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Indigenous-owned businesses scramble to ship products as postal strike lingers | CBC News With large portions of their clientele in rural or remote communities, some Indigenous-owned businesses in Ottawa are scrambling to find alternative shipping methods as the latest Canada Post strike e...

#CanadaPostalworkers rotating #strike
For many of the companies, a key portion of their clientele resides in rural, remote and northern Indigenous communities. Canada Post is the sole courier that can deliver to them.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/indigenous-businesses-canada-post-strike-9.6935847

🇨🇦 Mskwaasin Agnew has just arrived in Canada to cheering crowds and big hugs after being released from Israeli prison. 🥹

The other three Canadian activists from Newfoundland: Sadie Mees, Nikita Stapleton and Devoney Ellis are still being held illegally by Israel.

Shifting global picture disrupted Canada's national security strategy update: memo Efforts to revise Canada's national security strategy hit a snag when it became clear that many of the assumptions underlying the work were "no longer valid."

Canada should be preparing Canadians for civil defence - the same as Nordic countries next to Russia do.

#cdnpoli #canada
#boycottusa #fascistusa #racistusa
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Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas Scientists are beginning to understand the sudden loss of sea ice in Antarctica – and there is growing evidence that it represents a permanent shift with potentially catastrophic consequences

Antarctica may have crossed a tipping point that leads to rising seas. Growing evidence of permanent shift Without adequate sea ice formation, their melting rates will accelerate, with the potential to cause extreme global sea level rise.
#climate
www.newscientist.com/article/2498...

Parts of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick experiencing once-in-50-year drought | CBC News Parts of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick are in the midst of exceptional drought — the most extreme category on the national scale.

I hope Nova Scotia and New Brunswick get some rain soon.
Almost all of Canada is experiencing some level of drought.
I'll post the map below, which includes the legend.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

YouTube video by Dale Smith The Problems with Austerity

ICYMI, my latest episode, where Lindsay Tedds and I talk about what we're not talking about when we talk about austerity #cdnpoli

Food bank usage is at the highest levels they have ever been in HISTORY, under the Liberals. 1 in 4 Canadians (40% if they are BIPOC) will not have enough to eat for Thanksgiving and are considered food insecure. This is systemic starvation. There are no Federal food security programs.
#cdnpoli

They have fired the staff of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report and 70 Epidemic Intelligence Service officers, who are disease detectives that respond to outbreaks around the world.

I cannot emphasize enough how dangerous it is to dismantle our disease surveillance infrastructure.

Could This One Change Give Vulnerable BC Workers More Power? | The Tyee Sectoral bargaining could level the playing field for today’s employees.

BC bargaining laws require unions to organize individual work sites and for bargaining between an employer and employees at a single location.

Sectoral bargaining means workers and employers from similar businesses negotiate at one table explains verosioufi.bsky.social.

Frontiers | Heterologous prime-pull mucosal vaccination with an adjuvanted RBD vaccine elicits robust IgA production and protects against SARS-CoV-2 Despite the efficacy of approved severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) vaccines in preventing severe disease and death, breakthrough i...

We’re making progress on intranasal delivery of our low cost recombinant protein Covid vaccine, in collaboration with @tulanemedicine.bsky.social @bcmhouston.bsky.social

www.frontiersin.org/journals/imm...

Perhaps if we had our society organized in a more just and humane way, we wouldn’t be reliant on the care of spouses (mostly women) or adult children (mostly daughters or daughters in law) to care for and manage the logistics of care for the elderly.

Maybe *that’s* the problem.

RealClimate: High-resolution ‘fingerprint’ images reveal a weakening Atlantic Ocean circulation (AMOC) The #AMOC is the reason for Europe’s mild climate. Evidence that it is slowing has been piling up over the years – it now is likely at its weakest in at least a millennium, and it may even be approach...

High resolution images from satellite and from eddy-resolving ocean circulation models point to an ongoing decline of the Atlantic overturning circulation, a key ocean current for our climate. Read more about it in my new blog article. 🌊
www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

Carney defends paying 2 CEO appointees upwards of $577,000 a year Prime Minister Mark Carney is defending his decision to pay the CEOs of two new government offices annual salaries that are higher than those of his own cabinet ministers.

Douglas Guzman, the head of the new Defence Investment Agency, and Dawn Farrell, the head of the new Major Projects Office, will each make more than $577,000 a year. That’s the low end of their pay range and it does not include incentive pay.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime

Must-read piece in @theguardian.com (h/t @dpcarrington.bsky.social). In #ScienceUnderSiege, we describe how petrostates Saudi Arabia & Russia leveraged Musk's buyout of twitter so they could weaponize it for climate denial propaganda & attacks on renewables.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Comment: LNG start-up flaring is a public-health blind spot — and B.C. is ignoring it LNG terminals burn nearly three times more gas during their first two years of operation than afterward.

www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm...

In Africa’s Sahel, conflict and climate change force millions from their homes Nearly four million people across Africa’s vast semi-arid Sahel region have been uprooted by a volatile mix of conflict, hunger and climate change, the UN warned on Friday, describing an unfolding pro...

In Africa’s Sahel, conflict and climate change force millions from their homes.

“Women and children make up 80% of the displaced population, and the protection risks they face – from gender-based violence to trafficking and forced recruitment – are worsening.”'

news.un.org/en/story/202...

Victoria-based cancer survivor writes best-selling children’s book A local author has channeled the pain she endured while enduring chemotherapy into writing a children’s book, which has since become a best-seller.

A massive thank you to Victoria Buzz for writing about my new kids’ book, A Gnome With No Comb, inspired by young cancer warriors!!! It’s so amazing to see this book I put together over the 7 dark months of chemo being shared in my community! #cancer #yyj
victoriabuzz.com/2025/10/vict...

Scientists Completed a Toxicity Report on This Forever Chemical. The EPA Hasn’t Released It. Agency scientists found that PFNA could cause developmental, liver and reproductive harms. Their final report was ready in mid-April, according to an internal document reviewed by ProPublica, but the ...

This story is about the report that hasn't been published - but it's also about IRIS, the part of EPA that wrote it and has been assessing the toxicity of chemicals for decades.

Of 55 scientists who worked on recent IRIS report, only 8 remain in their posts.

www.propublica.org/article/epa-...

Food insecurity in Canada is so bad 1 in 4 Canadians aren’t eating properly and that raises to 40% if they are BIPOC. #cdnpoli

Joint News Release: Indigenous, environment and health groups reject inadequate industry-led recommendations for treat-and-release of tailings - Alberta Wilderness Association On the two-year anniversary of Imperial Oil’s hidden toxic tailings leaks coming to light, communities and advocates downstream from the oil sands are pushing back against weak tailings treatment reco...

There’s no proven way to treat toxic oil sands wastewater adequately, so why is a provincial committee OK with dumping it into a major river?

We, alongside Indigenous leaders and other enviro + health groups reject this committee's plan and demand better.

albertawilderness.ca/joint-news-r...
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We're making a last push to win a Youth Climate Corps in next month's federal budget. Please help us get it over the line 👇

NDP tables bill to repeal section 107 of labour code Section 107 of Canada's Labour Code has been used eight times since June of 2024 to interfere with bargaining or to end strikes.

The LPC hates workers: Section 107 of Canada’s Labour Code has been used eight times since June of 2024 to interfere with bargaining or to end strikes.
rabble.ca/labour/ndp-t...

'It depends': Carney shifts stance on maintaining emissions cap | CBC News Prime Minister Mark Carney said Friday the fate of the emissions cap on oil and gas producers depends on other efforts to lower emissions, suggesting his government might be open to scrapping the poli...

every couple months, carney starts pulling the legs out from under yet another important climate policy

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

As I was posting this, Discord was dealing with hackers getting access to users’ personal info uploaded as part of the UK’s age verification law

MPs and Senators are getting ready to put Canadian users of porn websites in the same position – what could possibly go wrong!

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Trump Admin Has Hired 100+ ‘Fossil Fuel Insiders’ to Fill Top Energy, Environmental Agency Roles One of them described her job as offering “concierge, white-glove service” to oil, gas, and coal companies seeking permits from regulators. Stephen Prager Oct 08, 2025 A top energy adviser to President Donald Trump admitted in an August interview that the administration is offering “concierge, white-glove service” to fossil fuel companies while blocking and defunding clean energy projects. The comments, reported Tuesday by the Washington Post, came from Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for Trump’s National Energy Dominance Council (NEDC), which was established within the Department of the Interior in February.

The fossil fuel industry is raiding the infrastructure of the US government.

Are we allowed to be opposed to fossil fuels yet, or is that not enough of a Pragmatic Realist Climate Reset Agenda

www.commondreams.org/news/trump-a...

Drought conditions have worsened the B.C. Southern Interior.

The Okanagan, Similkameen, Slocan and Creston basins are all experiencing level 4 drought. 5 is Most Severe.

RFK Jr. has a new theory on autism. He thinks circumcision could be a factor.

It confirms what many of us have suspected for a long time.

They genuinely believe their brains are in their dicks.

About *a third* of global fossil fuel CO2 emissions emitted during the Industrial age have occurred in roughly the last 17 years. The previous third was emitted over a period of roughly 26 years. The first third was emitted over a period of about 131 years.