‘The cognitive dissonance between wildfires fuelled by a warming planet and the promotion of more fossil fuel megaprojects has been palpable in Canada as well.’ @policyalternatives.ca @marclee.bsky.social
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Erika Shaker
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www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘Within a couple weeks, fire season erupted across the country, with wildfire smoke smothering eastern North America. In full climate change denial, President Trump and other U.S. politicians blamed Canada and threatened tariffs in retaliation.’
Fuel for the fires: Western Canada as an “energy superpower” | CCPAThe federal government is walking back climate action and fast-tracking fossil fuels in the West. It’s a strategy that won’t age well.www.policyalternatives.cawww.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘Is Canada truly acting in defence of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, or is it prioritizing short-term profit and geopolitical advantage? If the latter, how can the government possibly say its foreign policy is principled or “values-based?”’
Diversification against democracy in Canada’s latest global agreements | CCPANew trade deals with Ecuador and the UAE raise hard questions about the government’s international prioritieswww.policyalternatives.cawww.dropsitenews.com/p/israel-bra... ‘according to disinformation experts who reviewed a Drop Site analysis of chatbot queries and training data…tens of millions of Americans who use chatbots are increasingly likely to receive answers manipulated by Parscale on behalf of the Israeli government’
Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.www.dropsitenews.comwww.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘Canada ranks 28 out of 35 OECD countries for its lower share of public spending on health care, behind 27 other countries with universal health care systems’ @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
Public versus private health care spending in Canada | CCPACanada already sees a higher portion of private health care spending than a lot of countries, and it needs to changewww.policyalternatives.cawww.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘Marc Miller’s comments are not equivalent in scale to the Trump administration’s systematic intervention. However, the lesson of the Smithsonian case is about what happens when policymakers weaken institutional independence’
Museum independence cannot be conditional in Canada | CCPAThe campaign against the Canadian Museum for Human Rights’ Nakba exhibition shows why arm’s-length cultural institutions must be protected.www.policyalternatives.cawww.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘These legislative amendments are part and parcel of establishing AB’s two-tier health care system with a private health insurance market for medically necessary health care services that are already covered under the public plan.’ @policyalternatives.ca
Alberta ends equal access to medical testing and treatment | CCPANew legislative changes are formalizing Alberta's private-pay testing scheme that allows the wealthy to jump the linewww.policyalternatives.ca
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NEW: The Ontario NDP and several First Nations are calling for a public inquiry into the Ford government’s handling of the wild land fires #OnPoli globalnews.ca/news/1198676...
NDP calls for public inquiry into Ford government’s wildfire preparedness, response | Globalnews.caFirst Nations leaders have said the Ontario government left communities to fend for themselves without timely support for evacuations.globalnews.cawww.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘It’s tempting to try and parse the language of trade law and the specific details by sector, but the new tariffs are just Trump being Trump, using existing law in novel ways to expand the executive powers of the president.‘ @policyalternatives.ca
Canada getting the “art of the deal” treatment with new U.S. tariffs | CCPAUnderstanding the latest Trump trade war playwww.policyalternatives.caottawacitizen.com/public-servi... “The government operations centre is responsible for coordinating our national emergency response. Gutting it by almost half puts people across the country at risk, including frontline workers who are battling wildfires, supporting evacuations & risking their lives”
Carney government cut nearly half the jobs at nerve centre for managing wildfires: unionThe Carney government cut about 50 positions from the federal nerve centre responsible for managing forest fires, the union says.ottawacitizen.comwww.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘It is not too late to put the public interest first in the AI era, but it will require a different approach….this report presents six principles for forward-looking, public interest AI advocacy in Canada’ @policyalternatives.ca @hadrianmk.bsky.social
Think twice: A citizen’s guide to artificial intelligence in Canada | CCPACanadians need to think twice about the promise and inevitability of artificial intelligence and be prepared to push back on the AI industrywww.policyalternatives.cawww.hilltimes.com/2026/07/21/a... ‘the initiative had originally been scheduled to run until March 2027, but ended about a year early as part of its expenditure review reductions.’
‘A disaster’ for access, expert says as cuts push Library and Archives to end proactive declassification work - The Hill Times'It's just another tragedy in the access story,' says historian Timothy Sayle of the decision to axe the three-year-old program, and part of a 'broader pattern of underfunding access to information an...www.hilltimes.com
www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘The oil and gas industry really has no peer in the field of corporate propaganda and political influence.’ @policyalternatives.ca @simonenoch.bsky.social
Strange bedfellows: How the tech industry learned to love fossil fuels | CCPATech companies used to present themselves as the green vanguard. Now they’re a key driver of gas expansion. What happened?www.policyalternatives.cawww.bloomberg.com/news/article... 'Carney had suggested...the US portion of the proceeds would kick in only after payments on that debt....'
Carney Defends Deal With Trump to Split Bridge Toll ProfitsCanadian Prime Minister Mark Carney defended his decision to give the US a share of the profit from a new bridge between Ontario and Michigan, saying there will be little to no proceeds to split at fi...www.bloomberg.com