Investigative citizens like Marie Lumsden doing the crucial research work that Nova Scotia and Canadian politicians and most journalists have so miserably failed to do: “Everything you need to know about the 'spaceport' in Nova Scotia” www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/e...
RIP $5 to $7.6 billion in revenue.
Shocking and shameful story of dishonesty and cowardice by @bbcnewsi.bsky.social in reneging on promise to broadcast a film by veteran journalists about targeted Israeli attacks on Gaza hospitals. revealnews.org/podcast/ques...
"(Here in Canada) oil and gas, which is largely foreign-owned, largely U.S.-owned, aren’t doing their part. (Instead)...increasing our emissions and ...demanding that Canadian taxpayers pay the bill for cleaning up the pollution they cause and building pipelines they won’t risk their own money on.”
A good time to also tell the Canadian government to do something about bloated SUVs and pickups big as tanks, with deadly, blunt front ends, making life on the roads extremely dangerous for pedestrians, cyclists and passengers in small vehicles.
“Self-serving bullshit is us” boast Canada’s oil and gas leaders.
I’m criticizing this because it’s a bad public policy move, regardless of what “team” it comes from. Would you criticize it if Poilievre did it? Then you have to if Carney does it. I criticized it when Poilievre raised it as an idea, because it was wrong. Carney is smart enough to know it’s wrong.
Carney has announced he’s temporarily dropping the relatively small gas tax. He didn’t need to do that, with Poilievre in a free fall. And all it does is fuel the idea that gas taxes drive gas prices, which they obviously don’t. This was a mistake, similar to letting the carbon tax be reframed.
It's embarrassing
The European Union is tightening the regulatory backdoor through which US automakers have been quietly importing around 7k large SUVs and pickup trucks/year. “The revised rules, expected to launch in 2027, are designed to close loopholes that Brussels says allow unsafe vehicles onto European roads.”
Beautiful Sunday essay here from @chrishatch.bsky.social, reflecting on the Artemis mission and the preciousness of our super-thin shared atmosphere (along with a weekly round-up of climate news). 👇
From Earthrise to Earthset www.nationalobserver.com/newsletters/...
Reminder that the people of Canada living in his riding voted him out of parliament. Then his party gave him the safest seat in the country in a byelection.
Federal impact assessment not ruled out for two Pictou fossil gas plants
reported by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social
Federal impact assessment not ruled out for two Pictou fossil gas plants
reported by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social
Mark Carney: At this important moment for our country’s future, Canadians with a broad range of experience and perspectives are uniting to build Canada strong. I am honoured to welcome Marilyn Gladu today as the newest member of this government and our Liberal caucus. In a time of global economic uncertainty, Canada’s success will depend on how we build ambition into progress and strengths into sustained advantage. Marilyn brings the practical, results-driven leadership this effort demands. Having spent decades of her career in engineering and international business, she understands what it takes to create good jobs, strengthen supply chains, and ensure Canadian industry can compete in a rapidly changing global economy. She has been elected by the people of Sarnia—Lambton–Bkejwanong in four straight elections since 2015, and repeatedly earned recognition from colleagues across Parliament for her proven willingness to work constructively across party lines. I’m looking forward to working closely with Marilyn to build a stronger and more independent Canadian economy, meeting the challenges of a changing world with lasting opportunities for all. Prime Minister Carney meets with MP Marilyn Gladu in Ottawa, Ontario. 10:50 AM · Apr 8, 2026
WHAT?!
She's a fucking loon! A Trump-lover and an Ivermectin pusher! She is the kind of Conservative the Liberals DO NOT want in the party.
Anti-fracking coalition report slams N.S. premier’s $30 million push for onshore fossil gas development
"The Houston government alone can decide what –if anything–can be made public, and all the findings can be “irrevocably erased,” according to the NOFRAC report," reports @joanbaxter.bsky.social
CBC, March 6, 2026: "Alberta, Ottawa agree on deal that would see province front its own major project reviews"
Halifax Examiner, April 2, 2026: "Alarm bells ring over new one project, one review agreement between Ottawa and Nova Scotia for environmental assessments"
National Observer, April 3, 2026: "Alberta scraps environmental assessment for Kevin O'Leary's world's largest data centre"
100. Do not hand over responsibility for environmental assessments to provinces that do not take environmental issues seriously.
We cannot shift the implementation of these programs through provinces, sir.
Not when Ont has a premier who actively sabotages green energy, conservation, green retrofits.
@liberalca.bsky.social .
It’s also time to refund those currently on hold:
“funding
www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/01/n...
Humans are fucked up.
fortune.com/2026/04/01/a...
Tell me again that AI datacenter fantasies are not tied directly to Big Oil creating new markets for their crap..
Meanwhile I'm googling "does exposure to methane gas get you high?.."
What will happen to the 82 USFS experimental forests around the country? Many sites have decades-long experiments that are tracking how forests are changed by timber harvesting practices and climate change. As I say here, “you can't just pick up an experimental forest site and move it to SLC.”
No words, not even ones not fit to print.
NS Tories: we can’t afford to publish books but we can spend $4.4M dollars to steal from them. #nspoli
Post by @readtheorchard.org:
Konrad Yakabuski (not a Jew) thinks the party led externally by Avi Lewis and internally by Niall Ricardo (both Jews) has an anti-Semitism problem.
You can’t make this shit up!
I got one of these emails. Putting me together with the other names in the list — @lukelebrun.ca, @rachelgilmore.bsky.social, @nolore.bsky.social, @ethancox.bsky.social and others — you get a loose mosaic best described as "people who have had some fleeting argument with Jesse recently."
Right on time. The Corbyn knives are out
Please note that the real antisemitism comes from the @theglobeandmail.com that wrote and published this during a time when they know that Lewis is observing shiva for his father’s death and can’t respond. We are being led by cowards
‘Alarm bells’ ring over new ‘one project, one review’ agreement between Ottawa and NS for environmental assessments
reported by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social
FOOD PROFESSOR DOWN
