Still looking for a social media platform that's decent. If you turn off replies, don't worry, you'll never hear from me. Former news guy still interested in the world.
If you show up to Bluesky without following anyone, you'll be treated to a series of posts about art, music, and dogs. If you show up to X without following anyone, you'll be bombarded with right-wing conspiracies and white supremacist slop. It's weird which one is seen as a "political bubble"
Over the last 10 yrs, sharpshooters hired by the B.C. govt have killed hundreds of wolves from helicopters to "save" struggling caribou herds. The real cause of caribou decline isn't wolves, though - it's habitat destruction. This isn't endangered species conservation, BC. It's willful ignorance.
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
1/ Over the weekend -- while Canadians across the country were dealing with raging wildfires and the aftermath of severe flooding and heatwaves -- PM Carney quietly accelerated the timeline on his taxpayer funded pipeline. environmentaldefence.ca/2026/08/04/p...
PM Carney proceeding at breakneck pace with West Coast Pipeline - Environmental DefenceStatement by Julia Levin, Associate Director, National Climate, Environmental Defence Over the weekend, while Canadians across the country are dealingenvironmentaldefence.ca
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."
Pirro will go back to Fox and continue being a TV drunk, as opposed to a federal employee drunk.
Just a reminder that the president of the United States recently had to pay almost $6 million to the woman he sexually abused and defamed, and not one reporter has asked him about it.
Carney regime hog-ties Canada to the whims of American regime - -- bankrupting Canadians in the process with expensive, dirty radioactive power that will take decades to build -- far too late to avert climate disaster. -- instead of fast clean Wind Solar, Wave, Battery. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Canada built its nuclear industry on self-reliance. Its new reactors will depend on foreign fuel | CBC NewsCanada built its nuclear industry around Candu reactors supplied by a made-in-Canada supply chain. Ontario is building, and other provinces are considering, SMRs that require foreign uranium enrichmen...www.cbc.ca
Senator Whitehouse said it better than anyone: "Climate risk makes things un-insurable. No insurance makes things un-mortgageable. No mortgages crashes the property markets. Crashed property markets trash the economy.” #wildfire #Spokane #insurance
Senator Sheldon WhitehouseThe Great Climate Insurance Collapse is beginning before our eyes. How does it happen? Gradually, and then all at once. Buckle up. subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
Subsidising developers is not subsidising housing. When developers fees don't pay for the infrastructure to support their developments guess where the money comes from. Why are we subsidising developers and not people? www.nsnews.com/economy-law-...
$389M Metro Vancouver developer subsidy ‘strikes a balance,’ says chairMetro Vancouver's board was decidedly split over whether to lower planned development cost charge increases in 2026 and 2027www.nsnews.com
If anyone wonders why people in BC are so passionate about climate resilience and ending oil dependency, this is why. People evacuating Westside Rd in Vernon, BC. @mark-carney.bsky.social @avilewis.ca @davidebybc.bsky.social #ClimateCrisis #BCWildfire #VernonBC #cdnpoli #bcpoli #yyc #yeg #topoli
4 stories on wildfire evacuations in news section of Globe & Mail yesterday, then these 3 in business section on booming profits of oil/gas companies that cause the problem. Worse than failure to link those the news stories, Canada is increasing subsidies for oil/gas as the world burns. #cdnpoli
The federal government using scabs. The Carney government seems to be committed to undermining labour rights www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Bank of Canada governor defends use of replacement workers during strike | CBC NewsThe head of the Bank of Canada is defending the central bank's use of replacement workers during a strike involving security officers.www.cbc.ca
Countries where it’s illegal to criticize the president: • Iran • China • Russia • North Korea • The United States
Every single second, the world hands $6,000 to the fossil fuel industry in subsidies. That’s $5 TRILLION every year. Renewables? Barely a fraction of that. We are literally paying to cook our own planet. When does this madness stop? 🌍💸 #ClimateCrisis #FossilFuels
The climate crisis is all around us. And being angry at politicians committing climate arson is more common than you may think. #EndClimateSilence #wildfire
Bob HensonA large chunk of northwest Spokane, WA (pop. 289,000) is under Level 3 evacuation orders ("GO NOW") as a wildfire rages. It's being stoked by top-end "extremely critical" weather conditions: www.spc.noaa.gov/products/fir...