Reminder that the people of Canada living in his riding voted him out of parliament. Then his party gave him the safest seat in the country in a byelection.

Federal impact assessment not ruled out for two Pictou fossil gas plants reported by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social

Federal impact assessment not ruled out for two Pictou fossil gas plants reported by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social

WHAT?! She's a fucking loon! A Trump-lover and an Ivermectin pusher! She is the kind of Conservative the Liberals DO NOT want in the party.

Anti-fracking coalition report slams N.S. premier’s $30 million push for onshore fossil gas development "The Houston government alone can decide what –if anything–can be made public, and all the findings can be “irrevocably erased,” according to the NOFRAC report," reports @joanbaxter.bsky.social

100. Do not hand over responsibility for environmental assessments to provinces that do not take environmental issues seriously.

We cannot shift the implementation of these programs through provinces, sir. Not when Ont has a premier who actively sabotages green energy, conservation, green retrofits. @liberalca.bsky.social . It’s also time to refund those currently on hold: “funding www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/01/n...

Humans are fucked up. fortune.com/2026/04/01/a...

Tell me again that AI datacenter fantasies are not tied directly to Big Oil creating new markets for their crap.. Meanwhile I'm googling "does exposure to methane gas get you high?.."

What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”

No words, not even ones not fit to print.

NS Tories: we can’t afford to publish books but we can spend $4.4M dollars to steal from them. #nspoli

If you're wondering what's happening with the US Forest Service and why it matters, read this:

Post by @readtheorchard.org: Konrad Yakabuski (not a Jew) thinks the party led externally by Avi Lewis and internally by Niall Ricardo (both Jews) has an anti-Semitism problem. You can’t make this shit up!

I got one of these emails. Putting me together with the other names in the list — @lukelebrun.ca, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social, @nolore.bsky.social, @ethancox.bsky.social and others — you get a loose mosaic best described as "people who have had some fleeting argument with Jesse recently."

Right on time. The Corbyn knives are out

Please note that the real antisemitism comes from the @theglobeandmail.com that wrote and published this during a time when they know that Lewis is observing shiva for his father’s death and can’t respond. We are being led by cowards

‘Alarm bells’ ring over new ‘one project, one review’ agreement between Ottawa and NS for environmental assessments reported by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social

FOOD PROFESSOR DOWN

It sure would be nice if CBC reporters introduced some facts into these sorts of stories. Such as: How much is the federal gas tax? How much are provincial gas taxes? And how do they contribute to the overall cost of gasoline? #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Tim Houston says ‘progress’ is more important than ‘process,’ echoing Mussolini’s promises to make the trains run on time Morning File by me

When I think about the worst journalistic failures in semi-recent history it was both-siding climate change. Today? It's ignoring that the president of the United States is not mentally well. That that's not top of the news every day is a crime against journalism.

Canadians are handing Maritime Launch Services $20 million a year for 10 years to lease its “spaceport,” a concrete pad in Canso, NS. Quite the windfall of public $$$ for Steve Matier’s MLS, which last year lost $47.28 million & had “sales” of $14,980. www.marketscreener.com/news/maritim...

Nova Scotia’s Auditor General has issued a report on $3B worth of untendered heath contracts. This is worth a listen. oag-ns.ca/audit-report...

If you think this kinky photo and story are outlandish, how about the latest news, that Canadians will hand the smirking guy in the middle $20 milllion a year for 10 years to lease a “spaceport” in Canso, NS, which has yet to be built. globalnews.ca/news/8790805...

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

avi lewis as ndp leader is worth it even if it’s just for him to talk sense to the media on how they cover canada post. i love this.

🧵Canadian politicians pushing pipelines in 2026 are just flat out wrong "There is every reason to believe that the war will accelerate the fossil fuel decline that was already under way before the missiles & drones began to fly across the Middle East" energymixweekender.substack.com/p/an-energy-...

What a stunning demonstration of how data centre development is directly and materially boosting fossil fuels. After ferocious lobbying the Carney government caved and killed off environmental rules to allow fossil gas power plants to be built for data centres: thewalrus.ca/after-intens...

My latest! I'm keeping a list of the cuts that Mark Carney's government has made, and what impact they'll have on our public services. noraloreto.substack.com/p/counting-t...

Wikipedia for the win.

Canada’s Oil Industry Is Trying to Cash in on Iran War www.desmog.com/2026/03/19/c...

“Guilbeault urges universities to embrace “living labs” … geothermal systems, solar integration, nature-based stormwater management and biodiversity restoration or deep efficiency retrofits that cut emissions while providing hands on learning opportunities” universityaffairs.ca/news/univers...

I like to have fun when I am writing. I have never, ever had this much fun while I'm writing.

Who needs diplomats? Carney will fly there to negotiate directly. It's not like he has to be in the House of Commons or anything like that.

Bookmarking for when Trump dies.

Western carmakers are retreating from EVs just as oil hits $100 a barrel. The parallels with Detroit in the 1980s are striking. They ignored fuel-efficient Japanese cars. Now they’re ignoring Chinese EVs. BYD just unveiled 600-mile range and 250 miles of charge in 5 minutes.

A horrendous tragedy is unfolding in Iran, and when the media downplays it — through sparse coverage of the human cost, featuring uninformed people or using language that obscures the perpetrators — it becomes an active accomplice to the carnage.

The breathless & credulous politicians & media reporting on federal fund for the Canso “spaceport” might listen to these wise words from Canso: “Congratulations to the Federal govt for just leasing a 25'x35' concrete slab with PVC pipes sticking out of it…” 1/2 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

The Ontario government wants to rewrite the law that compelled it to disclose documents revealing the Greenbelt land scandal, the Skills Development Fund controversy and others. For @nationalobserver.com 🧵

Will someone please let Canada’s PM and the provincial premiers in on this rather important fact?

Ford has a wannabe little bro out here in N.S. trying on all the same shit from the same anti-democratic playbook.

I think every #NovaScotia mayor I interviewed so far as said the province ditching coastal protection was a huge mistake and letdown. Now those municipalities are trying to figure out how to protect their communities. Some of the mayors working together on plans.

N.S. Premier Houston’s killing of the Coastal Protection Act was a “failure of leadership,” and a “failure” to have “a backbone.” Or maybe a selectively soft backbone that bends, like his knees, before wealthy developers and powerful industrial interests?

SUVs pose a much higher danger to pedestrians than smaller vehicles with a lower hood height, “with children at particular risk of fatal injuries from collisions”, specifically children are “77% more likely” to die. London is considering charges for drivers of these larger vehicles.

The cost of my reporting stared me in the face last week, when two Nazis showed up to try to intimidate me for my journalism on a private night out. But that’s far from the only fallout of my latest investigation. I took a few days, watching the reaction -- and now I’ve got much more to share:

Floods, fires, and Fiona: Premier Tim Houston’s government ignores enormous climate risks. As a result, insurance costs are skyrocketing reported by @joanbaxter.bsky.social

This is Nathan Cavanaugh, another DOGE staffer explaining how he flagged grants at NEH for "DEI" which would be reviewed for termination. 404 Media has reviewed hours of this footage and we'll have more soon. Part of a lawsuit by @acls1919.bsky.social, @modernlanguage.bsky.social + @historians.org