HamishB
@hamishbuchanan.bsky.social
Artist in Toronto. Politics, environment, urban affairs, art & social history. Homebody, pedestrian, cyclist & transit-user. Gay, lover of gardens, trees & quiet. I try to keep my feed focused and block no/dull/generic profiles.
"The podium was there. The press wasn’t. Premier Doug Ford has increasingly been attending what appear to be government announcements without inviting reporters. A review by The Trillium has found at least 5 examples since mid-May, when this practice appeared to become more frequent." 👀 #OnPoli
TheTrillium.ca@thetrillium.bsky.social · 9h agoFord government staging official announcements without inviting reporters
It’s great we have some weekend trains now but we should have the Kitchener line double tracked so these trains can go back and forth between Kitchener and Toronto all day long every hour including weekends and holidays
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
One shortcoming of the Church Street Pedestrianization Pilot is high security costs. My latest blog post makes the case for why candidates for this October's election must not only support pedestrian streets, but also call out security costs. #WalkTO #TOpoli www.twowheeledpolitics.ca/2026/08/call...
Calling Out Excessive Pedestrian Street Policing
A blog about cycling and political advocacy based in Toronto, Canada. (#BikeTO)
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Our PM promotes himself as being new to politics (and it shows), our Opposition leader has never done anything but politics (and it shows), the NDP leader has tried to get elected but as yet has no experience in government at any level (and it shows). ...2
I mean, we knew this. A *majority* of Canadians benefitted from the federal carbon pricing scheme due to how the rebates were structured. Mark Carney didn't just hurt the climate fight, he took your money.
Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2w agoWhoops
Every journalist in the country needs to ask Carney Inc. point blank if this is what he supports. Is this is his vision for “building Canada strong”? Why do Dani and Moe think bringing back coal mining now (during climate crisis) is A-okay??
Janet 🇨🇦@jansplanet.bsky.social · 4d ago“The operations of the Vista Coal Mine will include surface open-pit mining, highwall mining & construction of a freshwater pipeline. Permits allow Coalspur to divert up to 5,406,000 cubic metres of water annually. Wetlands reclamation is expected to take upwards of 20 years.” #FUCP #AbPoli #CdnPoli
This! Carney’s “build Canada strong” does not take the urgency of climate change into account. In fact, it accelerates heating & limits mitigation efforts in name of “the economy”. How about a green economy!!??? Young people know these pro-corporate policies ensure they have no future. Tragic 😢
The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 5d ago🔥 “I’m so sick and tired of you old people not giving a shit about what we’re telling you. We don’t have a future. We’re telling you what we need and you don’t give a damn.”
Canada is using tax dollars to help Zuck build his dirty water and energy-sucking data centre in Alberta. Well done, Carney and Dani. You’re quite the team!
The DILETTANTE@demwar.bsky.social · 5d ago100% boycott of all Zuckerberg products. get off Facebook, Insta, WhatsApp now. www.qasimrashid.com/p/corporate-...
Doug Ford was too stupid for post secondary education, flunking out of college, so he doesn't want any people that are far smarter then he is - but not born as rich as he was - to be able to go. He cut from elementary and high school, too. He hates education, PERIOD. www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/poli...
Doug Ford’s changes to OSAP are now in effect. Students say this will make post-secondary education ‘less accessible’
Celina Marsolais feels like she’s stuck between two choices: continuing with the final semester of her program and taking on even more debt, or quitting and applying for a job wherever she can to pay ...
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🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.
FYI. I've been in data centers. The ONLY people that work those buildings are the security people. 1st class!! The techs come in, replaces servers that fail and leave. They work for the companies. They drive in, find the broken server pull it out of the rack, put a new one in. And drive away.
Canada should show the same guts as Spain, Brazil & Mexico in standing up to Trump as he tightens the noose around Cuba, starving the Cuban people. Good piece by @justinling.ca www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: Trump’s White House is spinning a wild conspiracy tale about this country. Canada needs to step in to defend it
While Trump and Marco Rubio spin theories about Cuba, Canada needs to do what it can to protect Cuba’s residents
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"Montaner says not everyone can afford deductibles and co-payments, and these medications should be free through Canada’s national pharmacare program." www.cbc.ca/news/health/...
New HIV infections in Canada are rising. Advocates say years of progress is at risk | CBC News
Data from the Public Health Agency of Canada said HIV infections in the country increased by 22.8 per cent. Advocates say previous momentum to eliminate HIV as a public health threat has slowed and wa...
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@mark-carney.bsky.social speaks calmly while wearing a blue suit. That's all many Canadians need in a leader to whom they hand over their personal responsibilities and pursue priority of wealth accumulation. Folks want a big daddy figure to manage the complicated world for them.
It's tragic that @mark-carney.bsky.social doesn't listen to climate scientists. Those profits-before-people-and-environment CEOs are gonna kill us all.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 6d agoIf a climate scientist like @clairbarnes.bsky.social from @wwattribution.bsky.social says it's extremely scary how climate change is intensifying hot, dry, flammable conditions conducive to wildfires, you should probably be worried.
This is an excellent editorial in today's Winnipeg Free Press. #cdnpoli #canadasky #trade #trumpisabully
90% opposition to the Island airport expansion. 100% opposition to scrubbing of protection for endangered species. These protections were scrubbed so that King Dug could complete his Wasaga Beach & 413 swindles. No wonder The King disposed of his legislated duty to consult. bsky.app/profile/then...
The Narwhal@thenarwhal.ca · 7d agoSCOOP: 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...
"We're not trying to appease separatists with this globally irresponsible climate arson. We just want to doom all of humanity to millennia of a brutal hothouse hellscape of violent scarcity entirely on its own merits because it's what we independently value!" isn't quite the defence he thinks it is.
The Maple@readthemaple.com · 7d agoNew Pipeline Has Nothing To Do With Appeasing Separatists, Carney Says “The referendum, that doesn’t enter into the calculus.” www.readthemaple.com/new-pipeline...
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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Behold, a steaming pile of self-serving dung from a recent Globe and Mail op-ed by two business leaders. Reality: the province is suffocating clean energy, no business has “stepped up” to build or fill the pipeline, and oil companies are minting massive profits for themselves, not the federation.
"a private-sector union that has repeatedly endorsed the Progressive Conservative Party and received millions in government funding" throws Doug a thank-you party in Orlando's Disney World resort, at the height of "elbows up".
Ask me if I'm surprised that the current (and for too long) governance of this province doesn't understand that "no" means "no". They'll just keep knocking on the door. #onpoli #cdnpoli
Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦@dbcurren.bsky.social · last wk.“Federal sources … have told the Star a scaled-back #BillyBishop expansion could still be possible if it addresses Torontonians’ concerns and complements plans to expand #PearsonInternationalAirport and the #Alto high-speed rail project.” www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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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