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I hear the winds of the Harper era blowing in… all the “abolish the Indian Act” talk… feds would love nothing more than to drop its fiduciary and treaty obligations. Saw this coming with Carney’s conservative extractive agenda. #cdnpoli #indianact #treaties

🚨 A bombshell new House Judiciary Democrats report details allegations from 11 women linking Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, including five who accuse Trump of sexual assault. The report also alleges a sweeping DOJ cover-up. We broke down the explosive findings.

As countries meet to rescue a global nature agreement, scientists warn of a ‘dramatic weakening’ of Canada’s biodiversity protections. @sarahkcox.bsky.social reports. #CanPoli thetyee.ca/News/2026/10...

Mark Carney’s omnibus Bill C-39 is a brazen corporate power grab - and it has the fingerprints of the Business Council of Canada all over it, writes campaigner @nikbarryshaw in Canadian Dimension. canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/email?m... If you yet to vote in the Ontario municipal election please read this piece by Environmental Defence Counsel & Program Manager Phil Pothen before voting.

climateanalytics.org/press-releas... Attention Prime Minister Carney

URGENT: MPs have a chance to fix Bill C-39 before it becomes law. Send a message now to protect our right to strike! share.canadianlabour.ca/s/29iRFmhM

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The latest update to region Nino 3.4 sea surface temperatures is not only a new record daily High, but also a new record anomaly, now 3.46 C above the 1991 to 2020 Baseline.

Bill C-39 reshapes how consultation is done on major mining, oil and gas and infrastructure projects in Canada — and shortens timelines for environmental review. Earlier this month, the Carney government was questioned by senators on what it means for Indigenous Rights.

Heyuan, Huaiji and Lianzhou in Guangdong also broke the record for the latest high temperature day in local observation history. With the addition of Shangyou in Jiangxi and Jianning in Fujian, five stations have broken the record for the latest 35C day today.

Despite assurances from the Trump administration, ProPublica found the government has turned its vast security and surveillance apparatus against the Tohono O’odham Nation. “The drones flying over us all day,” one tribal member said, “it’s a lot.”

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Saudi Arabia to execute man for being at protests and funerals when he was 15

Centrists everywhere may want to coronate Mark Carney as the "leader of the free world.” But Lula, despite his recent election woes, still offers a democratic vision attuned to people’s needs, while Carney offers little more than neoliberalism redux.

Ken Rubin: The feds are opting to diminish the public’s access to information and privacy, ending any pretence of consumer and taxpayer protection, and introducing data centres that generate too much misinformation. www.hilltimes.com/2026/09/23/c...

Routine land theft in the West Bank. Continued killings in the completely devastated Gaza strip. The Israeli government is very good at attacking critics in an attempt to cover up cruel and degrading collective punishment of an entire people. www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oc...

Your 'doom quote' for today: "For several decades, scientists have consistently warned of a future marked by extreme climatic conditions because of escalating global temperatures caused by ongoing human activities that release harmful GHGs into the atmosphere. Unfortunately, time is up."

On Question Time last night, I talked about the extractive economic model that has left Wales - and many other nations - impoverished *because they were so rich in resources*. You can see the problem simply by looking at the map: the infrastructure looks like a drainage system.

As he tours the Queensway Carleton Hospital in Ottawa that has had to cut 100 staff this year, #DougFord's compassionate sincerity is truly a light in the darkness.

'The anomalously warm temperatures that most of the globe will see during this #ElNiño event are a “postcard from the future”: while they feel anomalous now, they will become normal just a few decades into the future.' www.greenleft.org.au/2026/1464/wo...

“War, what is it good for”? So went the 1960s song. The answer, of course, is that it’s good for business. Hell, it’s great.

‼️HISTORIC HEAT ALERT Exceptional heat continues in Southern Africa with widespread 40C+. Next week brutal heat will also encompass Mozambique,Zimbabwe,Zambia and Malawi. Temperatures in parts of Mozambique and Malawi can reach 43/45C for 5 consecutive days. 🌡️Dangerous heat

'These new right-wing movements are far more radical, far more profound in the structural changes they promise...It is a full-scale attack against the working class and in favor of capital, seeking to establish a long-lasting, regressive balance of power.' links.org.au/trumpism-and...

SOUTHEAST ASIA ENDLESS RECORD HEAT Record heat seems eternal in Thailand (1400+ days breaking records no-stop) and all SE Asia. October records broken today: THAILAND 36.4 Trang 36.2 Samutprakaan LAOS 36.8 Sekong 35.5 Saravane MYANMAR 36.7 Victoria Point INDONESIA Min 27.8 Palu

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Bill C-39 is a direct attack on our democratic process and our constitutionally protected rights. Bill C-39 will not build Canada strong. It will build a pipeline to the courts. #C39 #StopC39 #killbillc39 (2/2)

INSANE ABSURDE UNREAL MID OCTOBER AIR CON ON RUSSIAN MOUNTAINS ‼️TROPICAL NIGHTS & 32C in RUSSIA at 1000m asl 32.0C Akhty-Dagestan 4 Republics >30C:Chechnya,Dagestan,North Ossetia and Ingushetia Tropical nights also in Kazakhstan World climatic history is rewritten Details 👎

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians as they were harvesting olives in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring several people including a photojournalist working for The Washington Post. n.pr/4BccJFF

Ford’s office is declining any comment, following news that Ontario just contracted for 600 MW of dirty electricity from the U.S. Remember Ford's public threats to cut off Ontario electricity to the U.S.? Tough talk, no action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=deF7... #onpoli #elbowsup

US records 4,410 measles cases as outbreak grows https://aje.news/96aj3d

NDP Leader @avilewis.ca and I joined the BC Assembly of First Nations' Annual General Meeting to discuss how Bill C-39 violates the right to free, prior and informed consent, and Section 35 of the Canadian Constitution. (1/2)

Environmental sustainability means living like we have only ONE Earth — because we do. It’s using resources at the rate nature can replenish them. Not next year. Not for our grandkids. For us, right now. #Sustainability #ActOnClimate

HISTORIC HEAT IN FRANCE 32C Dozens of stations >30C. Like a mid summer day But if you think this is exceptional. wait to what it s going on in Russia (those temperatures are at high elevations), a mind blowing heat which is rewriting world climatology anew. Table:Meteociel. fr

Full interview with @reedbrody.bsky.social here.

EXTRAORDINARY HEAT spreads from Middle East (MINIMUMS 30/32C) to The CAUCASUS Absurde insane >30C in RUSSIA and ARMENIA highlands. MINIMUMS up to 22.6C in GEORGIA. HUNDREDS OF OCTOBER HIGH MINS RECORDS IN RUSSIA (mins 15C at 60N latitude in mid October is outregeous) 👎

“The night they move the line, there are tanks, infantry coming down, and shells being fired,” he said. “All of that happens just so they can move the yellow block a little further forward.” www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/10...

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'It’s part of this deport-at-all-costs policy that seems to be in particular targeting children.' truthout.org/articles/tru...

Another Indigenous community confronts environmental racism. #Kahnawake www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

Never ending record heat in SOUTHEAST ASIA October records: MYANMAR 36.5 Phiyapon MALAYSIA Kapit min 25.6 max. 35.6 Min 26.1 Bintulu

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EXTRAORDINARY MOST EXTREME EVENT IN ASIAN HISTORY Dozens of thousands of records are being smashed with up to 10C margin (! world record) everywhere from Turkey to Japan We are witnessing something beyond imagination. MINIMUMS >32C in Middle East, tropical Night in Central Asia

"We will not abandon the cemetery where our grandparents, and their grandparents, are buried. We will bury our dead nowhere but here. The truth is, we have no other option." #WesstBank mondoweiss.net/2026/10/in-t...

'More than a year after a “ceasefire” between Hamas and Israel was supposed to open the way for food into the devastated enclave, hunger still defines daily life for many Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.' #GazaGenocide‌ www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026...

'The #Trump administration’s targeting of students and faculty who oppose #Israel’s ongoing genocide in #Gaza is dangerously reminiscent of McCarthy-era censorship and a blatant violation of academic freedom.' www.aclu.org/press-releas...

Palantir didn't have to evade the UK's controls on lobbyists to get astonishing, unminuted access to government ministers and officials, or even to hire them to lobby their colleagues. Why not? Because there aren't any. My column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...