Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.
Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto
A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.
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"Poilievre does something in this op-ed [on Adam Smith] that is a...common error: he reads Smith’s concept of sympathy as...a market mechanism...This is a remarkable inversion of Smith’s actual argument." Speaking of being badly educated on economics deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/03/09/p...
Pierre Poilievre Wants You to Believe Adam Smith Was a Conservative. He Wasn’t.
Today is the 250th anniversary of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. Pierre Poilievre has marked the occasion with a National Post op-ed arguing that “free markets are moral” — invok…
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Scott Robertson@sarobertson.bsky.social · 4mo ago"There's one thing that's worse than being uneducated and it's being badly educated. And Mr. Carney is very badly educated on economics." -- Pierre Poilievre says, as water dribbles down his chin
Eating more plants linked to lower risk of dementia, even in older age www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...
Eating more plants linked to lower risk of dementia, even in older age
Eating a high-quality plant-rich diet that includes whole grains, vegetables and fruits may prevent cognitive impairment — even when people start that diet in their late 50s and 60s, according to a new study.
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OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE EARTHSET PHOTO FROM ARTEMIS II. IM SPEECHLESS.
2 floor crossers away from a Carney majority.🤷🏼♀️
Sharon 🪳🌹@sharonk.bsky.social · 5mo agoanother 50 seats for the LPC
Good morning! Too cloudy for me to capture the lunar eclipse, but not for a golden sunrise! Here are your three minutes of peace & calm. #OceanDevotion
I like anti fascists, they’re much nicer than fascists.
Bart Bingenheimer@bartbing.bsky.social · 7mo agoJerome “Antifa” Powell
Likely to never return to what it once was…
Matt Potter@mattpotteruk.bsky.social · 12mo agoWatching the US wonder what possible reason there could be for the massive, precipitous drop in numbers of tourists to the USA from Canada is absolutely the gift that keeps giving. “The weather? Exchange rates? Who can even say!” newhampshirebulletin.com/2025/08/14/n...
A quiet lavender field scene from one of our workshops in Provence… The post sunset glow was really nice so I grabbed a last minute shot 😉. #photography #nature
The two barred owls that have returned to their summer home along the C&O Canal. 📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 2000, f8, 1/640s) #birds #birdphotography
Sometimes I think about that guy who was so infuriated about Canada's carbon tax that he decided to install solar panels on his roof so that he wouldn't have to pay the tax on his electricity. #WorkedAsIntended
WOW! Insane substorm tonight over Fairbanks. One of the best of the season. Happened around 2:30 am and was intense with lots of color and motion. 4/4 nights of aurora on our workshop! Here are some iPhone shots.
Costa Rica has massively rewilded over recent decades. Has this led to the collapse of farming, rural society, or national wellbeing? Totally the opposite, and we in Ireland have SO much to learn from their example. My piece for the @irishexaminer.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ou...
Learning from an awe-inspiring immense ecosystem that has returned to life
Rewilding ecologist and author Eoghan Daltun visited Costa Rica to see first-hand how the country has managed over the last 30 years to reverse one of the worst deforestation rates in all Latin Americ...
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a man in a suit and tie is holding a bucket of popcorn and eating it .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a bucket of popcorn and eating it .
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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦@jrobson.bsky.social · last yr.Sometime very soon after Sunday, PM Trudeau will step down and return to private life. Here's a thing on trying to measure the PM's legacy. !!!Warning - charts and data!!! #cdnpoli #cdnecon medium.com/@jennifer.ro...
Tiff Macklem has rare great banking skills Tariffs didn't created the Great Depression, cuts and austerity did. Canada and other countries have everything they need to defend their economies if Central Banks just step up. #cdnecon #cdnpoli #usa #tariffs #tradewars open.substack.com/pub/dougaldl...
No Government in Canada (or anywhere) Should be Cutting Right Now
Tariffs didn't create the Great Depression, cuts and austerity did. Canada and other countries have everything they need to defend their economies if Central Banks just step up.
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There’s nothing more adorable than a little round and irresistibly charming saw-whet owl. maxime_lv photography📸 #littleowl #Nature
Way past time to align ourselves with better countries!🇨🇦
Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦@reshetz.bsky.social · last yr.Canada, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Lithuania, Spain and EU leaders all in Kyiv today
If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery if you have one. Twillingate, Nfld.
Tammy Schirle 🇨🇦@tammyschirle.bsky.social · last yr.If you see this, quote post with a beach photo from your gallery if you have one. Guelph lake, ON 🇨🇦
🧵 This news article from Saltwire about how Provinces used the extra Healthcare transfers from the Federal govt, this is telling and this is why people are angry, we know they are redirecting the funds to anything but healthcare, excerpt below: #cdnpoli #HealthcareTransfers /1
