Josie Z.Wagstaffe🇨🇦🍁🇭🇷

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U.S. clean tech leadership at risk due to Trump policies, investors warn

Veteran clean tech investors say their sector will survive but warn that the U.S. is "going to lose its leadership position" on technologies of tomorrow.

#Halton #Ontario

Why was this done with very little public consultation and in closed session?

Tell the prime minister: Push back against reckless rollbacks! Ford and Smith want to gut federal environmental laws. Tell Ottawa: Strong laws matter.

Premiers Doug Ford & Danielle Smith have already gutted environmental protections in their provinces. Now they’re pressuring Ottawa to follow suit, to weaken federal laws like the Species at Risk Act and Impact Assessment Act, Canada’s last line of defence for nature.
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'Alarmingly low' monarch butterfly population calls for international conservation strategy: Guelph professor | CBC News In the last 15 years, the monarch butterfly populations in North America have dwindled to "alarmingly low" levels, University of Guelph associate professor and ecologist Ryan Norris. He was part of a ...

'Alarmingly low' monarch butterfly population calls for international conservation strategy: Guelph professor

Strategy requires $30 million a year in funding, ecologist Ryan Norris says #Ontario

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Image of a line graph that shows the hourly PM2.5 AQI observations across 30 days. At the end of the graph on 2025-08-04 04:00 - there is a peak AQI value of 156 in the Red (Unhealthy) zone.

The Air Quality Index (AQI) at the Hamilton Mountain site in Canada is 156 [Unhealthy] as of Aug 04, 2025 @ 4AM Local Time. This is the highest AQI observation in 30 days. #AQIObs

This photo was taken in #HamOnt at about 8 pm. You can't really tell by looking at it, but the sun was fire red.

Wildfire smoke causing hazy skies in Hamilton, Brantford and Niagara Region | CBC News Environment Canada issues a special air quality weather statement on Sunday afternoon that also includes the Haldimand, Norfolk and Brant counties.

ONTARIO: “Wildfire smoke is continuing to impact air quality in Hamilton, Brantford and the Niagara Region.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... - CBC Hamilton

#AirQuality #Brantford #HamOnt #NiagaraRegion #ONFire #Ontario #WildfireSmoke

Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.

Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.

Do not.

Donor List Suggests Scale of Trump’s Pay-for-Access Operation

The most corrupt White House in history. Here is an account of what people are paying, directly to a PAC called MAGA Inc, in order to meet the president, get pardons, change policy

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Shawn Micallef: Doug Ford’s plan to sell off chunks of this popular beach threatens something we should hold dear If Doug Ford wanted to create a real legacy, he’d start an aggressive expansion of public parkland in Ontario to keep up with its massive population.

This weekend I wrote about Doug Ford’s plan to sell off a large chunk of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park. Exactly the opposite of what should be happening: parkland expansion.

Why is no one standing up to this inhumanity?

Good news #Canada

Motherfucking wind farms…

Gunman’s Mental Health History Did Not Prohibit Gun Purchase The man who shot and killed four people in Manhattan had legally purchased a firearm in Nevada, where he lived, despite a record of mental health problems.

The gunman who conducted a massacre at a Midtown Manhattan office building obtained a firearm legally in his home state of Nevada, even though he had a documented history of mental health problems.

Hamilton police investigate two overnight shootings in city’s east end Hamilton police investigate two shootings within two hours of each other in the city’s east end Tuesday night.

Hamilton police investigate two shootings within two hours of each other in the city’s east end Tuesday night.
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I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who Pedophile Trump is and why the Epstein files have suddenly disappeared.

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Unlocked | Michael Harris: Trump named in Epstein files, lies his way into a corner again

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Also in St. John's about a month ago.
Glad we had a chance to visit #Newfoundland
Beautiful place!

Photograper Eric Pickersgill (on Instagram)

Cleverly removes the mobiles in photos.
Showing us what we've become.
Fascinating work.
Sobering 👀

#Photography
#Art
#StreetPhotography

When I was little, the U.S. military came to our home at gunpoint and took me and my family away. We were imprisoned for years in barbed wire camps simply because we were Japanese American. I have spent my life telling that story, hoping it would never be repeated.

"To reiterate: we are now at a place where a majority of pregnant women and parents don’t plan to accept all recommended kids’ vaccines." 😢
Frightening, irresponsible, negligent...

Trump news at a glance: How Robert F Kennedy Jr is cancelling medical science Measles on the rise and vaccination rates falling; EPA to be gutted of its crucial research function. Key US politics stories from Saturday 19 July at a glance

A frightening article on how MAGA and RFK Jr are working to make "viruses great again."
Virus disinformation is now so widespread that only 35 to 40% of pregnant women in the US plan to have their children fully vaccinated.

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If you care about housing, education, the environment, or the economy — demand proportional representation.

Why? Because every decision on these is shaped by who we elect and how we elect them.

That's why a better, more representative democracy is essential to our future.

Reposting this and a few other things for no particular reason today. Maybe I’ll do it tomorrow and the next day, too.

A quote by Casey Newton about xAI's Grok chatbot: "When people would ask it, what’s your stance on immigration in the U.S. or who do you support in the Israel versus Palestine conflict? Grok would go off and consult Elon Musk’s stance on those issues. It didn’t know what to say until it first checked with Papa Elon."

Elon Musk's X hit Grok bottom this week. The company's many recent controversies included the departure of X’s chief executive; the Grok chatbot spewing antisemitic comments; and the A.I. companion Ani engaging in sexually explicit role-play. https://trib.al/RawNHCH

The iconic photo from the 1996 Saguenay Flood in Quebec, Canada, shows a small white house with a black roof and red door standing resiliently amid turbulent, muddy floodwaters. A massive cascading wall of brownish water looms in the background, pouring over what appears to be a breached dam or embankment, highlighting the disaster's destructive force. This structure, known as La Petite Maison Blanche, symbolizes perseverance.

The Saguenay Flood of 1996 was one of the worst floods in Quebec's history.
In just two days, the rainfall volume was unlike anything residents had ever seen before.
It led to one of the largest evacuations in Quebec's history.
This is the story.

📸 Jacques Boissinot

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After the killing of an innocent bystander, does downtown Hamilton feel safe? Here's what four people said about their sense of safety in light of the shooting.

After the killing of an innocent bystander, does downtown Hamilton feel safe?