Ontario's proposed criteria for Special Economic Zones leave powers dangerously unchecked environmentaldefence.ca/2025/10/03/o... #onpoli

Mid-rise housing makes sense: www.instagram.com/reel/DPWXEMf... #cdnpoli #HomesinCities

More data on how the oil and gas industry funds culture wars to keep your eyes off the climate crisis: Fossil fuel billionaires are bankrolling the anti-trans movement heated.world/p/fossil-fue... #cdnpoli #grifters

Doug Ford’s ‘common-sense conservation’ is a fast track to extinction, experts warn: ricochet.media/climate/doug... #onpoli #species

"Chummy corporate socialism": Ontario’s botched Blue Box reform is a showcase for everything wrong with Doug Ford’s Ontario www.thestar.com/opinion/edit... via @torontostar #ONpoli #Plasticpollution

Removal of speed cameras is another example of reckless, car-centric attacks on the public: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/26/s... #ONpoli #CarUberAlles

Want less garbage on your street and along the highways? Then stop the destruction of the booze deposit-return program and fix Ontario’s Blue Box rules. environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/25/o... #onpoli #plastic

Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n... #cdnpoli #cashgrab #grift

Because the colour is coming and I love these old pictures from my cousin who travelled around Canada in the 60s and 70s with her camera capturing its beauty. Good go Muriel Dawson. #fall

Are provincial parks the next target for Doug Ford's developer friends? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/o... #onpoli #ProtectourParks

Want something that is protected to be bulldozed? Just hire a lobbyist: Ontario made a protected area smaller. Neighbours have questions: thenarwhal.ca/garden-hill-... #ONpoli #StopSprawl

Build Canada Homes Could Help Tackle Affordability - and the Housing Shortage environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/16/s... #cdnpoli #HomesinCities

Why Highway 413 is NOT Under Construction environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/04/w... #Stopthe413 #onpoli

Ford’s 407 East bet is a congestion bust www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/05/a... #onpoli #Stopthe413

Learn more about the @Fordnation plan to sell of the beaches in Wasaga Beach Provincial Park and to weaken the protection of parks across the province. act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/177179/... #ONpoli #HandsOffWasagaBeach

Doug Ford says he's fighting gridlock -- but he won't say how much Highway 413 will cost www.thestar.com/politics/pro... via @torontostar #Stopthe413 #onpoli

Amidst another summer of heatwaves, droughts & wildfires, CPPIB made a bizarre decision to profile its investment in an oil & gas company whose business model is fundamentally incompatible with the long-term retirement security of Canadians. #cdnpoli #fossilfuels www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/8/...

Want to tell @Fordnation and your MPP that Wasaga Beach Provincial Park (and all our parks) belong to us? act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/175349/... #onpoli #HandsOffWasagaBeach

We're in our nation building era — let's get it right  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/30/o... #cdnpoli

Ontario’s forest management is falling short on key sustainability test theconversation.com/ontarios-for... #onpoli #forests

Your park, your province. Let's stop @Fordnation Plans to Sell 60% of Wasaga Beach Provincial Park Beachfront for Development environmentaldefence.ca/2025/07/28/o... #onpoli #HandsOffWasaga

We need this to be stopped by the time it reaches the Legislature in late October: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #onpoli #OntarioParks

The Ford government has previously introduced dozens of legislative changes to fast-track resource development and enable the transfer of environmentally protected public land to private interests. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/24/n... #onpoli

More garbage, less recycling: @Fordnation government's changes to recycling will hasten landfill crisis, municipalities warn www.thestar.com/politics/pro... via @torontostar #garbage #onpoli #plasticpollution

More of what is yours being given to friends of @Fordnation as Wasaga Beach Provincial Park on the chopping block: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/07/22/w... #YoursToProtect #ONpoli

Ford wants to override towns and cities. They're saying no — by the dozens www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/21/a... #onpoli

Canada is expected to finalize rules on toxic PFAS chemicals — but the government’s recent silence has left environmental advocates spooked that the groundbreaking effort could be derailed by Trump's trade war. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/18/n... #cdnpoli #Toxic

Some good projects here but Northern Gateway would put tar sands oil in tankers in some of the world's most dangerous waters: Meet the Megaprojects www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/17/a... #cdnpoli #energy

Geoscientists Nova Scotia threatens people opposed to uranium mining with fines, jail time www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-... #NSpoli #cdnpoli

Mines would have opened faster before Bills 5 and C-5. Nine Ontario First Nations launch constitutional challenge against Bill 5 and Bill C-5 /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #Cdnpoli #onpoli

Alberta and Ontario go full Trump and seek to bully the feds into scrapping environmental and climate laws: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/07/03/s... #cdnpoli

Now if we could just get @Fordnation to allow deposit return of plastic drinking containers like other provinces: Canada’s first beach cleaning robot is coming to Ontario’s parks this summer /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... #Onpoli #plasticpollution

So much for "the sun does not always shine". Solar+batteries cheaper than nukes and coal: electrek.co/2025/06/20/b... #EnergyTransition

@Fordnation at it again: Many developers want to build as cheaply as possible and pass the higher long term heating, cooling and maintenance costs on to the owners. Can Toronto still enforce its green building standard? Ontario says no, but the city disagrees: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-toro... #onpoli

Ontarians have just lost core democratic protections — and few realize it www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... via @torontostar #onpoli

Global EV sales rise by 28% in 2025...just in case you have been believing the North American auto industry claims about the demise of the EV: rhomotion.com/news/global-... #cdnpoli

"Emissions Intensity" in Alberta has not improved and @ABDanielleSmith continues her battle with reality www.desmog.com/2025/06/18/a... #ableg #cdnpoli

Why having federal environmental laws matter when Ontario has a rogue government: From Bill 5 to ‘build, baby, build’: what’s going on with Highway 413?: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-high... #cdnpoli

"We're inheriting a crisis that we didn't create." — Tia Kennedy, at 8/11pm with @canadagray.bsky.social‬ (@environmentaldefence.ca), @greenprofgreen.bsky.social (@uoft.bsky.social), @tylerhamilton.bsky.social‬ (@marsdd.bsky.social), Anabela Bonada (@envwaterloo.bsky.social) & @spaikin.bsky.social

1% clean up charge for oil and gas and 30% for renewables, killing the clean energy industry: New Alberta Cleanup Rules Undercut Renewables’ Competitiveness, Prompt Call for Federal Intervention www.theenergymix.com/new-alberta-... #cdnpoli #energy

What is good for the goose is good for the gander....remember the gas plant emails? NDP calls for RCMP to include ‘permanently deleted’ emails in Greenbelt probe | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1124370... #Onpoli

They were trying to hide the favours they were doing for their friends at our expense: Ford government obfuscated Greenbelt records through code words: commissioner www.thestar.com/politics/for... via @torontostar #onpoli #HandsOfftheGreenbelt

"It wants the regulator to reduce the fine by more than 80 per cent, to $46,750. Canadian Natural’s net earnings were $7.4-billion in 2024.": Calgary-based oil giant appeals fine over wildlife deaths in tailings pond /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art... #toxic #cdnpoli

"Goodbye Nature":Broken trust and Bill 5: First Nations rally against Doug Ford’s controversial mining bill: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-bill... #onpoli #StopBill5

Trump pardoned Paul Walczak, a nursing home executive who illegally withheld millions from his workers' paychecks (while buying a luxury yacht). The pardon came after his mother attended a $1M-per-person Trump fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago last month. Everything is for sale.

Because sprawl developers say jump and @Fordnation says "How high?": Ontario Legislation Could Override Local Green Standards, Cost Homeowners More www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/2782460... #onpoli

Useful context for O&G debate: Canada's GHG inventory (released during election campaign) shows oil sands GHGs at all-time high. Despite all the enviro claims by Pathways Alliance et al, oil sands produces more GHGs than 11 of 13 provinces and territories. www.canada.ca/en/environme...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that he could bar government scientists from publishing in the world’s leading medical journals, instead proposing the creation of “in-house” publications by his agency.

Des pipelines au Québec? Le mouvement citoyen dit non à un retour en arrière! www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...