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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly short-sighted and irresponsible, and completely disconnected from the real values & priorities of Vancouverites. This move would be awful not only for Vancouver, but also for all the cities that Vancouver’s leadership has inspired over decades of North American sustainability leadership.

“The truth about a city’s aspirations isn’t found in its vision. It’s found in its budget.” — Brent Toderian

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nzjanette @nzjanette.bsky.social · 1d

Oh no. Vancouver has been leading the way. This would be a huge step in the wrong direction.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly short-sighted and irresponsible, and completely disconnected from the real values & priorities of Vancouverites. This move would be awful not only for Vancouver, but also for all the cities that Vancouver’s leadership has inspired over decades of North American sustainability leadership.

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jdavey_2 @jdavey.bsky.social · 18h

Welcome to the age of austerity applied through a law & order lens.
"police force is the only department to see a substantial increase in funding, receiving an extra $46.2 million."

Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 1d

NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.

Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Sundance @sundance.bikesky.social · 17h

A beautiful and tragic episode about the selfishness brought on by the auto industry.

Too much for me to take in one sitting.

My heart breaks for what was robbed from America

The War on Cars @thewaroncars.bsky.social · 18h

NEW EPISODE: "The Creation of America's Car Culture." Producer Ilana Strauss talks to @norton.bsky.social about the two men who, in the 1920s, teamed up to sell more cars and shape the way cities handle traffic. Their legacy can be felt across the country today. podcasts.apple.com/lu/podcast/t...

Cover of book in black and white that says "A proposed traffic ordinance for the city of Los Angeles, withAnnotation and Recommendations for the Remedy of Street Traffic Conditions by Miller McClintock Traffic Consultant, October 8, 1924"

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Greg Blee @gregblee.ca · 16h

The writing is unmistakably on the wall at #COP30

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 1d

Torrential rainfall in the Brazilian city of Belem flooded pavements outside the venue for the #COP30 climate talks. Scientists say climate change is making extreme weather events more common.

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 16h

Folks have been telling me they’ve noticed I’ve gotten “a lot more political” on social media this year.

Of course I have.

The circumstances have gotten nightmarishly worse, and the consequences of inaction and staying silent infinitely more obvious.

Everyone needs to get “a lot more political.”

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Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air @creacleanair.bsky.social · 1d

🇨🇳 📰 NEW | Analysis: #China’s #CO2 #emissions have now been flat or falling for 18 months

www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-have-now-been-flat-or-falling-for-18-months/

@laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social w/ @carbonbrief.org

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EK Fleming @ekfleming.bsky.social · 1d

Vancouver? You didn’t vote for THIS. Tell him NO.

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly short-sighted and irresponsible, and completely disconnected from the real values & priorities of Vancouverites. This move would be awful not only for Vancouver, but also for all the cities that Vancouver’s leadership has inspired over decades of North American sustainability leadership.

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Tim Ellis 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 1d

This guy fucking sucks

Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 1d

NEW: Councillors and sources inside the City of Vancouver say the city's mayor, Ken Sim, will put forth a budget Wednesday that will eliminate the city's celebrated climate and sustainability department.

Vancouver mayor plans to eliminate city's climate and sustainability department

Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is planning to eliminate the city's sustainability and climate department under the guise of a push to prevent increases to property taxes. Canada's National Observer learned a...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Janet 🇨🇦 @jansplanet.bsky.social · 1d

Act now, tell PM Carney & Ministers: no taxpayer subsidies for American billionaires!

Ksi Lisims LNG is no "nation-building project". & it's not Indigenous-owned. It's a Trojan Horse for the same Wall Street private equity giants buying up 🇨🇦 real estate, telecoms & energy infrastructure.
#cdnPoli

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crazycanloon.bsky.social @crazycanloon.bsky.social · 1d

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David Keegan @drdavidkeegan.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Patients are feeling the collapse of healthcare. Today, for the 1st time in my 30 years as a doc, the majority of patients I saw apologized for being sick & needing care. Some had many issues. Exactly none of their needs were frivolous; all were urgent.

#ableg
#abpoli
@albertadoctors.bsky.social

a red light with a silhouette of a person in it .

Alt: A spinning red alarm light.

media.tenor.com

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Greg Blee @gregblee.ca · 1d

Must be fear of the political shitstorm that would erupt with a measles vaccine mandate that keeps them from acting. Just look at the recent ostrich soap opera. BC’s is not a population easy to govern.

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Hacker & Security News @hacker.at.thenote.app · 1d

How To Run an Open-Source LLM on Your Personal Computer

An open-source large language model is a type of AI that can understand and generate text. It can function without depending on external servers. You can run models like Llama, Mistral, or Phi, privately and offline.
#hackernews #llama #llm

How To Run an Open-Source LLM on Your Personal Computer

An open-source large language model is a type of AI that can understand and generate text. It can function without depending on external servers. You can run models like Llama, Mistral, or Phi, privately and offline.

hackernoon.com

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 1d

Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly.

Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer.

Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.

Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says

Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.

www.reuters.com

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alison says reinstate Link! @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 2d

Alberta, watch what America is doing right now - with their refusal to support funding of the Affordable Care Act.

If Danielle Smith has her way with the medical system, we, too, will be facing $1000s in monthly premiums just to visit doctors.
She wants it that way.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

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Greg Blee @gregblee.ca · 1d

Oh Canada … we had measles beat, now we are weakened by bandwagon untruths. Let’s go back to a nostalgic past when kids didn’t get sick with easily preventable diseases.

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 1d

Mortifying and completely preventable.

www.cbc.ca/news/health/...

Canada loses measles elimination status | CBC

www.cbc.ca

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 1d

Read every word & share with everyone you know. This is real life here in Chicago. Americans need to know this grotesque reality & stand with us.

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2d

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.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

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…

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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 1d

There's not a lot of organizations standing up for #ClimateAction in #YYC. We're one of them. Help push back on the denialism, anti-education & anti-expertise by donating to the Calgary Climate Hub. Help us help Calgary do THE RIGHT THING.

DONATIONS: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/2025fundraiser #yyc

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Greg Blee @gregblee.ca · 2d

How to get this information thru to people’s attention, how to motivate them to pressure their leaders, how to jumpstart those leaders into appropriate emergency action???

Prof William Ripple @williamripple.bsky.social · 2d

We just published a report that serves as a warning to humanity that we are hurtling towards climate chaos. More info here: doi.org/10.1093/bios... and here www.nationthailand.com/blogs/sustai...

Earth hits hottest level in 125,000 years

A global study finds 2024 was hotter than the peak of the last Ice Age, with record-breaking heat, ocean warming, and ice loss driving Earth toward irreversible tipping points.

www.nationthailand.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 3d

WATCH: Seriously, if you’re following ANY bike-lane debate, you HAVE TO WATCH this news story. You actually can’t make this up. Ford claims without evidence that bike-lanes are bad for small business, and THE ACTUAL BUSINESS ASSOCIATION obliterates him with data.

Safe bike-lanes mean business.

Annex businesses tell Ford to back off Bloor bike lanes

Stores in the Annex say the Bloor bike lanes have been a big boost to business. As Michelle Mackey reports, the neighborhood's BIA wants the province to back off its new bill that could see the lanes ...

toronto.citynews.ca

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Greg Blee @gregblee.ca · 3d

I’ll have what she’s having.

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It's Abby. Yep. @itsabbyyep.bsky.social · 3d

"Soylent Green is billionaires!"

- the reboot of Soylent Green that I just came up with

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Martin Seifert @seifert.blue · 3d

On November 9, 2004, Mozilla released Firefox 1.0, a major milestone in open-source web browsing and a significant moment in the evolution of internet data accessibility and analytics.

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