"Canada’s public financing for fossil fuels has been topping $18 billion per year, the highest amount in the G20. By contrast, Canada... provided $975 million per year for renewable energy — 19 times less" @chrishatch.bsky.social @nationalobserver.com #cdnpoli #bcpoli #bcwildfire

The fiscal fantasy of fossil fuels

Governments spend billions fighting fires, rebuilding communities, compensating disaster victims and treating the growing health burden from climate change. Then those same governments spend billions ...

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How would I get by without AI? If I need a factually-dubious opinion expressed in a cliched manner with unearned confidence, I’ll just talk to a straight white cis man. I can get by on small-batch, locally-sourced, artisanal mansplaining, the way we always used to.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Veteran Canadian broadcaster Lloyd Robertson dead at 92 | CBC News “While straight-laced on air, Robertson wasn't overly fussy with his image…As to SCTV's newscaster ‘Floyd Robertson,’ he told CBC he thought the portrayal by Joe Flaherty was ‘marvelous.’”

Lloyd Robertson, former anchor of CTV and CBC's flagship news programs, dead at 92 | CBC News

Lloyd Robertson, who delivered the news to Canadians in an authoritative and unflappable manner for more than 40 years as anchor for the flagship news programs of CTV and the CBC, has died. He was 92.

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I received a bill with a $70 declined transaction fee due to a compromised credit card. The company is removing it but sheesh. So we legislated limits on bank NSF fees but not for anything else?! Because that is an INSANE amount.

When I die this is exactly what I want at my funeral

The Onion@theonion.com · 3d ago

Moment Of Silence Followed By Hot Dog Race

I welcome our new moss overlords. Have you met the mushrooms?

Heather Shearer@heather-sea55.bsky.social · 2w ago

🧪 #scicomm This is so cool www.sciencealert.com/moss-behaves...

My 34-year-old sister just went through airport security where they asked her if she was under 18 and traveling without her parents and I can't help but find this hilarious and also envy-inducing

So, some good news: Someone found my purse and handed it in. Everything inside except for the cash I had in my wallet. Wish I knew who found it so I could thank them, but whoever you are, may you forever have cozy socks and tires that never go flat.

Elisha Dacey 🎤🏳️‍⚧️@elishadacey.bsky.social · 6d ago

So, the day before my grandmother's funeral, someone snatched my purse from my cart at the Headingley Costco. Wallet, car keys, house keys, gone. Sometimes I wanna punch the universe in the face

So, the day before my grandmother's funeral, someone snatched my purse from my cart at the Headingley Costco. Wallet, car keys, house keys, gone. Sometimes I wanna punch the universe in the face

And I thought last week was embarrassing Oh well, at least there's fireworks

Oop. Called it. First non-sellout in a season and a half

Elisha Dacey 🎤🏳️‍⚧️@elishadacey.bsky.social · 6d ago

Guys, tonight might not be a sellout...

Pretty sure BCs QB has more rushing yards than anyone else in this game

Eeeek. Hope Dru's ok

FINALLY

Is there any place to buy ice cream in this stadium? Or is it banned like shawarma?

It's like watching soccer

🇨🇦 D-man 🇨🇦🇺🇦@dmanwpg.bsky.social · 6d ago

Woof this is a boring game #Bombers #ForTheW

Someone tell Dru that Demski is open. A lot.

Guys, tonight might not be a sellout...

Everyone is bewildered. "Wait, did we get the ball?!"

This is not how I planned to spend the pregame but here we are. #fortheW

Halfway in his walk to work, Hubby says he's passed about a dozen downed trees so far. My garden is miraculously unscathed, yay!

Do news websites a favour and actually link to the articles, please.

Mark Carney@mark-carney.bsky.social · last wk.

Better infrastructure. More homes. Stronger communities.

A local (Winnipeg) used book store has been getting a bunch of really suspicious orders lately and they think it's for AI training

Stardust 🌏🎬@stardustbluepr.com · last wk.

I have no words for how absolutely awful this is. I hope there are rare book libraries opening all over the globe..

Just a head’s up to everyone who hasn’t reassessed their relationship with Shopify yet: its CEO is actively pushing far-right politics in Canada, now with Elon Musk’s explicit support!

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · last wk.

lol, annnnnnnd there's the nail in the coffin, if there was still any doubt:

!!!

Heather Wells@heatherwells.bsky.social · last wk.

Manitoba Hydro has had offers "in the hundreds of millions" for software it created: CEO www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A small fringe group is four people and a live chicken, not 15,000 signatures and demonstrations

Toronto Star@thestar.com · last wk.

Blasting the federal government for listening to “a small fringe group in Toronto,” provincial Transportation Minister Prabmeet Sarkaria insists the Billy Bishop expansion is not dead.

Not satisfied with having all the money, billionaire wants more votes. In contrast, I prefer to have society MORE democratic and appropriately tax billionaires. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Shopify CEO appears to endorse giving more votes to wealthy Canadians | CBC News

The billionaire CEO of one of Canada's largest companies has come under fire for seeming to endorse stripping voting rights from some and giving more votes to the ultra wealthy. Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke...

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Wtf. This never would have happened at my neighborhood post office. They always had 2-3 people on.

I'm seeing notes here and on LI of layoffs at various publications these past few weeks. Journos, I am hiring a full-time senior reporter position at futureofgood.co/careers. Remote, good pay, diving into politics and philanthropy. Plus I'm awesome to work for.

Another "no good deed goes unpunished" kinda day I'm glad I have my sarcasm and spite to get me through