want to be more sustainable BUT take funding from fossil fuels companies!
Maybe end your relationship with a major polluter first? 🤔
Luda Kinok, a Yupik Indigenous activist originally from Chukotka and now living in the U.S., experienced a rollback of freedoms after Perestroika ended in Russia.
She says it feels eerily familiar as she watches democratic institutions erode in the United States.
