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Caroline

@northernck.bsky.social

πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦ curious. savvy. spiritied. witty. PoliSci, Business grad. Former business executive with a conscience. Mentored youth at risk, young staff, entrepreneurs. Deeply concerned about our humanity in the face of growing extremism. Photography enthusiast. πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦

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Nova Scotia's largest wind power project will be first to sell 'direct' to buyers Renewall Energy’s 148.5 MW project west of Halifax will pioneer a renewable-to-retail program, allowing industrial, commercial and residential electricity consumers to bypass the provincial utility wh...

We need a commitment from Mme Stiles & OLP’s new leader to cancel these nuclear projects costing us tens of billions, while bringing cheaper Business-to-consumer renewable projects we can sign up for.

We’ve had enough of subsidizing nuclear & nat gas.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/n...

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With speed cameras out, Toronto faces decade-long safety rebuild with a price tag of $52M Speed cameras across Ontario were removed in November with the passing of provincial legislation that banned them after Premier Doug Ford called them a β€œcash grab” for municipalities.

Or….we can rid ourselves of this buffoon of a premier who has increased our cost of living at every juncture - housing, education, hydro, and now city building, in which he constantly meddles.

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/04/n...

05.03.2026 00:39 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A frozen Lake Erie, in photos | The Narwhal Lake Erie froze over almost completely in February. Here’s what that looks like

Spectacular photographs of a frozen Lake Erie.
Esp of waves frozen by those early February temperatures.
thenarwhal.ca/frozen-lake-...

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The end of accountability: How autonomous AI could supercharge climate disinformation While conspiracies rely on falsehoods, lies or manipulative uses of emotion, they share a key feature: they are traceable to people and institutions.

What Min ⁦β€ͺSolomon‬⁩ has failed to account for and regulate against.
AI will be weaponized against experts across all facets of society and life.

Min Solomon’s open-door, evangelist policy approach is already haunting us.

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/o...

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Association (CanREA) said.”

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nuclear,” she said. β€œThis is the way forward. It is simple."
The uncertainty driven by events in Iran and the Middle East underlines the need for secure and affordable Canadian renewable energy, backed by domestic manufacturing and a proven global supply chain, the Canadian Renewable Energy

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in Canadian oil and gas, Martinez Carbonell said the EU’s pro-green energy policy was aligned to the 2015 Paris Agreement’s emissions reduction targets, which aim to limit global heating to 1.5C of pre-industrial levels.
β€œSeventy per cent of Europe’s electricity comes from either renewables or

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Canadian LNG out of step with Europe's clean energy shift: EU official Senior Brussels diplomat BelΓ©n Martinez Carbonell says renewables and nuclear power win out over fossil fuels to help meet EU economic and emissions reduction goals.

Min Hodgson & PM Carney are taking a big gamble in tying up limited Cdn funding resources to economic segments w/ fewer and fewer customers.
EU doesn’t want our fossil fuels & our food production regs are lax compared to theirs.
β€œAsked about Europe’s interest
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/02/n...

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climate choice and more like a stability strategy.”

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security. β€œRepeated shocks like this push countries to reassess what energy security really means. Wind, solar, storage, and, where available, hydro are not immune to operational challenges. But they are not hostage to chokepoints like Hormuz. In that sense, they increasingly look less like a

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States.

Renewable energy, on the other hand, suffers no such defects. It just gets relentlessly cheaper and more efficient, sometimes by leaps and sometimes by bounds. And as energy analyst Benoit Marcoux wrote on social media, it looks more and more like the best path to both economic and energy

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Fossil fuels will be collateral damage in Trump’s war on Iran Canada's oil and gas industry and the politicians in its thrall will use the US attack on Iran as a justification for more pipelines. In reality, it will actually erode the economic case for them.

What oil/gas evangelists, Min @timhodgsonmt Pr Smith & Ford can’t seem to acknowledge:
β€œThe price of oil and LNG fluctuate wildly and are subject to the whims and geopolitical aspirations of countries including Russia, Iran and, increasingly, the United

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/03/o...

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Waze predetermining I’m headed to physio based on β€œdriving patterns” is bloody too effective

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WELCH: Mr. Yoho is also the husband of your former spokesperson, Tricia McLaughlin?

NOEM: Yes

WELCH: So your former assistant and her husband are the ones that got the DHS no bid contract for $143m. Any dispute about that?

NOEM: No.

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urban centres hollowing out, & implications on all other household purchases - w/ majority of Cdns now having to skip meals or portions of meals. 46% of which are Ontarians.
Thank Pr Ford for blocking construction of affordable options - see missing middle, modular homes.

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Rising grocery costs forcing Canadians to cut meals and rely on credit, survey says A new survey shows Canadians are skipping meals, using credit, and shopping at multiple stores as grocers’ market power and rising prices squeeze household budgets.

When financialization & Harper’s investment class of immigrants (allowed use of home purchases to qualify as investments) took hold post-2007 financial crises, I warned we would eventually arrive at a pt where stratospheric housing prices would lead to

www.thestar.com/business/ris...

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Bravo to Mr Axworthy for providing clarity on int’l law, the confusion brought on by PM Carney’s statements of support re America’s bombing of Iran, when considering his Davis speech.

And a reminder that belief in int’l law should be consistent across ALL applications.

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Andrew Phillips: Carney has a problem on India and Iran: his messaging is backwards On India and Iran, Mark Carney has been both clear and fuzzy over the past few days. The problem is he’s been fuzzy when he should be clear, and clear

Note, the effort by Andrew Philips to diminish Sikh families being terrorized or facing extortion attempts, by calling those who pushed back against that false claim by the β€œsenior govt official” as β€œSikh activists”.
entitlement & ignorance writ large.

www.thestar.com/opinion/star...

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A verification of the lies told by Israeli & American governments.

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Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to.

Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.

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Alberta's premier says conflict in Iran underscores need for new Canadian pipeline Smith says any disruption in the Strait of Hormuz, a key oil choke point at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, only underscores the need for a new pipeline that could bring her province’s exports to Pacif...

While global oil & gas importers are accelerating their renewables investments, just like clockwork, Pr ⁦β€ͺSmith‬⁩ sounds the bell for a new pipeline as saviour of any crises in the world.

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/03/02/n...

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Bingo.

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The expansion of this war took but 72 hours.
Think about that.

Then consider Trump, nor Netanyahu know where this is going, nor how it ends.

I fear for innocent Iranians, as well as the citizens of ME nations now involved in this war.

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πŸ€¦πŸ»β€β™€οΈ
Hiring an entertainment industry host for your political news show was a significant own goal.

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Hey @globalnews.ca, hire me instead! Unlike Ben, I don't even pretend to be a journalist, so when I post clips from Left 4 Dead and fear-monger about the zombie apocalypse starting, at least your channel won't get blamed for misinformation (oh and also I'm not a zionist asshole, that too)

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Raw Story: Trump responded to three U.S. service members' deaths by bragging he got a "great deal" in the war that ended their lives.

How does anyone in the military, or is a veteran, support this disgrace of a human being?
#ProudBlue #Pinks #SheShed #VoteOutRepublicans

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MAJOR BREAKING: Iran's Revolutionary guard commander has just announced that the Straight of Hormuz is "CLOSED" and that Iran will attack any ship trying to pass.

I expect to see "TRUMP DID THAT" stickers on all gas pumps.

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ALL EYES ON TEXAS πŸ‘€

After March 3rd, we lock in behind the Democratic nominee, Crockett or Talarico, and drive this thing straight through the general.

Because whether it’s Paxton or Cornyn, the threat is the same. Both are dangerous.

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The con artist Nicolas Rossi and his wife

The con artist Nicolas Rossi and his wife

For some reason all the influencers being airlifted out of the Middle East reminds me of this

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Joint declaration of President Macron and Chancellor Merz.
In the spirit of their close partnership as set out in Article 4 of the Treaty of Aachen, France and Germany have decided to enter into closer cooperation in the field of deterrence in response to the evolving threat landscape.
France and Germany have established a high-ranking nuclear steering group that will act as a bilateral framework for doctrinal dialogue and the coordination of strategic cooperation, including consultations regarding the appropriate mix of conventional, missile defence and French nuclear capabilities. France and Germany have agreed to take first concrete steps beginning this year, including German conventional participation in French nuclear exercises and joint visits to strategic sites as well as development of conventional capabilities with European partners. France and Germany will also increase their ability, as Europeans, to manage escalation beneath the nuclear threshold - in particular in the fields of Early Warning and Air Defense and Deep Precision Strike.
This Franco-German cooperation is based on the shared understanding that the nuclear dimension of deterrence remains a cornerstone of European security, relying on US extended deterrence, including US nuclear weapons forward-deployed to Europe, and on the independent strategic nuclear forces of France and the United Kingdom, which have a deterrent role of their own and contribute significantly to the overall security of the Alliance. This Franco-German cooperation will add to, not substitute for, NATO's nuclear deterrence and NATO's nuclear sharing arrangements, to which Germany contributes and will continue to contribute. France and Germany will continue to comply with their obligations under international law including the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
In light of their strong commitment to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and Art. 42 (7) of the Treaty on European Union, Franco-German cooperatio…

Joint declaration of President Macron and Chancellor Merz. In the spirit of their close partnership as set out in Article 4 of the Treaty of Aachen, France and Germany have decided to enter into closer cooperation in the field of deterrence in response to the evolving threat landscape. France and Germany have established a high-ranking nuclear steering group that will act as a bilateral framework for doctrinal dialogue and the coordination of strategic cooperation, including consultations regarding the appropriate mix of conventional, missile defence and French nuclear capabilities. France and Germany have agreed to take first concrete steps beginning this year, including German conventional participation in French nuclear exercises and joint visits to strategic sites as well as development of conventional capabilities with European partners. France and Germany will also increase their ability, as Europeans, to manage escalation beneath the nuclear threshold - in particular in the fields of Early Warning and Air Defense and Deep Precision Strike. This Franco-German cooperation is based on the shared understanding that the nuclear dimension of deterrence remains a cornerstone of European security, relying on US extended deterrence, including US nuclear weapons forward-deployed to Europe, and on the independent strategic nuclear forces of France and the United Kingdom, which have a deterrent role of their own and contribute significantly to the overall security of the Alliance. This Franco-German cooperation will add to, not substitute for, NATO's nuclear deterrence and NATO's nuclear sharing arrangements, to which Germany contributes and will continue to contribute. France and Germany will continue to comply with their obligations under international law including the Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear Weapons. In light of their strong commitment to Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty and Art. 42 (7) of the Treaty on European Union, Franco-German cooperatio…

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