Canada : A Peace Minded Middle Power - An Obituary, from former Liberal Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy: lloydaxworthy.substack.com/p/canada-a-p...
Canada : A Peace Minded Middle Power -An Obituary
Based on an op-ed by Michael Michalak at Carleton and myself
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Again and again, people have been asking for a national map. So we made one. Other maps exist, yes. But they're either out of date or woefully overinclusive. I don't need to see every hospital's tiny datacentre. stopthedatacentre.ca/map
Datacentre proposals map · Stop the Datacentre
Interactive map of active datacentre proposals and local campaigns across Canada.
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canadiandimension.com/articles/vie... ‘Let’s be clear at the outset: Canada’s business community has never been that keen on democracy.’
Canada’s ultra-rich are no friends of democracy
The recent firestorm over Tobi Lütke’s call for greater political influence for the wealthy blew up because he said out loud what many of his class seldom admit, says Dennis Pilon. His comments offer ...
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"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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"If you make it less mentally taxing to drive, what you’ve done is reduced its cost, and if you make something less costly, people consume more of it, which means more driving and more congestion."
Forty Per Cent More Driving
A CHANGING LANES interview with Benjamin Shiller
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I'm in the Star today with a piece on the Carney government's handling of relations with the United States. Last year, Canadians gave Mark Carney a mandate to disentangle our country from the empire to the south. By any reasonable standard, he's done the opposite. Link in first reply.
Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:
By popular demand, here is everything you need to know ahead of the Women's Professional Baseball League season that starts tomorrow:
everything you need to know about the WPBL
here's your WPBL-101
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You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.
Really, Ford rammed through legislation to avoid democratic oversight, and then charged the taxpayer to fund overnight stays to accomplish that autocratic stomping of our democracy. globalnews.ca/news/1196905...
Ford government pushed looser rules for MPP hotel benefit it now plans to reverse | Globalnews.ca
As PC MPPs began charging taxpayers to stay in hotel rooms in downtown Toronto, members of the Ford government began quietly updating the expense rules for elected officials.
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This is kind of an incredible website: Why your stuff stopped lasting, who profited, and what's still built right.
Worse on Purpose
The brands you trusted quietly gutted quality to protect margins. Investigative essays on corporate enshittification. Free newsletter.
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Shut down the tar sands and seize all the assets and liquidate them to fund a national solar program. Use the excess generated energy to power high speed trains. Have citizens co-own all this making them wealthier and have more free time and purchasing power to fund the economy
Andrew Kurjata@akurjata.ca · 3w agoSmoky skies have just one fix: stop burning fossil fuels www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Doubling down on O&G extraction and pipelines is unwise both environmentally and economically Canada has been sold a false promise of being an ‘energy superpower Gift www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/2a2c65f...
Canada has been sold a false promise of being an ‘energy superpower’
Oil’s relative weight in the world economy diminishes with each passing year
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Surging emissions from gas-fired power plants are poised to unravel Canada’s biggest climate success so far — the cleaning up of its electricity sector.
Surging gas power emissions and policy rollbacks are erasing Canada’s biggest climate win
As key clean electricity policies get rolled back, emissions from cheap and dirty gas power are becoming unstoppable. Here’s a chart-filled deep dive into Canada’s surging gas power emissions and the ...
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Carney calling Lindsey Graham a defender of democracy and freedom when the man made jokes on his official X account about taking over Canada is just the last straw of many last straws for me.
Doug Ford's government has rewritten so many of Ontario's environmental laws since winning the 2025 election that it can be hard to keep track of all the changes. Here's our comprehensive guide to Ontario's environment under Ford's third majority: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-elec...
Bill 5 and a lost climate plan: Ontario’s environment in Ford’s third majority | The Narwhal
From killing the Endangered Species Act to fast-tracking mining approvals, the Ontario government spent its eighth year in office rewriting rules for the environment
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Rock and roll musician: splish splash I was taking a bath People in the 1950's: this is the devil’s music
Correct your priors: Private money is going after clean energy, governments are using public money to prop up fossil fuels "About 59% of all money spent on the fossil fuel system came from taxpayers in 2015. By 2025, that climbed to 68% and spiked at 78% in 2022." www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Who’s Really Keeping Fossil Fuels Alive? Taxpayers
To judge by the way many people discuss the energy transition, we’re engaged in a fight between green idealogues in government and academia on the one hand, and a more realistic private sector that re...
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New from me at TVO, on Mark Carney's abandoned climate targets and how the implicit political gamble will likely fail. www.tvo.org/article/anal...
ANALYSIS: Is Mark Carney trying to do climate policy without climate policy? | TVO Today
The prime minister is stuck in a culture war — whether he likes it or not.
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Doug Ford and his ministers were caught speeding 23 times and fined $3,300. So Ford banned speed cameras. Now: ▶️ speeding is up 380% ▶️ 2 people have died in accidents where speed cameras used to be. #ONpoli
'Horrifying': Data shows almost 400% increase in speeding since ASE cameras removed from city streets
Mayor Olivia Chow is calling for a return of speed cameras in school and community safety zones after a report found a significant spike in speeding in those areas since the province banned the device...
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Instead of being the world's first trillionaire, Musk should be the first human being shot into the sun
Lauren Dobson-Hughes@ldobsonhughes.bsky.social · 2mo agoMusk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
‘Our estimate is that about 200 to 400 pedestrians a year would not have died if vehicles had remained approximately the same size over the past quarter-century. That represents about 10 percent of the recent increase in pedestrian deaths.‘
The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s (Gift Article)
The vehicles on American roads have grown larger — and they are killing thousands more pedestrians, a Times investigation found.
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The narrative explores how a simple idea, like a mouse asking for bike lane, evolves into a series of requests that enhance a community. Each element, from paint to benches, illustrates the interconnectedness of urban planning and the pursuit of a vibrant, walkable neighbourhood.
If You Give a Mouse a Bike Lane
The narrative explores how a simple idea, like providing a mouse with a bike lane, evolves into a series of requests that enhance a community. Each element, from paint to benches, illustrates the interconnectedness of urban planning and the pursuit of a vibrant, walkable neighbourhood that fosters connection and accessibility.
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