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Jennifer Robson 🇨🇦 @jrobson.bsky.social · 6h
Congratulations to the Cleveland Cliffs/ Stelco execs who bet on reducing capacity in Canada to expand in the U.S.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 6h
"The electrification of road freight is emerging as a structural force that could undermine long-term oil demand across the world." Yeah it is. gift link
bloomberg.com
China Has an 18-Wheel Answer to Soaring Global Diesel Prices
Around a third of trucks sold in China this year will run on electricity, furthering Beijing’s goal of bolstering energy security.
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Kent Fellows @gkfellows.bsky.social · 13h
Worth noting: MacDonald's first attempt a establishing a Canadian Pacific Rail line STARTED in 1873 (when he and other officials were bribed as part the Pacific Scandal). Final construction wasn't completed until 1886. 13 years, not 4. Then, as now, the delays were political and regulatory.
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TW @twesq.bsky.social · 19h
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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Remember on America's Funniest Home videos when once in a while you would see an hilariously overconfident person try something and wind up falling off a roof and into a pool, or bouncing from a trampoline into a tree, or just generally eating shit? This is just like that
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 29/09/2026
For those keeping track, Canada now has *two* journalists with purported links to foreign intelligence agencies
pressprogress.ca
This National Post Columnist Says He Spied for a Foreign Intelligence Agency. Experts Call His Behaviour ‘Unethical’ and ‘Absurd’.
National Post columnist Adam Zivo says he was moonlighting as a foreign intelligence asset at the same time as he worked for the National Post
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 28/09/2026
Great commentary in Nature Energy: "Smart energy must address enshittification risks." I really don't think people are taking these risks seriously enough.
nature.com
Smart energy must address enshittification risks - Nature Energy
Nature Energy - Smart energy must address enshittification risks
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I know there is a hell of a lot going on right now. But not all of it is bad. Some is astonishingly good - like the results of this study from June. Cervical cancer is a terribly cruel thing. This might, at long last, be the beginning of the end of it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC News headline "Young women now have 'close to zero' risk of cervical cancer death after HPV jab"
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George Fraser @frasergeorg.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It will be interesting to see the fortunes of Danielle Smith when she no longer has a scapegoat in Ottawa to blame.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
When you're on the wrong side of an 80-20 issue, it's generally a bad idea to dig in -- and a *really* bad idea to lie about the other side's position on it. And yet. #cdnpoli
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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Jamil Jivani and the Very Masculine™ Jacob Mantle think that acknowledging homosexuality in schools is "a threat" as they spout debunked "gender ideology" bullshit, while calling people traitors. Yeah, the Conservative Party is headed down a really healthy path, guys. Yikes. #canqueer
provincialtimes.ca
ADAMS: Inside the Restore the North event at Liberty Church
Inside a church in his own riding, the fury Jamil Jivani has spent a year channeling finally turned on a constituent who asked the wrong question
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The cost of heating oil hit a record high of $6.02 per gallon on Monday...That represents a 81% increase from this time last year, and it’s 10 cents higher than the previous record, set shortly after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine disrupted the global oil supply."
pressherald.com
Price of heating oil breaks record set in 2022
At $6.02 per gallon, the cost of heating oil is up 81% from this time last year.
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🌬Breeze @cool-summer-breeze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This is the Stolen Neighbors Quilt. Each of the 11,000 squares represents a person taken by ICE in Minnesota.
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
FAFO www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
cbc.ca
CEO who posted about wearing 'Lake America' sweatshirts to Halifax is no longer CEO | CBC News
The Michigan tourist who recently went viral over a Facebook photo where she and three family members appeared to be wearing "Lake America" sweatshirts has parted ways with her employer.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Lord, President Xi just insulted Trump and the USA, right to Trump's face-in the White House. Xi referred, yet again, to the "Thucydides trap". This is an reference to the US being in decline and China replacing it. And Trump sits their making moo eyes like a lovestruck teenager
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Canadian patriotism and anti-Trump sentiment at an all time high, Canada's premier sporting event, you know there's only one choice for the halftime act: an Alabaman country singer who played Kid Rock's MAGA festival, has lyrics praising Robert E Lee, and promoted an anti-trans Bud Light boycott
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
That Germanic font is 100% intentional
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The biggest scandal in the energy transition? Huge amounts of energy lost as rejected heat. Great talk with @mliebreich.bsky.social on Cleaning Up about why we may be measuring the transition all wrong. Plus hydrogen, heat pumps and systems thinking. youtu.be/7xDH8ZqJvqo?...
youtu.be
The Scandal at The Heart of The Energy Transition | Ep275: Jan Rosenow
YouTube video by Cleaning Up Podcast
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 24/09/2026
Poppity-pop, goes the big bubble, poppity-pop, the economy is gonna die.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"Never before has the U.S. economy been so dependent on the build-out of a single industry." Buckle up!
wsj.com
The AI Build-Out Is Becoming the Biggest Economic Bet in U.S. History
Data-center spending is greater than that for canals, railroads and grid combined—creating jobs and stock-market wealth, while boosting inflation and crowding out housing.
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Place your bets! "The AI build-out is on track to become the biggest economic bet in U.S. history, dwarfing the investments made to fund other huge U.S. infrastructure projects such as the railroads, the highway system and the plumbing for the internet."
graph showing private construction spending in the US falling by 10% while data center construction continues to climb.
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Jamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
a year ago the Cillizzas of the world were saying democrats were falling into Trump's savvy political trap by criticizing ICE. Now a Kansas Republican senator facing re-election is sweatily tweeting his concern about ICE.
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
“Reduces fuel efficiency” is euphemism for “more completely and incompletely combusted hydrocarbons plus smog, including CO, NO2, superfine particles, and formaldehyde, that contribute to cancer, asthma, heart attack, stroke, preterm birth, and impaired cognitive development going into your air.”
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/09/2026
i think you can fairly say that the second trump administration is the most racist federal administration since woodrow wilson and honestly i'm not sure that it isn't more racist than wilson's
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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In early September, the organization behind Canada’s push for small modular #nuclear reactors (#SMRs) quietly signalled their demise. www.theenergymix.com/rip-smrs-is-...
theenergymix.com
RIP SMRs: Is It the End of the Line for Small Modular Nuclear Reactors?
In early September, the organization behind Canada's push for small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) quietly signalled their demise, researcher and author Susan O'Donnell writes in analysis for The Ene...
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National Newswatch @nationalnewswatch.com · 23/09/2026
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives can’t wait to buy Trump’s bullshit, @maxfawcett.bsky.social writes www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/23/o... Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
nationalobserver.com
Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives can’t wait to buy Trump’s bullshit
Donald Trump's latest economic threat involves replacing Canada's potash with imports from Belarus. The official opposition decided to blame ... the carbon tax?
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 23/09/2026
“A member of the Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry when the pandemic hit, Sean Ward was discharged for refusing to be vaccinated”
A member of the Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry when the pandemic hit, Sean Ward was discharged for refusing to be vaccinated, they told Global News.
Speaking on the condition they would not be identified, the sources said the former infantry soldier had voiced a wide range of falsehoods about the coronavirus.
One of the sources said that some of the conspiracies he spouted were antisemitic, blaming Jews for COVID-19 - a meme spread by extremists during the pandemic.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
A post that’s so eye-opening because this is exactly what liberals will say is GOP distraction tactics, almost as a parody— and here it really is what Gaetz is saying unironically as his GOP message.
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Black Cloud Six @blackcloudsix.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Holy McFuck does he suck at this. He ain’t gettin’ potash from Lukashenko. It’s almost impossible, yet he thinks this is giving him some sort of leverage over us. It’s almost laughable,
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 22/09/2026
Funny, because the Truckers got three weeks to hang out before police lifted a finger. Interesting.
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Norm Charlatan @normcharlatan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is a thread about an all-day academic conference of early research findings about the effects of Operation Metro Surge. Kind of harrowing to seeing the damage of the federal government’s combination ethnic cleansing/ideological terror campaign laid out like this.
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Ben K. @benjaminkabak.com · 22/09/2026
DEI for a computer program. Amazing.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026
"We were letting actual 8th graders sneak into our wild drug and sex parties at our Silicon Valley AI group house" is the most eyebrow-raising quote among many from that New York Times piece, IMO. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/t...
The house quickly became a hub for events. Eric Zhu, 19, a tech entrepreneur, said he used to sneak into parties there when he was about 13. No one checked anyone’s age, he said, and “it was pretty crazy.”
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Article 25 (3)(e) of the statute establishing the International Criminal Court criminalizes incitement to genocide. If someone can walk into the United Nations and say this, they’re daring the court to act.
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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“We don’t need anything that Canada has.” - Donald J. Trump, super-genius, deal-maker, June 10, 2026
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
God this is going so well. I haven’t laughed this hard in so long!
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🚨 This editorial is so deeply wrong & harmful hard to believe it was published. Calling COVID vaccine a crime against humanity? Calling for stoppage of all mRNA vaccines? ZERO evidence vaccines, which have an impressive safety profile, "killed thousands". This kind of noise will kill people❗
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
There is no rake these guys won't step on.
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Kevin J. Kircher @kevinjkircher.com · 21/09/2026
To this dummy non-lawyer/regulator, it seems like a pretty good electricity affordability policy is to fund the absolute pants off of state utility regulators so they can hire tons of great staff and hold utilities accountable for lowering costs and improving quality of service. Am I wrong?
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 21/09/2026
I think it's ill-advised and anti-democratic to introduce an omnibus bill, cite a crisis, and rush major changes to labour and environmental law. It's going to provoke aggressive resistance and risks, ironically, slowing down the projects the government is so keen on. It's going to be a huge mess.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
new @albertasvoice.ca website just dropped. Check it out! whatcouldweget.ca
whatcouldweget.ca
What Could We Get for $134 Million?
What could Alberta get for $134.3 million instead of a referendum?
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Setting aside the fact that Belarus wouldn’t come close to having enough potash available for export to replace Canadian imports, imagine thinking relying on **Belarus** to grow your country’s food supply was a viable option! 🤦🏼‍♂️
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.
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Jordan Carlson @jordantcarlson.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Loosening regulations in the name of speed is not how you speed up projects. Demanding that government, corporations, and project proponents have the appropriate staff to do their mandated jobs properly is how you speed up projects while ensuring safety. This is a bad decision.
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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 21/09/2026
Trump is getting stupider and more malicious. Canada and the world are caught in a vortex of idiocy. While we decouple from the Yankees, the dynamic will get worse, but undoing American hegemony is necessary. I explore the stupid in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
theguardian.com
Canada is seeking new global neighbours – no wonder, as Trump rolls out stupidities at scale | David Moscrop
As the White House doles out threats and insults, it would be easy to hold out for better times. Mark Carney is right to court the EU instead, says Canadian columnist David Moscrop
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Blake Shaffer 🇨🇦 @blakeshaffer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Just to be clear, the Trump admin is placing tariffs on Canada in the name of “national security” but is willing to rely on *Belarus* to grow enough food for its people. Americans, are you cool with this??
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Andrew potter @jandrewpotter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
The vassalization of the USA by Russia is a clear and present danger to Canada and to NATO. America is a growing security threat to the West.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
If the Alberta NDP had any jam they'd go after this *hard* and call out the premier's ongoing campaign to turn Albertans into victims and whiners. That's not the Alberta of Lougheed, Notley...not even Klein. Instead, they'll probably talk about how these grievances are "legitimate". #abpoli
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Jonny Wakefield @jonnywakefield.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
I’m sure getting potash from a dictatorship adjacent to a warzone on the other side of an ocean will be easier than getting it from … Saskatchewan
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Gerald Butts @gmbutts.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is not subtle.
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