Dr.P. in OTT
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And if I don't see ya, in a long, long while
I'll try to find you
Left of the dial
I'll try to find you
Left of the dial
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Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
🚨BREAKING: GRETA THUNBERG ARRESTED UNDER TERRORISM ACT FOR SUPPORTING 'PALESTINE ACTION PRISONERS'
December 23, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble.
Happening under a Labour Government.
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With a dozen crazy events like this now happening every day
I almost admire the discipline it takes for corp news & white liberals to still, even as we cross 1.5C warming,
pretend we’re not in a real time global emergency.
I almost admire the discipline it takes for corp news & white liberals to still, even as we cross 1.5C warming,
pretend we’re not in a real time global emergency.
December 20, 2025 at 1:06 AM
With a dozen crazy events like this now happening every day
I almost admire the discipline it takes for corp news & white liberals to still, even as we cross 1.5C warming,
pretend we’re not in a real time global emergency.
I almost admire the discipline it takes for corp news & white liberals to still, even as we cross 1.5C warming,
pretend we’re not in a real time global emergency.
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Join us in demanding real action: Call on Premier Eby and Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar to protect old growth and end subsidies to Drax and the forest biomass sector.
👉 Take action by sending a letter to Eby and Parmar:
👉 Take action by sending a letter to Eby and Parmar:
New research proves Drax is sourcing old growth to burn and the BC government is signing off on it
It’s time for us to hold this government accountable and make sure that the promises to protect BC’s old growth forests are actually kept. Let’s flood their inboxes with letters about this new researc...
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November 18, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Join us in demanding real action: Call on Premier Eby and Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar to protect old growth and end subsidies to Drax and the forest biomass sector.
👉 Take action by sending a letter to Eby and Parmar:
👉 Take action by sending a letter to Eby and Parmar:
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Doug Ford's asshole!
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Doug Ford's asshole!
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Ontario is using misleading imagery in the Ring of Fire ads running during the World Series. Kinda like @elaineanselmi.bsky.social using a pic of the Jays in this column about why the govt might want people to think mining in Treaty 9 is farther along than it really is. thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
Don’t be fooled by the Ontario Ring of Fire ads aired during Blue Jays games | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s ads during Blue Jays World Series games suggest mines are up and running in the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, but that’s not true
thenarwhal.ca
November 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Ontario is using misleading imagery in the Ring of Fire ads running during the World Series. Kinda like @elaineanselmi.bsky.social using a pic of the Jays in this column about why the govt might want people to think mining in Treaty 9 is farther along than it really is. thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
12 hours after the mayor posted this, it hasn't received a single "like" yet!
Lansdowne 2.0 is a smart, responsible investment for Ottawa. Let’s keep moving forward. https://marksutcliffe.ca/events/2025/10/lansdowne-more-for-less
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 AM
12 hours after the mayor posted this, it hasn't received a single "like" yet!
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Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause
By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.
www.vanityfair.com
September 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.
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In other news, that would be funded for 10 years with the 1/2 Billion from Lansdowne
August 27, 2025 at 8:45 PM
In other news, that would be funded for 10 years with the 1/2 Billion from Lansdowne
"Air pollution is the greatest external threat to human well-being on the planet... More years of life expectancy are lost for the average person on the planet due to air pollution than to maternal and child malnutrition, than due to alcohol, than due to tobacco." www.cbc.ca/news/science...
August 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"Air pollution is the greatest external threat to human well-being on the planet... More years of life expectancy are lost for the average person on the planet due to air pollution than to maternal and child malnutrition, than due to alcohol, than due to tobacco." www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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Let’s be clear about the wildfires - endless logging and fossil fuel expansion have made this situation worse.
It's shameful to see politicians pushing for the expansion of logging and fossil fuels as we experience and witness this devastation. #wildfires #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's shameful to see politicians pushing for the expansion of logging and fossil fuels as we experience and witness this devastation. #wildfires #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'Massive' wildfire south of Port Alberni, B.C., doubles in size Tuesday | CBC News
The Mount Underwood fire near Port Alberni, B.C., has more than doubled in size in less than a day, growing to almost 1,400 hectares Tuesday, and knocking out power for more than 500 B.C. Hydro customers.
www.cbc.ca
August 13, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Let’s be clear about the wildfires - endless logging and fossil fuel expansion have made this situation worse.
It's shameful to see politicians pushing for the expansion of logging and fossil fuels as we experience and witness this devastation. #wildfires #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
It's shameful to see politicians pushing for the expansion of logging and fossil fuels as we experience and witness this devastation. #wildfires #cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Excellent and utterly piece by @whippletom.bsky.social on the dangerously fading taboo of nuclear weapons
Why taboo on nuclear weapons is fading, 80 years after Hiroshima
www.thetimes.com/article/cbc6...
Why taboo on nuclear weapons is fading, 80 years after Hiroshima
www.thetimes.com/article/cbc6...
Why taboo on nuclear weapons is fading, 80 years after Hiroshima
There is an oddity about nuclear weapons: in isolation, they can be just another tool, in multiple they are worse than we ever thought
www.thetimes.com
August 9, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Excellent and utterly piece by @whippletom.bsky.social on the dangerously fading taboo of nuclear weapons
Why taboo on nuclear weapons is fading, 80 years after Hiroshima
www.thetimes.com/article/cbc6...
Why taboo on nuclear weapons is fading, 80 years after Hiroshima
www.thetimes.com/article/cbc6...
The Lancet: Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Lancet Countdown on health and plastics
Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary
health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible
for health-related economic losse...
www.thelancet.com
August 4, 2025 at 5:28 AM
The Lancet: Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Our capitalist system is not only fueled by the relentless destruction of living systems, it has also severed us from nature to such an extent that most people are unaware they’re living through the most rapid extinction event in the 4 BILLION year history of this planet.
August 2, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Our capitalist system is not only fueled by the relentless destruction of living systems, it has also severed us from nature to such an extent that most people are unaware they’re living through the most rapid extinction event in the 4 BILLION year history of this planet.
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I really try not to be unduly negative about potential good news, but this whole statement is just infuriating. "We'll take a step towards stopping a genocide, maybe, in a month, if the people being genocided stop fighting back. But not the people doing it to them, though! They're good!"
🚨Here’s Mark Carney just now, announcing Canada’s (conditional) intent to recognize a Palestinian state in September:
July 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I really try not to be unduly negative about potential good news, but this whole statement is just infuriating. "We'll take a step towards stopping a genocide, maybe, in a month, if the people being genocided stop fighting back. But not the people doing it to them, though! They're good!"
The World since 7 October www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · The World since 7 October
The war with Iran is far more than an attempt to prevent nuclear weapons from getting in the hands of mullahs (if it...
www.lrb.co.uk
July 22, 2025 at 3:11 AM
The World since 7 October www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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what is “nation building” and “made-in-Canada” if not the CBC and VIA?
Canada really going in on notion that it’s just an oil company, bank, and real estate firm in a trenchcoat.
Canada really going in on notion that it’s just an oil company, bank, and real estate firm in a trenchcoat.
I guess public national media and national rail transportation aren't "nation building projects?"
July 17, 2025 at 12:00 AM
what is “nation building” and “made-in-Canada” if not the CBC and VIA?
Canada really going in on notion that it’s just an oil company, bank, and real estate firm in a trenchcoat.
Canada really going in on notion that it’s just an oil company, bank, and real estate firm in a trenchcoat.
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A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.
Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans
A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.
n.pr
June 2, 2025 at 12:53 AM
A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.
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This is an excellent article, tying in history with what’s happening now.
@altnps.bsky.social
@altusfs.altgov.info
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
@altnps.bsky.social
@altusfs.altgov.info
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
This land is their land: Trump is selling out the US’s beloved wilderness
During the McCarthy era’s darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself – and this may be the last chance to defend what’s ours
www.theguardian.com
May 18, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is an excellent article, tying in history with what’s happening now.
@altnps.bsky.social
@altusfs.altgov.info
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
@altnps.bsky.social
@altusfs.altgov.info
@hcrichardson.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
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Mark Carney has long presented himself as a champion of the environment and a citizen of the world—his career at Brookfield Corporation suggests otherwise.
Drew Nelles investigates accusations of wide-scale deforestation and the use of slave labour: thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-cutt...
Drew Nelles investigates accusations of wide-scale deforestation and the use of slave labour: thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-cutt...
April 21, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Mark Carney has long presented himself as a champion of the environment and a citizen of the world—his career at Brookfield Corporation suggests otherwise.
Drew Nelles investigates accusations of wide-scale deforestation and the use of slave labour: thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-cutt...
Drew Nelles investigates accusations of wide-scale deforestation and the use of slave labour: thewalrus.ca/mark-carney-cutt...
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Israel’s story again contradicted. and yet 2 weeks later still nothing from Canada: no condemnation, call for inquiry. why? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...
Eyewitnesses Recount Deadly Israeli Attack on Medics in Gaza
The New York Times interviewed two people who described being detained by Israeli soldiers and looking on as they opened fire on ambulances and a fire truck, killing 15.
www.nytimes.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Israel’s story again contradicted. and yet 2 weeks later still nothing from Canada: no condemnation, call for inquiry. why? www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/w...
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A video rescued from the phone of a paramedic found in a mass grave in Gaza contradicts Israel’s account of an incident in which 15 aid workers were killed ⬇️
Video contradicts Israeli claim over fatal attack on aid convoy
www.thetimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
A video rescued from the phone of a paramedic found in a mass grave in Gaza contradicts Israel’s account of an incident in which 15 aid workers were killed ⬇️