Anne Carbert

we could do a lot better. it's been an exhausting 6 years waiting for people to take infection control seriously.

🔥 The climate emergency is here and now. Are governments acting with real urgency? Our 12-minute video explains the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Action.

Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdK...

Ottawa hands corporate leaders 50 roles in government Ottawa plans to embed the private sector workers after adopting a business group's proposal — even naming the program after them, a briefing note reveals.

“These aren't charities. They're not altruistic organizations. Why would a tech company want to allow their employees to work for the government and pay 100 per cent of their salary..." — Simon Enoch at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/n...

“If these cuts proceed, we’ll have just four forest pathologists left, and only one left to monitor the entire forestry system east of the Rockies”

The Libs are planning to bring back C-2 this week!

TAKE ACTION AGAIN to stop C-2 and C-12: iclmg.ca/stop-bill-c-2

They THREATEN privacy, civil liberties and migrant & refugee rights - click the action for all details!

Remind MPs that we don’t want these bills! #cdnpoli

German expressionist watercolor painting, lake scene with a flock of white geese feeding near a small boat in foreground and a windmill visible in the far shore in upper left horizon

Emil Nolde (1867-1956)
Gänseteich (Lake with #Geese), c.1925
watercolor on paper 35 x 47.2 cm
“The work shows the landscape around Utenwarf where Nolde settled in 1917 until he moved into his self-designed house and studio 'Seebüll' 10 years later.”
#BirdsInArt
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My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

This image shows gauges with the Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: HIGH - 9.4 Alberta: SEVERE - 15.1 British Columbia: HIGH - 7.2 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 13.9 New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 14.0 Newfoundland & Labrador: HIGH - 7.9 North: VERY HIGH - 11.1 Nova Scotia: VERY HIGH - 14.3 Ontario: HIGH - 8.2 Prince Edward Island: HIGH - 8.8 Quebec: HIGH - 8.7 Saskatchewan: VERY HIGH - 14.5 A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 22 - Dec 5, 2025

SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: MB, NB, North, NS, SK
HIGH: CAN, BC, NL, ON, PEI, QC
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 161 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

Alternative federal budget 2026: Taxation | CCPA What the Canadian government should do on taxation. Because true independence needs a new economic model.

There are alternatives to the austerity budget. We HAVE to stop giving handouts to the wealthy and a free pass to polluters while making everyone else pay the price while inequality spirals out of control.

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Carney and Modi agree to restart stalled Canada-India trade talks Two leaders met at G20 summit and pledged to revive trade talks that broke down in 2023 after killing of Sikh activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in Canada

That’s 2 announcements in a week from PM MC of potential trade deals with fraught human rights concerns: UAE & India. With no signs of those concerns being taken seriously. Leaving human rights out of trade policy undermines rights & is shortsighted.

Think Canada is a climate leader? Did you expect Mark Carney to be a climate leader? Are you a British Columbian worried about our coast? Read this 🧵

As More and More Studies Expose Fossil-fuel Health Harms, Mark Carney Doubles Down First Nations and frontline workers lead the charge against Canada's aggressive LNG expansion

Latest for @pressprogress.ca:

One day after @amnesty.org report confirmed what First Nations + doctors have been saying — that living near oil & gas causes all kinds of health harms — 🇨🇦 PM @mark-carney.bsky.social announced more support for LNG infrastructure in BC

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The national interest is not served by pouring taxpayer money into corporate profits. Stabilizing the market must be done in a way that includes strengthening, not avoiding, Indigenous consent requirements, regulatory safeguards, and environmental protection. www.miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...

YouTube video by thejuicemedia Honest Government Ad | Ksi Lisims & PRGT Pipeline

The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

"the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying the climate negotiations for 30 years now"

~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at:

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Stand.earth - For the people and places you love For more than twenty years, we’ve been utilizing cutting-edge research, building equitable power with frontline communities, and leveraging mass movements to make a real impact on the health and wellb...

New research from Stand.earth has uncovered a shocking truth: Drax, the coal giant-turned-“sustainable energy” company, is purchasing old growth in B.C, Canada and turning trees into wood pellets to fuel power plants overseas. Sign this petition to protect old growth
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Fossil fuel projects around the world threaten the health of 2bn people – report Exclusive: ‘Deep-rooted injustices’ affect billions of people due to location of wells, pipelines and other infrastructure

Exclusive by me: A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, threatening the health of more than 2bn people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research.
@amnesty.org
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This image shows gauges with the Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 Forecast scores for Canada, the provinces, & territories. From left to right: Canada: VERY HIGH - 10.1 Alberta: SEVERE - 16.2 British Columbia: HIGH - 8.4 Manitoba: VERY HIGH - 11.9 New Brunswick: VERY HIGH - 14.5 Newfoundland & Labrador: VERY HIGH - 10.1 North: VERY HIGH - 11.5 Nova Scotia: VERY HIGH - 12.7 Ontario: HIGH - 9.2 Prince Edward Island: HIGH - 7.7 Quebec: VERY HIGH - 10.1 Saskatchewan: VERY HIGH - 13.1 A text box reads: "The COVID Forecast is calculated from 3 equally weighted categories: 1) Current infections and spread; 2) Healthcare system impact; 3) Mortality. Within each category there is one sub-category for trends over the most recent week (Trends) and one sub-category for current parameter values relative to a specified baseline (Current values). Trends and current values are weighted equally when determining the final score for a category. All Forecast input data and sources are available here (https://datastudio.google.com/embed/u/0/reporting/42b886cf-d661-488e-b7d8-5c5836b55ab6/page/p_2yqs028mwc). Past Forecast scores are available in the table below. Forecast scores are grouped into 4 ranges: MODERATE (1 to <5, white), HIGH (6 to <10, yellow), VERY HIGH (10 to <15, orange), SEVERE (>15 red)."

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025

SEVERE: AB
VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK
HIGH: BC, ON, PEI
MODERATE: none

About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

“Researchers have defined this kind of systemic misunderstanding of how others think as a perception gap, and one result is that politicians calculate that they can continue to cater to corporate interests and preserve the fossil fuel status quo.”

The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:

The path to prosperity set out in budget 2025 leaves millions behind - CCPA The millions struggling to pay their rent and put food on the table were looking for relief in budget 2025—and they were disappointed.

Budget 2025 does little to contain the cost-of-living crisis or rising rates of poverty. Important programs are targeted for cuts, others to be starved of funds. Is this the route to an inclusive future? #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Public options for essentials, strategic price interventions, investment in housing and childcare — this is antifascist economics. It tackles the material conditions that make authoritarianism appealing.
In making life livable, democracy defends itself.

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game.

The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

YouTube video by Migrant Rights Network Who is responsible for the affordability crisis?

Who is responsible for the affordability crisis?
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The need to challenge racist borders and to fight for the rights of #migrants and #refugees has never been greater and it can only increase.

10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.

If Tim Houston is so concerned about democracy, he’d sit in the legislature for more than eight days, wouldn’t override decisions of Halifax regional council, would talk with reporters, and wouldn’t consider giving part of a provincial park to a private developer for a golf course.

Saskatoon prosecutor upset she is not allowed to wear a poppy in court | CBC News A Saskatoon prosecutor says she should be allowed to honour veterans by wearing a poppy in court. Lana Morelli was told that she cannot.

I really wish some news outlets would stop regurgitating Houston’s tweets verbatim.

He’s now using veterans once again to distract the public.

The poppy issue was Saskatchewan not Nova Scotia.

Keep your eyes on Mabou. #nspoli

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I dealt with a lot of fossil-fuel propaganda in my book, but the lie that “by doing what we’re already doing we’ve avoided the bad outcomes” has in the past two years turned out to be the most popular and the most pernicious of all the disinformation I discussed.

“Cutting aid to those who need it most, and threatening decades of progress in the fight against AIDS, does not represent a “Canada Strong.” It represents a Canada that has lost its moral compass.”