The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

'Disinvestment comes with dete... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Carney wants to terminate prison librarians to save money, but can't hand out cash fast enough when oil companies come calling. Denying access to reading materials in prisons is a human right offense.

Everyone defending the PM's deregulation is saying it's to appease separatists. There's SO much now he's doing wrong that's clearly not connected to that at all: policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/04/carn... We are told to ignore those other warning signs because it must be '4D chess.' Nonsense. #CDNpoli

To oppose the wholesale dismantling of environmental regulations in Canada, please go to this page www.canada.ca/en/one-canad.... ignore the very leading 'proposed' questions and submit your comments. CC your MP. If you need inspiration here is what I just sent.

May 13, 2026

Leaked SaskPower documents sho... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... SaskPower plans to cancel commitments for renewable power, keep old coal plants running and double the price of electricity to residents by 2040. #saskpoli

farmnewsnow.com/2026/05/12/n... n its written submission, the NFU said public-interest research matters most when farmers need unbiased work that isn’t driven by product sales — especially for plant breeding and organic and low-input systems. #NFUcanada #agpoli #canpoli

Saskatoon delivery drivers wal... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Courageous drivers stand up to Amazon to protest brutal working conditions of gig "contractors".

"The National Farmers Union was against the updates. It said they would increase annual production costs, prohibit access to protected varieties of plants and entrench foreign private plant breeding." @nfucanada.bsky.social

Are you enjoying your 10c/litre holiday from the federal excise tax on gasoline (starting April 20)? The avg Cdn price fell 10c that day. But since then it's risen 20c. So the avg price now is 10 cents higher than BEFORE the 10 cent tax cut! (Data from gasbuddy.com) /2

"@peggynash.bsky.social, a former NDP MP and executive director of @policyalternatives.ca, says the agreement must be rejected as long as it privileges corporations and investors over people and the planet." cheknews.ca/civil-societ...

La pression publique fonctionne – continuons sur cette lancée pour faire annuler les coupes budgétaires imposées à Agriculture et Agroalimentaire Canada ! #cdcpoli

www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/08/n... Parliamentary Agriculture Committee unanimously recommends reversing AAFC research cuts. ##agpoli ##canpoli

The unanimous findings of yesterday's report from the Standing Committee on Agriculture confirm what agricultural workers and communities have been saying for months: these closures will cause lasting harm to workers, farmers, food security, and Canada’s ability to respond to climate change.

Public pressure is working - keep it up to reverse the cuts to Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada! #cdnpoli

This is a must listen. Jen Gerson nails it.

If you don’t believe the F-35 has a “kill switch” you are dreaming. For example, Canada’s C-17 fleet is dependent on US political approvals. aviationnews.eu/news/2026/05...

Albertans should not be asked to cast a single ballot while basic questions remain unanswered about whether the province’s voters list, petition process, election agency, referendum machinery, and proponent organizations have been compromised. drjaredwesley.substack.com/p/albertas-v...

Attention #saskndp !

A sovereign wealth fund in name only www.canadianaffairs.news/2026/05/01/a...

Quack! What an elegant fellow! #birds

It's a corporate slush fund that uses public money and will be paid for by selling off public assets. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

ecojustice.ca/news/the-fed... Carney puts pesticide and oil corporation profits ahead of human and environmental health with deregulation agenda in the spring economic statement. #canpoli

April 29, 2026

SCOOP: Elections Alberta investigating separatists for accessing electors list open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjFv... MP Gord Johns presents petition calling for reversal of AAFC research cuts. #agpoli #canpoli

Norway Sovereign Wealth Fund captures resource rents to build a diverse and stable economy that increases wealth for present and future generations. The "Canada Strong Fund" works the other way around. Capture citizen wealth to increase dependence on resource projects. rabble.ca/economy/stap...

www.albertafarmexpress.ca/news/lacombe... AAFC's nation-destroying research cuts are set to dumpster 140 years of data, herd genetics, and capacity to breed forage seed for Canadian growing conditions. #canpoli #agpoli #elbowsdown

thewalrus.ca/carneys-libe... Well said, Lloyd Axworthy, former Liberal Foreign Affairs Minister. #canpoli

Little nuthatch is working on his nice cozy nest this snowy day.

Remembering Amal Khalil

Poor birdies! Today in Saskatoon- yet another round of winter in April

We must build grass-roots pressure for Canada to finally take a principled stand against the US blockade of Cuba. More voices are being heard, including the United Church, the CLC, Unifor, and more. Please sign this petition: petition.web.net/CanadaActNow.... #canlab

Canada does not have a policy for AI governance, and that absence is not a minor administrative gap—it is a structural failure. By Si Thu Naing @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

The debate over UPOV 1991 - a kind of patent on seeds - is raging again in Argentina. Milei wants in, as required by his trade deal with the US, but farmers & local seed producers say NO! Summary of positions, in Spanish: ruralnet.com.ar/crisis-semil... @etcgroup.bsky.social @lughiotto.bsky.social

"In the first month of the war in the Middle East, Canadian oil companies made about $6 billion — $4 billion more than the previous month — according to an analysis from @policyalternatives.ca." thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

The oil industry is profiting $10 million every day because of the war in the Middle East... “We could tax that,” said @hadrianmk.bsky.social, through an “excess profits” or “windfall” tax. The government could then use that money to improve affordability for Canadians. thetyee.ca/News/2026/04...

Liberals will move to take con... www.cbc.ca/news/politic... Seriously over the top power grab.

"Blakeney wasn’t about to let oil companies be the sole beneficiary of price hikes to a commodity that was wholly owned by the province. Instead, Blakeney implemented a 100 per cent windfall profits tax on Saskatchewan-produced oil." paherald.sk.ca/saskatchewan...

"Under our existing system, the government does not control the price of gas – gas retailers do. What Carney’s policy has done is reduced one of the costs that gas retailers pay, but whether they decide to pass those savings on to consumers is up to them."

‘Canada Is Cool Again’: So Where’s our *Clean* Investment Summit? open.substack.com/pub/energymi...

This is where the pharma task force our health minister established is taking Canada. No accountability, no investment guarantees, just higher medical bills. www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

This is what we need from Canada, beyond aid and stated support for the humanitarian crisis. End the blockade. www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/...

www.swiftcurrentonline.com/articles/aaf... Halt the cuts to public agriculture research!

The Carney government hasn't cut the women's state. It has let it expire. WAGE under "Culture, Values, and Identity." Mandate letters scrubbed of gender language. Gender Statement missing from budget. By 2027–28, funded below where Harper left it. deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/w...

For the evening crowd. What you get is a Harper-era fiscal and ideological architecture, executed with more subtlety and more plausible deniability, and on a trajectory that takes the women’s state below where Harper left it. deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/16/w...

On majority government, cutting through the clutter, and sobbing on the radio (ouch). My conversation with the great Nil Köksal. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...