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Mood whenever a city declared a climate emergency, but then didn’t change any “business-as-usual.”

Expanding LNG will increase prices and pollution Proponents flog the stale idea that fossil gas can replace coal to generate electricity, but that no longer holds up when renewables are a far cheaper option.

Expanding LNG will increase prices and pollution Proponents flog the stale idea that fossil gas can replace coal to generate electricity, but that no longer holds up when renewables are a far cheaper option.

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Virginia Louise Giuffre on her wish for accountability with Prince Andrew + the rest of the Johns. She had given the FBI all the information and the Americans have sat on it for years.

That's bullshit. Pick up the GD ball you losers #Dodgers. #BlueJays

They could have just picked it up. Total horseshit.

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#bluejays

Well, that was much better than Rep. Cory Booker's filibuster.

Halloween is the day where we get it right. Strangers comes to us, beautiful, ugly, odd, or scary, and we accept them all without question, compliment them, treat them kindly, and give them good things. Why don't we live like that? (Steve Garnass-Holmes)

My favourite quote about Halloween:

For my American friends who may be getting an, umm, heroic view of Ontario Premier Doug Ford: Doug, along with his brother Rob (you remember Rob? Toronto Mayor, crack video?) walked through a public housing tower handing out twenties from a fat wad of bills before a mayoral election.

US reportedly poised to strike military targets in Venezuela

Trump got away with murdering fishermen, so he believes he can bomb Venezuela.

If he does it and is not immediately removed from office at the very least, then no country is safe.

He tests - he gets away with it - he does more.

#uspoli #cdnpoli
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Hey, maybe that capital-gains tax'll come back!

Behold the Ford government's contempt for the public consultation requirements of the Environmental Bill of Rights ... and basic math ero.ontario.ca/index.php/no... #onpoli

Ironic sign saying Maximum 40 Area which didn’t slow down the driver who smashed his car through it. Sign is on a 4 by 4 post and is lying forlornly on my previously vertical, now horizontal, fence. Garden back drop is beautifully autumnal.

Wide shot of a large stone house and the intersection in front of it. One car is parked in front and another car is stopped incongruously halfway into the yard

Close up of the post of a wrought iron fence which has been sheered through.

Car smashed through my front fence again. Second time in two months. Guess those signs don’t actually make drivers slow down eh? This guy went right through it and flattened a wrought iron fence. Maybe a job for traffic engineers instead of sign writers? #HamOnt #traffic #crash

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Jinx believer here. Please stop with the calling-it-early posts 😬

Pete Hoekstra Needs to Go MAGA ambassador Pete Hoekstra’s swear-filled rant against Canadian trade representatives was much more than a breach of ambassadorial obligation.

charlieangus.substack.com/p/pete-hoeks...
Pete Hoekstra Needs to Go. Hoekstra was a key architect of Project 2025 and has long pushed extremist political positions.

You can’t reboot the planet if you crash it What Gates is putting forward aren’t legitimate arguments that can be made in good faith. They are shopworn fossil fuel industry talking points.

“Here’s the thing, Bill Gates: There’s no ‘patch’ for the climate crisis. And there is no way to reboot the planet if you crash it. The only safe and reliable way out when you find yourself in a climate hole is to stop digging—and burning—fossil fuels.” — @michaelemann.bsky.social

big fan of this energy

L'expansion de la centrale au gaz Portlands inquiète des Torontois L’expansion de la centrale au gaz Portlands inquiète, au coeur d'un futur quartier «carboneutre» de 40 000 habitants.

A gas-fired power plant in the heart of a planned “net-zero” #Toronto neighbourhood? 🤔

The Portlands Energy Centre’s expansion casts a spotlight on policy contradictions — & the health impacts on local residents:

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#onpoli

(original article is in french, translated via link)

Another point: Lobster was at one time a main food source for poor people A Brief History of Lobsters and How They Became Seafood Royalty share.google/RDRTOw2nwZze...

Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) writes: “Why are our tax dollars subsidizing Lobster for SNAP recipients?” Below is a screenshot from an online grocery listing for lobster tails priced at $9.99, marked “SNAP EBT eligible”, from Whole Foods Market.

Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) posts: “Why are our tax dollars subsidizing private jets for billionaires?” The image below is a CNBC headline reading: “Tax cuts for private jet buyers expected to lead to surge in sales,” written by Robert Frank, published July 14, 2025.

Don’t be like Amy. Ask the bigger questions like Melanie.

After 45 years of trickledown economics, a program that provides basic level of "nutrition supplement" is required by over 40 million of America's citizens, and elites call it a "massive welfare benefit".

Trump says Carney apologized for Ontario’s anti-tariff ad U.S. President Donald Trump says Prime Minister Mark Carney apologized for an anti-tariff commercial featuring Ronald Reagan that led the president to cut off trade talks earlier this month.

It's not hard to write the correct hed. It's even shorter
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Uh huh

This is pretty extraordinary television. Good work.

So much for a watershed approach in Ontario.

#ONpoli

I am certainly no seasoned strategist but I am a little skeptical of the political wisdom behind building a giant golden ballroom and sharing a dozen photos of a renovated marble bathroom at the very moment that millions of people are losing access to healthcare and food.

The screen grab showing that the views of my Facebook page have increased by over 2000% in the last three days

In 2018, Meta decided “clean energy” and “climate change” were politically sensitive topics, and demanded that I - a climate scientist - register as a political org to post and boost posts on them.

I refused, and my page has been shadow banned since then. For 7 years. Until this week, that is 😳

This seems likely. Carney has shown no willingness to listen to progressive voters, indicating no desire to be re-elected.

Examples of what he could, but won't, do:

-UBI
-Free university
-Increase CBC funding
-Climate mitigation
-High speed rail
-Affordable housing
-Funding Canada Post

#cdnpoli

the tone deafness is beyond parody