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Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.

An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

Israel and US: destabilizes the Middle East

Canada: why would Iran do this?

'Shock and awe' at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction - Halifax Examiner Retired wildlife biologist Bob Bancroft describes the elimination of the division and today’s changes to the department as “absolutely disgusting.”

‘Shock and awe’ at DNR: Wildlife division gone, managers sacked, and restructured department geared for natural resources exploitation and extraction
By @joanbaxter.bsky.social

Canada must support Cuba "You cannot ‘live within the lie’ of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.”

Canada must help Cuba. Here is my latest about Canada's long and deep relationship with the island nation, and how Carney's Davos speech turned out to be all talk and no action.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

Glyphosate: What Indigenous communities have suspected for years about the dangers of the herbicide The recent retraction of peer-reviewed research claiming glyphosate is safe confirms what Indigenous communities have said for years.

Glyphosate: What Indigenous communities have suspected for years about the dangers of the herbicide

@davidmaccdn.bsky.social Have you seen that DND has been sending mass emails to various government departments facing cuts advertising information sessions to 'poach' these federal employees for positions at DND?

This is really good. Easily updated for our time.

It sounds like BC is ripe for a lawsuit. Federally and in Nova Scotia it has been the impetus to progress on SAR. If an Auditor Generals report is an option that can also be a useful tool to push the government into action if deficiencies are identified by an AG.

First 2026 read. This line from Kent Monkman was the advice I needed to start the year: “Do not let chaos distract you, keep focused on the world that should be, and make it our future.”

The true size of Greenland Canada and the US without map projection distortions...Greenland is just a bit bigger than Quebec...
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Advocates and residents say stronger regulations are needed to protect N.S. lakeshores | CBC News As development pressure increases, property owners, advocates and politicians across the province are raising concerns with the vulnerability of lakes, calling for increased protections for lakeshores...

It's bad out there on our lakes...it's getting worse...it's very possible to turn things around before it's too late.

Schizophyllum - Wikipedia

Fungus. Probably in this genus
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Splitgill Mushroom, Schizophyllum commune

Evergreen post from Walking Eagle News

CO2 levels in atmosphere have tripled since 1960s, highest in 800,000 years: WMO report | CBC News Heat-trapping carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere jumped by the highest amount on record last year, soaring to a level not seen in human civilization and "turbo-charging" the Earth's climate and c...

Concerning. We are at a very dumb point in our history.

NEW: Extraordinary scenes in Amsterdam this afternoon (Sunday, Oct 5).

An estimated 250,000 bring the city to a standstill; people all wearing red to show solidarity with Palestine 🇵🇸

(🎥 Ahmed Zantac)

a flow-chart with 2 islands. "Do I need AI?" that flows into a final island saying "No"

Northern Ontario First Nations are building a village in the path to the Ring of Fire Communities along the Attawapiskat River are reclaiming the land to stop Doug Ford’s massive mining project — and finding evidence of ancestral burial grounds

Northern Ontario #FirstNations are building a village in the path to the Ring of Fire.

Communities along the #Attawapiskat River are reclaiming the land to stop Doug Ford’s massive mining project.

New from @jonthompson.bsky.social:

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#onpoli #RingOfFire #mining

Low water in Rapids. Nova Scotia

This was the upper Pleasant River last week. No flow in any of the rapids between stillwaters

They’re going to try to make you feel insane for opposing this war. They’ll ignore protests and downplay any opposition. They’ll try to strongarm you into submission.

They did it with Iraq and they’ll do it again.

And then a few years later they’ll pretend they were with you all along.

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim:

⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C
⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade
⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance
⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2

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The ban on uranium exploration and mining is safe – for now - Halifax Examiner After yesterday’s meeting of the Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development, Nova Scotia’s Uranium Exploration and Mining Prohibition Act seems to be safe. At least for now. The ...

If anyone (besides NS Premier Houston and natural resources minister Rushton) is inclined to believe NS Mining Association Sean Kirby’s arguments for ending the ban on uranium mining in N.S., here is info from DNR experts back in 2019, refuting all Kirby’s BS: www.halifaxexaminer.ca/economy/natu...

Ontario’s black bear problem is about people | The Narwhal Climate change and urban sprawl are blurring the lines between Ontario’s black bear country and our front yards

Climate change and urban sprawl are blurring the lines between bear country and our front yards. Does Ontario have a problem with black bears — or people? thenarwhal.ca/ontario-blac...

Imagine the feeling of going back into work knowing that the super annoying, uncooperative and loud bully who failed upward and was a drain on your mental health... just disappeared overnight and won't be coming back into work. How a lot of incumbent MPs feel today I would bet.

YouTube video by Garys Economics How to stop the economy from collapsing

'We need to get wealth back into the hands of working families. That means taxing working people less and rich people more. Tax wealth, not work. Protect ordinary families. Make it common sense'...
Class solidarity, less wealth inequality.

I really resent that everything I hold dear is being destroyed by this level of stupidity.

YouTube video by Garys Economics Will the rich leave the UK?

A clear well laid out explanation of why 'you can't tax the rich or they will leave' is bullshit.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=luob...

An easy to work through free course! Learn about the abilities and limits of Large Language Models (so called-A.I)

What Canadian nationalism? We long ago sold off Canadian cultural production, leaving nationalism nothing from which to draw on.

I've been unsatistifed with the takes I've read on Canadian nationalism lately. Its something I think an awful lot about, so I wrote seven short essays on culture, identity and how there can be no nationalism with out a national project.

noraloreto.substack.com/p/what-canad...