Jamie Shilton
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Since this op-ed specifically cites the example of other countries let me remind you that Canadian liberals' decades-long attempt to reconcile with the oil and gas industry and the province of Alberta have yielded no benefits for climate whatsoever and I'm not aware of any economic benefits either.
Opinion | Obama Supported It. The Left in Canada and Norway Does. Why Don’t Democrats?
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Since this op-ed specifically cites the example of other countries let me remind you that Canadian liberals' decades-long attempt to reconcile with the oil and gas industry and the province of Alberta have yielded no benefits for climate whatsoever and I'm not aware of any economic benefits either.
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"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
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READ THE FULL TYEE PIECE HERE: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
A Canadian Company Is Supplying Armoured Cars to ICE | The Tyee
The Canadian government should consider companies’ complicity in US human rights violations when sourcing contracts.
thetyee.ca
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
READ THE FULL TYEE PIECE HERE: thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025...
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We all know that ICE is violating human rights in the U.S.
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
December 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
We all know that ICE is violating human rights in the U.S.
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
But did you know a Canadian company is profiting off ICE? And that this same company has been ramping up its lobbying efforts?
Now, in my latest for @thetyee.ca, the government won't tell me if this is a red line for procurement:
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"Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign."
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"Because there is no legitimate war between the two sides, killing any of the men in the boats “amounts to murder,” said Todd Huntley, a former military lawyer who advised Special Operations forces for seven years at the height of the U.S. counterterrorism campaign."
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Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
hsph.harvard.edu
November 28, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Elon Musk and the Trump administration gleefully shutting down USAID “has already caused the deaths of six hundred thousand people, two-thirds of them children.”
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
People throw around terms like genocide quite freely online but it’s hard to find other words to describe this level of man-made death.
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1. This federal-Alberta pipeline MOU is even worse than I expected. Even before we get to the pipeline:
- exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada).
- delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030.
(cont'd)
- exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada).
- delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030.
(cont'd)
November 27, 2025 at 5:23 PM
1. This federal-Alberta pipeline MOU is even worse than I expected. Even before we get to the pipeline:
- exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada).
- delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030.
(cont'd)
- exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada).
- delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030.
(cont'd)
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Canadian weapons are being used by the RSF to commit atrocities in Sudan, but the complicity runs deeper
Ismail Adam, @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @policingblack.bsky.social call for an arms embargo to Sudan, increased aid, and a robust refugee resettlement program
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
Ismail Adam, @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @policingblack.bsky.social call for an arms embargo to Sudan, increased aid, and a robust refugee resettlement program
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
In the genocide in Sudan, Canada has a hand in the violence ⋆ The Breach
The massacres of civilians in Sudan are being fuelled by Canadian weapons, mining interests, and refugee restrictions. It’s time for Canada to end its complicity
breachmedia.ca
November 27, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Canadian weapons are being used by the RSF to commit atrocities in Sudan, but the complicity runs deeper
Ismail Adam, @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @policingblack.bsky.social call for an arms embargo to Sudan, increased aid, and a robust refugee resettlement program
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
Ismail Adam, @nisrinelamin.bsky.social and @policingblack.bsky.social call for an arms embargo to Sudan, increased aid, and a robust refugee resettlement program
breachmedia.ca/in-the-genoc...
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A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
![Student accepted into UNB grad program stranded in Gaza awaiting Canadian study permit [video]
Advocates say Ottawa lacks the political will to evacuate more than 130 Palestinian students admitted to universities across the country
by David Gordon Koch November 26, 2025 Reading Time: 6min read](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tgw3d4hvw3x5ijrxax7lg26u/bafkreidrainynrwaullbjg2npno3eu2zkyfldwkhuo7p4f2rwjycf4ivha@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
A student admitted to grad school at UNB is stranded in Gaza because the Canadian government won't issue a study permit without biometrics that in turn cannot be produced without a travel visa to leave Gaza.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
The Canadian government needs to issue the permit and UNB needs to intervene.
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More of that rules based international order the Liberals used to pretend to care about.
Unlocked | Up to the U.S. to decide if it violated international law with Caribbean boat strikes, says Anand
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
Up to the U.S. to decide if it violated international law with Caribbean boat strikes, says Anand
Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand broke with tradition as she seemingly asserted that Canada's top diplomat doesn't weigh in on a foreign country's adherence to international law.
www.hilltimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:29 AM
More of that rules based international order the Liberals used to pretend to care about.
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The Starbucks strike has begun with stores in 40 cities, as 12,000 unionized workers have been stymied from getting a first contract and relentlessly retaliated against. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports on the critical labor action:
prospect.org/2025/11/13/s...
prospect.org/2025/11/13/s...
Starbucks Workers Tell Bosses: No Contract, No Coffee - The American Prospect
Starbucks baristas didn’t want to go on strike. But after four years of waiting for a contract at any of their hundreds of unionized stores, 12,000 workers at one of the world’s biggest fast-food comp...
prospect.org
November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The Starbucks strike has begun with stores in 40 cities, as 12,000 unionized workers have been stymied from getting a first contract and relentlessly retaliated against. @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social reports on the critical labor action:
prospect.org/2025/11/13/s...
prospect.org/2025/11/13/s...
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Shamefully & at the root of what's holding back progress: the 4 largest Global North oil & gas producing countries — the US, Canada, Australia & Norway — are overwhelmingly responsible for driving up global oil & gas production, collectively up 40% since the Paris Agreement...
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Shamefully & at the root of what's holding back progress: the 4 largest Global North oil & gas producing countries — the US, Canada, Australia & Norway — are overwhelmingly responsible for driving up global oil & gas production, collectively up 40% since the Paris Agreement...
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As the governments of the world arrive in Brazil for the 30th annual climate gathering, @chrishatch.bsky.social takes stock of what’s happened globally & here in Canada – the good, bad & ugly – since the Paris Agreement 10 years ago. 🧵... www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/10/o...
A decade since Paris: why Canada is still running in place
As the governments of the world arrive in Brazil for the 30th annual climate gathering, let's take stock of what’s happened globally, and here at home in Canada.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:50 AM
As the governments of the world arrive in Brazil for the 30th annual climate gathering, @chrishatch.bsky.social takes stock of what’s happened globally & here in Canada – the good, bad & ugly – since the Paris Agreement 10 years ago. 🧵... www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/10/o...
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anyone who boosts AI has to explain to me why this is worth it
October 31, 2025 at 1:31 AM
anyone who boosts AI has to explain to me why this is worth it
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The U.S. military attacked an immigrant detention center in Yemen earlier this year, killing and injuring dozens of Ethiopian civilians, according to a new report by Amnesty International shared with The Intercept.
Trump’s Yemen Strike Killed 61 Immigrants and No Combatants
The attack on Sa’ada detention center violated humanitarian law and should be investigated as a war crime, says Amnesty International.
theintercept.com
October 29, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The U.S. military attacked an immigrant detention center in Yemen earlier this year, killing and injuring dozens of Ethiopian civilians, according to a new report by Amnesty International shared with The Intercept.
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The U.S. military has destroyed five boats it has alleged were ferrying drugs into the U.S., killing 27 people. No authority has publicly released the names of any of the dead. One family is believed to be the first to publicly say they believe a relative is among those who were killed.
U.S. Military Killed Venezuelan Fisherman in Suspected Drug Boat Attack, Family Says
For the first time, one of the 27 people killed in U.S. airstrikes on suspected drug vessels has been publicly identified.
nyti.ms
October 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
The U.S. military has destroyed five boats it has alleged were ferrying drugs into the U.S., killing 27 people. No authority has publicly released the names of any of the dead. One family is believed to be the first to publicly say they believe a relative is among those who were killed.
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
Findings of Fact & Conclusions of Law – #261 in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio (D. Mass., 1:25-cv-10685) – CourtListener.com
Judge William G. Young: ORDER entered. FINDINGS OF FACT AND RULINGS OF LAW, PURSUANT TO FED. R. CIV. P. 52(A)(Sonnenberg, Elizabeth) (Additional attachment(s) added on 9/30/2025: # 1 Main Document) (J...
www.courtlistener.com
September 30, 2025 at 5:43 PM
BREAKING: WE WON!!!
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
💥 💥 💥
Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment.
Full ruling here:
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Governments around the world are ramping up coal, gas and oil extraction which will put climate goals beyond reach, new data has shown. Far from reducing reliance on fossil fuels, nations are planning higher levels of fossil fuel production. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/30/n...
Nations’ plans to ramp up coal, gas and oil extraction ‘will put climate goals beyond reach’
Governments around the world are ramping up coal, gas and oil extraction which will put climate goals beyond reach, new data has shown. Far from reducing reliance on fossil fuels, nations are planning...
www.nationalobserver.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Governments around the world are ramping up coal, gas and oil extraction which will put climate goals beyond reach, new data has shown. Far from reducing reliance on fossil fuels, nations are planning higher levels of fossil fuel production. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/30/n...
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A major carbon bomb sits atop PM Mark Carney’s first tranche of major projects, sparking backlash from environmental and Indigenous communities who say that doubling down on LNG is placing a dangerous bet on Canada’s future. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/11/n...
LNG carbon bomb tops Carney’s list of major projects
Triggering immense backlash from climate groups and Indigenous leaders, Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed his long awaited first batch of nation-building projects that includes doubling capacity at ...
www.nationalobserver.com
September 12, 2025 at 6:55 PM
A major carbon bomb sits atop PM Mark Carney’s first tranche of major projects, sparking backlash from environmental and Indigenous communities who say that doubling down on LNG is placing a dangerous bet on Canada’s future. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/11/n...
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Recent research shows that the potential of both carbon capture & storage and ecosystem restoration to mitigate climate change have been greatly over-estimated
It is not going to be possible to suck all that carbon out of the sky once it's up there
We have onlu one option: stop burning stuff
It is not going to be possible to suck all that carbon out of the sky once it's up there
We have onlu one option: stop burning stuff
September 10, 2025 at 9:49 AM
Recent research shows that the potential of both carbon capture & storage and ecosystem restoration to mitigate climate change have been greatly over-estimated
It is not going to be possible to suck all that carbon out of the sky once it's up there
We have onlu one option: stop burning stuff
It is not going to be possible to suck all that carbon out of the sky once it's up there
We have onlu one option: stop burning stuff
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Ordinary North Koreans, already oppressed by their own dictatorial government, killed by the US for getting in the way of a covert operation
September 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Ordinary North Koreans, already oppressed by their own dictatorial government, killed by the US for getting in the way of a covert operation
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Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis in six charts.
Important new analysis from @nationalobserver.com's @bsaxifrage.bsky.social 👇
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/03/a...
Important new analysis from @nationalobserver.com's @bsaxifrage.bsky.social 👇
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/03/a...
Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis in six charts
Canadian wildfire has quadrupled since the 1990s. That’s releasing billions of tonnes of CO2. The climate beast is waking up. When will we?
www.nationalobserver.com
September 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Canada’s out-of-control wildfire crisis in six charts.
Important new analysis from @nationalobserver.com's @bsaxifrage.bsky.social 👇
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/03/a...
Important new analysis from @nationalobserver.com's @bsaxifrage.bsky.social 👇
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/03/a...
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"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, scholars' association says
The world's leading genocide scholars' association has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, its president said on Monday.
www.reuters.com
September 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)".
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
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Mariam Dagga, an AP freelancer and mother, was among the journalists killed in Israel's "double-tap" strikes on the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza. In a "double-tap" strike, Israel bombs a facility once and then strikes again... after rescuers and journalists have raced in.
Four journalists were killed by an Israeli strike on a Gaza hospital today, including Mariam Dagga, a freelancer with the @apnews.com. She has a 12-year-old son, who was evacuated from Gaza earlier in the war.
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
She was a true hero, like all of our Palestinian colleagues in Gaza.
tinyurl.com/3cn5c9vb
Multiple journalists killed by Israeli strikes on Gaza hospital
A hospital strike in southern Gaza has killed at least eight people, including four journalists. The attack happened on Monday.
apnews.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Mariam Dagga, an AP freelancer and mother, was among the journalists killed in Israel's "double-tap" strikes on the Nasser Medical Complex in southern Gaza. In a "double-tap" strike, Israel bombs a facility once and then strikes again... after rescuers and journalists have raced in.