Greg Fingas

Yet another reminder for all those out there sporting “I ❤️ oil and gas” shirts and bumper stickers that it doesn’t ❤️ you back.

"Solar is now the engine of the power transition."

There is only one solution that will save these jobs and put Canada back in the driver's seat: we need to nationalize Stelco.

The American CEO who bought Stelco is openly admitting that he purchased the company to sabotage it. This is why the Liberals should have never approved Stelco's sale in the first place. When you give away ownership of a critical industry like steel, your economy is forever under another's thumb.

Remember the early days of Covid when people were speculating on N95 masks and hand sanitizer by buying up the scarce supply and selling it for inflated prices; but then we made so many masks and so much hand sanitizer that you could get them super cheap? We could do that for housing if we wanted.

users: I do not want your shitty ai how can I turn it off? companies: oohhh, no, you can't do that. literally. we built it so you literally cannot turn it off. *ten minutes later* companies: good news, every body! our breakthrough ai feature has one hundred percent adoption rate!

He's basically daring governments to expropriate at this point.

Yes, and the way they talk about climate change as a risk factor without drawing the connection to their own fossil gas buildout is also interesting.

Premier Danielle Smith rejects call for a public inquiry into alleged procurement irregularities in Alberta's healthcare system after The Globe reported the RCMP is investigating potential fraud, breach of trust, and money laundering www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social

NEW: buried in anthropic's hefty ipo documents released yesterday is an interesting admission: the company's increasing reliance on dirty gas to power its data centers is actually exposing it to financial risk wrote about it for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/anthro...

Um, I think he said the quiet part out loud.

Renewed patriotism is being used to justify neoliberalism’s life support, rather than political and economic transformation. There is another way forward as progressive pockets are demonstrating around the world. perspectivesjournal.ca/neoliberal-capture

'A Crime of Extreme Inequality': Richest 0.1% Generate More Carbon Pollution Than Half of Humanity www.commondreams.org/news/oxfam-0...

Today's methane announcement from Trump shows why the Senate permitting bill is so terribly written. It would lock in every single environmental rollback Trump can cram into the next two years. 🧵: 1/

An essential short read from philosopher Cailin O'Connor.

Mounting evidence suggests that night is darker than day.

Vass Bednar: Meta's latest audacious move shows why Canadians must keep pushing back against Big Tech financialpost.com/technology/m...

"CEO Hyder told Politico that the Carney government 'has been full of outreach,' so much so that the corporate lobby group struggled to keep up with the invitations. 'It has been from the highest levels on down. It has been very consultative. It has been engaging.'" funny who gets consulted here

i know it's the age of immediacy and frictionless and what-have-you but *everything* takes longer to complete now than it did even two or three years ago. it's stunning.

Weird how websites didn’t have “necessary cookies” to display text in 1999, and yet

Because of course it is. Not housing. Not the drug crisis. Of course not the climate crisis. Just Fossil Fuel profits

Troubling. “Are there differences?” Ford asked. “Sure, there is. But I can tell you one thing: we agree on 99 percent of the stuff.” For Ford, it was an unintentionally insightful observation: the political distance between the two men is much smaller than it appears. thewalrus.ca/doug-ford-ma...

Elon Musk keeps threatening Canada's sovereignty, and Canada's leaders....keep posting on his social media platform? Non-MAGA politicians, journalists, business leaders: give your head a shake and stand up for your country. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/14/o...

Maybe I'm delusional but my first reaction to a $11.4 billion cost for off grid solar access for EVERYONE for whom this is a good solution seems pretty cheap ... financialpost.com/commodities/...

‘Hybrid weapon of war’: Why climate disinformation could be a growing public health threat Health and civil society organisations have called on 194 countries to make information integrity core part of climate and health policy, preparedness, response

Could global warming explain why people are so negative on the economy? deanbaker22.substack.com/p/could-trum...

All of our collective knowledge on data centres compiled in one place just for you! www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

You can do the same thing, buying a house and borrowing against it—ha ha, just kidding, normal people get taxed annually on their wealth via property taxes, the "you can't tax wealth, the economy will collapse!" rule applies solely to the super-rich.

NEW: Hormuz reminded fuel importers that buying energy cargo by cargo means importing every price shock. In TIME, María Mendiluce and I argue the response will decide who becomes the electrostates of the next decade. @wemeanbusiness.bsky.social time.com/article/2026...

One of the most important financial stories out there if you want to know how and why the same five evil guys wind up owning everything.

SCOOP: The RCMP is investigating fraud, breach of trust, and money laundering in connection with Alberta's health care procurement controversy, according to a letter filed in court www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... w @tomcardoso.bsky.social

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

Look, I know all the reasons we got here, but we really need to start seriously thinking about what we do in a world where The Markets punish whole countries for voting for decency, compassion, and fairness. We must stop pretending the capitalist machine is an objective, value neutral force.

Metaphor alert:

American workers' piece of the economic pie is shrinking. By one official measure, their slice is the smallest in almost 80 years. https://cnn.it/4yNqckO

Where we are as a country: in opposition to the establishment of democracy in Venezuela because it could infringe on the extractive contracts the president’s buddies have arranged with the current regime.

It’s interesting that they can always find the money when necessary. We just have to make it necessary

In Alberta a big part of the strategy is data centres as "digital refining" to produce value from additional natural gas use (and leverage the cold weather). This is not some kind conspiracy theory but clearly stated on the website describing the data centre strategy www.alberta.ca/datacentres/...

I think we underestimate the appeal of antigambling politics because every problem gambler is surrounded by 3-10 people who are absolutely sick of their shit.