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The oil & gas lobby chalks up a big win! Why didn't the feds announce it? And why couldn't Meta finance it? "Crown corp lends up to $200M for Meta data centre gas plant in Alberta" www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/24/n...
Crown corp lends up to $200M for Meta data centre gas plant in Alberta
The gas plant, known as Greenlight, is classified as a project that is “likely to have significant adverse environmental and social effects.”
nationalobserver.com
Heads up: Taylor Farms lettuce is sold under these brand names: Marketside (sold at Walmart) Earthbound Farm (owned by Taylor Farms) Cross Valley Farms (owned by US Foods) Private labels for Target, Whole Foods (365), and Amazon Fresh. AVOID ALL OF THEM
Nothing we can do????? Hope Dems have prepared????? Not hopeful.
Nobody in the U.S. Senate is more responsible for the overturning of Roe v. Wade than Susan Collins. In November, we will defeat her.
NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom. GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
Google Hit With $1B Fine for Abusing Its Power in Europe. "The best products should succeed because they’re better, not because they’re owned by the company running the search engine”. (Time for Canada to step up.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/23/b...
Google Hit With $1 Billion Fine By EU Over Search Engine Practices
At a tense moment for trans-Atlantic trade, the European Union accused Google of anti-competitive business practices.
nytimes.com
Gee, are you sure those folks could afford that?
Brant Reeves@bireeves95.bsky.social · 2w agoAbsolutely 💯 Tax Them…. NEW: Over the World Cup final weekend, ~3,000 private jets flew in and out of the NY area. On the last day, private jet CO2 in the area doubled its 5-year norm(!). Private jets are the most carbon-intensive form of travel. Tax them.
The satellite that watches the eastern United States for storms went blind for 20 hours in July. NOAA cannot yet say why. Its backup sits weeks away from taking over. This is what a warning system looks like after the people who ran it were cut and its research arm marked for the axe.
Spain’s Nico Williams gave his mother, Maria, his World Cup winner’s medal after Sunday’s final ❤️💛 Nico's parents trekked some 2,000 miles across the Sahara from Ghana to Spain as refugees. Now, their son is a world champion 🥹
For the oil sands gang, it's really a "Government Capture" scheme. "Taxpayers could be paying twice for Pathways carbon capture project" www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/20/n...
Taxpayers could be paying twice for Pathways carbon capture project
Canadians already funding the majority of the cost of building the Pathways project, the world’s biggest CCS complex, could also be stuck with higher fuel prices under a plan to help absorb the megapr...
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Feds lower carbon capture project targets and offer new subsidies as costs double www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/13/n...
Feds lower carbon capture project targets and offer new subsidies as costs double
Deal between Ottawa, province and oilsands heavyweights trades “expanded access” to global markets via West Coast pipeline for megaproject that will sequester a fraction of the carbon originally envis...
nationalobserver.com
The Culture War on Literacy: Now I know what kind of thinking drives the Nova Scotia government's defunding of local libraries.
Joe G@eastendjoe.bsky.social · 3w agoI must’ve been going to the wrong libraries all my life.
How are things going in your province? Note the pattern established out West: "Exposing Alberta's Wilful Blindness to AI Centre Harms" via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Exposing Alberta’s Wilful Blindness to AI Centre Harms | The Tyee
The UCP refuses to tally risks to nature and people. This expert did it for them.
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Lamentation (flipped, detail), by Gerard David, 1515-23, 📸 by Roberto Schmidt
A robovoice instead of a professional broadcaster? This is unacceptable from @CBC / @CBC/Radio-Canada . French names butchered by A.I., mispronunciations, the egregious "rout" for "route". How far can you listen to this travesty before giving up? #CBCNews #SavetheCBC www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Town on Montreal's South Shore calls on province to solve 'hellish' traffic on Route 138 | CBC News
The City of Mercier on Montreal's South Shore is launching a petition to pressure the Quebec government to tackle chronic traffic congestion on Route 138, an issue officials say has frustrated residen...
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Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million after Supreme Court denies his appeal of sexual abuse verdict | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court Monday declined to take up an appeal from President Donald Trump over a $5 million verdict and finding that he sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll, a decision that means the ...
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Doug Lindner@douglindner.bsky.social · last mo.MSNBC: Clarence Thomas why are you in the Capitol Building? Clarence Thomas: lol @ the mere concept of answering for the way i wield massive government power for 35 years and counting
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/27/n...
Steven Guilbeault says climate change a generation-defining fight as he quits Liberal Party
Steven Guilbeault has had enough. Two weeks after Prime Minister Mark Carney and Alberta Premier Danielle Smith announced an ambitious timeline to advance a new oil pipeline proposal and weaken Canada...
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Mayors, premiers, and enforcement agencies, take note of how to earn your salaries & serve the public. It's not an option; it's your job.
The Fourteenth Amendment, written in the blood of the Civil War, says in Section 4 that this is blatantly illegal: “[N]either the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United States.”
