For the price to not rise even to $130 until 2040 “is very, very late to create this investment signal that's important for emissions and for investment in the new economy,” said Dale Beugin, executive vice president at the Canadian Climate Institute.

The Ford government allowed public employees to upload people’s personal data, including credit cards and driver’s licences, to unsecured AI sites and used medical software that recorded wrong medications and missed mental health details, says Ontario's auditor general.

Great read. Being a PM is not the same as being a CEO.

Every time it seems that Mark Carney uses the word 'sovereign,' what he actually means is 'Canadian corporate profits.' I am compelled to share more from @nolore.bsky.social's post this morning: noraloreto.substack.com/p/carneys-ai...

It's just a lot of falling water... but there's something really inspiring in it.

OUR NEW BMJ editorial: Andes virus should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk. 🧵 1/ For severe pathogens with person-to-person transmission, the starting point should be precautionary airborne protections — not waiting for definitive proof after spread occurs. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

The d$/dt is really high, time to jump on the bandwagon! Nothing bad has ever happened when you make impulsive, expensive decisions. Buy the peak to make MOAR LINE GO UP!!!

This graph shows two things, 1) obviously that the cameras reduced speeding, but 2) that the improvement kept getting better over time. Speeders tend to get one or two tickets and then learn and change their behaviour. This isn't a cash grab, it's an extremely useful intervention.

Yes, but if you don't give the antichrist bond villain access to all your population's sensitive data, he'll tank your political campaign...

Buy yourselves HEPA filters or build Corsi-Rosenthal boxes to manage wildfire smoke for this season. Get them now before the rush statys at the hardware store. Wildfire smoke is not just wood smoke: it's burning car tires, vinyl windows, and foam couch cushions.

At least a dozen municipalities in Ontario have recently passed resolutions supplied by the natural gas company Enbridge. Using Civic Searchlight, @matinsarfraz.bsky.social discovered near-identical, Enbridge-drafted resolutions being passed in support of the province’s gas expansion.

Ruin the Matrix plot with this 1 quick hack:

Regulations exist to protect the public from corporations.

I get why small, under-resourced municipalities fall for this stuff, but there’s really no excuse. We need an Ontario-wide org with capacity to draft this stuff on the level of C40 cities maybe via some FCM spin-off group? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/11/n...

Imagine talking about any other public service this way. Does the government keep public hospitals “afloat”? What about when it gave Marine Atlantic $169 million to support its operations in 24/25? The media does the bidding of those who want to private Canada Post when they adopt this framing.

Any #ocean biologists or #cetologist on hand to answer a 5 year old's question on #humpbackwhales? Why do humpback whales seem to have such large flippers in relation to their body size compared to most other whales?

Althia Raj is doing some of the most important reporting out there right now, exposing how Carney is dismantling any semblance of Canada’s progressive values. Pharmacare, child care, now the environment… Please, pay attention. He’s eviscerating environmental laws worse than Harper. Than HARPER!!!

As more countries add age restrictions to apps and websites, the EU has flagged that VPNs provide a loophole for people to get around these restrictions. There are proposals to require age verification to use a VPN to close this loophole. Papers please, internet version.

This is very worth your time thetyee.ca/News/2026/05...

The wheels on the cybertruck go round and round all through the town.

OpenAI was found to have violated Canadian privacy laws. But don’t worry: it won’t face any consequences because the commissioner says the company has changed its ways. 🫠

NEW: Alberta independence leader calls on supporters to join Danielle Smith’s United Conservative Party and nominate separatist UCP candidates ”It’s time now to join the UCP,” Alberta separatist leader Mitch Sylvestre told @pressprogress.ca

The human tragedy: the need for adults to take an afternoon nap just when the kids reach peak mayhem.

Today a #histmed🧵of Scottish female medical pioneers. 1st Sophia Jex Blake, who completed Dr training but couldn't graduate cos of her gender. She helped set up London School of Medicine for Women in 1874 & donated her house as a women & children's hospital in Edinburgh. Legend.

Governments need to act! "Surveillance pricing—the individualized, algorithmic practice of charging one person more than another based on data harvested from them—hits the trifecta. Governments ought to ban the practice. It’s insane we must even debate the question." thewalrus.ca/just-ban-sur...

Huh. Imagine that

You can get to a high-warming world without high emissions . That's the part of this week's "RCP 8.5 is implausible" discussion that's getting missed. A short thread on why the relief is premature 🧵

NEW: My full dispatch for @nationalobserver.com from a very hectic day in Alberta politics www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/30/n...

Update: RCMP now probing Alberta separatist group accused of illegal use of voters’ private information www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/30/n...

As predicted, so much for the federal gas tax cut. 😡 The oil companies just hoovered that up, thank you very much. The gas tax cut ended up being a straight transfer from the public to bursting oil and gas company profits: vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/04/27/f...

This is what moral injury looks like My frail, 82-yr-old pt spent 2 nights on an ER gurney I've been told to “build a wall” between the suffering of my patients & me ...but not how to handle governments failing to hold up their end of the bargain @thestar.com www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Instead, Carney is taking $25 billion of taxpayer money, during an affordability crisis, creating a whole new "Crown" corporation and directing it to do something that sovereign are set up NOT to do - invest in risky, yet to be built, Canadian projects - incl. oil and gas" 5 things wrong with this:

#ClimateAdaptation is a process, not a destination. This is especially true for dynamic resilience measures.

I prepare future teachers, spend lots of time in a lot of different schools, and have kids in public schools. Almost everyone I know questions the centrality of screens in education, including the students! It's really all of us against the tech bros and private equity. No surprise there.

The nation that wipes bums and changes diapers and feeds toddlers and cares for dying parents is not in the project list. The labour that nation depends on is not eligible for the $400/week Apprenticeship Grant or the $5,000 Completion Bonus or the $10,000 wage incentive.

Read the room: decoupling from fossil fuels is the future, not wasting taxpayers dollars on a dying industry.

The insurance industry has direct involvement in developing Alberta’s two-tier health care legislation. By @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

In Alberta, ranchers renting public land can earn way more in oil and gas payments than they pay in rent — say, five times as much. A new analysis by @drewanderson.bsky.social finds taxpayers have been on the hook for millions when delinquent companies don’t pay. thenarwhal.ca/alberta-graz...

Legacy main stream media: "Right wing agents are proposing a faked assassination attempt to boost an ailing president's polling numbers!" ~Assassination attempt against an ailing president occurs~ MSM: "oh noes! Someone legitimately tried to assassinate our president!!!"

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

This experiment does not have equipoise. We know, mechanistically, that mosquito screens block mosquitoes. We know proper sanitation reduces diarrhea. We know well ventilated spaces reduces respiratory infection. The medical profession's dogma on RCTs must be tempered by ethics and logic!

"We want medications for our lungs, our hearts, our stomachs, our immune systems, our brains—damaged by the Covid virus." "Real care, not cognitive behavioral therapy. Not meditation." France, this week. Long Covid patients refused to be ignored. Statement ⬇️ Translation: @GreeneWendy

New in plos with colleagues from Pfizer vaccines and IQVIA journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

REVEALED: A French PR executive with gas industry ties linked to a coordinated Facebook network spreading heat pump misinformation. Always the same playbook: manufacture doubt, delay the transition, protect the incumbents. www.desmog.com/2026/04/23/f...

Plan d’électrification : le gouvernement présente 22 mesures pour « ne plus importer les crises du monde dans le portefeuille des Français »

Cherry trees in Kyoto. Not a subtle signal.

Holy hell. This thread 😱

This is a fun read. On one hand, kids are dumb for not buying overpriced condos; they are scared of the economic boogie man and are chicken. On the other hand, investors are savvy and aren't buying condos because they are overpriced and don't have good economic prospects. Witness the ageism.

My child has joined Chaos Undivided...

COVID-19 was still the largest driver of hospitalizations for vaccine-preventable respiratory diseases in 2024 www.cihi.ca/en/priority-... via @cihica.bsky.social #VaccinesWork