Leon Laforge

It's hard to drone a solar panel The war in Ukraine may be adding resilience to the list of clean energy's virtues

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Meet the Moment - CAPE Across party lines, most people want our political leaders to do more to reduce climate risks and costs which represent the single greatest health and economic risks we face today.

Parliament is back, and with the federal budget in October, Canada must act on climate. I joined 80+ organizations calling on PM Carney and leaders to meet the moment with strong climate action. Tell them to protect our health and future: cape.ca/action/meet-...

The Nation-Builders Prime Minister Mark Carney's promise to fast-track major projects is now law. But Bill C-5's implications are only beginning to be felt.

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Call on Toronto City Council to stop promoting fossil fuels - CAPE Raise your voice and call on Toronto City Council to take a stronger stand against fossil fuel advertising.

Action alert: The City of Toronto is considering restricting fossil fuel ads. These ads undermine climate action & put everyone at risk.

We have a short window of time for the City Council to act.

Take action here:
cape.ca/action/ban-f...

Trump Gestapo killed a farm worker.

Rural and Urban voters need to be heard from more on most issues.

What the Floods in Texas Tell Us About Climate Change “Regardless of where we live or how we vote, extreme weather puts us all at risk," writes Katharine Hayhoe.

Regardless of where we live or how we vote, extreme weather puts us all at risk: and we know, without a shadow of a doubt, climate change is making it worse.

To build resilience, we need more data, more expertise, more preparation, more communication to keep people safe—NOT LESS!

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This is scandalous. The El Paso SPC is one of the few ICE detention centers owned by ICE itself. Members of Congress cannot legally be turned away from ICE facilities when conducting oversight. Yet these emails say Noem herself is deciding when and how Members can conduct oversight.

Biggest Fossil Fuel Firms Responsible for a Third of Western Forests Burned, Study Finds

This also seems relevant. Guess how many of those companies are based in Canada versus the US.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew calls out U.S. lawmakers complaining about smoke from Canadian wildfires “This is what turns people off politics,” Kinew said, accusing the Republicans from Minnesota and Wisconsin of trying to get Instagram likes

American politicians telling MB to manage its forests better so they don’t get the wildfire smoke is like someone with a backyard pond telling us to manage the pollution in the Great Lakes better. When, to expand the analogy, 🇺🇸 are responsible for 30% of the problem and 🇨🇦 are responsible for 2%.

#cdnpoli #abpoli

#cdnpoli #abpoli #BattleRiverCrowfoot
Poilievre needs security clearance partly because he got married (2017), and that clearance would need to look at his wife and in-laws
His wife, Anaida, has family ties to Gabriel Vasquez, a Colombian businessman convicted of laundering millions for drug cartels

Alberta bans school library books it deems sexually explicit | CBC News Alberta's education minister says sexually explicit content must be gone from school library shelves as of Oct. 1, but says the announcement is not about book banning.

While claiming it's to protect children, Alberta just banned a bunch of books from schools that teach children that gay people exist and are normal.

The Bible is not banned despite featuring slavery, rape, incest, and genocide.

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UCP - "Whoa whoa whoa! This isn't a book ban! It's not like there's a list of books we want banned!"

Red Deer School Board Chair - "There is a book ban list"

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

YouTube video by Ziroth How MIT's New Sodium Fuel Cell Changes Everything

A great new video from Ziroth channel on YouTube.

“How MIT’s new sodium fuel cell changes everything. The end of Lithium?”

Pre-takeoff announcements on this domestic flight in Brazil include a pro-vaccine message. "Vaccines save lives."

We read respondents in 24 countries a list of seven characteristics and asked whether or not each one describes U.S. President Donald Trump. A median of 80% – and majorities in almost every country surveyed – see Trump as “arrogant.” A median of 67% across the countries surveyed agree Trump is “a strong leader,” with 90% in Nigeria, 84% in Argentina, 83% in Israel and 80% in Hungary saying this describes him. A median of 65% see Trump as “dangerous,” a view that’s especially widespread in Australia, Germany, Mexico, Sweden and Turkey. Comparatively fewer see Trump as dangerous in Nigeria (25%), India (36%) and Israel (44%). Fewer overall see Trump as “able to understand complex problems” (42% median), “well-qualified to be president” (41%) and “diplomatic” (41%). Trump gets his lowest ratings on being “honest” (28% median). Only in Nigeria and Kenya do majorities say this describes him.

Where at least 50% say Trump is:

Honest - India, Kenya, Nigeria

Dangerous - Spain, Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Canada, Mexico, Germany, France, Greece, UK, South Korea, Italy, Turkey, Argentina, Japan, Poland, Brazil, Indonesia, Israel, Hungary, South Africa, Kenya

Climate data highlights from this month:

⚠️ Arctic ice extent lowest on record for time of year: bsky.app/profile/zack...
⚠️ New ocean heat content record: bsky.app/profile/zack...
⚠️ Temperatures over land record high (Jan-May): bsky.app/profile/zack...
⚠️ New CO₂ record high: bsky.app/profile/zack...

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years Real world measurements of how much extra heat the Earth is trapping are well beyond most climate models. That’s a real problem.

Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and rate has doubled in 20 years

Burning coal, oil gas has added more than 2 trillion tonnes of c02 and other greenhouse gases to atmosphere
These trap more and more heat, preventing it from leaving
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New Canadian Social Media Platform ‘Gander’ Aims to Challenge U.S. Tech Dominance Podcast Episode · The Courtney Theriault Show · 2025-06-25 · 12m

Are you tired of Twitter? Looking for something less toxic?

Some Canadian investors are hoping you'll take a gander at their new platform... uh... named Gander.

They say it aims to be more Canadian - that is to say, more polite and conversational.

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Proportional representation could help us make better decisions

Make Canada's voting system fair and proportional! Canadians are tired of our broken voting system. After Trudeau broke his promise of reforming our electoral system in 2015, apathy and cynicism towards our democracy has grown. If Canada is to weath...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/pr...

Graphic by the UN Environment Programme showing glowing jellyfish with the text "OCEAN FORECAST: marine heatwaves – Ocean heat increase since the 1970s." It highlights the impacts of marine heatwaves including coral bleaching and reef degradation, loss of marine biodiversity, and increased likelihood of extreme weather events.

According to the @ipcc.bsky.social, marine heat waves have doubled in frequency and have become longer-lasting, more intense, and more extensive since the 1980s.Urgent #ClimateAction is needed to #SaveOurOcean and ensure a sustainable future for all.

Exciting news, I look forward to its progress

Pierre Poilievre to run for Alberta seat after losing riding Alberta Conservative MP Damien Kurek, who was re-elected in Battle River-Crowfoot on Monday, says he will resign so party leader can run

This man is a hemorrhoid on the ass of Canada and I can't believe he won't just fucking go away.

(I mean, I can believe it because narcissists be narcissists.)