Canada's premiers have a bad habit of bigfooting their biggest cities on everything from bike lanes to airports -- and denying them the economic and political autonomy they deserve. It's past time to fix that. And Ottawa can help. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/29/o...

Canada’s cities need a new deal. Ottawa should give it to them

A constitutional amendment granting cities the power to tax and raise revenue is both perfectly logical and politically impossible. The federal government needs to find another way to give it to them ...

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Carbon pricing not only lowered emissions it gave more money back to the majority of people, especially to the poorest Canadians. Shame on all the cynical politicians who repeated lies about it. www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/pe...

I mean, we knew this. A *majority* of Canadians benefitted from the federal carbon pricing scheme due to how the rebates were structured. Mark Carney didn't just hurt the climate fight, he took your money.

Aaron Wherry@aaronwherry.bsky.social · 2w ago

Whoops

Your family was lucky that they all made it home.

Scabbyhabby@scabbyhabby.bsky.social · last mo.

My great uncles Jim and Everett on their way for further training in England. Both were part of the D-Day landings. A third brother; Gilbert, fought in Italy. The all made it home.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

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The Ford Government Just Deleted Thousands of Long-Term Care Reports. Here They Are. | The Local

The provincial government has eliminated access to long-term care home inspection reports from before 2023. We have over 10,000 of those reports, and are restoring access to the public.

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England play boring football. Just like Chelsea under Tuchel.

Still think he's worth the $$?

Mike Wilner@wilnerness.bsky.social · last mo.

Quantrill got hit on the foot by Lukes 88mph grounder. Trainer came out, he threw a couple of warm-up pitches but is staying in the game. Then got Vladdy to hit a DP ball up the middle that Corey Seager booted, but still threw Guerrero out at 1B because he was upset and didn't run hard. #Bluejays

No doubt Infantino did the scheduling

Rob Usry@robusry.bsky.social · last mo.

Oh you have to work? Let’s put 10 games on TV during the day. It’s the weekend and you have nothing to do? We’re gonna put all the games at night.

And to think what the Norwegian fans paid to attend the match, hoping for a banger

Manuel Veth@manuelveth.bsky.social · last mo.

Norway not even trying in this is so funny. Ten changes, no Haaland. You gotta really question this tournament format when teams just happily throw games on matchday 3.

Not looking promising now that Ecuador won vs Germany

James Boxall@jamesgis.bsky.social · last mo.

Anyone else figured out how Scotland can make it through? Asking for neighbour from Glasgow who would like to share a dram or two with me :-)

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Check mate #daniellesmith #alberta #politics #treatychiefs #canada

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Bad news for polar bears at Svalbard

Zack Labe@zacklabe.com · last mo.

#Arctic sea ice in the Barents Sea is a record low for this time of year and potentially on its way to the earliest melt-out on record for the summer season. There is an area with sharply declining ice cover for long-term trends too. Map of the the region: zacklabe.com/arctic-clima...

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Check mate #daniellesmith #alberta #politics #treatychiefs #canada

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Watching Trump at G7 news conference. If Rubio and Lutnick weren't such slimeball sycophants, I'd almost feel sorry for them.

So #FIFA will allow Trump to hand the trophy to the winning team violating long-standing protocol. FFS Shameful.

Canada's proposed Digital Safety legislation raises an important policy question: what obligations should platforms and AI chatbot providers have toward children? #DigitalPolicy #PublicPolicy

The bill appears to shift the conversation from individual responsibility toward platform accountability—a trend we're seeing in multiple jurisdictions. www.canada.ca/en/canadian-...

Government of Canada introduces legislation to make social media services and AI chatbots safer for children

Legislation would make social media services and AI chatbot services accountable for developing services that are safe by design and that put the safety of children first

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The Qatari goalkeeper is really good

Not the first time

Mike Wilner@wilnerness.bsky.social · 2mo ago

That's the way it's supposed to work. Infielder goes out until the outfielder calls for the ball, and the outfielder runs in hard, calls off the infielder and makes the catch. Perfect. Somebody tell Pinango. #Bluejays

This is not a news segment, but a good clip from and by Australia.

Omg. This relentless ad campaign by Ontario government during World Cup game about making Ontario safer. Barf!

MDT is too fast in Utah. Keep MST all year. Make clocks more honest again!

Lol. Blair and Barker arguing about country music

Business as usual takes a species to the brink of extinction; enormous ongoing effort is required simply to keep it there.

Inside the effort to save one of America’s most imperiled salamanders

When a species is facing extinction, it takes an enormous human effort to stave it off. Case in point: the painstaking campaign to save the frosted flatwoods salamander.

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This BBC article states that "climate change is believed to have played a role in such hot spells as this." Let me fix it: Climate change IS making these hot spells more likely and more dangerous. Scientists have been warning of this for decades. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hottest May day on record in UK as temperatures pass 34C

It comes after the UK recorded its warmest May night on Sunday when temperatures reached 19.4C.

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Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · 2mo ago

Perhaps the fact that we are conducting an unprecedented experiment with the only home we have, by digging up and burning massive amounts of fossil fuels that is driving global change at rates 10X faster than the most recent warming of this magnitude that occurred oh about 55 million years ago? 🧐

“Slow the flow, get the habitat right and the species will come." An inspiring story of action and restoration when so much river news from the UK is grim. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The English community that brought its river back from the brink: ‘If we can get it right here, we can do it everywhere’

For 150 years, the Mease had been altered by human hands, which destroyed habitats. But in 2013, a restoration project began – and now its wetlands are abuzz with wildlife

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Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Western Hudson Bay polar bears are packing in nearshore. Typical distribution. Purple dots are eartag radios I deployed in April-May. Blue are adult females collared in autumn.

Yes we can restore caribou. More good news from Indigenous-led Klinse-Za program. With maternity pens, wolf killing and habitat restoration, now about 200 'boos. Meanwhile most provincial gov'ts do nothing or kill wolves while allowing clearcuts in caribou habitat cariboufutures.ca/april-2026-u...

April 2026 Update

We’re excited to share spring updates from the field, including this year’s capture efforts, our population survey results, a welcome to some new team members, and a special recognition we were ho

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