Here in Canada we’re promoting pipelines to be in the national interest. Seems to me we should be building bigger storm sewers instead of oil pipelines . 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...

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Pope Leo XIV says that the Catholic Church’s teaching on sexual ethics must be less prioritized over “greater, more important issues.” “We tend to think that when the Church is talking about morality, that the only issue of morality is sexual. “There are much greater, more important issues.“

Buddy used his café to rally his town to break up Canada. Folks decided to buy their coffee elsewhere. He went out of business. Treason doesn't pay. Check out this article. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Separatist Café Owner's Cold Lake Business Goes Under Due to Hosting Separatist Events

This is just a warning shot to Albertans who think separation is the answer to our problems. This guy thought so, and it led his customers to separate from his business.

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Shopify announces customers can use promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off all orders

Shopify announces customers can use promo code PLUTOCRACY for 10% off all orders

TORONTO – In the wake of CEO Tobi Lutke endorsing an electoral system in which votes are allocated based on how much income tax you pay, e-commerce platform Shopify has announced that customers can pu...

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Parents of trans youth in Alberta, alongside advocacy groups, are calling for a federal government inquiry into the province's harmful trampling on the rights of trans youth. Because Carney has been all smiles alongside Alberta Premier Danielle Smith lately -- and silent on her deadly policies:

See you in court, creep.

MPR News@mprnews.org · last wk.

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company is suing Minnesota over a first-in-the-nation law banning technology that allows users to create and post deepfake videos or images of people naked without their consent.

Local man says OPP plane stands for Ontario Premier's Private plane.

Ford flew short haul across southern Ontario as jet purchase was finalized | Globalnews.ca

Schedules reveal that Ford took four short-haul domestic flights on the OPP plane over less than two months and chartered a jet to travel to Texas.

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Disappointing that successive Federal governments have allowed Canada's universal health care to be hollowed out. Not holding my breath for change from @mark-carney.bsky.social's government.

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · last wk.

Private billing law for doctors threatens universal health care, critics charge. Alberta’s “dual-practice” framework would allow physicians to provide publicly insured care and privately paid services, by @raisapatel.bsky.social www.thestar.com/politics/fed... via @thestar.com

Very cool that Shopify’s CEO thinks the poor should have far less of a vote than the rich. Still worth that ad read money, folks?

CBC exposes yet another Doug Ford blunder - In Jan 2025, the Ford govt reduced collection targets for used tires. Tire producers must now recycle only 65% of used tires vs 85% earlier. Auto shops in @toronto.ca are struggling to get used tires picked up. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

More than 1,000 scrap tires are piled at this Toronto auto shop. No recyclers will take them, owner says | CBC News

A Scarborough auto repair shop owner says he has been told by the city to clear more than a thousand scrap tires from his business, but he cannot get anyone to pick them up following changes to provin...

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Dear Donald, Can you do something about your smoke please? - A concerned Canadian

Re the 50% tariffs imposed by the orange moron. Time for you @mark-carney.bsky.social to play hardball. Reimpose the digital tax, slap 50% export tax on oil, potash, gas, fish and critical minerals.

"Your party & parties like yours in Canada marched in lockstep with the world’s oil companies in denying the science of human-caused #ClimateChange, slow-walking if not outright outlawing the solutions & profiting mightily the whole time. You lit the match." medium.com/@stevebentle... #cdnpoli

Dear Republican Climate-Denying Yet Smoke-Concerned Lawmakers

Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet. An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far…

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Global News@globalnews.ca · 3w ago

"If Canada will not manage its forests to prevent these fires, the United States will look elsewhere, and act on our own, to protect our people,” said a group of U.S. lawmakers. globalnews.ca/news/1196860...

🧵 Dear Republican lawmakers, Canada has the largest intact boreal forest on the planet. An increasingly hotter world due to #ClimateChange makes longer dry seasons, far larger wildfires & yes, more smoke. No amount of "raking" fixes it. The scientists warned of exactly this for a very long time /1

Canada's National Observer@nationalobserver.com · 12mo ago

"If Canada can't get these wildfires under control, they need to face real consequences," said Wisconsin state Rep. Calvin Callahan in a news release Wednesday. "We won't sit back while our air becomes a health hazard."

21 years ago today, Canada became the 4th country in the world, and 1st outside of Europe, to legalize same-sex marriage. The sky didn’t fall. Hell didn’t break loose. Only Canada’s capacity for love and acceptance increased. Now over 30+ countries have followed Canada’s lead.

What is your government doing about this @mark-carney.bsky.social ?

Toronto Star@thestar.com · 2w ago

A broad swath of crypto businesses in Canada are intentionally acting as conduits for money laundering, Iran-linked sanctions evasion and organized crime, a federal watchdog has found. #cdnpoli Here's the latest from the Star and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists:

Booing Donald Trump is the closest thing to a national anthem for the world.

Found this interesting. But that doesn't mean Canada still needs to do much more.

@megganbouvet.bsky.social · 3w ago

Also this:

Thanks, NDP Ontario for exposing the hypocrisy in Doug Ford's government once again. #ONpoli respectfortaxpayers.ca#top

These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w ago

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

“Climate breakdown is not a natural disaster. It is a business model that privatises profit and socialises cost”

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3w ago

“Europe is struggling through climate breakdown. France’s heatwave shut schools and stretched hospitals past their limits, with so many people dying in their apartments that morgues have run out of space. Outdoor workers have faced conditions beyond what the human body can safely withstand.”

This is exactly what Canada should do. www.ctvnews.ca/business/art...

New York won’t build big data centres for a year as it weighs energy and climate risks

No large data centres can be built in New York for up to a year as the state creates rules to protect the environment and its energy grid from the power-hungry facilities fueling artificial intelligen...

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'Lurcher leaping a fence' by UK photographer Fay Godwin (1931-2005) #womensart

An Edmonton non-profit says it faced an “intense and rapid legal challenge” from city police just days before screening a documentary about Mathios Arkangelo, the man fatally shot by an officer in 2024. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

Edmonton officers sought injunction before Mathios Arkangelo police shooting documentary shown

An Edmonton non-profit says it faced a legal challenge from police days before screening a documentary about a man fatally shot by an officer.

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“I came without a speech, because I’m hungry. “I’m hungry for justice, hungry for authentic charity, hungry for a Church that truly knows how to open the doors, welcome, receive everyone, where there is love for all and where no one is an enemy.” — Pope Leo XIV at lunch with homeless persons.

This says it all.

Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 4w ago

The Conservative Party of Canada spent $100 million trying to convince Canadians to vote for Pierre Poilievre last year They lost the election and ended the year with a $14 million deficit

I don't know #PierrePoilievre, for all your talk, it doesn't look like you manage your own house too well.

@productofbc.bsky.social · 4w ago

The party that likes to say they can budget better than the Liberals can't even manage their own funds properly. ~$85 million raised, ~$100 million spent, leaving ~$14 million deficit. Conservative Party had $85M in... www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Wish we did this here too @toronto.ca timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/japa...

Japan does not cut down centuries-old trees for development. Instead, experts spend months preparing their roots and relocating them - The Times of India

The Times of India brings the Latest & Top Breaking News on Politics and Current Affairs in India & around the World, Cricket, Sports, Business, Bollywood News and Entertainment, Science, Technology, ...

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Let's do a reading experiment. substack.com/@sarahkendzi...