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Equitable_Earth (@earthequitable) Any other Canadians find this sell/off unattractive? https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/us-investors-canada-oilpatch-9.6942475 “U.S. funds now own about 59 per cent of Canadian oil and gas comp...

Canada continues to sell out its future sending the majority of petrodollar profits south of the border. Is this what we had in mind when subsidizing the petro-chemical industry with our tax-payers’ dollars?

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Equitable_Earth (@earthequitable) I rewrote Danielle Smith’s (Alberta’s Premier) recent countrywide OpEd article arguing for a new bitumen oil pipeline to the North Pacific Coast. I turned the argument onto its head: “You Can’t Build ...

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Cutting Canadian pre-clearance, as the U.S. Ambassador threatens, impacts mostly the airports in deep blue jurisdictions.

“We pay for it,” he griped. Bring jobs home.” Already Canadian overseas trips are up as U.S. trips are down double digits in 2025, cutting billions from U.S. tourism revenues.

Murdoch’s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control Under the known terms of the deal with China, TikTok would get a new board, including Murdochs and Ellisons

The TikTok arrangement gift s Trump’s billionaire allies “vast and unprecedented control.” Just like how “X has turned from a heterogenous feed into a conservative social network. TikTok may go the same way under its Maga-approved board.”
#TikTok #media_control

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Building ventilation invented by ancient Persians and Romans is making a modern comeback | CBC News In this issue of our environmental newsletter, we look at a sun-powered strategy from ancient civilizations to bring fresh, cool air into buildings; track individual monarchs on their migration to Mex...

Some very positive environmental innovation - and also includes mass timber!

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How Britain built some of the world’s safest roads The death rate per mile driven has declined 22-fold since 1950.

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The Real Reason the Market Hasn't Crashed The recent surge in stock prices is not a sign of economic health, but a symptom of a devalued dollar from a massive influx of new money.

The S&P 500 masks weakness.

As US Conference Board LEI and jobless data show a slowing economy, higher stock valuations are driven by a weaker dollar. Current, average price-to-earnings ratios are 30 versus 15 historically. Investors are simply paying twice as much for the same earnings as before.

Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, study suggests Paper in Nature Climate Change journal reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes

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Case in point: Reducing university emissions by not jetting around the globe (on public funds) is a hard pill for academia to swallow.

Drugs, ammunition seized during U.S. checkpoints at B.C. border U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers stopped Canada-bound traffic

Border Agent Redeployment?

#USTariffs #USBoycott

Are under-utilized staff being reassigned since vehicle visits to USA are down 51% and flight bookings down by over 70%? Are we witnessing a worsening, downward tourism spiral?
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Is Alberta a Victim of Federalism? Drapeaux de la Norvège et Alberta

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Yanis Varoufakis in Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs on the Six Global Crises Confronting Humanity YouTube video by DiEM25

China leads the transition away from global warming, the impact of threats to the primacy of the US currency and much, much more.
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Long but illuminating.

Musk, Trump and the Broligarchs' novel hyper-weapon - Le Monde 4-1-2025, full original English version - Yanis Varoufakis How does wealth manage to persuade poverty to use its political freedom to keep wealth in power? By merely posing his dazzling question in 1952, Aneurin Bevan captured liberal democracy’s greatest par...

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Musk’s alignment with Trump reinforces X’s position as a preferred platform for conservative discourse. User engagement is increasing, advertisers returning & the growth trajectory continuing upward. How are others being co-opted?

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Pierre Poilievre wants you to know that he will obey Big Oil Declaring an energy emergency to bypass due process is, of course, straight out of the Trump playbook for boosting fossil fuels and kneecapping their clean energy competitors. Trump made waves during ...

Pierre ‘Pipeline’ Poilievre

Twice in the federal, election debate, ‘Pipeline’ Pierre quoted chapter and verse the demands of Big Oil to capitalize on the tariff crisis.

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As the Trump Administration continues its parade to the penalty box, Canada’s Prime Minister describes the Power-Play, game plan.

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Here’s an Albertan, Mel Hurtig, who championed #elbows up all along.
#elbowsup #canpoli

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UBC professors taking school to court over ’political’ actions by administration The petition filed in B.C. Supreme Court on Monday alleges the school is breaching the University Act

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

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These UBC academics are backed by the Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedom. This “national charity” also funded a failed private health lawsuit against BC healthcare and a legal team that represented the Freedom Convoy.

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It’s likely that Trump went easy since two-thirds of Canadian-US exports are inputs to US manufacturing and agriculture: oil, electricity, potash, etc.).

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These fuel GDP and jobs in the US.

Deduct Canada’s largest export of oil (over 95 pct south) and the trade imbalance reverses.

Trade statistics differ normally.

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Some tally just material goods traded and ignore services ($$ to Meta, X, AWS, Visa). It’s also inconvenient to distinguish “inputs” — imports that fuel GDP & job growth in manufacturing & agriculture (e.g. energy & fertilizer).

Vancouver sets byelection record for advance, mail-in voting | CBC News The city says in two days of advance voting for the April 5 byelection, 7,600 votes were cast while 6,400 mail-in ballots had been requested.

Unprecedented
CBC reported;
"Advance voting opportunities in the Vancouver byelection have shattered previous records so far," said a statement from Natti Schmid, the city's elections communications and outreach manager.

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And this is only a by-election. These line-ups were as long @ Kits, Britannia and City Hall — as I personally observed. Is this the Elbows-up and Federal Election factors imbuing even civic elections? Or is this turnout uniquely the unpopularity of Sim and ABC?

We Need to Make Cities Less Car-Dependent Reducing the need for car travel is better for health, the environment and public safety

We must all broaden our understanding.

In the USA, the road user death rate is more than double the average rate in other wealthy countries.

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Most often neglected or overlooked; we must emphasize urban planning to accomplish a reduction in auto-mobility.

The tariff justification that relies on the simplistic understanding of trade imbalances is spurious. There is an imbalance favouring the USA for services that is not factored into official statistics.

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You have to admit, Trump's plan to get the media to stop talking about Signalgate with his massive tariffs was pretty brilliant finance.yahoo.com/quote/%5EGSPC/

Don’t let it slip by that Signal-gate lit every Democrat and media person’s hair on fire so completely they forgot to comment on the USA bombing a foreign country!

LIBERALS: • Build 500K homes/year • Create a public homebuilder • Support prefab/green tech • Convert empty buildings into rentals Goal: lots of supply, built fast and sustainably. ⸻ CONSERVATIVES: • Force cities to build or lose federal $$ • Sell off federal buildings for housing • Slash red tape to speed up builds Goal: more market housing, less bureaucracy. ⸻ NDP: • 500K+ affordable homes • Rent-controlled units on public land • Stop renovictions & unfair rent hikes Goal: protect renters + expand deeply affordable housing.

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Housing crisis and affordability platforms by Canada’s leading and country-wide parties.

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