The current FOI act allows the public to request government records — and has compelled the province to disclose documents revealing the Greenbelt land scandal, the Skills Development Fund controversy and others.
The changes would restrict access to those kinds of records.
Canada 🇨🇦 is with you, Norway.
If you breach copyright to make publicly funded research publicly available they'll come at you with everything. If you turn theft into a business model investors can profit from, they'll change the law for you.
"If casting a vote starts to feel more like participating in a lottery than making a positive and principled decision, then voters are going to become ever more frustrated." First Past the Post can't handle multi-party politics. www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/comment/gort...
Screenshot of a RSPB article. Solar farms managed for nature can boost bird numbers and biodiversity Research by the RSPB and Cambridge University shows how management can benefit wildlife. Photo caption- Solar farms can deliver on clean energy for nature
☀️ 'Solar farms managed with nature in mind and in areas with a greater mix of habitats proved the best performers, having the greatest variety of species and nearly three times as many birds compared to nearby arable farmland.'
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
A recent study published in the journal Nature Communications reports higher cancer mortality rates in the United States (US) counties within 200 km of operational #nuclear energy plants compared with more distant counties
www.news-medical.net/news/2026030...
There's an direct analogy to be drawn here with the civic planners of the 60s, 70s & 80s who sought to reassure the public that their government had plans to reboot society in the aftermath of a nuclear war... sociologists label them "Fantasy documents"!
As discussed in this podcast...
The *real* global conspiracy, in a nutshell.
"Turns out we are now learning that Epstein’s ring of sexual predation had a strong Republican bent, but also knew no ideological or partisan boundaries and ranged from Noam Chomsky to Donald Trump." My new Kibitzing with Lincoln. Please subscribe. lincolnmitchell.substack.com/p/the-epstei...
Solar plus storage emerging as dominant paradigm for large-scale projects.
www.pv-tech.org/from-standal...
Putin has been invited to join Trump’s “Board of Peace,” the committee that will oversee the reconstruction of Gaza, his spokesman said on Monday.
Kremlin is now reviewing the invitation and “hoping to get more details from the US side.”
You may feel helpless — a powerless observer of this hurricane of violence. Please do not succumb to helplessness, despair, or fear. You are needed — desperately. Here are some things you can do. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/mobilizing-america
Ontario Power Generation asks to increase the payments for #nuclear power to $C207 a megawatt hour ($A222/MWh) from 2027 - double it received in 2025.
reneweconomy.com.au/ontario-util...
ArcelorMittal Dofasco quietly extends 'green' steel timeline from 2028 to 2050, gets $50M more from Ottawa #Hamilton
Dofasco says while its timeline has been 'drawn out,' it has the same decarbonization ambitions
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Quite frankly, it’s outrageous that Mark Carney is cutting Statistics Canada. If he was Stephen Harper or Pierre Poilievre, I feel like this would be getting a lot more backlash.
Carney of all people should know the importance of high-quality data and information about the country.
A good point
First past the post is horrible for a democracy
The same applies federally
We need a new system
Trudeau failed us on that one
By choosing to no longer decarbonise, NZ is choosing to be poorer. Continued fossil fuel dependency means forever volatile import costs, increased public health burden, and international market risk. Economically stoopid.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This President and his Project 2025 administration pose an existential threat to the sense of a worldwide community of nations, that gave us the U.N., the Declaration of Human Rights, and the possibility of facing global crises together.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/december-5...
The Trump National Security Strategy is a deeply unserious document—befitting an unserious president. But it is no less dangerous for that. My take: open.substack.com/pub/ivodaald...
Does anyone see a problem with handing Ontario student records (incl. names, gender, birthdates, grades, medical conditions and health numbers) current and past over to a US corporation??? And then a cyber attack on this US co exposed those records! www.thestar.com/news/gta/tds...
NELSON, BRITISH COLUMBIA: “The regional district will be throwing its hat into the ring for the chance to gain $1.6 million in funding to increase resiliency of the region towards wildfire.” www.castanet.net/news/Castleg... - @castanet.net
#BCWildfire #NelsonBC #Wildfires
Ontario’s universities have the lowest per-student funding of any Cdn province. In 2022-23, each ON university student was funded at $10,246 per domestic FT student — over $6,500 less than the Cdn average of $16,789. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont... #onpoli
MMP is the system most often recommended in Canada altho PR_STV is popular too ...or a blend of the two to cope with vast distances and low population. Germans even designed a MMP system for Canada when they testified at the Electoral Reform Committee. www.fairvote.ca/introprsyste...
Gerrymandering is no longer possible with an adequately proportional voting system. Single seat disticts and a winner-take-all voting system effectively disenfrachise many/most voters. If independent redistricting worked, Canadians wud have much more representative and accountable govt.
