"Save, baby, save". Why energy efficiency is also a nation-building project, and why the Carney government should be embracing it more aggressively. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/07/o...

UNIVERSAL basic income? But why should we include Elon Musk? Because by including everyone, including Elon, universal programs become seen as RIGHTS. A program for only the poor will always be weaker than a universal one and will always exclude a great many of the poorest that universality reaches.

Someone just asked if we minded if they use one of our posters (the one below) in a presentation, with attribution of course — ABSOLUTELY! The more you help spread them, the more good they do! Repetition, repetition, repetition! Please include attribution, and a shout out if you can! #UrbanTruth

Every single day, I notice at least one vehicle idling unnecessary as I bike around my city. Gas is not expensive enough.

When we launched the #1HourCityConspiracy campaign, clapping back on the lies & disinformation about 15-Minute Cities, @carlosmorenofr.bsky.social (originator of the game-changing Paris program) weighed in with strong support. “The real ‘urban conspiracy’ isn’t proximity, it’s distance.” #UrbanTruth

Cyclists get mad that drivers are killing and injuring people and are treated as hysterical meanies Drivers throw a fit over losing 4 parking spots and are treated as people with serious concerns over how our streets should be designed

How about in Manitoba, instead of another insanely expensive, climate-killing gas tax cut that benefits mostly the F150 Raptor drivers (and other gas guzzlers), we have an E-bike rebate? #MbPoli #CleanTech www.cbc.ca/news/climate...

Where your voice, @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social? Condemnation, not just "concern". Carte blanche to defy, break, flout, trample on international law has to stop. There must be consequences not just the government version of thoughts and prayers.

Footage shows the moment Israeli naval forces intercept one of the vessels in the Global Sumud Flotilla, near Crete around 500 nautical miles from the Gaza strip. Around 175 activists have been reportedly detained.

“One mile on a bike is a $.42 economic gain to society, one mile driving is a $.20 loss.” “Which means that Copenhagen, a city of 1.2 million people, saves $357 million a year on health costs because something like 80% of its population commutes by bike.” #CityMakingMath Some costs are savings.

WATCH: “You’ve been lied to about roads for 60 years.” And you’re still being lied to today. Building more and wider roads WON’T reduce traffic congestion or support the economy. But they WILL cost us billions, increase pollution, emissions, noise and road deaths, and trap us in longer commutes.

Does Vassy not hear herself being ridiculous? Oh boo hoo, what about the obscene profits these corporate grifters are making off the current war crisis that is hastening the climate catastrophe? If we dare tax them so the government can help parents feed their kids, the corporations may storm off!

Your regular reminder that when it comes to whether or not a crash happens at all, and whether or not people die or are injured in that crash, speed is ALWAYS a factor. ALWAYS. #UrbanTruth via @t4america.bsky.social & @smartgrowthusa.bsky.social

If only there was such a swift and decisive response when someone drives over a pedestrian or cyclist or bus passenger. I can't imagine where this youth learned to be so callous about the lives of anything outside their own vehicle. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...

From mail delivery to healthcare, we’re seeing the same pattern: underfund it, cut it down, then sell it off. Our public services were built for people, not for private profit. #StopPrivatization

You’re asking us to essentially help fund large private companies?! Are you out of your mind lol. These should be publicly built and publicly owned projects, not PPP’s where wealthy private interests are getting even more of our money.

here’s my latest for @nationalobserver.com on how it’s both smart policy and politics for the federal NDP to go after surveillance pricing www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/24/n...

Mark Carney. Julie Dabrusin, Wab Kinew. Mike Moyes. Scott Gillingham. Janice Lukes. Jeff Browaty.

Every day I ride my bike to work is Earth Day

A CBC investigation has found big grocers are overcharging for meat - AGAIN. Sign the petition to call on the CFIA to crack down on these scammy pricing practices: leadnow.ca/campaigns/cf...

Let that number sink in. They can afford to pay an excess profits tax: $30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The inflated cost of oil and gas is hurting Canadians, while fossil fuel companies reap the profits. Pausing the excise tax on gas doesn't solve the problem. Real affordability & resilience means ending our dependence on volatile fossil fuels. Our statement 👇 shorturl.at/39LrG

2,400 artists in NYC got $1,000 per month in basic income for 18 months beginning in 2022. Same as in Ireland, the results were overwhelmingly positive. Artists spent more time on their art and became more satisfied with the quality and impact of their work. DO UBI source.washu.edu/2026/04/guar...

Remember: There is nothing natural or inevitable about extreme inequality; it’s the result of an economic system that values wealth and power over human dignity and justice. It doesn't have to be this way.

“Basic income has been shown to reduce health care costs, including an 8.5% reduction in hospitalizations. As Dr. Danielle Martin [the newly elected Liberal MP in today’s by-election] has so pointedly said, “If we discovered a drug that reduced hospitalizations by 8.5%, we’d put it in the water.”

You couldn’t find a better word to describe our current state than “complacent.” But treating democracy as inevitable is risky because self-government is anything but set-it-and-forget-it, writes @davidmoscrop.com. Moscrop interviews authors Peter MacLeod and Richard Johnson. #canpoli

Huge BDS win on cultural front Giller Prize is no longer partnered w Indigo Books, Azrieli Foundation & Scotiabank In 2023, comrades were arrested protesting the Giller. Then, thousands of writers & book workers refused participation. Giller has now separated from all genocide-invested sponsors.

Next time someone tries arguing that it’s “social engineering” (cue ominous music) to give people more CHOICE to walk, bike & take public transit in their city, tell them that designing our current car DEPENDENCY has been the largest and most damaging social engineering experiment in human history.

The President of the United States is openly threatening to commit genocide against 90 million people. Prime Minister Carney: if there was ever a moment to denounce this illegal war, withdraw your support, and call for accountability for war crimes—it’s now.

(1/) Prime Minister Carney’s silence while Trump openly threatens genocide against millions of people is abhorrent. Real leadership isn’t complicity and cowardice, it means speaking out against Trump’s horrific threats, which channel the rhetoric of fascist dictatorships.

My reaction to #DonaldTrump 's disturbing message today, please watch. Canada needs to be the island of sanity.

@microsoft.com can’t claim to be a leader on climate and then build out massive fossil-fuel facilities that emit millions of tons of climate pollution and poison the people living next door. Except that's exactly what they're doing.

Nobody even uses these roads! Why do we have so many of them and why are they so wide? ;)

This is why I seize every opportunity to suggest that we simply close Osborne to traffic (except buses/tram and emergency vehicles) through the Village. Eventually, people's response will shift from scoffing "that's impossible" to accepting it as inevitable, however much they hate it. :)

Questions about Carney's strategy. My colleague Lucero calls out how this is a strategy for business not nature. 🌎 www.cbc.ca/news/science...

⚠️ Big Tech has free rein in Canada. Every democracy has acted, except us. AI-era online harms are no joke. Demand a platform Duty of Care now! 🇨🇦 openmedia.org/FightOnlineH... @openmedia.org

You mean like forcing every fossil fuel exploration project to clean up after themselves instead of just abandoning sites spewing out methane? Hey, Alberta, are you listening? And you, Canada?

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

Pakistan went from below 2% solar to over 25% solar in just 600 days! Less than 24 months. This graph from @ember-energy.org shows it clearly:

As right leaps to pressure Lewis, we must push left yvesengler.com/2026/03/30/a...

Avi Lewis: "We have shoved Canada Post so far into the market mindset that every few months we have a national conversation about why isn't Canada Post making money. Does the ambulance service make money? Do the police services make money? We're talking about a fundamental public service."

People (included elected officials) keep blaming the immigrants when it turns out, it's the government who is responsible for the problem.

Look at that. Instead of repeating meaningless platitudes and vague concerns, leaders can have some backbone and do real things to resist genocidal and warmongering states.

Canada’s biggest corporations raked in $677 billion last year. Why are they still getting handouts? canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Never forget, for many years Uber insisted it would reduce traffic in cities. Instead, Uber drivers cruise without passengers 40% of the time. Uber & Lyft no longer claim they reduce traffic. They now admit they increase congestion. Now boosters lie about driverless cars. Don’t believe them either.

cancel that f35 contract!

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased. Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power. Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable. But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless. Remember this.

"We wish MPs would stop wasting their time trying to think up new ways to ban long ballots...and instead pass responsibility [to revise the system] to a permanent, independent and nonpartisan body, such as a citizens' assembly," Tomas Szuchewycz, one of the organizers, told CBC News in a statement.

Instead of a fossil fuel-powered generating plant, let's lean in on solar and heat pumps, Wab Kinew. (Why is the Manitoba NDP completely absent from bluesky?!)

The Liberal government is “appalled” at the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, which is causing economic damage. Yet it is utterly silent at the blockade of Cuba, which is causing death to innocents. That’s not only incoherent, it’s immoral.