Senators must stop C-9 and protect our rights! - International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group Since you’re here… … we have a small favour to ask. Here at ICLMG, we are working very hard to protect and promote human rights and civil liberties in the context of the so-called “war on terror” in C...

Senators must stop C-9 and protect our rights! iclmg.ca/c-9-senate/

Stop Bill C-22 and its expansion of the surveillance state! - International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group Since you’re here… … we have a small favour to ask. Here at ICLMG, we are working very hard to protect and promote human rights and civil liberties in the context of the so-called “war on terror” in C...

Stop Bill C-22 and its expansion of the surveillance state! iclmg.ca/stop-c-22/

Dark charcoal background with a black and white banner that says "BREAKING NEWS" followed by the date of the news article (16 april 2026). The heading reads: New Zealand Court Rules Investments by Sovereign Wealth Fund in Occupied Palestine are Unlawful Followed by a quote from the article: “The managers of the country's $86 billion Super Fund failed to properly address human rights issues when considering whether to exclude companies from its investments...The Super Fund owes us all an apology & in particular an apology to Palestinians here & in Palestine, whose suffering is helping pay the price of the fund's increasing wealth." To the right is a photo of a sign at a protest that reads "Divestment now" -- photo from Laura Albast / Mondoweiss. Article by Keiller MacDuff – Radio New Zealand

This week, a New Zealand court ruled that investments made by NZ's Sovereign Wealth Fund -- investments in companies complicit in occupied Palestine and the occupied Syrian Golan -- are unlawful.

Congratulations to Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA / @psnaotearoa)!

'Background of a football stadium, with stadium lights shining into the centre. Text reads "Canada Soccer’s Silence is Sickening: Demand Action and Accountability. This week, we learned that at least three Palestine Football Association (PFA) officials were denied Canadian visas for the FIFA Congress. This annual event is being held in Vancouver on April 30. Canada Soccer has remained silent on the issue. As one of the World Cup host countries, Canada Soccer has a responsibility. Take Action tr.ee/visas"

Canada denied visas to at least Palestine Football Association officials. Demand action and accountability: tr.ee/visas

Fish Farms Out—Stay the course

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Fight Online Harms: Canada Needs a Duty of Care ⚠️ Big Tech has free rein in Canada. Every democracy has acted, except Canada. AI-era online harms are no joke. Demand Duty of Care now! 🇨🇦 https://openmedia.org/FightOnlineHarms

⚠️ Big Tech has free rein in Canada. Every democracy has acted, except us. AI-era online harms are no joke. Demand a platform Duty of Care now! 🇨🇦 openmedia.org/FightOnlineH... @openmedia.org

Indigenous Rights Policies – Report Card 2025 — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet Shift's 2025 Canadian Pension Climate Report Card includes an analysis of the extent to which Indigenous rights have been considered by pension managers in the investment process, including the existe...

❓Is your pension fund investing with Indigenous rights in mind? #cdnpoli

Check out Shift’s assessment. We spotted just a few Canadian pension funds that are beginning to align their policies with #UNDRIP and the principle of free, prior and informed consent. www.shiftaction.ca/reportcard20...

FortisBC's Toxic Tunnel | My Sea to Sky Take Action! It takes a minute to send a letter.

FortisBC is tunneling through 5.2 km of granite bedrock, and has encountered potentially acid generating rock. A pollution machine, ... myseatosky.org/take-action/...

Tell the Ontario Camps Association Board: Hold Staff Accountable for Vile Anti-Palestinian Racism Three accredited camps in Ontario have expressed explicit support for the Israeli military: Camp Northland B’nai Brith hosted Barak Malichi, a member of the Israeli military who posted clips of himsel...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell the Ontario Camps Association Board: Hold Staff Accountable for Vile Anti-Palestinian Racism. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

It's not just a link, it's life or death. Please donate. Hello friends, I am a doctor from Gaza. As you know, life in Gaza is extremely difficult. The most basic necessities of life, such as food, drink, and shelter, are unavailable. My family has been livi...

It's not just a link, it's life or death. Please donate. chuffed.org/project/1659...

When everything feels uncertain, I look to the rhythms of the land. They teach me to trust what I can’t yet see.

Pause for a moment today. Notice what’s quietly growing around you, and within you.

#hopeinthewaiting #payattention #gentlerhythms

#AI

2025 Transparency Report Overview - Bluesky In 2025, as Bluesky grew from 25 million to 41 million users, we improved the trust and safety infrastructure to better enable our mission. Here's what that looks like in plain language.

In 2025, as Bluesky grew from 25M to 42M users, we took actions to keep it welcoming, using proactive design to reduce toxic content by 79%.  Our 2025 Transparency Report shares how we're building a safer platform while keeping a transparent and human-centered approach: bsky.social/about/blog/0...

Canadian pension funds increasingly diverging in climate approach: report | Globalnews.ca The Canadian Pension Plan appears to have quietly abandoned its climate investment strategy, according to a new report from the climate advocacy group Shift.

We tell the Canadian Press the country’s two largest pension funds are going in “totally different directions” on climate. Read the full article:

Canada Needs Privacy Law Reforms Now! 🇨🇦 Canada’s privacy laws are DECADES old and fail to protect us from corporate misuse & government overreach. ✊ Tell MPs it’s time for real Privacy Law Reform and to make #Privacy4Canadians a priority...

🇨🇦 Canada’s privacy laws are DECADES old and fail to protect us from corporate misuse & government overreach. ✊ Tell MPs it’s time for real Privacy Law Reform and to make #Privacy4Canadians a priority! 📨 openmedia.org/Privacy4Cana...
@openmedia.org

UPDATED: Stop Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, as it will criminalize dissent! - International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group Since you’re here… … we have a small favour to ask. Here at ICLMG, we are working very hard to protect and promote human rights and civil liberties in the context of the so-called “war on terror” in C...

UPDATED: Stop Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, as it will criminalize dissent! iclmg.ca/withdraw-bil...

UPDATED: Stop Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, as it will criminalize dissent! - International Civil Liberties Monitoring Group Since you’re here… … we have a small favour to ask. Here at ICLMG, we are working very hard to protect and promote human rights and civil liberties in the context of the so-called “war on terror” in C...

UPDATED: Stop Bill C-9, the Combatting Hate Act, as it will criminalize dissent! iclmg.ca/withdraw-bil...

A bay on Crete in Greece with inviting aqua sea. Small hills and mountains jet along the coast which is green with trees. God is shining a spotlight through the middle of the picture as if to say, “you are small and inconsequential, even if you think your shit don’t smell.”

Most people think when the world gets itself together, we'll all be okay. I don't see that situation arriving. I think one by one, we all free ourselves from the chains we have chained ourselves to. - George Harrison

Pic of the day
#photography

B.C.’s ‘critical conservation corridor,’ explained | The Narwhal The feds are focused on a ‘critical conservation corridor’ in northwest B.C., but extraction and infrastructure appear to be central focus

Thinking critically about Carney’s proposed conservation corridor in northwest B.C.: thenarwhal.ca/bc-northwest...

Should the ACIP Childhood Vaccine Schedule be Suspended? Vaccine availability could be maintained for doctor-patient shared decision making.

Should the ACIP Childhood Vaccine Schedule be Suspended?
www.thefocalpoints.com/p/should-the...

Ksi Lisims LNG: Carney’s new ‘nation-building’ project, explained | The Narwhal | The Narwhal Mark Carney added Ksi Lisims LNG, backed by Nisg̱a’a Nation, to his list of nation-building projects to be referred for federal review

Ksi Lisims LNG is on Carney’s nation-building list. Here’s what you need to know: thenarwhal.ca/ksi-lisims-f...

Statement: Facing climate litigation, CPPIB made at least $7.1 billion in new fossil fuel investments in the last year — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet Facing landmark climate litigation, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments, or CPPIB) has committed at least $7.1 billion to new oil, gas, coal and pipeline assets in the last year....

You don’t call climate change an "existential threat" and the "single biggest investment risk that we face", and then spend the next year pouring $7BN from the Canada Pension Plan into investments which make this crisis worse. That’s reckless and absurd.” #cdnpoli www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/11...

Stand.earth - For the people and places you love For more than twenty years, we’ve been utilizing cutting-edge research, building equitable power with frontline communities, and leveraging mass movements to make a real impact on the health and wellb...

New research from Stand.earth has uncovered a shocking truth: Drax, the coal giant-turned-“sustainable energy” company, is purchasing old growth in B.C, Canada and turning trees into wood pellets to fuel power plants overseas. sign this petition to protect old growth?
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With Mark Carney massively increasing military spending, Trump
blowing up Venezuelan vessels & Ottawa continuing to assist a
lawless apartheid state that’s committed genocide, it’s vital that
critical perspectives on international affairs be heard in the NDP
leadership race.

Here's the #BeaverMoon from tonight, the last #SuperMoon of 2025. Shot from La Cumbre Peak, above #SantaBarbara.
#MoonPhotography #MoonPhotos #MoonShots #Photography

Camera settings:
Canon T5i
Sigma 150mm x 600mm
Focal length: 600mm
F-stop: f/11
Exposure time: 1/640
ISO: 800

Insufficient disclosure obscuring billions in Alberta oil sands liabilities, advocates say Shareholders of Canada’s largest oil and gas companies could face a shortfall of tens of billions of dollars tied to spent wells, oil sands mines

New report from @investors4paris.bsky.social warns that Canada’s largest oil and gas companies could have tens of billions in undeclared environmental liabilities on their books:
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

Rural Albertans face growing problems with oil and gas wells | The Narwhal The Alberta government is pushing a new plan to deal with years of regulatory failure. Alberta landowners aren’t convinced

‘By the wayside’: rural Albertans are angry at companies not paying their bills: thenarwhal.ca/alberta-land...

Stop Carney’s Surveillance Plan: Stop Bill C–2! Bill C-2 threatens our privacy, erodes our freedoms, and grants the government unchecked surveillance powers. Tell Mark Carney: surrendering to U.S. data demands isn’t leadership — it’s a betrayal of ...

Bill C-2 is anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-Canadian! We need your voice to stop it. ✊ Tell our leaders to scrap this dangerous bill NOW! #StopBillC2 @OpenMediaOrg openmedia.org/Stop-BillC2-bsky

A large bird sites in a chain link fence. The bird has a dark head, large somewhat menacing bill, speckled dark brown wings and a long dark tail feathers with light brown barring.

Do people still use this app?

Anyway, here's a pheasant coucal in the botanic gardens in Darwin. A truly stupendous bird.
#WildOz

Trump has suggested he was open to providing China with access to Nvidia's Blackwell Al processor as part of a trade deal, which would represent a major concession and rile up national security hawks in Washington. "We'll be speaking about Blackwells," Trump said, touting the chip as "super duper" and years ahead of what was currently available from other countries. He said Nividia CEO Jensen Huang had recently brought a version of the chip to the Oval Office for him to see. Al bellwether Nvidia's shares extended gains to 8.5% in Asian trading on the alternative platform Blue Ocean, signaling potential further gains when US markets open. Jasmine Ng Managing Editor for North Asia Economy & Government

To reverse his own fuck ups with farmers, Trump open to trading national strategic and security interest with Blackwell chips to Chinese.

Once again, Xi plays Trump like a fiddle.