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LNG is bad. I think it’s embarrassing that the Province and the Feds are ‘all in’ on fossil fuels.

We will look back and regret these decisions, and the saddest part is that these projects capture resources that could be going towards sustainable development.

VicPD wants a 14%, $11M budget increase. The city already spends a quarter of its funding on police. VicPD has the third-most officers per capita in the country, but they’re demanding 25 more in 2026. VicPD’s proposed 2026 budget increase could pay for: All the proposed cuts to city services (and more), Annual rent for 449 1-bedroom apartments, or Literally anything other than policing mental health and poverty. To oppose another massive annual increase in police spending, email councillors@victoria.ca or council@esquimalt.ca Sources: Statistics Canada, "Police personnel and selected crime statistics, municipal police services," 2023. Areas with population over 100,000. Rentals.ca, "National Rent Report," October 2025.

VicPD wants another $11 million in 2026. That could pay for all the city's proposed cuts. Or for housing. Victoria councillors will be talking about the police budget on November 20th. Tell them you don't want 25 more police officers and $90 million spent on police!

Please enjoy my cartoon for Thursday's Toronto Star

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada

CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG.

Yikes!!!!!

Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...

Ksi Lisims approval: Eby Government backs MAGA-linked LNG terminal, risks devastating climate impacts - Stand.earth səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) territories (VANCOUVER, B.C.) – The Ksi Lisims LNG export terminal – which is owned by Texas-based Western LNG and th...

Despite massive government subsidies and sponsored marketing schemes and greenwashing, Canadian LNG might actually be the least ethical oil & gas product competing in the race to the bottom. stand.earth/press-releas...

With everything going on these days, it’s easy to miss when local governments get up to some sketchy stuff.

Take Vancouver, where Mayor Ken Sims is planning to eliminate the city’s sustainability and climate department!!!

Yes, really.

My partners at @nationalobserver.com have the scoop:

It’s now 24 UCP MLAs that are in various stages of recall development currently!

If you live in one of those ridings find out where you can sign the petition
operationtotalrecall.ca

Let’s keep this momentum going Alberta!!

#Alberta #ABLeg #ABPoli #FireTheUCP #YEG #YYC #RedForED

Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.

They blame immigrants so you won't blame billionaires.

@mattxiv.bsky.social

I say, let's just pay some more taxes to keep having these great programs.
#yyj #yyjBike

So let's talk about the bike valet.

I have very rarely used the service and I still think it's a hugely important program.

It's a safe bike parking option. But it does so much more in terms of placemaking and community building.

Carney carnage … seems the blinkered private equity bullshit is hard to shed. Despite high-minded books about “values” and how politicians should have courage to tackle climate change. Not just our grandkids, our kids are already paying the price.

Are you in the 89%? About 89% of the public globally want governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis — but most don't know they're in the majority.

We want to hear your story! Is climate action important to you? Why or why not? What climate solutions are most important to you? How can we overcome political obstacles? What gives you hope?

As part of the 89% Project, we sent out thousands of postcards to various regions in the US. Did you get a postcard? If not, you can still share your perspective at #The89Percent website. Share your thoughts here: buff.ly/QlswhzI

People riding bikes in a downtown Vancouver separated bike-lane

It’s really important that #Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally against bike-lanes, are now among their most vigourous supporters, because of ACTUAL EVIDENCE that they’re better for downtown business than any street parking they replaced.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Carney tells business crowd a new pipeline project is 'going to… National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

The world blew past the dangerous 1.5 degree red line.
Our grandkids will pay the price.
Canada was the outlier in the G7 because of massive oil production expansion.
Mark Carney has decided to go all in on planet burning as a national strategy.

nationalnewswatch.com/2025/11/07/c...

Carney tells business crowd a new pipeline project is 'going to… National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.

This sounds a bit like the prime minister is prepared to steamroll over many B.C. First Nations and the provincial government to give Alberta what it wants

Or maybe he was just pandering to his audience?
#bcpoli #canpoli

Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.

Public transit & other climate action funding cut, #fossilfuel subsidies increased, in @mark-carney.bsky.social 's brutal budget.

"Economies that cannot rapidly disentangle themselves from fossil fuels will be left behind" @hadrianmk.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o... #cdnpoli

Victoria’s Draft Financial Plan proposes cutting the Youth Bus Pass Program. 70% of eligible teens use it. Cutting it would harm safety, equity and independence. Email mayorandcouncil@victoria.ca to tell them to keep it, along with Bike Valet and Neighbour Space.

Budget 2025 entrenches Carney government’s backsliding on climate and environmental protection Focus on mega-projects and deep cuts to civil service ignores environmental realities and invests in classic, unsustainable resource extraction modelVANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵ wx̱wú7mesh AND...

NEWS RELEASE: “Prime Minister Carney’s first budget reads like a war plan against people and the planet."

Budget 2025 underscores the federal government's continued trajectory of focusing on industrial development at the expense of people, public services and the environment.

#CDNpoli #Budget2025

Chapter 5: Creating a more efficient and effective government | Budget 2025 Chapter 5: Creating a more efficient and effective government — Part of Budget 2025.

Canada is retreating from its international assistance commitments in Budget 2025. Details are vague except for cutting $2.7 Billion in aid spending between 2026 and 2030.

A missed opportunity for Canada to redouble efforts in face of American abandonment of aid.

budget.canada.ca/2025/report-...

Finally watched Zohran Mamdani's victory speech and I almost fuckin cried. I got real goosebumps. This is what we need.

Stop listening to the loudest and most out-of-touch pundits screaming about moving to the centre. Be bold and unrelenting in caring about each other.

TURN THE VOLUME UP!

How Carney’s first budget impacts the environment | The Narwhal Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget scales back many Trudeau-era environmental programs and creates a youth climate corps

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget scales back rules around greenwashing, cuts environmental spending and hints an emissions cap on the oil and gas industry is unlikely. VIA @meyer.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/carney-budge...

Please enjoy my cartoon for Wednesday's Toronto Star

Budget 2025: Liberals scrap emissions cap, greenwashing rules as part of climate competitiveness strategy Unveiled in Budget 2025, the long-promised strategy largely focuses on plans to "strengthen" the industrial carbon price and expand pre-existing investment tax credits designed to spur investment in g...

I gotta say, as far as Climate leaders go this #MarkCarney is one hell of a banker

💥Carbon Tax
💥Emission Tax
💥Planting TREES
💥Greenwashing accountability(?!?!?)
✅ MORE Pipelines
✅ MORE #FossilGas LNG

He's a Conservative DREAM www.ipolitics.ca/2025/11/04/l...

#ClimateChange #cdnpoli

“Every analysis across the board, including the International Energy Agency, suggests that LNG markets and oil markets will tank in the next 10 years" #bcpoli #fossilfuels

Important piece by Brent—please check it out!

Comment: Housing ladders, not myths — why vacancy chains still matter Victoria’s challenge isn’t choosing between market and affordable housing, it’s building enough of the right homes quickly.

Good to see a developer emphasizing the importance of not for profit housing and preserving older apartment buildings in #yyj. Yes, tripling provincial and federal investments in affordable housing would be a good start! www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm... #bcpoli

Wab Kinew's gov't tabled bill 50 in Manitoba that won't allow any future provincial gov't to use the notwithstanding clause for provincial legislation without going through the courts first. This is what a true leader does for his constituents. Alberta's and Quebec's leadership pale in comparison.

Map of the Gaza Strip showing the relative amounts of rubble left by bombed buildings, the most dense areas are dark red, the least dense are yellow or white. Most of the map is dark red.

The remains of more than 14,000 murdered Palestinians are mixed with 61 million tons of explosive-laced debris and their families are looking for them with WITH HAND TOOLS because Israel won’t let heavy machinery in.

The point of this ongoing apartheid is to be the most cruel.

3 ICE agents with their faces covered. Text says THESE GUYS STOP YOU AND YOUR FAMILY IN YOUR CAR, POINT GUNS AT YOU, AND ORDER YOU TO GET INTO A VAN. THEY SAY THEY'RE LAW ENFORCEMENT BUT REFUSE TO SHOW A BADGE OR ANY IDENTIFICATION. YOU HAVE SECONDS TO REACT. YOUR FAMILY IS EITHER GETTING ABDUCTED BY A HUMAN TRAFFICKER OR YOU'RE GOING TO A BLACKSITE PRISON. THIS IS WHAT AUTHORITARIANISM LOOKS LIKE. THIS AMERICA UNDER MAGA. Joshua Reed Eakle