Mike MacKenzie
@mackenziemw.bsky.social
Realistic progressive (usually). "We have seen the enemy and he is us." Pogo (by Walt Kelly). I do stuff for London Greens, GPO & GPC.
Sunset in London
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sunset in London
A juvenile Red Tailed Hawk (so he doesn't have a red tail yet!) at Gibbons Park in London, Ontario, He tried twice to snatch a squirrel but missed both times. Then a Blue Jay flew at him to try to drive him away but the Red Tail Hawk was unperturbed.
November 22, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A juvenile Red Tailed Hawk (so he doesn't have a red tail yet!) at Gibbons Park in London, Ontario, He tried twice to snatch a squirrel but missed both times. Then a Blue Jay flew at him to try to drive him away but the Red Tail Hawk was unperturbed.
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"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
November 22, 2025 at 6:31 PM
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little."
-FDR, 1937
-FDR, 1937
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Stop worrying about terraforming Mars and start preventing the venusification of Earth.
Humans will NEVER colonize another planet. Never.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
If we can’t even agree to do the minimum to keep Earth habitable, there’s no way in hell we’ll cooperate to make another planet habitable.
November 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Stop worrying about terraforming Mars and start preventing the venusification of Earth.
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After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
End of fossil fuel era inches closer as Cop30 deal agreed after bitter standoff
Wealthy countries agree to triple funds for countries to tackle climate impacts, but deforestation and critical minerals blocked from final deal
www.theguardian.com
November 22, 2025 at 6:52 PM
After two weeks of #COP30 negotiations, countries agreed to BEGIN DISCUSSIONS on fossil fuel phase out. And as the article says, "they achieved this incremental progress only in the teeth of implacable opposition from oil-producing countries."
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
THIS is the problem with requiring unanimous decisions.
Yet another example of Ottawa city governance being the worst in the country. The Ottawa Charge averages more fans per game (6,592) than the capacity (5,600) of the new arena at Lansdowne 2.0. If the Charge are forced to leave Ottawa it will be a loss to the city.
www.ctvnews.ca/sports/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/sports/artic...
PWHL ‘will not play’ at Landsdowne 2.0, leaving Ottawa Charge’s future up in the air
There’s an off-ice faceoff playing out in the nation’s capital between the city’s professional women’s hockey team and the city of Ottawa.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Yet another example of Ottawa city governance being the worst in the country. The Ottawa Charge averages more fans per game (6,592) than the capacity (5,600) of the new arena at Lansdowne 2.0. If the Charge are forced to leave Ottawa it will be a loss to the city.
www.ctvnews.ca/sports/artic...
www.ctvnews.ca/sports/artic...
The next time you hear someone complaining about the federal government & interprovincial trade barriers refer them to this article! The feds have already removed all of their policies that affected interprovincial trade. The provinces are nearly all talk & little action.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Alcohol industry disappointed to be left out of interprovincial trade agreement | CBC News
Some in the alcohol industry say they’re perplexed and disappointed that booze was left out of a recent agreement between provinces to drop interprovincial trade barriers.
www.cbc.ca
November 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The next time you hear someone complaining about the federal government & interprovincial trade barriers refer them to this article! The feds have already removed all of their policies that affected interprovincial trade. The provinces are nearly all talk & little action.
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
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Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall
November 20, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Then Toad began to bang his head against the wall
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Join us for a free Zoom event on Dec. 2 to unpack the process, politics and potential impacts of Canada’s push to build major projects. Get the details on that, plus more fresh reporting from The Narwhal, in our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-r...
RSVP: Unpacking Carney’s major projects push | The Narwhal
Join The Narwhal for a free Zoom event on Dec. 2 to unpack the process, politics and potential impacts of Canada’s push to build major projects
thenarwhal.ca
November 21, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Join us for a free Zoom event on Dec. 2 to unpack the process, politics and potential impacts of Canada’s push to build major projects. Get the details on that, plus more fresh reporting from The Narwhal, in our latest newsletter: thenarwhal.ca/newsletter-r...
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“What’s disturbing about the scandal though, is how blatant it is. Political appointees are handing out hundreds of millions of dollars from a public slush fund to organizations that are either close to the government or that hire the right political insiders.”
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Star Editorial Board: Doug Ford’s latest scandal is almost too brazen to be believed
It suggests Ford has established a system where public money is being handed out not based on need or merit but on who you know or who you pay
www.thestar.com
November 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
“What’s disturbing about the scandal though, is how blatant it is. Political appointees are handing out hundreds of millions of dollars from a public slush fund to organizations that are either close to the government or that hire the right political insiders.”
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
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@lawandchocolate.bsky.social Have you given up on Bluesky? Hope all is well.
November 15, 2025 at 2:56 PM
@lawandchocolate.bsky.social Have you given up on Bluesky? Hope all is well.
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This hydro rate subsidy is giving the people who have the most the biggest break.
Billionaires like Galen Weston don’t need a break on their electricity bills when Ford says the govt doesn’t have money for affordable housing, healthcare and education.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Billionaires like Galen Weston don’t need a break on their electricity bills when Ford says the govt doesn’t have money for affordable housing, healthcare and education.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Critics call on Ford government to address rising hydro rates | CBC News
Critics are calling on the Ford government to stop spending billions subsidizing hydro rates, and to instead find ways to reduce the cost of electricity across the province’s grid after a 29 per cent ...
www.cbc.ca
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
This hydro rate subsidy is giving the people who have the most the biggest break.
Billionaires like Galen Weston don’t need a break on their electricity bills when Ford says the govt doesn’t have money for affordable housing, healthcare and education.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Billionaires like Galen Weston don’t need a break on their electricity bills when Ford says the govt doesn’t have money for affordable housing, healthcare and education.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The latest example of the PC government's incompetence will cause more deaths due to speeding drivers. Banning speed cameras is something that police forces are against as well as most Ontarians. Spending $210 million on traffic calming measures is a total waste!
globalnews.ca/news/1152481...
globalnews.ca/news/1152481...
Ontario unveils $210M for cities stripped of speed cameras to spend on infrastructure | Globalnews.ca
The fund was promised when Premier Doug Ford announced he would force cities to remove their cameras, saying they don't work and offering to build speed bumps instead.
globalnews.ca
November 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
The latest example of the PC government's incompetence will cause more deaths due to speeding drivers. Banning speed cameras is something that police forces are against as well as most Ontarians. Spending $210 million on traffic calming measures is a total waste!
globalnews.ca/news/1152481...
globalnews.ca/news/1152481...
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Even if we skip COP30, our economy won’t skip the bill.
Climate disasters now cost nearly $1 trillion a year—double a mere decade ago.
A fast clean energy transition costs far less than inaction.
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Climate disasters now cost nearly $1 trillion a year—double a mere decade ago.
A fast clean energy transition costs far less than inaction.
🎯 from @markgongloff.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/mark...
The idea that climate action and economic growth are somehow competing is outdated and dangerously wrong. 3 new studies add to the stack of evidence that climate policy *is* economic policy
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The US Is Making a $3 Trillion-a-Year Mistake
There’s this outdated comparison many politicians and even some climate-change advocates still use, which is to juxtapose climate action against economic growth, as if the two were opposing sides in a...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Even if we skip COP30, our economy won’t skip the bill.
Climate disasters now cost nearly $1 trillion a year—double a mere decade ago.
A fast clean energy transition costs far less than inaction.
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Climate disasters now cost nearly $1 trillion a year—double a mere decade ago.
A fast clean energy transition costs far less than inaction.
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“But there is one thing that I can do all by myself.”
“What is that?” asked Frog.
“I can go home,” said Toad. “Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.”
“What is that?” asked Frog.
“I can go home,” said Toad. “Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.”
November 11, 2025 at 2:37 PM
“But there is one thing that I can do all by myself.”
“What is that?” asked Frog.
“I can go home,” said Toad. “Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.”
“What is that?” asked Frog.
“I can go home,” said Toad. “Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.”
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Last Week at Queen's Park: Ford’s Fall Economic Statement Fails on Affordability and Cancels Climate Action open.substack.com/pub/mikeschr...
Ford’s Fall Economic Statement Fails on Affordability and Cancels Climate Action
It's a budget for the wealthy and well connected, not everyday people
open.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Last Week at Queen's Park: Ford’s Fall Economic Statement Fails on Affordability and Cancels Climate Action open.substack.com/pub/mikeschr...
Labour Minister Piccini continues his inept performance. He's promised the construction union LiUNA's members that they will be building the 401 tunnel. Of course, the PCs just recently gave a $9.1 million contract to WSP (another friend of Ford's) to study the scheme
globalnews.ca/news/1152044...
globalnews.ca/news/1152044...
Labour Minister tells Ford-friendly union it will be tapped to build Hwy. 401 tunnel | Globalnews.ca
In a video posted to social media, Labour Minister David Piccini told members of a private sector union they'd be tapped to build Hwy. 413 and the 401 tunnel.
globalnews.ca
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Labour Minister Piccini continues his inept performance. He's promised the construction union LiUNA's members that they will be building the 401 tunnel. Of course, the PCs just recently gave a $9.1 million contract to WSP (another friend of Ford's) to study the scheme
globalnews.ca/news/1152044...
globalnews.ca/news/1152044...
Bald Eagles at Gibbons Park in London, Ontario
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November 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Bald Eagles at Gibbons Park in London, Ontario
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Northern Cardinals (male & female) at Springbank Park in London, Ontario
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Northern Cardinals (male & female) at Springbank Park in London, Ontario
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Listen to @mikeschreiner.bsky.social comment on the PC government's Fall Economic Statement (FES). Besides failing on the economy, the FES also ends setting greenhouse gas emission targets & making plans to mitigate climate change.
This is a total abdication of responsibility by the Ford government.
This is a total abdication of responsibility by the Ford government.
Last Week at Queen's Park: Ford’s Fall Economic Statement Fails on Affordability and Cancels Climate Action open.substack.com/pub/mikeschr...
Ford’s Fall Economic Statement Fails on Affordability and Cancels Climate Action
It's a budget for the wealthy and well connected, not everyday people
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Listen to @mikeschreiner.bsky.social comment on the PC government's Fall Economic Statement (FES). Besides failing on the economy, the FES also ends setting greenhouse gas emission targets & making plans to mitigate climate change.
This is a total abdication of responsibility by the Ford government.
This is a total abdication of responsibility by the Ford government.
The Ford regime refuses to release a previously completed report on the feasibility of its 401 tunnel. Not surprising as the report pours cold water on the crackpot notion. Also unsurprisingly, Premier Ford continues to promote the impractical, way too costly idea.
globalnews.ca/news/1151718...
globalnews.ca/news/1151718...
Ford government refuses to release completed work on Hwy. 401 tunnel idea | Globalnews.ca
Ontario is refusing to release already completed work on the viability of Premier Doug Ford's Highway 401 tunnel vision after signing a $9.1 million contract to study it again.
globalnews.ca
November 10, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The Ford regime refuses to release a previously completed report on the feasibility of its 401 tunnel. Not surprising as the report pours cold water on the crackpot notion. Also unsurprisingly, Premier Ford continues to promote the impractical, way too costly idea.
globalnews.ca/news/1151718...
globalnews.ca/news/1151718...
They couldn't vote but they volunteered in WWI anyway. Then in WWII some were put in internment camps and lost everything. Shameful behaviour by our government that we should always remember.
Thank you to the Japanese-Canadians who served our (& their) country.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Thank you to the Japanese-Canadians who served our (& their) country.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Japanese immigrants fought for Canada during WW I while denied the right to vote | CBC News
For the first time the faces of Japanese Canadian veterans who fought in the First and Second World War are on display on the streets of Vancouver after a century largely unrecognized and their storie...
www.cbc.ca
November 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
They couldn't vote but they volunteered in WWI anyway. Then in WWII some were put in internment camps and lost everything. Shameful behaviour by our government that we should always remember.
Thank you to the Japanese-Canadians who served our (& their) country.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Thank you to the Japanese-Canadians who served our (& their) country.
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Why does BC allow this cutting down of old growth trees to supply a biomass power plant in the UK?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax still burning 250-year-old trees sourced from forests in Canada, experts say
Exclusive: report by Stand.earth says subsidiary of power plant received truckloads of whole logs at biomass pellet sites
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Why does BC allow this cutting down of old growth trees to supply a biomass power plant in the UK?
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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La Cloche Hills
Franklin Carmichael
1933
Franklin Carmichael
1933
November 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
La Cloche Hills
Franklin Carmichael
1933
Franklin Carmichael
1933