Leaders from the opposition have criticized the Ontario government for not allocating enough money to this year’s firefighting budget. Ford earmarked $150 million to this year’s Emergency Forest Firefighting fund, despite nearly twice that amount having been spent in 2025.

Meta glasses ad vandalized in London https://manualdousuario.net/en/they-live-meta-glasses-kylie-jenner/

I am not a climate scientist but when I was a kid the number of times we couldn’t go outside because of Canadian wildfire smoke was zero times

It’s actually appalling & shocking, no matter how cynical you are. What is wrong with these people*? *all these people driving us faster and faster into utter disaster & dystopia, our PM included.

CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?

ICE — the agency shooting and killing people across America — is now looking for contractors that could help build detention facilities around the world. Documents say these facilities (w/ up to 1,000 beds) would hold immigrants deported from the United States. www.theredoubt.net/ice-detentio...

Notable quote here from former cop Councillor Jon Burnside re: Chow and the police. And it’s true: after that brief budget spat in 2024, she’s given the police everything they’ve asked for in the budget process. www.thestar.com/news/gta/bra...

I think about it too… esp since I’m just a lake away from the US & the sky is literally apocalyptic orange rn

Wowzers. We must not disturb the deep sea with mining, extraction and explosives. There is endless wonder here and so much to carefully discover. www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

Nice writing from @iansample.bluesky.social with a sweet headline on this little gift of a study, published today in Nature Astronomy. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

I think I'd feel differently if this weren't about vanity & wealth. “This is just a new version of an ancient impulse. People used to eat dead bodies. Now we’re shooting them into our bodies.”https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/article/glp-1s-are-shrinking-bodies-cadaver-fat-is-plugging-the-gap/

“A bill currently making its way through Congress seeks to force tech giants to pay for the energy they use…” Um, why wouldn’t tech companies pay for the energy they use? www.techradar.com/pro/a-very-v...

It’s happening! www.adweek.com/media/publis...

Nearly 15% (over 10,000 people) of the total number of Ph.D.s in science, technology, engineering, and math or health fields employed at the end of 2024 left their jobs in 2025. This is a science extinction event in the US. Rebuilding the lost expertise will take decades

Referred to as a death trap, the Thunder Bay District Jail has just had another inmate die in the facility just weeks after First Nations leaders and the family of another man who died there, called for it to be shut down.

Excellent, from @karenattiah.bsky.social.

UN head, Gutierrez: @unrwa.org is near its breaking point. Translation: Israel has, intentionally, broken UNRWA to rid itself of the refugee question. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

New from McIntyre & Chughtai, who tackle that wretched OHS pyramid, "designed for construction workers facing physical hazards [that]...can feasibly be eliminated...For healthcare worker, hazard is the patient, who can neither be eliminated or substituted ..." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Last week, we launched the Attacks on Science Tracker, documenting incidents & how they connect across agencies, policies, and topics using interactive graphics. It acts as a public record of how the government has politicized science & undermined scientific integrity, now and well into the future:

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Israel deliberately targeted Palestinian children in Gaza, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, according to a new UN inquiry. The report says more than 20,000 children were killed between October 2023 and October 2025. Israel rejected the findings.

I mean yes, and point taken but it’s weird to imagine that being human is something you should have to (ugh) lean into. Does this mean reminding myself Death is coming, or worrying that the polished style AI plagiarized from ME makes me sound like a (much better) LLM?

I posted this earlier but realize I didn't note how much this headline buries the lede: this incredible collection is at risk due to, guess who, Trump.

I totally forgot I wrote this one! Sadly, like most of my writing on power dynamics and how they shape health, societal, or environmental outcomes, it's only more relevant three years later. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2023...

"The War on Drugs made an error" is like "the car ran over the pedestrian". It's also a vast understatement that elides right wing pols' endless, lucrative 'drug war' on mostly poor & racialized people, an error that causes devastated lives & preventable deaths. nationalpost.com/news/canada/...

SO much to say re Cdn mining villainy & Carney's brand-new elimination of Office of the Canadian Ombudsperson for Responsible Enterprise (CORE), Canada's chronically leaderless but vital mining watchdog. But there just the visceral reaction too. UGH, yuck, gross. www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/ar...

About time. www.nytco.com/press/a-i-jo...

See you in court, Prime Minister Carney. LEARN MORE >> ecojustice.ca/news/youth-u... @environmentaldefence.ca @cape-acme.bsky.social

Implementation, specifically the enforcement part of that, is always the Achilles heel of these exciting advances in law. I’m still hopeful that the rights of nature legislation will get teeth while shifting norms in a meaningful way.

Well said.

Finally the Lancet has published a call for a boycott of the Israeli Medical Association. It's been a long time coming, and a lot of complicity in whitewashing Israeli medical complicity in destruction of health, healthcare, healthcare workers, and life in Gaza. www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/call...

Indeed.

“A nonscientific, political process for determining what is scientifically sound has not worked in the past and will not work now. Lysenkoism demonstrated that allowing politics to control the scientific process can halt or even reverse a nation’s progress”

If you're in Toronto, come out on the 24th of June to show solidarity with Palestine. Share space with comrades who love football and despise FIFA

The more we learn about the natural world the more terrible it seems that 'we' are annihilating most of it faster than we can possibly explore its wonders. journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

Racists like Trump & Hegseth steal phrasing from natural as well as human worlds to advance unsavoury agendas. Human migration metaphors in conservation biology were already fraught—yes, they feed these warmongering trolls; also, they're bad metaphors. I wrote about it. undark.org/2025/10/02/i...

“It’s crazy that resistance today is just about reminding the world of its values,” she said. “And that doing so seems like a radical stance.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

A little bit of good news here in the battle for the Internet. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Hopefully he’s keeping warm and toasty now.

Horrendous.

Well yeah. What the Liberal government is doing now has nothing to do with economic sense except if you are in the oil industry, or beholden to it for obscure or obvious reasons. I think similar analysis applies to the kind of investments being made in AI & data centres.

Very moving indeed. I'm a bit surprised there's no mention in the CBC story of DULF's compassion club (or other non-med, community-based safer supply & safer use initiatives) & Jeremy Kalicum & Eris Nyx' ongoing constitutional challenge. (thetyee.ca/News/2025/12... and filtermag.org/canada-drug-...)

I didn't start out knowing anything about AI. But after learning about absolutely incredible applications of machine learning and then turning to generative AI with crappy LLMs, I've become aware that AI is a very broad concept. What the vast majority of opponents are against is tech bro scam gAI.

Vía @billmckibben.bsky.social. La Caisse pension fund takes fundamentals —not much more fundamental to energy assets than climate change—into account when assessing value. With success. www.top1000funds.com/featured-sto...

This is ridiculous, @theguardian.com: "Iran launched missiles at Israel on Sunday in response to Israeli strikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs, shattering a fragile ceasefire". Who shattered the ceasefire, then? In fact, whose actions have repeatedly made it 'fragile', (aka 'violated')?

Experts and everyone else, except the minority for whom it represents an incredible new vehicle for the seizure of power and public resources. The faster the better.

Good god every person mentioned here is a comic book-style villain. Each should be equally ashamed of association with the other.