Can they ship to Canada?

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Hey Canada:

HAVANA (AP) — Two Mexican Navy ships laden with humanitarian aid docked in Cuba on Thursday as a U.S. blockade deepens the island’s energy crisis. #bdnmb www.brandonsun.com/local/2026/0...

For almost all of the past at 4 years since Sask Govt declared “COVID over” in Feb 2022, Saskatoon hospitals have continued over adult capacity, with ERs backed up with as many as 100+ pts admitted, but no beds. This continues this week. 1/

Herb Carnegie was so good with the Quebec Aces that his teammate Jean Beliveau copied his skating and stickhandling style. Considered the best Black player to never play in the NHL, he had a big impact on hockey. Oh, and he was a champion golfer. This is his story! 🧵 1/10

“Over the past two weeks, something incredibly important happened in Canada. The national media finally began to get serious about the role of foreign interference in the Alberta separatist movement.”

Interesting map. Check out where you fit in the Bluesky galaxy by typing in your handle.

“LUMA Energy — 50% owned by Calgary's ATCO Ltd. — has been handed a 15-year, $2-billion contract to manage Puerto Rico's grid and oversee the modernization of the island's electrical system.”

Alberta’s oil industry is killing jobs through automation, no longer creating jobs. Instead the oil industry is fuelling discontent. Alberta’s unemployment rate has perennially been near or the lowest in 🇨🇦. Now it is the highest… 1/

New evidence from 🇨🇦 (Alberta) that back blows best first treatment for choking:

A different view of social & family values, from a once more optimistic & progressive America: “another, different example of public art — an art for the people that celebrates the dignity of labor, the heroism of sharing, and the morality of kindness”. 1/

More on what has been until now unbelievable & unthinkable. How does a mouse resist an elephant?

It's just objectively silly — and, I would argue, very counter-productive — that housing has come to be seen as a *federal* issue. Provincial and municipal governments increasingly only exist as rumours in Canada.

Brief thread. My head is going to explode from the sheer civic illiteracy that We The Media have fostered by making everything a federal issue, and being absolutely allergic to holding premiers to account for failures in their jurisdictions.

Sorry, Conservatives: as much as you love pretending otherwise, Justin Trudeau never killed the oil and gas industry. #cdnpoli #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/06/o...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“So if you have a doctor in theory and you can’t see them in a timely way, it’s not meaningful.” Can concur, one month wait times is not helpful 😞 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“American aggression is not a sign of strength but of decline.…States confident in their future invest, compete, & plan. States uncertain about their future posture, threaten, & perform….When governments stop believing they can win tomorrow, they start trying to dominate today.“ Worth a read…

A short-term peace agreement in the coming months only gets in the way of Putin’s strategy. Putin is only using them as a tool to buy time to implement his strategy & convince the Trump administration the only direction for the war is negative for Ukraine. mickryan.substack.com/p/ukraine-pe...

Your turn, @mark-carney.bsky.social.

Ontario’s first big battery storage facility near Lake Erie is humming — and now more are being proposed. ⚡🔋 These battery farms could help meet growing electricity demand and reduce fossil fuel use in our grid: shorturl.at/QbnCM #BatteryStorage #EnergyStorage #RenewableEnergy #ClimateAction

“…this your mountainous inhumanity” …

87.8% of new US nameplate capacity Jan-Nov 2025 was solar+wind PV 25.5GW-72.1% Wind 5.6GW-15.7% Gas 4.2GW-11.8% Over next 3 y @FERC expects 92.1% of new capacity to be W+S: 86.1 GW PV-74.9% 19.8 GW wind-17.2% 8.98 GW gas-7.8% and -19.8 GW coal (-17.2%) www.indexbox.io/blog/us-sola...

The notion that the automotive industry's future is determined by US automakers is a very old-fashioned (and frankly provincial) concept, one that belongs in the 1960s and 1970s rather than the 2020s and 2030s. Instead, they're playing catch-up now. www.techi.com/ford-geely-e...

Estimated 2024-2025 COVID-19 Vaccine Effectiveness Against Severe COVID-19: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... "COVID vaccines offered protection against hospitalization and severe in-hospital outcomes..." "...40% against hospitalization & 79% against invasive mechanical ventilation or death."

"If study after study shows what actually ends homelessness, it's worth asking: whose interests are served by keeping that truth obscured?"

Alberta Bill 11 will ⬆️ health care costs, bleed public system of staff, allow private-pay hospitals, & push hospitals to compete for pts, destroying rural hospitals. “private health care require[s] long public wait times….business case for private care is long wait times for everyone with less $.”

Thoughtful article. And it’s hard to believe we are now having this discussion.

Have never heard of this. A missed opportunity in 🇨🇦 research?

With the deal that ended, for now, China tariffs on 🇨🇦’s multi-$B canola exports, prices rebounded 12% from recent low & are steady at same level as a year ago. But the underlying issue that allowed China to reduce imports goes on: high world oilseed supply. tradingeconomics.com/commodity/ca...

This guy makes great maps! Have the Saskatchewan map on my wall.

Reminder: journalists get arrested in Canada too. In fact, The Narwhal is in court right now challenging the RCMP for arresting photojournalist Amber Bracken. Our editor-in-chief,Carol Linnitt, testifies today and Monday, and court is open to the public if you're in Vancouver.

The southern world is on fire right now - an ominous warning for 🇨🇦’s coming summer: Australia is going through “the worst heatwave since the Black Summer of 2019-20. The intense heat that summer contributed to catastrophic bushfires which burnt 21% of the continent’s forests”. 1/

My error: the second largest drop in life expectancy was in Manitoba, not Alberta. Alberta & Newfoundland are tied for third largest decline, at 0.8 years.

How are we in Saskatchewan doing with life expectancy through COVID? Pretty awful, actually. New Statistics Canada report shows SK life expectancy is 2nd lowest of 🇨🇦’s provinces in 2024, down from 3rd lowest in last year before the pandemic. What’s worse is… 1/ (see also alt text)

Great news! The building was to be used foe an ICE concentration camp.

Stunning to me as a Canadian to see the lack of legal rights of the people of the United States, which sees itself as a “free” country. Compare 🇨🇦’s Charter of Rights & Freedoms, embedded in our Constitution: 1. Rights apply to *every* person, not only citizens. 2. It is unthinkable (& illegal… 1/

Except for 4 years abroad, I’ve lived in Alberta for nearly six decades. I grew up in rural Alberta. I worked in the oil industry. We have the highest wages and lowest taxes. I’m STILL waiting for someone to present a legitimate argument for why we’ve been treated poorly by the feds.

“China has rapidly put gears in motion to resume purchases of Canadian canola”.

Israeli media cite official accepting Hamas figure of 70,000 war dead

Yes, it is possible for resource development to go ahead with First Nation consent: Tahltan First Nation president says first agreement in BC: “shows what is possible when we work together, when relationships are built on trust, accountability & mutual respect.”

There are solutions to trouble patients getting regular medical care! After first year, Manitoba Family Medicine Plus program reports - net gain of 184 docs doing longitudinal family medicine - 104,238 more patients attached to family docs - 84% of docs satisfied/very satisfied with program 1/2

Here’s a chart that highlights how bad Indigenous incarceration is in Sask., compared to other provinces

Receipt, c/o the Canadian Climate Institute.

Weird section from an op-ed in the Globe about food prices. Why do these folks think the industrial carbon price has any bearing on...any of this? It only applies (and modestly, given the output based allocations) to large oil sands facilities. Farm operations are barely impacted.

As we await tomorrow’s bi-weekly Saskatchewan respiratory disease (CRISP) update, Saskatoon hospitals continue to be hammered. COVID in 💩 has not been updated in report since first full week of January, when it was at High levels in many communities. 1/

Childcare is Saskatchewan is almost wholly funded by the federal government, with SK contributing only 13%. Perhaps a larger provincial govt commitment to this program is required to meet promised targets? www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...