The immediate impact of Ontario’s expense scandal is marginal. The PCs still lead by eight. But a majority of Ontarians see a broader culture of entitlement, and 41% say the story has made them more negative about the Ford government. NEW POLL: abacusdata.ca/expense-sca...

“[AI] is the backbone of a superstructure that merges regressive politics with unchecked economic power in the guise of technological innovation. Put simply, there is too much money, some of it too untraceable, giving a small group of unelected people too much power over the people.” 🔥

"The analysis finds that this reactivation of pathogens is linked to especially intense bouts of COVID-19 and to the development of long COVID."

Crawford Kilian@crof.bsky.social · 2h ago

A wake-up call we can do without: COVID can wake up a slew of dormant viruses inside you www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“Who has time to address climate change when wildfires are decimating precious pipeline space?”

The Beaverton@thebeaverton.com · 2h ago

Carney vows to fast-track West Coast Pipeline before entire West Coast burns to the ground

I'm in St. Catharines for the week and all anyone is talking about is the flooding. The consequences of unchecked greenhouse gas emissions everywhere this summer. Floods and fires and heatwaves. It's horrifying that as a country we're going backwards on climate pledges www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

'It was like a tsunami': Massive flooding in St. Catharines, Ont., leaves residents in grief and shock | CBC News

Amid a state of emergency from the fallout of two storms within a week, people in St. Catharines say they're in shock and grief as they deal with severe flooding in their homes and elsewhere in the ci...

cbc.ca

"Each of these books aims to explain how technology, politics, money & power are reshaping our world... In reading them together, I’m looking for common themes, patterns & novel questions about data politics." #GiftLink 🎁

Puff the Magic Hater@mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 3h ago

I've read most of the books on @tressiemcphd.bsky.social's proposed reading list and plan to read the rest. These are excellent recommendations. In fact, @gilduran.com (author of The Nerd Reich) will be a guest on Movement Memos soon.

My new book is officially here! UNITED STATES OF OLIGARCHY looks at what oligarchy actually is, and how we got here, and where we're going—and how wealth inequality in the US threatens both democracy and national security alike, and has led directly to the resurgence of empire. Pick up a copy now!

Tim Bousquet@timbousquet.bsky.social · 5h ago

Pictou County Mothers of Democracy inspire a ‘reawakening of the civic consciousness’ through series of talks in their community Morning File by Suzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social

Someone strand this man on the moon

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5h ago

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman on rockets crashing into the moon: "It's not a big deal right now. The moon has clearly seen better days."

Planting trees in cities saves lives. A new study in Chicago estimates that planting 14,000 trees per year to increase shade would save 104 lives annually Conversely, eliminating urban trees increases deaths from heat agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Increasing Urban Tree Canopy Associated With Reduced Mortality: A Longitudinal Analysis of Chicago Neighborhoods

Total canopy cover was not associated with mortality, but year-to-year increases were linked to lower all cause and cause specific mortality Year-to-year tree canopy loss is significantly associa...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

Severe Covid leads to persistent viral reactivation, with >10 different viruses noted in the first 40 days after hospital admission. Long Covid was specifically associated with reactivation of latent Anelloviridae virus @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature

Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...

nature.com

If the conspiracists want to join the pushback against data centres/AI, hey, it's a big tent.

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 3h ago

Canada's push to become an AI data centre hub is fuelling conspiracy theories that the massive facilities are secret "surveillance centres" serving authoritarian goals.

Struggling to even understand what the point of this editorial is. It feels like there's a giant hole in the middle of it where a call to action should be.

Max Fawcett@maxfawcett.bsky.social · 4h ago

This is genuinely astonishing: a piece by the Globe and Mail’s editorial board lamenting the “new normal” of wildfires and summer smoke and no mention whatsoever of a) climate change, or b) the burning of fossil fuels that causes it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...

Palantir wants health data. "According to its registration, Palantir’s Canadian subsidiary was interested in “areas where [the] company's capabilities & experience in improving patient care while optimizing limited health system resources match needs & objectives of the B.C. public health system.”

Investigative Journalism Foundation@theijf.org · 5h ago

The Canadian arm of controversial U.S. data mining company Palantir was until recently registered to lobby B.C. health authorities. Elsewhere in the world, Palantir’s health-care contracts are coming under fire. zurl.co/J0wmn

Important piece from @cloelogan.bsky.social and @rorywh.bsky.social. If data centres are an issue that concerns you, @nationalobserver.com has you covered with its outstanding work. If you can manage it, please consider subscribing.

Cloe Logan@cloelogan.bsky.social · yesterday

A proposed municipal pause on AI data centres in Hamilton seemed like a done deal. All but 1 of the 16 elected officials in the city voted in favour of bringing the bylaw forward. Then, the majority flipped. Here's what happened + what implications it could have for other municipalities.

"The report found just 28% of respondents were aware that changes to the risk level Ottawa attributes to specific destinations in its travel alerts can change the validity of travel insurance, leading insurers to completely or partially deny claims. Some 56% of respondents were not aware"

Unofficial CTV News Mirror@ctvnews-mirror.bsky.social · 9h ago

Many Canadians don't know federal travel advisories can void their insurance: survey

Pick a thing, make that your thing, get to work. We all thank you in advance.

Dr. Jonathan Foley@globalecoguy.bsky.social · last mo.

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

Argos is excited for his morning walk!

I can hear his voice so clearly. “For me, it’s been a rare privilege to have been able to serve in this position for so long. It’s been a front-row seat to history,” Robertson said in 2011 during his final broadcast as CTV National News anchor.

Unofficial CP24 Mirror@cp24-mirror.bsky.social · 17h ago

#BREAKING: Former CTV News chief anchor Lloyd Robertson dies at 92

More photos of the larkspur at the small flower farm near Wicken, Cambridgeshire, for a good dollop of floral dopamine 🌿:

Wildfires Rage Across 2 Continents as Shell Posts ‘Scandalous’ $9.8B Quarterly Profit www.theenergymix.com/wildfires-ra...

Wildfires Rage Across 2 Continents as Shell Posts ‘Scandalous’ $9.8B Quarterly Profit

As devastating wildfires continue to burn across swaths of Canada, the United States, and Europe, oil major Shell posted $9.8 billion in second quarter profits, more than double its earnings from this...

theenergymix.com

Periodic reminder that approximately 2/3 of the equity in Postmedia is owned by the American hedge fund Chatham Asset Management.

Mark Kersten@markkersten.bsky.social · yesterday

It may not be surprising, but it's nevertheless sad to see a Canadian newspaper trumpet Washington's call to demolish the #ICC, and siding with impunity for Putin, Netanyahu, and the Taliban. This is now part of the right's firmament, along with anti-trans politics and Residential School denialism.

This is Susan Murray of Truro, Nova Scotia. Yesterday, she became the first volunteer in the world to be dosed with a trial Moderna vaccine against the new ebola strain In all, 80 Canadians have stepped up in a phase 1 clinical trial to help end the epidemic in West Africa cepi.net/modernas-bun...

When you use Bluesky as a tool to remember the day your Japanese Anemone 'Robustissima' first bloomed last year. Soon. #BloomScrolling

My IRL friends call me Chris@christyceeck.bsky.social · 12mo ago

And there it was this morning: the first of its kind this season. Anemone Robustissima arrives quietly with one flower. Soon it will be a blizzard of pink and happy bees. I think of this perennial as the Tom Henke of summer. It will bloom right up until frost approaches. The Closer.

4/ How many wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, burnt down communities, ruined livelihoods, and lost lives will it take for PM Carney to stop his reckless pursuit of expanded fossil fuel production?

3/ PM Carney's sneaky move came the day after UN Secretary General criticized countries for doubling down on fossil fuels, saying “[e]very new fossil fuel project approved today makes tomorrow’s heat waves more dangerous and our world less secure.”

#CdnPoli

Julia Levin@jflevin.bsky.social · yesterday

1/ Over the weekend -- while Canadians across the country were dealing with raging wildfires and the aftermath of severe flooding and heatwaves -- PM Carney quietly accelerated the timeline on his taxpayer funded pipeline. environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...

QUESTION: is there any footage of data centers IN Canada and their noise output that you know of that’s legit? please send me the info if you do!!

#photography #unedited