This hit so fucking hard today.

@thetyee.ca is hiring a biodiversity reporter! We're looking for someone who can bring a good sense of curiosity & narrative to the role, and also do some investigative/accountability reporting. Deets here: thetyee.ca/Tyeenews/202...

This is a huge crisis that we must do our part on by rejecting generative AI. The more it infiltrates our systems, the more fucked we are over time.

A woman will head to court in March after the City of Burlington fined her for letting her garden grow wild — and other Ontario municipalities have taken similar measures. @elaineanselmi.bsky.social asks: What exactly are we protecting here? thenarwhal.ca/opinion-burl...

Btw, a lesson Canada should draw from Ukraine's experience is that the ability of the aggressor to create a "separatist movement" out of thin air by promoting and arming completely marginal losers should never be underestimated. When Ru jump started protests in Ukraine's east in spring 2014, ....

Say it with me: 90% of people alive today will be better off if we phase out fossil fuels. That’s what the economics actually shows.

"Heated Rivalry now ranks among the top three shows on Kinopoisk, Russia’s largest film and television streaming platform. With a rating of 8.6, it outperforms Stranger Things and Landyshi, a drama set against the backdrop of the war in Ukraine." www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/01/15/h...

friendly reminder that authoritarians tend to use the same playbook and there are proven strategies to resist them and save one’s country written in early 2017 by Eastern Europeans on the forefront of democratic decline, see for yourself how this aligns to the US in 2025 1/x

Jan. 16, 2025: A SpaceX Starship rocket explodes over the Caribbean. Suddenly, dozens of planes in the area must scramble to get out of a newly designated FAA "debris zone." Their passengers are now unwitting participants in a test run gone wrong. (THREAD)

Forget pipelines. Clean electrification is the nation-building project Canada needs right now. ➡️ Oil demand is expected to peak by 2030 ➡️ 67% of Canadians support clean energy > fossil fuels ➡️ Wind and solar are the cheapest way to create power

Ive said this off-hand on panels and interviews over the last few years sort of as a joke, but after Trump’s invasion of Venezuela I realized I am dead serious We need to start talking like the chemtrail people

As part of its push to raise birth rates, Russia has intensified pressure on women and girls, confronting those seeking abortions with anatomically incorrect “embryo” dolls, priests, and warnings about so-called “post-abortion syndrome.” meduza.io/en/feature/2...

“As pro-democracy Russians, we believe that change is imminent. It will happen, but our homework is to be prepared.” My Q&A with Free Russia Foundation founder Natalia Arno about how exiled opposition activists are still making inroads in wartime. meduza.io/en/feature/2... @meduza.io

Picked up Middlemarch after work on Dec 22 thinking I'd read it over the holidays and, well, it's a large book.

“The transition to clean energy isn’t just about cutting emissions … It’s about refusing to let your economy, your security, your people’s wellbeing be held hostage by events you cannot control, in places you cannot reach, by leaders you did not choose.”

Oil and gas companies are war criminals. They are destroying the only livable climate in the known universe. They are Trump’s allies. They are the enemies of everyone good.

Russian street singer Naoko sat down with YouTuber Yury Dud for her first big interview after her arrest for singing anti-war songs and her subsequent escape from Russia. Here’s what she had to say. meduza.io/en/feature/2...

Russia’s only real chances to win anything in Ukraine are political – by convincing the US and Europe that it’s inevitably winning. Take that away, and Russia looks much more vulnerable.

Europe and Canada need to move carefully to avoid creating further dangers, but they need to decouple from the US in areas like defence planning, intelligence sharing, and defence procurement.

“people want to come together around what’s true” Lovely writing by an inspiring friend and colleague @lgraumlich.bsky.social

This is one of our favorites!

Researchers also showed us how certain actions -- heating up plastics, storing fatty or acidic foods in plastic, or consuming highly processed foods -- can increase the likelihood that these chemicals leach in.

Fewer and fewer media outlets are putting resources toward the slow, expensive work of dragging government secrets into the light. Will you help us raise $200,000 to keep digging? All donations to The Narwhal will be matched through Dec. 31 — doubling your impact! ➡️ thenarwhal.ca/double-up

I think techno-optimists, lAbundance bros, whatever they are, think that "the environment" is just an amenity or a nice-to-have — somewhere you hike or camp with more or less wildlife around you for color. No. We're in this mess to begin with because we think our economy is separate from "nature."

The environment flows through our bodies, altering our trajectories in ways medicine is just starting to see. "Your 'environment' could be the refinery a town over, the lead in the paint of your mother’s home, the plastic sheath of a Hot Pocket you microwaved in 1996." www.wired.com/story/scient...

Celebrity chefs told Californians that PFAS-coated pans were “safe,” and successfully lobbied Gavin Newsom to veto a bill phasing them out They didn’t mention they all sell PFAS-coated pans. New joint investigation with @mirandagreen.bsky.social and @atmosmag.bsky.social is out:

The Ottawa-Alberta MoU is a backslide on methane goals. That delay adds 1.9M tonnes of methane, roughly half the annual pollution created by the cars on Canada’s roads. Alberta is already behind on methane — and now it has permission to fall further behind➡️ buff.ly/qriG0i3

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This is the technofix Carney's so excited about: World’s largest CCS project hits new low on amount of carbon captured and stored Not only has Chevron's Gorgon failed to hit its targets, its performance has declined significantly over time reneweconomy.com.au/worlds-large...

In 1980, Devaki Amma met with a life-threatening car accident. Her recovery was slow and excruciating. But, amidst the darkest of the clouds, Devaki Amma found a silver lining – a native #forest she raised and planted with her own two hands. #rewilding www.rewildingmag.com/i-didnt-know...

Following the end of the field season, our small team has spent the past few weeks reviewing all the data we collected during this year, and I am thrilled to announce that the wild population of this critically endangered species reached a new high this year - 427 marmots!

The arrogance is astounding.

NB: Its also an AI/data centre deal (gift to big tech). The terms include: « Constructing thousands of megawatts of AI computing power, with a “large portion” dedicated to sovereign cloud; » www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/pol...:

Yesterday I was up on that pipeline route and a First Nation land guardian was explaining to me the riskiness of shipping oil on those waterways and I kept thinking: how f-ing broke is Canada that it’s thinking of doing this? This is ‘selling your kidney’ level of desperation.

What we have witnessed tday in this new federal-Alberta agreement is a complete abandonment of core federal climate policy and a complete abdication to the MAGA-aligned govt of Alberta and to oil & gas corporations that send huge chunks their profits to the US.

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"You can’t just do work on the forest just once," said Secwépemc firekeeper Joe Gilchrist. "It has to be continuous — it has to be more of a lifestyle change." Story by Aaron Hemens. indiginews.com/features/lon...

"Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs." Couldn't agree more with colleagues @gmbutts.bsky.social @rjcsmith.bsky.social and Peter Nicholson on the only sustainable way forward for Canada www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

A few months ago @thelocal.to got a promising pitch from a writer with bylines in whole bunch of reputable publications—The Cut, The Guardian, Dwell, Architectural Digest, etc. Then I started investigating. Here's a story about fabulists in journalism's AI slop era. thelocal.to/investigatin...

This is one of the most endangered mammals in the world – there are fewer than 400 alive in the wild right now – so it is pretty special to watch this mom and her two pups emerge from their burrow. Kids will be kids, no matter how rare your species! P.S. they are Vancouver Island marmots

"There are 14,000,000 square metres of parks, boulevards and golf courses in #Vancouver. Six million of that is lawn. We’ve transitioned 7 percent of that. We'll keep increasing as and when we can." www.rewildingmag.com/the-city-tur...

Australia to introduce power cuts... no, wait, free power for 3 hours a day, as the solar boom has reached its, what's the new word?, abundance phase. HT @volts.wtf www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

Some news from me — I'm teaching a new class on freelancing at @ubcjournalism.bsky.social next term as the Asper Visiting Professor. jwam.ubc.ca/news/ubc-jou...

"Rewilding is not just about protecting individual species. It’s about re-establishing the relationships between them, many of which are complex and poorly understood." www.rewildingmag.com/why-rewilder...

I'm still not travel writing, but I couldn't resist sharing some of my favourite spots in Vancouver with CAA Magazine: caamagazine.com/mb/adventure...

twice a year the entire U.S. press becomes a marketing extension of a single billionaire-owned retailer, and nobody in any position of editorial power thinks it's weird or gross

I use Canada Post to ship out my prints. Its crucial for my business. Canada Post staff are fantastic when I go in to ship stuff out. Corner store depots are a NIGHTMARE for small businesses. Try going in with 30 packages while people are buying lotto. UPS and Fed Ex triple my costs.

Good read here. Solar panels are cheap today everywhere because Germany's government created a 100,000-solar-roof program to build a pro-renewable constituency, creating the political capital for the wider subsidies that made the German industry boom and then get exported to China and made cheap

In this OpEd, I talk about the residential schools still being built in China and Russia - and explain how that should change Canadians’ thinking about this country’s residential schools: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

All the reasons not to give in to generative AI. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...