Train tracks are warping and buckling under the heat.

Mark Carney seals the #pipeline deal, and his energy minister Timothy Hodgson touts a $43-billion #taxpayerbailout as a good investment. Would you buy a used “energy superpower” strategy from these guys? energymixweekender.substack.com/p/trust-broken

Everything you need to know about the American owned media in Canada. The senior editor of the National Post whining that we aren't American.

@romtoronto.bsky.social opens today, May 16th, Bees: A story of Survival, an immersive exhibition using art & science to help you imagine life from a 🐝's perspective. From the National Museums of Liverpool & Wolfgang Buttress. I'm bee-side myself that my image was chosen for the ads #bees 🐝1/2

“Heat and humidity as severe, prolonged and far-reaching as this week’s would have been “virtually impossible” in the Northeast and eastern Canada before humans began warming the planet, a team of scientists said on Friday.” #ClimateCrisis This should be well understood by now.

This heat wave brought to you by ExxonMobil and Chevron.

In Canada, the biggest fossil fuel investor is RBC, holding US$67.2 billion in investments. It is ranked 17th in the world.

What looks to some like a strategic choice looks to others like craven capitulation, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes. But Carney seems to have been guided by two competing realities: Smith’s insistence on pushing for a new pipeline, and an economic environment that made that nearly impossible.

Parked but not idle: The buses “will charge up their nearly 200-kilowatt-hour batteries overnight, when the power supply is at its cleanest & cheapest, then send energy back to the grid from 4 pm to 7 pm on days when the grid is strained. The district will earn revenue for the power it shares…”

Vancouver’s Granville Street pedestrian transformation has reached legendary status as a people-place, & the #WorldCup’s only half over. We need this to be a true turning-point, fuelling “a more decisive kind of leadership & boldness…standing on the shoulders of smarter cities. Time to get it done.”

“Climate scientists appalled by politicians' refusal to accept responsibility as heatwave hits France… They say that years of warnings issued from scientists about the consequences of global warming have not been taken seriously.” #France #ClimateCrisis #UrbanHeat

This iconic Fabian Todorovic cartoon is still one of the best I’ve seen at illustrating the remarkable amount of space we surrender to cars, leaving little space left for everyone and everything else. The text added later makes the bonus point that many drivers still manage to complain about it.

My @thestar.com column: Toronto's not the only city in the world. It's true. I swear. I looked it up. And a lot of these other cities, it turns out, have car-free streets. With clear examples to follow, we REALLY don't need to make pedestrianization so complicated www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

"For days, officials across France have scrambled to cope with the searing heat, shutting down three nuclear reactors after the surrounding cooling waters became too hot..." So much for nuclear as a climate solution.....

This is amazing work by @justineunderhill.bsky.social: "It turns out when people have to pay the true cost of suburban sprawl themselves, they don't think it's worth it." www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1G3...

What *actually* works — right here, right now — to address climate change? Here you go. This is the result of thousands of hours of painstaking research and analysis from the Project Drawdown team.

Church Street is fun, vibrant and pedestrian-friendly. Happy Pride! And what a treat to catch up with the always inspiring, Rev. Dr. Brent Hawkes.

Climate change -> warmer winters -> more ticks spreading across Canada … and research shows the ones that carry Lyme disease tend to be healthier than the ones that don’t! 🤯

The heat wave that is killing people & cancelling events in Europe has an equivalent coming to toronto this week: 7 days straight of 30-35 C (35C is 95F) 🥵

My hope for Toronto - You have to do it well and thoughtfully, but you have to go for it.

Five years ago today, ‘Curbing Traffic’ was released into the world. What began as an attempt to make sense of our family’s move from Vancouver to Delft became something bigger: a reflection on how the design of our streets quietly shapes our health, happiness, relationships and sense of belonging.🧵

What they taught in school: GDP up = good. What they left out: The atmosphere has a limit Soil can die Water runs out 8 billion people need a living planet, not just a growing economy

putin is bleeding his country dry for his own ego and megalomania

It has taken a long time – too long – but Toronto’s tenants will finally see a maximum indoor temperature by-law by summer 2027. This moves up the timeline by at least two summers from what was originally recommended by city staff…

Finally—we've been needing this investigation for a long time, and who better to do it than @propublica.org and @drilledmedia.bsky.social? What happens if we stop baking carbon capture into our emissions reduction models and climate projections? Taking fossil fuel phaseout more seriously, I hope.

Earth’s atmosphere has officially crossed 430 ppm of CO₂ — a level scientists say humanity has never experienced before in recorded history. Researchers warn the planet may now be entering climate conditions not seen for millions of years, with rising temperatures, stronger heatwaves, melting ice.

“Montreal became North America’s most inspiring city for smart, car-free street transformations. Every summer for years now, Montreal has transformed streets…Their tourism, civic life and overall success have seen huge benefits as a result, in ways we can count, and even more ways that we can’t.”

Up now: should Council move forward with a maximum indoor temperature bylaw, to keep tenants cool? Councillor Bravo has pre-circulated a motion that would direct for a bylaw to be created for Council's approval by June 2027. secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

Council votes 18-3 to send a letter requesting the province implement a deposit-return system for all beverage containers.

Up now: should the city send a letter to the province supporting a deposit-return program for all beverage containers? secure.toronto.ca/council/agen...

"Any government that says they believe in law and order, and following rules, should not then capitulate to vandals, and then accept that people are knowingly driving at excessive speeds on our roads," says Matlow on the Ford government's decision to ban speed cameras.

"Not only was it dishonest, it was reckless and irresponsible," says Matlow of Ford's speed camera ban. "When it comes to the safety of our communities — and our children, of course — nobody should be playing around with that. What the premier did was really shameful."

For years we've been told families 'need' cars. A UK e-cargo bike trial found over half of participant e-bike trips replaced car trips, mostly school runs, shopping & commuting. 1 in 5 went on to buy an e-cargo bike. Give people practical alternatives & a surprising number reduce their car use 🧵 1/

The biggest threat to "affordability," today and more so every day to come, is climate change. Responsible political leaders would tell their constituents about it.

Owners and operators of ~400 newspapers are suing OpenAI and Microsoft for scraping their content to build products like ChatGPT and Copilot without permission or compensation. news.bloomberglaw.com/litigat...

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which was gutted last year. If Bezos can spend $500M on a yacht, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

AOC just introduced the AI Data Center Moratorium Act, which bans the construction of data centers until Congress addresses all impacts of AI on our society and planet.

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

Beginning next week, Australians get free electricity for three hours every afternoon. That's what happens when you build out wind, sun, and batteries open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...

Let me be explicit. The massive heat waves we're seeing around the world more extreme and frequent due to human-caused #climatechange. And these heat waves are going to continue to worsen because of our failure to reduce carbon pollution. Just one of the many costs of #climate change.

In 2019 Utah State began a project to introduce Beavers to Utah’s Price River. Six years later, water levels in the river are now the healthiest they’ve been in years. The fish are thriving, and Utah residents are overjoyed with the experiment’s results. www.upworthy.com/beavers-refr...

Opening soon! The next phase of the new Biidaasige Park on the Toronto waterfront.

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity. “You are not numbers or case files. “You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

Remember when the US dropped a bomb on an Iranian school, and then, once rescue workers & parents showed up to try to sift through the rubble, dropped another bomb, ultimately killing 175 innocent people?

Texas Air-Pollution Expert Says LNG Canada Emissions Worst He's Ever Seen Tim Doty spent 30 years at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. If he thinks LNG Canada is bad, it must be really, really bad. #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli youtu.be/u5jcxMcv61M

If police are permitted to roll stop signs when it's safe to do so, they shouldn't be ticketing cyclists doing the same in High Park on the MGT or anywhere... Video taken on Monday.

Ticks are clinging to new corners of Canada, driving fear of Lyme disease into outdoorsy — and not-so-outdoorsy — types. So get naked, and arm yourself with information, writes @elaineanselmi.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/check-for-ti...

What happens when the Rocky Mountain glaciers that help feed Western Canada’s rivers disappear? Find out here: https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/glacier-ghosts-of-the-rocky-mountains/