Either business/industry come to terms w/ CUSMA not being renewed or Cdns getting comfortable w/ Canada handing its sovereignty to US: “After sending Canada a letter enumerating its demands in June, Mr. Greer last week handed Mr. LeBlanc a list of 10 more, www.theglobeandmail.com/world/us-pol...

Trade negotiators revive proposed steel and aluminum exports quota in return for lower U.S. tariffs

Steel and aluminum have been at the heart of Canada-U.S. trade tensions since the first Trump administration

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With few Cdn investors, & little attention from PM Carney ‘s economic plan, our highly successful biotech industry has already lost several high profile innovative companies to foreign biotech entities. And will only lose more unless that changes. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Has Canada’s biotech moment finally arrived?

As the world’s life sciences sector rebounds, Canadian drug developers are poised to prosper. But can the sector avoid getting hollowed out by acquisitive pharma giants?

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It would be a mistake to select a political appointee, considering the growing threats of foreign interference. PM Carney’s “do not ruffle feathers” approach unfortunately creates a smoother avenue for China’s efforts to interfere: “It’s more difficult to www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

Carney looks to influential outsiders to head Canada’s embassy in Beijing, sources say

The Prime Minister is seeking a business-friendly relationship with Beijing as he looks to diversify trade away from the United States.

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It would be helpful if we knew of a Lyme Disease protocol, treatment plan, & warnings by region, across Canada. @liberalca.bsky.social @ontariopcparty.bsky.social One of the major impacts of climate change on our health & public healthcare system. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/20/n...

Lyme disease is becoming one of Canada's defining climate-health challenges

As climate change expands the abundance, activity and the northern limits of pathogen-carrying ticks, the incidence of Lyme disease has increased 32-fold per capita for all of Canada — and even more i...

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Had Min Champagne thought through ambitions in agritech & agriculture, he wouldn’t have closed down several research centres across Canada. From regenerative farming, to predictive tech, WE should be the innovators vs importing tech from other nations. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

For farmers, data is the hottest new commodity as digital agriculture hits Canadian fields

Early agricultural tech adopters are paving the way for a boost in crop productivity. But for many, accessing the benefits of predictive technology feels still on the horizon

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A federal obj should have preceded the buildout of Cdn data centres to use renewables, closed water systems, & to fund innovation in chips which would draw less power. In other words, the greening of any data centre infrastructure. @liberal_party www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...

Opinion: AI data centres are the future. Canada must overcome the backlash

The answer is not to block construction. It is to design a better bargain

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All to protect genocidal maniac Bibi Netanyahu. Perhaps Min Anand should be quietly speaking to countries to reinforce the need for ICC - after all, Canada was one its the founding members: “U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, speaking at a televised cabinet www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Trump campaign against international court could jeopardize Darfur probe

ICC’s investigation will face new obstacles if Chad goes ahead with its planned withdrawal from the court

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Dementia being the most worrisome impacts: “When toxins reach the brain, they can cause inflammation, resulting in fogginess, lack of focus and headache, she says. Increasing exposure to these harmful particles can also cause long-term damage to brain cells www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/17/n...

How does wildfire smoke affect your brain today and in the future?

The perils of wildfire smoke don't stop at the lungs or the heart. They can also affect the brain.

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Necessary read: “Statistics Canada has concluded that AI adoption has had no measurable impact on productivity among Canadian firms. More than half of employers that replaced workers with AI now admit it was a mistake.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/28/o...

AI is doing more harm than good. Canada needs to slow down

Racing to adopt AI serves no one but the tech industry. It’s time the federal government recognized that.

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I’m sorry, sir @mark-carney.bsky.social - but I no longer believe you. You’ve shown no ambition to tackle climate change, to reduce Cdns’ usage of fossil fuels, or to regulate the very rise of oil/gas projects you’re promoting around globally. It’s cheap talk www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/21/o...

Mark Carney wants to make Canada more like Norway. He has some work to do

The now-annual bouts of wildfire smoke are yet another reminder of the importance of reducing our use of fossil fuels and replacing them wherever possible with electrification. It's time for the prime...

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An agency w/ close ties to Pr Ford - these two premiers aren’t even trying to hide from conflict of interest or corruption: “Danielle Smith's office has awarded a $300,000 government contract to an advertising agency co-founded by her former campaign www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/21/n...

Former Smith advisers awarded $300,000 referendum contract by Alberta government

The contract was for the creation of a website, albertareferendum2026.ca, which belongs to the Government of Alberta and provides information on the province's upcoming referendum.

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The contract ThomsonReuters signed, explicitly states its obj is to use CLEAR to prove voter fraud, immigration fraud. A contemptible agreement signed by Canada’s Thomson Reuters: “Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting, or CLEAR, a database that www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/21/n...

Thomson Reuters to share American information with ICE in new deal

While the company insists it has "safeguards" in place to prevent misuse of the information, some experts say the US$125-million deal is a "red flag."

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Ont desperately needs a mature Prov Govt ready to govern for 21st C reality - & not an immature one stuck on governing à la 20th C picket fences. A hopeful read as to the changes underway in many cities across Canada, ready to build multiplexes, townhomes www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/22/n...

The most successful housing-accelerating cities say a gradual approach served them well

Leonard Catling, a CMHC spokesperson, said more than 90 per cent of large and urban agreements included a change to allow some housing without extra approvals and all included at least one change to l...

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A critical read - upends everything scientists have previously captured re microplastics. “We assessed how reliable current measures are for trying to find microplastics in blood. And what we found is that lipids and fats will give you a false positive for www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/28/n...

What do we actually know about the microplastics inside us?

Pervasive plastic contamination and unreliable methods have clouded the science on microplastics in the human body. In an interview, Australian scientist Cassandra Rauert, who built a plastics-free la...

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If you want to know how much thought was put into Min @JF_Champagne ‘s across -the-bd budget cuts, see article - the resulting impacts on food security, food research in the age of climate change, food safety & how farming will have to adapt: “These meetings www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/31/n...

Feds ask fired scientists to advise on Canada's future research

Officials at Canada's agriculture department are asking scientists who were abruptly fired earlier this year to help the agency decide its future research goals, Canada's National Observer has found.

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My money is on LPC Govt’s unwillingness to launch the Youth Climate Corps at a time Canada is burning - knowing the direct impact of their fossil fuel agenda on extreme wildfires: “During the years spent pressing for a YCC, campaigners were often told the www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/28/o...

Where is Carney’s promised Youth Climate Corps?

The budget said it would commence with the 2026 fiscal year (which started April 1). We are now more than a quarter into that fiscal year with no YCC program launch and no details have been forthcomin...

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A foreign owned LNG project was approved, when it promised it would be the cleanest LNG facility in the world. In 2023, that promise disappeared from all docs. In fact, since it’s come into operation, LNGCanada has flared 10% of all the nat gas that’s transported to thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-d...

LNG Canada dropped commitments to operate ‘without routine flaring’: docs | The Narwhal

For years, LNG Canada made environmental commitments in documents submitted to BC Energy Regulator (BCER). It removed them before the Kitimat facility launched

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It’s time to call a spade, a spade. For 19 months, Pr @ABDanielleSmith held a knife to Canada’s throat, by twisting & turning the “will of the public” into a referendum. With PM Carney playing along by agreeing not to use the biggest leverage we have, export www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/31/o...

Danielle Smith wants Canada to surrender

Alberta's premier is no stranger to creating, and using, political leverage — even if it creates the risk of blowback. So why is she so unwilling to do the same thing when it comes to Donald Trump and...

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Partnering w/ Ford Govt on infrastructure/special projects, will have consequences, PM Carney - Pr Ford does NOT represent the will of Ontarians. See opposition rate to his destruction of Endangered Species Act: “summaries of informational meetings held by the ministry thenarwhal.ca/ontario-enda...

98.98% opposition to Doug Ford’s new endangered species law revealed | The Narwhal

Internal Ministry of Environment analysis shows ‘confusion’ and concerns about ‘negative impacts on Ontario’s biodiversity’ raised over the Species Conservation Act, under Bill 5

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One of the more egregious examples of dystopian manner in which those who support/advocate for innocent Palestinians’ rights & genocide Israel executed methodically, have been terminated in Cdn healthcare, ed & prof services settings. McCarthyism is back. www.thestar.com/news/investi...

A tight-knit Toronto hospital unit cared for the dying. Then, a war thousands of miles away tore them apart

A Star investigation reveals how Mount Sinai’s palliative care unit fractured over Gaza, leading to the resignation of a veteran Toronto doctor.

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Nonsense Prof Steinberg. Cdns are hurting due to tariffs Trump imposed unilaterally on Cdn steel, aluminum, cars, lumber - to offer up yet more concessions to a man who doesnt respect traditional rules of trade, guarantees nothing. Bullies respect strength. www.thestar.com/news/insight...

Doug Ford’s booze ban is hurting us, not the U.S.

It's depriving Ontarians of choice, hitting the LCBO in the bottom line and keeping the tariff war going, argues University of Toronto economics professor Joseph Steinberg.

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This will get traction. Fallacy of Pr Ford as preferred steward of fiscal prudence will crumble. I was far off when I pegged private surgeries at 20-50% premium to the same surgeries conducted in public hospitals. Developers, private ed & healthcare profiting at our peril. FFS

How much longer until PM @mark-carney.bsky.social ‘s oil agenda falls apart?. We are as European….until we’re not. Chris Hatch: “Spain and the UK signed an agreement declaring that climate change is “now a national security emergency facing Europe and threatening our way of life.” The two countries

The sheer hubris of LPC Govt’s technocrats who think they can simply adapt to the growing extreme dangers of climate change. We will rue the day we allowed them to unwind all carbon emission mitigation regulations. Chris Hatch: “the UK government has declared “exceptionally serious” drought across

The fallacy of PM Carney’s oil/nat gas plan: Chris Hatch: 400K Europeans feeling wildfires, as well. How long do you think EU will purchase LNG from Canada. How long before Asia turns its back on fossil fuels? That’s a full 8-9 yrs before any pipeline is completed: “the heat wave at the end of June

The American auto brands are no longer friends of Canada. It’s high time Pr Ford begin to understand on which side his bread is buttered - South Korean and Chinese car brands are more ready to invest in Canada than Honda, Stellantis or GM. Politicization of trucking www.ctvnews.ca/windsor/arti...

Some Stellantis truck drivers warned of ‘discipline’ for using Gordie Howe Bridge

A union notice directing some Stellantis truck drivers to stay off the Gordie Howe International Bridge is offering an early glimpse into how existing commercial agreements could affect traffic shifti...

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This is where Oakville and Burlington got it right - most of the housing mix in newer neighbourhoods built since mid 90’s, achieve density, through townhomes & semis. Incl on larger streets. Both condo & freehold. Smart urban planning. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...

Homebuyers want townhomes. Can Toronto build more?

Less than 2% of Toronto’s 74,000 building permits since 2022 were for townhomes, despite families increasingly seeking these “missing middle” home types.

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A contemptible, inhumane & racists decision by Cdn Universities Presidents. Worthy of being fired. Min Miller - a statement is required protecting these students human rights, & freedom of speech. This is next level McCarthyism in Cdn universities. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...

Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach

Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence

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Canada should show the same guts as Spain, Brazil & Mexico in standing up to Trump as he tightens the noose around Cuba, starving the Cuban people. Good piece by @justinling.ca www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

Justin Ling: Trump’s White House is spinning a wild conspiracy tale about this country. Canada needs to step in to defend it

While Trump and Marco Rubio spin theories about Cuba, Canada needs to do what it can to protect Cuba’s residents

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