#climatecrisis #climatechange

ourworldindata.org/grapher/co-e... The U.S. is the world's largest CO2 emitter on a per capita basis (14.2 tonnes/person). Canada is 2nd (13.42/person). Note the narrowing of the gap between them. Will Canada become the worst polluter on a per capita basis within a decade? #climatecrisis #climate

There’s a New Forecast for Peak Oil Demand. It’s Increasingly Cloudy. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/c... Predicting 2.5 degrees or 2.9 degrees warmer by 2100. #COP30 #climatecrisis

#RemembranceDay #ThankYou

How Canada Thumbs Its Nose at the Global Climate Summit via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... #COP30 #climatecrisis

Here's a look at the extent of the "warmth" across the #Arctic in October. This map uses my normal anomaly scaling for each month, but it clearly doesn't work for something this extreme. Data from doi.org/10.24381/cds...

You won't find this message in Canada's official #COP30 statement: Canada, with already the worst #GHG emissions record in the G7, intends to increase oil sands production from today's record levels. #climatecrisis abpolecon.ca/2025/11/08/w...

I couldn't deliver this speech to #COP30 with a straight face. "Deep decarbonization" is a snake-oil phrase coming from a country where total GHG emissions have climbed by nearly 15% since 1990. Canada hasn't met a single #climatechange goal in more than 30 years. www.canada.ca/en/environme...

calgaryherald.com/business/new... Oil sands emissions hit a new record high. Both Ottawa and Alberta are prepared to see those emissions increase. Funny the headline doesn't make that clear... Feel good - this year's record high is just a bit higher than last year's. #climatechange #fossilfuels

www.alberta.ca/release.cfm?... A cynical Friday afternoon news release. Didn’t know Alberta Ed. was authorized to speak for Canadian universities about what a no diploma exam grade would do to admission prospects. And what does a flexible calendar mean? Madness. #education #ableg

I called on the 🇨🇦 govt to guarantee, no-cost access to COVID-19 vaccines, including for every child under 12. Under the Canada Health Act, every Canadian deserves equal access to care no matter where they live, or how badly their provincial gov’t ignores science, health guidelines & their citizens.

ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/without... It’s harder and harder to refute the view that Albertans live in a banana republic - without the benefit of growing bananas. #ableg

Thanks to @thetyee.ca for publishing this piece. In this age of propaganda governments selectively use statistics to manufacture public complacency. If they get away with it we, and those who come after us, will pay a steep price. #climatechange #abpoli #cdnpoli #democracy

abpolecon.ca/2025/01/10/p... Info for tonight. Jean nonsensically suggested last Dec. that Grassy wasn't a new open pit mine. It was an "advanced coal project." He eliminated that provision in a 01/15/25 Min. Order. With it he eliminated the flimsy legal basis for his Dec. position. #abpoli #ableg

calgaryherald.com/news/politic... Message? No new open pit mines except for Grassy Mtn. Jean tries to deflect by saying the 1976 policy will apply - big deal, that policy didn't apply to the orig. Grassy application - one the Alberta Energy Regulator categorically rejected. #abpoli #ableg

No one should dispute the National Energy Program’s devastating impact on Alberta’s conventional oil and gas sector 40 years ago. But the oilsands, not conventional oil, propelled Canada to its position as the world’s fourth-largest oil producer. @ianurquhart.bsky.social writes.

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo... Continued steep decline in Cdn return trips to the US by car (-35.2% comparing 04/25 with 04/24). (see Chart 4) Decline in returns by air from the US (-19.9%) outweigh increase from overseas countries. than fm other intl destinations. #elbowsup #tariffs #travel

Alberta has long accused Ottawa of trying to destroy its oil industry. Here’s why that’s a dangerous myth theconversation.com/alberta-has-... #abpoli #cdnpoli Thanks to those of you who have read/shared this piece. It’s been opened more than 32,000 times. I expect heresy charges soon.

theconversation.com/alberta-has-... Looking forward to talking with Shaye Ganam on his show tomorrow morning at 9:15. On 630 CHED in #YEG and 770 CHQR in #YYC.

theconversation.com/alberta-has-... #cdnpoli #abpoli It’s nonsense to portray Ottawa as an enemy of the #tarsands. In 2004 Mark Lisac wrote: “Alberta is a place soaked in self-deception.” Right then, right now. Exploiting myth is crucial to nurturing secessionist delusions.

Coal in Alberta: Neither public outrage nor waning global demand seem to matter to Danielle Smith #abpoli #mountainsnotmines #ableg #coalmining #YYC #YQL theconversation.com/coal-in-albe...

A shout out to the 4 Republican Senators - Collins, McConnell, Murkowski, and Paul (co-sponsor) for joining their Democratic colleagues in passing Sen. Kaine's resolution to repeal the emerg. resolution slapping #tariffs on Canada for my country's alleged role in the #fentanyl crisis. Thank you.

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... #abpoli Who are these people? Have they a shred of decency?

ablawg.ca/2025/03/26/t... Hats off to MD of Ranchland and Michael Niven/Carscallen Law for their tenacity. #abpoli #mountainsnotmîned

Kevin Van Tighem: A lot of Canadians didn’t visit a national park. Why should their tax dollars finance holidays enjoyed by others... @ianurquhart.bsky.social: Free admission helps parks promote health, biodiversity, climate change mitigation and Indigenous partnerships...

We're going to create a working group to study the problem some more! Really! That's the best you can do? The Legislature is in session now. Why not just fix the problem?

chng.it/dRbX7XMbMw #cdnpoli #elbowsup

mailchi.mp/nationalobse... #cdnpoli @adriennetanner.bsky.social

And how about Trump's claim that our neighbours to the south subsidize my country to the tune of $200 billion/year? #elbowsup www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Any Canadian naive enough to believe Trump's claim that if Canada joined the U.S. we would pay "much lower taxes" should read this from Glenn Kessler. #elbowsup www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Clever move that should not be well received in Moscow. #Ukraine

www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo... Canadians may have started a vacation #boycott to the U.S. in response to Trump's #tariffs. If true this "steep decline" will be a sig. hit to the US tourism industry. In 2024 more intl visitors came from Canada to the U.S. than from anywhere else. #cdnpoli

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... The words above the eagle on the US Presidential seal mean "One Out of Many." You only need to change them slightly, to "One Out of Many Lies," for it to fit perfectly the current President. #elbowsup

wapo.st/3X5k2wA #Ukraine

www.theatlantic.com/internationa... Superb work. I suppose I was naive to think not even Trump could cripple/destroy the postwar international security/economic order so quickly and with such determination. #Ukraine

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/19/u... The behaviour of the #GOP is shameful. #Ukraine

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

I hope it’s not too late, for Europe, for Canada, and for those outside the U.S. Executive Branch.

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... For anyone concerned about the rise of authoritarianism in the U.S. & other so-called liberal democracies. Anne Applebaum is a superb analyst of this shift. #authoritarianism #Trump

wapo.st/4gF3vpS Fact checking #Trump. I know...you're shocked at the headline.

Happy to have been one of them.

economics.td.com/ca-canada-us... On the irrationality of the bully’s tariffs. Without Alberta’s petroleum exports to the US (cited as important to US national security) the US has a trade surplus with Canada. #MadeinCanada #tariffs #cdnpoli

Good advice here. Was looking forward to seeing a Coldplay concert in the U.S. Not anymore, prefer to cancel my trip than spend my dollars there. #TeamCanada #MadeinCanada theseeker.ca/2025/02/figh...

President Trump on Saturday signed executive orders imposing sweeping tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, the country’s three largest trading partners. Tariffs could lead to higher prices for consumers. Here’s what to know.

A lesson we all learned in grade school. Don’t let bullies bully you. #TeamCanada ❤️🇨🇦

Tariffs are getting conversation time on Sunday morning talk shows. @msnbc.com @velshimsnbc.bsky.social noting correctly how disastrous this is & how much Canada has stood with the USA. #cdnpoli. I hope Ali had time to hear our PMs speech last night

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu... @donbraid.bsky.social Sorry, given the sensitivity of all US Presidents to gasoline prices, the impact of tariffs on US motorists seems to me to be far more persuasive when it comes to oil than Premier Smith’s pandering. #ableg #cdnpoli #tradewar

Trust the farmers in the Midwest will thank #trump for increasing their prod. costs through a 25% tariff on #Saskatchewan #potash. And for the additional prod. cost increases when a 10% tariff is placed on the oil that #Midwest refineries use #dumb #inflation #tradewar