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Lindsay McLaren

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University of Calgary professor - political economy of health. Animal lover (except the occasional human)

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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
New paper online first, from Anna Brueckner Johansen & Mette Svendsen - in an ethnography of prioritization decisions they discuss framing the welfare state as an object of care journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Compassion for individual and collective futures: An ethnographic study of prioritization dilemmas in the Danish welfare state | Journal of Critical Public Health
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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
With an editorial by @judegreen.bsky.social on 'The (inevitable) politics of public health research' journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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The (inevitable) politics of public health research | Journal of Critical Public Health
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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
New issue 3(3) published: check out latest research from leading scholars in critical #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Vol. 3 No. 3 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health
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Lindsay McLaren @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Stand for Canmore: Protect Rundleview Greenspace. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/st...
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Stand for Canmore: Protect Rundleview Greenspace
Canmore residents, property owners and visitors: Help Protect Canmore's Rundleview Greenspace and keep this land for the community and wildlife by signing a petition for Town Council opposing approva...
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CoPEH-Canada @copeh-canada.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
NEW site in CALGARY! upper-level undergrad & grad students Build relationships w/ others interested in sustainable futures & learn approaches at nexus of phys &mental health-ecology-equity & society SUST 503 will be offered as a directed study @ucalgary.bsky.social copeh-canada.org/en/key-areas...
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Alberta Community Bat Program/Western Bat Program 🦇 @albertabats.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Official sad news. White-nose syndrome infected bats have been found in our mountain hibernation sites. It's unclear what the mortality rate will look like by the time bats emerge in spring. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Lethal bat disease detected in Alberta's Rocky Mountains for first time | CBC News
White-nose syndrome, a deadly disease that has decimated bat populations across North America in recent years, has been detected in the Rocky Mountains of Alberta for the first time, marking a signifi...
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European Environmental Bureau🍃 @eeb.org · 28/01/2026
It's #ReclaimTheEconomyWeek! Around the world, people are coming together to demand an economy that puts people and planet first – and showing how it's already being done. Sign the petition calling on leaders to redesign our economies to put people and planet at the centre: vist.ly/4p5xr
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Lindsay McLaren @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Reclaim our economies for people and planet. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...
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Rewire our economies for people and planet
For too long, the rules of the global economy have been written by and for the few elites, billionaires and multinationals. Our leaders have measured success through GDP growth. But GDP is nothing mor...
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Lindsay McLaren @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Reclaim our economies for people and planet. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/re...
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Rewire our economies for people and planet
For too long, the rules of the global economy have been written by and for the few elites, billionaires and multinationals. Our leaders have measured success through GDP growth. But GDP is nothing mor...
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wellbeing-economy.bsky.social @wellbeing-economy.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
The first #ReclaimTheEconomyWeek is just three weeks away. Find everything you need to take part at www.reclaimtheeconomy.org Organised in partnership with @Earth4All_
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Earth4All @earth4all.life · 26/01/2026
It's #ReclaimTheEconomyWeek! Around the world, people are coming together to demand an economy that puts people and planet first - and showing how it's already being done. Sign the petition calling on leaders to redesign our economies to put people and planet at the centre: vist.ly/4p5xr
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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
New online 1st publication! Olga Temina, Olga Zvonareva & Klasien Horstman explore biopolitics in late/post-Soviet #publichealth policy docs journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Continuity of biopolitics in late Soviet and post-Soviet Russia: What policy documents can tell us | Journal of Critical Public Health
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Rob Ralston @policyrelevant.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I have a paper on the post-politics of multistakeholder partnerships in a new special issue of @cphjournal.bsky.social on 'narratives, agency and resistance in critical public health' great to be involved in an SI with so many brilliant colleagues and all papers are open access
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Kat Smith @profkatsmith.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
New @cphjournal.bsky.social special issue on decentring health systems out: journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jcph featuring articles exploring how competing narratives, agency & resistance shape health policy & practice. Includes papers examining economic restructuring... 1/4
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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Now out! Special Issue 'Competing Narratives in Decentred Health Systems', guest edited by @profkatsmith.bsky.social, Justin Waring & Mark Bevir, and PACKED with great papers from leading authors applying decentred theory to key issues in #publichealth journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2026) | Journal of Critical Public Health
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Ricardo Acuña @ricacuna.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
A well-being economy reimagines the purpose of our economy and society to place quality of life for everyone and the sustainability of our planet at the centre. Learn more and register for Parkland Institute’s free webinar: ualberta-ca.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Join Ecojustice’s Melissa Gorrie at the Parkland Institute’s webinar “Envisioning a Well-being Economy for Alberta”, to find out. Jan 28 2026, 12pm – 1pm MST Register now: bit.ly/3YGRRV8
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Envisioning a Well-being Economy for Alberta. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
What do we mean by a well-being economy? What solutions does it offer to help us address the interconnected social, political, economic and ecological challenges we face? Are there positive examples w...
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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Our economies are driving inequality and environmental devastation. #ReclaimTheEconomyWeek (26 Jan - 1 Feb) is a moment to unite to demand an economy that puts people and planet first. But what would that look like in practice?
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Lindsay McLaren @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Very important new report from the Parkland Institute: www.parklandinstitute.ca/union_advant... @poliscirish.bsky.social
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Alberta’s Union Advantage: Wages, Equity, and the Power of Collective Bargaining
As the province goes to extremes to bury Alberta’s labour movement, a new analysis shows the “union advantage” is very much alive, delivering tangible gains that go beyond higher wages to reverse ineq...
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CalgaryK @calgaryk.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Snirt has frozen, just stick to that narrow lane. Guess it’s time log a 311 ticket again. #yycbike
2 St SW not cleared. Again. Calgary, Alberta, Canada2 St SW not cleared. Again. Calgary, Alberta, Canada2 St SW not cleared. Again. Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Renee' Martin @sachikoko.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
👉🏽SENIOR ALERT🙏🏾PLEASE RE-POST 🧡Handsome, Sweet 10YO #Senior DLH Orange & White Kitty "RUSTY"🧡 🥠Needs A Calm, Patient 🏡 #FureverHome 🏡 ▶️ www.givemesheltersf.org/adoption/cat... 🙏🏽 #AdoptDontShop #AdoptASeniorCat #SanFrancisco, #CA #BayArea #SpecialNeeds #GiveMeShelterCatRescue #CatsOfBluesky #Cats
Rusty is a handsome 10 year old long haired orange and white Maine coon mix kitty with yellow eyes and long white whiskers. He is being held on someone's shoulder. He is facing and looking at the camera.
Originally rescued from the streets of Fresno, Rusty has weathered a lot, yet his spirit remains soft. He’s a big, sweet, shy fluffer who loves to be near his person. 
He’s not quite a lap cat, but he’s loving in his own quiet way. What he needs most now is patience, kindness, and a calm home where he can finally feel safe again.
Available for adoption in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Rusty is a handsome 10 year old long haired orange and white Maine coon mix kitty with yellow eyes and long white whiskers. He is on a carpeted surface sitting in the sphinx position as someone's hand is under his chin. He is facing and looking at the camera.
Originally rescued from the streets of Fresno, Rusty has weathered a lot, yet his spirit remains soft. He’s a big, sweet, shy fluffer who loves to be near his person. 
Available for adoption in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 05/12/2025
NEW: Hundreds of public servants are being let go at federal agencies that monitor climate risks, @natashabulowski.bsky.social reports
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Cuts at Natural Resources Canada ‘decimate’ wildfire and flood tracking capacity, unions warn
Carney's cuts have hit Natural Resources Canada, causing uproar from public sector unions warning the layoffs will hurt Canada's ability to respond to cliamte change and protect Canadians from wildfir...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 27/11/2025
The AFB is a plain language, action oriented budget geared to build community for each of us. Would that the current federal budget be as good as the Alternative Federal Budget!! @policyalternatives.ca #cdnpoli #Budget2025 rabble.ca/columnists/c...
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Carney’s budget pales in comparison to the Alternative Federal Budget
The Alternative Federal Budget offers a more hopeful and sustainable alternative to what Mark Carney's Liberals offered earlier this month.
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Renee' Martin @sachikoko.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
🆘URGENT🆘SENIOR ALERT🙏🏾PLEASE KEEP SHARING🆘 🙏🏾PLEASE #PLEDGE 2 SAVE MY LIFE 💝Stressed 9YO #Senior Orange #Tabby Kitty GUS💝 💔😿Owner Had Too Many Cats, Overweight W/ Dental Dz 🚨Still Needs #Adoption #Rescue #Foster🚨 ▶️229026 www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb... 🙏🏽 #AdoptDontShop #Queens #NYCACC #CatsOfBluesky
Gus is a 9 year old male orange tabby kitty with yellow eyes. He is laying in his kennel with one front paw tucked under and the other extended. He looking to the right. He is located in Queens, NY 
In the picture in the lower right corner is a head shot of Gus and his housemate 10 year old Compañero. Both orange tabby kitties.
*Is Overweight & At Risk Of Hepatic Lipidosis
*Has Severe Dental Disease, Most Teeth Missing
*Tolerates Attention & Petting From Assessor
*Fearful, Overwhelmed & Stressed In Shelter
*Slow Introductions Make Me Feel Safe
*Needs Time, Space, & Patience To Adjust
*Best In Experienced Adult Only Home
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Lindsay McLaren @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
A Send-up to the 'Old Y' via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025... This is a lovely piece!
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A Send-up to the ‘Old Y’ | The Tyee
The historic building in Calgary’s Beltline was a longtime grassroots hub. Now it awaits its future.
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Renee' Martin @sachikoko.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
🆘URGENT🆘SENIOR ALERT🙏🏾PLEASE RE-POST🆘 🙏🏾PLEASE #PLEDGE 2 SAVE MY LIFE 💝Sweet 9YO #Senior Brown #Tabby Kitty "MARIA"💝 😿💔Owner Unable 2 Care 4, Medical Pending 🚨Needs #Adoption #Rescue #Foster🚨 ▶️238395 www.facebook.com/photo.php?fb... 🙏🏽 #Adopt #AdoptDontShop #Queens #NYCACC #Cat #CatsOfBluesky
Maria is a 9 year old female brown tabby kitty with green eyes, a pronounced muzzle, a black rimmed pink nose and white whiskers. She is sitting crouched in her kennel looking directly at the camera.
She is located in Queens, NYC
What my friends at ACC say about me:
* I'm an independent kitty who likes to do my own thing.
* I'm sensitive and shy. I'll need extra help from you.
* I would do best in a home with only adult humans.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 06/11/2025
Mark Carney's budget will make Trump and Canada’s corporate class happy, but it does little for working people. Martin Lukacs and @desmondcole.bsky.social break down the Liberals' Stephen Harper-esque moves, from public service layoffs to corporate handouts. breachmedia.ca/a-budget-for...
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A budget for tanks, banks, and oil barons ⋆ The Breach
Martin Lukacs and Desmond Cole discuss the Liberal government’s Harper-esque budget
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Lindsay McLaren @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Happy #caturday! Love, Walter and Cole
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 05/11/2025
The federal government’s budget signals an abandonment of previous government’s climate commitments. By @simonenoch.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca #climatecrisis www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Will the feds’ climate climb down placate petro-province premiers? - CCPA
Perhaps lost in yesterday’s federal budget news dominated by job cuts and military spending is the extent to which the federal government is also abandoning the climate commitments of the previous gov...
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Katherine Scott @kjscott.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Budget 2025 does little to contain the cost-of-living crisis or rising rates of poverty. Important programs are targeted for cuts, others to be starved of funds. Is this the route to an inclusive future? #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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The path to prosperity set out in budget 2025 leaves millions behind - CCPA
The millions struggling to pay their rent and put food on the table were looking for relief in budget 2025—and they were disappointed.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 28/10/2025
AFB 2026 is live! Major public cuts are avoidable. Canadians need supports and services based on equality and solidarity. The CCPA’s Alternative Federal Budget offers just that: Building a True Canadian Sovereignty. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 09/10/2025
With grocery giants ripping off Canadians, it’s time for a bold alternative: public grocery stores. Food analyst Aaron Vansintjan explains how a publicly-run grocery option could solve the crisis of skyrocketing food costs. youtu.be/RPuEhQl8Cxo
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Why Canada needs public grocery stores
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 23/10/2025
A new report obtained exclusively by The Breach shows how Canada’s biggest landlords are profiting from racialized displacement—targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods, evicting tenants, and driving up rents. breachmedia.ca/financialize...
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Financialized landlords are targeting Black and Arab neighbourhoods across Canada ⋆ The Breach
New research reveals how Canada’s biggest landlords squeeze racialized neighbourhoods for profit—buying undervalued housing, evicting tenants, and raising rents
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Saima Desai @desaima.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
New from me in @breachmedia.ca: It's easy to see Ford's war on bike lanes as a personal vendetta and an attempt to stir up a culture war. But more than that, it's part of a bigger pattern of Ford serving corporate interests – from real estate firms to Uber.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 01/10/2025
Who stands to benefit from the gutting of Canada Post? The billionaire class. If Mark Carney were really serious about nation-building, Dru OJa Jay writes how the post office could become an engine for green energy, public banking, and better services. breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...
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Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine ⋆ The Breach
The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service
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Rebecca Graff-McRae @poliscirish.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
@iandoktor.bsky.social an Alberta teacher's open letter on the eve of their first strike in over 20 years. While the Smith govt claim this is about wages, compensation is just the tip of the iceberg after a decade of disrespect & political weaponization. www.parklandinstitute.ca/disrespect
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When Disrespect Becomes Policy: How Government Neglect Sparked Labour Unrest
As Albertans brace for the first teacher strike in nearly 25 years, a new opinion piece on Parkland’s blog gives a frontline perspective on the government’s long war against public education.
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Journal of Critical Public Health @cphjournal.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Latest issue now out! Editorial here from editors @judegreen.bsky.social & @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/jc...
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Public health in peril? Critical scholarship in times of crisis | Journal of Critical Public Health
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 11/07/2025
Mark Carney is slashing public service, supercharging military spending, and ramming through a right-wing agenda—while Liberal voters stay stuck in denial. Martin Lukacs says it’s time to clue in to what’s happening, follow the money—and put up a fight. breachmedia.ca/mark-carneys...
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Snap out of denial—Mark Carney’s rightward-rushing agenda is just getting started ⋆ The Breach
Mark Carney is slashing public service, supercharging military spending, and ramming through a right-wing agenda—while much of the country stays stuck in denial
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 19/06/2025
Carney said he’d stand up to Trump—instead he’s using the President as an excuse for a rapid-fire right-wing agenda. He’s unleashed a pro-corporate, Trump-friendly blitz, embracing Big Oil and militarism, social cuts, and crackdowns on refugees. Our recap of his first 100 days:
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Forget the trade war. Mark Carney’s first 100 days have been a rapid-fire class war
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Climate Justice Victoria @climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Great letter to the editor in the TC today! Does @mark-carney.bsky.social really want to make "Canada a global warming (aka global overheating) superpower, with all the benefits that implies; i.e. a #wildfire superpower"?!? www.timescolonist.com/opinion/lett... #yyj #cdnpoli #climatesky
We can be a superpower in all the wrong ways

Mark Carney wants to make Canada an energy superpower. I assume, since this was announced around a meeting of the big wheels in the oil and gas industry, that he means a fossil fuel energy superpower.

We all need to stay intensely aware this means making Canada a global warming (aka global overheating) superpower, with all the benefits that implies; i.e.a wildfire superpower along with a sea level rise superpower and a flood and extreme storm superpower.

Every pipeline and shipping facility will add to the greenhouse gas load in the atmosphere, so making our overheated climate even more overheated.

This will make the fires we now have on the prairies more intense, much faster moving and much harder to put out.

Does this really have to be the price of our prosperity?

Ian Douglas Brown

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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Whenever you hear conservative politicians preach from the gospel of "fiscal responsibility," remember that one of the biggest drivers of deficits lately are the Bush and Trump tax cuts, which have added nearly $10 trillion to the national debt.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 13/05/2025
The grassroots campaign that took on the Giller forced the prize to drop Scotiabank over its ties to Israel’s biggest weapons maker—and sparked a broader reckoning in CanLit. Josiah Neufeld tells the inside story of the organizers who made it happen. breachmedia.ca/scotiabank-i...
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Inside the campaign that upended CanLit’s ties to Scotiabank and Israeli arms ⋆ The Breach
The grassroots campaign that took on the Giller for its ties to the genocide in Gaza forced a broader reckoning in the Canadian literary community
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Rob Duncan @robduncan.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 28/04/2025
It's been over a 100 years of politicians promising to move from first-past-the-post voting to proportional representation in Canada....don't hold your breath. We are still waiting. Read Hennessy's Index from the latest issue of the Monitor. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Hennessy’s Index: Proportional representation - CCPA
In 2021, Fair Vote Canada marked the 100-year anniversary of politicians promising to move from first-past-the-post voting to proportional representation in Canada. (Dear reader: We are still waiting)...
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 30/04/2025
Our quick take on the election results and what comes next: www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Beyond “elbows up”—Our election post-mortem - CCPA
It’s been an absolutely wild election. Polling predictions were a roller coaster, from a historic Conservative majority, to a Liberal majority, and everything in between. When we got off the roller co...
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Iglika Ivanova @iglikaivanova.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
While ballots are still being counted, Canada's direction is clear. The new government must act quickly to build the resilient, inclusive economy Canadians deserve. My @bcpolicy.bsky.social colleague Alex Hemingway & Simon Peck offer some bold ideas to get started. @1alexhemingway.bsky.social
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Opinion: Want a more resilient Canadian economy? Double down on democratic employee ownership
With the U.S. government’s escalating trade war, we need to rethink and prepare to reorient Canada’s economy
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Lindsay McLaren @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
1 in 2 students will graduate with debt that will take them an average of 10 years to pay off. Saddling young Canadians with debt isn’t sustainable. We need affordable post-secondary education. app.sosha.ai/s/ssWr770p
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Lindsay McLaren @lindsaymclaren.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
In one generation, the cost of undergrad tuition has more than DOUBLED. Meanwhile the cost of living has gone up 69%. What we need is affordable college and university – and instead Canada’s getting tuition fees that are outpacing inflation. app.sosha.ai/s/mLuMXOBl
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