When motor manufacturers sell you a car or an oil company sells you fuel, that’s GDP and will be trumpeted as growth, but the time you lose in traffic is your own. So government has a perverse incentive: leave you stuck for hours to increase the one number they will tell you makes you better off.

Canada Revenue Agency needs to pull Kars4Kids’ charitable status.

Bowhead Whale Mother and Calf Alan Syliboy ~ Mi'kmaq n.d.

At the Place of Ghosts is a Mi’kmaw movie that is currently running in theatres across the country. The film placed in the top 10 films of the Toronto Film Festival and was also nominated for Best Feature Film at the 2026 Screen Nova Scotia Awards.

@mark-carney.bsky.social Investing in renewable energy solutions is the way to build Canada Strong. Investing in fossil fuels makes Canada a laggard not an energy superpower.

🚨 Mythbusting #LongCovid with Dr Amir Khan🚨 Long Covid is real. It’s serious. And it’s affecting millions. On #LongCovidAwarenessDay, #DrAmirKhan joins us to bust harmful myths. Watch, learn, and share—because the more we talk about Long Covid, the harder it is to ignore.

🚨🏴‍☠️🇮🇱 We demand the immediate and safe release of Daniela and all crew members. CALL NOW ⬇️ 📞 Global Affairs Canada 613-996-8885 1-800-387-3124 📞 Contact your Toronto MP offices and demand action: www.instagram.com/p/DYf6geUlbS-/

1/ The Israeli military has detained hundreds of activists who sailed to Gaza to break Israel’s blockade. In the face of unending genocide and impunity, they continue to challenge Israel, to keep the spotlight on ongoing genocide. www.cbc.ca/news/world/i...

2/ At least 11 Canadians are among those taken. We're calling on the federal government to drop its usual kid gloves treatment of Israel and exert real diplomatic pressure to secure their immediate release.

Israel has once again sent its IOF to international waters to illegally intercept and board the Global Sumud Flotilla boats, who are carrying aid and medical supplies to Gaza.

@mark-carney.bsky.social It is abhorrent that you cut $2.7 billion in foreign aid, including global health programming. Your actions have consequences that others will bear. Following Trump's lead is not how to build Canada strong. Can't wait to vote for @avilewis.ca

When people can’t afford the necessities of a dignified life, it's the government's job to step up and actually govern.

Learn from the locals who know the Andes Hantavirus best. In Chile, they serially test exposed contacts at 7, 14, 21 & 28 days. In her update for the WHO, Dr. Claudia Campillo from Chile's Ministry of Health, flagged a case became PCR+ while asymptomatic, then developed symptoms 4 days later

Some good pieces on hantavirus that are neither alarmist nor calm-mongering. Again, no one is saying panic (it's never time to panic). We're saying precautionary principle. Humility. Learn from the mistakes of COVID. 🧵

"the fight for democracy and the fight for racial justice are inseparable" @kimberlecrenshaw.bsky.social www.simonandschuster.com/books/Backta...

if we can afford to sustain ai and venture capitalism we can afford UBI and housing and groceries for everyone

@andyfillmorehfx.bsky.social Some inspiration from other cities. Imagine SGR without cars! It could be a vibrant destination that folk want to visit. Shops, cafes, restaurants, parks...so much potential unrealized while the city panders to cars.

Excellent interview w @omerbartov.bsky.social

"Scientists surveying the area found three times more seabed organisms and twice as many species compared to nearby unprotected waters" news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

There is a fleet of civilian vessels sailing on the Mediterranean Sea currently headed to Gaza. There are over 55 boats in this most recent sailing, including 12 people with Canadian passports on board. Let Gaza live! Food, water, and medicine must be allowed into Gaza! 🍉

This is when liberals started to turn on MLK.

🚨The #freedomflotilla is now on high alert! Israel has stated their intentions to attack the flotilla in international waters if we continue our mission to break the illegal siege on #Gaza. #freepalesti̇ne #breakthesiege @freedomflotilla.bsky.social @freegazaaustralia.bsky.social ky.social

Re: kindness In parenting, kindness isn't always giving your kid what they want. If a kid wants Pepsi for breakfast every day, saying yes wouldn't be kind. Public health is similar. Real kindness means applying the precautionary principle when the stakes are health & survival

The Brown v. Board ruling happened 72 years ago today. The reversal of the Supreme Court’s previous “separate but equal” decision highlights how it’s possible to overcome bad SCOTUS decisions. But it took years of activism from brave people to get there. Keep fighting.

Alex Haley grew up in Tennessee. He traced his family tree back to his original enslaved, African ancestor, then wrote 'Roots'. He received a Pulitzer Prize for it. Knoxville just banned it 'cause it might make white kids sad.

@mark-carney.bsky.social When you cut $2.7 billion in foreign aid, including global health programming, the result is death. Canada was once a leader in this regard, now we are following Trump. It is an absolute outrage!!! Can't wait to vote for @avilewis.ca

Great thread on AI in journalism. You cannot outsource thinking to an algorithm.

🚨 The growing KNOWLEDGE CRISIS.👇 LLM hallucinations in the wild: Large-scale evidence from non-existent citations arxiv.org/abs/2605.07723 [pre-print] "LLM hallucinations are infiltrating knowledge production at scale, threatening both the reliability & equity of future scientific discovery..."

Guys Conservative MP Aaron Gunn is pissed that some residential school deniers got pranked by a CBC entertainment show he's making a big stink about it and..........posed with a large sheet of paper rookie mistake, my dude

Drawn by Dr Seuss over 50 years ago.

Carney fans, we're begging you. See him for who he is. Start pushing back. Please. www.thestar.com/politics/pol...

My latest: I wrote about Trump's Golden Statue. And as a former Christian, let me hold y'all's hand when I say...the Trump figure is not the modern version of "golden calf". If you know your Bible, the statue represents something far worse. karenattiah.substack.com/p/trump-is-n...

Brilliant @andyfillmorehfx.bsky.social, what a great idea for HRM. Reduce car use, reduce congestion, reduce pollution, increase health of employees, win-win.

On climate, even Stephen Harper was no Mark Carney -- and people fought back against Harper rather than defending everything he did www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/15/o...

@mark-carney.bsky.social Here is how to build Canada strong. We have lots of space for solar panels and battery storage. It is shameful that we are such laggards when it comes to addressing climate change. Can't wait to vote for @avilewis.ca

@mark-carney.bsky.social The future is in renewables not fossil fuels. Can't wait to vote for a PM who thinks seven generations ahead. We need a livable planet, and your continued investment in fossil fuels is making that goal increasingly unlikely.

Why They Don’t Want You Driving a Chinese Car Politicians in the US say they have “national security concerns.” In fact, Chinese cars are better and cheaper, and American corporations know they can’t survive market competition. www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-the...

1/ This announcement marks the Carney government’s official surrender to the oil and gas lobby.
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Smart cities know that, as hot as they already are, they’re just going to keep getting hotter. Greening the city not only cools it down, it cleans the air, quiets the noise, improves mental health & happiness, saves public money, and more. Strand Aldwych, London. 2021 vs 2025. Via @modacitylife.com

It feels like AANHPI Month arrives this year under a shadow. My family was incarcerated during World War II — not because we had done anything wrong, but because of who we were. Fear was weaponized against us.

Also the Clean Electricity Regs were effectively killed-off today. "federal climate rollbacks are already undercutting the development of Canada’s clean economy.... [&] Canada is “already falling behind” the accelerating global transition to renewable energy." www.theenergymix.com/ottawa-alber...

"MAGA is the last breath of the confederacy" ~ Marshawn Amen, may it be so!

A major win! The U.S. sanctions on Francesca Albanese have been suspended by a U.S. court. And in the judge’s words: "Protecting the Freedom of speech is always just the public interest". May the truth tellers prevail. May justice prevail. May Palestine be free and liberated.

No worker should be forced back to work when they’re standing up for their rights on a picket line.

I cannot overstate how fucking important this publication is. I’ve been a paid subscriber from day 1.

How about less data centers and more high speed trains and housing? China achieved better LLM results without NVIDIA chips and utilized a fraction of the energy requirements and made it open source with DeepSeek. The myth of the AI arms race is just to fuel hardware sales

The shingles vaccine is free in N.L. for those over 50, and people are sprinting to get jabbed #Newfoundland #Labrador More than 76K people have have received at least one dose of publicly funded shingles vaccine www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

1/ It’s time to build affordable homes, a national network of public grocery stores, electric buses and an east-west clean energy grid. Not massive corporate AI data centres unleashed without any democratic debate. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Poverty is structural violence. No paywall link, bc this story is, too important to have barriers (ones that include poverty!!) archive.md/2026.05.10-1...

Calling protected bike-lanes “vanity projects” should be automatic evidence that a political candidate has no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to public safety, urban mobility and congestion, geometry and urban space, fiscal responsibility, or the successful positioning of cities.