HamishB
@hamishbuchanan.bsky.social
Artist in Toronto.
Politics, the environment, urban affairs.
Homebody, pedestrian, cyclist & transit-user. Gay as a garden party but more garden than party.
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Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
November 21, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Former Finnish PM Sanna Marin put it bluntly: “To end the conflict, Russia must leave Ukrainian territory.”
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
Just one point. Nothing more to discuss.
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With all the noise being made about the US/Russia peace plan the admin is trying to foist on Ukraine, it’s important to understand why the full-court press is happening right now. Why Orban is attempting to speak for the EU…
Putin cannot afford the war anymore. They are selling off their gold,
Putin cannot afford the war anymore. They are selling off their gold,
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 PM
With all the noise being made about the US/Russia peace plan the admin is trying to foist on Ukraine, it’s important to understand why the full-court press is happening right now. Why Orban is attempting to speak for the EU…
Putin cannot afford the war anymore. They are selling off their gold,
Putin cannot afford the war anymore. They are selling off their gold,
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The fast-fix for global warming that the UN climate summit can’t ignore
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The fast-fix for global warming that the UN climate summit can’t ignore
Removing so-called ‘short-lived climate pollutants’ from the atmosphere could reduce global warming – fast.
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November 22, 2025 at 3:39 PM
The fast-fix for global warming that the UN climate summit can’t ignore
theconversation.com/the-fast-fix...
theconversation.com/the-fast-fix...
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WATCH: If you really STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, please watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes helped by #UrbanThree & @StrongTowns.org. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
November 22, 2025 at 4:57 PM
WATCH: If you really STILL don’t understand how car-dependent suburbia is HEAVILY SUBSIDIZED by downtown & all the urban parts of your city, please watch this EXCELLENT video by #NotJustBikes helped by #UrbanThree & @StrongTowns.org. And then please SHARE it as much as possible. youtu.be/7Nw6qyyrTeI
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"You can spend about $40 per employee per year of increased ventilation costs and that will give you $7,000 of gained employee productivity per person, almost a 200 to 1 gain."
Today on Volts: for years, I've wanted to do a podcast on indoor air quality, and I finally found the perfect guest! Dr. Lagoudas & I discuss indoor air pollutants, the policies and technologies that can control them, and the growing need to frame indoor air quality as a basic human right.
What's the deal with indoor air quality?
From CO2 monitors to better building codes, Dr. Georgia Lagoudas outlines how to clean up the spaces where we spend 90% of our lives.
www.volts.wtf
November 21, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"You can spend about $40 per employee per year of increased ventilation costs and that will give you $7,000 of gained employee productivity per person, almost a 200 to 1 gain."
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It was really expensive to get beer into corner stores one year early. Had Ontario’s Conservatives just waited one year, this wouldn’t have cost us nearly $2 billion.
$2 billion that could’ve gone to hospitals, schools, and social programs. #onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1153599...
$2 billion that could’ve gone to hospitals, schools, and social programs. #onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1153599...
Ontario pays out full $225M to Beer Store as end of store closure commitment nears | Globalnews.ca
Ontario struck an agreement with the alcohol retailer to end its retail monopoly in the province early in 2024 so convenience stores could begin selling beer.
globalnews.ca
November 21, 2025 at 10:59 PM
It was really expensive to get beer into corner stores one year early. Had Ontario’s Conservatives just waited one year, this wouldn’t have cost us nearly $2 billion.
$2 billion that could’ve gone to hospitals, schools, and social programs. #onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1153599...
$2 billion that could’ve gone to hospitals, schools, and social programs. #onpoli
globalnews.ca/news/1153599...
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"For a generation, politicians in Toronto’s inner suburbs have decried their relative lack of amenities while also systematically opposing any measure that would provide them with more amenities" - @thekeenanwire.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Edward Keenan: Toronto’s decision on corner stores may seem like a win — but it’s only a half-measure on top of another half-measure
Watch City Hall long enough, and you’ll inevitably conclude that some councillors here simply hate urban life.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
"For a generation, politicians in Toronto’s inner suburbs have decried their relative lack of amenities while also systematically opposing any measure that would provide them with more amenities" - @thekeenanwire.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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Has Carney himself made any kind of public statement(s) about Danielle Smith's flagrant abuse of the notwithstanding clause? Anything at all? The Albertans affected are Canadian citizens who have had their Charter rights stripped. Seems like that should merit some kind of response from our PM.
November 19, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Has Carney himself made any kind of public statement(s) about Danielle Smith's flagrant abuse of the notwithstanding clause? Anything at all? The Albertans affected are Canadian citizens who have had their Charter rights stripped. Seems like that should merit some kind of response from our PM.
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the stone-faced compadres surrounding Piccini in the house -
they all bought into Ford's skills development fund and now they're wearing the same flimsy gabardine the scandalized Piccini is modelling #onpoli
they all bought into Ford's skills development fund and now they're wearing the same flimsy gabardine the scandalized Piccini is modelling #onpoli
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
the stone-faced compadres surrounding Piccini in the house -
they all bought into Ford's skills development fund and now they're wearing the same flimsy gabardine the scandalized Piccini is modelling #onpoli
they all bought into Ford's skills development fund and now they're wearing the same flimsy gabardine the scandalized Piccini is modelling #onpoli
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For those who've followed the story of Wet'suwet'en land defenders—criminalized for peacefully fighting the CGL pipeline through their lands—read this statement on the final judgement in their case. The power and wisdom of this struggle are incredibly moving.
www.yintahaccess.com/news/sentenc...
www.yintahaccess.com/news/sentenc...
Sentencing Decision — Gidimt'en Yintah Access
“No matter what they said, no matter what they did, they couldn’t touch us because we’re standing on what our ancestors fought and died for.” -Sleydo’ “Since the beginning I feel like we’ve always...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:39 AM
For those who've followed the story of Wet'suwet'en land defenders—criminalized for peacefully fighting the CGL pipeline through their lands—read this statement on the final judgement in their case. The power and wisdom of this struggle are incredibly moving.
www.yintahaccess.com/news/sentenc...
www.yintahaccess.com/news/sentenc...
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"LNG production is definitively not an alternative to reducing Canadian emissions."
Essential reading from @dalebeugin.bsky.social & Nancy Olewiler: climateinstitute.ca/will-canadia...
Essential reading from @dalebeugin.bsky.social & Nancy Olewiler: climateinstitute.ca/will-canadia...
Will Canadian LNG increase or decrease emissions?
Evidence suggests that expanding Canadian LNG will increase domestic emissions and have uncertain implications for global emissions.
climateinstitute.ca
November 17, 2025 at 4:06 PM
"LNG production is definitively not an alternative to reducing Canadian emissions."
Essential reading from @dalebeugin.bsky.social & Nancy Olewiler: climateinstitute.ca/will-canadia...
Essential reading from @dalebeugin.bsky.social & Nancy Olewiler: climateinstitute.ca/will-canadia...
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“Methane emissions across the supply chain are a key indicator of poor environmental and operational practices in the fossil fuel industry. Reducing [them] in the energy sector is the most effective and rapid way to cut greenhouse gases in the short term.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Can methane cuts pull us back from the brink of climate breakdown?
With temperatures breaching the Paris limit, experts say tackling the powerful gas could buy crucial time as the clean-energy shift stalls
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
“Methane emissions across the supply chain are a key indicator of poor environmental and operational practices in the fossil fuel industry. Reducing [them] in the energy sector is the most effective and rapid way to cut greenhouse gases in the short term.”
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Take a read of this excellent investigative journalism 👇
People are dying in our hosps w life threatening conditions, while the hosp ORs sit empty, and yet govt forces more low risk surgeries in private facilities.
People are dying in our hosps w life threatening conditions, while the hosp ORs sit empty, and yet govt forces more low risk surgeries in private facilities.
My latest investigation for @thetyee.ca details what the UCP government doesn't want the public to know about their private surgery push.
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta's For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...
Insiders Detail Ways Alberta’s For-Profit Surgery Push Is Failing | The Tyee
The shift strong-arms doctors but hasn’t saved money or shortened waits for critical operations, sources say. A Tyee investigation.
thetyee.ca
November 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Take a read of this excellent investigative journalism 👇
People are dying in our hosps w life threatening conditions, while the hosp ORs sit empty, and yet govt forces more low risk surgeries in private facilities.
People are dying in our hosps w life threatening conditions, while the hosp ORs sit empty, and yet govt forces more low risk surgeries in private facilities.
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You’re the ones who have to come up with the actual plan, dipshit.
November 16, 2025 at 3:54 PM
You’re the ones who have to come up with the actual plan, dipshit.
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Canada transforms into a police state the moment it encounters serious opposition to its crimes against humanity:
"... the event was organized as a forum to analyze and document 'Canada’s complicity in the genocide and dispossession of Palestinians, including over the last two years in Gaza'".
"... the event was organized as a forum to analyze and document 'Canada’s complicity in the genocide and dispossession of Palestinians, including over the last two years in Gaza'".
Prominent legal scholar detained at Canadian border while on his way to a conference on Palestine | CBC News
A well-known academic and former UN special rapporteur says he was detained by customs agents in Toronto while on his way to speak at a conference on human rights violations against Palestinians.
www.cbc.ca
November 16, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Canada transforms into a police state the moment it encounters serious opposition to its crimes against humanity:
"... the event was organized as a forum to analyze and document 'Canada’s complicity in the genocide and dispossession of Palestinians, including over the last two years in Gaza'".
"... the event was organized as a forum to analyze and document 'Canada’s complicity in the genocide and dispossession of Palestinians, including over the last two years in Gaza'".
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Re-upping this 🧵 from when Ksi Lisims LNG was given enviro approval.
The downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
The downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
This Ksi Lisims LNG approval is terrible news.
"It's hard to believe that we're moving ahead in B.C. with climate-destroying LNG projects in the midst of a climate crisis," said Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Gitanyow hereditary chiefs.
Yup.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"It's hard to believe that we're moving ahead in B.C. with climate-destroying LNG projects in the midst of a climate crisis," said Tara Marsden, sustainability director for the Gitanyow hereditary chiefs.
Yup.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
$10B LNG project in northwest B.C. gets environmental certificate despite opposition | CBC News
The Ksi Lisims LNG terminal project, about 80 kilometres north of Prince Rupert, B.C., has received a provincial environmental assessment certificat — a critical step for the megaproject despite conce...
www.cbc.ca
November 14, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Re-upping this 🧵 from when Ksi Lisims LNG was given enviro approval.
The downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
The downstream emissions from Ksi Lisims will be roughly equivalent to 5% of Canada's TOTAL domestic GHG emissions. This is a carbon bomb - a willful act of arson.
Mark Carney simply does not get the climate emergency... 👇
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Ramping up production of fossil gas and exporting it as LNG is a threat to the climate. But industry and supportive politicians are trying to convince us that LNG is a climate solution — don’t buy the hype.
#GreenhouseGases #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
environmentaldefence.ca/2022/10/26/d...
#GreenhouseGases #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
environmentaldefence.ca/2022/10/26/d...
Don't buy the hype: LNG is bad for the climate - Environmental Defence
There is lots of talk about fossil gas these days in Canada, and it can be a lot to keep up with. So what’s going on? And what does it mean for the
environmentaldefence.ca
November 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Ramping up production of fossil gas and exporting it as LNG is a threat to the climate. But industry and supportive politicians are trying to convince us that LNG is a climate solution — don’t buy the hype.
#GreenhouseGases #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
environmentaldefence.ca/2022/10/26/d...
#GreenhouseGases #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange
environmentaldefence.ca/2022/10/26/d...
Most of the attention about the Epstein files rightly goes to child rape and Trump, but it looks like there is also plenty in them about other major international political & business figures, whether also doing sex crimes or "just" laundering vast amounts of Russian money.
November 13, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Most of the attention about the Epstein files rightly goes to child rape and Trump, but it looks like there is also plenty in them about other major international political & business figures, whether also doing sex crimes or "just" laundering vast amounts of Russian money.
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It’s a real testament to the power of propaganda that the BBC is currently being dismantled as “too left-wing” while their execs have been relentlessly pro-Israel and anti-trans for so long. There is no world in which BBC News has been a leftist organization but they’ll be brought to heel regardless
@alastaircampbell.bsky.social speaks openly about SENIOR members of the BBC being “so far over in the JK Rowling (read: ‘gender critical’ obsessive transphobe) camp”
Let’s just stop and think about this for a moment…
Let’s just stop and think about this for a moment…
November 13, 2025 at 4:51 PM
It’s a real testament to the power of propaganda that the BBC is currently being dismantled as “too left-wing” while their execs have been relentlessly pro-Israel and anti-trans for so long. There is no world in which BBC News has been a leftist organization but they’ll be brought to heel regardless
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"...disclosed the party is $23 million in debt and has a plan to pay it off by 2028."
Yeah, they're not preparing to go to an election. This is just them puffing out their chests to look like they're super serious and they're not going to be pushovers. (They absolutely will be pushovers).
Yeah, they're not preparing to go to an election. This is just them puffing out their chests to look like they're super serious and they're not going to be pushovers. (They absolutely will be pushovers).
NDP prepares for election as its MPs decide whether to vote against Carney government’s budget - considering how to fast-track its campaign readiness in the case of a snap election - @markramzy.bsky.social reports www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
Find out more at nationalnewswatch.com
NDP prepares for election as its MPs decide whether to vote against Carney government’s budget
The NDP is considering how to fast-track its campaign readiness in the case of a snap election, sources say, as its MPs weigh a budget vote that could trigger the
www.thestar.com
November 12, 2025 at 3:33 PM
"...disclosed the party is $23 million in debt and has a plan to pay it off by 2028."
Yeah, they're not preparing to go to an election. This is just them puffing out their chests to look like they're super serious and they're not going to be pushovers. (They absolutely will be pushovers).
Yeah, they're not preparing to go to an election. This is just them puffing out their chests to look like they're super serious and they're not going to be pushovers. (They absolutely will be pushovers).
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Most provinces have repeatedly cut their own taxes while crying poor and demanding more federal dollars (with no strings attached, natch).
And we are not overly taxed in this country. Grow up.
And we are not overly taxed in this country. Grow up.
The blood is pretty much all out of the stone after federal income taxes. How much more can the provinces squeeze us for? Maybe the feds should stop cutting taxes for the wealthy and you those funds to help out?
November 12, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Most provinces have repeatedly cut their own taxes while crying poor and demanding more federal dollars (with no strings attached, natch).
And we are not overly taxed in this country. Grow up.
And we are not overly taxed in this country. Grow up.
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In 2021 I asked the Canadian government how much it was spending fighting First Nations in court - one access-to-info request specifying four cases. Today they got back to me.
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November 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In 2021 I asked the Canadian government how much it was spending fighting First Nations in court - one access-to-info request specifying four cases. Today they got back to me.
Not explicitly mentioned here is that some doctors feared that a "surplus" of doctors would impact their potential earnings. Politicians decided this was more important than having some resilience in the system.
The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 11, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Not explicitly mentioned here is that some doctors feared that a "surplus" of doctors would impact their potential earnings. Politicians decided this was more important than having some resilience in the system.
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Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
The doctor shortage isn’t an accident. It was policy. canadahealthwatch.ca/2025/11/10/c... @codeblackamerica.bsky.social
Canada’s doctor shortage is no accident
It was policy.
canadahealthwatch.ca
November 10, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Hospitals across Canada are closing their ERs because there aren't enough doctors to run them. Millions don’t have a doctor. Millions more can’t get an appointment.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.
It didn’t used to be this way. Turns out it wasn’t an accident.