Kara Flannigan
@karaonearth1.bsky.social
Pandemic-navigating tree hugger.
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I wish Canada would catch up.
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
I wish Canada would catch up.
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Yale researchers didn't stop there. They also identified what people most need to know to catalyze action and support climate policy; and it's not about global temps, ice sheets, or ocean currents.
What people most need to know about climate change is that (1) others care, and (2) there is hope.
What people most need to know about climate change is that (1) others care, and (2) there is hope.
Understanding six “key truths” about climate change predicts policy support, discussion, and political advocacy
Social norms and collective efficacy are strong predictors
climatecommunication.yale.edu
October 6, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Yale researchers didn't stop there. They also identified what people most need to know to catalyze action and support climate policy; and it's not about global temps, ice sheets, or ocean currents.
What people most need to know about climate change is that (1) others care, and (2) there is hope.
What people most need to know about climate change is that (1) others care, and (2) there is hope.
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Oh hey it turns out another thing Covid cautious people have been saying nonstop for several years is true: lockdowns did not cause “immunity debt,” and Covid infections DO cause immune disruptions that make you more vulnerable to other illnesses.
As I and others have been saying for some time now. Please read this. It might make you be more cautious.
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Why scientists are rethinking the immune effects of SARS-CoV-2
“Immunity debt,” a theory to explain the global surge in non-covid infections since pandemic restrictions were lifted, is increasingly being challenged by emerging evidence. Nick Tsergas reports
Myco...
www.bmj.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Oh hey it turns out another thing Covid cautious people have been saying nonstop for several years is true: lockdowns did not cause “immunity debt,” and Covid infections DO cause immune disruptions that make you more vulnerable to other illnesses.
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Sobering and powerful interview with David Suzuki by @davislegree.bsky.social .
‘It’s too late’: David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost - iPolitics
"We have failed to shift the narrative and we are still caught up in the same legal, economic and political systems," said David Suzuki in an exclusive interview with iPolitics. "For me, what we've go...
www.ipolitics.ca
July 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Sobering and powerful interview with David Suzuki by @davislegree.bsky.social .
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This is my 4th of July message to American resisters.
We are in very dark times and it is going to get darker. But we must take back democracy and the rule of law at the grassroots and in the streets.
We need to support each other across the border.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2G...
We are in very dark times and it is going to get darker. But we must take back democracy and the rule of law at the grassroots and in the streets.
We need to support each other across the border.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2G...
Fourth of July Message - Charlie Angus
YouTube video by Charlie Angus
www.youtube.com
July 4, 2025 at 11:18 AM
This is my 4th of July message to American resisters.
We are in very dark times and it is going to get darker. But we must take back democracy and the rule of law at the grassroots and in the streets.
We need to support each other across the border.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2G...
We are in very dark times and it is going to get darker. But we must take back democracy and the rule of law at the grassroots and in the streets.
We need to support each other across the border.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fS2G...
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Today we're releasing a joint letter signed by 160+ civil society groups, academics, and lawyers demanding full withdrawal of #BillC2.
This dangerous surveillance bill is anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-Canadian.
Let’s get into it. 1/7
openmedia.org/press/item/o...
This dangerous surveillance bill is anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-Canadian.
Let’s get into it. 1/7
openmedia.org/press/item/o...
Over 300 Organizations Unite to Demand Complete Withdrawal of Bill C-2
Diverse coalitions warn
openmedia.org
June 18, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Today we're releasing a joint letter signed by 160+ civil society groups, academics, and lawyers demanding full withdrawal of #BillC2.
This dangerous surveillance bill is anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-Canadian.
Let’s get into it. 1/7
openmedia.org/press/item/o...
This dangerous surveillance bill is anti-privacy, anti-rights, and anti-Canadian.
Let’s get into it. 1/7
openmedia.org/press/item/o...
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And meanwhile the sound of crickets from western leaders over Israel's crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Pretending that there isn't a genocide makes you complicit in the genocide.
Here is my piece on how to join the grandmother's resistance to genocide.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/grandmothe...
Pretending that there isn't a genocide makes you complicit in the genocide.
Here is my piece on how to join the grandmother's resistance to genocide.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/grandmothe...
June 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
And meanwhile the sound of crickets from western leaders over Israel's crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Pretending that there isn't a genocide makes you complicit in the genocide.
Here is my piece on how to join the grandmother's resistance to genocide.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/grandmothe...
Pretending that there isn't a genocide makes you complicit in the genocide.
Here is my piece on how to join the grandmother's resistance to genocide.
charlieangus.substack.com/p/grandmothe...
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None of the things that conservatives claimed would happen if you killed the carbon tax happened when the carbon tax got killed.
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
But we did lose the only even halfway serious climate policy of the last two decades.
sustainablesong.medium.com/bring-on-the...
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
But we did lose the only even halfway serious climate policy of the last two decades.
sustainablesong.medium.com/bring-on-the...
June 25, 2025 at 12:11 AM
None of the things that conservatives claimed would happen if you killed the carbon tax happened when the carbon tax got killed.
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
But we did lose the only even halfway serious climate policy of the last two decades.
sustainablesong.medium.com/bring-on-the...
www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...
But we did lose the only even halfway serious climate policy of the last two decades.
sustainablesong.medium.com/bring-on-the...
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The problem isn’t just who’s in power — it’s first-past-the-post that lets any PM or Premier concentrate power with 40% of the vote.
Proportional representation is how we stop this cycle and build real checks and balances. www.fairvote.ca/12/06/2025/f...
Proportional representation is how we stop this cycle and build real checks and balances. www.fairvote.ca/12/06/2025/f...
First-past-the-post concentrates power at the top - Fair Vote Canada
First-past-the-post can hand one party a majority government with less than half the vote. They can use that power to give themselves more.
www.fairvote.ca
June 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
The problem isn’t just who’s in power — it’s first-past-the-post that lets any PM or Premier concentrate power with 40% of the vote.
Proportional representation is how we stop this cycle and build real checks and balances. www.fairvote.ca/12/06/2025/f...
Proportional representation is how we stop this cycle and build real checks and balances. www.fairvote.ca/12/06/2025/f...
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I spent the last few days reaching out to advocates, experts and the government about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new border bill, Bill C-2.
What I learned was…not reassuring.
In fact, advocates are warning it could create a framework for Trump-style mass deportations -- and more:
What I learned was…not reassuring.
In fact, advocates are warning it could create a framework for Trump-style mass deportations -- and more:
June 9, 2025 at 10:17 PM
I spent the last few days reaching out to advocates, experts and the government about Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new border bill, Bill C-2.
What I learned was…not reassuring.
In fact, advocates are warning it could create a framework for Trump-style mass deportations -- and more:
What I learned was…not reassuring.
In fact, advocates are warning it could create a framework for Trump-style mass deportations -- and more:
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@mark-carney.bsky.social The world needs more Canada, and it's time to show them why.
Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social
These young people are going to Gaza to try and stop the murder of children.
That they have to put their live on the line reflects the absolute failure of the west, the G7, Canada.
Call the Israeli embassy and warn them not to harm these children.
The world watches.
These young people are going to Gaza to try and stop the murder of children.
That they have to put their live on the line reflects the absolute failure of the west, the G7, Canada.
Call the Israeli embassy and warn them not to harm these children.
The world watches.
June 4, 2025 at 12:12 AM
@mark-carney.bsky.social The world needs more Canada, and it's time to show them why.
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Israel is going to kill them if our leaders don’t say anything.
Members of the Freedom Flotilla, a peaceful mission to break the siege on Gaza, are reporting that a drone is hovering over their ship currently en route to Gaza.
This isn’t just an idle threat. A few weeks ago, Israel bombed a separate freedom flotilla ship near Malta with two suicide drones.
This isn’t just an idle threat. A few weeks ago, Israel bombed a separate freedom flotilla ship near Malta with two suicide drones.
June 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Israel is going to kill them if our leaders don’t say anything.
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if you have a WashPost subscription, consider cancelling in protest.
Get a @propublica.org subscription instead (or any of the other amazing publications out there)
Get a @propublica.org subscription instead (or any of the other amazing publications out there)
The Washington Post will sharply expand its opinion offerings, including with articles from other publications, according to people familiar with the plan. A final phase, allowing nonprofessionals to submit columns with help from an A.I. writing coach called Ember, could begin testing this fall.
The Washington Post Plans an Influx of Outside Opinion Writers
A new program, known internally as Ripple, would open The Post to journalists at other publications and influential writers on Substack.
trib.al
June 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
if you have a WashPost subscription, consider cancelling in protest.
Get a @propublica.org subscription instead (or any of the other amazing publications out there)
Get a @propublica.org subscription instead (or any of the other amazing publications out there)
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Today's essential read for all Canadians.
Especially if you need a shot of optomism in these dark times.
afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/a...
Especially if you need a shot of optomism in these dark times.
afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/a...
Part 3: AM I OPTIMISTIC AND, IF SO, HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE
Part 3: Looking for optimism in troubled times So, where are we and where are we headed? Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci, writing in prison in the 1930s when liberal democracy…
afhimelfarb.wordpress.com
May 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Today's essential read for all Canadians.
Especially if you need a shot of optomism in these dark times.
afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/a...
Especially if you need a shot of optomism in these dark times.
afhimelfarb.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/a...
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The case for proportional representation is undeniable.
CTV reports on how our democracy distorting voting system fuels regional divisions, and how proportional representation can fix it.
@mark-carney.bsky.social, will you champion a system where every vote truly counts?
#cdnpoli
CTV reports on how our democracy distorting voting system fuels regional divisions, and how proportional representation can fix it.
@mark-carney.bsky.social, will you champion a system where every vote truly counts?
#cdnpoli
No more blue wall, red wall: How electoral reform could stop regional election sweeps nationalnewswatch.com/2025/05/14/n...
No more blue wall, red wall: How electoral reform could stop regional…
National Newswatch: Canada's most comprehensive site for political news and views.
nationalnewswatch.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The case for proportional representation is undeniable.
CTV reports on how our democracy distorting voting system fuels regional divisions, and how proportional representation can fix it.
@mark-carney.bsky.social, will you champion a system where every vote truly counts?
#cdnpoli
CTV reports on how our democracy distorting voting system fuels regional divisions, and how proportional representation can fix it.
@mark-carney.bsky.social, will you champion a system where every vote truly counts?
#cdnpoli
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A Canadian Social Media platform is getting ready for Beta testing, if you want to be a part of it, sign up here ⤵️
I have signed up. #Canada #GanderSocial
I have signed up. #Canada #GanderSocial
After a long bit of toiling, we're proud to announce the launch of Gander Social—a project to bring a new kind of social to Canadians.
Canadian owned and hosted, a feed you control, privacy-first, consent-based, respectful by default.
Join the Early Access program: gandersocial.ca
Canadian owned and hosted, a feed you control, privacy-first, consent-based, respectful by default.
Join the Early Access program: gandersocial.ca
Gander: The Social Media You Want, Built for Canada
Fun, private, and ethical. We're changing the way social media is done around here, all without your data taking an unexpected trip south.
gandersocial.ca
May 4, 2025 at 12:08 PM
A Canadian Social Media platform is getting ready for Beta testing, if you want to be a part of it, sign up here ⤵️
I have signed up. #Canada #GanderSocial
I have signed up. #Canada #GanderSocial
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There needs to be a serious conversation in Canada both about how treason became a normal, acceptable option in the CPC & why the electorate looks the other way & pretends not to notice when public figures say treasonous things frivolously & for their own short-term benefit.
May 4, 2025 at 7:25 PM
There needs to be a serious conversation in Canada both about how treason became a normal, acceptable option in the CPC & why the electorate looks the other way & pretends not to notice when public figures say treasonous things frivolously & for their own short-term benefit.
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I suspect I'll make myself unpopular again, but I welcome this. Small modular reactors make decarbonising heavy industrial processes; hydrogen production; grid balancing and other tasks easier. We don't need to choose between SMRs and renewables. We can have both.
futurism.com/china-thoriu...
futurism.com/china-thoriu...
China Fires Up World's First Thorium-Powered Nuclear Reactor
Researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed the successful refueling of an operational Thorium-powered nuclear reactor.
futurism.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I suspect I'll make myself unpopular again, but I welcome this. Small modular reactors make decarbonising heavy industrial processes; hydrogen production; grid balancing and other tasks easier. We don't need to choose between SMRs and renewables. We can have both.
futurism.com/china-thoriu...
futurism.com/china-thoriu...
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I did an interview with CBC Morning North on the threat posed by Trump and the growing resistance in Canada.
And just to reassure folks, my fight to make a more just world is just beginning.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
And just to reassure folks, my fight to make a more just world is just beginning.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
'I'm going full out': Northern Ontario MP Charlie Angus on being more vocal now that he's leaving politics | CBC News
Despite announcing his retirement from federal politics last summer, long-time northern Ontario MP Charlie Angus has been more vocal than ever, speaking out against what he calls an 'existential threa...
www.cbc.ca
March 13, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I did an interview with CBC Morning North on the threat posed by Trump and the growing resistance in Canada.
And just to reassure folks, my fight to make a more just world is just beginning.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
And just to reassure folks, my fight to make a more just world is just beginning.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Canada is under attack
So I asked my AI a few questions this morning...
So I asked my AI a few questions this morning...
February 22, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Canada is under attack
So I asked my AI a few questions this morning...
So I asked my AI a few questions this morning...
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Keep Calm and Carry on for 30 days.
We are a corny people but these Canadian videos are giving me life :)
February 4, 2025 at 1:42 AM
Keep Calm and Carry on for 30 days.