Think Canada is a climate leader? Did you expect Mark Carney to be a climate leader? Are you a British Columbian worried about our coast? Read this 🧵

Latest for @pressprogress.ca: One day after @amnesty.org report confirmed what First Nations + doctors have been saying — that living near oil & gas causes all kinds of health harms — 🇨🇦 PM @mark-carney.bsky.social announced more support for LNG infrastructure in BC pressprogress.ca/fossil-fuel-...

The national interest is not served by pouring taxpayer money into corporate profits. Stabilizing the market must be done in a way that includes strengthening, not avoiding, Indigenous consent requirements, regulatory safeguards, and environmental protection. www.miningwatch.ca/blog/2025/11...

The Canadien Government has made an ad about the proposed Ksi Lisims LNG terminal & PRGT Pipeline, and it's surprsingly honest and informative.

"the fossil fuel industry has been lobbying the climate negotiations for 30 years now" ~ a flotilla of Indigenous people travels 3000km to ensure their voices are also heard at COP30. See the full story at: youtube.com/shorts/RAJRO...

New research from Stand.earth has uncovered a shocking truth: Drax, the coal giant-turned-“sustainable energy” company, is purchasing old growth in B.C, Canada and turning trees into wood pellets to fuel power plants overseas. Sign this petition to protect old growth act.stand.earth/page/90486/p...

Exclusive by me: A quarter of the world’s population lives within three miles (5km) of operational fossil fuel projects, threatening the health of more than 2bn people as well as critical ecosystems, according to first-of-its-kind research. @amnesty.org www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Canadian COVID Forecast: Nov 8 - Nov 21, 2025 SEVERE: AB VERY HIGH: CAN, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, QC, SK HIGH: BC, ON, PEI MODERATE: none About 1 in 118 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

“Researchers have defined this kind of systemic misunderstanding of how others think as a perception gap, and one result is that politicians calculate that they can continue to cater to corporate interests and preserve the fossil fuel status quo.”

The article doesn't say it, but this cool solar forecasting software uses no large language models, the thing people usually think of when they hear "AI." It uses a fairly simple convolutional neural network that's readily trained on a laptop. No data centers or LLMs involved. Research paper here:

Budget 2025 does little to contain the cost-of-living crisis or rising rates of poverty. Important programs are targeted for cuts, others to be starved of funds. Is this the route to an inclusive future? #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Public options for essentials, strategic price interventions, investment in housing and childcare — this is antifascist economics. It tackles the material conditions that make authoritarianism appealing. In making life livable, democracy defends itself.

Remember: If we allow ourselves to fall into fatalism, or wallow in disappointment, or become resigned to what is rather than what should be, we will lose the long game. The greatest enemy of positive social change is cynicism about what can be changed.

Who is responsible for the affordability crisis? youtube.com/watch?v=kxYl...

The need to challenge racist borders and to fight for the rights of #migrants and #refugees has never been greater and it can only increase.

10. The freedoms we take for granted – political, economic, sexual, individual - were won through a combination of extraordinary struggle and extraordinary luck. There’s nothing “natural” or inevitable about them. They are in fact highly anomalous. And we won’t know what we’ve lost till it’s gone.

If Tim Houston is so concerned about democracy, he’d sit in the legislature for more than eight days, wouldn’t override decisions of Halifax regional council, would talk with reporters, and wouldn’t consider giving part of a provincial park to a private developer for a golf course.

I really wish some news outlets would stop regurgitating Houston’s tweets verbatim. He’s now using veterans once again to distract the public. The poppy issue was Saskatchewan not Nova Scotia. Keep your eyes on Mabou. #nspoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

I dealt with a lot of fossil-fuel propaganda in my book, but the lie that “by doing what we’re already doing we’ve avoided the bad outcomes” has in the past two years turned out to be the most popular and the most pernicious of all the disinformation I discussed.

“Cutting aid to those who need it most, and threatening decades of progress in the fight against AIDS, does not represent a “Canada Strong.” It represents a Canada that has lost its moral compass.”

The government of Canada knows the deadly impact of the dismantling of USAID and just cut foreign aid in this week’s federal budget. Beyond shameful.

PEN Canada joins 43 organizations and 123 individuals in open letter opposing “National Sprint” consultation on AI strategy, which proposed a mere thirty-day window on short notice. pencanada.ca/news/open-le...

“I’m really concerned that reconciliation with Indigenous peoples is going to be contingent upon how we can demonstrate our benefit to the economy and that’s not really what reconciliation was supposed to be about.”

On day 2 of #SocialSummit2025 in Doha, leaders stress the importance of universal social protection systems as enablers of social #justice and #sustainabledevelopment; and highlight role of #gender equality and sexual & reproductive health.

I spent a really long time amassing everything you need to know about Labour's vast deals with fossil gas-loving, Trump-donating AI giants out to pepper the world with climate-wrecking data centres...so you don't have to! My reporting for @desmog.com 📖👇

It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI. Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?

"Canada told the fossil fuel industry greenwashing was illegal, and its response was that having to be honest and transparent would make it too hard to do business. Apparently the threat worked," says Phil Newell of @caadcoalition.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/n...

As we look forward to the budget next week, we need to remember that the wealthy in Canada are doing very well. Rising fiscal pressures could be eased if the richest Canadians and multinational corporations paid their fair share. 5/5

[email protected] senior economist David MacDonald predicts specific cuts will be made via “stealth” over the coming months. He does not expect them to be clearly laid out on Tuesday. #budget2025 #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...

It's federal budget day!! Will we see a budget that prioritizes young and old alike? Who exactly will be asked to make sacrifices? Follow along as we break down the numbers! Stay tuned..... #federalbudget #federalbudget2025 #cdnpoli

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

“Worse, human capital — the workforce skills, knowledge and competencies essential to Canada’s competitiveness and growth — is nowhere to be found in this new fiscal framework. Indeed, it’s a framework for an economy curiously devoid of people.”

If you don't think rando MPs (and whoever else they share it with) should have access to personal information of individual applicants, reviewers, and students, confidential data, & full applications and reviews in every Canadian research grant (funded or not), please sign.

our governments transferred the public wealth that built and maintained our social infrastructure (schools, housing, income support, healthcare) to police and prisons and private industry. the police have defunded us. poverty is the crime

My statement on Ai from the mini-comic as syllabus i made for new class I'm teaching that starts tomorrow! It robs you of your decisions & struggles - and the joy of being surprised. We won’t to be robbed of our learning - this is essential. This & the full mini at post: bsky.app/profile/nsou...

“humanity could become ‘too distracted by climate chaos to focus fully on climate action… like sailors becoming overwhelmed by a storm and so losing their ability to navigate, or even stay afloat.’” news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-e...

Deadly attacks. New displacement. Deepening hunger.   We need the violence in Sudan to stop, urgent humanitarian access, perpetrators held to account.   I'm allocating $20M to provide urgent life-saving food, health, and protection. I will brief Security Council this morning.

Resistance isn't futile Here's a thread (and article) on five reasons for hope — and two concrete steps we can all take to stop Trump www.laborpolitics.com/p/after-no-k...

This is so important. Also we really should be working urgently with the int’l community to step up in response to the destruction of USAID. Humanitarian agencies are reeling and an estimated 14 million people will die by 2030 due to the abrupt cuts to US foreign aid. bit.ly/3Ja4oMF

Jamaica is responsible for less than 0.03% of global CO₂ emissions but faces almost unimaginable loss and damage in coming days at the hands of wealthy nations. It's heartbreaking and utterly damning.

Nine months ago I put most of my hope in major institutions continuing to hold fascism in check, but had little expectation that regular people with little to no power would step up and put themselves at risk. I had it exactly backward.

Rick Harp @mediaindigena.bsky.social tonight at the BFF symposium at UBC-Vancouver: "Indigenous language revitalization is climate change solution." A glorious possibility. And we have also to deal with oligarch nihilism for our planet and for all of the Peoples. Begin by disbelieving them.

“Some 60 organizations … are planning to strike in Iceland this Friday with events happening across two days. Their rallying cry? ‘We'll show up until we don't have to anymore.’”

It has been reported that #Carney plans a 15% cut to federal services. As this sad example shows, unlike the massive cuts of the 1990s, this time the #austerity knife will be cutting into bone rather than flesh.

I always try to write/talk critically about tech product design without focusing on particular products, or even product categories, but I continually find that LLM/GenAI products cover all the bases for what makes a bad product bad

1st greenwashing ruling against a major oil corp “The Paris court found that TotalEnergies had made environmental claims that "misled" consumers into believing that it could achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 while increasing oil and gas production.”

3. While big oil, big tobacco, etc. serve as well-known cautionary tales, social media research poses novel challenges for independent researchers—perhaps most notably, access to the study system itself. It's like trying to study climate change if Exxon-Mobile owned all the world's thermometers.

Did You Know? --------------- Canada Post owns 91% of Purolator https://www.cupw.ca/facts #SupportCUPW #canlab #cdnpoli @CanadianLabour

NB set to build a gas/diesel peaker plant, PEI planning the same dirty turbines near Charlottetown & NS proposing gas power generation in Pictou County. All yesterday’s technology. Hello? In the US they’re retrofitting & replacing these peaker plants with battery storage! #NewBrunswick #NovaScotia

Here's something that's not talked about enough The air pollution from burning fossil fuels kills an estimated 10 million people a year 1 in 6 deaths is caused by fossil fuels www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...