Retired I.T. person; cyclist, sailor, birder, reader, dog snuggler Energy transition - climate justice - electrify everything https://www.eecg.utoronto.ca/~prall
Could be a great opportunity for ownership for people unable to afford a down payment-if it's done right. Government(s) need to do a much better job of communicating the details.They matter! Unclear messaging opens the door for bad actors, like PP to frame the discussion. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...
Don’t Call It a Condo Bailout. It’s Rent-to-Own and It Can Work | The TyeeIf it’s done right, BC’s government can play a key role in helping working people afford a home.thetyee.ca
@mark-carney.bsky.social Doug Ford intentionally sabotaged Canadian 🇨🇦 medical system since elected 2008. Billions of Tax Dollars Funnelled to For-Profit Nursing Agencies One More Example of Ford Government’s Push to Privatize Health Care • Ontario Nurses' Association !! share.google/DjIiwtN9EVKy...
Billions of Tax Dollars Funnelled to For-Profit Nursing Agencies One More Example of Ford Government’s Push to Privatize Health Care • Ontario Nurses' AssociationTORONTO, ON, May 12, 2025 – Reports from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives showing that Ontario hospitals spent $9 billion on nursing agencies in the past decade show the extent of privatiza...share.google
On @meidascanada.ca nada @jennyyeremiy.bsky.social breaks down the coming energy crisis. Canada's heavy bitumen is dependent on US refineries and the Strait of Hormuz crisis is putting major pressure that is going to catch up very soon. www.youtube.com/shorts/TQFNv...
THE ENERGY CRISIS IS HERE !!!YouTube video by Charlie Anguswww.youtube.com
What the wildfires in France and Spain (and Canada) teach us: Environmentalism can no longer be considered separately from democracy. www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...
France fires: 'What is burning is not just forests, but a way of inhabiting the land that is no longer possible'OP-ED. The philosopher Cynthia Fleury and the Socialist mayor of Saint-Médard-en-Jalles in southwestern France Stéphane Delpeyrat-Vincent argue that, in the face of unprecedented fires sweeping France...www.lemonde.fr
Text messages and videos obtained by the ACLU show that federal immigration agents who carried out last year’s raids in L.A. referred to Latinos with slurs such as “wet” (wetback) and “tonks,” reportedly derived from the sound a flashlight makes when hitting a migrant’s head.
Immigration agents used racial slurs referring to Latinos in text messages, video obtained by ACLUBody camera footage and forensically recovered texts, which provide a window into the mindset of agents who conducted raids throughout the L.A. area, were detailed in a 37-page motion for a preliminar...www.latimes.com
New in PN: Why Trump deserves all the blame for high gas prices "No POTUS has ever deserved to be hoisted on the petard of gas prices more. That’s not only bc of how he weaponized the issue before, but bc unlike almost every other POTUS, he's actually responsible for where the price is right now."
Why Trump deserves all the blame for high gas pricesNormally blaming the president is unfair. But not this time.www.publicnotice.co
Among the worst ideas floating around is that "the free market" will naturally achieve desirable results for society. No, it won't, not even in theory, much less in practice. Markets don't optimize "good for society" unless you make them.
Jon of The NorthTurns out that food companies were only checking their food because the government told them to, which is exactly why we need government regulations.
stephen miller killed this couple, as surely as if he'd pulled the trigger himself
Matt OrtegaStephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
“[Liam] keeps asking about that hat and that backpack,” the congressman said. “I think they took that from him.” "Liam Ramos, 5-year-old who ICE agents in Minneapolis nabbed and shipped off to a Texas detention facility, in poor health, his school superintendent told me" bsky.app/profile/jben...
5-Year-Old In ICE Detention Is Sick, Says Top School OfficialThe 5-year-old who was taken by federal agents in Minneapolis is being held behind bars with his father in Texas.www.huffpost.comNYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeTooCBP and ICE officers history bragging about their "bitch" victims "holes" “I fired 5 rounds, and she had 7 holes. Put that in your book boys.” he texted a group chat involving other agents “Do something, bitch” agent's own bodycam video showed him telling victim Marimar Martinez before opening fire
People who are suddenly deported to countries they haven’t been to for years — or, in some cases, have NEVER been to — are incredibly vulnerable. We are going to be reading stories like this for years. God have mercy on their three little girls.
Adam Sawyer“If immigration hadn't picked up my brother, my sister-in-law would still be alive, and the children wouldn't be going through this sorrow,” he said. “Unfortunately, immigration — the [U.S.] government — doesn't see that. It makes no difference to them.” www.stlpr.org/law-order/20...
