Specific wording is vital in legal documents like laws. "Will" is a requirement. If a law says that a government "will" do a thing and they don't, they are in breach of the law and there may be consequences. If a law says that they "may," it's a voluntary suggestion without consequences. 🧵1/

Every single time you hear that we have to choose between the environment & the economy it's a lie. We protect both or we devastate both. @mark-carney.bsky.social chooses devastate. World Bank: Climate endangers $158 trillion dollars in global assets by 2050. 🧵1/ r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

@mark-carney.bsky.social is a climate arsonist, determined to plunge the globe into a hothouse hellscape for millennia to come to benefit the very short term profits of primarily foreign fossil fuel investors, human civilization & climate science be damned. It's villainous ecocide. 🧵1/

Pre-election Mark Carney might want to have a word with post-election @mark-carney.bsky.social. How are liberal voters okay with this? This is an astonishing reversal, with impacts on the quality of life for Canadians that will be generational & which promotes the growth of fascist movements. 🧵1/

Canada’s top 1% have $1.25 Trillion, more than Canada's poorest 80% combined. They get billions in new tax cuts. www.oxfam.ca/wp-content/u... Canada's poor have never been this vulnerable. For them, @mark-carney.bsky.social guts public services. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Not only is covert white supremacy socially acceptable; critiquing it or even just naming it is increasingly seen as socially unacceptable, or even as a radical instigation to violence deserving criticism or punishment.

Yet more callousness and fascism fuel while we race towards every kind of civilization collapsing crisis available to us all at once.

@nicomaramckay.com, here's a report presented to the House of Commons by EGALE in december of 2024. I don't know of anyone maintaining an up-to-date public list as new incidents occur & new legislation is passed, but I expect they'll publish a new report: egale.ca www.ourcommons.ca/Content/Comm...

How does everyone feel about Mechahitler creating a personalized disinformation feed tailored for each & every user on his hellsite? Bye bye heuristics, hello even more fascist normalization by any means possible. www.theverge.com/news/802480/...

Study: a 1% rise in inequality corresponds to a 1% rise in support for right wing populist movements. @mark-carney.bsky.social inherited the worst inequality in Canadian history & immediately gave the rich several huge tax cuts. Do the math. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Of all the dumb bits of dishonest whataboutism die hard @mark-carney.bsky.social supporters hurl at me, by far the dumbest is a lazy presumption that if I directly cite IPCC science to demand better climate policy I must be a Poilievre supporter. Because climate action is what cons are known for?

The first Jim Crow was enacted under the auspices that racism is a necessity and a great and natural moral good. The second one is being enacted under the auspices that racism doesn’t exist if you claim you don’t see it and anyone who questions your motives about that is oppressing you.

A nation building project for you @mark-carney.bsky.social A national post office has been considered one of the most fundamental nation building projects for centuries. Killing #CanadaPost will enrich private profiteers, but definitely hurt the country. 🧵 1/ canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

I genuinely & respectfully want to understand something here, @heathermoandco.bsky.social If preventing the growth of fascism in Canada needs to be our top priority, why don't you express concern about Carney's economic policies that fascism scholars tell us will help empower fascist movements?

Neither #PierrePoilievre promoting #cryptocurrency nor @mark-carney.bsky.social promoting #AI reassures me. For one thing, cryptocurrency markets just collapsed by more than $500 billion overnight. 🧵 1/ r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

To Carney, "Elbows up" means buying American jets, building a pipeline to sell our oil to the US, joining a US missile defence system, opening our markets to more American dairy, and kissing the American president's ass at every opportunity. This is what you voted for, is it?

Harper made Canada the worst climate performer among industrial nations, ranked 58th best by the international Climate Change Performance Index. Trudeau made Canada an even worse climate arsonist than under Harper, dropping us to an even more dismal 62nd place. Carney: "Hold my beer."

Rapid escalation of the worst police state tactics & violent assaults on its own citizens in America continues to breathtakingly accelerate. NRA types who insisted they were only here to oppose tyrannical government are so gleeful to be assaulting citizens without guardrails in the service of one.

Investing in nuclear power *never* helps reduce emissions but *always* hinders efforts to decarbonize. Nuclear power is absolutely no friend to the climate. But a major nuclear project is one of the Carney government's first proposed "major projects" anyway. 🧵 1/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The president stood in front of the UN and whined about a malfunctioning escalator and tomorrow 15 centrist pundits are going to write the same op-ed they’ve written for a solid decade scolding the left to not get outraged over every little thing, by which they mean human rights.

The reason Mark Carney & his government still refuse to say the word "genocide" is to avoid meeting Canada's international legal obligations as signatories to the International Convention on the Punishment and Prevention of Genocide. His latest token gesture is about keeping Palestine defenceless.

“So liquefied natural gas will always have a bigger climate footprint than the natural gas, no matter what the assumptions of being a bridge fuel are,” Howarth said. “It still ends up substantially worse than coal.”

Every single time that a nation invests in nuclear power, it hinders progress towards decarbonization rather than advancing it. Every. Single. Time. Nuclear is absolutely none of the things that a serious climate solution needs to be. sustainablesong.medium.com/how-promotin...

The Carney government's bill C-2 is the most wide ranging assault on citizen privacy and government transparency in Canadian history. www.michaelgeist.ca/2025/06/lawf...

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

While gender based hostility is accelerating in Canadian schools to make them less safe, Alberta's government will be invoking the notwithstanding clause to ram through cruel policies targeting LGBTQ students who are already at the greatest risk.

As Canada watches US media collude with the Trump regime & increasingly silence every voice critical of fascism, Canucks need to remember that the majority of "Canadian" media has been foreign controlled since Stephen Harper was in the PMO.

Went to my bookstore to order Words for Life today to frustratingly be told that it hasn't been made available to the North American market yet. @susiedent.com, please expedite this!

When city workers confiscate personal belongings like tents and harm reduction supplies from people sheltering on the street, it increases their risk of non-fatal overdose and physical and sexual violence, according to a new study. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports.

Bingo. We understand just fine. And reject their odious or stupid beliefs

“Norway and Canada are two of the world’s safest places statistically when it comes to violent crime.” Canada named second safest country in the world from violent crime. #cdnpoli cultmtl.com/2025/06/cana...

“Together, we can demand that Prime Minister Carney and the Canadian government pick a side: injustice, violence and climate destruction — or a just and safe future for all of us.” #canpoli

Our media is corrupt.

Ottawa's chief data officer admits that the Carney government will replace an undefined number of public service jobs with AI, precisely as I and others predicted from the beginning. r.pebmac.ca/https://www....

Wildfire smoke is an indiscriminate killer. The Carney government's top priorities include massively worsening the climate crisis that continues to escalate these risks.

IPCC: Any fossil fuel expansion guarantees we can't avoid the worst climate scenarios Me: Carney shouldn't expand fossil fuels LPC supporters: How dare you? Carney's doing no such thing! Carney gov: the first item on the first list of proposed "national interest" projects is fossil fuel expansion

Canada is experiencing record inequality. Record inequality only ends in one of two ways. Either something like the New Deal response to the Great Depression that reduces inequality to meaningfully help the most vulnerable citizens. Or a descent into fascism. Carney's choosing the latter.

Listen to me: Our profit from the post office is the post office. Our profit from a library is the library. Our profit from a school is the school. And our profit from our lives is life. Our life. Ours.

To be clear, the focus of the meeting is not stopping fascism. The topic is "establishing a new economic and security relationship with the U.S." So I think it's more accurate to say the guy who wrote the fascist playbook is offering advice on submitting to fascism.

Climate science has warned about things like this for >50 years, but it doesn't matter how many times real world daily news events prove them right, virtually no one wants to hear it, & power stays determined to further expand fossil fuels, biosphere be damned.

Corporations doing whatever the hell they want. 🤬 "What we have here is a company manipulating content from leading users that is then being distributed to a public audience without the consent of the people who produce the videos." www.bbc.com/future/artic...

"Canada’s oil and gas sector is no longer the job creator or economic engine it once was, with the industry creating 43% fewer jobs per thousand barrels of production in 2023 than it did in 2012, the Pembina Institute concludes in a new analysis."

I just finished reading the marvelous @susiedent.com's 1st novel Guilty by Definition aloud with my partner, & feel delighted and sated but with a stound of bereft that it's over. Like her fascinating nonfiction (An Emotional Dictionary is my favourite), an exquisite gift for sapiophiles everywhere.

The problem's never that they can't make a decent offer, just that they don't want to. They're willing to manufacture a crisis that massively inconveniences tens of thousands of customers in order to browbeat their employees into staying in poverty for the convenience of shareholder bottom lines.

Ottawa stomping flight attendant labour rights links with federal cuts to programs supporting women. Women do most of society's unpaid work - housework, child/elder care, meal prep, emotional labour - so demanding unpaid work on the job seems par for the course for 70% female flight attendants. 1/

This report from Public Interest Alberta is a gut punch. 1 in 5 kids in Alberta live in poverty. (Link in next post) /1 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...

Canada is especially vulnerable here, as we're not only a petro state, we're actually the worst climate performers among all industrial nations by an incredibly wide margin already, and currently racing to do even worse. ccpi.org

“An Alberta municipality that declared an agricultural disaster earlier this month due to drought is moving forward with plans to host the “largest AI computer data centre on Earth,” which could drain millions of litres of water every day” Peak Berta. #abpoli www.theenergymix.com/alberta-muni...

NEWS --> An internal Homeland Security memo suggests Trump's use of military for domestic enforcement is about to get worse. It details top-level talks between Defense Department and DHS on what this should look like. Experts say it's alarming. We obtained the memo: newrepublic.com/article/1987...