You guys aren't going to believe this, but ... it turns out the oil & gas industry knew that they were poisoning people (in this case, with methane) for years, and they hid it & did nothing to mitigate the harm. No, really, it's true! Incredible investigative work here from @rebleber.bsky.social:

Oil Firms Knew for Decades of Methane’s Danger to Planet, Documents Suggest

The companies knew they were releasing more of the greenhouse gas than they publicly reported, according to industry files cited by the Center for Climate Integrity, an activist organization.

nytimes.com

“When we hear on the news that someone survived […] often we assume a happy ending […] “Recovery can take months or years, [including] physical rehabilitation, chronic pain, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, […] trying to adjust to a life that may never be the same.” calgaryherald.com/news/untold-...

The untold stories behind Calgary's pedestrian-vehicle collisions

Experts share what can be done and the after affects of people getting hit by cars while walking on Calgary streets as the city hits record.

calgaryherald.com

Riding bikes is 10X more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities. And that’s just the climate emissions. Doesn’t include the massive public & personal cost difference, the air & noise pollution difference, the massive space difference, etc, etc…Via @theconversation.bsky.social

Cycling is ten times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero cities

Active travel can help tackle the climate crisis earlier than electric vehicles – even if you swap the car for a bike for just one trip a day.

theconversation.com

YIMBYs: I live in a shoebox on an arterial road and cannot afford children. NIMBYs: Living near apartment buildings in my $3M home makes me inexplicably sad and also furious. Local government: How sad? How furious?

It is 2006. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2016. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2026. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. thenarwhal.ca/canada-carbo...

Carbon capture promises by politicians span almost 20 years | The Narwhal

It’s expensive and unproven at scale. From Stephen Harper to Mark Carney, Canadian politicians have made promises on carbon capture — yet to be delivered

thenarwhal.ca

It’s cool that we can just spend $700M on Deerfoot Trail and nobody blinks.

Oh yeah well we're going to send double the amount of wildfire smoke

Andrea Bellemare@dreabells.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trump is mad Canadians aren't buying American booze, among other things www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

clearly the only solution is to immediately cease all oil exports to the United States 😌 www.cbc.ca/news/world/t...

Trump to hit Canada with new 50% tariff | CBC News

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will impose tariffs of 50 per cent on a wide range of Canadian exports, a dramatic ramping up of his trade war against his northern neigh...

cbc.ca

On the other hand, this is a great way to illustrate the spacial inefficiency of cars. It's good reminder that cars aren't a technology problem; they're a geometry problem. Or, as @doctorow.pluralistic.net succinctly put it, "Geometry hates cars."

Arif Hasan, but NFL🔨⚒️🛠️@arif.bsky.social · 2w ago

this shot is so bleak lmao

Jimothy will take over the world soon

another beautiful day in sunny Calgary, Alberta. time to get working on these pipelines in every direction and producing more fossil fuels. how’s everybody else doing?

can someone please pop the AI bubble so that I can purchase an affordable hard drive expansion for my pirated movies and shows. thank you.

a zero sugar Baja Blast slurpee would cure me

This is interesting, and important. How Canada’s Richest Residents Block Affordable Housing. “In Calgary, the wealthy have a virtual stranglehold over meetings where key decisions are made.” @thewalrus.ca (see posts below for context on what’s been happening in #Calgary)

How Canada’s Richest Residents Block Affordable Housing | The Walrus

In Calgary, the wealthy have a virtual stranglehold over meetings where key decisions are made

thewalrus.ca

Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 4mo ago

This is one of the worst planning decisions I’ve ever seen a Canadian city do. This was “the Playbook” to a tee, weaponizing the words “blanket zoning.” Embarrassing for Calgary Council. The Mayor then adds insult to staff & years of good faith work by claiming it “broke the public’s trust.” Awful.

Maybe you should concentrate on building some homes instead of chasing upvotes on reddit, Mr. Mayor.

Jeromy Farkas@jeromyyyc.bsky.social · 3w ago

The article is misleading at best. That's not at all what I said. I said the rules for public hearings prohibit discriminatory arguments based on income. For example, it's not acceptable to argue against a development because "only poor people will live there."

@pressprogress.ca is proud to join 100+ journalists, news publishers, academics and civil society groups in endorsing calls for anti-SLAPP legislation in Alberta Frivolous, abusive and politically motivated SLAPP lawsuits are a threat to free and democratic speech READ MORE: antislappalberta.ca

Anyone remember the Guidebook for Great Communities Public Hearing in 2021? Yes, I rewatched the whole thing and took notes. It was agonizing. Then I met Peter Dormaar who took my raw data and turned it into something interesting.

How Canada’s Richest Residents Block Affordable Housing | The Walrus

In Calgary, the wealthy have a virtual stranglehold over meetings where key decisions are made

thewalrus.ca

When trains and bikes are components in one integrated mobility system, in which passengers may first bike to the station, then take the train, then alight and bike to the final destination, trains and bikes do well together what neither can do alone. The Netherlands proves this every day.

Poilievre vows to "fight woke culture" following new galactic disco cowboy makeover

Poilievre vows to "fight woke culture" following new galactic disco cowboy makeover

CALGARY - Addressing a rally of Conservative voters at the Calgary Stampede, Opposition Leader Pierre Poilievre has vowed to "reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture", thanks to his latest com...

thebeaverton.com

4 years ago, Fernando Bórquez, Javiera Figueroa and their 3 yo son Silvetre moved to Calgary from Chile to be temporary foreign workers. Silvestre finished Grade 1, and dad says his English writing is better than his Spanish. But fed. immigration rules changed. #Ableg www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Hundreds of undocumented Alberta students at risk of losing free access to school | CBC News

Hundreds of children and teenagers already attending Alberta schools could be ineligible to enrol in September as their families’ immigration status hangs in limbo.

cbc.ca

gonna start all my emails with a land acknowledgment

The freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is, I want to argue, one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights.

The right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.

SCOOP: I obtained the itinerary and other documents relating to Edmonton police Chief Warren Driechel’s February 2026 Israel trip. @mbueckert.bsky.social of @cjpme.org says it’s “much worse than any of us expected.” open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

SCOOP: Edmonton police chief visited illegal West Bank settlements during Israel trip

Warren Driechel also met with members from an undercover unit that less than three months earlier executed two unarmed men in Jenin after they had surrendered.

open.substack.com

Rezoning in #Calgary brought out NIMBYs with Albertan characteristics. @calgary

This guy's sole academic credential is a Master's Degree in Landscape Architecture and he's employed in an architecture school. His entire claim to fame is dragging the University of British Columbia's reputation through the gutter to present derp to segregationists. Patrick Condon is a fraud.

Jason@jrock08.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Here's slide one

so cool that the canadian government plans to spend billions of dollars to encourage people to use not just a bullshit machine, but a mass death and suicide machine

Omar Sakr@omarsakr.bsky.social · 2mo ago

“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...

Now take a referendum, and wrap it in ANOTHER referendum!

I was interviewed for this article. I hate to be a Negative Nelly, but there is nothing good coming out of this council on the housing file. There is no plan, it seems to have fallen off the radar completely.

How Calgary will replace blanket rezoning still unclear, after council's latest housing motion fails | CBC News

After Mayor Jeromy Farkas suggested more aggressive local area plan development could replace blanket rezoning's work to increase housing density, city council voted down a motion to follow through on...

cbc.ca