I did not have rats snatching bats out of mid air in the pitch darkness of a German cave on my Halloween agenda, but here we are... www.science.org/content/arti...

Caribou and muskoxen help preserve shrub free tundra, which keeps the ground cooler and slows climate warming. We need more #caribou www.arcticwwf.org/the-circle/s...

Wildland fire fighting is dirty, sometimes dangerous and always hard, even under the best of conditions. Now imagine it in a war zone with unexploded oprdnance cooking off and fire fighters being targeted by Russian drones. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

@biblioholic.bsky.social Perhaps you can review this for us?

A bonkers story from Teen Vogue- this IS the same country who cheers on Donald Trump, but a legal system that is fine with trapping children in abusive marriages is next level. Cruel and perverse.

Likely true here too. Unfortunately, my attempts at food self sufficiency means that mostly what I buy consists of...Butter, yoghurt, chocolate and coffee.... (I don't buy beef)

A pee test that diagnoses for long covid is terrific news!

Especially true in Yukon.... .... “misplaced focus” on critical minerals of the past, he said, such as copper and nickel, which trade on commodity markets but are not at a grade usable in most energy transition technologies. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/17/a...

The Russian government is now offering new recruits from Moscow 6,000,000 rubles, a staggering $73,000USD (that's over $100,000 CAN) to sign up for their stalled invasion of Ukraine. Of course, the life span of new recruits is very short, so their bonus is worth about $10,000/day...

Well, this message brought a tear to my eye.

Between my friend and I we have at least a half dozen sleeping bags. Because we like to sleep together when camping, we like to zip two together, especially nice in winter. So why do so few sleeping bag zippers mate? (all of them are YKK)

I'm sure non-Indigenous Canadians can, if we wish, hold two truths in our minds at once. This good article gives us permission to do so -- rather than to 'choose up sides' as if our country was nothing more than a pickup softball game. thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

What happened in 2013 in the USA?

This slashing of this program affects all rural Yukon school children. It is cruel and perverse to deny youth the warm meals and snacks that often make all the difference between thinking of one's stomach and thinking of ones class work.

Russia can be defined by its reckless approach to almost everything. Mostly it is just Russia and Russians that are hurt, but oil spills in the Arctic and war in Ukraine affect everyone.

Utterly bonkers that they made this insane 'documentary'. Astonishing combination of cruelty and delusion.

Charlie Kirk died by the sword he lived by, and the fact that is a stupid, vicious, inhuman sword is precisely the point

"We made a huge mistake when we passed the Civil Rights Act in the 1960s." "It's worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year." I don't love the headline but I do appreciate CBC being explicit about what Charlie Kirk actually said, did, and stood for.

As one of Silver's constituents, I shared the bewilderment at how absent he has been. He's not done even the bare minimum of constituency work. We assumed he had simply mentally moved onto a new phase of life. I had never thought he might have long covid.

When it became obvious, back in the 1980s (to Indigenous and local fishers, but not managers), that Chinook were in trouble, I used to think that if two wealthy nations like ours cannot manage a mostly intact ecosystem like this one, we are really in trouble. Guess what? We are really in trouble.

This is objectively cool.

I don't know if the @theguardian.com environment editors are ignorant or just chasing headlines. There are three metrics of sea ice. Area, extent and volume. Arctic sea ice volume, the actual amount of ice, has never been lower. The ice is much thinner. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Canada is reluctant to fully implement it's Act that enshrines the UNDRIP into law for fear the Free, Prior, and Informed Consent provision would amount to an FN veto, and economic growth would screech to halt. Currently, Canada has a veto, as do Provinces and corporations. Why not FNs too?

Far and away the largest buyer of US wines was Canada. After Trump went postal on our sovereignty, one of the steps we took was to pull US liquors from our store shelves. Sales dropped from $50M/month to zero. Let's hope this gets the attention of decision makers down there.

Just listened to @markhamhislop.bsky.social and MC Breadner in www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0zv... I have often wondered if the Alberta government simply has no intention of ever cleaning up after oil and gas and bitumen industries. This would explain their utterly ineffective efforts.

PP will be saying that cleaning up after billion dollar oil companies is a provincial responsibility....But he would certainly approve of this subsidy.

Both Yukon and NWT hugely promote mining, primarily for bling. In NWT the bling of choice is diamonds, in Yukon it's gold. The trouble is, the price of bling is subject to, well, subjective swings. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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).

Yukoners, especially those resident in Tintina communities (from Watson Lake through Faro to Dawson) should read this fascinating paper! We are on the move!

Such a strange article. Does anyone seriously think we do not have enough humans? If our socio-economic system depends upon a growing population, it is truly screwed. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Nova Scotia's conservative Premier threatens rural municipalities that are not onboard with his sudden pivot to rescind the province's uranium mining ban. The Mining Association of Nova Scotia are pleased with their boy. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/n...

Factory trawlers famously trashed the cod off Newfoundland, and are on their way to trashing the Bering Sea, and this article details how they have destroyed the ecosystem (and economy) off south west Ireland, all to supply fish farms, which are similarly awful. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

Seems to me that "the designation of plastics as toxic, being a staunch advocate against oilsands expansion , and a proponent of phasing out oil and gas" are minimal qualifications for a Minister of Environment and Climate Change. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/05/13/n...

The remarkable part of this story is not that a mine made money for its owners and then went bust and left the public purse to pick up the pieces- that's how our legislation is designed, but that the government admits that GDP is a poor indicator of economic health. www.ckrw.com/2025/05/06/6...

Tom Humberstone's excellent comic about the Luddites' history. thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

A mining company CEO saying the quiet part out loud. Unfortunately, this attitude is all too common among resource extraction corporations- just ask their thousands of murdered and displaced victims around the world.

That leaves a very thin bench for the governing Liberals, It will be very hard for them to win the next election without him. Pillai has been a pretty good premier. Not that I agreed with many of his decisions....

“Mining is a necessary evil. Fundamentally, it’s a license to pollute,” said David Livingstone, former chairman of the Giant Mine Oversight Board, that monitors the Giant Mine remediation. The mine will take at least 100 years to cleanup and cost well over $10B CAN. www.wsj.com/world/canada...

Very thoughtful thread, that will be even more resonant next summer when HBO starts airing a Harry Potter series. What the heck happened to JKRowling to have her lose her mind and be so hate filled?

It is a comfort to know that in these times where it appears fascism is on the ascendant that Canada and Australia firmly rejected Trumpism. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

This @inaturalist.bsky.social blog post highlights a big issue typical of Canadian 🇨🇦 biodiversity research. "Over half of iNaturalist observations are found in 1% of the landmass of Canada." Check out the map at the 🔗 – maybe you can fill some gaps? 🧪 🌎 www.inaturalist.org/blog/110352-...

Huh. "Critical" can mean simply being economically important, indeed coal is considered 'critical' in BC. Bonkers.

I think I need to work on myself. I just don't understand either the point or the practicality of these anti trans rulings, especially in the UK. Aside from cruel, they are stupid. How, Barclay's, do you plan to confirm the genders of people using your bathrooms? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Any Canadians still undecided should read this article. If you have any regard for Indigenous reconciliation or conservation, the choice is absolutely clear.

Our (Yukon's) Minister of Many things is a data nerd and has compiled statistics from all three legislatures that he has sat in. Conclusion? Yukon politics is friendly....mostly... www.yukon-news.com/news/streick...

Oh FFS, that company did not "bring back the dire wolf". And furthermore... We must stop and reverse biodiversity loss *of >1 million existing species*, not go on a PR-driven wild goose chase to bring back a few extinct ones. #DireWolf #Deextinction www.newscientist.com/article/2475...

The #Yukon government continues to think it can evade responsibility for its mining mistakes by selling off the liabilities. History shows this is wrong. So too does logic and common sense. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This is a very big deal. All the shenanigans by all the politicians on earth pale in comparison (although they are related). Global warming is accelerating; the wider the imbalance, the faster the planet warms. And it's widening faster every year. We're witnessing runaway greenhouse effect.

Americans have mastered the art of talking to their children about the very real threat of mass shootings in their schools. I'm quite sure they can discuss volcanoes, which bear them no malice, in comparison.

Unbelievably sloppy disregard for even the most basic rules around security. As a non-American, resident of country (Canada) identified for annexation, it is comforting to know just how incompetent the Trump's administration is. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...