Trump’s new tariffs “deepens trade tensions” between Canada and the U.S., an American alcohol industry body says. globalnews.ca/news/1197392...

Yup

I want to amplify this! The reality is hard to accept, but being in the trenches doing this work, in my region (Seattle metro) even *market rate* rents ($$$) aren't equal to debt service/mortgages right now, never mind covering profit or ongoing maintenance costs. It's a crisis.

This Message From Former Ambassador Michael McFaul, Who Served Under President Obama, As Ambassador To Russia.......

Very disturbing piece here about a Canadian owned company collaborating with Trump regime and ICE www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/21/n...

These are single-stair buildings, BTW, with the stairs accessible through an open-air balcony working as fire compartmentalization/smoke filter. (note the abundance of elevators)

After two separate investigations into procurement corruption, and an ongoing RCMP criminal investigation of procurement, the UCP govt of Danielle Smith still awards a $300K contract to her former campaign advisor's company, claiming it was an open competition when there is no evidence of that.

If you think that civc services can be - or, G-d forbid, *ought* to be - provided by volunteers, then you are, mentally, a housecat

Andrew Tate slowly realizing exclusive new manosphere actually jail

Yes. With the qualification that wetlands can be regenerated - so long as there’s some wetlands nearby. Produce the right conditions, plant some native species, bring some beaver in to give a hand, and let the insects and birds do the rest. = a particular set of circumstances so the point remains.

What some call "unused land" is often the last safe haven for countless living creatures. Wetlands are not empty spaces waiting to be developed. They are nurseries for birds, natural water filters, flood defenses, and wildlife habitats that cannot be replaced once lost.

When your ex doesn't realise that you don't think about them at all.

Yep. It's all fun and games until someone loses hundreds of millions of dollars because the ones being bullied fight back.

Whelp- that pretty much seals the deal. No self-respecting Canadian will ever buy California wine again, even if it's on the shelf and on sale. Good job!

When the Californians assure Canadians that we’re all friends and they are on our side, won’t we please buy their wine and come back to visit.

We are living in a time when we are protecting housing for cars and prioritizing new homes for AI. And our unhoused neighbours? Criminalize them.

🚨A major milestone for noise as a public health issue! A U.S. federal court ruled that the EPA failed to meet its obligations under the Noise Control Act for more than 40 years. 🔗 https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/epa-gets-sued-over-lack-of-noise-pollution-regulation

Exactly! Adapt your shopping and your cooking I have not purchased any American produce or foodstuffs for over a year It’s easier than you think No Canadian onions, use leeks or shallots

I'm so damn tired of "please" being attached to all messages requesting that drivers operate their vehicles safely and according to the law. The wording needs to be stern and strict. Drive safely or you will suffer consequences. Plain and simple. "Please stop" the coddling of car culture.

If you are riding by parked cars take the lane. You're allowed to take the lane. Drivers are not allowed to run you over. Drivers are allowed to door you. Take the lane.

Appeasing a ridiculous government led by a ridiculous man child while playing tiddlywinks with our health and future… Way to look out for your citizens, EU. I’m a tad touchy. The forest fire smoke is hard to breath. The evac alert is stressful. And Canada ignores impacts, shovels #$B to fossil fuels

It's not possible to work with a sociopath. He actively seeks out chaos; it's impossible for businesses or governments to make long-term plans when he kicks over the game board on a daily basis.

The champions of the world, joined by the embarrassment of the world.

Big ups to the researchers doing surveys. When I was a an undergrad field assistant, it looked like this: 1. Sit on bucket 2. Stare at plant for 2 hours 3. Use net to catch any bee that visited plant for 2 hours 3.5. Dig bee from undergrowth when they inevitably plunge to avoid net 4. Identify bee

The Canada-US relationship is never going to recover to what it was before Trump

Of course not on potash because the 'we don't need anything from Canada' crowd need Canadian potash. I'm doubling down on my only buying Canadian. Keep the US liquor off the shelves.

So trump just put more 50% tariffs on Canada (uses the fact we don't put U.S. booze on our shelves) but it is REALLY BECAUSE of the smoke. The world is watching as he promises to hurt us more while we are going through a natural disaster FUCK YOU D. TUMP

All war is failure. It is a failure of humanity, a failure of intellect, a failure of compassion, a failure of economics, a failure of diplomacy, a failure of common sense. All war is a failure.

Extremely important investigation - I cannot emphasise enough how every single freaking day we are dealing with the consequences of the success of this lie. Gas is basically treated like it's not a fossil fuel, even among some climate / energy advocates. It is so so so bad

ICYMI: The proposal to overhaul federal government grantmaking is the latest step in Vought's quest to wrest control of spending from Congress and hand it to the president - a potential outcome that should alarm us all: www.quittingcarbonmedia.com/russell-voug... via @quittingcarbon.bsky.social 🔌💡

The wind industry is suing the DOD over its wind farm blockade, and 19 states are looking to jump onboard.

This is insane, just because Carney got to shake hands with the Spanish football star who ignored Trump. Or something equally stupid.

I say we demonstrate to him just how unimaginably, mindbogglingly vast the Canadian boreal forest is by taking him to the middle of it and leaving him there to walk out. We can even give him a rake.

Oh wait now…

There's a flavor of Martin Luther nailing his 95 theses to the door of the Schlosskirche in this commentary, and I am SO here for it.

Timothy Snyder, one of the American experts on fascism who relocated to Canada after Trump came back. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta5-...

THE SUPREME CULT

There’s a lot of space for greenery on our streets if you just reallocate a bit from cars.

Useful for Met Office to say. Now UK govt needs to absorb this in its bones. "We are right now living in a time of historic and unprecedented change, and in terms of temperature, on annual, seasonal, monthly and daily timescales, this evidence shows the climate of the 20th Century has now gone,"

You know it's super depressing as a Canadian living in the US that the feeling most Americans have on Canada now ranges from outright hostility for our existence to at best ambivalence across the entire political spectrum. Love that the way a demented fantasy of grandpa morphs into national policy

Hegseth is dangerously incompetent.

A lot of people don’t realize the dust bowl wasn’t a natural phenomenon. It happened when agrobusiness interests dramatically transformed the plains without regard for drought, and created vicious dust storms that choked whole families to death. That’s what I think of when I read about data centers.

Hear, hear!

If any American posts on this website about Canada failing to show "solidarity" ever again, and they do not have an active working group trying to address this problem that their system created, they can swallow their own tongue.

“We can attack you but don’t you dare fight back” is one of the most dehumanizing things about all of this.

I now do my own research so don't have to worry about what my employer thinks (it's me!), and my clients hire me because I know what I'm talking about. I'm also at an age where I just don't care anymore, I'm going to tell the truth as I see it.

In which I yell at my favorite journal and its thoughtful, talented collection of researchers that we really need to take fossil phase-out seriously as a line of inquiry, and that we would not stand for the level of talking around it as a solution in other settings with very obvious problems: