Cathy Holtslander 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈

Canada's trade luminaries and the PMO thought this was a good thing to agree to in a free trade deal with a known facilitator of trade in illicit conflict gold. www.international.gc.ca/trade-commer...

www.rmoutlook.com/banff/parks-... Senseless, uninformed destruction of national public institutions. I closely followed Carney’s ideological destruction of Ag research capacity. Now he is hollowing out our National Parks. But billions of OUR money for pipelines to line foreign investors pockets!

Welcome to Carney austerity. Unless you're a fossil fuel, AI, or defence executive. Then welcome to the all you can grab money tube. www.rmoutlook.com/banff/parks-...

This is evil. 100 left, and UCP? "Greater sage grouse experienced a 98 per cent population decline in Alberta from 1968 to 2012 due mainly to habitat loss and industrial development. The species currently occupies only about seven per cent of its historical range." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

tinyurl.com/2fb6xet9?sou... Send your MP this letter re Cuba

Come out to this event in Ottawa on November 15! HYPERSCALE in Ottawa: an afternoon with author Paris Marx + @policyalternatives.ca senior researcher on AI, @hadrianmk.bsky.social #cdnpoli www.zeffy.com/en-CA/ticket...

How a loophole in Canada's spe... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Cabinet is abdicating responsibility to address species at risk protection. In light of Bill C 39 this appears to be a deliberate strategy to sacrifice species' existence to allow destructive industries to proceed unfettered. #canpoli

Bill C-12 is being challenged in the courts. Lawyers allege it violates Canada's legal obligations under both domestic and international law. .. Crépeau disagrees: "Removing a full hearing … is a violation of the conditions set by the Singh decision."' www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

On the Nobel Peace Prize 🏆

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Oh wow In May, I reported Alberta separatists were using an app developed by GOP operatives with ties to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra @theglobeandmail.com now reports the same operatives flew to Calgary on a private jet for a secret meeting with separatist leaders: pressprogress.ca/alberta-sepa...

"The mock law calls for govs. to give greater protection, such as a police escort, to whistleblowers, witnesses and experts in criminal cases of ecocide. It also proposes harsher penalties for crimes committed against them." 👏

"Canada strong", "national interest", "sovereignty", "Orange Scary Bad Man" -- all propaganda to get Canadians to accept the erosion of climate protections, food security, labour rights, Indigenous rights, the public sector, and public ownership. And all working very well indeed.

Everything Carney says he needs private equity to build and finance has been done in the past by government. Instead of taxing wealth to finance these projects he is instead selling our infrastructure to the wealthy. In the end we own nothing while paying more for it.

The donation will establish the Graeme Gibson Chair in Avian Biology, a new research position at the London, Ont., school focused on understanding how birds move, behave and adapt to changing environmental conditions www.ctvnews.ca/london/artic...

What you need to know about the Productivity Mega Deduction, the latest measure purportedly designed to induce an investment boom. By @marclee.bsky.social #cdnpoli #cdnecon @policyalternatives.ca www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

centreforlocalprosperity.ca/canada-cant-... Excellent analysis of the problems with Carney’s national food strategy and a better alternative. #canagri

No one could have foreseen this.

Liberal plan for regions of na... www.cbc.ca/player/play/... Avi is correct. Carney’s power grab is extremely dangerous. He is creating democracy-free zones under corporate control as described by Quinn Slobodian in Crack-Up Capitalism: Market Radicals and the Dream of a World Without Democracy.

This crisis moment is a chance to reimagine what kind of Canada we want to build – and Canadians are ready to build big things together.

NDP Leader Avi Lewis says Carney’s government is “flooding the zone.” “We are in a crisis moment. We’re under economic attack from the United States and we need a crisis response,” Lewis said. 1/2

"We reject the idea that workers’ bargaining power is somehow contrary to the national interest. The national interest is good jobs. It is jobs that are safe, secure and well paid... Collective bargaining is what delivers those things." Here here. #BillC39 canadianlabour.ca/government-l...

The profit-taking for Wall St and Bay St begins immediately! Billable hours already piling up as big banks will skim millions off the sale itself. The rich making bank off the public: welcome to privatization, folks. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... How to create a viable, just and sustainable agriculture sector that builds food sovereignty

Gotta say, I couldn't agree more with Lewis on this. This message is needed now more than ever.

Carney is engaged in distaster capitalism. He is selling Canada off and gutting the public sector. He is far, far worse than Harper. His MPs are complicit. www.cbc.ca/radio/asitha...

Well look at that. Brookfield and our pensions. www.cppinvestments.com/newsroom/cpp...

When Australia privatized their airports, their Competition Bureau found that consumers paid $1.6 billion in extra fees.

Airport privatization is coming to Canada. Senior Economist @davidmaccdn.bsky.social shows why it's a bad deal for Canadians. @policyalternatives.ca #cdnecon #canlab www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

"Asset recycling is just another scheme driven by bankers and governments desperate to hide past failures of neoliberal privatization policy. There are cheaper and better alternatives and it is time we started using them." cpress.org/post/asset-r...

Privatizing airports is one of the stupidest moves ever.

Today, expect our banker-in-chief to put Canadian public goods on the auction block for privatization by foreign capital behind closed doors away from public view. shrlnk.ca/s/2nA0eXco

Pay attention #Alberta!

#Birds Alan H says today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is: #ABCD, any bird name beginning with any of these letters. Here is an Avocet at an alkalai slough in Saskatchewan

www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news... Yet another horrible tragedy caused by US white supremacists and the ICE paramilitary force. Canada must end the "safe 3rd country" rule and allow refugees from the USA in, and all other countries need to stop pretending USA has a legitimate government.

#bloomscrolling

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Canadians see this horrible destruction of meaningful public places (+ Kennedy Centre, East Wing, National Parks) along with ICE abuses, etc. Resisting US takeover is about much more than tariffs. Trump destroys to dishonor what is good and beautiful, as a sick display of power. Nothing is sacred.

Kawacatoose First Nation celeb... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Powerful and beautiful

The same Mark Carney bragging about recruiting a few dozen academics from abroad is "hollowing out public science" at a scale not seen since the Harper administration. See @e4dca.bsky.social evidencefordemocracy.ca/canada-is-cu...

Canada was right to walk about from a bogus deal; it’s time to build more internal economic strength. By @marclee.bsky.social and Stuart Trew. @policyalternatives.ca @ccpa-tirp.bsky.social #CanadaUSTradeWar #cdnpoli www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

For goodness' sake, please please please read this great piece by Cory Doctorow that explains better than I do the best way to fight back against Trump. pluralistic.net/2026/08/24/e...

“it is a mistake to believe that the economy depends on the #USMCA. It is best described as [an] intra-company trade agreement for about 500 companies—many of them US subsidiaries—making up 80% Mexico’s commerce.” www.mxpe.org/p/against-us...

John Kerry's reasons for rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline proposal in 2015. Still true in 2026.

Same attitudes as a year ago. The public wanted elbows up, the government went passive. A year later we’re in the same position. leger360.com/in-the-news-...

Where do Canada-U.S. trade neg... www.cbc.ca/news/politic... All USA has to do is threaten and Canada (Carney) gives up significant, strategic real-world control over our economy. Even dog trainers know giving in to bad behavior signals that it works. Export tariff what US wants THEN negotiate.

Sunset on the Prairies about a week ago. This is near Goose Lake. You can see the silver sliver right below the horizon.

Tiny, beautiful species are go... www.cbc.ca/news/science...