Ann Peebles - Slipped, Tripped and Fell in Love (Official Audio) YouTube video by Fat Possum Records

What I am playing on the stereo tonight. So good.
Ann Peebles - a real goddess of soul. You need to check her out.
You really do.

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Mark Carney just cut gas taxes. He should be raising these taxes instead As temporary measures go, a windfall tax is a better idea.

Happy to have this piece published in the Toronto Star today (even if their headline gets it a little off) 👇

Here's a quick summary 🧵...

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Only nine years ago, #VictoriaBC Canada opened our first protected bike and roll lane (in photo). The City has been transformed in less than a decade, and new crosswalks and bike lanes are under construction in my neighborhood now. Choices, not excuses! #yyj

The Victoria SAFER initiative: A community-based prescribed safer supply program using fentanyl formulations in Victoria, BC In response to the severe mortality impacts of the shift in the North American unregulated drug supply to unregulated fentanyl and fentanyl analogues,…

New 🚨

"The Victoria SAFER Initiative: A community-based prescribed safer supply program using fentanyl formulations in Victoria, BC"

"Our findings demonstrate that prescribed fentanyl options assisted in reducing reliance on the unregulated drug supply."

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"Hage’s lawyer presented him with the option of a spot at New Roads, Our Place’s long-term residential treatment facility, which had recently opened. “I went full tilt into it,” he said." #recovery #Victoria #VancouverIsland #BC #BritishColumbia vicnews.com/2026/04/11/f...

The net benefits of net zero: why there’s more to renewables than tackling the climate crisis Regardless of the environment, the shift away from fossil fuels brings an array of additional upsides, from technological innovation and job creation, to energy security and national resilience

The net benefits of net zero: why there’s more to renewables than tackling the climate crisis
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12.7 million battery electric vehicles were sold globally in 2025.

In 2010, the number was barely 10,000.

In China, 1 in 2 new cars sold last year was electric.

The transition is happening faster than almost anyone predicted.

Former Green MLA Adam Olsen says the Premier doesn't have consent to change DRIPA and warns that British Columbia’s "constitutional responsibilities to First Nations remain unchanged even if DRIPA is amended or suspended."

#DRIPA #reconciliation #indigenous

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First Nations Leadership Council Opposes B.C. Government’s Proposal to Suspend DRIPA Working towards the recognition, implementation and exercise of our inherent Indigenous Title, Rights and Treaty Rights

"We cannot stand with this Government when it destroys the hard work that we have built together. B.C. First Nations will not be played for fools." Grand Chief Stewart Phillip www.ubcic.bc.ca/fnlc_opposes...

The response when progressive policies that help millions of people are proposed...

"How will you pay for it?"

The response when the richest 1% ask for tax cuts, or banks ask for bailouts, or defense contractors ask for more contracts...

"How much do you need?"

It doesn't have to be this way.

Protected bike and roll lane with young street trees on both sides. There are pink blossoms 🌸 on the trees on the right side.

More bike and roll lanes should have trees and gardens on both sides. Delightful climate action. This is Pandora St at Douglas in #VictoriaBC today. #yyj

Ecosystem collapse a security threat, so where is the ocean? - Oceanographic A stark new report has finally identified ecosystem collapse as a national and international security threat, yet omits role of ocean.

Was talking to a guy who started scuba diving in the 1970s and still dives regularly. I asked him what were some of the biggest changes he has seen. I expected something about dive computers & other new tech. His reply: There is so much less life now 🙁
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How Ontario's three private drug consumption sites are surviving As funding cuts loom, Ontario's public drug consumption sites may shut down, leaving a donor-funded system to fill the gap

An important read!

“Johnson says their donor-driven model provides stability, enabling the site to focus on “doing what we know is right and needed,” rather than chasing shifting government priorities.”

#onpoli #cdnpoli #harmreduction

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Night Into Day The thing changing the world this year is...batteries.

This looks like a complicated chart, but in fact it's some of the simplest and best news imaginable: batteries are quickly turning night into noon. Worth a read if I say so myself
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Measurement of Gas Fraction and Gas Permeability of Thawing Permafrost Caused by Climate Change Experimental measurements of the gas permeability and gas fraction of permafrost have been made during thawing and refreezing There are significant increases in permeability up to two orders of m...

We do not start the week with good news.

"Thawing of permafrost due to climate change is known to release gases such as the climate drivers carbon dioxide and methane, as well as the carcinogen radon.....Climate change is warming the Arctic regions four times faster than elsewhere."

I spent ~five weeks in Fake London recently and guess what? Building cities just for cars makes *driving* suck, too. Driving in Victoria is 10X better & safer than anywhere in Ontario, AND we have great bike, walk, and transit infrastructure so we don’t have to drive. Wonder if those are related?

Learn more about @raffifoundation.bsky.social's Child Honouring movement for social change here:
raffifoundation.org
And a million thanks for your enduring support of @cape-acme.bsky.social's work to protect people (of all ages) and the planet.
#healthyfuture

“I love you, but I love fossil fuels more” - Chan Lowe Tribune Content Agency https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2019/05/05/editorial-cartoonist-chan-lowe-retires/

“I love you, but I love fossil fuels more”
- Chan Lowe

Victoria Arts Council presents Naming a Crisis Community Art Show, Bay Centre, 1150 Douglas Street, April 7 to 26.

The Victoria Arts Council will be putting on a fantastic show full of both art and events at the Bay Centre from April 7 to 26.

namingacrisis.ca/april-exhibit/

#bcpoli #harmreduction

Heartened at the news that @avilewis.ca Avi Lewis has been voted head of Canada's progressive party, the NDP. This is a man who's taken climate change seriously, and who will help Mark Carney by providing a serious critique from the left.

I am urging Minister Dix to continue BC’s leadership in EV adoption, and not be buffeted by a recent, temporary dip in EV sales.

#bcpoli

Harm Reduction Nurses Association Condemns Decision to Close Supervised Consumption Services in Alberta | HRNA/AIIRM The government has framed these closures as a shift toward treatment and recovery. This is a false choice. Harm reduction and treatment are not competing approaches—they are interdependent. People can...

“Harm reduction and treatment are not competing approaches—they are interdependent. People cannot access recovery if they are no longer alive.”
Thank you @hrna.bsky.social 💜

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Canada could and should have good, affordable, electric sleeper trains! High speed trains too, starting on busiest routes. That would be in the national interest! Following Trump's lead on subsidizing fracked gas - LNG is NOT in the national interest. #cdnpoli #elbowsup

Funny thing about American mass media is how woke content is broadly popular, routinely pays for itself, and sometimes goes blockbuster, whereas right-wing content is a narrow niche that rarely reaches breakeven, never goes blockbuster, and usually requires immense subsidies for it to exist at all.

BC Cuts Climate Agency, Sends Some Staff to Work on Pipelines | The Tyee Experts say CleanBC has gone up in smoke.

“B.C. has quietly eliminated its Climate Action Secretariat, the long-running agency that produced and implemented climate policy across government ministries.”

Another example of the BC NDP government “standing up to Trump” by doing *exactly” what he’s doing

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Vancouverites can expect their cost of groceries to climb | News Experts expect grocery prices to go up, as Iran closes the Strait of Hormuz and cuts of 20 per cent of the world's oil supply.

With oil and fertilizer prices shooting up what’s happening in the Middle East is similar to what happened after Russia invaded Ukraine says senior economist Iglika Ivanova

Fertilizer trade is interrupted and will have a an impact on food production she says.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)'s 'State of the Global Climate 2025' is out today.

This shows that the amount of heat stored on Earth isn't "just" increasing or accelerating, but that even the acceleration is accelerating (third-order derivative)!

@wmo-global.bsky.social

Comment: B.C. can have growth and fewer emissions Doubling down on fossil fuels will wipe out emissions progress

Researchers say gains made through NDP incentives for EVs and heat pumps (developed in partnership with BC Green Party in 2018) will be lost by the same NDP government now encouraging growth of LNG in British Columbia.

#environment #LNG #climatechange #bcpoli

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As media is controlled by Trump, it becomes important for us to become the media.

Decades of Increased Emissions from Forest-Fueled BECCS Timothy Searchinger 1 ORCID Email Liqing Peng? Email Daniella Russi Charles Canham 4 ORCID へ 1 Princeton University, 2 Hong Kong University, 3 World Resources Institute, 4 Cary Institute for Ecosystem Studies This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. V https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-9038129/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Abstract Should climate policies encourage bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) using wood from existing forests? Although mitigation pathways in integrated assessment models often rely on BECCS fueled by energy crops, European governments are moving to financially support BECCS sourced instead from existing forests. To estimate its emissions and financial costs, we develop a model that transparently tracks carbon flows from forest to end use and allows policymakers to easily alter assumptions. Modeling multiple wood- sourcing scenarios, we find that BECCS is unlikely to generate negative emissions within 150 years, is likely to produce higher emissions for decades than using natural gas without carbon capture and is likely to increase electricity costs by ~ 3.5-fold. Only limited improvements occur even if half of the wood comes from residues and half from fast-growing plantations. These results reflect that most emissions occur before the power plant and therefore cannot be captured, and that wood has twice the carbon intensity of natural gas and generates electricity less efficiently. These results counsel against emerging BECCS policies, and our easy-to-use model allows policymakers to evaluate results and different scenarios themselves.

In a preprint, researchers from Princeton, Hong Kong U, & WRI find that the form of carbon removal called "bioenergy w carbon capture & storage," or BECCS, is "likely to produce higher emissions for decades than using natural gas without carbon capture."

This is a Big Deal because the IPCC...

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