Can new NDP leader @avilewis.ca build back the base? On #IBWTE, Avi Lewis recently sat down with host @caradrianh.bsky.social to discuss how the party of worker rights and social justice plans to get Canadians excited about a new political idea. Full episode here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDsF...

i will give the devil their due for not caving in to this

Boosting to the #b&wart feed 🖤

Canada should double-down on massive windmill energy production so we a) contribute less to wildfire-conducive pollution, and b) drive Trump nuts

Final pre-release teaser for the cover art I created for • Hexagon Magazine’s Year’s Best Arthropod Anthology Volume 3 • This time in the twilight colour-way ✨💙🦋 @hexagonmagazine.bsky.social

There is nothing normal about the air quality today, and any politician who isn't prioritizing climate action is putting people and planet at risk. This is a small intervention, but the City of Toronto does maintain Cleaner Air Spaces if you are struggling with the air today.

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The USA requires help from Canadian firefighters every year to help with their own forest fires and we don’t threaten their sovereignty when we send our crews down.

"Canadian leaders have had years to address the underlying causes of worsening wildfires, yet American families continue to bear the consequences" Yeah, well, Canadian families continue to bear the consequences of illegal US guns flowing north across the border

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME

This is fantastic news. Cebulski should never have been given the job, after the "Akira Yoshida" deceptions. Wacker has the chops. Oversaw Hawkeye, Ms. Marvel, Captain Marvel, and many more. Love books he's edited.

He lied about everything. Every Thing.

An unbelievable sight on the way home from work today. Our local sap weep is bursting with beetles! 🪲🤯🪲 This is a local wounded Siberian elm leaking sap, well-known to longtime followers. Look at this menagerie! More to come…

When I was writing this piece about the Ocean Cleanup, I had a surreal experience: They assured me that they only kill invasive species, and sent me a published paper to demonstrate that. But the paper said the opposite! I wonder how many journalists just took their word for it and didn't check?

Same shot this morning 7:30am. Brighter because no clouds today (so the app tells me) but the CN Tower is barely visible).

If you're out there today ride safe. If you're delivering food by bike and need a N95 mask, we got a ton of free ones, so come by the Biking Lawyer LLP office at 158 Sterling Rd. Suite 703. This applies to all our @thebikebrigade friends out delivering food to our neighbours in need today too!

There is an interesting conversation to be had about the nature of how we process through photography, and the choices that photographers make about colour, lens and framing.

Today is #WorldSnakeDay!! Happy #SnakeDay to everyone! This is #Titanoboa, a massive prehistoric snake, growing to over 40ft in length! #pixelart #ドット絵 #aseprite #snakes #paleoart

Happy #WorldSnakeDay 🐍🎉 The Eastern Indigo is a Threatened snake and one of the largest non venomous snakes in North America, reaching 8ft. Reintroduction programs in FL have boosted populations, but habitat loss and fungal infections remain a concern. #SciArt #NatureArt #WildlifeArt #AnimalArt

We are just days away from our 2026 Visual SciComm Conference! We are highlighting another one of our speakers, Natalia Rojas—a self-taught artist who's work has been featured in the popular game Wingspan! #SciArt

Taken in Toronto at 6:45 am.

Today is worse. I’ve never seen numbers like these in Toronto. Sky slightly clearer though. #Toronto #ClimateChange #EosinophilicAsthma

Join Mandy Root-Thompson and Amanda Behr as they talk about how field-based collaboration strengthens observational accuracy, scientific understanding, and creative confidence in natural science illustration. #SciArt

"weight (collective energy)", graphite on paper, 7 x 11", 2026- $300(Cdn). #art #sciart #invertebrates

Oh! If anyone here is interested in getting more exposure on Mastodon, and you regularly post #SciArt, ping me there vis.social/@kristinHenry

Incredibly brazen for the Prime Minister to boast about the “lasting benefits” of expanding fossil fuel production on a day like today. Record-breaking heatwaves. Toxic smoke engulfing cities and towns. Out of control wildfires forcing entire communities to evacuate. /1

Why is traffic on our street so quiet today? Ah, The Dip has expanded their patio over the road for the game. Must be summer. #Toronto

China hasn't repeatedly threatened to annex us.

Posted while First Nations communities in Northern Ontario are literally being incinerated and the skies above Canada’s biggest cities are glowing orange

Ontario #NDP Leader Marit Stiles has criticized Premier Doug Ford's handling of the Northern Ontario wildfires, calling out the government for ignoring climate goals and letting firefighting forces shrink. #onpoli

Billionaires are burning the forests Doug Ford turned the skies yellow Mark Carney is ensuring this continues Vote @ndp.ca if you hate this #cdnpoli #onpoli

never fucking forget that our tomato of a premier slashed tens of millions from our forest firefighting and emergency preparedness budget so now yea we’re surrounded by toxic air and whole communities are burning down

Normal sky vs today’s sky.

No filter. The reality is slightly more yellow but this is close.

These photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...

When Ontario has the worst air quality on Earth just remember that the rich capitalists that run Canada from parliament and Bay Street can afford to stay indoors and avoid it. Meanwhile, you and your neighbours choke on it in small insufficiently ventilated apartments and on the streets.

The light outside right now. Wore a mask to take these pics. #Toronto #ClimateChange

Toronto's air quality is so poor right now that the risk it poses to public health exceeds Environment Canada's highest warning category. From Environment Canada: weather.gc.ca/airquality/p...

Oh don't give me that. It's just summer! Rivers turn to blood in summer...

Our future, possibly in my lifetime, is a complete collapse of everything we know.

blocking a Research Chair in Energy Transitions for repeated generative AI imagery, like what the heck, man, be better

Google's new system for advertisers creates AI-generated ads based on the advertiser's website and the user's search. Researchers say these changes make it even harder to hold companies accountable for deceptive marketing like greenwashing.

I like this. I’ll be all “hey, take a mask with you, it’s looking Carney out there” 😬

These Blade Runner ass smoke days should henceforth be called Carney Days.

Today would be a great day to announce less pipelines and more wind & solar, Prime Minister. Signed, Wheezing in Toronto

We are experiencing the world's worst air quality, and we're getting absolutely no response from leadership other than announcements about building more pipelines. Do not normalize this.

(Theme From) S EXPRESS. #Toronto #Wildfires #Photography

This is also the Minister for Environment and Climate Change’s neighbourhood.

Able only to watch their hometown burn to the ground, residents of Collins First Nation flee for their lives by boat—one of at least five northern Ontario First Nations evacuated due to wildfires. That story and more on APTN News Brief: pod.fo/e/44afde