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Revealed: How the Meat Industry Uses Environmental Groups to Make Beef Seem Climate-Friendly Expert says non-profit partners provide a ‘fairy dust’ of legitimacy to beef industry.

New at DeSmog: @rachelsherrington.bsky.social reveals how the meat industry might have teamed up with prominent environmental groups to convince consumers that beef can be "climate friendly," even as the industry's emissions of planet-heating pollutants increase. #climatechange

Making sense of the weather that led to a horrible Texas flooding tragedy, plus Tropical Storm Chantal In brief: Invest 92L became Tropical Depression 3 yesterday and is now Tropical Storm Chantal.

The latest on TS Chantal today, but more importantly, we take a deep dive into the causes and forecasts leading up to the horrific flooding tragedy in Texas. A lot to unpack today. open.substack.com/pub/theeyewa...

I wanted to dig in more to understand the forecasts after the Texas flooding tragedy. Tough one to write knowing what happened.

Alberta cougar hunting increases ‘not based on science’: docs | The Narwhal A controversial decision to increase cougar hunting in Alberta was ‘based on direction from [the] minister last year and input from stakeholders’

Alberta Forestry and Parks Minister Todd Loewen's hunting outfitter company is in his wife's name. He opened up cougar hunting with no idea how many animals there are.
‘Not based on science’: documents show internal government scramble to expand Alberta cougar hunt: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-coug...

I believe Danielle Smith has higher aspirations. Probably American ones. I wish she'd just get on with those and stop wrecking my home province.

Alberta moves to weaken its carbon tax system: document | The Narwhal Thousands of oil and gas facilities could soon be able to opt out of Alberta’s industrial carbon tax system

As forest fires rage....
Alberta moves to weaken its carbon price amidst talk of national ‘grand bargain’: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-carb... via @drewanderson.bsky.social

Pierre Poilievre in a nutshell.
If ever there was a case to drain the swamp...

Opinion: Canada’s democracy had a decent day. But it can do better to reflect all Canadians in this moment of crisis In a democracy – and especially in a crisis – citizens need to feel represented. With our election delivering a deeply divided result, let’s ask: should we elect for proportional representation?

Once more, I make the case for electoral reform, now more than ever.

www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

The things people want in order to have kids are things the left would like to give them and the right would like to burn down. Healthy environment, social safety net, stable access to non-bankrupting medical care, thriving society, not killing the planet, stuff like that.

A lemon meringue tart on a white plate.

When passing by Sugared & Spiced you must stop and get a lemon meringue tart (or any other delicious treat). I don’t make the rules, I just follow them. #yeg #yegfood

“…I am furious that CTV caved.

Rachel became a symbol of the threats journalists face. Now, she is a symbol of what it means when institutions fail to defend them”

⚠️BREAKING: Repping the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, #Ecojustice lawyers have launched a legal challenge of Alberta's decision to renew its Mine Financial Security Program (#MFSP) rules without addressing critical flaws identified in its 2022-2024 program review.

Read more 👉 bit.ly/4cogSui

We need to talk about Rachel Because our democracy is not going to make it through the next years without strong journalists.

We need to talk about @rachelgilmore.bsky.social
Our democracy is not going to make it without strong journalists. Let me begin by stating the obvious: these thoughts are mine alone. They do not speak for my employers. They are personal and, at this moment, angry. #cdnmedia
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Bleeding Money: Alberta’s Private Health Shift | The Tyee The UCP’s surgical initiative has crimped care and raised costs, concludes a report. It’s not a new pattern.

My latest for @thetyee.ca

Bleeding Money: Alberta's Private Health Shift via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/04...

Booker: Strom Thurmond’s record always kind of just really irked me. That the longest speech on our great Senate floor was from someone who was trying to stop people like me from being in the Senate. So to surpass that became more important to me.

Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker

I’ve taken the Senate floor and will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis. Watch here:

Braid: No popsicles for cancer kids under heartless new hospital rules The Alberta government decrees that kids in cancer treatment can't get treats like popsicles or juice boxes. Same new rules apply to ERs.

Hey Alberta, let's talk about this 👇
Honestly? Has the govt lost what it means to provide the CARE in Health Care?🧵
We are currently starving many of our stranded ED hallway pts, but maybe ABs will rise up when they see we are denying kids w cancer?
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The icing on the cake.
Bruce Fanjoy 🇨🇦 is trending to wipe out Pierre Polievre off the map and take Carleton Riding. What a wonderful day that would be. #cdnpoli

The Dangerous Americanization of Alberta Democracy | The Tyee Danielle Smith is looking south for inspiration, ideas and laws.

thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

Cartoon with road jammed with cars between jammed in detached homes

Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people CHOICES to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.

Danielle Smith and Ben Shapiro discuss Canada electing ‘solid allies’ to Trump at Florida event On stage at a PragerU fundraiser, the Alberta premier, under fire for allegedly encouraging U.S. leaders to influence Canadian politics, said, 'I come in peace.'

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/03/27/n...

While the US builds walls, Canada is building networks". Carney is taking the long game and Canada WILL WIN!!🇨🇦

The UCP will always choose the people, companies, corporations that benefit them…never Albertans. They’ve proven it, over and over again.

Take your POWER back.

Your Voice For Choice

abresistance.ca
DM me.

Alberta public health system losing staff, funding as province increases spending on private facilities Analysis shows provincial spending on private surgical facilities increased nearly three-fold in 2023-24 from 2019-20, while spending in public facilities increased marginally

Private surgical facilities in Alberta are starving the public system of staff and funding to perform priority procedures, according to a new report that concludes the province has yet to increase surgical capacity or reduce wait times as pledged. #ableg www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

I attended @alonghurst.bsky.social’s webinar on his new report with the Parkland Institute and I gotta say, the plausible and horrifying idea that the UCP could liquidate our hospitals to US private equity firms is still making me feel sick hours later assets.nationbuilder.com/parklandinst...

Feeling Broke? Blame Big Oil | The Tyee Canada’s affordability crisis and fossil fuel company profits are linked, says report.

Gas up, groceries up, rents up?

Turns out #BigOil’s record profits were the real driver.
@zoeyunker.bsky.social lays it bare at @thetyee.ca
Let’s stop subsidizing the problem and build the solution.

thetyee.ca/News/2025/03...

Paris residents vote in favour of making 500 more streets pedestrian Parisians voted in a referendum on Sunday to pedestrianise a further 500 of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by the French capital's left-leaning town hall to curb car usage and improve air quality.

BREAKING & BIG: Today in PARIS, citizens voted in a referendum to PEDESTRIANIZE 500 MORE of the city's streets, giving fresh momentum to efforts by city leaders to create people-places, curb car usage, and improve air quality. 66% of Parisians voted in favour of the measure, official results showed!

Mark Carney is running for Prime Minister of Canada.

Pierre Poilievre is running to be Governor of the 51st state.

Pete Buttigieg breaks down DEI for everyday folks…

“The opposite of diversity is uniformity. The opposite of equity is inequity. The opposite of inclusion is exclusion.” @petebuttigieg.bsky.social

Our problem: too many value uniformity over inclusion and they’re the ones running the government.
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