Adrienne Tanner
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Freelance writer and columnist at Canada's National Observer, dog person, art lover, book fan
Another place where we should stop our reliance on the U.S.
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Monsanto’s shadow still poisons Canadian policy
It's time Canada stopped following the lead of pesticide approvals in the US, whose current government is in thrall to corporations like never before.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/22/opinion/monsanto-pesticides-glyphosate-roundup-canadian-policy
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Brooklyn Park police chief Mark Bruley: "We're hearing people being stopped with no cause & being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they're here legally. We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints. Every one of these individuals is a person of color... it has to stop"
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Carney telling it like it is. "There is a strong tendency for countries to go along to get along... to avoid trouble. To hope that compliance will buy safety. Well it won't."
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Davos LIVE: Canadian PM Mark Carney speaks at World Economic Forum
YouTube video by Associated Press
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE981Z_TaVo
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Can be easy to forget. But there are still a lot of wonderful people in the world. Volunteers in Minnesota Deliver Groceries So Immigrants Can Hide at Home
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...
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Volunteers in Minnesota Deliver Groceries So Immigrants Can Hide at Home
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/us/minnesota-groceries-church-volunteer-ice-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸
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Mark Carney just paved the way to the future for Canada's automotive sector — and the consumers who will benefit from it. So why is Doug Ford so mad about it?
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/16/o...
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Doug Ford can't have it both ways on EVs
Ontario's premier has talked a big game about the importance of standing up to Donald Trump. But when it comes to EVs, he just showed that he's more than happy to surrender.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/16/opinion/doug-ford-mark-carney-trump-chinese-evs
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Worth every second
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Alberta's separatists don't have to win a referendum to break up the country. It's time for Danielle Smith to realize just how big of a mess she's made by encouraging their efforts — and other prominent Conservatives to help clean it up.
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Danielle Smith's separatism games are coming at a dangerous moment
Alberta's premier loves to talk about standing up for her province. Will she ever show the same enthusiasm when it comes to Canada?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/opinion/danielle-smith-alberta-separatism-us
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Carney's tepid response to the abduction of Nicolas Maduro puts Canada squarely in the camp of the US, a country whose president, Donald Trump, is showing himself to be as drunk on power as the Venezuelan president himself.
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The reason Carney's response to the Maduro abduction is so unnerving
Mark Carney's response to the abduction of Nicolas Maduro puts Canada squarely in the camp of the US, a country whose president, Donald Trump, is showing himself to be as drunk on power as the Venezue...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/06/opinion/carney-maduro-abduction-trump-economy-sovereignty
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Mark Carney take note. A new study out of Germany offers helpful tips on how to do business with the narcissist-in-chief.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/05/o...
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Tips for Carney on how to do business with a narcissistic ally
When your narcissist is just a bad friend or an annoying acquaintance, it’s easy enough to dump them. But there is no way out when you are leading a country and a narcissist is in charge of your close...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/05/opinion/tips-carney-trump-business-narcissist
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Canada's National Observer
20 days ago
It's well past time for Canadian government officials to get off of X,
@jameswsthomson.com
writes. This latest — disgusting — incident is just one more reason.
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Canadian government officials, what are you still doing on X in 2026?
The platform's own chatbot started posting sexualized material of children and other people who couldn't consent. With no moral bottom in sight, it's well past time our officials found other ways to c...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/02/opinion/canadian-government-x-twitter-grok
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Have been waging a year-long boycott of US foods and still eating just fine. Looks like some of this is having an impact. 😀https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/business/canada-trump-tariffs-trade
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Canada’s ‘boycott America’ movement is hurting innocent bystanders | CNN Business
Virginia Distillery CEO Gareth Moore was bullish on his company’s American single malt whisky sales north of the border when 2025 kicked off.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/business/canada-trump-tariffs-trade
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Ben Holt 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
Because dealing with flooding isn't bad enough...
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Brett Favaro
about 1 month ago
I have had a national observer subscription for years. Easy "yes" every time it's up for renewal.
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Cautionary tale for the feds here re: Quebec! Yikes
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If you're not watching what's happening in Québec you're losing the plot
A friendly reminder to the Ottawa Bubble to look across the bridge from time to time.
https://open.substack.com/pub/climatememes/p/if-youre-not-watching-whats-happening?utm_source=direct
about 1 month ago
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Even if Lewis and his Green New Deal is not the first choice for New Democrats seeking a way to rebuild their party’s dismal fortunes, it’s nice to see someone aiming high for the climate
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NDP's Avi Lewis wants to put climate back on the table
Even if Lewis and his Green New Deal is not the first choice for New Democrats seeking a way to rebuild their party’s dismal fortune, it’s nice to see someone aiming high. Lewis’ climate plan is a rem...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/17/opinion/ndps-avi-lewis-climate-policy-carney-oil-gas
about 1 month ago
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Drew Harwell
about 1 month ago
Stephen Miller to Vanity Fair photographer: “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” Photographer to Miller: “You know, you do, too.”
www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...
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Cloe Logan
about 1 month ago
Great read from
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for
@nationalobserver.com
. Alberta is pitching AI data centres as the next oil boom. It's fitting when you think of the impacts they'll have on communities, which will have to pony up billions of litres of water+commit to locking in more gas-fired power.
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Alberta towns see AI data centres as 'second coming of oil' — but some worry at what cost
Municipalities across Alberta are trying to figure out whether they can — or should — try to cash in on the influx of AI data centre developers looking to set up shop in the province. For some council...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/16/news/alberta-ai-data-centres-environmental-impacts
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Canadian In Alberta
about 1 month ago
Heads up
#ableg
#abpoli
#Alberta
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Proud of my eloquent sister-in-law
@erinellis.bsky.social
who is featured in this uplifting interview. Drawing together different generations to sue big oil and combat climate change. What On Earth with Laura Lynch: Gen Z and baby boomers take on Big Oil
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© CBC/Radio-Canada 2025. All rights reserved.
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-429-what-on-earth/clip/16187460-gen-z-baby-boomers-take-big-oil
about 1 month ago
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Mrs. Smith
about 1 month ago
My colleague, Professor Sharry Aitken speaks on the peril of travelling to the US.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they)
about 1 month ago
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The man behind the fall of offshore wind
David Stevenson has solar on his roof and drives a hybrid. How did he become the leader of the movement that helped Trump crush offshore wind farms?
https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/offshore-wind/man-behind-the-fall-of-offshore-wind
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Irrelephant
about 1 month ago
Honestly the Liberals had swung pretty hard left and eaten the NDP's lunch while leaving the *entire* right to the Conservatives. This is an opportunity to retake the centre and go back to being the "socially progressive (mostly) and fiscally conservative (kinda)" party.
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Cloe Logan
about 1 month ago
This summer in Toronto could be the last without a bylaw requiring landlords to keep rental units at a safe temperature during increasingly hot summers. Mayor Olivia Chow called for the drafting of a max temperature policy by this upcoming summer + implementation in 2027. For
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Toronto Mayor Chow calls for protections to keep tenants safe in extreme heat
Mayor Olivia Chow has requested the drafting of a new bylaw that would require landlords to keep rental units cool in the city's increasingly hot summers, just as heat is required in the winter.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/news/toronto-maximum-temperature-policy
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Charles Rusnell
about 1 month ago
Exclusive - Danielle Smith and Rob Anderson intervened on behalf of Jordan Peterson's online school in a concerted attempt to grant it accreditation in Alberta. Jordan Peterson's School Isn't Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta's Help via
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Jordan Peterson’s School Isn’t Accredited. Smith Offered Alberta’s Help | The Tyee
The premier met with the controversial psychologist and tried to help his business, finds a Tyee investigation.
https://thetyee.ca/News/2025/12/10/Jordan-Peterson-School/
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There are still people cutting Carney all kinds of slack on the climate front. But I now think I was naïve to believe Carney would support Trudeau-style, regulatory climate policy.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/o...
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Mark Carney is making a cynic out of me
What to do in a political ecosystem where, for anyone concerned about climate change or whose politics run even slightly left of centre, there is precious little choice?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/opinion/mark-carney-climate-pipelines-cynicism
about 1 month ago
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derek guy
about 2 months ago
wtf is a FIFA peace prize? that's like being an NFL laureate in physics
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Climate initiatives are being thrown under the bus by all levels of government in Canada. Still, there are rays of hope.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/o...
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Canada's climate champions are down but not out
Sadly, climate and environmental protection to mitigate future catastrophes are still viewed as secondary luxuries.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/04/opinion/canadas-climate-carney-pipeline-policy-guilbeault-emissions-alberta
about 2 months ago
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Jason Markusoff
about 2 months ago
BREAKING: Alberta Health Services CEO who took over after a controversial firing in January is now himself out. AHS confirms Andre Tremblay on leave. Minister Matt Jones has appointed a new CEO and chair. Tremblay was named CEO after Athana Mentzelopoulos was fired earlier this year.
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John Woodside
about 2 months ago
The way to read the Canada-Alberta MOU is that Carney is using the Trump effect as political cover to pursue the deregulatory agenda he’s long wanted. I spoke with
@naomiaklein.bsky.social
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Did the climate world misread Carney?
Many in the climate movement saw a fellow traveller in Mark Carney — the man who could preach climate action in the language of finance — but what if they were wrong from the very start?
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/01/analysis/climate-world-misread-mark-carney
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Jimmy Thomson
about 2 months ago
"How to describe the laundry list of climate-killing gifts to Alberta that the MOU spells out? The depth of the betrayal goes beyond words. I felt ill as I read it," writes
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Read it and weep: This pipeline agreement is a document of betrayal
How to describe the laundry list of climate-killing gifts to Alberta that the MOU spells out? The depth of the betrayal goes beyond words. I felt ill as I read it. It’s not just the hard-won ground lo...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/analysis/pipeline-agreement-alberta-ottawa
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Jason Hindle
about 2 months ago
Max reflects my read on the Carney Alberta MOU fwiw
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
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The method to Mark Carney’s madness
The memorandum of understanding with Alberta might look like surrender. Look closer
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/opinion/method-mark-carney-madness
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Kate Marvel
about 2 months ago
I really wish we'd stop calling them climate "skeptics" or "vaccine skeptics", if you jump off a cliff we don't call you a "gravity skeptic"
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JD Vance, your unsolicited advice on Canadian immigration policy isn't wanted. Best thing Canada can do is shut out the noise from meddlesome US political leaders.
@adriennetanner.bsky.social
writes for
@nationalobserver.com
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Who asked you, JD Vance?
Vice-President Vance, your unsolicited advice on Canadian immigration policy isn't wanted. Best thing Canada can do is shut out the noise from meddlesome US political leaders.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/25/opinion/vance-immigration-economy-canada
about 2 months ago
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There is a free press chill in Alberta.
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Alberta lawsuit is trying to silence the messenger
Former UCP candidate Caylan Ford's scattergun defamation lawsuit against the media and others sends a free press chill through Alberta
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/19/opinion/alberta-lawsuit-caylan-ford-ucp-media-slapp
2 months ago
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Site back up. My latest for
@nationalobserver.com
on how anger over the BC ostrich cull has farmers and others planning a truck/tractor convoy protest.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/07/a...
2 months ago
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Farmers and others angered by the ostrich cull are planning a tractor/truck convoy. Didn't think so at first, but it might have been better to test those birds and spare those not infected.
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https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/17/opinion/truck-convoy-ostriches-farmers-feathers-protest
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It might have been worth testing the ostriches and sparing the healthy animals simply to enhance public faith in the government’s willingness to listen. Now we're staring down another possible convoy protest.
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Another truck convoy protest is in the works — this one sparked by farmers and feathers
It might have been worth testing the ostriches and sparing the healthy animals simply to enhance public faith in the government’s willingness to listen
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/18/opinion/ostrich-farm-cull-convoy-protest
2 months ago
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Wondering if Stephens mixed up the U.S. and Venezuela with this line? “But the larger challenge posed by Maduro’s regime is that it is both an importer and exporter of instability.”The Case for Overthrowing Maduro
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Opinion | The Case for Overthrowing Maduro
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/opinion/venezuela-trump-maduro.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
2 months ago
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Hoping to reach you for a piece I’m writing.
[email protected]
thanks!
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dan sinker
2 months ago
Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.
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Jimmy Thomson
2 months ago
Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
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Bill Grueskin
2 months ago
Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words.
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2 months ago
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The end is drawing near. The departure of two Conservative MPs this week doesn't bode well for Poilievre's chances of surviving a January leadership review.
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Pierre Poilievre's goose is cooked
The departure of two Conservative MPs this week doesn't bode well for Poilievre's chances of surviving a January leadership review
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/07/opinion/pierre-poilievre-leadership-d%E2%80%99entremont-jeneroux-conservatives
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Great first-hand account of the ostrich cull and its implications for public trust in Canadian institutions.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/07/a...
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The ostriches are dead. What about public trust?
The government-ordered ostrich cull has revealed how social media can help a family transform their tragedy into spectacle. And their story has offered a window into the ways trust breaks down between...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/07/analysis/ostriches-cull-public-trust-cfia
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Brent Toderian
3 months ago
“In his final budget before facing voters next October, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is presenting a property tax freeze and $50 million more for police, & major cuts to arts, culture, community services & sustainability.” Brutal austerity for everything else, but $50 million more for over-budget cops.
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'I'm proud of this one': Mayor Ken Sim talks budget with $50 million more for police amid property tax freeze | CBC News
In his final budget before facing voters next October, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is presenting a property tax freeze, and $50 million more for police, balanced by major cuts to arts, culture, community ...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/ken-sim-interview-2026-budget-9.6968795
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Amee Vanderpool
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New York City's CEOs and other billionaire business leaders spent more than $40 million trying to stop Mamdani from becoming the city's next mayor.
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Wall Street reckons with life under Zohran Mamdani
New York City's CEOs and other billionaires spent more than $40 million trying to defeat the mayor-elect. Now they have to live with him.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600718/wall-street-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor?utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&utm_source=bsky.app
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