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Ben Holt 🇨🇦

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(he/him) An accidental activist. I kept waiting and waiting for someone to do something. Oh no what if everyone's waiting for me?!? Mostly climate, politics and geeky stuff. I learn by making mistakes and always seem to be learning something new.

⟳ Репост от Ben Holt 🇨🇦

"Billions in taxpayers’ dollars are available to backstop a new bitumen pipeline to the west coast or dubious carbon capture technologies The Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) reported that about half of their members working at a national centre for disaster response were fired in January."

DeSmog

Canada is doubling down on fossil fuels as climate-fulled wildfires rage. Read Mitch Anderson's latest below:

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I just checked who covered the historic mass funeral of 112 Palestinians in Gaza killed by Israel CNN? Nowhere MSNBC? Silent Fox News? Crickets BBC? Radio silence 112 bodies.One mass funeral. Zero Western media coverage Journalism didn’t die.It just decided some mass funerals aren’t newsworthy 💔😢

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Every single Liberal MP who hasn't left the party in disgust should be ashamed of themselves. But they won't be. You need to have pre-existing ethics and morals to actually be ashamed of yourself for breaking them. I cannot believe how shitty our leaders are right now. It's beyond belief.

National Newswatch

Ottawa moves to list Alberta-backed West Coast pipeline as national interest project nationalnewswatch.com/2026/08/04/o...

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It's gone. "Carney’s climate credibility is falling fast. He would be wise to remember how quickly the country soured to our southern neighbour when faced with a jarring sense of betrayal at Trump’s tariffs and threats to Canadian sovereignty. Carney could face a similar fate if he continues.."

DeSmog

Canada is doubling down on fossil fuels as climate-fulled wildfires rage. Read Mitch Anderson's latest below:

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Obviously, the non-American world has a digital sovereignty problem - Trump has means, motive and opportunity to order his tech companies to shut down any public official, large corporation, or individual who displeases him: pluralistic.net/2026/06/18/t... 1/

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I think MPs should have to be in office the same number of days as other public servants. They like their hybrid arrangements? Then everyone else gets them too. And I think voting on legislation from their phones should be illegal, and the fact that any MPs have done it should be a massive scandal.

National Newswatch

Years after the pandemic, MPs are divided on hybrid Parliament rules nationalnewswatch.com/2026/08/04/y...

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Dear PM It's 2026. BC is burning and I'm locked in my home because of smoke pollution. Canada is burning. Climate change is real as you noted in your book Value(s). You have children. Think of their future. Fund renewable energy projects. Later is too Late! 350.org/canada/pipel...

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While a cyclospora explosive diarrhea outbreak is repeatedly linked with a 20% cut to US CDC & food inspection staff, it's wild how many LPC apologists casually dismiss Carney cuts to wildfire monitoring & food inspection with a derisive "of course the unions complain about increasing efficiency."

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Once upon a time, you could've lived next to a data center and never known it. For decades, they quietly powered Netflix, cloud storage, and the internet itself, tucked away near cheap power and fiber connections. www.wired.com/story/how-da...

How Data Centers Broke American PoliticsWhat the Unabomber, Steve Bannon’s tech guy, and Bernie Sanders taught me about the great data center backlash of 2026.www.wired.com
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BC Just Spent $74,900 to Kill a Single Wolf in the Kootenays The program exists to save at-risk caribou, but critics want Ottawa to move to preserve herds’ old-growth habitat. thetyee.ca/News/2026/08...

BC Just Spent $74,900 to Kill a Single Wolf in the Kootenays | The TyeeThe program exists to save at-risk caribou, but critics want Ottawa to move to preserve herds’ old-growth habitat.thetyee.ca
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UPDATE: Portugal has now approved a windfall tax on oil profits!!! Hi @mark-carney.bsky.social - how about 🇨🇦 copies 🇵🇹? It would be a great way to generate some $$ for Building Canada Strong - social programs, climate action, infrastructure, civil defence… (the fossil firms will be fine, promise)

Portugal approves 33% windfall tax on oil companies' excess profitsPortugal's government said on Thursday it had approved a 33% windfall tax on extraordinary profits earned in 2026 ​by oil and refining companies benefiting from an energy ‌price surge triggered by the...www.reuters.com
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I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.

USA TODAY Opinion

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

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Mark Carney has: -scrapped consumer carbon tax -scrapped oil/gas emissions cap -cut $1.3B from environment Canada -weakened industrial carbon pricing -axed 2 billion trees program -approved 1M barrels/day pipeline -weakened greenwashing laws While this is happening:

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It's almost as if the public money should be directly building housing, and taking the developers out of the equation. How fucking radical, eh?

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I’m exhausted by the continued grifting to wealthy and profitable corporations/developers/consultants by governments. It makes NO fucking sense.

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It's maddening to realize that these ideas are being actively ignored by those with the power to implement them. Canada is doubling down on the 20th century when the rest of the world except the US is leaving it behind. youtu.be/YGjAAYkIlc0?...

Canada’s Energy Superpower Dream Is a Delusion, Economist WarnsYouTube video by Energi Mediayoutu.be
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True. This is fundamentally a profoundly stupid decision. The sun, the wind, the waves, the tides are all ours. Self reliance is the road to the climate resiliency Carney says he wants to build. #cdnpoli

Ben Holt 🇨🇦

Literally nothing Canada is doing on nuclear power makes any sense in 2026. It's all just expensive bullshit to distract from deploying solar & wind + batteries. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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It's all just starting to feel as obviously corrupt as the states.

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Reactors from the US and Japan. Fuel from the US, France, and the UK. How is this energy independence? How is this "elbows up"? #cdnpoli

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Literally nothing Canada is doing on nuclear power makes any sense in 2026. It's all just expensive bullshit to distract from deploying solar & wind + batteries. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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