Some good-ish climate news.

HMCS MONTREAL sails alongside HMCS HALIFAX and MV ASTERIX as they depart from Halifax Harbour during Exercise CUTLASS FURY 2021 in Halifax Nova Scotia, September 7, 2021. Credit: Private Colonnor Bennett, Canadian Armed Forces Photo #RCN #Photos #History

1 CIBC: The #Canadian #labour market's post summer surge continued into Oct, w a 67K gain in jobs much > the consensus forecast (-5K) & enough to bring the #unemployment rate back below 7%. #Job gains were strong in the wholesale & retail, transportation + info & recreation sectors 🧵 #cdnecon

Canadian military plans to go big on drones. 'As I’ve said elsewhere, the army we have is not the army we need' thewalrus.ca/canadian-arm...

At least someone has a Jobs Friday. 🇨🇦

Hey #Booksky peeps Loads of @margaretatwood.bsky.social books on sale at Kobo (I am guessing related to the release of Book of Lives)

Every federal agent or contractor involved in this should be prosecuted, and they should lose their jobs and pensions.

Why Pierre Poilievre won't get elected. Canada's official leader of the opposition has finally come up with an auto industry policy—and it’s a complete dud! David Booth writes driving.ca/column/motor... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com

(Forbes) - The Trump Organization’s second-term push to monetize Donald Trump’s presidency has reached the aisles of military exchanges, as Coast Guard-run stores .. have stocked Trump-branded wine and cider. 🤡 @zacheverson.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

"The Trump administration leveled sanctions against the organizations in September over their work with the International Criminal Court in cases charging Israeli officials of war crimes." YouTube is owned by Google.

“Trump’s #tariff chaos is a #NorthAmerican #disaster.” (or Beggar Thy Neighbours And Thyself, But Thy Northern Neighbour Most of All) #Canada open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Buying a new car? Hidden cameras show that car dealers often practice deceptive advertising and mislead on pricing. www.cbc.ca/news/marketp...

Maine Border Patrol agent bragged about Chicago shooting in text messages

This is great.Australia gets over 95% of its solar panels from China, at nearly factory-gate prices instead of the tariffed over 3X prices that Americans pay. That, & Australian firms have far better business models & do solar installations more efficiently than firms abroad bsky.app/profile/mark...

BREAKING → The DOJ has informed a group of Republicans that the Epstein files are “even worse” for Trump than previously reported. Journalist Michael Wolff said in an interview that Epstein had shown him photos of Trump with half-naked “young girls” in his lap. Trump’s silence and

LOL Jenni Byrne 'trying to persuade' - 'I'll fuckin' rip yer ears off' www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Hey @joshmatlow.bsky.social @mayoroliviachow.ca Toronto should do this👇 and start publishing the data now. Every day. How many lives the speed camera saves from injury and car crashes. In the last week, cars have gone 60 in a 40 zone & driven on a sidewalk towards me to pass a truck. 🤯😡 #TOpoli

Note to various Canadian political parties:

Tiny nanometer-scale computer chips are now being manufactured much more cheaply, thanks to an academic at University of Twente, Netherlands.

Over the last months, we’ve entirely rebuilt search on Our World in Data — we just launched it: ourworldindata.org/introducing-... Let me know what you think. Does it work for you?

'Nobody has ever defaced the potato like this' tj.news/fredericton-...

DHS: ‘Daycare Workers Have Walked Freely in This Country For Far Too Long’

High resolution digital map finds Roman roads more extensive than previously thought. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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According to an email obtained by The Narwhal, MAGA Energy’s revenues had dropped and the company was in “survival mode” when Alberta allowed it to acquire 170 oil wells. Now, the company isn’t paying its bills to landowners and owes taxes to at least one municipality. thenarwhal.ca/maga-energy-...

Alcohol still leading cause of substance-related hospitalizations in Canada, with cannabis now a ‘concerning’ second Hospital data for substance use visits now counts CHS, a growing weed-related illness pressprogress.ca/alcohol-stil...

Congratulations to our 2025 Photo Contest Winner: Simone Heinrich Bull Moose in the Snow

And yet those Premiers keep getting reelected.

'yes, people will continue living after I am dead'

'higher power', as we all know, refers to Rhythm and Blues.

Absolutely gobsmacked. Canada's largest province announces they plan to scrub a legislative requirement to have a climate change target, a climate plan, and progress reports. Ontario pals... huh???

Novo Nordisk exec Gordon Findlay (by reports) had just collapsed in the Oval Office. Trump stands there waiting for this annoyance to pass.

Bird flu surges among poultry amid dismantled U.S. response https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/11/06/nx-s1-5600125/bird-flu-risk-outbreak-trump-administration More news → CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁

Northern lights could be visible for most of #Canada tonight: weather experts #NorthernLights www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

Soon, bald men will be a rare, treasured, beloved and defiant minority.

Mastodon's latest software version brings quote posts with added controls to all servers.

How about posting first on bluesky and then cutting and pasting onto the fascist site? You're doing it backwards.

This is appalling. There has to be a way to hold massive companies accountable for *knowingly* facilitating & profiting from criminal behavior. And yes, I understand the value of Section 230, but here we have a trillion $ company that profits by letting its users get scammed. Has to be a better way.

Move over Guns, Germs, & Steel, there’s a new girl in town: Drones, Phones, & Solar. My latest with @mkblyth.bsky.social for Project Syndicate is out now @projectsyndicate.bsky.social prosyn.org/ONFk3BN

Don't really understand the objections to this data centre. Since most of the opponents don't want industry in an industrial park, not sure how their concerns can be addressed. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"* A commission is meeting this week to review the Americas’ measles and rubella elimination status. * The region could lose its measles-free status because of a Canadian outbreak that has lasted longer than a year." www.healio.com/news/infecti... via @gohealio.bsky.social

Well, I’m certainly not willing to commit to a government backstop for someone who can’t even backstop their own comments

HMCS PROTECTEUR ~ AOR - PROTECTEUR. Commissioned: 30-Aug-69. Builder: Saint John Shipbuilding, Saint John, NB #RCN More: https://readyayeread...

Gold.

Meanwhile in Canada, half of the country lives in provinces ruled by people who think solar is Evil and Unmanly, and the federal government is run by a man lacking both imagination and conviction when it comes to energy and climate policy.

Climate change boosted Hurricane Melissa’s destructive winds and rain, analysis finds

Global drop in parental trust in childhood vaccines linked to measles resurgence medicalxpress.com/news/2025-10... @medicalxpress.com.web.brid.gy