Kentucky Public Radio and NPR obtained a draft of the NIOSH letter before publication. Researchers found that working veteran underground coal miners in central Appalachia are suffering from the incurable and fatal lung disease at the highest rates in nearly 50 years. www.lpm.org/2026-08-05/a...

Appalachia's black lung rates highest in nearly 50 years as miners' protections stall

Rates are now as bad as the 1970s, with thousands of miners sick and dying. Mining experts blame toxic silica dust, now more common in mines.

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« Hansen’s team found PFOS in Swedish blood samples from 1957 and 1971. After that, her lab analyzed blood that had been collected before 3M created PFOS. It tested negative. Apparently, fluorochemicals had … leached out of 3M’s sprays, coatings and factories — and into all of us.

ProPublica@propublica.org · 3d ago

Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people's bodies. Her bosses halted her work. Now she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. (Published May 2024)

Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:

Great piece by Ashley Fitzpatrick on the zombie debate over the Quebec - Labrador border. A colonial line which, of course, traverses Innu, Naskapi, and Inuit territories. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Quebec-Labrador border is becoming political fodder | CBC News

The Quebec-Labrador boundary line is a subject woven through the modern histories of Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. It's an entirely settled dispute — the answer written into the Canadian const...

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Mark Carney promised "elbows-up" nation-building. What Canadians are getting instead is a carve-out economy—where environmental protections, Indigenous rights, and labour standards are treated as obstacles to growth, write @shirip.bsky.social and Eve Saint.

The new rules of Carney’s carve-out economy

It has been one year since Mark Carney introduced the Building Canada Act in Parliament. Since then, a succession of new laws has hollowed out legal protections for the environment, Indigenous rights,...

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It’s almost 18 mos since I cancelled planned conference travel & began my USA travel boycott (aka pre-self-deportation). Don’t miss America a lick—tbh I mainly feel grateful my folks left there many years ago and made me 🇨🇦 www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Canadians spent $3.3bn less on travel to US in 2025 after Trump’s return to office

Data shows Canadians have replaced US vacations with other international trips in apparent rebuke to Trump

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Canadian arts and culture folks: the federal government has launched a (methodologically flawed) survey on "the Cultural Sector's readiness for Artificial Intelligence". If you're ready to resist or refuse genAI, here's your chance to let them know. pch.research-recherche.ca/f/s.aspx?lan...

National Survey on the Cultural Sector’s Readiness for Artificial Intelligence

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Hey America: come and get your boy. He’s a POS and we don’t want him here.

Dave Cournoyer 🇨🇦@daveberta.bsky.social · 2w ago

These articles were published just hours apart. It’s been pretty obvious for sometime that US Ambassador Pete Hoekstra has little to no influence or insight into what’s happening in Trump’s White House.

Are the US in the final? Why their national anthem?

Canada can’t claim climate leadership while fast-tracking mines and pipelines, weakening environmental reviews, and sidelining Indigenous consent. A just transition cannot be imposed from above. It must be built with Indigenous nations, not over them, write Tyler McCreary and Warren Bernauer.

Canada’s new resource deals drive a climate and rights backslide

Indigenous nations have clearly expressed concern over the government’s orientation to prioritize resource extraction over their rights, lands, and environmental well-being. By preemptively committing...

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Meanwhile, another sign of the collapse of the diamond sector in the #NWT. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Gahcho Kué mine co-owner delisting from TSX signals financial distress, expert says | CBC News

Mountain Province Diamonds, the company that co-owns the Gahcho Kué diamond mine in the N.W.T, plans to voluntarily delist its shares from the Toronto Stock Exchange this week. One expert says that si...

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Here we go again: Ekati mine enters receivership without a final costed closure plan and uncertainty around whether there is enough money for reclamation (their likely isn’t). How is this still happening in the 21st century? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Uncertainty looms over jobs, clean-up costs as N.W.T.'s Ekati mine nears closure | CBC News

Ekati Diamond Mine had been slated to close in 2029 but is now in receivership after its parent company could not secure a buyer for the site. Receiver PricewaterhouseCoopers, along with experts, are ...

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Saw this coming a ways off. Took a good bit of govt money on the way out.

Cabin Radio@cabinradio.ca · 3w ago

The era of diamonds as the North's economic heartbeat is over.  #northwestterritories #diamonds #mining #canada #ekati

The era of diamonds as the North's economic heartbeat is over.  #northwestterritories #diamonds #mining #canada #ekati

Best thing to be said about the English anthem: it’s short.

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Let’s see the Yanks go out of the WC and make it a 3/3 for host countries.

This ad playing during the World Cup feels positively Orwellian as the government of Canada advocates LNG expansion and commits tens of billions of tax dollars to a million barrel per day heavy oil pipeline. Fossil fuels= world class energy? Black = white?

Fun Tom@funtomvids.bsky.social · last mo.

🔴 "As the world races towards clean energy, Canada's government will use our natural advantage to build world-class energy projects that bring down costs create thousands of new jobs, and lower emissions." 👍🏻

Trump celebrating Balogun’s eligibility to play for Team USA when his administration would strip Balogun’s citizenship tomorrow if he didn’t play world class soccer is really a chef’s kiss.

Every time I’m in the Kootenays I think, when can I get back to the Kootenays? #BC

Delighted to read this generous review of The Price of Gold by Jeremy Schmidt: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Fella Kuti music used to sell a betting platform. We have reached the end of culture. #ExpensiveShit

One of Canada’s greatest exports: pseudo-intellectualism over layering smug white privilege. See also Steven Pinker.

brent sewer socialist🚰🌹@therealbrent.bsky.social · last mo.

I hate this guy so much

I don’t watch TV news but have been recently exposed to US network TV broadcasts. It’s no wonder why ppl are so ignorant about the world. There’s no effort to explain anything important they just show dumb crime-ish videos. Honestly it’s just Reels with a lantern jawed announcer.

Time to send some old school anti-racist skinheads up to have a chat with these chuds. If anyone needs to self-deport, it’s these losers. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A white nationalist group visiting Canadian locations is trying to normalize extremism, says a former neo-Nazi | CBC News

White nationalist groups often raise local issues in an effort to gain legitimacy, promoting extremist ideas and trying to recruit new members in the process, says a former neo-Nazi. Now a Vancouver-b...

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“One of the things that really stuck out to me as we were researching this book is the extent to which so many of these narratives that exist today, actually, you can trace back 100 years.” Ppl forget how active the KKK was in 🇨🇦 at that time…

Stephanie Carvin@stephaniecarvin.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I did an interview with CTV News about my new book with @amaramarasingam.bsky.social on far-right extremism in Canada. www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...

On this day in 1899, Treaty 8 was signed. It was signed between The Crown and the First Nations of the Lesser Slave Lake area. Treaty 8 covers an area 841,000 sq-km in size and includes parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and the NWT. 📸 Glenbow Archives

It’s National Indigenous Peoples’ Day in what is now known as Canada. Time for settler & newcomers folks to learn whose lands they live, work, and play on, and consider how they can honour their obligations #WeAreAllTreatyPeople

Every time I fly in Canada and every time I use public transit in a 🇨🇦 city I think: this is the diverse & beautiful world PP and the racist right want to ruin. And it makes me feckin mad.

It seems to me age verification laws are like speeding tickets—they rely on changing/punishing individual behaviour, instead of considering how system design can achieve safety goals for all.