NEW ANALYSIS: China's CO2 has now been 'flat or falling' for 21 months * Down in 2025 * Still below Mar 2024 * Clean energy wave a key factor If this is China's peak (TBC) it's the climate story of the century so far… www.carbonbrief.org/...

🔭🧪 Are you interested in having a night sky? (Like at all?) File comments with the FCC telling them to deny permission to Starlink for “a million satellites” and to Reflect Orbital for their giant sunlight mirror in space. The American Astronomical Society has info on how 👇

Evaporate.

Planning a PREGNANCY? Make sure you're IMMUNE to MEASELS BEFORE you conceive. OUTCOMES of maternal measles infections: 🏥 4 in 5 hospitalized 🧸 1 in 4 premature birth 😰 1 in 5 pregnancy loss / fetal death www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...

💡How is corporate lobbying reshaping EU rules on health, chemicals and deregulation? Learn more via @corporateeurope.org corporateeurope.org/en/2026/02/r...

Our blindness to whiteness open.substack.com/pub/thetrans...

At a 2022 UN biodiversity meeting countries agreed to halve the "overall risks" of pesticides by 2030 but failed to say what this means 🧪 Now a measure of the risks of pesticides has been developed - and they are increasing in almost every country www.newscientist.com/article/2514...

The purpose of Alberta’s Health Statutes Amendment Act is to destroy public health care as we know it. Not just in Alberta, but throughout Canada, by legislating two-tier health care. @djclimenhaga.bsky.social writes. #abpoli

canadahealthwatch.ca... Take a read. A national call to action. "Governments at every level can no longer ignore the consequences of inaction." ... "Failing to act is not neutrality. It is a decision."

Two @HRW employees who make up the organization’s entire Israel and Palestine team are stepping down from their positions after leadership blocked a report that deems Israel’s denial of Palestinian refugees the right of return a “crime against humanity”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Hundreds of former EU officials call for stronger action against Israel

Reminder: journalists get arrested in Canada too. In fact, The Narwhal is in court right now challenging the RCMP for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken. Our editor-in-chief,Carol Linnitt, testifies today and Monday, and court is open to the public if you're in Vancouver.

Excellent read on the contagion of AI and how ”zombie citations“ are a form of ”epistemological pollution“.

No free passes. No matter who the PM is. #BetterMedicare

Emergency protection for #Wasaga beach’s #PipingPlovers #Ontario ecojustice.ca/file/emergen...

An emerging model is quietly turning Canadian patient medical records, and patients themselves, into lucrative commercial assets – often without patients’ explicit knowledge or consent. healthydebate.ca/2026/01/topi...

I cannot stress enough that homelessness is caused by policy levers primarily at the provincial level. And AMO's new report shows it: homelessness in Ontario rose 8% last year, with 85,000 people becoming homeless. 20,000 were youth and children. Horrifying. globalnews.ca/news/1161124...

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s passionate speech to global leaders last week was simply ironic.

"Advocate now for better funding for staffing and supplies. This is on the provincial government and will only get worse with increased privatization." #OnHealth #HealthCare #HealthCareForPeopleNotProfit

🚨 CPJ condemns the harsh 12-18 year prison sentence handed down to Philippine journalist Frenchie Mae Cumpio after she was found guilty of financing terrorism. We call on authorities to immediately free her and stop targeting journalists. Read more: cpj.org/2026/01/cpj-... #FreeFrenchieMaeCumpio

Join us for a meaningful evening of solidarity and creativity as we make Valentine cards to send to our Prime Minister and our Member of Parliament, calling for justice and equity for First Nations children 🗓 Jan 27th ⏰ 6:30–8:30 pm 📍 Amnesty International Toronto Office amnesty.ca/event/cards-...

Thousands of people in Ontario are living in encampments, facing unsafe and unstable conditions every day. According to the Association of Municipalities of Ontario (AMO)’s 2025 Homelessness Report Update, nearly 2,000 encampments now exist across Ontario, a 43% increase since 2023.

As anti-Indigenous politics intensify in Canada, the far-right is weaponizing residential school misinformation to undermine truth and reconciliation. What appear as isolated historical “debates” are part of a coordinated strategy to erode confidence in Indigenous testimony and survivor truth.

I chipped in to the @PressProgress.ca legal defence so journalists can keep holding the powerful to account. This case could set a chilling precedent across Canada. If you can, please donate and share. pressprogress.ca/journalism-defence/donate

EXCLUSIVE: In my 1st @rollingstone.com story, internal @hhsofficial.bsky.social emails show how 2 Danish scientists accused of "questionable research practices" got a $1.6 million grant aligned w/ Sec. Kennedy's theories to study HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau: rollingstone.com/politics/pol... /1

Amber Bracken "isn’t alone in experiencing this kind of censorship or interference at the hands of police ... The Canadian Association of Journalists has documented multiple examples of how law enforcement across Canada too often arrest or detain journalists." caj.ca/caj-stands-w...

Palestinian surgeon Ghassan Abu Sittah defeats pro-Israel lawfare in landmark GMC ruling www.middleeastmonitor.com/20260112-pal...

Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Housing Instability Among US Health Care Workers url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

By standing up to Abu Dhabi, Riyadh is reshaping the Middle East - https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/standing-abu-dhabi-riyadh-reshaping-middle-east

This Sunday! Join me, Gabor Maté, Bill McKibben, Anjali Appadurai, Libby Davies, El Jones, Judy Rebick, Nas Yadollahi, and other guests for an All Day Outreach Party. Together, we’ll invite thousands of new members into the NDP before the Jan 28 deadline. RSVP: https://avilewis.link/january-11

The great “enshittification” 🧪 theconversation.com/the-5-stages...

Historical PFAS trends in the Great Lakes using four decades of archived fish. #GreatLakes 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

"I look for the day when there will be an investigation on the role of Western corporate media in this genocide. Because this is not a genocide that has been just overlooked. This is a genocide that has been justified and enabled by the media." — Francesca Albanese #GazaGenocide #media #journalism

And if you’re thinking, “I’m just one person, what difference can I make?” my pinned post has you covered:

Francesca Albanese and the Lonely Road of Defiance open.substack.com/pub/chrished...

One of the most cited #cancer studies defending the safety of the world’s most used pesticide has officially been retracted, 25yrs later. There should be 🚫 no renewals, registrations, or amendments of glyphosate-based products  ✅ an expedited special review of its toxicity  👉https://bit.ly/4s2k1au

🚨After The Maple’s most-impactful year by far, we may miss our fundraising goal by a significant margin. Consider becoming a member (action.readthemaple.com/2025-fundrai...) and/or making a one-time donation (readthemaple.com/donate/) now to help ensure we can hire a new journalist next year.

"Shifting public funds towards climate losers like #LNG, aka #FossilGas & of course the great #CarbonCapture boondoggle are policies that largely serve Alberta's FOREIGN OWNED #BigOil businesses, many of which are American & there's nothing very #ElbowsUp about that, is there?" #cdnpoli #MarkCarney

Great journalism with real-world implications. And it ends with a simple but accurate quote: “Many people are unaware of the true nature of lead. They don’t understand the danger.” 🧪 gift article www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/w...

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵 Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

“I’m imagining an instructor somewhere making a syllabus with ChatGPT, assigning reading from books that don’t exist. But the students don’t notice, because they are asking ChatGPT to summarize the book or write the essay.” 🧪 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

🧪 Over half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often violating confidentiality protocols. As third-party tools risk data security, publishers are moving toward closed internal systems to safely integrate AI assistance. #AcademicSky #PeerReview

Tragic report of rabies via organ transplantation. From an epi perspective, this event features two very infrequent transmission events. Aside from the incredible rarity of human to human transmission, the initial human infection also had some uncommon features regarding acquisition. 🧵

it's hard to explain how important this document is for Canadian history. The Charter made the Hudson's Bay Company the actual government of the land. It's equivalent to the foundation of the early American colonies news.westernu.ca/2025/04/impo...

Already this year, anti-vaccine activists have downplayed the risks of measles and polio. Now, they’re adding whooping cough to the list, even as cases of the disease surge, killing at least ten babies over the past two years.

Microsoft faces legal action over role in Israel's genocide in Gaza

Bill C-9 is not actually about preventing hate crimes—it is likely to be used to target the Palestine solidarity movement, leading civil liberties experts say. By Changiz Varzi #cdnpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Desperate farmers whose livelihoods depend on subsides protest. "Greece’s farming sector has also been hit this year by an outbreak of goat and sheep pox that led to a mass cull of livestock."