BREAKING: Pipelines only bad when Conservatives do it

The Thunder Bay Police say that Nodin Skunk and Ashlynn Bottle are no longer the subject of a missing persons investigation and that this is now a private family matter.

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! The 2026 Book & Bake Sale for Bar None Winnipeg and the MB Library Association's Prison Libraries Committee will be held on Saturday, June 13 at the First Menno Church (922 Notre Dame Winnipeg). Please contact [email protected] for more information or to sign up!

We are so pleased to see The Winnipeg Free Press editorial board calling 50-50 transit funding to be restored! From today's paper... Province must resume role in transit funding: www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/edit...

Carney announces Alberta carbon pricing deal that may pave path for new oil pipeline reut.rs/4wo4RhQ

A doctor was removed from the Ontario Medical Association's AGM for refusing to take off his watermelon pin. Why? "We want to make sure that everybody feels comfortable and safe." We obtained an audio recording of the incident. pressprogress.ca/yipeng-ge-on...

Just remembered this incredible chain by @hooks.bsky.social and friends.

It should go without saying that diversifying Alberta’s exports would mean supporting any export besides oil and gas — and reducing emissions requires emitting less of them. My column on today's announcement for @nationalobserver.com

NEW: 2 Canadian companies are accused of failing to seek free, prior and informed consent from Indigenous peoples in Nevada before going ahead with major lithium mining projects. www.readthemaple.com/canadian-fir...

The American blockade of fuel to Cuba is just a straight-up evil and wanton infliction of suffering on a civilian population, for absolutely zero reason.

BREAKING: SB 2471 has been signed into law! It’s the first of its kind in the nation and renders the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision irrelevant in Hawaii. This is a win for the movement to get big money, especially dark money, out of politics.

For years, the biggest criticism of renewables was simple: “What happens when the sun isn’t shining?” The answer is increasingly: battery storage. 24/7 solar power is no longer theoretical. In some places, it is becoming economic reality.

Grid-scale batteries are going in an absolutely wild pace. Every whingey objection to renewables you've ever heard is basically solved by batteries. This is happening whether any of the hopeless dipshits running the US want it or not.

Glenn Fleishman (@glennf.com) has joined with Matt Bors (@mattbors.bsky.social) to collect a who’s who of alternative cartoonists and reporters (comics and otherwise) to discuss the panel that went viral. www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/20...

For the second year in a row, a walk for missing and murdered Indigenous men and boys is held in Winnipeg. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

My next book, *The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI*, will be out in about a month. 1/

here’s my latest on bill c-22 (lawful access act): “The Carney government is about to take a massive step towards violating the privacy rights of every single Canadian.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/14/o...

Exactly! There is so, so much. So many people do not realize the difference between a million dollars and a billion!

Canada plans to establish a new bank to finance the global arms trade In our latest @breachmedia.ca podcast, I speak with Rachel Small of @wbwcanada.bsky.social about the prospect of our economy being further tied to weapons and war breachmedia.ca/by-hosting-a...

The UK government is so deep on generative AI it’s using chatbots to write laws. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg. @willdunn.bsky.social joins @parismarx.com to discuss why the UK has gone so hard on AI and the many risks created by its AI dependence. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/328_...

Countries where Signal is no longer available: • Russia • China • Iran • ...Canada? "Secure messaging service Signal, which uses end-to-end encryption, is warning it would withdraw from Canada if asked to compromise its users’ privacy under Bill C-22"

fresh audio product: • Two views of the US–Israeli war on Iran: Laleh Khalili and Mouin Rabbani @lalehkhalili.bsky.social www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

more bizarre errors from the @nytimes.com Canada desk: there are no "overlapping ranges" of grizzly bears or polar bears in Saskatchewan, even in the "far north" of the province. where is this stuff coming from? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/w...

none of these people actually want to be doing the job. they want to be celebrities

The Mikisew Cree First Nation in northeast Alberta is suing the province and Canada over the harms caused by ongoing oil sands activity in its territory to people and the land.

This isn’t a natural disaster. It’s a policy failure — spring flooding devastating parts of Canada is the result of governments failing to act on decades of warnings about #climate risk and crumbling infrastructure. New analysis from Nir Hagigi: ricochet.media/climate/this... #Ontario #Quebec

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is proposing a major shift in the way environmental impacts of oil and gas, mining and other projects are assessed. @meyer.bsky.social has the details. thenarwhal.ca/canada-major...

At this year’s Border Security Expo, the most insidious surveillance tools were the ones you couldn’t see. Read more from @gabydvj.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/report/92872...

Here’s last night’s story about prediction markets – platforms where you can bet on basically anything, from the weather to the war in Iran. The story's also about why AI seems to be obsessed with shirtless old guys! To a lesser degree, but worth mentioning, if you’re into that. youtu.be/ZN4njIQcSR4

This is the money paragraph for me.

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is looking at offering Canadian sea ports for sale. Read more from Star Ottawa Bureau Chief Tonda MacCharles:

How an Exxon-backed initiative has thrown a bid to take climate action off course reut.rs/3OYqwws

SCOOP: Behind closed doors at a high-level Christian event in Alberta, Premier Danielle Smith said that a new oil pipeline to the BC coast would align with the teachings of Jesus. Read the exclusive story from @marylouisestuart.bsky.social and I in @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/05/13/o...

"Once climate change becomes a defining issue for financial stability, it may already be too late." - Mark Carney www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/...

Harvey Keitel is 87. Seen here as Qui-Gon Jinn with Willem Dafoe as Obi-Wan Kenobi in Martin Scorsese’s The Phantom Menace.

Tony Dokoupil is facing another setback during his time anchoring 'CBS Evening News.'

Nodin Skunk, 25, and Ashlynn Bottle, 23, members of Mishkeegogamang First Nation, were last seen together April 26 in Thunder Bay. Hear more on APTN News Brief:

NEW: Official government documents written and saved in Google Docs are no longer covered by Ontario’s freedom of information laws, the province has decreed, as its transparency clampdown continues to roll out. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1184611...

The real value of social media is being able to post something like "The ass is the father of the legs" and potentially have multiple members of congress see it

As the U.S. starves it of oil, Cuba is pulling off one of the fastest solar revolutions on the planet — with China’s help

This was one of my fav podcast convos about this book: “In a lot of ways things are feeling bleak for a lot of people—economically, socially, ecologically, politically—and I wanted to say to people that thinking about the cosmos can be part of how we write and imagine ourselves out of all of that.”

Industry body says energy consumption driven by AI up 15% globally in two years as it warns of societal backlash

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Elon Musk sees that people are getting information from social media and AI chatbots. That’s why he wants to control those interfaces. @bentarnoff.com and @quinnslobodian.com spoke to @parismarx.com about the system Musk has built to cement his power. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/327_...

NEW: The @nytimes.com Canada bureau chief published an article on Carney’s majority that contained a fake Poilievre quote generated by AI. @michellecyca.com joins me to discuss this blunder, AI in news media, and what a disaster for reporting this has been. #cdnnews #cdnpoli

A new analysis finds that "the highway lobby employs hundreds of lobbyists, spends over $100 million every year, uses a full suite of advocacy tactics, and brings along public officials to keep us all in a car-dependent transportation system." UCS's @kevshen.bsky.social breaks it down in his blog:

The United Nations' expert mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples says the federal government has an opportunity to address "forced assimilation" inherent in the legislation, along with sex- and race-based discrimination.

There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars: 1) Profiting from a monopoly 2) Insider-trading 3) Political payoffs 4) Fraud 5) Inheritance Don’t believe the self-made myth.

At least a dozen municipalities in Ontario have recently passed resolutions supplied by the natural gas company Enbridge. Using Civic Searchlight, @matinsarfraz.bsky.social discovered near-identical, Enbridge-drafted resolutions being passed in support of the province’s gas expansion.