10% of the world's oceans now protected, Everglades restoration sequestering carbon, Sussex seabed bouncing back from bottom-trawling. Three satisfying swells in a sea of uplifting stories in the this week's Fix the News.
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Kaine: "You don't sucker punch somebody in a bar and then blame your buddies when they don't join the fight with you. If the president wanted the support of allies, he should've respected them instead of putting tariffs on their economies and trash talking them."
I honestly suspect that he vacillates like this in order to push what people will accept as a norm. The news cycle has moved on from him kidnapping the president of Venezuela, or threatening to invade Greenland, or colonizing Palestine or— it’s not distraction.
It’s abuser behaviour.
World held hostage by reliance on fossil fuels, Christiana Figueres warns – and climate health impacts are ‘mother of all injustices’
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The phenomenon is “political disinhibition”. It’s where people feel they can act out in real life with the same asshole entitlement that had previously been limited to online trolling.
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So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?
Join me in asking the Canada Pension Plan to NOT invest in high-risk gas projects that violate Indigenous rights, undercut Canada’s climate obligations and undermine my retirement security. win.newmode.net/shiftaction/... #cdnpoli #pensions #bcpoli #LNG
This is hilarious.
Also, completely enraging.
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2 decades of advocacy has been rewarded with a huge eocological win in the South Atlantic. Brazil's creation of the Albardão Marine National Park protects over 10,000 km² of ocean with strict no-fishing zones and safeguards critical habitats for endangered cetaceans.
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A politician with the guts to say it:
"No American child from the blue collar or the middle class should have to die fighting in Iran. Let the Epstein class fight the Epstein War."
- Premier Wab Kinew at the NDP national convention, Winnipeg.
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For Canadians trying to avoid buying food from oppressive regimes.
We can, and must, do better.
The whole world is going to hell www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...
Immigration - What The Actual News?
Proof positive that Minnesota is truly and properly a province of Canada!
Then: A tiny woolly mammoth, months old, getting to know his new family.
Now: Two tusks. A burly frame. The fuzz long gone.
Nearly four years ago, ex-orphans arrived at Ithumba with an unfamiliar calf they'd found alone in the wild. That calf was Toto: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/o...
Stained glass artwork featuring a running hare facing right in a crescent frame with floral border
English stained glass artist Tamsin Abbott, who is inspired by folklore and nature #WomensArt
#March1st #Spring
Highly recommend all Nova Scotians read this article by @timbousquet.bsky.social @halifaxexaminer.ca for a clear-eyed analysis of what’s happening here. Link in next post.
Tim Bousquet captures the destruction well:
Around 5 million kilos of plastic flows every year from Mumbai’s waterways into the Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean. Not for much longer. Ocean Cleanup has announced from 2026 they'll be deploying their suite of innovative tech to pull pollution from this ocean-bound flow.
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#cdnpoli boycott nnnnzilan NErica!!! keep calm and buy CAN eh!!!
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Facial recognition technology is dangerous when it works and when it doesn't.
The last thing we need is Big Tech, the government, or anyone else capturing our biometrics as we go about our lives.
Meta must not add this unreliable and invasive technology to its glasses.
A newly launched web platform offers independent Canadian bookstores in English Canada an opportunity to work together to reach for a greater market share. Read the full story here: https://bit.ly/4tYtlx8
