Let’s give the PM time to at least attempt the impossible—eg to balance green & other economic initiatives & deal with a very difficult neighbour. He’s working with the right mix of criteria, including affordability, Indigenous rights, climate urgency, democratic process & global responsibility

... & just wait until he realizes how cheap solar and wind are... Secretary Burgum refers to "expensive sources like wind and solar." He should check out the @carbonbrief.org brief below: www.carbonbrief.org/un-five-reas...

We will not yield.

"Fossil fuel pollution is overheating Canadian forests, spawning an out-of-control wildfire crisis" & yet, in another part of our collective mind, all we can think about is burning more & more oil & gas...for those lovely paycheques...which we will then spend to deal with #extremeweather

Canadian & US businesses need to take a serious look at the 'Business for 75%' initiative of Australian businesses: www.businessfor75.com.au www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/31/former-un-climate-chief-urges-australia-to-set-prosperity-target-of-cutting-emissions-by-75-by-2035

"The iconic butterfly’s population has decreased by around 80% in the past two decades, says the paper published in the journal Current Biology, with the loss of breeding habitat cited as the main reason behind the sharp decline" We need Environment Canada to rally us @juliedabrusin.bsky.social

"NatCon 5...is organized around a right-wing ideology called 'National Conservativism,' which emphasizes isolationism, xenophobia, theocracy, anti-LGBTQIA+ bigotry, right-wing populism, heavy handed law enforcement, & a crackdown on academic freedom at universities"

Poilievre wants to block efforts to reduce GHG emissions as one way of coping with the cost of living (clean fuel regs, pipelines, EVs...) But #climatecosts are a major driver of the cost of living Ask Canadians who have lost homes & businesses to wildfires & floods x.com/i/broadcasts...

"Honey, I don't have much time. I've been arrested by ICE and they are sending me to a detainment center. I love you and the kids, I will be OK, please call our attorney" -- John Shin, DACA resident, speaking to his wife last week. She hasn't heard from him since www.fox13now.com/news/local-n...

Dealing with 6 threats to American democracy: • Pardons to License Lawbreaking • Investigations Against Critics and Rivals • Regulatory Retaliation • Federal Law Enforcement Overreach • Domestic Deployment of the Military • Refusal to leave office

Devastating portrait of how massive ideologically-driven cuts have compromised America's awesome strengths in scientific research—including medical research This is where political targetting of 'government inefficiency', taxes & bureaucratic 'gatekeepers' leads... Cicumspection is vital

"Earlier this week, the Trump administration said it would expand its rigorous screening & vetting of social media posts of immigrant visa applicants to search for so-called anti-American views & activity" Disastrous for millions & the founding principles of the United States

As they say, win-win

Something refreshing

If what you are doing is lawful, take off your masks

She would have been amazing in the House

It's curious that Canadian populism (I'm thinking of you, Pierre) hasn't grabbed hold of the need to defend all those good people who are losing their livelihoods to wildfires, warm/acidic oceans, storms, floods, drought, smoke/pollution... Instead, we get nostrums about hard work, taxes, family...

"You are wrong on the law and you are wrong on safety. Most of all you are wrong on cities. The cities that live in your mind are totally foreign to the residents living in our cities” Michelle Wu speaking to Trump officials on behalf of US city mayors (1:08)

"I won’t just go along quietly with their intimidation or their discrimination"

"Republicans have moved to eradicate their deepest fear: a multiracial, multiethnic democracy" "Autocracies must quash communities whose stories challenge the myth of a perfect past"

See Boston Mayor Wu's response: content.boston.gov/sites/default/files/file/2025/08/Response%20AG%20Bondi.pdf Boston maintains "full compliance with the law" (e.g., criminal warrants & legitimate joint action with the FBI) but is "standing up to unconstitutional threats and unlawful coercion"

"Boston will not back down from who we are and what we stand for" - @mayorwu.boston.gov Impressive

I sat through Poilievre’s victory speech. Some strong points; some weak; some really worrisome. One key omission: recognition of fellow candidates—notably Critchley, Spady, Swampy & MacDonald. Some very good people there www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti...

Armed US Park Police officer to guys on their porch in DC: “The quality of life offenses—smoking, drinking in public—it can’t happen outside, right? Most people know that. So we’re contacting people, trying to advise them of the law so they learn, right?" Land of the free, home of the brave

To the 38 oil/gas signatories to the Carney open letter: We need you to address the extreme cost of extreme weather In Canada & globally we're losing $billions upon $billions Incremental work to make our emissions 'cleaner' is not enough @mark-carney.bsky.social www.suncor.com/-/media/proj...

What obligations do states have to tackle #climatechange? The ICJ’s answer: "States have a duty to protect their citizens from climate change – a duty rooted not only in treaties like the Paris climate agreement, but also in environmental law, human-rights law, & customary international law"

"solar and batteries are both getting cheaper so consistently and so quickly that it is literally difficult to keep up. Even energy professionals have trouble keeping up" Let's ride this curve! @mark-carney.bsky.social @brucefanjoy.bsky.social See ember-energy.org/latest-insig...

It is shameful that Saskatchewan plans to extend coal to 2050, when it has the best solar and wind resources in Canada. If every other OECD country has this figured out, and if AB has done it, why can’t we?

Maybe it's there somewhere, but I don't see any kind of solar power initiative Solar+batteries is jobs-producing, economy-boosting, cheaper, faster to get up & running + climate-conscious Plus it allows decentralization of power sources (do we really need energy grids?) @mark-carney.bsky.social

For those following the DOE climate report, DOE is getting sued because they didn't follow the relevant laws. www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel...

Rep. Adam Smith: "Look, it's pretty clear the president wants his own domestic police force and step by step he's trying to create it. We should be deeply alarmed by that regardless of how you feel about crime in DC or any other city ... it's a huge step toward an autocratic government."

Freedom needs skeptics. Also, experts.

If an oncologist tells you it’s best to stop drinking alcohol, do you then keep drinking alcohol? If a scientist in atmospheric chemistry tells you it’s best to stop emitting greenhouse gases, do you then keep emitting? Freedom works best with expertise

"While the pickles are assembled in Green Bay, Wis., Oakland said the company buys 11 million pounds of Ontario cucumbers every year and said all the lids on the jars come from an Ontario manufacturer" DJT: Way to wreck yet another cross-border collaboration

"Canada's laissez-faire approach to public health, security and environmental responsibility is unravelling decades of goodwill and cross-border co-operation" Wildfire smoke is a problem (all over) Solution: urgent emissions cuts (NB: #COP30) Allies: these same Republican representatives

"The US has spent nearly $1 trillion dollars on disaster recovery & other climate-related needs over the 12 months ending May 1" Even the US can't keep paying out billions & billions for bad weather Driving down #emissions helps drive down #climatecosts www.insurancejournal.com/news/nationa...

A serious energy policy would maximize the energy available from stored-up solar, wind, geothermal & small hydro installations: it's cheaper, faster, less-damaging, job-creating, sovereignty-enhancing & profitable & it helps knock back the wildfires, floods, heat, drought... x.com/i/status/195...

Massive floods in Valencia or Dharali or Beijing or along the Guadalupe or wherever… These disasters are our concern They give us a heads-up on what what can happen, pretty much anywhere & an opportunity to work in solidarity with our friends around the world—its own reward x.com/i/status/195...

#Poilievre is a federalist, but he wants a weak national government, provincial alliances based on shared grievances & unrestrained oil & gas exports We need a vision of what Canada is beyond the self-interest of each province & sustained neglect of the global #climatecrisis x.com/i/status/195...

We cannot allow this kind of brutality to move north into Canada (& why would we join a country where this is happening?) Here is #Poilievre speaking in the House of Commons about 500,000 people "living illegally" in Canada, 'losing control of our borders', 'weak leaders'...: x.com/i/status/186...

The American President has an uncanny ability to alienate even the friendliest of countries How can the Americans hope to thrive with no friends? www.bbc.com/news/articles/c987l633zdgo

"there is nothing Mr. Trump can do to force [financial markets] to fund his debts, or to prop up the US dollar..." Hope so. But law firms are caving: www.reuters.com/investigations/trumps-war-big-law-leads-firms-retreat-pro-bono-work-underdogs-2025-07-31/ www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Along with our partners, we'll see the Trump administration in court.

"Eliminating funds or scaling down the operations of Earth-observing satellites would be catastrophic and would severely impair our ability to forecast, manage, and respond to severe weather and climate disasters..."

Will these meteorologists, hydrologists & radar technicians be able to report the weather as they find it? A string of nasty storms, wildfires, floods & heat waves could have all the appeal of negative labour statistics But perhaps we will find consensus on the need to deal with #extremeweather...

"Yet with no basis in fact, Trump charged that Erika McEntarfer, the commissioner of labor statistics, 'rigged' the data 'to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad'" "This is a man and a regime that doesn’t want the public to know the truth. He is turning the US into George Orwell’s dystopian 1984"

CPB cut in the US: $1.1 billion Proposed CBC cut in Canada (if #Poilievre gets in): ~$1.0 billion (x.com/i/status/191...) US impacts: PBS, NPR, 1,500 local stations, rural communities www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/01/corporation-for-public-broadcasting-closure

"These are un-American attempts to restrict the kinds of stories and jokes that may be told, to silence criticism and dissent. We don’t have a king, we have a president. And the president doesn’t get to pick what’s on television, in movie theaters, on stage, on our bookshelves, or in the news"

We keep asking whether (and how fast) we are moving back to Fascism... We're actually headed back to Feudalism—enforced loyalty & service to a King (& his Lords) in exchange for favours of land, money, position, protection King George must be some amused