Michael Ledger-Lomas
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I write about kings and prophets. 'Quick as a borzoi' (Lithub). Vancouver, BC.
Two Vancouvers (tankers and sail)
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14 degrees in the water - sublime.
about 8 hours ago
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From the excellent Joe Williams
www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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One million Neets are a statistic, but every Neet is a tragedy
To be a Neet is to feel a singular shame and self-loathing, a sense of being apart from everybody else
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-politics/2026/05/one-million-neets-are-a-statistic-but-every-neet-is-a-tragedy
about 10 hours ago
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Bathsheba Demuth in French sounding like Turbo Braudel (history without agency, because without events or change!)
about 12 hours ago
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Seems good
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1 day ago
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Canada can make even the pope boring - remarkable.
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Vancouver schooling 2026: we encourage your kids to use this chatbot (just watch out for hallucinations) and to liaise with the armed policeman on site (don't worry he has concealed his weapon and is wearing athleisure).
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This makes me feel like a Christian home schooler.
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Having seen my first FIFA motorcade - ten flashing lights police cars &c to escort a coach across the Burrard St Bridge - I just want to assure the players: Vancouverites are not dangerous! We won't harm you.
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Poor old Mr Guilebeault with his hang ups about burning carbon! He didn't realize we need to Build Canada Strong to Make America Great Again!
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You say you know Korean food? Well: where's your mini kimchi fridge?
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Jedi move: waste City of Vancouver taxes to send out an electioneering leaflet disguised as an official communication about taxes and then within that leaflet boast about not raising taxes.
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Horrible, horrible, horrible
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3 days ago
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Avi Lewis
3 days ago
When one of the Liberals’ biggest climate champions feels he must leave the Liberal caucus in order to fight climate change, it says everything you need to know about the government’s sense of urgency on this file. There is none. PM Carney has abandoned climate action at our collective expense.
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A very qualified fan of Sam Kriss, but this is really good: all riffs, perfect rhythm and does away with his usual airdrops of erudition. This sort of hectic maximalism is obviously one way to beat the AI trap, but hopefully not the only one.
samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let...
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If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you
Did you think I wouldn’t be able to tell? I can tell.
https://samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let-ai-do-your-writing-i-will
3 days ago
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Max Fawcett
4 days ago
Canada’s oil and gas industry advocates still see China as a major source of opportunity — one that, of course, justifies new pipelines. They need to start seeing it as a threat to their existence.
#cdnpoli
#abpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/27/o...
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Alberta's oil and gas magnates are being outflanked by China
Alberta's oil and gas industry advocates continue to treat China as an economic opportunity, one that justifies new pipelines to the west coast. They ought to start seeing it as a threat to their enti...
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/27/opinion/alberta-oil-gas-china-electrification
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Tout est pour le meilleur dans la meilleure des villes possibles
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A treat for Len Men (of which I am one) in the latest LRB
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Adrienne Tanner
4 days ago
The Liberals are losing a true climate champion with the pending resignation of Steven Guilbeault. We're all the poorer off without him in parliament.
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/27/o...
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Guilbeault quits as Carney turns his back on climate
Former environment and climate minister Steven Guilbeault joined the Liberals because he wanted influence over climate policy. But the compromises under Prime Minister Mark Carney became too great.
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/27/opinion/guilbeault-quits-carney-climate-pipeline
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This is unfortunately true.
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4 days ago
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Macleod's trio
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Pleasing development: best cinema in Vancouver is now walking distance from me.
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Michael DeMoor
5 days ago
Good essay from Brian (one of those people I miss from Twitter, in spite of- or because of - our many disagreements) about how to read Encyclicals. Also not a bad case for the distinctiveness and vitality of explicitly religious intellectual traditions).
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Striking contrast here between Carney's fairly forthright scolding of Herzog and the total absence of sanctions or other measures to bring about compliance. The Israelis will just ignore him.
www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/read...
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Prime Minister Carney speaks with President of Israel Isaac Herzog
The Prime Minister reiterated that the appalling treatment of civilians, including Canadian citizens, aboard the Gaza-bound flotilla was unacceptable, and he called for an independent investigation.
https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/readouts/2026/05/25/prime-minister-carney-speaks-president-israel-isaac-herzog
5 days ago
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Superb explainer here from
@readtheorchard.org
jacobin.com/2026/05/smit...
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The Outsize Political Power of Canada’s Western Separatists
Only about a quarter of Albertans support independence. But the threat of rupture nevertheless has pushed Canada’s political class toward accommodation with petro-state grievance politics.
https://jacobin.com/2026/05/smith-alberta-separatism-oil-politics
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A funny thing about Canadian conservatism is that it is more credulous and gung-ho on American military power than the American right is. Witness poor old Poilievre calling for regime change from the steps of the Vancouver Art Gallery - an objective Trump gave up months ago now.
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In the best traditions of Vancouver.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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3 B.C. activists on Gaza flotilla return to Vancouver after detainment by Israeli forces | CBC News
Three activists whose Gaza-bound aid flotilla was intercepted in international waters by Israeli forces have returned home to Vancouver, with one of them saying they went through four days of continuo...
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vancouver-activists-return-home-after-detention-over-gaza-bound-aid-flotilla-9.7210763
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Saw this excellent, cheering protest swing through Granville Island today. Hope to attend the next one!
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7 days ago
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The best bridge (to look at, not to use, that would be Cambie)
7 days ago
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Screaming capabilities
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Seth Klein
8 days ago
Back when Ken Sim was elected mayor of Vancouver nearly 4 years ago, I said at the time that I couldn't see him making new progress on the climate file, but nor could I see him UNDOING what progress had already been made. I was clearly wrong about that.
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More and more appreciative of Mr Lewis's voice.
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Avi Lewis
8 days ago
This is laughable, coming from someone who has been winking at the MAGA-aligned separatist movement for years. People who are losing sleep over climate change are not the ones tearing our country apart: we’re trying to save it. This summer Canada could well be burning faster than we can build it.
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'I was hoodwinked by Ken Sim' does not in fact read as an excuse.
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8 days ago
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It is early in election season for the lying Mayor of Vancouver and his police department to be playing tag team against their critics - much more to come probably.
9 days ago
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Trump could have written this article, which slavers over oil and gas production and does not mention climate change once. As a Brit reading the Globe, always surprised that Canadian 'liberalism' = near psychotic love of corporate profits.
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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Opinion: Mark Carney’s oil policy isn’t a political gambit. It’s an economic imperative
The one large, capital-intensive industry where we have an insurmountable competitive advantage is oil and gas
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/article-mark-carneys-oil-policy-isnt-a-political-gambit-its-an-economic/
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Lobbyist for methane applauds measure designed by mayor whose senior adviser runs methane companies. A banner day for methane!
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Simon Donner
9 days ago
... and there it is. The Canadian gov't has officially cut the rate of increase in the industrial carbon price by 75%, matching the deal with Alberta. Sadly predictable. You let one province weaken a federal policy, and it reverberates nationally.
www.canada.ca/en/environme...
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Sim, whose senior adviser is the director of gas companies, has moved into the openly corrupt phase of his mayoralty.
vancouversun.com/news/vancouv...
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Vancouver council votes to move away from unique city building code, bring back natural gas heating in new buildings
Mayor Ken Sim and his ABC Vancouver colleagues argued that the changes aim to improve housing affordability
https://vancouversun.com/news/vancouver-council-votes-to-move-away-from-unique-city-building-code-bring-back-natural-gas-heating-in-new-buildings
9 days ago
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Michael Ledger-Lomas
Seth Klein
10 days ago
A first for me today. Glad to have this piece in The Guardian. Figured it was time more of our international friends heard some hard truths about how things are going here in 🇨🇦:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Canadian prime minster Mark Carney is not the climate guy you thought | Seth Klein
While Canada may be clinging to fossil fuels, much of the world is moving on
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/21/mark-carney-climate-canada?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Evict Ken Sim
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10 days ago
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Michael Ledger-Lomas
Heather McPherson MP
11 days ago
Canada's silence in the face of Israel's continuous violations of international law is shameful. Canada should impose sanctions and suspend trade. No more excuses.
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Michael Ledger-Lomas
Eric Doherty
10 days ago
As the 5th anniversary of BC's deadly 2021 heat dome approaches, a reminder that our climate is more dangerous than it was then. Why? Largely because politicians like David Eby and Mark Carney keep subsidizing fossil fuel extraction & resulting carbon pollution.
#bcpoli
#cdnpoli
#climatecrisis
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(And Alberta)
10 days ago
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Brad Cavanagh
10 days ago
get bent, buddy
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Michael Ledger-Lomas
Caroline Dodds Pennock
11 days ago
It says an awful lot about the university sector right now that I - a 48-year-old history professor with a child and a mortgage, who loves what she does (mostly) - am having a serious conversation with a colleague about whether I ought to consider a career change.
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦
10 days ago
So threatening BC in order to kowtow to MAGA-hat separatist Danielle Smith?
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Henry Mance
11 days ago
Just another day for our Israeli allies.
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