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Global Electricity Mid-Year Insights 2025 | Ember Solar and wind outpaced demand growth in the first half of 2025, as renewables overtook coal’s share in the global electricity mix.

solar and wind generated more electricity that coal for the first time ever in the first half of 2025. that's the good shit ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

47 VPD officers made over $100K in OT last year — and one banked $239K, FOI data shows | CBC News A single Vancouver police sergeant was paid $239,258 in overtime alone last year, on top of the rank's base pay of up to $158,000. The figure comes from a freedom of information request filed with the...

A single Vancouver police officer made $397,258 last year, making $239,258 in overtime on top of their base pay of up to $158,000.
This is the wildest FOI I've seen in a long time. Well done Liam Britten for digging this up. #CBC
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Lot of star system focus in media but it takes a lot of courage to quit on principle especially in an industry where having a job at all is vanishing opportunity. Respect 🫡

Programs on the chopping block as B.C. charities face funding crisis Many who work in B.C.’s non-profit industry say they’re grappling with a decline in donations paired with a growing demand for their services – forcing them to make challenging financial decisions.

The affordability crisis during a weakening economy is placing even more pressure on the nonprofit sector says senior economist @iglikaivanova.bsky.social.

"When things are very uncertain, donations are even less than they used to be,” she says.

In QP today, Conservative leader John Rustad accuses Eby of blocking economic development by not supporting a new oil pipeline across BC

Eby calls Alberta's proposal an "imaginary project," says he's open to real projects that will benefit BC and Canada #bcpoli

Bells just rang to signal the start of the morning sitting, the first time BC's MLAs have been in the chamber since May

The government says it plans to put forward 18 bills this session, including another second bill to make sure the North Coast transmission line gets built

Meanwhile...
#bcpoli

That night the guards were even more violent. The consul had just left, having gathered more deportation signatures, when special forces burst in. They stormed the cells, pointed rifles at us with laser sights, and called roll. In some cells, they unleashed dogs. In one, they found the word “Palestine” spelled out using scraps of pepper and water. To erase it, they poured bleach on the floor — prisoners slept on mattresses soaked with it. That night, as punishment, they overcrowded the cells: from ten people to fifteen, leaving no space to lie down. We turned the mattresses sideways so we could all rest our heads. In my cell were Maso Notarianni and a Lombardy Democratic Party councilor, Paolo Romano. I had the feeling I was in a truly barbaric place, and hoped this barbarity would soon end.

Italian journalist abducted from the flotilla describes how Israeli prison guards unleashed dogs into cells, poured bleach on mattresses, and overcrowded cells
such that it was impossible to lie down.

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A temperature map across the U.S. and parts of Canada and Mexico on Sunday afternoon. 70s and 80s bathe the eastern half of the continent.

This is quite the ridge over the eastern half of the U.S. and Canada.

It's warmer in Moosonee, Ontario—located on the shores of James Bay—than it is down in New Orleans.

It was also interesting to read it right after Goodbye to Berlin. Quite the bookends. Salute to Isherwood.

Colin Firth is so young in A Single Man. I thought he was so much older at the time lol. Time is wild. I think I like the book character better but both are such beautiful texts.

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024 BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s a...

Our latest data analysis shows nearly 1 million Ha of tree cover was lost across Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam in 2024.

Nearly a quarter of this was primary forest, but - more alarming - ~30% of tree cover losses occurred inside protected areas. Read the breakdown on @mongabay.com

lmao

Decided to read The Crossing next cuz it was on my shelf and someone had just been talking about ATPH and it's no one's fault but my own that I'm now sobbing alone in the park.

Digital sovereignty must be a key focus for all free societies in the next decade if democracy is going to survive this moment.

Conservatives won't support Liberal border bill without major changes: Pierre Poilievre | CBC News Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says the federal Liberals must either heavily amend their border bill or introduce a new piece of proposed legislation if they want support to pass it into law.

The proposed bill would let:

* mail be searched without a warrant
* allow intelligence officials to cancel immigration documents
* give access to online activity without a warrant

The Canadian Civil Liberties Association worries it may violate charter rights

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correspondent for The Economist

Oracle employees who expressed support for Palestine were "referred to internal mental health resources."

Oracle is about to own TikTok.

These motherfuckers are going to kill us all

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Because people are still talking about this:

It was always very, very clear what Lindsay Shepherd believes. In the past, she's associated with several high-profile Canadian white supremacists. She's never stopped tweeting stuff about race, immigration, etc. #bcpoli

The BC Conservatives knew this.

When a single car crash can gridlock Greater Victoria, it shows the fragility of autocentricity.

Walkable neighborhoods, safe cycling routes, and rapid & reliable transit aren’t just nice-to-haves—they’re resilience. They give people options, cut congestion, and keep the city moving!

I noticed/wondered this a lot in Germany.

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

So PLEASE, could we just move on! And invest in the infrastructure we actually need to hasten our transition off fossil fuels, leave this deadly industry behind, and create hundreds of thousands of new green jobs that are insulated from Trump and the U.S.

PetroChina offloads TMX crude pipeline commitment | Latest Market News PetroChina Canada is no longer a shipper on the 590,000 b/d Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX) crude pipeline, less than six months after Canada's newest pipeline went into service.

Late last year, PetroChina chose to offload its shipment commitments to TMX, very likely because China is moving on, with its solar capacity exploding.

Hey 🇨🇦! We should move on too!...
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The Trans Mountain expansion is everything the oilpatch wanted. Except the cost | CBC News The Canadian oilpatch has a brand-new pipeline, something it's pleaded for year after year, and it offers a relatively quick route to the West Coast and overseas markets. But a year in, the newly expa...

Alberta claims they need more export capacity to Asia. Yet the new TMX pipeline - paid for with over $30 billion in taxpayer dollars – is not operating to full capacity, while the oil shippers are demanding lower tolls...
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As Smith Pushes New Pipeline Plan, Eby Says No Way | The Tyee BC premier decries environmental risk of tanker traffic from proposed northern terminal.

Sigh. Must we continue to live through this terrible Groundhog Day movie? This pipeline debate is so tiring & distracting.

The oil & gas industry – and its shills in govt like Danielle Smith – keep us forever re-prosecuting fights we have already won. 🧵...

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Here’s a comprehensive list of appropriate responses upon hearing that a man murdered worshippers at a synagogue:

1- this is fucked up, fuck that guy, fuck antisemitism, solidarity with the victims

2- see above

I know people are mostly focused on Mamdani & Cuomo now but allow me to turn your attention to a similar battle in my hometown, between Katie Wilson & the incumbent, who actually said these actual words last night