“Restore merit, end DEI” says man who could only get elected in Canada’s safest Conservative stronghold

Pierre Poilievre says he wants to “restore merit.” He needed to be handed arguably the safest, most impossible to lose conservative seat in all of Canada after losing his own seat. Seems like the opposite of merit. #Poilievre (oh, and he still refuses to complete a check for a security clearance)

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Buh bye, academia dot edu

how the fuck can anyone turn a blind eye Israel’s intentions when their Defense Minister just continues to say psychotic shit?!

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Couldn't really have said it better myself. Wtaf.

You guys see where this is going? Right?

Good. No one should have to work for free and it boggles my mind this even exists.

N: Pyramiden, Svalbard S: Queenstown, New Zealand W: Fairbanks, Alaska E: Suva, Fiji

It's actually pretty staggering how stupid Danielle Smith is.

Notably, 12,000 year old landforms are not offset across the fault, which implies that it may be at a relatively late stage of an interseismic period, having accrued a slip deficit of ~6 m. From this, we estimate that ruptures of at least magnitude 7.5 are possible in the future.

The paper I've been waiting for! Trying to find seismic hazard information for this region has been challenging at best, and I've been unsuccessful in finding something that describes risk. Seems worth it now to continue with earthquake insurance on the house (even if it is 20% of my premium).

The one thing that every Canadian knows - if you are confronted by ICE you don't ever slam on the brakes. You put both hands on the wheel and drive right over ICE. True. North. Strong. Free.

Lightning sparked wildfires in the Northwest Territories: "…including one wildfire – named EV014 – some 40 km north of Inuvik, about as far north on the territorial mainland as such a fire has ever been recorded." #ntwx #Canada #Wildfire2025 cabinradio.ca/245848/news/...

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Honestly what is international law anymore?

And here we are a few hours later with some new fires popping up around town.

Alaska-Yukon travelers should know that the Top of the World Highway has just been closed on the Yukon side by a wildfire. Check yukon511.ca for more info.

New fire across river and the view from my front porch. This is fine 🙃

AlaskaSky, this is a call for sources! I'm hoping to talk to people about the role of the AlCan in Alaska's food security. I'm looking to speak to grocers, truckers, and anyone else who might be interested in chatting soon. My email is [email protected]. Please share with relevant folks!

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

Jfc

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

They think Apple and Google do the weather forecasting and warnings they get on their phones, don't they? 🙃

Canada has raised concerns over the genocide in Palestine. The Israeli army responded by firing on our diplomatic team. Israel is a terror regime. Canada needs to bring in full sanctions, suspend all trade and ensure investigations into any Canadian who serves in the IDF.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

With CBC now having called all ridings it's time for the land-vs-people-vote animation.

Ice broke on the Yukon River at Dawson, YT at 1056am MDT Wednesday. This is the tenth earliest break-up in 130 years of observations. Four of the ten earliest break-ups have occurred in the past decade. #ytwx #ClimateChange @radtek58.bsky.social @jkanadisk.bsky.social @climatologist49.bsky.social

We have Yukon river breakup at Dawson City! #dawson #yukon

Ouf, Ford slag offs Poilievre, and Jenni Byrne, pretty hard in this Politico interview. Worth reading. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It's election day in Canada, and I know some people are pretty apathetic about voting. But today is a rare opportunity to make Pierre Poilievre—who is, by all reports, a giant asshole on every single level—profoundly unhappy. How often in life do you get the chance to make a shitweasel bully cry?

Never forget, this is Jenni Byrne, the Conservative Party of Canada’s top political advisor and Pierre Poilievre’s campaign architect and closest ally. They’re not “conservative.” They’re not “right-wing.” They’re MAGA.

Well gosh why didn't anyone think of that? Got a real thinker on our hands here.

A few comments on the @mark-carney.bsky.social platform released today. You can find it here: liberal.ca/cstrong/. I provided some 'sounding board' advice here and there to those working on the platform. As always: I disclose, but you can decide what weight to put on that. Thread below...

Conservatives and Liberals have supported the CBC for 87 years. So what’s changed? Pierre Poilievre doesn’t like getting asked tough questions. The CBC isn’t Liberal or Conservative, it’s just Canadian.

yeah nah

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Auschwitz — a complex of over 40 concentration and extermination camps — was not located in Nazi Germany either.

This is horrifying and should, in any reasonable world, lead to immediate impeachment. On a hot mic, before the media arrived, starting around 7:15 on the time index, Trump tells Bukele he is going to start sending "homegrown criminals" to El Salvadoran gulags. This is fascism.

I had been doubtful that we were going to have a "this is the crisis moment" with Trump, as opposed to "everything about this is a destructive catastrophe." But the Abrego Garcia case is the crisis moment. 1/

Ended. Up. Ended. Up. endedup

When he was Prime Minister, Harper was the worst national leader in the democratic world. He was THE global dinosaur & obstructionist on the #ClimateCrisis, attacked science & evidence by muzzling scientists & gutting the census, & more. And that was all BEFORE MAGA. Poilievre will be much worse.

This is the dream job for 10-year-old me. OK, it's also the dream job for 40-year-old me, but I took a slightly different path in life.