Oregon appears to be on track to have one of its most harmful and expensive wildfire seasons in history.

Oregon’s wildfire season has cost state more than $150 million so far, officials say. Here’s what we know

Oregon appears to be on track to have one of its most harmful and expensive wildfire seasons in history.

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I just told my MP I oppose Alberta’s proposed bitumen pipeline to the B.C. coast. It puts ecosystems at risk and locks Canada into a fossil fuel future. Let’s invest in renewables, protect nature and uphold Indigenous rights. share.nwmd.social/s/vEIbrTuJ

Join me in rejecting Alberta’s pipeline ploy.

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Another community burned to the ground. But yes let’s build another pipeline.

Times Colonist@timescolonist.bsky.social · 17h ago

Both Liberal & Conservative parties over the last 40 years helped the wealthy evade taxes - starting with Brian Mulroney, then Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, Stephen Harper, Justin Trudeau and finally Mark Carney. Remember the Panama Papers? #cdnpoli #canada #corruption #graft shorturl.at/JRib3

China's super-rich 'in shock' and hunting for cash as Beijing issues surprise tax on offshore trusts

Beijing's move to tax offshore trusts, long used by China's ultra-rich to hold money, has set off a rush to lawyers and a scramble for cash.

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On the other hand, natural emissions of methane are on the rise as the planet warms, driving an increasingly strong feedback loop. This is particularly concerning in the polar regions where large deposits are just waiting to be unleashed. #permafrost #tippingpoint #methaneclathrates #wetlands

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

The Arctic is cooking and we are in serious trouble In what should be one of the coldest places on Earth Its 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), as hot as Orlando Florida Without Arctic natural air conditioning systems we are toast www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-...

It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

The Arctic is heating faster than the rest of the planet. New data illustrate how dire that is

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"I have cerebral palsy. I am not on AISH. I am not on ADAP. But I have sat across kitchen tables from people who are, watched what this summer has done to their faces, and I have never in all my years writing this column felt as let down by this province as I do right now." #Alberta #abpoli

TAIT: Albertans with disabilities betrayed by Smith government

Please don't call the most vulnerable among us freeloaders from a podium and walk away without proof.

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BC owns tidewater access for AB LNG & bitumen. We want way bigger cut of the Tolls! + many Enbridge pipelines. Enbridge not want their biz model wrecked.

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

'Aerial photography reveals how entire districts have been reduced to ash after massive wildfires in Spokane, Washington, USA. Approximately 65,000 people are in the evacuation zone, and judging by the video, a significant portion of them have nowhere to return to.' 𝕊𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕻𝕣𝕖𝕤𝕤 [x] #FossilFuels

'Trump has accused Canada of mismanaging its forests and previously vowed the country would be “held responsible” for the smoke that has drifted south. He renewed the threats Sunday evening in a gaggle with reporters aboard Air Force One... “I have, yeah,” he replied. “You’ll find out about it.”'

How manny will keep denying acceleration of global warming is real if this central estimate of global temperature above pre-industrial materializes in 2027?

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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

I forgot the most egregious bit: the piece blames ecological restoration and conservation for wildfires!

Guess who Carney & Ministers consult with as the country experiences "climate freefall"? Fossil fuel lobbyists met with federal officials 986 times in 2025 Carney can cut the BS about "elbows up" He works for corporations! environmentaldefence.ca/2026/03/24/n...

New Report Shows Fossil Fuel Lobby and Federal Ministers Are Closer Than Ever - Environmental Defence

Environmental Defence’s latest report finds fossil fuel lobbyists met with federal officials 986 times in 2025, despite a three-month lull during the

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60 Orgs Reject Public Subsidies for LNG Coalition Representing More than 1.6 Million Canadians Asks Public Banks to Keep Taxpayer Money Out of LNG environmentaldefence.ca/2026/06/03/6...

60 Orgs Reject Public Subsidies for LNG - Environmental Defence

Coalition Representing More than 1.6 Million Canadians Asks Public Banks to Keep Taxpayer Money Out of LNG Statement by Alex Walker, Energy Analytics

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"Oracle’s debt-to-equity ratio around 500% — meaning that it had $5 of debt for every $1 of shareholder equity. Amazon’s around 50%, Alphabet’s lower still. But Oracle kept borrowing." Risktaking that threatens security of us all www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/m...

Larry Ellison Bet It All on the A.I. Boom. Will He Be the Face of the A.I. Bubble?

Inside the 81-year-old billionaire’s risky, debt-fueled scramble to transform his data empire into an A.I. juggernaut.

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'Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption… Called Truth API, the application programming interface is intended to provide businesses with “a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform’s most market-moving Truths”' www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption

Truth Social, where Trump’s account is by far the largest, to offer users early access for up to $100,000 per month

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'…This Border Community Suffers Without a Voice. Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sign of relief.' www.propublica.org/article/trum...

As Trump’s Tariff War With Canada Drags On, This Border Community Suffers Without a Voice

Under an intensifying trade war, parts of northern Michigan are feeling the financial pain. But with a president intent on conflict and a congressman silent on the issue, these Michiganders see no sig...

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I'm not sure folks have realized just how crazy the second half of 2026 and 2027 will be for global temperatures – on the back of a record-smashing El Niño event. Here is my latest estimate of where both years will end up compared to global temperatures since 1850.

SCOOP: The Doug Ford government received 98.98% opposition to its plan to replace Ontario’s Endangered Species Act with weaker legislation, according to an internal analysis viewed by @fatimabsyed.bsky.social. The bill passed anyway. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...

98.98% opposition to Doug Ford’s new endangered species law revealed | The Narwhal

Internal Ministry of Environment analysis shows ‘confusion’ and concerns about ‘negative impacts on Ontario’s biodiversity’ raised over the Species Conservation Act, under Bill 5

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Mark Carney is quickly taking his place amongst the worst Prime Ministers in Canadian history. Thanks for putting a knife squarely in the back of my entire industry, @mark-carney.bsky.social. 90,000+ film and tv workers in BC will remember this next election. www.thewirereport.ca/2026/07/28/b...

BREAKING: Ottawa to scrap base contribution requirements for U.S. streamers - The Wire Report

In a recent letter to the Federal Court of Appeal, the government outlined its intention to “eliminate the base contribution requirement on streaming services and to provide government funding to repl...

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Smith wants Alberta to deny healthcare to immigrants to justify her racism Fun fact: "In Canada, immigrants make up 25% of registered nurses 42% of nurse aides and related occupations 43% of pharmacists 37% of physicians 45% of dentists 61% of dental technologists and related occupations" #ableg

Your daily reminder that climate change is already an economic problem: Ships are struggling to carry stuff on the Rhine because there's not enough water Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Extreme Heat Pushes Rhine River to Critically Low Levels

Extreme heat in Europe has left the Rhine River at critically low levels, driving up the cost of commercial deliveries along the key waterway.

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BC Parks calls Carmanah Walbran Park "one of the most remarkable wild places on Vancouver Island.” But for months, it has been nearly inaccessible, as a logging company has gated one entrance and left landslide debris blocking the other, @camfenton.bsky.social reports. thenarwhal.ca/bc-carmanah-...

Logging company closes access to B.C. provincial park | The Narwhal

Many B.C. parks are accessible only by resource roads controlled by private companies. The Carmanah Walbran closure raises questions about access to public land

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West Coast Trail in Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, British Columbia is being evacuated after rain made it impassable https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/west-coast-trail-evacuations-9.7286867 - - - Le sentier de la Côte-Ouest dans la réserve de parc national Pacific Rim […]

Data centers should be required to have solar power cells covering every surface of the roof of the building, and powerful batteries to store any excess energy for a rainy day.

Canadian here. We have plans with Arctic NATO nations. The War for the Arctic has begun! Cuz Shitler's War on Iran re: Strait of Hormuz is a violation of the UN Maritime Law of free passage in int'l waters. The ice-free Northwest Passage will be contested by Russia & U.S.

What Pr Smith isn’t telling Albertans - thanks to a multi-yr shortage of Nat gas turbines meant to be built aside data centres, Albertans are facing hydro costs of 3X today’s $32/megawatt hour of electricity, until 2030. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/17/a...

Alberta electricity industry expects tripling of power prices from data centres

In Capital Power's latest earnings call, the company's CEO, Avik Dey, told analysts that he couldn't rule out prices of "$80 or $90" per megawatt hour of electricity by early 2028. By 2029, rival comp...

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Thanks for asking @wgreaves.bsky.social ! We’d like SERIOUS funding for climate action please. Paid for by: - Ending fossil subsidies (that means zero $ for LNG or pipelines or gas-fired data centres). - Taxing billionaires and excess oil + gas profits. Our kids’ future depends on this!!!