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There is a long and deep and productive history of left nationalism in Canada — it’s been a force to build solidarity and advance a left agenda for decades. We shouldn’t abandon it to some post-national fantasy or reflexive, performative self-loathing.

“Earth is crossing the threshold of 1.5°C of global warming, according to two major global studies which together suggest the planet’s climate has likely entered a frightening new phase.” theconversation.com/earth-is-alrea…

It's hard to believe that humanity is at a place where a headline like this, to our peril, is merely met with a yawn... "Earth is now retaining profuse excess heat - the equiavlent of a million nuclear bombs per day - in our climate system. H/T to Leon Simons (looking up) Linear trend

Opinion: Opinion: It may provoke Trump, but Canada should cancel the purchase of F-35 fighter jets from the U.S. theglobeandmail.com/opinion/articl…

We mobilized against Hitler. Now we need to mobilize against Trump. In wartime, Canada created 28 Crown corporations operating factories, shipyards, aircraft production. We need that sort of industrial mobilization against Trump. #cdnpoli thestar.com/opinion/contri…

There’s some stunning info in the new Parkland Institute report on surgeries in Alberta… And it seems pretty clear that private for profit surgeries are choking out the public system. (Link will be in last post) Thread! /1 #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

This is an outstanding article by Zoë Yunker (@zoeyunker on Bluesky) for The Tyee, documenting how higher fossil fuel prices were the leading cause of post-COVID inflation & hence Canadians' affordability concerns: thetyee.ca/News/2025/03/2…. Costs of the 2022 oil shock=$12000 per household over 3yrs. /2

This report is the first in our new 'False Profits' series which will document how fossil fuel prices and profits have undermined living standards in Canada. falseprofits.ca

This video is so disturbing. I’ve always considered myself pro-Israel. But if that now means arresting, jailing, and deporting someone whose only “crime” we know of was writing a pro-Palestine op-ed, then count me out. I want nothing to do with that.

Wrote this piece (but not the headline)! theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Does Danielle Smith love Big Foreign Oil more than Canada? My op-ed in today's National Observer Linda McQuaig Jim Stanford Maude Barlow Seth Klein Avi Lewis Timothy Gray @CanadaGray.bsky.social Council of Canadians Parkland Institute #abpoli #cdnpoli John Smith (son of Harry Leslie Smith) Charlie Angus nationalobserver.com/2025/04/04/opi…

The CBC has 27 TV stations, 88 radio stations, 30 digital platforms, 8 satellite responders, spanning world's second-largest country, broadcasting in French and English, plus multiple Indigenous languages...make the CBC better, don't kill it...needed now, more than ever #Canada

Scary report from Justin Ling for ⁦Toronto Star⁩ on Tories’ aggressive control of media coverage of their campaign: how many questions, who asks them, on what. This is exactly what Trump does in the US. Defunding CBC is part of this too. #cdnpoli thestar.com/opinion/contri…

In today's Berardelli Bonus... Copernicus ECMWF put out its March state of the climate report showing March 2025 was the 2nd warmest March on record (warmest 2024). Bigger picture shows that society's efforts are falling far short to limit heating/ impacts from emissions. WFLA NEWS

“The right-wing resurgence makes the way forward for the left tougher, but it might also make it clearer that no one can hope to go it alone. What’s left? The only thing we’ve ever had: solidarity, forever.” lux-magazine.com/article/all-to…

“We find that two-thirds of warming is attributable to the wealthiest 10%, meaning that individual contributions are 6.5 times the average per capita contribution.” [Reminder that 10% wealthiest includes 810 million people, who earn more than $125k annually]

Interesting new study finds (among other things) that poorer Americans are more likely than wealthier individuals to prioritize environmental protection over economic growth… challenging the assumption that financial hardship reduces support for environmental action.

Scientists just found a way to break through climate apathy grist.org/science/break-… The findings suggest that if scientists want to increase public urgency around climate change, they should highlight clear, concrete shifts instead of slow-moving trends. That could include the

AI + misinformation = cheap political spin A weaponized AI chatbot is flooding city councils with climate misinformation nationalobserver.com/2025/05/28/inv… via Canada's National Observer Shane Gunster: "...artificial intelligence 'enables the cost of misinformation to come close to zero.'"

Good Lord look at this aerial photo from Manitoba!