Transition away from fossil fuels? Here’s how Canada is doing so far www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/20/a...

Important thread here from @richardbrooks.bsky.social about recent changes to the Canada Infrastructure Bank mandate👇

BREAKING: It took eight tries, but the Senate has voted 50-47 to advance a resolution to limit Trump’s war on Iran. Bill Cassidy flipped after losing his primary, joining Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Rand Paul in voting with Democrats. John Fetterman was the only Dem to vote against.

SIGN OF THE DAY…

For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #ScrollBack, here is a group of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks we sighted back on April 20/26. #Birds #BirdPhotography #nature #Ontario #Canada

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I did a deep-dive into US ambassador Pete Hoekstra's links to the Alberta separatists' voter ID app Hoekstra repeatedly promoted the app at 2024 Trump rallies Hoekstra helped them organize presentations, is connected with the app's founder and the founder's wealthy step-father was a past donor 👇

Musk vs OpenAI: The nine-person jury unanimously found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed the deadline for the statute of limitations. (AP)

Cartoon from Andy Donato.

This Needs to Happen…. Idea: a law that says if you’re going to build a data center, you have to also build enough solar panels to power it. We can call it the Bring Your Own Damn Grid Act.

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #BillC22

Public Safety Canada has received a Community Note on X for its attempts to reject criticism of Bill C-22. Bill C-22’s state surveillance powers are so extreme that companies focused on privacy & cybersecurity are warning they may leave 🇨🇦 rather than comply. Canadians should be very concerned.

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The most corrupt president in history:

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Even when it's an entire stadium booing them, the AI hucksters cannot wrap their heads around the fact that no one wants the shit they're selling.

Canada’s Species at Risk Act is, itself, at risk #SARA #concervation #cdnpoli www.raincoast.org/2026/05/cana...

Hey everyone! The minimizer who overconfidently "blew it" with SARS (to quote her colleagues) and overconfidently dismissed airborne transmission of COVID as a "tempest in a teapot" (which the UK COVID Inquiry found was a "widespread failure") is "confident there's no additional risk". Feel safe?

Pathways is a "prerequisite" (L) Construction of pipeline targets for 2027 (R) How is this a prerequisite? Its a prerequisite that there is a promise that the carbon capture project will get built, actually work as designed, and actually be operated?

Energy security - yes sovereignty - yes "low-carbon energy" describing building bitumen pipelines - no In a world that is increasingly electrifying it is really absurd to claim that even if (big if) you had full CCS on production, that oil is "low-carbon".

First off - no this does not maintain a path to net-zero by 2050. This matters. If GoC wants to change its policies on climate that is of course within their elected right to do so. But they can't change the policy to make it less stringent and then claim it is on a path to net zero.

This is too long already. The MOU: - greatly waters down climate policy - leaves bit of climate policy in place but not nearly enough for any reasonable pathway - seems to create a way for a pipeline to be built before CCS. or as @katharinehayhoe.com said it here: bsky.app/profile/kath...

Read Sara's whole thread on todays AB-fed MOU, but she is the first I've seen to pick up on the double-counting-of-credits aspect. I wrote a whole boring-ass report on the last time Alberta allowed double-counting of emissions credits. TLDR: It's not good for climate

I think this headline about today's Fed-Alberta energy agreement misses the main story. A pipeline may or may not materialize (there is still no private proponent). The real story is how Carney has surrendered to Premier Smith and the oil & gas industry... 🧵 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

Oil and gas represents only 5% of our GDP. Carney and Smith are investing our money into soon-to-be-obsolete technology just to appease fascist seditionists. We are scheduled to have another record breaking hot summer with some wild fires already raging. This is a terrible, terrible decision.

Today, Prime Minister #MarkCarney topped off the recent slew of environmental and climate rollbacks with one more: ✅ Big polluters in Alberta get a big break on the industrial carbon price and a clear path to a new bitumen pipeline. 🙃 🙃 🙃 Who wins here? Not Canadians. READ 👉 bit.ly/4tHYK5F

In just one year, Carney has wrecked a decade's worth of progress. The old climate strategy wasn't enough, but rather than strengthen it he dismantled every meaningful policy, stomped on the gas to deliver more fossil fuels, and concentrated power to run roughshod over opposition to his agenda.

🚨 Bill C-22 forces every Canadian internet provider, messaging app & cloud service to build surveillance backdoors and store a year of your data. Foreign state hackers exploited similar legislation in the US. Shut the backdoor: openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky #BillC22

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/...

For those who’ve asked: here’s Justice Leonard’s decision quashing the separatist petition www.canlii.org/en/ab/abkb/d...

100% (I would’ve included the signal tidbit in the piece but I filed before the news came out)

The fact that Signal has threatened to pull out of Canada should be a five-alarm fire for the Carney people. This bill is illiberal.

It's how our system checks which MP to send your message to; postal codes alone don't map cleanly to riding, so some folk get misdirected. However, we've no issue whatsoever if people prefer to keep that anonymous and use a nearby public address rather than their own!

🇨🇦's #BillC22 is entering committee study this week - and we're hearing it may become law by end of the month. We never say this: but this is the worst, most privacy-breaking bill we've seen. It MUST be stopped. Speak up against it and read on to learn more: www.openmedia.org/StopC22-bsky 1/

Important to know – this is *not* a bluff by Signal. They will leave Canada if it's required for them to comply with this bill. This is the same position Signal has had for years in regard to Europe. It couldn't be more firm.

here’s my latest on bill c-22 (lawful access act): “The Carney government is about to take a massive step towards violating the privacy rights of every single Canadian.” www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/14/o...

Grand slam, Daulton Varsho. The biggest swing of the #BlueJays season so far, and so very needed. Toronto wins, 5-3.

New York subway rule: dogs can only travel if they go "in a bag." New Yorkers took it very seriously... and became incredibly creative. 🐶

An Alberta judge quashed a separatist petition Wednesday, saying the provincial government had a duty to consult with First Nations.

I just wrote a @leadnowca.bsky.social letter: Federal MPs: Protect Pharmacare for all!. Write one here: leadnow.ca/campaigns/ph...

“The Haida and other coastal First Nations say they will fight any effort to repeal the law because they say the risk of a catastrophic spill in these waters is high, and the result would be devastating for the marine environment and for the communities that rely upon it.” Gift link.

Survivor of Jeffrey Epstein breaks down in tears describing the moment she learned her name was revealed while the rich and powerful remained protected by redactions Roza: I kept my identity protected as Jane Doe. I woke up one day with my name mentioned over 500 times.

Something big just happened on Haida Gwaii. For the first time in B.C., a utility-scale solar project is now taking a meaningful bite out of a diesel-fuelled remote grid. It's a product of years of work from the Haida Nation, and it could signal a tipping point. (photos: Katherine Cheng) 🧵

There is an Alberta-wide day of protest planned for 29th May Please repost "The May 29 Day of Protest will bring together...including health care, education, construction, energy, retail, and public services — in coordinated demonstrations province-wide." #ableg #abpoli afl.org/press-releas...

David Parker, who illegally obtained and leaked Alberta‘s list of electors, refuses to cooperate with Elections Alberta investigation and refuses to sign an affidavit that he will not leak the list further. Yet government of Alberta still quarterbacks separatists. #ableg

The Mark Carney government has made “deploying AI at scale” a cornerstone of its attempt to make government more productive and slash costs by cutting 28,000 jobs by 2029. There are so many reasons to be skeptical, write Natasha Tusikov and Blayne Haggart. #canpoli

Our central argument: for severe pathogens with respiratory transmission potential, public health agencies should START with stringent airborne precautions and scale back only if evidence later justifies doing so — not the reverse. 6/