Joan McKenzie 🍁
@joanmckenzie.bsky.social
Home is Little Portugal in Toronto 🍁 Never vote Conservative! Feminist. Atheist. Dog(s) person. Pro-Choice. LGBTQ+ ally. Neurodivergent ally. Vaccinated, round earther, because ... science.
The International Energy Agency's latest renewables report is yet another reminder of just how far and fast solar power is moving. Canada's oil and gas needs to wake up and smell the creative destruction before it's too late. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/11/12/o...
Solar energy just won't quit
The Canadian oil and gas industry continues to believe that China, India, and southeast Asia will be growth markets for its exports. The data keeps telling a different story
nationalobserver.com
Furry friends Friday! And the 13th! Cooler temps in Little Portugal/Toronto but Bruna's ready. It'll be her first Christmas with us. Sigh. 🥹
Amir Tibon writes on Netanyahu's plans to overturn the 2026 Israeli elections in order to continue in power, including staging his own Jan 6. www.theatlantic.com/internationa...
Netanyahu’s January 6 Moment
Disputing the results of an election is a new low for the Israeli prime minister.
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Emmanuel Macron: "Without Europeans, there is no support for Ukraine. Today you have Canada, Europeans. We are those who support Ukraine. We are those who help them in this resistance war. There is no more US support."
The peace talks are failing because Putin still believes he can win the war, and because Trump, Kushner and Witkoff encourage this belief. By pressuring Ukraine, not Russia, they are prolonging the conflict, which will kill more people.
Throttling Starshield during the peace talks is a crystal-clear attempt to pressure Ukraine into accepting unfavorable deals, I hope everyone understands this. I hope it is also clear that Ukraine is the only side the U.S. chooses to pressure: the victim, not the aggressor.
And yet, Trump promised everyone $5,000 checks from all the tariff money he was supposedly collecting.
He says it all. Toto, I don’t think we are in Kansas anymore. ~ Steve Emery
Ontario NDP leader talks about the problem with an AI Data Centre in Ontario and how they hid a chemical spill!! #NO🚫AI
Canadians overwhelmingly want their country to be a clean energy superpower. Why the federal government's budget did more than you might think to get us moving in that direction. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/11/09/o...
Carney can make Canada the right kind of energy superpower
Mark Carney has described electrification as “the iron spine” of Canada’s economy, a term that once applied to the transnational railroad networks that moved our goods and people from coast to coast. ...
nationalobserver.com
While running for MLA in Cypress Medicine Hat I want people know my values and perspectives. I plan to convey this to the constituents in my riding in person whenever possible, I also wanted a space to communicate in long form with Albertan. Welcome to my Substack. substack.com/@drpaulparks...
Opinion: What if ER docs joined the province’s private-pay plan?
2026-10-06
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Op ed in today’s @theglobeandmail.com has it exactly right on why advance requests for MAID shouldn’t depend on which province you live in. Human rights are human rights across 🇨🇦Canada. 🇨🇦😠🇨🇦
I reread this story today by @sarahkcox.bsky.social. I'm posting it again because it deserves wide readership. Really great journalism. One of the best stories I have read this year. Oil Supertankers Are Too Risky for the Salish Sea, Experts Say via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...
Oil Supertankers Are Too Risky for the Salish Sea, Experts Say | The Tyee
Washington state’s spill prevention program manager says sharp turns and other hazards increase the chance of an accident.
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Bowing yet again to an infinitesimally small fringe, the UCP makes Alberta an international embarrassment. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/11/06/w...
Alberta’s Librarians Brace for a New Era of ‘Book Bans’ (Gift Article)
A new provincial law requires public libraries to pull and restrict items with “graphic visual depictions of sexual acts.” Librarians argue the mandate opens the door to censorship.
nytimes.com
"Bill 11 directly and unequivocally breaks the Canada Health Act—that ensures that cleaners on Bay Street have the same access to health care as bankers working in the same building. But so far the federal government is missing in action."
Has the federal government abandoned public health care? | CCPA
U.S.-style health care has come to Canada, but the federal government is not enforcing the Canada Health Act
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Because of Trump's restrictive tariffs, Canada has now diverted all of its aluminium exports to other countries. ====================
I've been arguing for months that Canadian politicians and media personalities need to get off Xitter for moral/ethical reasons. Now there's another reason: it's negatively impacting their ability to separate fact from fiction -- and do their jobs.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.Compelling piece: "While X may have been more plugged into the political discourse online for the past two years, Bluesky now appears better attuned to what’s been happening on the ground. Its users were right about pretty much everything."
El-Sayed: "The first 3 things we have to do is end this war -- we need a war powers resolution that brings war-making capacity back to Congress -- number 2, ending this tariff regime & war against Canada, but number 3, stopping the nuclear bomb that's about to go off in our healthcare system ... "
how long before the tech companies quietly change their maps back
Trump: "Canada is one of the worst countries in the world to deal with." Trump when Republicans are about to be wiped out in the midterms: "Canada is very good."
Everything suggests that Trump is blatantly corrupt, but the US is unable to oust him as president and prosecute him. This is a complete failure of the US political system and of its legal system. Currently, the US complies with the very definition of a kleptocracy: The leader takes what he wants.
Let’s recall that 🍁Maple MAGA Pierre Poilievre has sworn to abolish English language CBC the moment he becomes Prime Minister next week. Given what their ‘This Hour Has Twenty-Two Minutes’ has done to the current occupant of the 🇺🇸Nazi White House, we can see why. 🤷🏼🤭🤷🏼 www.nytimes.com/2026/11/02/w...
‘This Hour Has 22 Minutes,’ a Canadian Sketch Show, Beats American Late Night to the Punchline (Gift Article)
The long-running comedy show “This Hour Has 22 Minutes” is having a heyday playing with the fraught relationship between President Trump and Canada.
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Scott Reid: "What Canada needs from these midterms is an absolute, complete drumming of the idea that you can go to economic war with Canada and have it work out well. We need that to be permanently politically radioactive."
