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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity - BBC News Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.

"Solar ... is now so cheap that large markets for solar can emerge in a country in the space of a single year."

Another historic milestone for the energy transition, which is doing things seemingly daily that I was told quite often until quite recently were impossible www.bbc.com/news/article...

Perfect cartoon.

Today is World Teachers’ Day.

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

The best feeling in a world is hearing about a trend and just going "Nope! I'll be skipping that one." I skipped all of NFTs! Now they're gone and I never had to learn what they were.

I would def pay for something like that 👍

Alberta records first measles death since outbreak Premature baby who contracted disease in utero has died, first death associated with provincial outbreak of nearly 2,000 cases

Alberta records first measles death -- an infant -- since outbreak www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... By @alannasmith.bsky.social

Fetid

‘Alberta is disincentivizing renewables’: report | The Narwhal Confidence in Alberta’s energy market has been undermined by the ‘sheer volume and pace of regulatory and policy changes,’ major financial backers say

A report commissioned by Alberta's electric system operator shows big investors' faith in the province as a stable and predictable place to invest "has been significantly undermined in recent years." That's especially true when it comes to renewables. #ableg #cdnpoli
thenarwhal.ca/restructured...

Pierre Poilievre looks at this data and his takeaways are food inflation today is "70% above target" and the situation is "even worse than Trudeau".

You can judge how intellectually honest that is. But real solutions to real problems take more than rhetoric, gimmicks, and spin.

Alberta health officials were also directors at a company linked to a supplier Corporate filings reveal further links between Alberta Health Services procurement staff and private firms

SCOOP: Two senior Alberta Health Services procurement officials were also briefly directors in a numbered company linked to MHCare, a supplier that has been awarded $$$ in business, The Globe and Mail has found

By @tomcardoso.bsky.social, @hoserlibrarian.bsky.social and friend

When you follow a leader, consider what would lead you to withdraw your support.

If the answer is nothing, your integrity is in jeopardy. Our highest loyalty belongs to principles, not people.

No leader deserves unconditional love. Commitment is earned through character.

I am begging Canadians to understand that Canada Post, like public transit, should not be a business - it's a service.

Canada Post is a lifeline for rural, remote and Northern communities and overall, we need to re-evaluate why people think they "need" random shit delivered ASAP.

It's ok if you say 'on accident' by accident, but 'by accident' is the one you want to use.

Dang... my mail lady gives my dog a biscuit every time she comes to our house
😢🦴🐾

getting people to go to IRL places to engage in politics and have a laugh fucking rules

Alberta teachers and their employers have reached a tentative agreement | CBC News Alberta teachers and their employers have reached a tentative agreement that could avert a strike in the province's schools, according to a statement from Finance Minister Nate Horner.

"Although the province stopped tracking class sizes in 2019, educators say anecdotally their classrooms are becoming increasingly jammed."

Honestly wild Alberta stopped tracking this data and we now have to rely on anecdotal evidence when it comes to a key issue holding up a new teachers contract.

Alberta private clinics adviser worked for firm vying for contract, confidential report says Potential conflicts of interest outlined in document at centre of health procurement controversy

A shocking new story on Alberta health contracting conflicts by the mighty @carrietait.bsky.social. She's so unflappable and so unbeatable — and trust me, on the AHS story I've tried. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

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Ben Mulroney is Blurring the Lines Between Journalism, Business, Lobbying and Partisan Politics New host of Global News’ politics show works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

Ben Mulroney is blurring the lines between journalism, business, lobbying and partisan politics

The new host of Global News’ national political news show also works for registered lobby groups, advises businesses and hosted election events for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives earlier this year

“They studied 51 populist presidents and prime ministers who were in power between 1900 and 2020 and found that after 15 years, GDP per capita was 10% lower when compared with a plausible nonpopulist counterfactual.”

The cruelty and unfairness of life is a sobering reminder that our time on this pale blue dot is fragile and unknown.

Live each day to the fullest. Love fiercely. Be humble. Do good.

In the end, it’s not what we did but the relationships we had.

You were loved by many.

So many White Anglo-Saxon Protestants in Ottawa this year 😉

IT'S IRONIC that Disney, of all companies, has never learned how to battle villains.

338 Sunday Update: Canadians Losing Faith in U.S. Partnership Liberals maintain an overall advantage, but eroding satisfaction in Quebec and strained U.S. relations cast a shadow on the horizon.

Ipsos 🇨🇦: "To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statement: We can never trust the Americans the same way again." (Sept.9-12, 2025)

🟢Agree 60%
🔴Disagree 16%

338 Sunday Update: Canadians Losing Faith in U.S. Partnership ↓ www.338canada.ca/p/338-sunday...

Tom Homan was investigated for accepting $50,000 from undercover FBI agents. Trump's DOJ shut it down. The FBI and Justice officials closed the investigation, which a Justice Department appointee had called a “deep state” probe in early 2025.

MSNBC: In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now Trump's border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents win government contracts in a second Trump admin.

Trump's DOJ just shut down the investigation into Homan's actions.

I love shit like this so much 💕

Been there.
I've even done it with paper books.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century."
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Herr Goebbels Angered By Anti-Nazi Wit Comedians Banned For Humorous Remarks on Leaders --The Montreal Star, 4 Feb 1939

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