T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦

I am not confused about what Carney thinks about climate.

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

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I love how AI's bubble is about to burst and Canada is like, "Let's pour all our money into AI and also make Evan Solomon in charge."

Screen shot of front page of report. DATA CRUNCH: HOW THE AI BOOM THREATENS TO ENTRENCH FOSSIL FUELS AND COMPROMISE CLIMATE GOALS. Smoke stacks in the background. Data centers in the foreground.

Great new report on AI data centers in advance of COP30:

“Feeding data centers with fossil fuels is taking the climate crisis and blowing it up like the Incredible Hulk. A gas-fed AI boom is going to hurdle us past any chance of keeping to our climate goal.”

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The Americas Are No Longer Officially Measles-Free Canada lost its official measles elimination status after a year of continuous transmission

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

ICYMI

Watch and share.

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Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy

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

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Considering the goal of public health leaders has been to make COVID endemic, this would be a great time for them to explain why that's a good thing.

Were they just trying to get it everywhere so they could use that as an excuse for failing to do anything, or is there some sort of plan here?

But think of all that sweet, sweet defence spending and AI that we're getting!

Long COVID is here to stay—even in children Post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC, also known as long COVID) are complex, multisystem, long-lasting complications of SARS-CoV-2 infection that profoundly impact the daily life of those...

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Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC

Antivaxxers own this. Infectious disease minimizers own this.

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We need to treat fossil fuels like Big Tobacco To reduce the consumption of fossil fuels and stem disinformation that blocks effective climate action, a comprehensive ban on advertising, promotion and sponsorship of fossil fuel products and indust...

On my way to COP30 and thought I’d reshare this piece wrought out of the anger I felt leaving COP29.

Here’s hoping we move the needle forward this year

Yes. Doesn't change what Carney fans are doing.

1) No it isn't. Candidates who wouldn't stop genocide is how you got that.

2) This post was not about American politics.

Canada could face ‘worst kind’ of flu season as experts warn evolving strain may be mismatch for vaccine | CBC News With flu cases now rising in Canada, medical experts are bracing for a difficult influenza season linked to the global spread of an evolving H3N2 strain that could be a mismatch for this year’s vaccin...

Clean the air FFS.

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Same. Lived in NY and also very much like DC, San Francisco, New Orleans, Chicago, and other places. But can't imagine going.

Here you go. And yes, someone (now blocked) actually asked "But what was the alternative?" in the comments on this thread:

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a man and two women are standing next to each other and talking to each other . Alt: Zoolander asked, after it was already explained to him, "But why male models?"

Commenters: "What was the alternative to voting for Carney?"

Me: "Here's a thread answering that and explaining why it's a terrible way to look at the election."

Commenters: "But what was the alternative to voting for Carney?"

Could we please have some non-terrible politicians at any level?

You clearly didn't understand it then.

Big Daddy Knows Best.

DO NOT WANT

Canadians React to Budget 2025: Split Views, Muddled Message, and a Test of Trust in Carney’s Leadership - Abacus Data %

Cult of personality.

"Among those with a positive view of Mark Carney, just 16% were very familiar with the budget contents. Yet this group offered some of the most supportive responses across every measure tested."

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What we need is a truly progressive party as a real option. If the NDP don't get that and instead try to court "moderate Liberals", they're finished.

Instead, we get an LPC moving farther and farther to the right, indeed attracting CPC MPs to join them, with almost no progressives putting a check on that. *Because* people said "there is no alternative but to vote for Carney".

We could easily have had a minority LPC with NDP holding balance of power. Good things have happened in that situation. Do the math on 8 fewer CPC seats and those going instead to progressives. "There is no alternative" cost us exactly that.

I don't know how to explain it any more clearly. Did you read the thread before commenting?

All of this is to say that "We had no choice" or "But PP would be worse" are *terrible* arguments for shrugging and accepting whatever Carney does now.

Bonus #2:

Carney does not in any sense have a strong mandate.

i) It's a minority government.

ii) LPC had support from 30% of the electorate. (43.76% x 69.5% turnout).