Dr.P. in OTT

To stand in an ancient forest is to stand in a cathedral. We cannot put a price tag on the oxygen we breathe or the silence we need. Protect the wild.

Summer after summer people are being displaced from their communities by increasingly severe wildfire seasons caused by the climate emergency. (1/5) ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

I hope Scott Gilmour, husband of Catherine McKenna, and Carney's new principal secretary, can convince the PM that climate change is in fact real (and that he should actually do something about it).

This pipeline isn’t nation building. It’s nation burning.

Sodium-ion #batteries just became one of the most significant clean energy breakthroughs. Chinese battery giant #CATL confirmed it began manufacturing them at industrial scale in 2025. It replaces lithium with sodium — so abundant it is literally extracted from ordinary seawater and table salt.

Yet another Harper-like move by Mr. Conservative Carney.

The science is brutally clear: • 1 million species at risk of extinction • 70% of wildlife populations lost in 50 years • 2024 was the hottest year on record (again) This is not a “future problem.” This is a now problem created by now choices. #RespectNature

Breaking News: Sonny Rollins, a jazz great with a forceful and imaginative approach to the tenor saxophone, has died at 95.

The legendary jazz saxophonist, who revolutionized the art of improvisation, died Monday at his home in Woodstock, N.Y. n.pr/3Q2hMWr

A first for me today. Glad to have this piece in The Guardian. Figured it was time more of our international friends heard some hard truths about how things are going here in 🇨🇦: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why do people hate Democratic Socialism when it so clearly works? You just tax a few obnoxious, power-mad billionaires (Musk, O’Leary, etc.) and make life better for millions. CAN I GET A FREAKING AMEN? THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

Surely they've suffered enough?

Trees boost mental health, reduce energy use, and even save lives by lowering mortality rates in greener areas

The collapse of the gulf stream will be catastrophic for the entire planet. The crisis in the earth's circulation system continues to be ignored while politicians promote massive oil/gas expansion. We are killing our children's future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Editorial: Here’s why Avi Lewis is the wrong choice to lead the NDP – by a centrist Liberal

“If you’re gay or transgender, I love you. And if anybody gives you shit, tell ‘em Charles said fuck you.”

Future generations won’t believe these trees existed. They will read about 1,500-year-old cedars and 2,000-year-old redwoods and think we made them up—like dragons or griffins. But right now, we have the chance to make sure the story ends differently. Don’t let the last ancients become myths.

The irony of the automobile company set up by the Nazis providing weaponry to Israel: www.ft.com/content/1e41...

A forest that took centuries to build, destroyed in days. For profit. This isn't development. It's the liquidation of our planet's natural capital. #Ecocide #Deforestation

ABSOFUCKINGLUTELY BERNIE......

Why we are f&%ked, reason #49. A huge part of the Western U.S. saw not just a warm winter, but the hottest winter in 131 years of record keeping. But it was the much smaller region of non-record cold in the East that made all the headlines. Summer is coming.

More shameful behaviour by Brady Tkachuk, the captain of the Ottawa Senators.

@alexadamssn.bsky.social @docnaismith.bsky.social Brady is in the background; hope Sanderson was not among the mix of players looking ridiculous celebrating with Patel.

Harper 2.0

An oft-repeated statistic says men apply for a job when they have 60% of the qualifications while women wait till they have 100%. Pretty sure that stat was debunked, but … Several men seem to think that being Mayor is a suitable starter job for someone with no municipal experience. It’s not.

The Ottawa Senators gained new fans through the success Heated Rivalry and then promptly lost them by signing a homophobic goalie.

Scotiabank isn't the only one poised to profit. Canadian banks have billions invested in the US oil companies set to takeover Venezuela's industry.

Greta Thunberg arrested for holding a sign opposing genocide. When peaceful protest is a crime, democracy is in deep trouble. Happening under a Labour Government.

With a dozen crazy events like this now happening every day I almost admire the discipline it takes for corp news & white liberals to still, even as we cross 1.5C warming, pretend we’re not in a real time global emergency.

Join us in demanding real action: Call on Premier Eby and Minister of Forests Ravi Parmar to protect old growth and end subsidies to Drax and the forest biomass sector. 👉 Take action by sending a letter to Eby and Parmar:

Doug Ford's asshole!

Ontario is using misleading imagery in the Ring of Fire ads running during the World Series. Kinda like @elaineanselmi.bsky.social using a pic of the Jays in this column about why the govt might want people to think mining in Treaty 9 is farther along than it really is. thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...

12 hours after the mayor posted this, it hasn't received a single "like" yet!

Jane Goodall offers sage advice for the rest of us. #3E

www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Ta-Nehasi Coates is doing a lot of things with this essay, but one of the most important is fearlessly using examples of anti-trans hate to describe Charlie Kirk's politics. The contrast between his choices and those of other writers for major legacy outlets is revealing.

In other news, that would be funded for 10 years with the 1/2 Billion from Lansdowne

"Air pollution is the greatest external threat to human well-being on the planet... More years of life expectancy are lost for the average person on the planet due to air pollution than to maternal and child malnutrition, than due to alcohol, than due to tobacco." www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Let’s be clear about the wildfires - endless logging and fossil fuel expansion have made this situation worse. It's shameful to see politicians pushing for the expansion of logging and fossil fuels as we experience and witness this devastation. #wildfires #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Excellent and utterly piece by @whippletom.bsky.social on the dangerously fading taboo of nuclear weapons Why taboo on nuclear weapons is fading, 80 years after Hiroshima www.thetimes.com/article/cbc6...

The Lancet: Plastics are a grave, growing, and under-recognised danger to human and planetary health. Plastics cause disease and death from infancy to old age and are responsible for health-related economic losses exceeding US$1·5 trillion annually. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Our capitalist system is not only fueled by the relentless destruction of living systems, it has also severed us from nature to such an extent that most people are unaware they’re living through the most rapid extinction event in the 4 BILLION year history of this planet.

I really try not to be unduly negative about potential good news, but this whole statement is just infuriating. "We'll take a step towards stopping a genocide, maybe, in a month, if the people being genocided stop fighting back. But not the people doing it to them, though! They're good!"

The World since 7 October www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were used for racial research in the late 1800s.

This is an excellent article, tying in history with what’s happening now. @altnps.bsky.social @altusfs.altgov.info @hcrichardson.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...