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Adrienne Tanner
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Freelance writer and columnist at Canada's National Observer, dog person, art lover, book fan
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Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.
November 11, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…
November 9, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Interesting
November 10, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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The end is drawing near. The departure of two Conservative MPs this week doesn't bode well for Poilievre's chances of surviving a January leadership review. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/07/o...
Pierre Poilievre's goose is cooked
The departure of two Conservative MPs this week doesn't bode well for Poilievre's chances of surviving a January leadership review
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November 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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Great first-hand account of the ostrich cull and its implications for public trust in Canadian institutions. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/07/a...
The ostriches are dead. What about public trust?
The government-ordered ostrich cull has revealed how social media can help a family transform their tragedy into spectacle. And their story has offered a window into the ways trust breaks down between...
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November 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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“In his final budget before facing voters next October, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is presenting a property tax freeze and $50 million more for police, & major cuts to arts, culture, community services & sustainability.”

Brutal austerity for everything else, but $50 million more for over-budget cops.
'I'm proud of this one': Mayor Ken Sim talks budget with $50 million more for police amid property tax freeze | CBC News
In his final budget before facing voters next October, Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is presenting a property tax freeze, and $50 million more for police, balanced by major cuts to arts, culture, community ...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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New York City's CEOs and other billionaire business leaders spent more than $40 million trying to stop Mamdani from becoming the city's next mayor. www.npr.org/2025/11/06/n...
Wall Street reckons with life under Zohran Mamdani
New York City's CEOs and other billionaires spent more than $40 million trying to defeat the mayor-elect. Now they have to live with him.
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November 6, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Alberta Premier Danielle Smith was outfoxed by a former Alberta Deputy Premier last week. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Danielle Smith has half a million reasons to support a united Canada
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has been flirting with the notion of a separatist referendum to prove her fealty to oil and gas and keep her fragile coalition intact. She was outfoxed by a former deput...
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November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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"Canada told the fossil fuel industry greenwashing was illegal, and its response was that having to be honest and transparent would make it too hard to do business. Apparently the threat worked," says Phil Newell of @caadcoalition.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/n...
Carney scraps anti-greenwashing law despite public call for climate truth
Most Canadians want the federal government to do more about climate disinformation, especially during extreme weather, new research shows, even as the Carney government scraps Canada's laws against gr...
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November 5, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Canadian power must help people, not tech bros and crooks. All provinces should follow BC's example and ban power allocation for cryptocurrency mines and set electricity allocation priorities for businesses they believe matter most www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/30/o...
Canadian power must serve people before tech bros and crooks
All provinces should follow BC's example and ban power allocation for cryptocurrency mines and set electricity allocation priorities for businesses they believe matter most
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October 30, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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For the first time in history, renewable energy has overtaken coal as the largest source of electricity generation worldwide. As of the first half of 2025, renewables (including solar, wind, and hydro) accounted for 34.3% of global electricity production, while coal provided 33.1%.
October 29, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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First off, it's a province, not a state

second, and most importantly, the *Ontario ad* didn't "roil" the trade relationship. Trump tore it up, like he did with literally every country on the planet. Wtf is this copy.
October 25, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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The transformation of Montreal continues! This new protected bike lane was installed this summer. Here’s a before/after. I can tell you which one I prefer.
October 23, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Are human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, driving climate change? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn't know, as the province plans to double oil production and build pipelines in virtually every direction. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/n...
Danielle Smith dodges climate science in parliament
Are human activities, such as burning fossil fuels, driving climate change? Alberta Premier Danielle Smith says she doesn't know, as the province plans to double oil production and build pipelines in ...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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It’s not just Conservative politicians who are pushing a new oil pipeline to the West Coast — a sprawling right-wing network of columnists, think tanks and companies are amplifying one another’s messaging. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/23/a...
The pipeline ‘petrobloc’ is pressuring Carney to cave on Northern Gateway revival
It’s not just Conservative politicians who are pushing a new oil pipeline to the West Coast — a sprawling right-wing network of columnists, think tanks and companies are amplifying one another’s messa...
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October 23, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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British Colombians are among the world’s most aggressive extractors of climate-destabilizing fossil fuels, per capita. @bsaxifrage.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Ford threatening lawsuit as General Motors stops EV van production, adding to Ontario's vehicle manufacturing industry woes. @matinsarfraz.bsky.social reports. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/21/n...
Ford threatens to sue GM over Ingersoll plant shutdown
Premier Doug Ford is threatening to sue General Motors for breaking its contract with Ontario after the company announced it will end production of its BrightDrop electric delivery vans at the Ingerso...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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This is an international disaster. They targeted a disabled fishing boat in Colombian territorial waters and killed fishermen.
October 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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Karoline Leavitt on what she expected for today’s demonstrations: “Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, violent criminals.”

Scott Bessent: “Most unhinged in the Democratic Party”

Mike Johnson: “The pro-Hamas wing, the antifa people.”

NYPD: More than 100,000 protesters; zero arrests.
October 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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October 6, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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History repeats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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The bees have discovered Brutalism
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Nature is healing
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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#CCS is not a credible solution.
#CdnPoli #DecarbonizedOil #Lies
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Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the launch of her memoir, former climate minister Catherine McKenna warns consequences are coming for the fossil fuel industry, even as the federal government purs...
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September 24, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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The world’s largest Sitka Spruce tree. Average size children as a comparison. #ThickTrunkTuesday
Large spruce tree trunk, two children can seen just at the base.
September 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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BREAKING NEWS:

Canada recognizes State of Palestine, offers help to build peaceful future with Israel

Prospect of 2-state solution has ‘gravely eroded’ due to Hamas, Israeli actions: PMO #Canada #cdnpoli

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Canada recognizes State of Palestine, offers help to build peaceful future with Israel | CBC News
Canada now officially recognizes the State of Palestine and is doing so with international partners to preserve the prospect of a two-state solution, according to a statement from Prime Minister Mark ...
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September 21, 2025 at 1:10 PM