"Billions in taxpayers’ dollars are available to backstop a new bitumen pipeline to the west coast or dubious carbon capture technologies The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) reported that about half of their members working at a national centre for disaster response were fired in January."

DeSmog@desmog.com · yesterday

Canada is doubling down on fossil fuels as climate-fulled wildfires rage. Read Mitch Anderson's latest below:

Canada built its nuclear indus... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Why build a renewable energy system when you can waste billions on the most expensive nuclear system while compromising sovereignty and creating dangerous, unmanageable waste that could be made into bombs?

Canada built its nuclear industry on self-reliance. Its new reactors will depend on foreign fuel | CBC News

Canada built its nuclear industry around Candu reactors supplied by a made-in-Canada supply chain. Ontario is building, and other provinces are considering, SMRs that require foreign uranium enrichmen...

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Canada has posted the text of the Ecuador FTA. #ISDS watchers will want to see the sleight of hand efforts to try and get around a Constitutional Court veto in Ecuador. www.international.gc.ca/trade-commer...

Understanding the latest Trump trade war play by @marclee.bsky.social: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Canada getting the “art of the deal” treatment with new U.S. tariffs | CCPA

Understanding the latest Trump trade war play

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Oliver Jones, Montreal-born ja... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Oliver Jones, Montreal-born jazz pianist, Canadian music icon, has died | CBC News

Oliver Jones, the Montreal-born legendary jazz musician who performed at the Montreal Jazz Festival every year from 1981 to 1999, has died at the age of 91.

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“AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact.” — @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer

The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI

AI is not a neutral technology whose benefits need to be redistributed. It is a weapon of class war from above, designed to cheapen labor and concentrate power. Nationalizing it does nothing to change...

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Major and concerning development from the chaos of the AI arms race. 🧵 Last week, an AI company called Hugging Face was subject to a completely new kind of cyberattack. For the first time, an AI agent has executed an autonomous attack on another system. www.axios.com/2026/07/21/o...

Hugging Face breach: OpenAI claims its models were responsible

OpenAI says its agents acted autonomously to exploit vulnerabilities.

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Premier Wab Kinew after meeting with the other Canadian Premiers on Prince Edward Island today #Canada

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It’s past time to start questioning Mark Carney’s economic strategy

For the better part of a year, Prime Minister Mark Carney has argued that, in the United States Canada Mexico Agreement (USMCA), Canada has “the best deal of any major U.S. trading partner.” Excuse…

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From the saskatchewan community on Reddit: Public concerns mount over proposed Moose Jaw AI project

Explore this post and more from the saskatchewan community

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Reminder that here in Canada, Carney is cutting jobs at CFIA, has given politicians the ability to override food safety rules, is allowing the use of banned pesticides, and is deferring to provinces on meat inspections. As always, receipts linked below.

WIRED@wired.com · 3w ago

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED. www.wired.com/story/cdc-cy...

Members of First Nation destro... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Meanwhile Carney is pumping $ billions into more pipelines and the greenwash carbon capture facility that will be used to PUMP MORE OIL!

'It's a miracle': First Nation members escape northwestern Ontario wildifre as community burns to the ground | CBC News

Namaygoosisagagun First Nation, also known as Collins First Nation, has been destroyed by a wildfire that spans over 350,000 hectares in northwestern Ontario. Community leaders spoke to CBC News about...

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elbows up (against essential parts of the public service)

Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · 3w ago

Mark Carney's made deep cuts to Natural Resources Canada that strip away science-based expertise on forest fires, "decimating capacity" to track wildfire activity. Only one forest pathologist now monitors the entire forestry system east of the Rockies. 5/ www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/05/n...

Got upset and made this so hopefully people will actually listen. What the fuck are we doing here folks?

The NS NDP’s surge didn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of people organizing for the better future we all deserve. Nova Scotia, you’re an inspiration for the comeback of our federal movement. We want to learn from you - join us!

NDP@ndp.ca · 3w ago

Join us for an online orientation and organizing meeting for both new and long-standing members on Wednesday, July 22nd at 7:00pm ADT. We'll be joined by Avi Lewis, Matthew Green, and your local riding associations.  RSVP here and bring a friend: ndp.ca/nova-scotia-ndp-membership-mobilization

My summer school with the Brothers Karamazov. "In every place today the human mind is starting to lose its awareness of the fact that true security consists not in his own personal, solitary effort, but in the common integrity of humankind.” -Dostoevsky charlieangus.substack.com/p/my-summer-...

My Summer with The Brothers Karamazov

Since Trump’s return, I have immersed myself in every book I can find that might explain how we got to this moment.

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More cities and towns need to go in this direction in Canada www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This N.S. town wants to use 100% renewable energy. It’s more than halfway there | CBC News

Berwick, N.S., is using solar, hydroelectric and wind power in effort to become a zero-emissions community.

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Let's recall what Brookfield was up to while Carney was there before he stepped down to become PM, and compare that to his priorities, policies, and "values". 🧵

The Canadian Prime Minister said this man was a champion of freedom. Let that sink in, Liberals.

Can you see the doe and fawn?

Canada has lost millions of he... www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Carney’s Food Security Strategy has zero dollars for food production- it all goes to AI and tech adoption and greenhouses. It may even push farm prices down by promoting competition among suppliers -> making farmland even less affordable.

Canada has lost millions of hectares of farmland. Where is it all going? | CBC News

The Carney government's recently released National Food Security Strategy aims to spend billions over a decade to produce more food in Canada. But it comes as Canadian farmers continue to lose land an...

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"If you end up in a concentration camp thanks to one of Trump's ICE chuds..blame Microsoft for providing the administrative software; Google for providing the location data used to track you down.. Apple for blocking apps that warn you if you're about to get snatched by masked thugs" -Corey Doctorow

"This shameful + cowardly act is but another sign that the Carney gov, despite its lip service to CDN sovereignty + independence from the [U.S.], is in fact in lock step with U.S. foreign policy." Pathetic showing from the current gov. canadiannetworkoncuba.ca/2026/07/07/c...

Canada wants to build up to 10... www.cbc.ca/news/science... Insanity upon insanity... using public pension funds to build nuclear and have us pay a surcharge to cover predictable cost overruns with no benefit for over 30 years!

Canada wants to build up to 10 new nuclear plants. Will our pension funds pay for them? | CBC News

Canada's ambitious new nuclear strategy has called for private investment to help expand the industry. Given that nuclear power plants are notoriously expensive to build, the government will have to h...

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#ISDS is a blight on democracy and clear threat to environmental policy, as the Vulcan case demonstrates. For bad reasons, both Mexico and Canada still sign deals that include #ISDS. mexicobusiness.news/mining/news/...

Mexico Seeks Deal to End Vulcan Limestone Mining for Good

Mexico negotiates with Vulcan Materials to end Calica mining permanently, as the dispute intersects with the USMCA joint review.

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Even the banker couldn't figure out how to monopolize the sun so instead he's doubling down on fossil fuels with his separatist friends. Carnage. youtu.be/9IRKMMjKSQ8

Mark Carney is abandoning Canada's climate targets. This is a HUGE deal

YouTube video by Rachel Gilmore

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The National Food Security Strategy Identifies the Problems but Misses the Solutions. What the public really deserves is a food sovereignty policy. www.nfu.ca/canadas-nati...

Canada’s National Food Security Strategy Leaves Farmers Hungry for Real Solutions | National Farmers Union

Canadians have an appetite for safe, healthy, affordable food produced by Canadian farmers and workers. To advance domestic food production, the Government of Canada’s National Food Security Strategy…

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I've been a bit of a lonely voice pointing out the gaps in the Nation Food Security Plan. @nfucanada.bsky.social joins the discussion #Canada #food #agriculture #policy #rural www.nfu.ca/canadas-nati...

Canada’s National Food Security Strategy Leaves Farmers Hungry for Real Solutions | National Farmers Union

Canadians have an appetite for safe, healthy, affordable food produced by Canadian farmers and workers. To advance domestic food production, the Government of Canada’s National Food Security Strategy…

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www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol... The NFU says changes are “contrary to Canada’s democratic governance norms” in a submission to the HOC finance committee. It said the changes also come as the department cuts its research capacity.

Looser federal rules on pesticides will erode Canada's trade access: senator

Canada’s goal of boosting trade with countries outside the United States could be thwarted by its new pesticide rules, a senator warns.

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Consider joining us Thursday as we talk trade fetishism & magical thinking! P Clark & I will be joined by S Trew, L Macdonald & C Dade. Looking forward to it! Sponsored by @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social @smuarts.bsky.social @carleton.ca the NNAI, and CERLAC York www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Webinar: How much is trade policy driven by economic or magical thinking? | CCPA

Date: June 25, 2026Time: 12 to 1:30 p.m. ET

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