The Narwhal: Sleepless nights, toxic smoke: life beside Canada’s first LNG export plant Residents of Kitimat, B.C., say LNG Canada’s operations are leaving them exhausted and worried for their health, while governments double down on more LNG expansion Matt Simmons By Matt Simmons (Local Journalism Initiative Reporter)

Which leads to this: "Ankur Patel, a registered nurse in Kitimat, said he’s already hearing from residents about health impacts, especially seniors and those with heart disease."

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Reported impacts of respiratory issues & nosebleeds: www.sierraclub.ca/lng-national...

What Canada Post could be, and what would be best for local resilience, economies, and the environment right now.

None of this is a utopian vision - it would be the pragmatic thing to do right now in response to the threats we face.

And also one of my favorite interviews I've ever hosted. #CDNpoli

So listen to environmental groups then: www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/06/n...

Or, you know, don't help with U.S. energy dominance by suggesting we ship gas to billionare data centres there.

Or maybe reverse the various cuts to environmental initiatives... including wildfire response. #CDNpoli

I will not stop boycotting US goods until they remove, arrest and jail the felon and his entire administration, so that means I will never stop.

#BoycottUS #ElbowsUp #BuyCanadian #Canada💪🍁

DENMARK AND FRANCE 🇩🇰🇫🇷 bans all Microsoft products from all public offices.

The phaseout is expected to be completed before autumn 2026.

Their products are being replaced with customer versions of Linux and LibreOffice.

This is digital sovereignty being taken back

Avi Lewis: "I think that left-wing populism has unlimited potential ... I see people getting lit up by it, and I see our ideas cutting through already from a party which is being simultaneously dismissed and listened to on things like surveillance pricing."

Avi Lewis: "Canada is being left behind. We're still arguing about pipelines and we're not getting started on getting off this resource-curse roller coaster."

So... what - if any - are the rules regarding drivng a car in #Vancouver while blowing on a trumpet? Asking for the guy driving a small sedan eastbound on West Broadway while blowing on a trumpet.

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

NEW: I've been shocked by some of the numbers I've been seeing on behind-the-meter power plants for data centers, so I did a little math.

less than a dozen gas plants being built to power data centers for big tech companies could emit a maximum of nearly 130 million tons of CO2e each year (!)

Ottawa has asked Israel to investigate Canadian's killing in Lebanon: Anand | CBC News Canadian officials have summoned Israeli ambassador Iddo Moed to request an investigation into the killing of Mohammad Hassan Haidar, a Canadian citizen in southern Lebanon, Foreign Affairs Minister ...

Canada 🇨🇦 asked Israel to investigate itself for killing a Canadian.

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Vancouver restaurants receiving human trafficking training The British Columbia Restaurant & Foodservices Association is urging restaurants to participate in training on human trafficking.

Ahead of FIFA in #Vancouver British Columbia Restaurant & Foodservices Association urges restaurants to participate in human trafficking training, which "can be in the form of sexual human trafficking or labour trafficking."

Meanwhile, Van Mayor Ken Sim cuts funding for sex worker safety program!

The privatization crisis at Canada Post Canada Post is under attack. Political favouritism, privatized delivery, and precarious subcontracting are putting workers and public service at risk. From Intelcom’s exploitative practices to the gov...

The brother of federal Industry Minister, Mélanie Joly, is the president and CEO of Intelcom, a courier company that exploits subcontracted delivery drivers for pennies per package. It stands to benefit mightily from the dismantlement and privatization of public postal services in Canada.

Civil Society to Parliament: Kill Bill C-22 More than 25 leading rights and privacy organizations and experts call for full withdrawal of the Lawful Access Act, warning it would be

🚨 BREAKING: 25+ of Canada's leading rights orgs, privacy scholars, and legal experts just delivered a joint letter to Parliament.

The ask? Kill #BillC22.

The reason? It would be "the most expansive invasion of Canadian privacy rights in modern history." 🧵
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It's Earth Day, so remember to say nice things about the planet we live on before we go back to destroying it.

Advocates urge Quebec to act on intimate partner violence after 9 deaths in 4 months - Montreal | Globalnews.ca Quebec solidaire co-spokesperson Ruba Ghazal, alongside a coalition of women, called on the province to take action to prevent more femicides in Quebec.

Advocates urge Quebec to act on intimate partner violence after 9 deaths in 4 months

What? Why? Are they worried their husbands or other family members are named in them?

Along the top, four images of Alberta Premier Danielle Smith, with text on each, reading in order: "repeated notwithstanding clause attacks on citizens' charter rights; Attacks clean energy sector, killing 99% of renewable investment; Empowers separatists, cozies up to foreign enemies; and Partisan gerrymandering of Alberta's electoral ridings map." Below that, we see four images of Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, also with text for each: "Makes fossil fuel expansion priority #1, climate science be damned; Exempts Alberta from energy regulations & adds billions in fossil subsidies; Excludes BC from talks with Alberta about a pipeline to the BC coast; and Doesn't push back on Alberta for violating the Canada Health Act."

It seems that the worse Alberta behaves, the more Mark Carney bends over backwards to appease them with special treatment. His loyalty to fossil fuels seems to trump any loyalty he feels to national unity, to the climate, and to Canada's constitution including our charter of rights and freedoms. 🧵1/

ICE detained more than 70 Minnesota children, data reveals Immigration officials detained more than 70 Minnesota children between Dec. 1 and March 10, a Sahan analysis of court records and federal deportation data shows.

“This is a systemic violent act, to be detaining children, that has long-term consequences,” Kelley said. “It’s massively detrimental to the well-being of these families and our whole communities.”

Canada’s residential school abuse survivors face fresh battle to stop testimony being destroyed First Nation communities warn that government must act as accounts face destruction, risking central part of Canada’s reckoning with its colonial legacy

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Every child soldier is a victim of abuse that will last a lifetime.
They are used because they are easy to manipulate, train, and - with a still developing frontal cortex - have problems with predicting ramifications of actions.
This kid needs therapy not punishment.
I hope Ukraine helps him.

That's it? $6.1B in eight years? We gave Ukraine $25B in four and didn't even get daily mail out of it.

Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.

We can’t trust Palantir with our NHS data Is this really the company we should be entrusting with our health service’s digital architecture?

"Palantir is not just a problem of profiteering from our national healthcare system— it's a fundamental threat to the democratic control of our public infrastructure + the privacy of every citizen. By giving our taxes to this company, we are aiding their operations everywhere."

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Back to the simple natural order of things…….. not human arrogance based on destruction of our water,air, environment for profit…… for the 1%

Yet the army is not mandated to be self supporting, is it?

Same with libraries, fire, police, etc.

Whatever decisions are taken, people won’t be happy. I am only an occasional user of the post office but I’m sure for some it is important.

Also, people are being fooooooled by oligarchs if they think Canada Post is what's tanking Canada's economy. Truly, congrats on getting scammed by propaganda, my guys.

6 images in sequence. First, hands holding lumps of coal with the text "LNG is 33% more harmful to the climate than coal." Secondly, an image of natural gas burning on a stovetop, with the text "Methane causes 80 times as much warming in 20 years as CO2 does over a thousand years." Thirdly, an image of the Earth on fire, with the text "Cutting methane is the best way to limit short term climate warming." Then an image of Canadian PM Mark Carney, with the text "Carney's budget created new subsidies for expanding methane heavy LNG." Followed by Carney again, with the text "His biggest proposed major projects are both LNG expansion." Finally, a waving American flag, with the text "Including a US owned and US operated LNG project controlled by a major Trump donor."

“Cutting methane is the single most important strategy to slow near-term warming. In fact, it’s the only strategy that has a chance of working. Cutting carbon dioxide is a marathon, but methane is a sprint.” - Durwood Zaelke, president of the Institute for Governance and Sustainable Development. 🧵1/