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Senator Paula Simons on the Oct. 19 Alberta referendum: "‘We can’t let the anti-immigrant, anti-migrant rhetoric of the toxic Trump regime colonize our imaginations and trick us into thinking that Alberta has an immigration problem when it doesn’t." #ABPoli thetyee.ca/Opinion/2026...

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‘Defeat These Questions’: A Senator’s Fiery Rebuke to the UCP Referendum | The Tyee

Paula Simons stood to urge fellow Albertans to reject ‘a scurrilous smear campaign’ against newcomers.

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Clare Blackwood @clareblackwood.bsky.social · 19h

I dunno man, if you can look me in the eye and say, "Yeah, Brad Bradford's bad, but Olivia Chow isn't any better" then I think we just fundamentally live in different universes and I don't have the energy to argue with that

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John Roscoe @johnroscoe.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

"Should Toronto return to its proud tradition of punching itself right in the dick by electing an execrable tosspot Mayor?" That's what's on the ballot... again. Choose wisely this time!

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Gary Smith @garysmith.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

I was happy to find this incredible quote is real. It can be found in section XII of Huxley's 1958 non-fiction book of essays called "Brave New World Revisited", readable in full at www.huxley.net/bnw-revisited/

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

We are conceding the very possibility of democratic governance to allow a corporation to determine the moral rights of a machine. surely moral concern for actual humans and how we relate is better preserved democratically than it is by a corporation.

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Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The proposition of sentience or intelligence is part of the AI Industry’s agnotology gambit. Just as Big Tobacco funded red herring research to flood public discourse with doubt, so this industry poses inane talking points as existential questions and even funds research into them.

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PMinTO @pmi73.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

And if they’ve lived most of their life in a house, they don’t want to move to a tiny box in the sky. A missing middle that is for this demographic (middle income) could go a long ways to freeing up these houses. But those houses are still too expensive. Not sure how that gets fixed.

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PMinTO @pmi73.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Not only about too lucrative; there aren’t enough reasonable sized but smaller places to move to that are still close to amenities. As folks age they need to be able to live in places where a car isn’t a necessity.

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How-Sen Chong @how-sen.com · 09/10/2026

Korea has announced they will be investing almost 3/4 of a *trillion* dollars to reach carbon neutrality. Last week, both Germany and France announced they would be phasing out fossil fuels by 2045 and 2050, respectively.

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Korea commits $745 billion for carbon neutrality, sustainable growth

The country's K-GX initiative includes massive public investment for expanding renewable power, decarbonizing industry and encouraging EV adoption.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s hard enough for cities in Canada to do smarter things given how often bad city leaders hurt their own cities. But it’s extra infuriating watching awful provincial premiers sabotaging cities by ripping out good things they FINALLY managed to achieve. Premiers should not have that power, period.

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Francesca Bouaoun @francescabouaoun.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

📍 The Bentway | Canada's Longest Friendsgiving Table Walking back via the library, hear music, wander towards the Bentway, have a free three-course meal with the neighbourhood. #Toronto

A very long communal dinner table with set for a thanksgiving meal underneath an elevated highway. The seats and full and the table is packed with food.

A long outdoor table underneath an elevated highway, full of dishes and decorated for thanksgiving with gourds, apples, and leaves. The decor is mostly orange and courtesy of King's Hawaiian.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk…” One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen any politician do to any city.

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Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News

Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.

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Ontario Clean Air Alliance @oncleanair.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🇨🇦 A Canadian company just installed 76 offshore wind turbines in Poland, enough to power 1.5M+ homes once operational. Meanwhile, Ontario still bans offshore wind in the Great Lakes. We have the wind AND the expertise. Let's use them! 🌬️ shrlnk.ca/s/HLDrBFut

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Once all the bike lanes are gone, and congestion hasn't improved, we will look back on this as a foolish act of self-sabotage by a government more interested in its own personal vendettas than in making Ontarians' lives better and more affordable.

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Mike Schreiner @mikeschreiner.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Tuesday will be a sad day for Ontario. Ford's government is taking us backwards, spending millions taking away bike lanes in Toronto when people across Ontario desperately need money for hospitals, housing, schools and infrastructure.

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 08/10/2026

V v good new @earthjustice.org report on the genuinely nutty numbers behind the data centre fossil fuel boom in the US This new update shows emissions from off-grid gas plants for data centres are WAY worse than previously estimated earthjustice.org/feature/data...

Climate & Public Health
▪ Massive scale and impact: The scale of both total
and individual BYOP proposals is massive. As of
August 2026, there are nine proposed gas BYOP
projects that are 4.5 GW or larger. If all are built,
nine of the top 10 largest power plants in the U.S.
would be data center gas BYOP.
Altogether, the current 177 GW of gas proposals
would emit over 400 million metric tons of carbon
dioxide equivalent ( MTCO 2e) annually, increasing
the U.S. power sector’s total emissions by 23% .
Ozone and particulate matter pollution from
these projects could cause an estimated $5 –10B
in monetized health damages each year. 1
▪ Majority gas: Building on prior reports, we
estimate that for current BYOP proposals,
approximately 80% of energy generation will
come from gas.
▪ Inefficient gas technologies with more air
pollution: More than half of disclosed gas BYOP
capacity uses technologies that are less efficient
and more polluting than typical gas power plants.

Majority gas: Building on prior reports, we estimate that for current BYOP proposals, approximately 80% of energy generation will come from gas.

Massive scale and impact: The scale of both total and individual BYOP proposals is massive. As of August 2026, there are nine proposed gas BYOP projects that are 4.5 GW or larger. If all are built, nine of the top 10 largest power plants in the U.S. would be data center gas BYOP.

Altogether, the current 177 GW of gas proposals would emit over 400 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent (mtCO2e) annually, increasing the U.S. power sector’s total emissions by 23%. Ozone and particulate matter pollution from these projects could cause an estimated $5–10B in monetized health damages each year.

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Spacing @spacing.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

"Council should make beautiful, resilient parks central to Toronto’s identity and to residents’ daily lives." Natalie Brown introduces the Park People 2026 parks platform, based on input from 100s of Torontonians. spacing.ca/toronto/2026...

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Election 2026: For a joyful, resilient and connected Toronto, let’s start at the park - Spacing Toronto

Is there somewhere to sit in your local park? Do people linger, or hurry through? Is there a safe, shaded way to get there? Do neighbours who disagree about most everything still nod hello by the spla...

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Stephen Thomas @stephenjwt.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

I often say that the reasons why Canada hasn’t done more in the energy transition are not issues of technology, or cost, or supply chains. It is that Canada is not (yet) even trying to actually transition. We’ve got so much work to do.

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Bryn Davidson - Lanefab @lanefab.com · 07/10/2026

California makes it official. Balcony solar is now legal.

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PMinTO @pmi73.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

I’m shocked! Shocked I tell you!

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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 06/10/2026

This is a good illustration of how so much of AI theft isn't indirect (ie, data sucked into a model to train the chatbot) - it's actually **direct** copying, but *enabled* by GenAI. Of course it is: chatbots absolutely suck at creating good, new stuff.

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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cleveland Cliffs’s CEO continuing to reveal himself as a cartoon villain is, while horrible for his Canadian employees and customers, a service to anyone preaching greater scrutiny of Americans who buy our assets. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

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Stelco’s exit from galvanized steel leaves big Canadian buyer baffled and in the lurch

Cascadia Metals recently invested $30-million in a plant expansion that was specifically set up to buy from the domestic supplier

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Bruce Arthur @brucearthur.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Love this. Boozary is a genuine hero.

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Count Melancholia @lillyh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Is the company that makes "Claude" going to pay for all these rescue missions? How does one establish culpability in these cases?

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Abilu Tangwa. @abilutangwa.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Arrogance is believing we can endlessly take without giving back. Arrogance is thinking technological cleverness will always save us from ecological collapse. Arrogance is assuming nature is a foe to be battled,rather than the very system that gives us life.

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 05/10/2026

ICYMI: As the feds fast-track infrastructure projects, including a pipeline, @hadrianmk.bsky.social reminds us that the economy and environment are not separate: "When we destroy the environment, it comes back to bite us economically." #cdnpoli @policyalternatives.ca www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 04/10/2026

I really don't get it. Trump polls at like single digits across the world but then every country is like, but our right wing populist is different!

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PMinTO @pmi73.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Afraid not. Well, didn’t see picture so can’t say if AI or not but the endorsement seems to be true. Everything is depressing these days

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Christoph Fischer Photography @beautysurroundsyou.com · 04/10/2026

Greetings from beautiful New Zealand! I have been here for 8 days now, and it is spectacular! I enjoyed a wonderful morning at mirror lakes in the Milford Sound area. #photography #nature #landscapephotography

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Toronto Environmental Alliance @toenviro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Find out where Toronto candidates stand on key environmental issues like AI Data Centres, climate change, flood resilience, tree planting, single-use garbage, and greening buildings. Click on our newly launched map! loom.ly/fg6TTj8 #topoli

Map of the City of Toronto with each ward outlined. Text reads: TEA's Greener City Champion Pledge

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Stefan Hostetter @steho.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My kingdom for a parks department that cared about the experience of those using the park* *this comment brought to you by the very loud leaf blower blowing 8 leaves around directly beside the busiest time for the kids playground*

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PMinTO @pmi73.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Leaf blowers are the tools of Satan

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PMinTO @pmi73.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Hahaha - was just there. So true. But I did get a large basket of glorious local organic produce! Farmers’ markets for the grocery win.

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Save Standard Time @savestandard.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Permanent DST would not give us “an extra hour of daylight”. It would deprive essential morning sunlight from millions of Americans, for months on end. 👉 Tell the president and Congress to restore permanent Standard Time instead, for balanced light all year!

Photos from around the country in each time zone showing winter mornings on Standard Time (sunlit) versus Daylight Saving Time (dark).

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FF-Suze @suze-bsky.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Meanwhile in #Ontario Mehra pointed to data from the OHC which showed that operating rooms and MRI machines are going unused on evenings and weekends at publicly funded facilities across the province due to lack of funding.

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Stefan Hostetter @steho.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The interview is out! @parismarx.com's Hyperscale is out Oct 20th, and you can catch them explaining what Hyperscale means and why these data centres have become the flashpoint for AI resistance below or anywhere you catch your podcasts. open.spotify.com/episode/0IAx...

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The Sudden Rise of the Data Centre w/ Paris Marx (1038)

Green Majority Radio · Episode

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Eric "Halloween Appreciator" Wickham @ericwickham.ca · 02/10/2026

Thank you to everyone who spoke to me for this piece, including the always wonderful @parismarx.com -- who seems to know a thing or two about data centres. If you want to hear more from Paris check out this interview with @steho.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/steh...

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PMinTO @pmi73.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

So incumbents can’t run on their records anymore? Interesting

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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Imagine politicians announcing billions for better public transit to save people money and reduce fossil fuel pollution. Imagine politicians announcing billions for solar, wind, batteries, heat pumps, and transmission lines to connect it all. #bcpoli #cdnpoli

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Wilderness Committee @wildernews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

“The extinction of the southern resident orcas could now have a name and a price tag: “Pacific Link” for $44 billion of mostly taxpayer money,” said Conservation and Policy Campaigner Lucero Gonzalez. #cdnpoli www.wildernesscommittee.org/news/canadas...

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Canada’s most expensive extinction attempt now has a name: “Pacific Link Pipeline”

Wilderness Committee condemns “project of national interest” designation for new west coast oil pipelineVANCOUVER / UNCEDED xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh AND səlilwətaɬ TERRITORIES — With no remorse in h...

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PMinTO @pmi73.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

lol - I like the idea of using the metal in the pipeline for something more useful later. :)

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Stephen Thomas @stephenjwt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Let's check in on those "Asian Markets" that today's oil export pipeline are looking to serve if/when it's built: 👀 "China’s oil demand is expected to fall by 600,000 barrels a day, or 8.9%, in 2026, marking a third straight annual decline" #cdnpoli #energysky energynow.ca/2026/09/chin...

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PMinTO @pmi73.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah, we are not future proofing Canada. I really thought Carney was smarter than this. (I mean of course he is so why are we going down this path again?)

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Stefan Hostetter @steho.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The fight against AI starts with data centres but getting the full picture of the harms they create for the communities around them can be tough. So tune into Green Majority at 11am tomorrow on CIUT 89.5FM to catch my interview with @parismarx.com on their new book Hyperscale hyperscalebook.com

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Hyperscale by Paris Marx

An eye-opening account of how the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point. A new book by Paris Marx.

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Bill Tubbs @billtubbs.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Copenhagen during rush hour. If they were in cars it would be grid lock.

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Time for this classic again.

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