Jan Brown

This article is an important corrective to the claim that Federal environmental laws are holding back clean-energy development. Their empirical finding: "environmental reviews and permitting rarely delay or block utility-scale renewable energy projects." Link in next tweet.

Another thing that pisses me the fuck off is that, once vaccines came out and they knew that 99% of the world was never going to pay attention to anything about Covid ever again, they lowkey 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘥 lying?? I assume for legal reasons? Like, this has been up on the CDC's website since May of 2022??

The people organized and came out to defeat the far right in Brazil. This election is an incredible example of how grassroots democratic action can beat the oligarchs, the tech bros and the far right. I love the Swifties for Lula youth contingent.

Genuinely I don't know that it comes across to people who haven't been here to watch how almost unbelievable this was, just people taking something that looked impossible and dragging it kicking and screaming all the way to inevitability.

All the cold, cough, and flu products ads make me crazy. Take a snort of Afrin and go to your gig. Take some Alka Seltzer Plus and go on your date. Take Painquil and gather with your family. Take some flu meds and go to work. NO, TAKE A COVID TEST AND STAY YOUR ASS AT HOME! 😷

So construction forges ahead before any agreement is even signed?!? What kind of idiot did Nova Scotia elect to lead the province? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Avi Lewis: "The right has not been afraid of rage. And what they've done is redirected it to immigrants, to trans kids, to people living on the street. Instead of directing that rage upward to the people who are amassing vast fortunes on our economic misery."

At least $50 billion for another pipeline. $82 billion in new military spending in 5 years. $300 billion in corporate welfare and mega incentives at an investment summit. But the cupboard is bare for Parks Canada.

The Nova Scotia NDP scolding MLA Paul Wozney just seems like a perfect example of the "be kind" tropes we see all the time. I always say when people say "be kind" what they really mean is "be quiet." The Nova Scotia NDP want us to "be kind/quiet." Taking to the streets is not violence.

Jeebus. This is why I have no time for the provincial NDP. I 100% agreed with Paul’s commentary on the court’s decision and what it means for those determined to advance workers’ rights. The party needs to understand that polite criticism isn’t going to cut it.

‘A terrifying project,’ but there will be no environmental assessment for EverWind’s hyperscale data centre reported by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social

Oh FFS!

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Elon Musk intervened in the Ukraine war leaving people defenceless in the face of Putin's bombs. His control of the skies makes him a clear danger to democracy and sovereignty. We need to work with the EU to designate his technology as a national security risk. youtu.be/IkTUWtqbKAA?...

Thank you First Nations! 🧡🪶

What does the best conversation look like it? This! We ranged from mushroom burials to rewriting the Bible. And of course, a lot about climate action & hope – which @margaretatwood.bsky.social says is built into us. Because people in the past who didn’t have hope? They didn’t have descendants 😄

I've had this conversation so many times about bike lanes and transit. When you frame it as not having to make a payment on a second car it gets the gears turning in people's heads about what investment in those systems can mean to people who find themselves car dependent.

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This is the best kind of work that Auditors-General do. Were NS to take seriously a "value for money" standard in road maintenance, it would overturn the practice of most of our two-centuries+ Data!

Most of the coverage tonight has been a relitigation of Alberta’s grievances. Talking to separatists whining about Trudeau, panelists whining about Trudeau…and nobody ever really trying to introduce facts to their feelings. Pathetic.

Another🚨🧵by Michael Moran aka @internetuserf12 on XTwitter about the timeline of Covid's full impact: 📈 The Worst of the Pandemic Is Decades Away SARS-CoV-2 is not just a respiratory virus that occasionally causes Long Covid. It's a systemic, multi..." 14-tweet🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/21114...

Just read the 10 Alberta referendum questions and was blown away by how xenophobic and just plain nonsensical they are. What a ridiculous waste of taxpayers’ time and money! And all so Dani can try and keep her job.

The separatists are going to lose today’s vote. But if Alberta’s political class doesn’t stop feeding and inflaming their bottomless sense of grievance and victimhood, we’ll all end up losing in the end. #abpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/19/o...

Another day, another renewable energy project cancelled and replaced with a data centre (that will raise emissions and fossil fuel use) www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/16/n...

@jessicafancymp.bsky.social Your colleagues’ response to what happened is utterly unacceptable. Please raise the matter in caucus and urge all MPs to demand press freedom at any public event in which they are involved. The Everwind deal stinks to high heaven & the public has a right to know.

Data centres that can drive up power bills and risk our environment are not what Nova Scotians asked for. We're calling on Premier Tim Houston to convene an emergency session of the Legislature immediately.

No public engagement, no media scrutiny, nothing other than some vague promises from a completely untrustworthy government that this won’t be as bad as it looks.

Nova Scotia: Can we have cheaper gas and groceries? Houston: How about an AI center that will continue to burn fossil fuels to infinity! End scene. #nspoli

The contrast between the public engagement required to build a bike lane and the public engagement required to build a datacenter 🤯

Mr. Houston, enough with these anti-democratic anti-free press antics. Ejecting working journalists from what was clearly a public event is deeply shameful. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/journalism/a...

Publisher of Halifax Examiner demands apology to ousted journalists. Proper thing. #PressFreedom #PublicInterest #CharterRight

Tim Houston appointing himself as our Minister of Trade *and* the Minister of Energy should have been our first warning.

Tim Houston goes all in for an environmentally destructive, economically stupid, deeply unpopular data centre Morning File by me

Our reporter, Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social was just kicked out of the EverWind announcement, for doing her job.

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...

Musk makes a strong case for (inter?)nationalizing all of his assets. He is a fascist and fascist enabler and clear danger to democracy. Throttling Starlink for a specific country sure sounds like a war crime. u

Four days after Musk wrote, “Zelensky has gone too far.” @financialtimes.com #ukraine www.ft.com/content/3708...

Can we give someone other than the usual IPC and public health failures an opportunity to actually do something about preventing COVID infections? The apathy of the medical leaders who allowed COVID to become endemic so they can pretend it's not their fault is really starting to get old.

They're coming for abortion. Just in case you thought the stakes in Alberta's referendum aren't high enough... Re-read question 9. Then try and tell yourself this doesn't create a back door for the anti-women's healthcare caucus to come after abortion rights in Alberta. #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

C'mon, Keith. *How* did Norway turn its oil reserves into "extraordinary national wealth"? *Public ownership of oil companies *78 per cent profit tax on oil companies *25 per cent sales tax economy-wide so the oil revenues could be saved These are not serious people. #abpoli

You know, the thing is, I had drafted this piece a month ago, and then never published it, because I thought maybe it was too mean.

Stelco’s American owners have broken their commitments. Their CEO supports Trump’s tariffs, which are designed to deindustrialize our economy and destroy our manufacturing base. If we’re serious about saving the Canadian steel industry, Canada must nationalize Stelco. www.ndp.ca/news/ndp-lea...