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ABC since Harper... Covid-aware... Trying to survive the climate wars...Nature lover...Prof
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Stand.earth
about 3 hours ago
🚨Doug Ford has just passed a bill killing local green building policies -- right at the moment when we really need resilient homes and affordable energy bills. Enbridge Gas and Ford’s developer buddies will get richer.
#GreenSky
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Dick Zoutman
about 7 hours ago
thehill.com/homenews/587...
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CDC not requiring hantavirus cruise passengers to isolate at home
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Wednesday that the hantavirus remains a low public health risk and while the agency is “encouraging” American passengers of …
https://thehill.com/homenews/5876929-hantavirus-cdc-public-health/
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Prof Gavin Yamey
about 10 hours ago
Yeah, it’s always quite something to see a research paper that apparently cites a study by me that I never did! AI is destroying the medical research record, but clearly pleasing our tech overlords is way, way more important than caring about health research & improving people’s lives!
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The Slim Dude 🇨🇦
about 11 hours ago
First it was airports. Now it’s our massive container terminals. Why the big rush to sell the furniture? Carney didn’t campaign on privatization.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Carney government signals it’s open to selling Canadian ports
Buried deep in the pages of a discussion paper released Friday is the announcement that the government is open to and seeking a report on the potential amalgamation of certain
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/carney-government-signals-its-open-to-selling-canadian-ports/article_bf0a5397-7b33-478d-8eeb-11c25b176762.html
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Let’s try to take our business elsewhere.
www.cbc.ca/news/investi...
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Sobeys, Loblaw under fire for maple washing, as Sobeys ditches maple leaf symbol in stores | CBC News
More than a year after the Buy Canadian movement took root, grocery giants Loblaw and Sobeys are facing increased scrutiny over "maple washing" — the practice of promoting imported goods as homegrown.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/investigates/sobeys-loblaw-maple-washing-9.7196767
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www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/13/n...
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Feds poised to weaken industrial carbon pricing
Reports that Alberta's effective carbon price will increase to $130 per tonne by 2040, a significant step down from the previously planned evolution of the carbon price, are alarming climate experts.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/13/news/feds-poised-weaken-industrial-carbon-pricing
about 11 hours ago
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OpenMedia
about 21 hours ago
BREAKING: Signal, the #1 privacy protecting messaging app, is saying they will pull out of 🇨🇦 ENTIRELY if they're scoped into
#BillC22
without large changes. This should be our final alarm bell:.We can have privacy or we can have C22, not both!
#cdnpoli
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
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Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill
Secure messaging service says it will not weaken its encryption, privacy safeguards for government
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-signal-warns-it-would-pull-out-of-canada-if-made-to-comply-with-lawful/
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Ken Bazinet
about 16 hours ago
“We're all poor in this town. Let's be real. We don't need our power bills going up any higher,” one resident told the council, CODN reported. “Water usage. We didn't have a winter this year. Where are we going to get water just magically evaporating to feed this behemoth of a thing?”
#DataCenters
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La Pine residents pack City Hall to oppose proposed data center
Hundreds of people attended a La Pine City Council meeting Wednesday night, with most speaking against a proposed 20-megawatt data center. Residents raised concerns about power, water, transparency an...
https://www.centraloregondaily.com/news/lapine/la-pine-residents-pack-city-hall-to-oppose-proposed-data-center/article_a20e05c1-f368-43f1-ae26-05d09beb5a88.html
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Doug Ford is causing so much harm. He’s the furthest thing from being a caring, ethical Canadian. He’s greedy, selfish, and dumb.
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about 13 hours ago
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Franca (Ph.D.) 🇨🇦
1 day ago
Dani must be angry, no 51st State for her. First Nations opposed this petition for a "referendum to separate" & judge tossed it out.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Alberta judge tosses out petition to separate from Canada
The ruling comes after a group leading a petition for Alberta independence said it had gathered enough signatures to trigger a province-wide vote.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clypn8py4zwo
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Jordan Roberts
1 day ago
I forgot to mention Invest Ontario, the slush fund to end all slush funds. Of course Nigro is also on the board of that.
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Jordan Roberts
1 day ago
Nigro is chair of the LCBO right now. He chaired Ontario Place Corporation. Was head of the Ontario PC party fundraising arm. Received a whack of MZOs. Was on the board of Runnymede where Doug's daughter makes a fortune. Calling him "Doug's friend" just obscures the scale of the corruption.
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Jordan Roberts
about 18 hours ago
Friends, those were not "documents." That was a Google doc. 😂 There is no plane. Here we are, all helpfully still talking about the non-existent plane.
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Kikki Planet
1 day ago
Oh they are really gonna start the whiny baby howling now.
#cdnpoli
#ableg
apple.news/Adu0pFroFTBi...
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Alberta judge throws out petition for separation referendum — The Globe and Mail
The ruling quashes the chief electoral officer’s decision to approve separatist leader’s push for a vote
https://apple.news/Adu0pFroFTBiDqzntyfn24Q
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The Breach
1 day ago
Danielle Smith insists that she can privatize Alberta’s health care legally. But in a 2021 podcast, she discussed how it would require “throwing out” federal law.
@nikbarryshaw.bsky.social
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@desaima.bsky.social
argue that with Bill 11, Smith is dismantling public medicare with her eyes wide open.
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Danielle Smith admitted she wants to ‘throw out’ Canada’s public health care law ⋆ The Breach
On a 2021 podcast, the Alberta premier wondered aloud if privatizing health care would require breaking federal law. Despite learning the answer was ‘yes,’ she’s still going ahead with it
https://breachmedia.ca/danielle-smith-admitted-she-wants-to-throw-out-canadas-public-health-care-law/
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Our money is Doug’s money to squander while he cuts education to the bone and privatizes our precious healthcare and steals public assets for his cronies
www.thestar.com/politics/pro...
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Ford government incurred nearly $200K in extra costs on private jet purchase
Ford's office made public the receipts related to an aircraft it bought for $28.9 million.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/provincial/ford-government-incurred-nearly-200k-in-extra-costs-on-private-jet-purchase/article_a1e3bf2c-4d1c-4142-a5f4-64076e871ef8.html
about 15 hours ago
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Dr. Lindsay Stallones Marshall (she/her)
about 19 hours ago
Vital thread for historians, other researchers who use digitized historical archives, and teachers. AI is altering docs via transcript and summary, and it’s radically changing them in dangerous ways:
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Kikki Planet
1 day ago
"This is a big deal. The government cannot have a separatist referendum this fall, period. They cannot do it without defying the law, without defying the courts, and without knowingly doing something that is illegal." - Naheed Nenshi, leader of Alberta’s official opposition.
#ableg
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The Breakdown AB
about 22 hours ago
"This referendum is dead. For the premier to spend taxpayer time and money to resurrect it, would prove what we’ve always known: she’s a separatist." Official statement from the NDP.
#abpoli
#ableg
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I don’t remember Carney campaigning on selling everything off. Disgusted.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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Carney government signals it’s open to selling Canadian ports
Buried deep in the pages of a discussion paper released Friday is the announcement that the government is open to and seeking a report on the potential amalgamation of certain
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/carney-government-signals-its-open-to-selling-canadian-ports/article_bf0a5397-7b33-478d-8eeb-11c25b176762.html
about 15 hours ago
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Max Fawcett
about 19 hours ago
You will be shocked to learn that Alberta's separatist movement is suddenly *filled* with constitutional law experts, all of whom disagree with today's court decision.
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Michael Scott's Shocked Reaction
ALT: Michael Scott's Shocked Reaction
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸
about 24 hours ago
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The Kyiv Independent
about 16 hours ago
⚡️ Update: 1 killed, 36 injured in Kyiv and region as mass Russian attack continues. One person was killed and 36 others were injured, with 11 people rescued from under a partially collapsed building in Kyiv overnight on May 14.
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reposted by
TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian
about 17 hours ago
Pay attention
@mark-carney.bsky.social
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reposted by
Pamela Banting, PhD 🇨🇦
about 22 hours ago
Thank you, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation, Sturgeon Lake Cree Nation, and the Blackfoot Confederacy!!!
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People need to go to jail for this and Dani needs to be held accountable. This happened under her regime.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Elections Alberta says separatist group’s app containing voter info may have been seen by thousands | CBC News
Elections Alberta says thousands of people may have accessed a separatist group’s database containing information on nearly three million Albertans.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/elections-alberta-separatist-group-database-access-9.7199067
about 16 hours ago
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The AI agenda is gonna need it
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney government to announce review of Clean Electricity Regulations | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to deliver his vision to transform Canada's electricity sector with the ambitious goal of doubling the nation's electricity grid, sources tell CBC News.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-clean-energy-regulations-announcement-9.7198953
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reposted by
Olga Nesterova
about 17 hours ago
Kyiv is under massive drone attack. An apt building collapsed
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reposted by
The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv)
about 22 hours ago
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Georgia 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️ 🦉 🌻
about 19 hours ago
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reposted by
Jack Farrell
about 21 hours ago
This is being overshadowed with the petition news, but Elections Alberta confirmed today it actually thinks ‘thousands’ accessed the leaked voter list, not just the 566 it sent cease-and-desist letters too last week. From me &
@reportrix.bsky.social
:
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/...
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Scope of access to leaked Alberta voter list may be incomplete: Elections Alberta
EDMONTON - Elections Alberta says the separatist group at the centre of a massive voter information breach may not have shared the full list of individuals who accessed its public
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/prairies_bc/alberta/scope-of-access-to-leaked-alberta-voter-list-may-be-incomplete-elections-alberta/article_7a819434-87ce-5d63-abf0-f82e50814478.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share
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Scott Robertson
about 22 hours ago
Jordan Leichnitz reacts to Danielle Smith calling Alberta judge's decision 'undemocratic': "She may not like it, she may wish to appeal it, and that's well within her government's rights, but it's not undemocratic. And her choice there is to run down the very system itself."
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reposted by
David Kaufman
20 days ago
And more on the death of American science, research and medical breakthroughs. Luckily we have China! Spending on new medical research by the NIH has fallen roughly $1 billion behind the pace of years past, delaying thousands of scientific projects
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...
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Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/science/trump-nih-funding-research.html
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Cathy Holtslander 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈
about 23 hours ago
*Asset stripping* is the selling off of a company's (country's) assets to improve returns for equity investors, often a financial investor, a "corporate raider", who takes over another company (country) and then auctions off the acquired company's assets.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_s...
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Asset stripping - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_stripping
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reposted by
Oncle Jef
about 24 hours ago
So the US doesnt have to annex us, it will simply buy us piece by piece. Poilievre and Carney doubled teamed us.
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reposted by
Catherine 🇨🇦
about 24 hours ago
What happened to Canada is not for sale?
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reposted by
Sean Marshall
about 21 hours ago
Where are the “part owner of Canada” people now?
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about 23 hours ago
Last I checked, Canadians didn't vote for you to run a bloody garage sale with all our infrastructure. I'm thinking Ports & Airports being owned by Foreign Interests might not be the best plan. Let's calmed down & slow down before we make decisions we can't come back from.
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Holy smokes. He's selling us off to the highest bidder?
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about 17 hours ago
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David Andrews
about 18 hours ago
apple.news/AIVe7rRIfQXm...
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Danielle Smith rejects Alberta judge's ruling against separation petition as 'anti-democratic' — Global News
Premier Danielle Smith is rejecting the ruling of an Alberta judge who quashed a separatist petition and says the province will appeal the court ruling.
https://apple.news/AIVe7rRIfQXmexM-dzJpJ7A
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reposted by
Seth Abramson
about 18 hours ago
Since the Second Iran War began, I've often noted that Saudi Arabia and the UAE pretend to oppose it or be ambivalent toward it when in fact they helped plan it and push it behind the scenes. Here's more evidence MBS and MBZ are liars as well as murderers:
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Israel Says Netanyahu Made a Secret Trip to U.A.E., Which Says He Didn’t
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/world/middleeast/netanyahu-uae-iran-war.html
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Russell Vought is the guy who was on Carney's invite list to speak in Canada about a year ago. Remember??? It was cancelled... What does this tell us about Carney?
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about 17 hours ago
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about 20 hours ago
That moment when you realize a MAGA separatist is determining environmental policy for a country she wants to destroy. 😬
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SharonR_MECFS 🇨🇦
about 18 hours ago
Poor Albertans. 1. She got Carney to revoke greenwashing law. She can now lie & say her LNG powered AI data centres have clean emissions. US 🇺🇸 firms own/partnered. 2. Carney also granted Alberta a regulation carve-out on mandatory clean energy for AI data centres. Alberta gets filthy LNG turbines.
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The Far Shore 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦
about 19 hours ago
Harper’s name keeps coming up in regards to Carney these days. Not a good sign.
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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦
about 20 hours ago
An extraordinary moment in Canadian federalism when one province sets the terms for climate policy for the entire country. We used to do this with all provinces. Now we just do it between the PMO and Danielle Smith. She’s in charge of Canada’s environmental policy now.
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Charlie Angus
1 day ago
Danielle Smith's latest bullshit scheme - to present herself as the voice of Jesus saying how much the Lord loves pipeline expansion. As the planet burns.
www.desmog.com/2026/05/13/o...
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Oil Pipelines Align With Jesus, Danielle Smith Tells Christian Leaders
Building a new oil pipeline to the west coast of Canada is consistent with the teachings of Jesus, Alberta Premier Danielle Smith told a gathering of Christian leaders and organizations from across th...
https://www.desmog.com/2026/05/13/oil-pipelines-align-with-jesus-danielle-smith-tells-christian-leaders/
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Conor Curtis
1 day ago
(1/5) Industrial carbon price appears to have just been killed - in any real sense - by delay (to 2040). More:
bsky.app/profile/jfle...
And more here:
environmentaldefence.ca/2026/05/13/s...
Methane measures undermined in 48 hours:
www.theenergymix.com/breaking-alb...
You've no wind/solar plan...
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