Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦
@jamiemackinnon.bsky.social
Let's reduce economic inequality & build a just, environmentally sustainable society.
Joys include ale, good conversation, travel, literature & theatre.
Interests include design, green engineering & international development.
Joys include ale, good conversation, travel, literature & theatre.
Interests include design, green engineering & international development.
Car repossessions in the US surged to their highest level since 2009 last year.
Corporate bankruptcy filings in the US hit a 15-year high in the first half of 2025.
Meanwhile. . .
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Corporate bankruptcy filings in the US hit a 15-year high in the first half of 2025.
Meanwhile. . .
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Trump Defends 50-Year Mortgage Plan, Calling it ‘Not a Big Deal’
President Donald Trump downplayed criticism of the potential creation of a 50-year mortgage product, saying it would help more Americans afford monthly payments on homes.
www.bloomberg.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Car repossessions in the US surged to their highest level since 2009 last year.
Corporate bankruptcy filings in the US hit a 15-year high in the first half of 2025.
Meanwhile. . .
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Corporate bankruptcy filings in the US hit a 15-year high in the first half of 2025.
Meanwhile. . .
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Buried in the Doug Ford govt's fall budget are changes that would remove parts of Wasaga beach from provincial protection. As I reported in August, those parts are 60% of the world’s longest freshwater beach and the main nesting area for the endangered piping plover: thenarwhal.ca/wasaga-beach...
November 10, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Szalay spoke of the freedom that writing novels affords authors to take creative risks.
“It can take aesthetic risks, formal risks, perhaps even moral risks ... All you need is keep one writer supplied with coffee and a few other essentials ... I mean, it's almost free.”
www.cbc.ca/news/livesto...
“It can take aesthetic risks, formal risks, perhaps even moral risks ... All you need is keep one writer supplied with coffee and a few other essentials ... I mean, it's almost free.”
www.cbc.ca/news/livesto...
Canadian-born author David Szalay awarded 2025 Booker Prize for Flesh | CBC
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Szalay spoke of the freedom that writing novels affords authors to take creative risks.
“It can take aesthetic risks, formal risks, perhaps even moral risks ... All you need is keep one writer supplied with coffee and a few other essentials ... I mean, it's almost free.”
www.cbc.ca/news/livesto...
“It can take aesthetic risks, formal risks, perhaps even moral risks ... All you need is keep one writer supplied with coffee and a few other essentials ... I mean, it's almost free.”
www.cbc.ca/news/livesto...
“Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story."
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
#journalism
#BBC
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
#journalism
#BBC
‘Make no mistake – this was a coup’: the extraordinary downfall of the BBC’s top bosses
The whirlwind that started when Deborah Turness came under attack at a board meeting is part of a wider political story, some say
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:58 PM
“Anyone who thinks this is about a 12-second clip on a Panorama more than a year ago that not a single viewer complained about is not reading the proper story."
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
#journalism
#BBC
www.theguardian.com/media/ng-int...
#journalism
#BBC
"...blasting 200 feet below the water table (twice as deep as any existing one in the #Niagara #Escarpment) & hauling two million tonnes of aggregate annually."
The project risks degrading #water supplies in Shelburne, Alliston, Collingwood & Georgian Bay.
#ONpoli
farmtario.com/news/melanct...
The project risks degrading #water supplies in Shelburne, Alliston, Collingwood & Georgian Bay.
#ONpoli
farmtario.com/news/melanct...
Melancthon faces a new quarry fight over water, environment and farmland risks | Farmtario
A proposed Strada blast quarry in Melancthon, Ont., sparks regional debate over water protection, farmland sustainability, and Ontario’s aggregate policy.
farmtario.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"...blasting 200 feet below the water table (twice as deep as any existing one in the #Niagara #Escarpment) & hauling two million tonnes of aggregate annually."
The project risks degrading #water supplies in Shelburne, Alliston, Collingwood & Georgian Bay.
#ONpoli
farmtario.com/news/melanct...
The project risks degrading #water supplies in Shelburne, Alliston, Collingwood & Georgian Bay.
#ONpoli
farmtario.com/news/melanct...
Scotland is renewing its renewable energy infrastructure.
Scotland's first commercial wind farm will be able to deliver FIVE times more clean power than before after being upgraded . . . enough to power the equivalent of 57,000 homes.
#environment
#energy
#renewable
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scotland's first commercial wind farm will be able to deliver FIVE times more clean power than before after being upgraded . . . enough to power the equivalent of 57,000 homes.
#environment
#energy
#renewable
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scotland's first wind farm 'supercharged' after upgrade
ScottishPower said the new turbines could now generate enough energy to power the equivalent of 57,000 homes.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Scotland is renewing its renewable energy infrastructure.
Scotland's first commercial wind farm will be able to deliver FIVE times more clean power than before after being upgraded . . . enough to power the equivalent of 57,000 homes.
#environment
#energy
#renewable
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Scotland's first commercial wind farm will be able to deliver FIVE times more clean power than before after being upgraded . . . enough to power the equivalent of 57,000 homes.
#environment
#energy
#renewable
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Never seen someone so successful at glomming his way into good things he has zero to do with, while that what he is responsible for could barely get worse
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS! LES CHAMPIONS, C'EST NOUS !
@atleticoottawa.bsky.social
@atleticoottawa.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Never seen someone so successful at glomming his way into good things he has zero to do with, while that what he is responsible for could barely get worse
Reposted by Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦
Tonight was a very bad night.
November 10, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Tonight was a very bad night.
Rodriguez, who was born in Mexico, said "I saw it was snowing, and I was like 'it's gonna be a good day'."
Goalkeeper Nathan Ingham added: "You play us in sand, you play us in snow, you play us on the moon, this team is going to win."
Great #photos.
#football
#Ottawa
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Goalkeeper Nathan Ingham added: "You play us in sand, you play us in snow, you play us on the moon, this team is going to win."
Great #photos.
#football
#Ottawa
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Canadian Premier League final: Atletico Ottawa's 'icicle kick' lights up blizzard-hit final
Atletico Ottawa win the North Star Cup with an
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Rodriguez, who was born in Mexico, said "I saw it was snowing, and I was like 'it's gonna be a good day'."
Goalkeeper Nathan Ingham added: "You play us in sand, you play us in snow, you play us on the moon, this team is going to win."
Great #photos.
#football
#Ottawa
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
Goalkeeper Nathan Ingham added: "You play us in sand, you play us in snow, you play us on the moon, this team is going to win."
Great #photos.
#football
#Ottawa
www.bbc.com/sport/footba...
“In all of my life I have never seen a law enforcement or intelligence organization like the bureau be directed to go after people purely on political, vindictive reasons. In a Western democracy, that’s unheard of. It’s every day in Russia and China.”
#MAGA
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
#MAGA
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
F.B.I. Director Is Said to Have Made a Pledge to Head of MI5, Then Broken It
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
“In all of my life I have never seen a law enforcement or intelligence organization like the bureau be directed to go after people purely on political, vindictive reasons. In a Western democracy, that’s unheard of. It’s every day in Russia and China.”
#MAGA
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
#MAGA
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/w...
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“The government is admitting they just don’t care about #Climate and they have no damn plan,” Ontario Greens Leader @mikeschreiner.bsky.social told @thenarwhal.ca “We knew all along they didn’t have a plan, and emissions are going up." #ClimateCrisis #OnPoli
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
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Doug Ford’s government is abandoning climate targets | The Narwhal
Ontario is moving to repeal aspects of a law that require the government to create a climate plan and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets
thenarwhal.ca
November 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
“The government is admitting they just don’t care about #Climate and they have no damn plan,” Ontario Greens Leader @mikeschreiner.bsky.social told @thenarwhal.ca “We knew all along they didn’t have a plan, and emissions are going up." #ClimateCrisis #OnPoli
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
thenarwhal.ca/ford-repeals...
Oh boy. When #Poilievre -- of all people -- calls a colleague a "liar" . . .
November 10, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Oh boy. When #Poilievre -- of all people -- calls a colleague a "liar" . . .
According to the OECD, the US has (by far) the highest relative #poverty rate of G7 countries.
However. But. On the other hand, "Americans own more superyachts over 40 meters than anyone else in the world, accounting for 23 percent of the global fleet, according to SuperYacht Times."
#yachts
However. But. On the other hand, "Americans own more superyachts over 40 meters than anyone else in the world, accounting for 23 percent of the global fleet, according to SuperYacht Times."
#yachts
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon propaganda "is a vital key to our future prosperity and wellbeing – and to continued strong returns to Exxon’s investors.”
Exxon has a long history of being fully aware of climate science, while denying that science in public.
#environment
#climate
Exxon propaganda "is a vital key to our future prosperity and wellbeing – and to continued strong returns to Exxon’s investors.”
Exxon has a long history of being fully aware of climate science, while denying that science in public.
#environment
#climate
Exxon funded thinktanks to spread climate denial in Latin America, documents reveal
Texas-based fossil fuel company financed Atlas Network in attempt to derail UN-led climate treaty process
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:28 PM
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exxon propaganda "is a vital key to our future prosperity and wellbeing – and to continued strong returns to Exxon’s investors.”
Exxon has a long history of being fully aware of climate science, while denying that science in public.
#environment
#climate
Exxon propaganda "is a vital key to our future prosperity and wellbeing – and to continued strong returns to Exxon’s investors.”
Exxon has a long history of being fully aware of climate science, while denying that science in public.
#environment
#climate
“Since there was memory, our peoples have been connected to the vast lands & waters of which Smith purports to take ownership."
"Thet strip away accountability & minimize Indigenous oversight on decisions that impact our peoples’ health, wellbeing & futures."
#ABpoli
passherald.ca/latest-news/...
"Thet strip away accountability & minimize Indigenous oversight on decisions that impact our peoples’ health, wellbeing & futures."
#ABpoli
passherald.ca/latest-news/...
Bill 7 would update Alberta water law as Treaty chiefs object — Crowsnest Pass Herald | Alberta
Alberta introduced Bill 7 to modernize the Water Act and ease licence transfers. Treaty 6, 7 and 8 chiefs say it threatens treaty rights and northern rivers. Consultations are planned.
passherald.ca
November 9, 2025 at 1:10 PM
“Since there was memory, our peoples have been connected to the vast lands & waters of which Smith purports to take ownership."
"Thet strip away accountability & minimize Indigenous oversight on decisions that impact our peoples’ health, wellbeing & futures."
#ABpoli
passherald.ca/latest-news/...
"Thet strip away accountability & minimize Indigenous oversight on decisions that impact our peoples’ health, wellbeing & futures."
#ABpoli
passherald.ca/latest-news/...
Reposted by Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦
The op-ed warns that disinformation is an escalating global threat during crises--from wildfires to hurricanes--hindering emergency response, endangering lives, and eroding trust. That's why at #COP30 we're pushing #Canada to join the Global Initiative for Information Integrity on Climate Change.
November 9, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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“Here, Russian executioners once slaughtered our youth. Today, Georgian ‘militia’ kick their own people.”
Parents of political prisoners stand in a human chain along the police cordon on Rustaveli Avenue.
Day 346 of uninterrupted protest.
🎥 Netgazeti
Parents of political prisoners stand in a human chain along the police cordon on Rustaveli Avenue.
Day 346 of uninterrupted protest.
🎥 Netgazeti
November 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
“Here, Russian executioners once slaughtered our youth. Today, Georgian ‘militia’ kick their own people.”
Parents of political prisoners stand in a human chain along the police cordon on Rustaveli Avenue.
Day 346 of uninterrupted protest.
🎥 Netgazeti
Parents of political prisoners stand in a human chain along the police cordon on Rustaveli Avenue.
Day 346 of uninterrupted protest.
🎥 Netgazeti
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Water.
2,300 people ill and 7 dead in Walkerton because of Ontario Conservative policies.
And Doug Ford has gutted Conservation Authorities, leading to loss of wetlands.
The proposed "blast quarry" will PERMANENTLY ruin watersheds.
Not "conservative" at all.
#ONpoli
Water.
2,300 people ill and 7 dead in Walkerton because of Ontario Conservative policies.
And Doug Ford has gutted Conservation Authorities, leading to loss of wetlands.
The proposed "blast quarry" will PERMANENTLY ruin watersheds.
Not "conservative" at all.
#ONpoli
November 8, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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Water.
2,300 people ill and 7 dead in Walkerton because of Ontario Conservative policies.
And Doug Ford has gutted Conservation Authorities, leading to loss of wetlands.
The proposed "blast quarry" will PERMANENTLY ruin watersheds.
Not "conservative" at all.
#ONpoli
Water.
2,300 people ill and 7 dead in Walkerton because of Ontario Conservative policies.
And Doug Ford has gutted Conservation Authorities, leading to loss of wetlands.
The proposed "blast quarry" will PERMANENTLY ruin watersheds.
Not "conservative" at all.
#ONpoli
farmtario.com/news/melanct...
A proposed below-the-water-table "blast quarry" in a "highly vulnerable aquifer area," an environmentally sensitive region.
The "headwaters feed major rivers in Southern Ontario, including the Nottawasaga, Grand, Credit, Noisy, Mad, Pine and Boyne Rivers."
#ONpoli
A proposed below-the-water-table "blast quarry" in a "highly vulnerable aquifer area," an environmentally sensitive region.
The "headwaters feed major rivers in Southern Ontario, including the Nottawasaga, Grand, Credit, Noisy, Mad, Pine and Boyne Rivers."
#ONpoli
Melancthon faces a new quarry fight over water, environment and farmland risks | Farmtario
A proposed Strada blast quarry in Melancthon, Ont., sparks regional debate over water protection, farmland sustainability, and Ontario’s aggregate policy.
farmtario.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:26 PM
farmtario.com/news/melanct...
A proposed below-the-water-table "blast quarry" in a "highly vulnerable aquifer area," an environmentally sensitive region.
The "headwaters feed major rivers in Southern Ontario, including the Nottawasaga, Grand, Credit, Noisy, Mad, Pine and Boyne Rivers."
#ONpoli
A proposed below-the-water-table "blast quarry" in a "highly vulnerable aquifer area," an environmentally sensitive region.
The "headwaters feed major rivers in Southern Ontario, including the Nottawasaga, Grand, Credit, Noisy, Mad, Pine and Boyne Rivers."
#ONpoli
Yesterday, in the House of Commons CPC MP Scott Anderson praised "our neighbours to the south embarking on aggressive tax restructuring."
Our "neighbour to the south" has some of the highest debt-servicing costs in the world: ~ one trillion dollars this year.
1/2
#cdnpoli
#debt
#taxes
Our "neighbour to the south" has some of the highest debt-servicing costs in the world: ~ one trillion dollars this year.
1/2
#cdnpoli
#debt
#taxes
November 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Reposted by Jamie MacKinnon🇨🇦
What a streak
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
What a streak
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Premier Ford is sick.
When to seek help
"If an obsession with cars begins to negatively impact your life or the lives of those around you, a mental health professional can help identify the underlying cause and develop healthy coping strategies."
#ONpoli
#mentalhealth
Premier Ford is sick.
When to seek help
"If an obsession with cars begins to negatively impact your life or the lives of those around you, a mental health professional can help identify the underlying cause and develop healthy coping strategies."
#ONpoli
#mentalhealth
Taxpayers on the hook for $9M to study Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel idea | CBC News
Ontario taxpayers are set to spend $9.1 million to learn if or how it is feasible to build a tunnel under Highway 401
www.cbc.ca
November 8, 2025 at 1:16 AM
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Premier Ford is sick.
When to seek help
"If an obsession with cars begins to negatively impact your life or the lives of those around you, a mental health professional can help identify the underlying cause and develop healthy coping strategies."
#ONpoli
#mentalhealth
Premier Ford is sick.
When to seek help
"If an obsession with cars begins to negatively impact your life or the lives of those around you, a mental health professional can help identify the underlying cause and develop healthy coping strategies."
#ONpoli
#mentalhealth