Reposted by Tai ViinikkaPatrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 9h2 key legal changes since TMX, re the new pipeline: 1 - ministers can now exempt anyone from any law, other than the criminal code 2 - "national interest" designation comes with automatic approval for all other permits - species at risk act, etc (a long term big oil wishlist item).. 1149
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 5himgur.com/nTv06eiimgur.comKids handle plasma ball at the OSCDiscover the magic of the internet at Imgur, a community powered entertainment destination. Lift your spirits with funny jokes, trending memes, entertaining gifs, inspiring stories, viral videos, and ... 000
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 02/10/2026When you see how strangled both natural gas and oil are, globally, you can see why so many consumers want to stop buying from the middle east and/or Russia. This has Canadian producers pushing forward their export plans and, yes, they've influenced the government to help pay for pipelines and ports. 140
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 30/09/2026What would a rehearsal of blockading a country look like? www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...theglobeandmail.comTruck carrying supplies to isolated N.B. island blocked by U.S. customsVehicle turned back at border crossing as U.S. bans of Canadian alcohol and other goods take effect 100
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaDurham County Department of Public Health (DCoDPH) @durhamhealthnc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The vaccination schedule is based on your child's immune system & when they are most at risk of illnesses. Delaying vaccinations puts their health at risk & does not make them safer in any way. Protect your kids by getting them vaccinated on time. Learn more: www.healthychildren.org/English/safe... 0125
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaParis Marx @parismarx.com · 26/08/2026The United States is taking aim at Canada once again, with a crushing new set of tariffs. Ultimately, government will need to solve this. But in the same way Canadians are avoiding US alcohol, produce, and other goods, they should get off US tech products too. Luckily, I have a guide for that.disconnect.blogGetting off US tech: a guideI’m in the process of dropping US tech services. Here’s how I did it, and options you should consider. 191575750
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Ask yourself how much damage will be done to the credibility (with their target audience) of the people advancing the original claim. How do we fix the problem of lying in our information ecosystem? 000
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaAnno Dominaysayer @annodominaysayer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026You know your democracy is functioning well when you find yourself *checks notes* arresting peaceful elderly people for *another quick look at the notes* being on Parliament Hill 1158
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaAnton van Walraven @avwraven.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Thoughts for this Monday morning while you're on your way to work, just arrived, sent the kids off to school, start with the daily chores, opening the door the first customers, etc. Where are we going form here? Is this what we're going to do? At what point will I vote differently and speak out. 032
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaJohn Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 20/09/2026"Take a closer look at the label on “Canadian” oil. The companies that dominate oil sands production are predominantly foreign owned, largely by American investors. Tens of billions of dollars flow out of the country through dividends and share buybacks." thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... #cdnpolithetyee.caWhy Patriotic Calls to Support ‘Canada’s’ Oil Ring Hollow | The TyeeAs Trump’s US rakes in oilsands profits, we’re sold a clouded narrative of energy sovereignty. 34929
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026It's a shame the word "electric" does not occur in this article. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...cbc.caSkyrocketing diesel prices could turn into high grocery prices soon, as shipping costs go up | CBC NewsWith diesel prices skyrocketing due to ongoing global conflicts, filling up the trucks that carry food and goods across Canada has never been more expensive, experts say — and Canadians could be feeli... 130
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I can't think why we're holding on to these approved vaccines so late into the fall. COVID-19 transmission spikes in late summer, consistently, kids head back to school, what do we imagine will happen? www.thecanadianwire.com/news/flu-and...thecanadianwire.comFlu and COVID Shots Fall 2026: When Each Province Opens BookingOntario starts vaccinating priority groups the week of September 22 and opens to everyone October 27. Alberta begins October 19. Here is the fall… 493
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 02/09/2026This ^^ is a good read. The next 50 years will not be a calm or restful part of human history. It definitely doesn't have to be the end of our civilization. It does seem as if certain powerful forces are trying to push us there, though. www.cbc.ca/news/science...cbc.caFor the first time, a key UN report says the 1.5 C global warming threshold is lost | CBC NewsIn a strategic retreat in the fight against climate change, the United Nations has acknowledged that Earth has lost its chance to prevent some of the worst of global warming's harms. Officials say the... 020
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I don't understand why Russia would react to doing poorly against Ukraine by provoking a NATO state. It's like thinking a boxer who is losing on points would dance over to the opposing coach and see if he can throw some jabs, so as to get into two fights at once. How does *that* help? 200
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaJenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The Ontario govt took $60M out of public education and handed it to Staples. Tomorrow, 80K elementary teachers each get $750 of the misappropriated money to buy overpriced classroom supplies at an 🇺🇸 corporation. Please remember this the next time Captain Canada tells you to #BuyCanadian. #OntEd 16487272
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaKees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Explosive climate-fueled increase in wildfires in British Colombia, West-Canada. 11511
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaMy IRL friends call me Chris @christyceeck.bsky.social · 06/08/2026"Fossil fuel lobbyists are enjoying vastly increased access to top decision-makers under Prime Minister Mark Carney, a new analysis reveals" Minister "Tim Hodgson met with Big Oil lobbyists at least 83 times between May 2025 & April 2026." More than double the number of his predecessor. #CdnPoli 33323
Reposted by Tai Viinikka404 Media @404media.co · 29/07/2026The U.S. government has charged Samuel Tunick with allegedly typing in a passcode to wipe his phone before officers could search it. “I hope people understand that the charges against me are meant to intimidate people." @josephcox.bsky.social reports. Read now: www.404media.co/the-governme... 10350146
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Car brain, fairly bad case, fortunately no injuries reported. www.cp24.com/local/durham...cp24.comMan accused of driving through playground packed with children at Ajax parkA 23-year-old man from Aurora has been charged after allegedly driving through a playground and walking paths that were packed with children at a park in Ajax earlier this month. 111
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaLissa Harris 🌈🗑️🔥⚔️🐀 @lissaharris.bsky.social · 24/07/2026if you can’t replace your stove, you can get a great little induction hot plate for about $100 mine handles all my pasta, soup, anything that needs boiling or simmering. boils faster than gas, holds a perfect simmer reducing gas use helps even if you can’t quit it 510439
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaJ. Offir, PhD @joffirphd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026The Trump regime: 🔹️killed grants based on key words alone, not research reviews; 🔹️targeted researchers who happened to live in blue states, but left grants to those in red states untouched; 🔹️"violated the constitution by not spending money in ways Congress... 1/2 apnews.com/article/cali...apnews.comWhite House admits it used keywords to kill billions worth of California research grantsFederal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV... 174
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaKetan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 20/07/2026Extremely important investigation - I cannot emphasise enough how every single freaking day we are dealing with the consequences of the success of this lie. Gas is basically treated like it's not a fossil fuel, even among some climate / energy advocates. It is so so so bad 8280144
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Imagine you're driving up the little-used TransCanada Highway from Canada's biggest city to its northern neighbours. Now imagine you're driving an electric car. How happy are you to see a chokepoint with only a half dozen chargers*, and 2 are failing?#ElectricVehiclesCanada #EVChargingInfrastructure 110
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 04/07/2026What a picture from cheney orr of @reuters.com — a Black woman on a train surrounded by masked white supremacists, emboldened in Trump’s America. One for the history books. 42247911722
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 02/07/2026A needed reminder that not every voice is a voice with familiar motivations and opinions offered in good faith. :) 010
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaLex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 24/06/2026Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”theguardian.com‘This is injustice’: how leftist zines were used to sentence anti-ICE protesters to decades in prisonAdvocates sound alarm after zines were used as evidence to convict protesters of terrorism charges tied to 2025 protest at Texas ICE facility 4024841351
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 11/06/2026New data reveals that New World Screwworm, a severely dangerous flesh-eating maggot, is spreading throughout Texas. This comes months after Ken Paxton supported cutting Screwworm monitoring programs. 36343721730
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaSøren Have @sorenhave.dk · 28/05/2026One of Denmark’s largest newspapers was two days ago caught in publishing a news article on water pollution where two cited sources didn’t exist and a third was attributed a quote he never said. Editor’s rely: It’s the journalist’s fault. Not an editor’s responsibility to catch this. 🤔information.dkBerlingske citerede fiktive eksperter i artikel om sprøjteforbudOm få år kan det være billigere at rense danskernes drikkevand end at beskytte det mod forurening, hævdede professor Anne Kjær Nielsen fra DTU i Berlingske. Der er bare ét problem: Hun findes ikke 171
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaIsaac Callan @isaaccallan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026NEW: Official government documents written and saved in Google Docs are no longer covered by Ontario’s freedom of information laws, the province has decreed, as its transparency clampdown continues to roll out. #Onpoli globalnews.ca/news/1184611...globalnews.caPremier’s office files saved in Google Docs excluded from Ontario transparency requests | Globalnews.caGlobal News was engaged in an appeal to get access to some nine documents created by staff in Ontario Premier Doug Ford's office and stored in Google's cloud service. 178658
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 07/05/2026www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/business/cen...thecanadianpressnews.caCenovus CEO says oilsands dialogue 'myopically focused on the climate agenda'CALGARY - The chief executive at Cenovus Energy Inc. says the national dialogue around future oilsands development has been "myopically focused on the climate agenda" a day after a coalition 310
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 06/05/2026Didn't both Ontario and Canada pitch in a bunch of money to make this happen? Was that all future tax avoidance, or did we actually provide some real money, and if so, can we get it back? 010
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaPaul Eric @pauleric70.bsky.social · 06/05/2026The idea that EV batteries age poorly is a misconception – and a new report has found they often outlive the cars themselves www.newscientist.com/article/mg27...newscientist.comWhy your opinion of used electric vehicles is probably wrongThe idea that EV batteries age poorly is a misconception – and a new report has found they often outlive the cars themselves 2118666
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaTheTrillium.ca @thetrillium.bsky.social · 30/04/2026Two legal battles over Greenbelt records ‘likely’ quashed by PCs’ FOI restrictionsdlvr.itTwo legal battles over Greenbelt records ‘likely’ quashed by PCs’ FOI restrictionsThe Ford government’s retroactive FOI changes are expected to prevent the release of highly protected Greenbelt scandal-related documents, including records of the premier’s calls 33016
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 28/04/2026Damned well said and only slightly too wordy for a t-shirt! 020
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaJustin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 27/04/2026I doubt Exxon and the other oil companies like the little people talking like this but it is the industry business model in action. Sell the old wells to people like this who have no intention of ever paying to plug or clean up the wells. “We’re not financially able to plug a bunch of oil wells."powering-the-planet.ghost.ioBig Oil is Sticking Us with the BillState regulators are allowing the oil industry to walk away from its cleanup responsibilities. 12417
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaEd Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 23/04/2026The world is warming. Every country is warming. www.ShowYourStripes.info #ShowYourStripes 7278173
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaTravis @someforeignfield.bsky.social · 02/03/2026Article confirming what has been well known in the humanitarian aid sector for a while, namely that Israel military personnel, organized crime, and intelligence actors were responsible for a massive and highly lucrative smuggling ring into Gaza.i24news.tvExclusive: Senior Shin Bet official caught smuggling goods into Gaza Strip - i24NEWSInvestigators suspect coordination between Israeli criminals and foreign operatives at the American base, aiming to profit from smuggling operations 07932
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Like nearly every adult who ever saw changes in the behaviour of young people, Minister of Education Paul Calandra just thinks kids are suddenly lazy these days. 120
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaSimon Evans @drsimevans.carbonbrief.org · 20/04/2026THREAD: The IEA global energy review 2026 * CO2 record high, but growth nearly ground to halt * Clean energy shaved 3bn tonnes off CO2 * Fossil-fuel power pushed into reverse * Age of Electricity "confirmed" * "Extraordinary" solar growth * Batteries up 40% * EVs up 20% 1/10 141189537
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaSue Gowans @sueinnovates.bsky.social · 16/04/2026We know about this because a Global News FOI revealed that 157 inmates had been mistakenly released. Ford's solution to this is, primarily, to exempt himself, his cabinet, their political staff from FOI requests so no other "problems" emerge to be furious about. Pls call Ford ☎️: 416 325-1941 03924
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaRob @robertferry.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Almost verbatim 🤔 >Cleaning up electricity generation is pushing up the price of electricity, an issue that has taken on new urgency as oil and gas prices continue to climb, raising fears that high energy costs could persist. Maybe BBC should interview some people who are not paid to confuse them. 1113
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaUrban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 13/04/2026“The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini’s Law, states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.” Useful article. As we look at solutions though, our priority is demanding upstream leadership. #UrbanTruthmodelthinkers.comBullshit Asymmetry Principle“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.” - George Bernard Shaw. Shaw’s warning seems more pertinent than ever, as we face growing amounts of misinform... 313952
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaDr. Crystal A. Kolden @pyrogeog.bsky.social · 09/04/2026As a fire scientist, I am devastated for my many good friends and colleagues who will be affected by the mass closure of so many research stations and offices. Many will leave the agency. USFS has pioneered so much foundational fire science. The consequences of this will be catastrophic. 9339127
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 09/04/2026The bullet-pocked facade of the CDC building in Atlanta serves as a visible reminder to health scientists that if they don't keep their mouths shut about how their employer is harming Americans' health, their employer will simply encourage someone else to shoot them. 020
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 03/04/2026I'll usually take the Canadian judiciary over our reactionary politicians, but this isn't right. I predict a rash of deaths because people with hunting rifles decided to damage property that just happened to be very close to innocent human beings. www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...ctvnews.caManitoba’s top court says jury’s murder verdict was ‘unreasonable’ in rural road shootingA Manitoba man serving a life sentence for the murder of a 20-year-old woman has had his conviction downgraded to manslaughter by the province's highest court in a decision calling the verdict “unreas... 010
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 30/03/2026First day of serious pollinator action in my garden. Honeybees trying to get a headstart on everyone else. 010
Reposted by Tai ViinikkaAndrea Thompson @andreatweather.bsky.social · 25/03/2026Thanks to @drkatemarvel.bsky.social for speaking with me this morning about why she decided to leave NASA, the work she was doing, her concerns about federal science and also what gives her hope. 🧪scientificamerican.comA top climate scientist just resigned from NASA. Here's whyClimate scientist Kate Marvel talked to Scientific American about her decision to leave NASA amid federal government turmoil and funding challenges 3417177
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 23/03/2026Maybe I'm crazy, but it seems like Americans accidentally elected a government hellbent on both doing things that raise the price of fossil fuels and putting arbitrary and capricious monkey-wrenches into all the alternatives to fossil fuels. Bad for almost everyone, so what could be the motivation? 211
Tai Viinikka @eastpole.bsky.social · 18/03/2026Mr. Ford is trying very hard to make this go away, by *retroactively* changing the law that enables freedom-of-information requests that give the public visibility into government dealings. We should not allow this to slip past us. 010