Joan Lowe-Bartley

Missing: and, save our environment! #ClimateActionNow @mark-carney.bsky.social

Federal budget day. What will Canada look like, feel like, sound like tomorrow, and, beyond?

#ClimateActionNow @mark-carney.bsky.social

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.

The Nature of David Suzuki | The Tyee The celebrated Vancouver scientist turns 90 next year. And shows no signs of slowing down.

“We’re the only animal that knows we’re going to go extinct and knows what has to be done, and we’re not doing it.” 🌎

Canadians need to see Donald Trump for who he really is Canada needs a deal, but it needs to say no, too.

Criticizing Carney is one thing, but criticizing him for not reaching a deal with Trump yet is to miss the biggest, most important point in the world: who and what Trump really is. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

I seriously think the Jays are a great and timely model of healthy masculinity. Selfless devotion to the common good, positive affection (they hug a lot), not a lot of ego, and there's room to be hyper-competitive and possibly unhinged (Max Scherzer) without being toxic. They are good!

On Student Absences, Race-Based Data, Private Schools and More | The Tyee A Q&A with academic Kelly Gallagher-Mackay on some big questions facing public education in Canada.

From insufficient funding to systemic racism to the decline of math and reading scores to “behavioural issues,” there are regions that do better than B.C. — and other jurisdictions that look to the province as a guiding light.

@kehyslop.bsky.social reports. 🎒 #BCEd

Outstanding images juxtaposing this magnificent animal in its stunning autumnal habit.

Excels at blaming; weak on facts @pierrepoilievre.bsky.social

Image of book cover. Blank cover with the text: "On Freedom. Timothy Snyder."

The paperback edition of #OnFreedom is out today. It preserves a positive argument about how to build a better country and has been updated to account for what has happened in 2025.
timothysnyder.org/on-freedom

More ridiculous abuse of the notwithstanding clause by awful right wing premiers. The Supreme Court needs to address this ASAP, or we have to admit that we have no Charter of Rights and Freedoms in Canada.

What are we now - in grade 2? Putting tariffs on Canada to retaliate against an ad is so childish. Is there a corner he can go stand in while he thinks about his behaviour? Signed moms everywhere.

There are many good science fiction novels. Not a single one that I have read delivers a happy vision of the future in which aged right-wing billionaires control the media.

Yes we do! #ClimateActionNow

Normal Times in Dire Times Fascism does not break normal life, it feeds on it.

"History has already shown us how this story unfolds. Fascism is not built only in the camps and cells. It is built in the shrug, the silence, the insistence that life can go on as if nothing has changed"
Frederick Joseph"A Thought on Normalcy in Fascism" frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/normal-tim...

No!

🤔 We were told the cost on carbon was the culprit.

Me, too. 🤔

And so they must stand up for Canadian institutions.This is straight from the Trumpian playbook @pierrepoilievre.bsky.social

Kids out of poverty, affordable childcare, public dental, serious climate action, advanced reconciliation, and forceful responses to a pandemic and Trump thrown in for good measure.

Opulent October
Tom Thomson
1915-16

October Hill
Mendelson Joe
1999

Sherbrooke St. W., Montreal
John Little
1963

No comparison in integrity, knowledge, experience and leadership! #CanadaStrong @mark-carney.bsky.social

Finally! #ClimateAction @liberalca.bsky.social

ANALYSIS | 'Dark times for free speech in the U.S.': Why Jimmy Kimmel's suspension is provoking cries of censorship | CBC News ABC’s decision to pull late-show host Jimmy Kimmel off the air marks what observers see as an escalation in a campaign by U.S. President Donald Trump and his allies to pressure media critics into sile...

"Trump's critics see a campaign to silence them."

No, CBC. Your job is to report facts. The Trump regime is engaged in blatant censorship. This isn't about the 'perceptions' of the fascists' targets. www.cbc.ca/news/world/j...

Washington Post Columnist Says She Was Fired for Posts After Charlie Kirk Shooting

This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it.

Leave a Cleaner Legacy We all want to do right by the people we love — especially our kids, grandkids, nieces, nephews, and young friends. That’s why we’re focusing on a simple principle: If you make a mess, clean it up.

Our kids are expecting us to do more, not less, to protect their childhoods and the planet we will leave behind. Let's leave a cleaner legacy: action.gensqueeze.ca/leave_a_clea...