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Lula Goes HARD

My TorStar article on the OSAP fiasco.

These prime broadcasts are awful #sens #nhl

There is so much bait-and-switch in Canada’s “digital sovereignty“ (heh) strategy. Bottom line is that building out massive polluting AI data centres to host US tech companies is a form of digital colonialism: they control the tech & the profits, and export the dirtiest, lowest-value part abroad.

So much of Canada’s oil and gas conversation makes NO sense. But WHY is that? Well thanks to a WILD new report from Greenpeace Canada, the network of murky figures muddying these conversations about energy are coming into view:

In which I call out @naomiaklein.bsky.social, the CBC At Issue Panel and every other smart and decent Canadian who still chooses to use the social media site owned by the guy who wants to break our country up. Whatever you're doing on there isn't as important as what he's trying to do to you.

Could and should. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This has been a scandal from Day 1 www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

‼️ Alberta separatists are clearly MAGA north ‼️ Same hate. Same rage. Same lies. Same ignoring of facts, science, and morality. Same lack of shame...👇 "...separatists have gone to D.C. offering fresh water and oil in exchange for American support..." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...,

Counter-proposal to Sam Altman: Go fuck yourself www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars. Even if those cars are electric. And then there’s all the parking. OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc. Choices. Simple.

The environmental and climate consequences of building a new oil pipeline are extreme, including the threat to endangered Southern Resident orcas.

HNIC will pivot to showing PWHL games. Very, very cool that a bunch of girls are going to get to live the dream of playing on HNIC. Unimaginable just a few years ago. Can we please just all agree to be cool with this? #HNIC #PWHL #Hockey dailyhive.com/vancouver/ho...

Do you know what really grinds my gears? When billionaire, sex criminal, genocide-defenders tell us what voices we are and aren’t allowed to hear. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Still looking forward to the day when Carney announces historic investments in knowledge-based industries. You know, the ones where Canada is among the worst-placed in the OECD.

Good morning. Ipsos has restricting energy exports to the US with 2:1 support; an oil & gas export tax at nearly 3:1 support. *In Alberta.* (Table 2.) www.ipsos.com/en-ca/canadi...

BREAKING: sucks to have stuff renamed by white people, doesn’t it?

The best time to have made Canada digitally sovereign would have been *before* an American president announced his intention to annex Canada and began explicitly deploying America's tech companies to attack his geopolitical adversaries. The second-best time is *now*. 52/

This week the 4 biggest publicly-traded Canadian oil companies posted $13.3b after-tax profit in the 2nd quarter ($146m per DAY). Like other global oil giants, they are getting rich from the misery caused by Trump's war. My take in today's @thestar.com: thestar.com/business/opi... /2

Canada is being asked to make a $40B bet on the past. We’re told another oil pipeline will bring national unity, economic security & prosperity. We’ve heard this before. You don’t prepare a country for the future by betting billions on the past www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Watching CBC News, you might not even make the connection between this year's extreme wildfire season, and fossil fuel-induced climate change. Tara Mahoney sits down with @desmondcole.bsky.social to discuss gaps in the public broadcaster’s climate coverage. breachmedia.ca/why-is-cbcs-...

It is 2006. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2016. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. It is 2026. The government wants to cut emissions with carbon capture. thenarwhal.ca/canada-carbo...

Trump gives us another reminder: Canada needs a warlike effort to separate from the US, to boycott their country and their products, and to strengthen relations with democratic countries instead.

German broadcast. Nailed it

Convoy leader Pat King is going to jail Ontario's court of appeal overturned King's earlier sentence, agreeing a conditional house arrest sentence was too lenient

How does Mark Carney's 6-step LNG grift funnel public money to Wall St billionaires? Watch our latest - youtube.com/shorts/lf3Zl...

"Deeply sad about the loss of Ringwraith #4. We might have disagreed on policy, such as stabbing hobbits and murdering innocent villagers and working for the Dark Lord Sauron, but he loved riding horses and supporting his fellow Nazgûl. Wish he'd had more time." -Canadian politicians, apparently

For those behind a paywall, my OpEd in the Winnipeg Free Press. Why should Canadian taxpayers provide enormous subsidies for Big Oil? A new pipeline to the west coast estimated at $34-43 billion. Expect that to be north of $100 billion when it's built and doomed to be a stranded asset. #PipelineBan

Happy 250th America

Alberta and Ottawa said any new pipeline would be privately funded. Today that promise was broken: a private company will cover just 10%. Taxpayers will front up tens of billions of dollars. If oil exports are such an economic opportunity for Canada, why won’t companies invest? buff.ly/Ao6yGt3

Did you know? Renewables have just overtaken coal as the world's largest source of electricity 34% – global renewable share, up 2x in 20yrs 48% – EU 37% – China 26% – US 24% – India

Canada Day extreme weather brought to you by climate change, which Carney announced yesterday we can’t afford to properly fight 🤗

"The changes we have made will mean that our emissions will be higher in the next few years"- Mark Carney

NEW: A retired class action practitioner in rural Alberta has initiated a proposed class action lawsuit against Alberta's government, the Centurion Project, David Parker and the Republican Party of Alberta for one of the largest data breach in Cdn history. open.substack.com/pub/theorcha...

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

Time for Canadian schools to expand their smartphone bans to include generative AI now too.

Devastating account of degeneracy in the Ottawa police, which seems to be getting worse. Including that the police lied about the status of an investigative office (they'd killed it and pretended otherwise!) and the police board let them. By @kristynease.bsky.social . www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

June 6 is D-day, probably ANTIFA's most heroic moment.

businesses: we’re finding all this AI spending isn’t really paying off and we’re thinking it might be time to pull back public: it’s hard to tell what’s real anymore with all this AI slop and some of my friends are acting pretty weird mark carney: WE MUST SPEED UP AI ADOPTION FOR THE ECONOMY

"Third Way" liberal politics involves *saying* things that working people love, but *doing* things that sociopathic plutocrats love. It works ...right up until voters notice that you're not *doing* the things. That realisation breeds cynicism and fury and paves the way for fascist strongmen. 2/

Bill C-22 would expand surveillance powers in Canada while lowering protections around subscriber information. Privacy advocates say the reforms could also align Canadian law with US demands for cross-border data access. Writer Kate Robertson explores: https://ow.ly/LQF950Z45mN

Meet the "Fight Ford" protest movement that’s spreading across Ontario As dissatisfaction with Doug Ford's government continues to grow, thousands have been turning up to monthly, province-wide rallies: pressprogress.ca/fight-doug-f...