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The mic drop phase of the global energy landscape. IRENA’s latest report shows the transition crossed another threshold: 24/7 solar, wind & batteries are now cost competitive with fossil generation across most regions. Not “sometime later.” Now. #Bettrification #SWB www.irena.org/Publications...

I miss having a real media critic in this country because many of my peers are probably afraid to publicly denounce this crazy behaviour & get blacklisted from the NYT but I personally do not care 😎 I already have a job at a media outlet with ethical standards around reporting.

personally I think it's a very big deal that the Canada bureau chief for the @nytimes.com — certainly one of the highest-paid journalists in the country — asked an unspecified "AI tool" what Poilievre said & published its AI-hallucinated quotes in her reporting.

"Musk pledged two years ago to build a state-of-the-art water recycling plant in Memphis to guarantee that his xAI servers wouldn’t deplete the city’s groundwater" "Now that Musk’s first data center is up and running, construction on the recycling facility has come to an abrupt halt"

Loughton: Almost 70% of the total tax lift is going towards a single area, the police. The public must understand that we are paying a crisis premium for managing the symptoms rather than addressing the root cause. We need police to do policing, not manage a humanitarian crisis.

If you're still confused who is winning the war in Iran.

Saskatoon fire department responds to “staggering” increase in overdoses, coinciding with closure of Prairie Harm Reduction supervised consumption site www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Once again: close an area to cars, business *increases*. Every time. And yet every new proposal to close an area to cars meets the same resistance from business owners. I'm starting to wonder whether business owners really are rational self-interest maximizers, I tell you!

This story is WILD. Juan Orlando Hernandez, the Honduran ex-president pardoned by Trump for narcotrafficking, seemingly caught on tape in dozens of conversations (if true), discussing plans with GOP and other figures to attack left-wing governments, and saying Israel paid for his pardon from Trump.

This line is BC Rail tracks. The BC govt should take control back of the tracks abandoned by CN and look into providing Pemberton, Whistler, and Squamish (and maybe Lions Bay and Lillooet too) with commuter rail service to NorthVan. #bcpoli

Lots of chatter this week about a survey from the Business Council of BC in which "98% of respondents disagreed that DRIPA is living up to its promise of creating investment certainty in B.C." Worth noting that 98% figure represents 86 businesses #bcpoli

If anyone was wondering what BC MLAs are up to tonight, they're still in the legislature, debating a hoist motion on Bill 9, the NDP's latest FOI bill Interim BC Conservative leader Trevor Halford moved the motion yesterday afternoon and the house has been debating it since , ~12hrs #bcpoli

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The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

Lot of drama right now even by AB standards, but if you're connected to harm-reduction agencies I suggest you read these stories as they could implicate your org. So far just one mainstream outlet has picked it up: 1. drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove... 2. drugdatadecoded.ca/alberta-gove...

Why does California have 123,974 people sleeping on the street? I hate to break this to you, but it's not because of billionaires, private equity, or venture capital. It's because of your neighbor Frank -- who is big mad at a 5 story apartment for low income senior farmers.

Despite global outrage, Israel is still blockading our children’s education It’s been three weeks since settlers fenced off my students’ path to school, trying to show that Umm Al-Khair has no future. We refuse to let them win. www.972mag.com/umm-al-khair...

they didn't kill it. they directed staff to try

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

🌡️Over 20 heat records were broken across B.C. on Sunday, May 3. As BC gets hotter and smokier, thousands of residents are still living without adequate cooling. 🔗 Read the announcement: www.urbanclimateleadership.org/news//bc-hea... More... 1/n #yyj #bcpoli #climateaction #KeepItCool #HeatPumps

The Canadian Mining Journal retracted a lengthy article that quoted made-up people and cited made-up facts about deep-sea mining. Observers aren't surprised.

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I want to point out how deeply this impacts Indigenous Peoples, as we are disproportionately represented within prisons. Book programs brought Indigenous voices to our incarcerated relatives. They are cutting us off from one another and it is on purpose.

New: Microplastics are already in our food and water and contaminating ecosystems and wildlife around the world. Now scientists have discovered that tiny plastic particles in the atmosphere are heating the planet, magnifying climate change impacts. Free link. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bombshell investigation by my colleagues @godfrey.bsky.social and @emmaarkell.bsky.social: VPD calls to CBSA to check people's immigration status (even without crime) skyrocketed just after Vancouver's new mayor&council assumed office. Privileged to have edited this file. Please give it a read! 👇

this is the precise sense in which "technology is political"

“‘I was like, ‘hold up, this might go in’” on Barrett’s bounce, a Kawhi moment and Game 7 — on an unlikely night in an unlikely series: www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/...

Scottie Barnes on RJ Barrett’s Game 6 winner: “To do it in the city he grew up in, that’s truly amazing. The way that shot went in when we needed it most… That’s big-time. It’s hard to even wrap your head around it.”

RJ Barrett is averaging 24.3 points this series, third-most by in a postseason in Raptors franchise history.

Award winning poet, Mosab Abu Toha’s aunt was shot in the chest in Jabalia camp, while sitting with her young children, holding her one month old baby, and it fighting for her life. This, under a “ceasefire” #Gaza

RJ Barrett hits a go-ahead 3 in OT to win it, as the Raptors force Game 7 in Round 1! Scottie Barnes: 25 PTS, 7 REB, 14 AST, 3 STL, 3 BLK Ja'Kobe Walter: 24 PTS, 5 REB, 3 STL, 4 3PM Collin Murray-Boyles: 17 PTS, 7 REB, 2 STL, 3 BLK Game 7: Sunday, 7:30pm/et on NBC & Peacock

A must read. Serious questions raised about the competency of Elections Alberta. They were warned, in detail, a month before they acted. Meanwhile, the private information of millions of Albertans was wide open. Incredible. This may be the biggest privacy breach in Canadian history.

BC reports a tripling in the deaths of people experiencing homelessness in four years.

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Amazing. In Paris, school streets "with the full treatment — trees, gardens, light-colored pavement — were on average, an astonishing 9 degrees (Fahrenheit) cooler than nearby non-school streets."

LIV will serve as an amazing time capsule to understand an era where vice signalling and 'fuck you' money replaced business strategy. So much of LIV was also built around the idea (very ascendent in politics, imo) that a critical mass people will like a thing only bc it pisses the right people off.

India's coal-fired power generation fell in January-March, despite a 3% increase in power demand, as solar and other clean energy sources met all the demand growth.

China is installing the wind and solar equivalent of five large nuclear power stations per week www.abc.net.au/news/science...

In 2021 the Vancouver City Planning Commission (led by @mssinenomine.bsky.social and @ayasinvan.bsky.social) wrote a memo outlining how the City should respond to heat events. Very few actions were actually taken, and now the rest are being cut. People will die. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

39 countries cut energy taxes after the Iran war. Politically popular but self-defeating: untargeted subsidies blunt the price signals, lead to higher demand, cost the tax payer significantly more and provide less incentive to invest in alternatives.

"China is keeping LNG imports at multi-year lows, and is instead reselling cargoes around the region. That comes on the heels of weak demand growth prior to the war. Last year, China’s LNG imports were down 11% According to IEEFA, China’s LNG imports could fall by another 11% in 2026."

Carney government issues new oil and gas subsidies in spring mini-budget. Important insights here on today's fiscal update from @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/28/n...

Can anyone guess which country will dominate the global auto industry going forward?

Wow, this, coming less than 24 hours after hearing about UAE ditching OPEC, which can convincingly argued as a response to long term structural falls in oil and gas demand, is quite something.

The story isn’t that an #Alberta minister “admitted he was wrong”. It’s that he spread a false claim about supervised consumption sites—despite zero recorded deaths at these facilities—manufacturing consent to shutter life-saving services. #abpoli #cdnpoli edmonton.citynews.ca/2026/04/28/a...

“But among people who have high incomes [over $150k] who are finding it difficult to meet their monthly expenses, the polling found support around 50-50.” 🤔🤨🧐 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A B.C. government group that works with police to monitor protests against the natural resource industry has also been keeping tabs on First Nations treaty negotiations and climate action initiatives, according to an internal document. @amandafollett.bsky.social reports. #bcpoli