A view looking up at the red-lacquered five-story pagoda of Kaneji Temple, near Ueno Toshogu Shrine in Tokyo's Ueno Park. In the foreground, the branches of tall cherry trees in bloom screen the bottom half of the pagoda; beyond, a slim crescent moon occupies a clear, starless evening sky.

Title: Ueno Park, Tokyo (1952)

Artist: Hasui Kawase

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LNG Canada exceeds estimated 2024 global record for burned gas | The Narwhal LNG Canada in Kitimat, B.C., burned more gas in 2025 than any other liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on record in 2024

This is a shocking story. Congrats to @thenarwhal.ca on exposing this.

LNG Canada in Kitimat – 🇨🇦's first major LNG facility – is now one of the highest sources of GLOBAL emissions for flaring, undermining claims that we produce the cleanest natural gas in the world: thenarwhal.ca/lng-canada-b...

Sharing my latest newsletter on the urgent need for a windfall profits tax on oil and gas:
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Clean energy groups call for East-West grid connections, investments in renewables OTTAWA – A coalition of clean energy groups is calling on Ottawa to connect the country through a grid powered by renewable energy. The David Suzuki Foundation says Canada is facing an energy af...

Honoured to have represented @cape-acme.bsky.social as 15 groups representing labour, environment, and indigenous organizations lobbied MPs and senators for an E-W Grid to support a net-zero grid. Thanks to @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social for organizing us so well!

Massive Attack: Boots on the Ground (ft Tom Waits) review – first single in a decade is a dark hymn for our times Unsettling breathing, arrhythmic clatter, gloomy piano and military snares underpin a Beefheartian portrayal of a boorish warmonger on the band’s ominous return

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground - 'a dark hymn for our times'

#MassiveAttack #TomWaits #BootsOnTheGround #IceOut #NoWar

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Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground

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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.

...In contrast, taxing the oil and gas companies’ windfall profits means we can deploy some of those revenues directly helping lower and modest-income households, while using some of the funds to expedite our transition off these deadly fuels.

Here's my piece:
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ICYMI: when it comes to pushing pipelines for Donald Trump, Mark Carney definitely has history.

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp #ElbowsDown

Trump issues several permits for U.S.-Canada pipelines | CBC News Permits include one for the construction of a new pipeline, and several related to the maintenance of existing pipelines, according to White House documents.

US President/convicted felon Trump just issued several US-Canada pipeline ‌permits, including one for the construction of a brand new pipeline.

What was that Carney used to say about keeping his #ElbowsUp, again? It's been so long, it's hard to remember…

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines

Imperial Oil pipeline spills 843,000 litres northwest of Cold Lake, Alta. | CBC News An Imperial Oil pipeline spilled 843,000 litres of bitumen emulsion northwest of Cold Lake, Alta., last week. In a statement, Imperial Oil apologized for the spill, which has been stopped and containe...

Reminder: there's no such thing as a good pipeline.

Cold Lake First Nations Chief Kelsey Jacko: "Spills happen every year (…) How do you build up trust when spills keep happening?”

#Canada #CDNPoli #FirstNations #NoPipelines #ClimateCrisis #ABPoli #ClimateChange #Pollution

Pope Leo, in Cameroon, decries 'handful of tyrants' ravaging the world Pope Leo blasted leaders who spend billions on wars and said the world was "being ravaged by a handful of tyrants", in unusually forceful remarks in ‌Cameroon on Thursday days after U.S. President Don...

One doesn't have to be Catholic or even Christian to agree with what this guy says. "A handful of tryrants."

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Try to keep up. Carney's cut is a $2.4 billion public subsidy to fossil fuels, one that companies are already raising prices to absorb. We need real action to bring down the cost of living, starting with a serious tax on the billions of excess profits Canadian companies are making from the Iran war.

Oil companies are on track to make tens of billions in windfall profits from Trump’s illegal war in Iran.

It’s their profiteering that’s driving up prices. It’s them who should pay.

That’s an admin that cares about fairness.

#TaxTheRich ++++

As oil prices surge amid the war on Iran, the case for clean electricity has never been stronger. Over 15 organizations are in Ottawa calling on the federal government to fund a clean and connected electricity grid. Read more: dsfdn.org/OilPriceVola...

Temporarily suspending the federal tax on fuel is not a solution to the cost-of-living crisis or the climate crisis.

Let’s instead find ways to invest in renewables — not subsidize a fossil fuel industry rooted in the past : davidsuzuki.org/action/rejec...

The finance ministers of Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal & Austria are pushing for windfall taxes on the war profits of oil & gas companies. Why not Canada?

Three female figures in traditional clothing, each carrying a small child strapped to their back, pause beneath a cherry tree in bloom. Just beyond, a covered temple bell stands in shadow; at their feet, a large puddle reflects the scene. Above, the sky is hazy and overcast.

Title: In a Temple Yard (1935)

Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida

www.keihan.co.jp/sakura/index... #Art #ShinHanga #Showa #HiroshiYoshida #Spring #CherryBlossoms #Sakura #Japan

The finance ministers of Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal & Austria are pushing for windfall taxes on the war profits of oil & gas companies. Why not Canada?

#CDNPoli #Canada #ClimateCrisis #CostOfLivingCrisis #Inflation #Warflation #Iran #IranWar #NoWar

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

The top 100 oil & gas companies raked in more than $30 million an hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war on #Iran. With oil at $100/barrel, they'll make an additional $234 billion in excess profits by the end of the year:

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #CostOfLivingCrisis

A light rain falls on a spring day in Ueno Park. A pair of visitors to the park carry bamboo umbrellas as they walk beneath cherry trees in full bloom. To their left, a row of stone lanterns lines the path, and beyond, the five-story pagoda that was once part of Kaneji Temple stands tall.

Title: Spring Rain, Ueno Park (1930)

Artist: Hasui Kawase

www.japan.travel/en/spot/1675/ #Art #ShinHanga #HasuiKawase #Showa #Spring #CherryBlossoms #Sakura #Ueno #Tokyo #Japan

Reminder: a majority of Canadians have supported windfall profit taxes on oil and gas companies’ historically high profits for years now.

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoWar #IranWar #CostOfLivingCrisis

Compare with 'Wakakusa-yama' (c.1930s), also by Kasamatsu Shiro:

"Operators are reliant on diesel, often to power heavy long-haul road trains, and many say costs have more than doubled since war broke out in Iran, sending oil prices to record highs across the globe."

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoWar #IranWar #Australia #CostOfLivingCrisis

A Mastodon post from Greenpeace International, reading: Oil prices surging again. This is the absurd rollercoaster of fossil fuel dependence, where warmongering autocrats and billionaires can shake your bills overnight. Real security means getting off oil & gas.

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoWar #IranWar #CostOfLivingCrisis

The oil industry is making billions from the Iran war—it should be taxed - CCPA The current windfall could be Canadian oil's final boom—so the proceeds must be reinvested into economic diversification and industrial planning

In the first month of the war, the Canadian oil industry made after-tax profits in excess of $6 billion, which is $4 billion more than it pocketed the month before. A windfall tax on excess profits like these is long overdue.

No money for housing. No money for healthcare. No money for you.

But somehow, always. Enough. Money. For. War.

We wrote an open letter to Carney, will you add your name to tell him to stand against Trump's war agenda?

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The oil industry is making billions from the Iran war—it should be taxed - CCPA The current windfall could be Canadian oil's final boom—so the proceeds must be reinvested into economic diversification and industrial planning

In the first month of the war, the Canadian oil industry made after-tax profits in excess of $6 billion -- $4 billion more than it pocketed the month before. It is well past time Canada applied a windfall tax on these excess profits.