P.J. Partington 🇨🇦
@pjpartington.bsky.social
Millennial climate wonk & policy cat-herder. Innovation for net zero. *Aspiring LinkedIn DJ* I'm not like the other bureaucrats. I'm a COOL bureaucrat.
Recent discourse has reminded me that @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social wrote one of the absolute greatest intros imaginable. I simply can’t fathom *anyone* reading this and not rolling up their sleeves to mainline her Iliad… If you haven’t already, go buy her books and see what you’re missing!
Amazing to see @lrb.co.uk has truly broken containment and is now being covered in the Québec papers 🤩
La Presse@lapresse.ca · last wk.
Thing about working with famous epics is that they're famous epics for a reason. Tons of people have had opinions about them for millennia. If you're going to work with one, you know your version is going to piss some people off. Even a *sedate* famous epic inflames some of its audience.
"Duties are multifarious and not glamorous" should be more widely adopted in job descriptions 😂
London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk · 3w ago
A colleague just returned from a workshop abroad with oodles of supersmart academics and titans of the field and it has come to my attention that you were all *DELIGHTFUL.* Thanks for being amazing, folks! ❤️
Renewables are unstoppable. BNEF's New Energy Outlook for this year says solar is set to be the biggest source of electricity in 2032 and wind will be second biggest in 2034. Both coal and gas displaced from those thrones. This is the business-as-usual scenario. 🎁🔗 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@volts.wtf may be glad to hear that in the pre-dawn blear of a Toronto YMCA locker room this morning, two boomers were discussing... Volts. It's everywhere!
Applying early for @aleach.ca's next chartapalooza with this duo on the theme of "Canadian climate policy is hard, but it can actually do stuff" 1) Coal phase-outs:
Come work with me (and my great colleagues) @climateinstitute.bsky.social! canadianclimateinstitute.bamboohr.com/careers/47?s...
Research Lead, Clean Growth | Chargé-e de recherche, Croissance propre
(la version française suit) Posting Date: April 24, 2026 Closing Date: May 18, 2026 Salary Range: $95,000–$115,000 depending on qualifications and experience. The upper end of the salary range is res...
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Adding to the Annals of Things Wasted on Youth: the lovely tabla parts of Get Ur Freak On
On International #TransDayOfVisbility, we stand with trans people worldwide facing escalating attacks on their rights, safety and dignity. Human rights are universal, and governments must protect trans communities from discrimination and violence, and ensure everyone can live freely and safely.
I can't help but think that @vassb.bsky.social would find this profoundly amusing: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b9363f1...
How tech billionaires are alienating neighbours in Toronto’s idyllic Wychwood Park
For more than a century, the Toronto enclave has managed its own affairs discreetly. But as corporate types move in, the neighbourhood is now confronting its tensions
theglobeandmail.com
Hey @aaronwherry.bsky.social I know that duels with weapons are frowned upon, but do the rules of parliamentary procedure say anything about singing and/or math battles? www.ourcommons.ca/DocumentView...
Debates (Hansard) No. 100 - March 26, 2026 (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada
Debates (Hansard) No. 100 - March 26, 2026 (45-1) - House of Commons of Canada
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New: Around the world people are turning to low-carbon EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps as the Iran war upends oil and gas markets. Bloomberg journalists, including yours truly, filed dispatches from San Francisco to Lagos for this story. Free link www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Iran War Is Pushing Consumers to Break Up With Fossil Fuels
EVs, solar panels, induction stoves and heat pumps, now cheaper than ever, are becoming more attractive as the conflict upends oil and gas markets.
bloomberg.com
Toronto folks! Tonight we're convening the latest edition of our East End Energy Beers. Come wonk out with some of Canada's sharpest climate/energy dorks from government to banking to ENGOs to academia. 7pm on at The Dylan, near Greenwood station
Everytime a fresh LRB arrives the *very first thing* I check is if there’s any sweet sweet Balle content. Now it’s finally here, but it includes Book IV, which doesn’t come out in Canada till mid-April 😭 www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Joanna Biggs · Bleeding in the Dishes: Solvej Balle’s Time Loop
Solvej Balle’s serial novel takes the idea of repetition and uses it to make these ancient, impossible problems of...
lrb.co.uk
Since I can just *sense* you're all hankering for weird-but-true Canadian ZEV sales statistics facts, consider this: In November 2025, Ontario and Alberta both had the same meagre 5.35% share of electric vehicle sales (either BEV or PHEV). For the the same month: -Canada: 10% -BC: 20% -QC: 17%
Excited to share some fun policy progress from Canada on permanent CDR. Yesterday, we launched a government procurement process for high-integrity credits from a range of approaches. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first national government to do so. canadabuys.canada.ca/en/tender-op...
RFSO - 24062-250403 - Acquisition of Credits From Carbon Dioxide Removal Projects. - Tender Notice | CanadaBuys
AMENDMENT TO CLOSING TIME: Please disregard the Ariba Discovery posting response deadline closing time and Buyandsell posting closing time. All offers must be submitted on May 11, 2026 by 2PM EDT. All...
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I’m very upset that I didn’t invent this genius website, but I am so glad that *someone* did. The absolute best way to waste your time and celebrate idle humanity 🤣
an important anniversary this year: colm tóibín's 2009 novel *brooklyn* is exactly as old as avril lavigne was, when she recorded and released her debut album "let go", featuring "sk8er boi", "complicated", and "i'm with you". congratulations to both
Almost sold out! 🎟️ Join us March 9 at @utoronto.ca for an International Women’s Day conversation on your career in climate with me and @katharinehayhoe.com! Register while you still can: lci.utoronto.ca/event/intern...
International Women’s Day Event: “Your Career in Climate” with Catherine McKenna and Katharine Hayhoe
To mark International Women’s Day 2026, the Lawson Climate Institute at University of Toronto, together with the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy and the School of the Environment…
lci.utoronto.ca
“When life makes no sense I find that at least books do” First page into my Dublin Review and they’ve already got me (Liz Macbride, ‘Universal topics’)
Netherlands and China are on the way to being the next Norway, where internal combustion engine auto sales are nearly dead. BEVs were 65% of Dutch auto sales in December and 41% for 2025. In China, internal combustion autos market share falls to ~40%. robbieandrew.github.io/carsales/ #energysky
Good morning from your local urban owl, surveying their frigid marshmallow kingdom at -20C
It me. Excited to rip some great Quebec hills in March! ⛷️https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-26/canadian-skiers-skip-us-mountain-resorts-this-season-thanks-to-trump?srnd=homepage-canada
Canadians Are Boycotting US Ski Slopes
Travelers from Canada, long the biggest source of international visitors to the US, have pushed back against the president’s imperialist rhetoric. Winter resorts are feeling the chill.
bloomberg.com
