Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit 352122785
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...youtu.beMUSK | Official Trailer HDYouTube video by Elevation Pictures 6352213
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 26/09/2026Over the ten years, Premier Smith claims Alberta faced a hostile federal government, oil and gas production doubled, and Ottawa poured tens of billions into energy infrastructure. The tolerance of her big lie is almost as remarkable as the lie itself. ow.ly/Fl7950ZRRaq 6158105
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Jenny Kwan @jennykwan.bsky.social · 25/09/20261/A Parl Secretary should be able to vote according to their conscience. Sean Casey supported my C-233, which sought to close a loophole in Canada’s arms export controls. If MPs face consequences for exercising independent judgment, what does a “free vote” actually mean? www.cbc.ca/lite/story/9...cbc.caLiberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls 25825
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre. 271467746
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 24/09/2026I'm a proud member of the Writers Union of Canada & incredibly grateful for their work to challenge AI. I'm a bit iffy on petitions in general because most aren't even accepted in the House & just mine your data. But here is an official Parliamentary petition re: regulating AI :ourcommons.caPetition e-7774 - Petitions 14714
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦dr. rich traditions, JD @helldude.bsky.social · 24/09/2026we have control mechanisms for this. it's called The Law. these guys should be held personally liable for these harms. the suicides, the thefts, the intrusions into computer systems. they should be sued and prosecuted as appropriate. problem immediately solved 12971071692
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦🔫Scott Martin🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 25/09/2026Carney: The rules-based international order is crumbling. International Criminal Court: As a participating member you are required by the rules to arrest those with a warrant if they pass through your territory. Carney: Fuck you. 9540157
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 24/09/2026A new PBO report confirms adding new tax brackets for the wealthiest 0.3% would raise over $1 billion a year. Instead of selling off Canada’s strategic public assets like airports, we should be asking those who have benefited most from our society to contribute their fair share. 821862
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦NTPC - Powering the North @poweringnwt.ca · 24/09/2026When wildfire comes close to home How NTPC crews kept the power system operating through a dangerous wildfire – and what the experience is teaching us about preparing for the next emergency. Read Brendan's story: pnwt.ca/wildfires26 #PoweringtheNorth #NWT #FortSimpson 021
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 21/09/2026This aired just the once in 1998 on the live SNL show for which McKay wrote it. It was effectively banned as it never aired again. I wonder why. MEDIA-OPOLY 256143706790
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Ravens' Chorus Kenojuak Ashevak ~ Inuk 2002 025278
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18/09/2026There's a reason previous Liberal governments looked at privatizing airports and didn't go through with it. Private investors don't want a stake in our public assets to make them better. They’re in it to make as much money as possible for themselves - while workers and passengers pay the price. 12495161
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Mark Carney and the Liberals have made their choice. They've chosen the oil industry over everything else. And he and the rest of the Liberals don't want to talk about the consequences of that choice, because when the consequences are made clear, the choice becomes a crime against humanity. 26620
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Mark Carney has decided humanity's future is not as important as the oil industry's current profits. It's as simple as that. He's not a complete fool, he knows what's coming if we don't decarbonize as quickly as possible, and he's rejected that path in favour of a decade of high oil revenues. 817177
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 04/09/2026This kind of report should be accompanied by a press conference—not with some low-level bureaucrat, but with the prime minister. Flanked by all of his ministers. In prime time, with technical briefings. This report says we're facing unimaginable disaster, yet we didn't even get a briefing. 13347207
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Gord Johns @gordjohns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Danielle Smith’s Bill 11 opens the door to U.S.-style two-tier health care, letting those who can pay jump the queue while everyone else waits. The Federal Liberal Government has the power to defend public health care and enforce the Canada Health Act. New Democrats are calling on them to act.ndp.caNew Democrats urge federal government to stand up against U.S. style two-tier healthNew Democrats urge federal government to stand up against U.S. style two-tier health 314450
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 02/09/2026Holy shit.motherjones.comMamdani issues AI moratorium in NYC schoolsKids "need to wrestle with tough problems on their own,” New York's mayor said Wednesday. 17515107
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Alex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Here is my letter to the MacDonald Laurier Institute on the subject of their appalling research. Use as you will. I recommend sending something of your own, though. And if you know anyone associated with MLI - and Board directors, say - send it to them, too.docs.google.comAlex Usher email to Brian Lee Crowley(text of an email sent to Brian Lee Crowley of the MacDonald Laurier Institute on September 2, 2026) Dear Brian, I am writing to you and your board with respect to the publication “The equity excelle... 32311121
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I’m not joking, Canada should expel American diplomats over this 201789240
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Fin de l'été Philip Surrey 1974 115235
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Badlands Airstream Taralee Guild 2023 112430
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 18/08/202613/ Aside from moral repugnance, why else should we be concerned about Donald Trump Jr. swanning in & out of the #Yukon with bearskins tucked under his arm? Because "The Yukon remains the only jurisdiction in 🇨🇦 Canada that allows out-of-country political donations". 111
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 16/08/20261/ We've lost a beloved member of the NDP family. Dick Proctor was an MP, a provincial and federal secretary, and worked with many great New Democrats, from Ed Broadbent and Jack Layton to Roy Romanow and Allan Blakeney. 210810
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Canadian Hammer 🇨🇦 🔨 @canadianhammer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026"Welcome to PepsiCo's Banff National Park, home of the Chic Fil-A Springs Hotel, sponsored by Anthropic. To ensure your safety, please scan all of your biometrics for our data partner, Palantir, before proceeding. That will be $600. Elbows up!" canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...canadiandimension.comCarney’s CEO summit could put public assets on the tableThis September, a who’s who of global finance will descend on a luxury hotel in downtown Toronto for an invitation-only event, the first-ever Canada Investment Summit. As Bianca Mugyenyi writes, the s... 0139
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 28/07/2026There are a few big fat Canadian political eye-openers in just these three paragraphs... 44318
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Smith’s illegal push toward private, for-profit health care threatens universal medicare and appeasing her doesn’t prevent the separatist threat. As I told the Toronto Star: protecting public health care is key to showing Canada works for Albertans. www.thestar.com www.thestar.com/politics/fed...thestar.comPrivate billing law for doctors threatens universal health care, critics chargeAlberta's Health Statutes Amendment Act could create a "dual-practice" framework allowing physicians to provide publicly insured care and privately paid services. 610843
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 25/07/20264/ ...comes this news - "The paper's former publisher said the loss reflects the cost of printing and the rise of tech competitors. The move also mirrors an issue across the country as local newsrooms are either closing or downsizing": www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caYellowknifer retires Friday print edition, moves to publishing once a week | CBC NewsAn announcement in the Wednesday edition of the newspaper detailed how the 54 year-old publication will reduce its print schedule from two weekly issues down to one, published on Wednesdays only. 122
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Yukon Twitcher @yukonbirder.bsky.social · 25/07/20261/ Question: What do we risk losing when we lose our #Community #Newspapers & foreign interests take over much of what is left (while abusing Canadian taxpayers' money)? Answer: 🇨🇦 #Democracy (among other things). 183
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Red Sox @redsox.com · 17/07/2026Shut 'em out for 10 straight! 🗒️: bit.ly/44EIOa7 511810
Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Carney’s hometown of Fort Smith, Northwest Territories is currently hosting wildfire evacuees from Wrigley (Pedzéh Kı̨́). Yellowknife - where I live - is currently hosting wildfire evacuees from Fort Simpson (Łíídlı Kųę). Russia is not the threat most people here are worried about. 0102
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/06/2026They’re going to call you a socialist regardless. So be a socialist. 973129726
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 25/06/2026If you’ve been following the Canadian ‘new oil sands pipeline in exchange for carbon capture’ Grand Bargain drama, this chart from a new @propublica.org report on how the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself is a powerful reality check 15427
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 17/06/2026Prime Minister Carney says the war in Iran was "worth it". I want to know who he thinks it was worth it for. 59898302
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 12/06/2026Point on Green Lake, Manitoba Robert Genn 2005 08716
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 05/06/2026This story deserves much more prominence. Alberta's oilsands corporations were never serious about carbon capture. Alberta’s crown jewel of carbon capture quietly reduces its targets — by 77%: thenarwhal.ca/oilsands-pat...thenarwhal.caOilsands Alliance drops Alberta carbon capture target by 77% | The NarwhalThe Alberta carbon capture project from the Oilsands Alliance (Pathways Alliance) has revised down its plan to capture 68 megatonnes of emissions each year 26951
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 04/06/2026The Liberals' AI strategy proposes massive expansion of AI with no concern for the consequences it will have on workers, youth, privacy, and our water and energy supply. The NDP is calling for a humans-first AI strategy that protects Canadian jobs, data and natural resources. 57015
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 28/05/2026When one of the Liberals’ biggest climate champions feels he must leave the Liberal caucus in order to fight climate change, it says everything you need to know about the government’s sense of urgency on this file. There is none. PM Carney has abandoned climate action at our collective expense. 12365135
Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 27/05/2026The Canadian Government just blew $2.5 BILLION on this exercise in futility. I thought bankers were supposed to be good money managers. 000
Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I worked in a small town hardware store for many years in the 90s. Power tools have always been locked up. This dude has never been in a hardware store. 001
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Marco Festa-Bianchet 🇨🇦 @marcofesta.bsky.social · 14/05/2026To oppose the wholesale dismantling of environmental regulations in Canada, please go to this page www.canada.ca/en/one-canad.... ignore the very leading 'proposed' questions and submit your comments. CC your MP. If you need inspiration here is what I just sent. 07252
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Yellowknife Community Foundation @ykcf.bsky.social · 05/05/2026We're hiring an Executive Director! Apply by May 29 2026 at 5 pm MT. www.ykcf.ca/join-our-team/ 022
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 01/05/2026Where Night Falls First Mike Fantuz 2024 18518
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Jordan Roberts @corruptario.bsky.social · 24/04/2026In Canada, we just handed all the government data over to Palantir. 43620
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Don Davies @donvdavies.bsky.social · 20/04/2026New Democrats believe in supporting big nation-building projects, like an East-West clean electricity grid, which would create hundreds of thousands of jobs, reduce pollution, promote energy security and lower energy bills. 22311
Reposted by Mark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Killarney Pines at Sunset Philip Sybal 2003 116032