interesting and perhaps essential news. I'd like to see stats around the shift, but if true... hoo boy

in spite of an amazing speech, the walk is not lining up with the talk...

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After the speech, here at home we need to see better

Wow!

an oldie but a goodie

I always appreciate how articulate and insightful Doctorow is

In our little corner of the world, bipartisan integrity exists. Well done ❤️

"I'll speak today about the rupture in the world order, the end of the pleasant fiction and the dawn of a brutal reality in which great-power geopolitics is unconstrained." An extraordinary speech from Canada's prime minister.

Profits go down: We regret to announce that we have to destroy the world. Profits go up: We're delighted to announce that we have to destroy the world.

please explain why AI and bots are still allowed to do whatever ...?

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sigh...

nuts...

Well done, Billy Bragg: "Would you refuse to let him in and send him back to die?"

This is not just "a breach of ethics" - it's straight up willfull harm, leading to death, so I believe that's called manslaughter at the very least. What even is happening?

Beautiful reminder (as I had heard this before, but a long time ago). There is only one of each of us. Some have talent that can be shared publicly, to acclaim (or not), but ALL of us have our unique abilities and perspectives to share. Remember that!

A good read with important points - tldr: "We cannot indefinitely socialize climate damages while privatizing climate profits."

My good. Not surprising, but not good.

It always blows my mind to read case studies out of Asia & realize that they are probably a decade ahead of public health in the West in terms of actually understanding respiratory disease transmission. Peak public health in the West seem to be don't test, don't tell.

This is the fossil fuel industry spraypainting the lens on the security cameras while they carry off the heist www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible. I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth.

interesting! I certainly support public funds being exclusive to public education, which can/should then be well-funded and offer a variety of programs.

Yes!

Elections Alberta has issued a press release confirming that with the entry into force of Bill 14, Corb Lund's "no coal" legislative initiative is now dead and must be re-filed. More rule changes designed to derail the efforts of those who oppose coal mining on the eastern slopes. #ableg #abpoli

Never forget, car dependency isn’t freedom. Some might ask “what’s more free than cars?” Choices. Choices are more free than car dependency. It’s not a hard concept. I’m not pitting cars against any other single mode of transport. I’m rejecting design that creates dependency on just one mode.

Read this thread, Albertans ❤️

Years ago, I warned that Danielle Smith would run out of enemies in political realm and turn her sights on the courts. Her latest attacks aren't some high-minded philosophical critique of judicial supremacy. They're pure populist pablum, specially crafted to remove yet another check on her power.

Canada should do this. www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

AI is a climate issue. AI is a climate crisis.

so frustrating

wow. Never seen this language from Bill McKibbon, but I understand why he's using it now...

I concluded this weeks ago. They didn't hide it. The UCP didn't have to use the notwithstanding clause. They wanted to, in order to avoid an arbitration process they knew they'd lose. edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...

'Sorry prime minister, I'm no longer your man': Steven Guilbeault on leaving cabinet www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/03/n...

“New car registrations in the EU inched down by 0.1% in the first eight months of 2025 compared to last year, but increased by 5.3% in August. From January to August, sales of EVs grew year-on-year by 24.8%” EV sales aren’t declining. ICE sales are declining. ICE decline stalling market.

this is astonishing! Art as the seed of brilliant insights is not new, but this leap is something unexpected. And quintessentially human

really? Ugh

A well organized summation, and a daunting compilation by Just Have a Think of the recent National Emergency Briefing held inthe UK (but that applies to ALL of us). Wishing we could have something like this here in Canada. youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...

2/8 The logic is seductive: let those who can pay exit the public queue, shortening it for everyone else. But this fails the laws of physics. 👉 The number of doctor hours is finite. You aren't adding capacity; you're just reshuffling the line based on a wallet biopsy rather than medical need. 👈

literal weeping going on here...

long, on point, and eloquent as always.

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Massive shoutout out to whoever handles the Royal Canadian Air Force’s social media account. They responded to every single comment on their already very solid Trans Day of Remembrance post and they responded like this…

Infuriating and terrifying

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