Tom Moffatt

Canadian wine of the week: Crown & Thieves Tyburn Blossom Riesling 2024 from Kelowna and a Valentine's bouquet.

Canadian wine of the week: Crown & Thieves Tyburn Blossom Riesling 2024, from Kelowna. I tried to save some for the photo to show the marvelous golden color, but visitors arrived and alas, it was not to be. #ElbowsUp

Albertans need to chat with their neighbours in Fernie about how it's going with the selenium poisoning of the Elk river. That's the future, if Northback is allowed to mine coal in the Eastern Slopes.
#AbLeg

There's a growing gap between Canada’s emissions and its climate targets, according to the Canadian Climate Institute's progress report on Canada’s 2030 climate plan.

To build a prosperous, resilient future, governments must implement their climate plans.

Retrofit investments are nation‑building | Pembina Institute This past week saw the introduction of the Build Canada Homes Act. This legislation establishes Build Canada Homes (BCH) as a permanent Crown corporation, with a mandate to deliver new affordable…

New housing legislation is driving an ambitious mandate for new affordable housing in Canada — but 70% of today’s buildings will still be standing in 2050.

We need retrofits in the plan to ensure existing buildings are resilient and affordable for the Canadians calling them home.

The Case for Sticking Around - Alberta Views I’m calling on us to do something un-Canadian: and stand up for the country we love—and reject the idea of a sovereign Alberta

Happy Flag Day, Canada! (Once more, with feeling.) #FlagDay #Canada #cdnpoli

The decrease in Canadian travellers to the US has cost the United States over $4.5 billion this past year. - Forbes

❤️🍁🇨🇦TEAM CANADA FOREVER🇨🇦🍁❤️
❤️🍁🇨🇦VIVE LE CANADA🇨🇦🍁❤️

Alberta government hiding additional drug jail plans Newly obtained documents reveal a hidden plan to build a drug jail in Grande Prairie, raising questions about how many additional facilities are in the works.

The Alberta government appears to be secretly building drug jails beyond the two announced in Calgary and Edmonton.
drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove...

Opinion: Danielle Smith has put out the welcome mat for foreign interference in Canada Alberta’s new Bill 54 makes it much easier to hold a secession referendum - and for adversaries to exploit a societal rift

“Canada should anticipate that the petition and likely referendum on Albertan independence will be subject to foreign interference over both the outcome and the process itself.”

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Chris Meder:

"Electrification-first OEMs control ~65% of Top 25 global BEV sales.

No distortion. No spin. Just structure. Compression is no longer theoretical.

The next five years won’t be kind to incumbents."

#alwaysbecharging

MaMa Wants A CIC: Now, Dammit! Seventeen fewer chances to speak despite infinite assurances to do so

Always an interedting read. We want your input…but not really
#yql #Lethbridge
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Seven electric cars with more than 450 miles of range per charge - EVSHIFT If you thought a big breakthrough in battery technology was needed before we start getting truly long-range electric cars, well, you’re partly right. The

Seven electric cars with more than 450 miles of range per charge

https://www.evshift.com/402652/seven-electric-cars-with-more-than-450-miles-of-range-per-charge-129/

If you thought a big breakthrough in battery technology was needed before we start getting truly long-range electric cars, well, …

Testing the World's First E-Skimo in Switzerland - EVSHIFT Published February 14, 2026 03:30AM

Testing the World’s First E-Skimo in Switzerland

https://www.evshift.com/402650/testing-the-worlds-first-e-skimo-in-switzerland/

Published February 14, 2026 03:30AM The concept of an e-ski isn’t new. U.S. patents date back to 1950 with the most recent filing in 1972. Fast forward to late last …

Good morning & welcome to #Caturday

Valentine’s reminder: the longest love story you’ll ever have is with yourself, be gentle with it.
Take the sip of tea, breathe deep, and give yourself a little credit today.
You’re already worthy…

Ranked: EV Share of New Car Sales by Country in 2025 This graphic highlights how EV sales share has evolved between 2019 and 2025.

2025 EV Share of New Car Sales, Top 10 Countries

1 Norway 97%
2 Nepal 73%
3 Denmark 69%
4 Sweden 61%
5 Iceland 57%
6 Finland 56%
7 Netherlands 56%
8 China 53%
9 Singapore 47%
10 Belgium 43%

EVs are now mainstream across much of the world. Not just an emerging technology. #Bettrification

Whatever became of those ‘triage liaison’ docs who were supposed to ease the crisis in Alberta’s big-city Emergency Rooms? - Alberta Politics Whatever became of those elusive “triage liaison” docs who were supposed to be a Band-Aid on the crisis in Alberta’s big-city Emergency Rooms while the United Conservative Party Government figured out...

Whatever became of those ‘triage liaison’ docs who were supposed to ease the crisis in Alberta’s big-city ERs? albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/what...

Selenium pollution? Yes, says coal mining company 💀

Lethbridge Polytechnic discontinues Coulee Fest Coulee Fest is officially a thing of the past.Lethbridge Polytechnic debuted the event in 2017 as part of its ...

Lethbridge Polytechnic discontinues Coulee Fest. #YQL #LNN #Lethbridge

Coaldale’s Birds of Prey receives $1 million for new Environmental Learning Centre A local bird sanctuary is set to receive its largest-ever government funding contribution.The provincial gover...

Coaldale’s Birds of Prey receives $1 million for new Environmental Learning Centre. #YQL #LNN #Coaldale

Love in a cold climate: Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days Free condoms for competitors at the Winter Olympics have run out within a record-breaking three days

Love in a cold climate: The Winter Olympic village runs out of condoms after three days. Athletes in Italy have been ‘promised more will arrive’. Free condoms have been provided since the 1988 #Olympics www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/f...

Nearby trees and distant mountains.

Trees and mountains near Banff

Insights on the proposed Grassy Mountain Coal Mine #yql #yyc #yeg #abpoli lethbridgeherald.com/commentary/o...

Ford government spends its way toward half-trillion-dollar debt Ontario’s debt continues to rise and is projected to surpass half a trillion dollars within the next few years as the Ford government reports a $13.4 billion deficit in its 2025–26 third quarter finan...

Doug Ford's economic mismanagement steers Ontario towards half a trillion dollars of debt 💸 www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/13/a... #onpoli #cdnpoli #Toronto

‘You’re making this up,’ Miller tells Tory MP over media producers' group comments In his opening remarks at the Prime Time conference in Ottawa in late January, Reynolds Mastin, the president and CEO of the Canadian Media Producers Association — which represents independent TV and ...

Lethbridge MP accused of spreading false narrative about journalists www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/12/n... #cdnpoli #yql

ADAMS: I Went to the Conservative Convention. Here’s What Really Stood Out. I wore their merch, shook their hands, and watched a movement curate its own delusion. They lost the election. They blame everyone but themselves.

The CPC convention in Calgary was a funeral where the corpse voted to centralize power and blamed everyone else for dying. I wore their merch, shook their hands, and watched a movement curate its own irrelevance. They already lost the 2029 election. They learned nothing.

Doctors promised by the UCP were never recruited. It seems the 'plan' to fix Emergency Rooms was just a politically expedient myth. #abhealth #yyc #yeg #yql #yqf #abpoli

Whatever became of those ‘triage liaison’ docs who were supposed to ease the crisis in Alberta’s big-city Emergency Rooms? - Alberta Politics Whatever became of those elusive “triage liaison” docs who were supposed to be a Band-Aid on the crisis in Alberta’s big-city Emergency Rooms while the United Conservative Party Government figured out...

Whatever became of those ‘triage liaison’ docs who were supposed to ease the crisis in Alberta’s big-city ERs? albertapolitics.ca/2026/02/what...

RheEnergise Success: Full Power Achieved at Its First of a Kind Energy Storage Project in Devon, UK London, United Kingdom--(Newsfile Corp. - February 6, 2026) - RheEnergise, a Canadian-UK company that has been developing a new and...

Unique liquid energy storage project is connected to the grid in Devon. www.newsfilecorp.com/release/2828... #Electricity

Kia's electric van gets its first camping kit that turns the PV5 into a campsite in minutes Kia’s electric van really can do it all. VanLab delivered the first PV5 camping kit that transforms it into a...

Kia’s electric van gets its first camping kit that turns the PV5 into a campsite in minutes electrek.co/2026/02/12/k... #ElectricVehicles

Canada’s first oral HIV self test gets the green light | CBC News People in Canada have a new, less invasive way to test for HIV at home, following Health Canada's approval of an oral self-test.

Oral HIV self-test approved for sale in #Canada

Can give results in 20 minutes, company says, without blood sample

www.cbc.ca/news/health/...