I was interviewed in @thestar.com about the wildfire smoke today. “The unfortunate reality is that this extreme weather and wildfire smoke is not natural. It is man-made. It is a result of decades of burning natural gas, gasoline, coal, burning garbage… …we need to stop burning things for energy.”

Hamilton City Council just voted to NOT implement interim control against data centres. It was a 6-10 vote. #yhmcc #HamOnt Read my full live blog coverage here: thepublicrecord.ca/2026/07/live...

The mayor could have chosen to exercise true leadership on this issue, but instead she did an about-face and chose not to implement a bylaw that would have supported responsible guidelines about #AIDataCentres

Now he supports gender affirming care.

Ah yes, perfect pipeline building & mandatory RTO weather. Thanks Carney.

Carbon capture is expensive and largely ineffective at making a real difference on emissions. Especially when the captured carbon can be used for enhanced oil recovery, which lets companies access oil that would have otherwise stayed in the ground!!!

👇Must-read 👇 "Since 2016, Postmedia has been majority owned by Chatham Asset Management, a New Jersey-based hedge fund owned by Republican megadonor Anthony Melchiorre, who dined with President Donald Trump shortly after his initial election that year" ricochet.media/media/dumpst...

LAST CALL: if you’d like to support Canadian reporting on our biggest asset — the environment — for any recurring amount (even just $5/month!), now’s the time to do it. The next 44 people to sign up get special Narwhal socks in the mail! 🧦 Offer expires midnight: thenarwhal.ca/socks-for-me...

Canada Day extreme weather brought to you by climate change, which Carney announced yesterday we can’t afford to properly fight 🤗

Sound familiar Ontario? Ford has a reason, and if you knew why he was doing this with school boards and regional councils, you'd be worried. But #ONpoli

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you really should watch & share this news story. It’s pretty much perfect. Ford claims wrongly that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data. toronto.citynews.ca/video/2024/1...

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...

The City of Ottawa posted the raw speed data from before and after Doug Ford banned speed cameras and the effect is so obvious it's not even necessary put a line marking when that happened. This chart shows the percentage of drivers going 15km/h or more over the posted limit.

Oil-based products are everywhere, from fertiliser to fashion. What are the alternatives?

NEW: A group of health-care workers is calling on professional regulators to investigate Canadian doctors and other health-care workers who have served with Israel’s military. Latest from Emma Paling. www.readthemaple.com/canadian-hea...

But Elon said all medical professionals are about to be replaced www.ft.com/content/b100...

hi if you’re canadian and you hate the horrible LED headlights that are way too bright you have until april 20th (blaze it) to complain to transport canada about it in this survey

Hate is on the move and yet groups like B'nai Brith diminish the seriousness of the threat by smearing progressive leaders like Premier Wab Kinew. It is about about creating a false moral shield to protect the crimes in Israel. Meanwhile serious extremists walk among us. substack.com/home/post/p-...

Excel in Style event coming up March 21 at Bernie Custis #HamOnt

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

Canadian BDS activists just won a historic victory: Scotiabank, once the largest foreign shareholder in Israel’s biggest weapons manufacturer, has dropped all its shares in Elbit Systems. @desaima.bsky.social and Harrison Samphir report on the years-long pressure campaign that led to divestment.

Canada has a legal obligation under domestic and international law to deny export permits for military machinery that could be used against civilians. My latest on the need for the PM to cancel the export permits of the Rochel vehicles going to ICE. charlieangus.substack.com/p/canada-mus...

Here is a deep dive inter hormone therapy shortages, which is not an isolated issue, but part of a larger issue of serious medication shortages. vajenda.substack.com/p/why-is-the...

NEW: Group sending Canadian right-wing media personalities on free trips to Israel quietly funded by Israeli government Documents unearthed by @pressprogress.ca show Israel's foreign ministry granted the Exigent Foundation $175,000 CAD to bring "Canadian influencers and policymakers" to Israel

Few Canadians know that slavery once existed in Canada, or that many of the British Loyalists who came here after the American Revolution were Black. They do not know that segregation was accepted in Canada well into the 1960s….racism is not a matter just of the past. @policyalternatives.ca

We stand with Minnesota ✊❤️ Selling armoured vehicles to ICE isn't Canada Strong. @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social STOP the sale of Canadian arms to ICE and #CloseTheLoopholes! act.gp/4jY60a0 @greenpeaceca.bsky.social

A trial unfolding in a B.C. courtroom shows journalists are more important than ever. Photojournalist Amber Bracken was documenting the actions of police. We should be thanking her, not prosecuting her, by @marshalederman.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

I've spent my day tracking down Canadian companies that have direct or indirect contracts supporting ICE operations. So far, I've found NINE. I've reached out to all of them. I plan to publish my video on this tomorrow, detailing the companies, contract amounts and purposes.

OPINION: "Renee Good doesn't have to be a perfect person with a perfect history to deserve to still be alive," Laura Norton-Cruz writes.

He didn't shoot her in the head at point blank range because he felt like he was in danger. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he was furious that she wasn't afraid of him. He shot her in the head at point blank range because he felt emasculated.

Please, please get your vaccines. Good for you. Good for community. Good for healthcare system. Emergency wards coping with 'extreme overcapacity' in flu season: cbc.ca/news/canada/... #VaccinesWork

Gender affirming care for trans people is safe, effective, and has a lower regret rate (4%) than almost any major medical procedure. It saves lives. These are facts. The right's talking-points are recycled "they are coming for your children!" scare tactics well over fifty years old at this point.

Tourists to US would have to reveal five years of social media activity under new Trump plan

This is really, really good and worth your time.

Nonprofits turning to flexible labor to cut costs may be hurting themselves. A study of over 7,800 arts organizations found it doesn't improve long-term financial health and can reduce attendance significantly. buff.ly/TrSc65A

Joel Quenneville's return to Chicago last night might be the final time that the Brad Aldrich story is at the forefront of the hockey world's minds. But we should never forget what we're moving on from. My column: www.nytimes.com/athletic/673...

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” It costs a lot less to house people.

‘This country’s gonna fall on its face. There’s nobody coming to save us’: Boston punks Dropkick Murphys take on Maga

Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

Climate change is making heat waves worse. A new study shows how specific companies are fuelling the problem. Attributing heat waves directly to carbon majors could influence climate litigation www.cbc.ca/news/science...

“Air Canada flight attendants will defy the back-to-work order and remain on strike after the federal government ordered binding arbitration to end the work stoppage”

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Pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has been granted release by a federal judge from a Louisiana ICE detention center, more than three months after he was arrested outside his apartment on Columbia University's campus. Read more: cnn.it/3G9wBkX

Decolonizing history and social studies curricula has a long way to go in Canada

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

Sgt. Blain Young was ticketing cyclists for the Idaho Stop in High Park in 2022. He rolled a stop sign, hit a cyclist. No penalty. Now, he's the 4th highest paid TPS officer & spends his time harassing cyclists at #CriticalMass handing out HTA tickets: www.thebikinglawyer.ca/post/letter-...

You can register on site. You can use a LOT of different things as ID. Your boss has to give you time. You can do this.