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Dramatic policy U-turns put Canada far behind in the global EV race Canada’s rapidly accelerating EV adoption crashed and burned in 2025 while the world raced ahead. From Norway to Vietnam to Ethiopia, a diverse and growing mix of nations is leaving us in their dust.

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Environ 1 personne sur 122 est actuellement infectée au Canada.

What Doug Ford gets wrong about the auto industry Ford complains about the Chinese government’s subsidies for its auto-makers. He fails to mention the colossal public bailout of the Canadian branch plants of GM and Chrysler during the 2009

This article nails it and should also cement Ford's removal from office in the next election. However, unless the voters stop splitting their votes, nothing will change and 100's of thousands more auto sector jobs will flee Ontario. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Alberta’s two-tier health care bill is designed to kill public health care – a new report shows how - Alberta Politics Despite its name, Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act, 2025, is not health care legislation.  The purpose of the law that was granted Royal Assent on Dec. 11 last year is to destroy public health ...

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Solar, Wind Emerge as Canada’s Cheapest New Power as Prices Fall by Half Contracted energy costs for wind and solar projects in Canada have fallen to half of what they were 10 years ago, new analysis shows.

Solar, Wind Emerge as Canada’s Cheapest New Power as Prices Fall by Half www.theenergymix.com/solar-wind-e...

The multi-billion problem Canada’s oilpatch doesn’t want to disclose Canada's oil and gas industry is a fiscal time bomb due to oil well cleanup liabilities that have been kept off the books.

Canada's oil and gas industry is a fiscal time bomb due to oil well cleanup liabilities that have been kept off the books. @chrishatch.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/30/o...

For a while, it looked like our society was serious about making work life more family friendly. It's a sad day when a large employer, like mine, decides to take a giant step backward.

Alberta pipeline capacity, explained | The Narwhal Here’s what you need to know about pipelines — real and imagined — from Alberta to the West Coast

Is Alberta really running out of pipeline capacity?: thenarwhal.ca/canada-pipel...

“Solar, wind power, and batteries are set to make life a misery for the liquefied natural gas market.”

Not great news for Carney’s plan to double down on LNG, but good news for the climate if the LNG projects he was pushing become uneconomical.

Accounting for methane from natural gas infrastructure in United States greenhouse gas emission estimates The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimates that United States net greenhouse gas emissions have declined over the last two decades and are no…

Methane pollution from US oil and gas infrastructure causes more climate change than the entire economies of all but seven nations on earth.

(This is with methane's climate impacts conservatively evaluated over a 100-year time frame. Evaluated over shorter time frames, methane's impacts are worse.)

EECA flexible electricity report Moving more electricity use off-peak could save the country up to $3 billion and transform the energy system in the process, according to new research from EECA (Energy Efficiency and Conservation Aut...

Moving more electricity use off-peak could save the country up to $3 billion and transform the energy system in the process.

The study found New Zealand could, through fully exploiting modern technologies, lower electricity use at the busiest times by up to 25%.

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On the Tibetan plateau, China has installed a 16-17 GW mega solar plant that is turning an alpine desert into a “micro-oasis”: more moisture, more grass, and soils with more carbon under 64 km² of pan... High on the Tibetan Plateau, a vast field of solar panels is not only feeding China’s power grid. According to new research, it is also gently reshaping a

On the Tibetan plateau, China has installed a 16-17 GW mega solar plant that is turning an alpine desert into a “micro-oasis”: more moisture, more grass, and soils with more carbon under 64 km² of panels
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Farmers Enjoy Record Spring Harvests Despite Drought Thanks to Mixture of New and Old Methods Today, 75% of farmers in Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta don't till the soil before seeding, keeping the soil microbiome intact.

This combination of new and old methods reduces the need for fuel, water, fertilizer and pesticides. Well done, Canada!

On this day in 1923, a Czech Jewish woman was born. On the 8 Sep 1942 she was deported to Theresienstadt and on the 22 Oct 1942 to Treblinka extermination camp where she perished. Her name was Eva Katzová

Big moment for Europe: in December, fully electric cars outsold petrol-only cars in the EU for the first time.

This shows that clear, consistent policy works. Which is exactly why backtracking now would be a mistake. Rolling back targets or creating uncertainty would slow investment and innovation.

A new report finds just 32 fossil fuel companies were responsible for HALF of global CO₂ emissions in 2024 . We must phase out fossil fuels and hold polluters accountable. #MakePollutersPay #COP31

Feds target hundreds of Environment and Climate Change Canada workers putting 'public safety and the environment at risk' Hundreds of workers responsible for pollution prevention, weather forecasting, conservation and environmental disaster response are being at Environment and Climate Change Canada received workforce ad...

Hundreds of workers responsible for pollution prevention, weather forecasting, conservation and environmental disaster response are set to be cut from ECCC as Prime Minister Mark Carney's government takes a chainsaw to the public service. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/23/n...

WEF Alternative Speech '26 – Jan 21, 2026–Jan 21, 2026 A contrasting vision to Donald Trump’s speech at the World Economic Forum 2026.

At WEF, speeches by world leaders totaled almost four hours of speaking time: and not one mentioned climate change.

So @wedonthavetime.bsky.social organized an alternative WEF speech by some of the world’s leading scientists and systems thinkers. It took place on a pile of snow.

Watch here:

Gave a guest lecture last night to an undergraduate class, about global health in the context of post-War liberal world order. I begin talking about WWII...

The class's regular professor whispers to me, "You'd better tell them when that was."

Yikes.

A person in a mobility scooter rolls along a cycling-priority street in Delft. A red and blue sign indicates that cars are guests.

Seven years in Delft, countless trips across the globe, and nothing compares to the feeling of coming home to a city where cars are guests, not the guests of honour.

World’s largest nuclear station — in #PortHope?

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Just genuinely, remarkably stupid.

Alberta has plenty of provincial debt -- and more each year. Any separation agreement would require it to take on a proportionate share of the federal debt.

If anything, an independent Alberta currency would be a recipe for hyperinflation.

Reality trumps a Poilievre oil fantasy Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's stand on a proposed new oil pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast flawed on so many levels. It confuses where most of the refining of our crude oil occurs, wro...

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The people who are mad at Mark Carney for doing a deal with China on EVs are the *same* ones who think Canada should build a bunch of new pipelines to sell oil and gas to...China.

Set aside the hypocrisy for a moment and ask: can they not see where the puck is going here?

‘Israeli’ agriculture sector faces “collapse” amid boycott: report

#BoycottIsraeliProducts
‘Israeli’ fruit growers report a "looming collapse" of the industry as major retailers in Belgium, Ireland, the UK halt orders, leaving tons of mangoes & citrus to rot due to consumer-led boycotts and ethical concerns over the war on Gaza.

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Half of Fossil Fuel Carbon Emissions in 2024 Came From 32 Companies - Inside Climate News As fossil fuel-based carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise to record levels, a new analysis shows that a majority of these emissions can be traced back to a shrinking number of large corporate ent...

New report out from @influencemap.bsky.social shows that an increasingly shrinking number of large fossil fuel producers generate a majority of global CO2 emissions

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Why we need to talk about the root causes of food insecurity Dominant nutrition wellness narratives wrongly focus on individual behaviour and personal responsibility, which obscures the structural causes of hunger and delays policy changes.

Why we need to talk about the root causes of food insecurity
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Shell, Mitsubishi Try to Withdraw from B.C. LNG Shell and Mitsubishi are trying to sell off their shares in the $40-billion LNG Canada megaproject amid predictions of an oversupplied global market.

LNG Glut Hits on Schedule as Shell, Mitsubishi Try to Withdraw from B.C. Megaproject www.theenergymix.com/lng-glut-hit...