cleantechnica.com/2025/11/03/t... @bigclimate.bsky.social

New Master in Public Environmental Humanities - @greenhouseuis.net 2-year masters program for students who want to study today’s environmental challenges as deeply rooted in culture and history Info sessions on November 11 & 21 niche-canada.org/2025/11/01/n... #envhum #envhist #envstudies

“”Institutional neutrality” is an illusion that benefits those who have long profited from a hierarchy of rights that delivers social and economic advantage to only a few.” universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/m... Good interview if only to showcase that not all tech bros are assholes. Full disclosure: I’ve edited Wikipedia @lulugn.bsky.social @jimmywales.bsky.social

If you are a Canadian scientist 🧪 alarmed by the unfair targeting of academics working on research related to EDI in the US ➡️ Turn your attention to our own House of Commons' Standing Committee on Science and Research and consider signing this open letter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Yesterday I naively wrote to Alberta's Legislative Assembly regarding Bill 2. If you are interested in writing, but don't have the words, please feel free to cut and paste this and to modify as you want. I have also included a link to MLA email addresses. www.matthewdance.ca/blog/bill-2-...

The Rabbi we need.

Canada will remember.

Trains, trains, they’re good for your heart, The more you ride, the more you depart! The more you depart, the further you roam, Through fields and towns till you’re safely home.

Well, I’m glad that my kids are going back to school tomorrow, I think it’s ridiculous that teachers charter rights- and by extension all of our charter rights- had to be violated for that to happen. The UCP government is showing up in bad faith not just to Alberta teachers to all Alberta citizens.

Thanks @senatorpaulasimons.bsky.social

I exist at the awkward interface.

Read this. newrepublic.com/article/2011...

Columbia Ice Field and Mt Robson in the distance. What a view!

"Perhaps bearing witness represents potential for a different way to do historical research on human-environment relationships." - Jocelyn Thorpe (October 2012) niche-canada.org/2012/10/24/t... #envhist #cdnhist #truthandreconciliation

I’m writing a talk about urban wellness was looking for some images. I had forgotten how great @mastermaq.ca Flickr is. Tons of great #yeg images.

On the final day of #nationalpoetrymonth a note on an upcoming publication by the University of Alberta Press (May 13, 2025). Cartographic Poetry Examining Historic Blackfoot and Gros Ventre Maps by Ted Binnema, François Lanoë, and Heinz W. Pyszczyk tinyurl.com/3m59zcfe @ualbertapress.bsky.social

We want Sad Will Ferrell! We want Sad Will Ferrell! We want Sad Will Ferrell!

Want proof that govt policy and leadership matters in HC? This is what happens when a govt: - muzzles and hides active Public Health leadership - micromanages and chooses containment over prevention in HC - caters to "contrarian" opinion - won't advocate that vaccines work

Total repudiation of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in the Globe and Mail today. “Does Danielle Smith know we can all see and hear her?” #ableg apple.news/A03mnXZkLSG6...

They are in Mississauga, not Toronto.

First Nations offer to buy ‘iconic’ Hudson’s Bay store chain for tobacco, blanket

I was fortunate to meet Mr Hurtig a couple of times, once at his iconic log house overlooking the river valley. Such a warm man, a great intellect and staunch advocate for Canada and Canadians. He would kick ass today, for sure.

tweet from Zelenskyy "Thank you Justin Trudeau for the years of our joint work! I appreciate your leadership in strengthening Ukrainian-Canadian relations. Your visit to Ukraine in May 2022 was an important and clear show of support for the Ukrainian people, an act of a true friend. cont next post

If you own an Amazon echo, everything you say to ur starting March 28th will be captured by Amazon’s cloud All privacy stopgaps for local processing and refusing “voice ID” have been scrapped

Especially in a time where so many “public” spaces are not, in fact, public. Libraries should be inclusive, and explicitly so.

Statement from Athana Mentzelopoulos, former AHS CEO.

It’s my third fav of theirs, by My Iron Lung is a top 3 song and best of the album.

OK, this is almost funny

Share widely with Americans who foolishly think there's any interest in this idea, or that our minds will change as pressure increases. angusreid.org/wp-content/u...

This great article courtesy of @nichecanada.bsky.social, highlights the timeline for which Imperial Oil began leading the Oil Industry misinformation campaign as early as 1955. #abpoli #ontpoli #cdnpoli #uspoli #poluution #public #relations niche-canada.org/2024/11/01/p...

A friendly reminder. Yes, Carney will be Prime Minister without a seat as the Liberal party members alone elected him, just as Danielle Smith became Premier without a seat as the UCP members alone elected her. It's how our system has always worked, it's not new.

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith co-headlining a $1,500-a-seat fundraiser for a US education org that sells conservative materials into US schools. As part of her trade war diplomacy mission, we’re told.

"Other PragerU videos about the climate crisis make various false claims: they depict solar and wind power as environmentally dangerous, liken environmental activists to Nazis and claim recent record-breaking heat is just part of the natural weather cycle." #cdnpoli

Plenty of news stories reporting this comment, so it's legit. Elon Musk is a barbarian, which he might think is a compliment, but I'm with Arendt on this one.

Given that Trump and Putin are aligned, and that Putin is very interested in expanding Russia to USSR proportions, why would we not take Trump seriously? Water, nickel, lithium, uranium, all things Canada has and all things that Trump wants.

The NYT reporting on details of talks between Canadian and American officials that included - from the American side - redrawing the border, ignoring treaties involving waterways like the Great Lakes, kicking Canada out of 5 eyes and military cooperation agreements www.nytimes.com/2025/03/07/w...

“In Edmonton, a … 31-year-old named Grant Prete, a lifelong Oilers fan, started an online petition to remove Mr. Gretzky’s name from a short section of freeway that has been called Wayne Gretzky Drive since 1999. It collected more than 10,000 signatures in a week.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/04/u...

Our local pub in the west of Ireland has removed Jack Daniels from its shelves!

Yep. “Canada Needs a New Civil Defence Corps”: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025... #cdnpoli

1/ Note: accompanying text is abbreviated and just the highlights. See the closed captioning for full text and/or listen to the clips. Sorry, this seems to have recorded out of sync at times. Here’s a link to the video that I recorded for these clips. youtu.be/83f47jIS_D8?...

Trudeau: "He talked about banking again today in a tweet, which doesn't make any sense because 16 banks are currently active in Canada holding about $113b worth of assets in this country... what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that'll make it easier to annex us."

Criminalizing protest is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes

Marcia Hole (Ward C) just announced her resignation from EPSB. I know this took serious courage, and I applaud her for choosing the difficult but ethical path. This leaves just 6 out of 9 seats filled on the board, meaning that yet another trustee will have to take on serving two wards.

This is an important read. If you’re not paying attention to the opioid crisis in Alberta, you should. There is an evidence based approach, and then there is the UCP approach which will cause more harm.

“That changed this week, thanks to legislation championed by the tribe and passed by the state last year that allows federally recognized tribes in California to burn freely once they reach agreements with the California Natural Resources Agency and local air quality officials.”

Amazing.