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To protect our maple syrup fix, we need to fix our maple forests - WWF.CA The very practices used to boost maple syrup production today are actually harming its long-term future...and the future of forest wildlife

The smell of maple syrup carries a lot of memory for Canadians. But the forests behind it are in trouble — hollowed out, less wild, and losing the species that made them sing.

WWF-Canada is working to fix that. Read the story and help us restore these forests before it's too late. 🍁

Royal Canadian Air Force Major Discovered on White Supremacist Dating Site The Canadian Anti-Hate Network has identified over 190 Canadian users of a white supremacist dating website, including a Royal Canadian Air Force Major.

Late last year, a white supremacist dating platform was hacked and its users leaked. One of those users is Royal Canadian Air Force Major Tristan Armstrong, who CAHN has linked to thousands of posts made on far-right forums between 2019 and 2024.

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Screenshot of an X post by “No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen” claiming Costco is demanding that Trump reimburse them for tariffs so they can refund customers. Below are two images side by side: the Costco Wholesale logo and a photo of Donald Trump looking at a phone while reporters hold microphones near him.

This is what all big companies should be doing.

AI error or not, Iran school bombing is a permanent stain on America’s soul | Will Bunch A debate on AI in warfare obscures the truth about an Iran school bombing. U.S. humans are to blame for this war crime.

Wounded Knee. Tulsa. My Lai. Abu Ghraib

And now, Minab

We need to talk about the horror when 180 little schoolgirls, boys and teachers were obliterated by U.S. Tomahawk missiles last week. And tell Congress: Not one more dime for these war crimes

My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/iran...

B.C. Doctors Flag Alarming Health Trends Near Fracking Sites Researchers met with the city of Dawson Creek in British Columbia to share insights about how fracking in the region is affecting public health.

- Cancers
- unexplained scarring on the lungs
- impaired fetal growth
- premature birth
- heart disease

Canadian doctors warn of alarming health trends near fracking sites:

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Weasel Words: OpenAI’s Pentagon Deal Won’t Stop AI‑Powered OpenAI, the maker of ChaptGPT, is rightfully facing widespread criticism for its decisions to fill the gap the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) created when rival Anthropic refused to drop its

The U.S. government has expertise in sneaking massive loopholes into policies that supposedly prohibit domestic surveillance. Oh, hey! Look! OpenAI just rushed into an amicable agreement with the U.S. military. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Inside Plastic Executives’ Late-20th-Century Campaign to Blame Consumers for Their Industry’s Waste This TPM Cafe article is an excerpt from PLASTIC INC.: The Secret...

The story of how plastic industry executives convinced American society that their industry's waste should be everybody's problem.

Jack Dorsey Defends Wearing "Love" Hat While Firing 4,000 Employees in Pivot to AI Jack Dorsey addressed his choice to wear a hat that said "LOVE" while decimating the workforce of his company Block.

Another entry for my graphic novel: The Illustrated Guide to Silicon Valley Super Villains

Humanity heating planet faster than ever before, study finds Researchers identify sharp rise to about 0.35C every decade, after excluding natural fluctuations such as El Niño

It doesn’t matter whether the rate of global warming is increasing. It’ll never cease to amaze me that people don’t care that it’s happening at all. It should be the most alarming thing ever.

She gave her Nobel peace prize to the guy and he just took it lol

Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says - Carbon Brief An acceleration in human-caused global warming could see the Paris Agreement’s 1.5C limit breached before...

NEW – Pace of global warming has nearly doubled since 2015, study says

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Read here ⬇️

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JOB OPENING! If you want to work as a reporter with Nature's US news team, this is a VERY RARE opportunity. The beat is physical sciences/energy & environment/technology. DC or NYC location. Deadline 3/27. Join our awesome team! #journojobs

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Trump fires Kristi Noem as DHS chief, names Sen. Markwayne Mullin to replace her President Trump has fired his homeland security secretary, Kristi Noem, and said Markwayne Mullin, a senator from Oklahoma, would replace her.

Kristi Noem out. Pam Bondi next.

Cricket was the name of the puppy that Kristi Noem murdered.

CNN: Approval for President Trump's East Wing ballroom project – from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation's capital – is delayed after it received over 32,000 comments from the public overwhelmingly opposing the construction.

Stand Up for Science plans second rally on March 7 Public health chaos and research funding cuts are inspiring nationwide pro-science protests against the Trump administration

Stand Up for Science will be back in the streets on Saturday: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...

Good news: Scientists were wrong about how bad sea level rise is.

Bad news: It’s even worse than we thought.

Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers An Intercept analysis finds that every single Board of Peace member state has been rebuked for human rights violations.

Trump’s Orwellian Board of Peace Consists Entirely of Human Rights Abusers

But the greatest offender to peace on the Board is the United States.

🧵mega-thread🧵

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Climate change goes to the Oscars Several Academy Award-nominated films told stories dealing with global warming. More movies like this, please!

NEW: Five Oscar-nominated films have storylines dealing with climate change. That's the most ever.

"This is the world we live in. Filmmakers are experiencing climate change in their lives."

Here's the list, and why it's such a big deal: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/climate-ch...

This is Kim Jong Un-level insanity.

My thoughts exactly.

Iran war heralds era of AI-powered bombing quicker than ‘speed of thought’ Speed and scale of US military’s AI war planning raises fears human decision-making may be sidelined

Anthropic and Palantir tech was used by the US military to target lethal strikes in Iran www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Switzerland Just Lost 3% of Its Glacier Ice in a Year As the Alps Heat Up Switzerland’s glaciers are disappearing faster than ever — and the Alps may never look the same.

Switzerland Just Lost 3% of Its Glacier Ice in a Year As the Alps Heat Up Switzerland’s glaciers are disappearing faster than ever — and the Alps may never look the same.

Book cover of “Temporal Cognition in Animals” by Angelica Kaufmann in the Cambridge Elements: The Philosophy of Biology series. Against a black background, the title is surrounded by Ernst Haeckel’s illustrations of marine organisms—radial, symmetrical forms in vivid blues, oranges, reds, and greens.

Do non-human animals represent time? New Element in the #PhilBio series by Angelica Kaufmann—free to download until March 16! Kaufmann argues that temporal cognition is widespread across many animal species & advances comparative analyses 👇📕 www.cambridge.org/core/element... #evosky #HPS #cogsci

Prime Minister Carney's promise at Davos to "build our strength at home" would do well to draw on the example of former Canadian cabinet minister C.D. Howe, under whose guidance Canada established 28 new Crown corporations to expedite the mass production of military equipment during the Second World War.

NEW from me: my latest column on the need for a new generation of public enterprises - a key missing piece in both our economic resistance to Trump and our climate mobilization 🧵👇
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Rich people are actually allowed to do good things with their money.

Crazy, I know!

There was that Epstein text exchange with Bannon where he said "Trump doesn't respect anyone who agrees to his demands" and never has that been more apparent than every newspaper/university/law firm getting their shit double-owned by the guy they bent over for in the first place.

Federal judge: I've been at this for 44 years. I have never encountered the hostility toward the judiciary that has existed in this country in the last year.

Carney puts rules-based international order sign back in window OTTAWA - After publishing an official statement on behalf of the Canadian government supporting the joint US-Israel bombings in Iran this morning, Prime Minister Carney was spotted happily putting the...

Carney puts rules-based international order sign back in window

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