The Slim Dude 🇨🇦

@slimdude.ca

🇨🇦Musician, producer, recording studio owner, retired IT Pro, political junkie, Eco-Socialist dog lover, punster, straight he/him. Founder and bassist for Sissiboo. No party affiliation. Equal opportunity mudslinger. Now living in beautiful Nova Scotia.

Carney makes it clear that Canada's government has zero interest in renewable energy transition. Canada's Liberal / Conservative regime continues to pour $20billion per year into subsidizing dirty fossil fuels -dividends for U.S. billionaires- & dirty U.S. nuclear tech. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

ANALYSIS | Are there climate benefits to Canada's new relationship with China? | CBC News

When Canada announced earlier this year that it would allow a token number of Chinese-made electric vehicles into the country, the gesture didn't seem so much about climate action as a sop to ease Chi...

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Carney regime hog-ties Canada to the whims of American regime - -- bankrupting Canadians in the process with expensive, dirty radioactive power that will take decades to build -- far too late to avert climate disaster. -- instead of fast clean Wind Solar, Wave, Battery. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Canada built its nuclear industry on self-reliance. Its new reactors will depend on foreign fuel | CBC News

Canada built its nuclear industry around Candu reactors supplied by a made-in-Canada supply chain. Ontario is building, and other provinces are considering, SMRs that require foreign uranium enrichmen...

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This could be problematic, and a problem that spreads as climate change advances. "Nuclear power plants need a large and steady supply of water to cool their systems, turn steam back into liquid, and safely manage heat."

4/ How many wildfires, heatwaves, droughts, burnt down communities, ruined livelihoods, and lost lives will it take for PM Carney to stop his reckless pursuit of expanded fossil fuel production?

1/ Over the weekend -- while Canadians across the country were dealing with raging wildfires and the aftermath of severe flooding and heatwaves -- PM Carney quietly accelerated the timeline on his taxpayer funded pipeline. environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...

PM Carney proceeding at breakneck pace with West Coast Pipeline - Environmental Defence

Statement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate, Environmental Defence Over the weekend, while Canadians across the country are dealing

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I think MPs should have to be in office the same number of days as other public servants. They like their hybrid arrangements? Then everyone else gets them too. And I think voting on legislation from their phones should be illegal, and the fact that any MPs have done it should be a massive scandal.

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Years after the pandemic, MPs are divided on hybrid Parliament rules nationalnewswatch.com/2026/08/04/y...

"In 2025 millions of Canadians rallied behind what they took to be a promise of renewed economic sovereignty and progressive nation-building. Over the past year, the government they elected has effectively delivered the exact opposite." #cdnpoli

Mark Carney promised to take on Donald Trump. He’s done anything but

While Prime Minister Mark Carney said he be “Elbows up” to Trump, his policy choices have essentially aligned Canada with America.

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Mark Carney described the carbon budget in his book, published in 2021: “The carbon budget to limit temperature rises to below catastrophic levels is rapidly being exhausted. If we had started in 2000, we could have hit the 1.5 C objective by halving emissions every 30 years. Now, we ..

While a cyclospora explosive diarrhea outbreak is repeatedly linked with a 20% cut to US CDC & food inspection staff, it's wild how many LPC apologists casually dismiss Carney cuts to wildfire monitoring & food inspection with a derisive "of course the unions complain about increasing efficiency."

My column on how capital becomes a death cult. Faced with a choice between profit and human life, the radical right chooses profit. Then it tries to persuade us that mass death is what we want. It's the new phase of climate denial: accept your fate, earthlings. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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