“But current #economic #models used by #governments and #financialinstitutions entirely miss such shocks, the researchers said, instead forecasting that steady #economic #growth will be slowed only by gradually rising average #temperatures” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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If I die, I want my remains to be scattered at the US Capitol. Do not cremate me.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

That would make him the main character.

www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/medi... #Canada tomorrow is auto manufacturing industry announcement day!!

Reminder that you don’t need to use Amazon for much. Bonus, in addition to denying Jeff Bezos your business and supporting local businesses and many other good things: You might enjoy the actual human interactions, which we can all use right now, while shopping in your community.

Former BlackBerry employees bring back physical keyboard with new smartphone www.ctvnews.ca/kitchener/ar...

Toronto longer days. After 6 pm.

gee this sounds like something the rich would say

CHRÉTIEN: At this moment, our friend from the south has created a mood that a Canadian have never been so proud to be Canadian ... The desire to have a referendum is very low in Quebec. I don't know what the hell is going on in Alberta. HARPER: I didn't sign the petition.

Hey @globalnews.ca I see you missed the fact TESLA's are made in China too. Why is that? globalnews.ca/video/116470...

Businesses on the northeast corner of Bloor and Spadina are all shuttered. New building coming we presume. But when? It used to be such a lively space.

The world weighing in.

Next time someone asks you about energy and land use, maybe remind them that the ~35 million acres that currently grow corn for ethanol in the US could produce ~15 PWh per year of electricity from solar photovoltaics. That's ~3.5 times more than *total annual generation from all US power plants*.

Trump is mad or jealous? 😂🤣😅

Going to a CPR course tomorrow and listening to 100-120 beats a minute songs. Really enjoying some I didn't know. Mean by Taylor Swift was great. That's good because i don't want to hum Another one bites the dust. Memorable though.

*IMF: #Services matter most. Roughly four-fifths of the total #GDP gains would come from liberalizing #servicessectors. This reflects their growing weight in the #economy and their role as inputs into nearly all other activities. #cdnecon #internaltradebarriers #Canada www.imf.org/en/news/arti...

A male Pileated Woodpecker (Dryocopus pileatus) working hard in winter. It's identified by its prominent flaming-red crest. These birds create distinctive large, rectangular holes in dead or decaying wood while foraging for their primary prey, Carpenter ants. #birds #woodpecker

Shout out to the unequal thruple set to watch Melania alone on opening night this Friday at Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto. Only three seats sold across four showings.

“ #financialization is the least studied and least explored reason behind our inability to create a #sharedprosperity.” open.substack.com/pub/annpetti... #USdollar #MarkCarney

DeAdder does it again!

That's a pretty airport.

I look forward to Doug Ford setting a Cadillac on fire and swearing to ban sales of GM vehicles in Ontario.

I see we're getting some minus four T-shirt weather next week.

Alberta's separatists are convinced that the biggest threat to their prosperity comes from Ottawa. They ought to be looking to China and India instead -- and realize that an independent Alberta would be powerless against them. #cdnpoli #ableg www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/27/o...

With China's shrinking workforce, miniscule immigration, real estate bust, & focus on exports, we have echoes of Japan's economy in the late-80s. Selling EVs and solar panels & getting back IOUs in #$USD risks what Japan suffered; a bad trade - pennies on the $ when it is all said and done.

Europe hit a historic milestone as EV sales surpassed gas cars for the first time, despite geopolitical headwinds. insideevs.com/news/785541/...

Despite some concerted efforts to effect the contrary, solar + wind + nuclear accounted for ~100% of global electricity generation growth in the first 11 months of 2025.

It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.

The big challenge for Doug Ford with Chinese EVs? Ontarians might like them. #cdnpoli The premier worries that, once we let them in, they’ll be hard to get rid of. But that’ll only happen if drivers demand them. www.tvo.org/article/anal...

According to the long range forecast the only way we're getting rid of these piles is sublimation. Yay sublimation.

My little car is much bigger now.

Umm… hard NO to this. Has this master of strategery learned nothing from Trump’s behaviour? No amount of appeasement nor pride swallowing will satisfy Trump. It just emboldens the next ask/demand. Firm resolve. Build what’s in our control. And stay the course as a sovereign nation. 🇨🇦

This is the view near High Park in #Toronto. We’re quickly entering record breaking territory with the most snow to fall in one day. The lake effect snow just won’t quit. #Canada

Stepped out on to the street to take this photo and the snow was up to my knees. And I'm 6 feet tall.

Streetcars still running! #toronto #ONstorm #ttc #snowTO

We just published our full analysis of the ICE killing of Alex Pretti on Bellingcat www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

#ONstorm here in midtown #toronto! Now this is a lot of #snow. Second time shoveling today and may have to do another round before bed. This is like a 1980s #winter!

It’s now up to 60cm. My lord.

The backyard patio table snow meter is looking impressive already, and apparently the really heavy snowfall hasn't even got going yet! #dlws

Thank God there were people filming. This administration would have said Alex Pretti pulled a handgun, a package of fentanyl, and a signed copy of the Communist Manifesto if they could.

USA: We cannot compete cheap Chinese production workers. China: Xiaomi just unveiled a factory that makes 1 phone per second, runs 24/7, has no production workers, and operates in the dark.

Windbound Woodbine Park. #Toronto #Winter #SnowTO #Photography

Yet more reason to trust projections that global oil demand will soon level off and decline www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

PM Carney calls on Canadians to buy Canadian

Some may not think it is enough, but when enough do this you hit usa where it hurts the most: The wallet.