Actually, we need to ditch the Harper targets and get new ones in line with maintaining 1.5 deg. THEN, we need to actually meet them. #cdnpoli

"A life is a life. We are duty-bound, all of us, to protect each other. This duty is indivisible, just as our common humanity is indivisible." "I declare that, today, France recognizes the State of Palestine."

Pennsylvania was an early pioneer in renewable energy, but its progress stalled out in the early 2000s. Will the state ever catch up?

Trump 🤝 Ford

Here's what Parks Canada shared on social media about the bloom: www.facebook.com/share/p/1FKZ...

France recognises Palestine and calls for UN force in Gaza

Ford's gravy train ▶️Pace Law Donate $28,000 Receive $3.3M ▶️King animal hospital Donate $80,000 Receive $1.3M ▶️FGF Brands Donate $66,000 Receive $1.2M Ford is using the $2.5 billion Jobs Training Fund as a personal slush fund Auditor General is investigating www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

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Incredible. Italy brought to a standstill as Italians descend to the streets to protest for Gaza. No business as usual. Schools closed. Businesses closed. Shameful on the rest of us. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

🔥JUST IN! Production Gap Report 2025: productiongap.org/2025report/

This in every way.

🚨Major development: Canadian PM Carney says Canada would participate in a multi-national, region-led force to enforce peace in Palestine youtube.com/watch?v=uuYl... Today, I wrote about how this must be considered if the atrocities & annexation are to stop: justiceinconflict.org/2025/09/22/c...

"When you reduce speed, you do two things for the injury,' said Howard. 'One is you reduce the probability of that injury happening in the first place … Then when you look at the injury force (if it does happen), are you going to get a mild injury or a severe injury?” www.thestar.com/news/gta/tor...

“Regenerative agriculture” is the latest buzzy marketing term in the food world, but without a clear, regulated definition or strong certification programs, it means little, critics say.

Sometimes, when something really really needs to be said, @lindamcquaig.bsky.social just says it so well. archive.today/q35Kr

Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza Strip, a United Nations independent commission concluded in a report published today.

It’s official: the United Nations Commission of Inquiry concludes Israel is committing genocide. The UN body calls on nations to stop sending weapons to Israel, ensure people within their jurisdiction aren’t aiding or inciting the genocide, and hold those who are accountable.

Nearly 150 members of the 193 that make up the United Nations have already recognized Palestinian statehood.

For sixth time, US vetoes United Nations Gaza ceasefire resolution - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/sixth-time-us-vetoes-united-nations-gaza-ceasefire-resolution

The United Nations General Assembly on Friday voted to allow Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to address its annual meeting of world leaders by video after the United States revoked his visa last month. https://to.pbs.org/47SdZBA

The United States’ legitimacy is fatally compromised. It must be removed from the United Nations Security Council posthaste.

The head of Amnesty International says the U.S. is abusing its position as host of the United Nations in New York. "The United States is holding all of us hostage," says Agnès Callamard. https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/18/amnesty_international

The head of an independent United Nations commission that concludes Israel has committed genocide in Gaza argues that countries supplying weapons to Israel, like the United States, are also complicit.

Macron announces that Portugal will also recognize the State of Palestine this Monday at the United Nations General Assembly

“We sail because governments have failed. We sail because silence enables atrocity. We sail to uphold human dignity.” 🇵🇸 Melanie Schweizer of the Global Sumud Flotilla details the aims of the largest convoy to Gaza since the blockade began.

Well done! @cityofburnaby.bsky.social @mayorofburnaby.bsky.social & all the grassroots campaigners & orgs that made this happen, including @indjewishvoices.bsky.social & @wbwcanada.bsky.social . 1 of MANY votes that will lead to a full #ArmsEmbargoNOW & #StopFundingIsraeliApartheid in #CdnPoli

I am sickened by the relentless demonisation of refugees. No refugee underfunded a school. No refugee closed a hospital. No refugee took away support from the sick and disabled. We need solutions not scapegoats. Stop blaming refugees and tax the rich instead!

Follow @palenergyembargo.bsky.social & the #GlobalEnergyEmbargo4Palestine : pls SIGN & SHARE the #petition (link below), repost & share their other actions to #StopFuellingGenocide & #StopFuellingApartheid

Thousands of activists marched down Park Avenue and turned down Billionaires Row toward Trump Tower in New York Saturday to “Make Billionaires Pay,” calling for climate justice, democracy, free speech, gender equality, a stop to the Trump’s immigration crackdown and a ceasefire in Gaza.

Toronto rises to fight for justice #drawtheline

Actually, it must have been no earlier than 1990. Probably 1991.

“In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

My review of Toronto’s new Mass timber tower: a quiet triumph. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

Trump “is immediately casting blame on his political opponents, demonizing and turning the heat up,” National Affairs Editor Mark Follman tells our friends at @revealnews.org. “And that is a recipe for more violence. The very top of our political leadership is stoking a political and cultural war.”

A military strike killing civilians Who haven't been accused of a crime In international waters Solely on Trump's orders With no legal justification i s m u r d e r .

‘A defining moment’: Trinidad and Tobago at a crossroads as oil runs out

TORONTO: #DrawTheLine FOR PEOPLE, PEACE & THE PLANET Rally & March Sep 20, 14:00 (2:00 PM) Yonge and Dundas Carney cuts services while billionaires profit. WE UNITE: 💰 Tax the rich 🌾 Land Back ✊ Status for All 🕊️ Arms embargo on Israel 🌍 End fossil fuels ⚡️& MORE drawtheline.world

I sure wish that classical music station hosts, when introducing a piece performed by the CBC Radio Orchestra, would say “…which no longer exists due to budget cuts in 2008”. I bet more people would support the CBC if they understood how it has been chipped away, and how that affects their lives.

Not a chance…

If this report is approved by council, starting next year, the city will start offering an 80% subsidy on rain barrels. Free delivery too. Hard to say no to an offer like that. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Arlene said it best

Premier Doug Ford: "I know how to slow down traffic. ... There's different methodologies. You do the little circles, you do the speed bumps, you do the flashing signs.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This comes as Israel faces more and more pressure from the international community to stop the war, especially since the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) determined that Israeli policy has created a famine in Gaza. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/5K2Iul

"Regulating the e-bike & scooter batteries that are coming in to the country, that is the key to this. The reason everyone's cell phones are not bursting into flames is because they’re regulated.” ~ Toronto Fire Chief Jim Jessop

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Israel’s military launched its ground assault on Monday “to occupy Gaza City,” killing at least 62 Palestinians, most of them in the city, according to Axios and the Wafa news agency. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/k3tiwn pic.x.com/GeRMd5IGJO

If your top security issue is China – which country do you think will have a greater geopolitical advantage in the future? The one that is clear-eyed about climate change trajectories, or the one relying on pseudo-science to prop up the fossil fuel industry? More from me here:

”Emissions from the wealthiest 10% in the United States and China led to a two- to threefold increase in heat extremes across vulnerable regions.” #Inequality www.nature.com/articles/s41...

7/ Poli sci also good at thinking abt climate & global orders (e.g. @robertfalkner.bsky.social, @busbyj2.bsky.social) but less abt energy transition as a new organizing principle for order (shameless plug alert: my new book thinks about this in a narrower way). press.princeton.edu/books/ebook/...