
Shane Gunster
@sgunster17
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07-09-2016 16:15:52
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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



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




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…


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…






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.'"
