But it's not just building emission performance standards that are on the chopping block. The same document from the City of Toronto says its 2040 net zero target is put into question. Excerpt from a document from city staff:

Anyway!! It's been a slice! I am excited to be in Toronto, as is my cat after an 18 hour U-Haul ride.

I'm so glad this is the story to wrap up my coverage in the region. I got to hang out with eagles! And talk to people with an incredible depth of knowledge about the area's ecology who’ve spent decades protecting it.

May has won her seat and is now addressing supporters, said she just spoke with Carney.

I'm covering the Green Party tonight, and am in Elizabeth May's riding of Saanich-Gulf Islands. Still early over here – supporters are just starting to funnel in and May is expected to arrive within the hour. @nationalobserver.com

Building an ice road is a dance. Workers take snow off to build it, put it back later in the season to extend it. They keep the road open for as long as possible bc of how important it is to the communities it connects. Outside of the season, goods + people are flown in+out at very high prices. 🧊

Unquestionably, climate change is threatening the future of ice roads. I talked to many who have seen the ice road season change, and they all confirmed that it's getting shorter, later and more unpredictable. Jesse Winter travelled with me for the series, and captured tons of great photos. 🧊

Belated thank you to The McGill Tribune Journalism Conference for having me on its Conscious Climate Coverage panel with @jaelabernstien.bsky.social this past weekend. ☺️ @nationalobserver.com

Beavers dig channels between their dams which @emilyfairfax.bsky.social describes as “little water highways” which makes “it easier for them to get around, move building material, but critically, it's also spreading water out.”

“It's not new news that it's been harder to bring people into the trades,” Noel Baldwin, executive director of the Future Skills Centre told me. Multiple sectors + businesses – from expanding hydro to EV manufacturing – are likely looking to poach from the same pool of skilled workers. 🧵

The students know much of the current work opportunity is outside the Maritimes, where many are from. I kept thinking about how workers leaving the region to find jobs in renewables mirrors a longstanding trend in the region, where workers leave home to work in the oil sands. Graph from CanREA. 🧵

I travelled to PEI to meet some of the ppl gearing up to enter the workforce. Everyone I spoke with was excited + optimistic. This is Shane Mullins, who assured me he was not scared to scale the turbine. Told me he likes “climbing stuff” — his last job was at a gravestone factory, a "morbid job."🧵