Carney has slashed 40,000 public service jobs. For context, the oil & gas sector employed 54,600 people in 2025 He's a real job killer. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Imagine what it would be like to have a Premier who cared as much about all of Ontario as Ford does about the 0.06% of the province's landmass that is part of the City of Toronto? #onpoli

Ontario Premier Doug Ford says he is prepared to declare Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport the first special economic zone with the aim to take over city-owned land.

I got threats when I suggested a couple weeks ago that it appeared Doug Ford might be pivoting from “special economic zones” being for red tape reduction to them being for overriding local resistance. Turns out Billy Bishop Airport, not the Ring of Fire, will be the first such zone.

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

I’ve been moaning about this re Toronto for years but it really is a sad Canadian condition. 1967 era was an aberration.

Sadly, @thespec1846.bsky.social didn't compare the cost of widening 5 km of suburban road to the cost of 3 shiny new suburban rec centres, in their article about Eastwood arena closing? #HamOnt has a $300M rec shortfall and a pothole budget of $106M this year alone! www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

if Nancy Pelosi and Fox News hadn't bravely slapped down AOC and the Sunrise kids in 2019 we'd have sky-high gas prices now but also be saddled with high-speed rail, universal childcare, and high-paying union construction jobs

Good morning! This is BAD, folks. Ford not only wants to hide his cell phone logs, he also wants to hide private emails about the Greenbelt. Remember that scandal? This is egregious. We need to push back against this LOUDLY. Pls call this feedback line & say, "NO!". Ford ☎️: 416 325 1941

If you've wondered whether the techno-optimist contingent of the climate coalition ever really cared about climate change, you might consider that, nearly to a one, they've pivoted from decarbonization to working on providing power to "hyperscalers" (which is to say, to AI companies). 🙄

Potentially sixty years to electrify some GO lines. What are we even doing here. www.torontotoday.ca/local/transp...

The failed P3 for GO train operations is casting a long shadow, especially in maintenance talent development and retention. www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...

Important to note that "closed loop cooling" doesn't necessarily mean water neutral. These systems also contain glycol, anti-corrosives and biocides (to prevent, rust, freezing and bacteria) that have to be "bled out" every month - where will those chemical go? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

the "study" he says is by the University of Alberta is actually by THE GOVERNMENT OF ALBERTA and it is EXTREMELY PROBLEMATIC and the authors are very good friends and donors to the UCP please read this thread www.cp24.com/video/2026/0...

“If records about government business can be shielded from scrutiny simply because they sit in a minister’s office, on a staffer’s device, or within a political account, public accountability is eviscerated.” - Ontario’s Information and Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim #OnPoli

So muncipalities cut DC revenue and the province cuts HST revenue? So where's the money for water and roads coming from @mayorandreahorwath.bsky.social? Existing #HamOnt renters and homeowners, that's who.

No paywall on this important article, which identifies three reasons for the decline in GO’s locomotives and rail cars. – COVID service suspensions, where maintenance was reduced on stored trains – longer periods between regular maintenance – The botched 2024 DB service contact

New: Metrolinx’s GO train fleet is in "poor" condition and assets could "begin to fail" this year, according to an internal draft report. #onpoli www.thetrillium.ca/news/municip...

In January, I used documents I received from an FOI to report this story, which revealed how much the province was spending on its Ring of Fire ad campaign. One budget line lists nearly $60,000 for “additional costs as a result of eliminating shoe scene from TV spot.” 🧵

The Ontario government wants to rewrite the law that compelled it to disclose documents revealing the Greenbelt land scandal, the Skills Development Fund controversy and others. For @nationalobserver.com 🧵

Research participants wanted in #HamOnt! Live, work or receive services in that area and/or the downtown core? This is for you! See the poster for more details/email Fiona at [email protected] with any Qs you may have. To register and details go to: peach.healthsci.mcmaster.ca/research-pro...

His Chicago fascination showing through again - he specifically says he wants two big airports like Chicago - but Midway is NOT comparable with Billy Bishop. Here's Toronto turned 90 degrees with where O'Hare and Midway would be vis-a-vis downtown. It's not as if Midway is smack dab on Navy Pier

NEW: The Ford government has confirmed it is amalgamating Ontario’s 36 conservation authorities into just nine, a move critics fear will reduce key environmental protections and the government argues is necessary to provide “consistent services.” #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1172382...

This is the cloud of oil currently hovering over Tehran, released when the US bombed the city's oil depots. A stew of particulate matter, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, heavy metals & volatile organic compounds is raining down into the city right now. 1/2

Minnesota lawmaker Katie Jones rode in a cargo e-bike to the hospital for her baby's birth. Her husband, Peter Schmitt, pedaled the two miles there. On the return journey, their son Hans – all 8 pounds and 1 ounce of him – was bundled up and handled it just fine, Jones said.

There’s just a few days left for #HamOnt residents to comment about this ERO proposal to grant Dofasco a renewed permit to operate above the standard provincial limits on air & noise pollution: ero.ontario.ca/notice/026-0... Hamilton routinely has the worst air quality in Ontario

🏭 Industrial Emissions and Air Quality Across the Bay Area Hamilton is one of Canada’s most industrialized cities. Heavy industry, steel manufacturing, transportation corridors, and shipping activity contribute to local air pollution across the Bay Area. #HamOnt #ClimateJustice

« Choosing to decimate arts and cultural funding, equity programs, and the like while letting big extractive industries run over the province without meaningful royalty payments is a political choice. » eg. 1% net royalty revenue for gold mining!

A #HamOnt police officer, back at work after he was investigated for sharing racist and extremist content online, is again displaying a sticker "associated with white nationalist extremism" on his vehicle, a community group says. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"Citizens Against Pollution will meet at the Hamilton Stadium's City Lounge on the second floor on Tuesday. Doors open at 6 p.m." @nrindernann.bsky.social @environmenthamont.bsky.social

I appreciate the Mayor calling this out and the Spec for reporting it. Just because it's not immediately obvious, it doesn't mean it's not white supremacy. White supremacists and far right nationalists are organizing in our city. Silence is not an option. #HamOnt www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...

Will the OLT kill the Garner Marsh, and can you "move" a wetland? What's going on with green steel and Dofasco's ERO posting to get an exemption to air pollution standards? And how does it impact life in #hamont? Join as we discuss it all on Zoom this Wed Feb 25th Register here: shorturl.at/sgqEG

Hey #HamOnt! This is NOT going to be an event you want to miss! Register here: zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The lower Great Lakes region has super bad air quality today, and one of the big causes is, surprisingly, melting snow. The warm snap is melting the snow banks, releasing all the car exhaust & toxins & rotting debris in the snow. Which,coupled with lack of wind and rain, sits in the air as smog

The world's richest man is broadcasting eliminationist rhetoric about a tiny, vulnerable minority, and virtually no one is going to treat it as a scandal. It's just normal now.

Canada is acting as a middleman, not a middle power—serving as a conduit for profits from human rights abuses and fossil fuels. By Muneeb Javaid @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

“We’re not climate deniers” is something that policy makers axing the 0.08% of their $2.8B budget allocated to emission reductions, will need to continue saying.

City staff are now outlining the "2027 pressures" and that they'll "have to reset" the forecast to reflect growing pressures. The 2027 budget is going to be a disaster, with no reserves remaining. #yhmcc

Council is now onto Spadafora/Francis proposal to defer the 2026 Climate Change Reserve investment to 2027. Both say they do not deny climate change - make arguments why they are not "defunding climate action". Friendly reminder - they tried to defund the reserve last year too. #HamOnt

Fearing that educated judges might rule on climate cases, Republican Attorneys General successfully bullied the The Federal Judicial Center (the education & research arm of the federal court system) into removing a chapter summarizing climate science from their scientific judicial reference manual.

In 2014, New York City lowered its citywide default speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph. In the year that followed: - Traffic fatalities fell by more than 22 percent - Pedestrian fatalities fell by more than 25 percent transalt.org/reports-list...

ATTN: Ward 3 & Main St neighbours. Councillors who live no where near you are trying to stop Main St safety & complete streets interventions this budget. I know families who lost loved one or experienced critical injuries and will continue to fight for you. Pls email [email protected] to connect.

Are #HamOnt Councillors about to defund climate action? Read on for more info - and be sure to follow @hamilton350org.bsky.social and @cyclehamilton.bsky.social if you are not already too!

"German scientists are warning that global warming is accelerating, that the planet could heat by as much as 3 C over pre-industrial levels by 2050... The consequences would be catastrophic." davidsuzuki.org/story/german...

4/ 2) Email the City Clerk to have your letter included for the February 6 meeting. Deadline is Wednesday at noon. Say it clearly, we need more bike lanes, more bike racks, and faster delivery. Not pauses. #HamOnt #HamOntBudget #ActiveTransportation #BikeHamOnt

/3 Here is what you can do right now. 1. Email your councillor. Tell them safe cycling infrastructure matters to you. Protected bike lanes and bike parking are basic transportation, not extras.

/2 Pausing cycling infrastructure is not neutral. It means fewer protected bike lanes, fewer safe connections, and fewer bike racks. It means slower progress and more risk for people who bike, walk, or roll.

Delegation Days may be over for #HamOnt Budget 2026, but heads up. Anyone who watched the GIC meeting on January 29 heard it. There may be a motion coming to pause the accelerated Cycling Master Plan. Yes, pause. During a safety and climate crisis.

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #FreeGrassy #GrassyNarrows

ha this is wild. Manhattan congestion pricing actually reduced traffic more *outside* of the toll zone than inside it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...