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2026-07-16 19:15:42 UTC

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Yes, for the third year running. It's all kinds of bad, and it's time we stopped literally pouring more fossil fuels on the fire.

2026-07-16 18:56:27 UTC

'There are currently 858 fires actively burning in Canada, including 30 new fires on Thursday'.
'The vast majority of wildfires are burning out of control.'
"This is associated with some of the extreme climate warming that we've been seeing, and the atmospheric drying of the surface".
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c0m7n427xd8o
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #NoLNG #Wildfires #Smoke #ExtremeWeather

2026-07-14 23:11:44 UTC

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Even the International Monetary Fund agrees that the economic benefits of investing in renewables far outweigh the costs.
https://davidsuzuki.org/story/the-undeniable-economic-case-for-climate-action/

2026-07-14 20:02:58 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/116920113591977974
Reminder: 'The overwhelming majority of the world’s people — between 80 and 89%, according to recent science — want governments to take stronger action. But that fact is not reflected in our news coverage, which helps explain why the 89% don’t know that they are the global majority.'
https://89percent.org/
#ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #NoLNG #ExtremeWeather #Drought #Wildfires
#note1ydm…l32e

2026-07-14 20:02:30 UTC

'Most of the UK media stories about the record-breaking heatwave that struck in June failed to mention the climate crisis, analysis has found.'
'Nearly 2,500 articles about the extreme heat – when temperatures topped 37C, a record for the time of year – appeared in the UK’s nine main national daily media publications. But nearly three-quarters of them – about 72% – left out any mention of global heating or the climate'.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/14/most-coverage-june-heatwave-did-not-mention-climate-crisis
#ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #NoLNG #ExtremeWeather #Drought #Wildfires

2026-07-13 21:33:00 UTC

Reminder - the Climeworks #CarbonCapture project in Iceland couldn't even offset its own carbon footprint.
Carbon capture is not a real climate solution.
https://heimildin.is/grein/24581/climeworks-capture-fails-to-cover-its-own-emissions/
#ClimateCrisis #CDNPoli #Canada #NoPipelines

2026-07-02 20:39:53 UTC

David Eby has the second lowest approval ratings of any premier in Canada. If he thinks he has the public's support in handing stewardship of BC's environment over to the Carney-Smith tarsands pipeline crew, he can think again.
https://www.castanet.net/news/BC/619158/Eby-and-Smith-see-lowest-approval-ratings-poll
#Canada #CDNPoli #BC #BCPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines

2026-06-24 20:02:25 UTC

Carney's plan to spend billions on unsold condos in Vancouver is "more about stabilizing the financial sector" & bailing out developers who overbuilt the wrong kind of housing:
https://www.timescolonist.com/national-business/plan-to-buy-bc-condos-might-be-more-about-stabilizing-sector-than-housing-expert-12462636
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #CostOfLivingCrisis #HousingCrisis

2026-06-05 20:11:01 UTC

"Trading oil for orcas is a bargain Canada can't afford"
"If the [Species at Risk] Act is weakened to allow risk to this iconic West Coast population, no species, from caribou to monarch butterflies, will be safe.... It’s not too late to demand a path forward that preserves our natural heritage"
(via West Coast Environmental Law‬ ‪@wcelaw.bsky.social‬)
https://vancouversun.com/opinion/op-ed/opinion-trading-oil-orcas-bargain-canada-cant-afford
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #SpeciesAtRiskAct #Ecocide #NoPipelines #KillerWhales

2026-06-01 22:15:46 UTC

With recent talk of Alberta planning routes for pipelines from the tarsands to the BC coast, another reminder:
“No offer of equity or ownership will change our position, and no proponent is acceptable to us” - Marilyn Slett, president of the Coastal First Nations
https://grist.org/business/once-a-climate-leader-canada-is-now-doubling-down-on-oil/
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines

2026-05-28 23:09:41 UTC

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Lolwut? Don't be ludicrous.
Carney is cutting our services and overspending public money on personal luxuries, even as 1 in 4 Canadians can't afford enough food to eat. $200K for in-flight meals for just 3 trips would be utterly insane under normal circumstances -- in a national cost of living crisis, it's unforgivable.

2026-05-28 22:31:59 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/116654543489461223
Meanwhile, Statistics Canada says 1 in 4 Canadians can't afford enough food to eat:
https://globalnews.ca/news/11863462/food-insecurity-canada-ontario/
#Canada #CDNPoli #CostOfLivingCrisis #PolyCrisis
#note19wp…y3k2

2026-05-27 20:29:30 UTC

Title: Spring Moon at Ninomiya Beach (1932)
Artist: Hasui Kawase
https://metropolisjapan.com/tsukimi/ #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #HasuiKawase #Spring #Moon #FullMoon #Ninomiya #Kanagawa #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/648/426/951/025/258/original/e9685b4781196178.jpg

2026-05-20 19:44:45 UTC

Title: Sobu Garden, Meiji Jingu (1951)
Artist: Hasui Kawase
https://www.meijijingu.or.jp/en/whattosee/garden/ #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #HasuiKawase #Spring #Irises #MeijiJingu #Shibuya #Tokyo #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/608/612/826/170/924/original/d2ae0d30faeb639a.jpg

2026-05-19 22:30:53 UTC

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Catastrophic climate events are in our future and humans will face an extinction crisis, but David Suzuki isn’t completely closing the door on optimism.
“All over Canada, we see local, grassroots change happening. The problem is, we’ve run out of time to really see that big inflection, but we have to keep going.”
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateBreakdown #PolyCrisis #NoPipelines

2026-05-19 22:22:50 UTC

“The economy isn’t seen as something resting on the very thing that keeps us alive and healthy (…). If we don’t acknowledge that nature is the source of our fundamental needs, our air, our water, our food, our energy, then we’re going to continue to trash nature, and that’s the crisis we face.“
https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/david-suzuki-birthday-90
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ClimateBreakdown #PolyCrisis #NoPipelines

2026-05-15 23:21:25 UTC

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Carney's proposal removes impact assessments on interprovincial pipelines, allows construction to begin before impact decisions are made, makes it easier to destroy fish habitats & exempts select projects from the Species at Risk Act.
Public comments are open until June 7:
https://www.canada.ca/en/one-canadian-economy/services/simplifying-canada-process/engagement-supporting-timely-decision-making.html
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #PolyCrisis

2026-05-15 23:02:25 UTC

Today is Endangered Species Day, which seems a good day to note the Prime Minister wants to grant himself the authority to force through fossil fuel projects, even if entire species go extinct as a consequence.
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #Ecocide #EndanderedSpeciesDay
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/carney-government-proposal-targets-extinction-protections-for-endangered-killer-whales-off-bc-coast/article_f0da6bac-3a97-43a3-91e4-d9578503b04f.html

2026-05-15 18:37:23 UTC

In his 2025 MOU with Danielle Smith, Mark Carney required a private backer for a new pipeline, approval of First Nations, a new carbon capture facility, and a price on Alberta's industrial carbon pollution of $130/tonne by 2030.
Today, Carney has no private backer, unanimous oppostion from First Nations, no carbon capture facility (which doesn't work anyway), and now he's backed down on the price of pollution, giving Alberta an extra ten years to pollute at artificially low costs.
Mark Carney is obviously a terrible negotiator.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/politics/2026/05/15/ottawa-plans-to-greenlight-alberta-oil-pipeline-construction-by-fall-2027-no-private-proponent-yet/
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines

2026-05-13 19:59:19 UTC

Mark Carney's MOU with Danielle Smith required a private backer for his new pipeline, a carbon capture facility to reduce emissions at the source, deleting the tanker moratorium on the BC Coast, and a minimum price for industrial carbon emissions in Alberta of $130/tonne by 2030.
So far, Carney has no private backer for the pipeline, had the Pathways Alliance (now calling themselves the Oilsands Alliance) back out of carbon capture (which doesn't work anyway), faced nothing but determined resistance from Coastal First Nations in BC over the tanker moratorium, and now he's caving entirely on Alberta's industrial carbon emissions.
None of the conditions in his MOU have been met, and Mark Carney just keeps on retreating and backing down.
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/carney-government-expected-to-significantly-reduce-future-carbon-price-in-alberta/article_0f53c805-74ae-46f3-9597-749c33f50bbc.html
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #ABPoli

2026-05-13 19:26:13 UTC

In the latest "and possibly most significant" climbdown in federal emissions-reduction policy, Mark Carney is expected to "significantly weaken the future industrial carbon price in Alberta".
It was described as the "final nail in Canada’s climate action coffin."
Mark Carney backs down yet again, in exchange for nothing at all. If Carney can't even negotiate with Danielle Smith, how can he be expected to effectively represent Canada in negotiations with Donald Trump?
https://www.thestar.com/politics/federal/carney-government-expected-to-significantly-reduce-future-carbon-price-in-alberta/article_0f53c805-74ae-46f3-9597-749c33f50bbc.html
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #ABPoli #ElbowsUp

2026-05-01 20:16:46 UTC

Title: Bonfire (1959)
Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260430/p2a/00m/0op/032000c #ShinHanga #SosakuHanga #Art #Showa #KasamatsuShiro #Wildfire #ForestFire #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Japan #Mood
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/501/153/349/496/529/original/da6d3da655d1ca09.jpg

2026-05-01 20:13:40 UTC

The Tokyo Fire Department is urging residents to take early precautions against heatstroke, as the summer heat has been intensifying almost every year, and more high-temperature days are expected.
In Tokyo, the trend toward higher temperatures has become particularly pronounced in recent years. The number of people transported to hospitals for heatstroke between June and September 2025 was the highest since 2010, the earliest year for which statistics are available.
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260501/p2a/00m/0na/007000c
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #Heatwave #ExtremeWeather #Kokusho #Tokyo #Japan

2026-05-01 20:09:54 UTC

'It has been one week since a forest fire broke out in the town of Otsuchi. The blaze spread at two locations, and the burned area has reached 1,633 hectares. It is the second largest such fire in Japan since the Heisei era (1989-2019).'
'Every effort must be made to quickly extinguish the wildfire in northeast Japan's Iwate Prefecture, and everything possible done to support residents forced to live as evacuees.'
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260430/p2a/00m/0op/032000c
#Wildfire #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #Iwate #Japan

2026-05-01 20:07:11 UTC

'More than 3,500 people have been evacuated from their homes in Italy as a forest fire continues to rage between the cities of Pisa and Lucca in the picturesque Tuscany region.'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/thousands-evacuated-forest-fire-rages-090821456.html
#Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #NoPipelines #NoLNG

2026-05-01 19:59:59 UTC

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'The rules-based global order is also strained when political leaders, faced with these aggressions, choose silence or ambiguity instead of defending international law. In seeking to avoid confrontation, they fall into appeasement — the mistaken belief that restraint will calm those who break the rules. They believe words cannot damage the international order the way bombs do. They are wrong. When it comes to norms, words make worlds. When middle powers fail to defend global rules they accelerate their erosion. In trying to shield themselves, they end up creating the very disorder they fear.'
#Canada #CDNPoli #Spain

2026-05-01 19:59:24 UTC

Spain’s PM Pedro Sánchez vs Canada's PM Mark Carney on globalization and Donald Trump:
"When middle powers fail to defend global rules they accelerate their erosion. In trying to shield themselves, they end up creating the very disorder they fear."
https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/carney-vs-spains-pm-on-globalization-and-trump/article_1081d56d-c2e7-4d5c-a9c7-3639299f9370.html
#Canada #CDNPoli

2026-05-01 19:53:01 UTC

So what is the #CanadaStrong Fund, anyway?
'I suspect the government is not sure itself. It bears all the marks of having been thought up on the fly and announced before anyone had figured out what it was they were announcing, beyond that it would be called a "sovereign wealth fund."'
'We know what it isn’t: a sovereign wealth fund.'
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-canada-strong-sovereign-wealth-fund/
#Canada #CDNPoli
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2026-05-01 19:37:13 UTC

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Reminder: Canadians elected Mark Carney "to stand up to President Trump", he said, adding that he will act "with focus and determination". 🤷
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250502-carney-vows-to-transform-canada-economy-to-withstand-trump
#Canada #CDNPoli #ElbowsUp

2026-05-01 19:36:18 UTC

Here we go again. How does increasing Canada's oil exports to Trump's US by building a new pipeline to feed them directly from the tarsands align with Mark Carney's promise to "stand up to President Trump"?
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2026/04/30/trump-signs-order-authorizing-bridgers-canada-wyoming-crude-pipeline-live-updates-here/
#Canada #CDNPoli #ElbowsUp #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines

2026-05-01 19:26:11 UTC

"U.S. secures contract to sell artillery rocket systems to Canada": funny, I must have missed the bit where Mark Carney explained how standing up to Trump involved buying more military equipment from the guy.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2026/05/01/us-secures-contract-to-sell-artillery-rocket-systems-to-canada-pentagon/
#Canada #CDNPoli #ElbowsUp

2026-05-01 19:19:25 UTC

In just one week, Mark Carney's Liberals have used their new majority to silence or shut down debate on our health, ethics, science, transport, veterans affairs and human resources committees.
“It’s very disheartening to see the Liberals go to this degree of kind of authoritarianism”
https://www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/national/liberals-shut-down-committee-debate-on-6-6-billion-it-project/article_88100085-847c-5ae1-9398-b3e1fd8ca41c.html
#Canada #CDNPoli

2026-04-30 23:09:01 UTC

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Definitely!

2026-04-30 21:08:55 UTC

NHK: "Vietnam moves to electric motorcycles to fight air pollution"
Vietnam is restricting gasoline motorcycles in central Hanoi to curb pollution from July, accelerating a shift to electric models and reshaping the country's motorcycle market.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/videos/20260428203753244/
#Vietnam #EVs #ElectricVehicles #Pollution #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NHKNews
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2026-04-30 20:43:37 UTC

Title: The River Banyu in Spring Time (1938)
Artist: Koitsu Tsuchiya
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16486951 #Art #Showa #ShinHanga #KoitsuTsuchiya #Spring #CherryBlossoms #Sakura #Fuji #MountFuji #MtFuji #SagamiRiver #BanyuRiver #Kanagawa #Yamanashi #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/495/599/882/326/723/original/38f4d0e44192ebcb.jpg

2026-04-29 23:16:08 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/116489962594409437
It's 2026, and fossil fuel companies are making billions in war profits, while Canadians line up for blocks to fill suitcases with free potatoes.
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/the-oil-industry-is-making-billions-from-the-iran-war-it-should-be-taxed/
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #CostOfLivingCrisis #NoWar #Warflation #Polycrisis
#note1jft…4y6t

2026-04-29 20:49:27 UTC

In Calgary, thousands lined up for free groceries from the Guru Nanak Free Kitchen, a non-profit distributing 80,000 pounds of potatoes along with other staples.
The line stretched for blocks, with some people waiting for more than an hour. Many arrived with bags, wagons, and suitcases, hoping to stock up on essentials.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/inflation/article/thousands-line-up-for-free-groceries-amid-rising-food-prices/
#Canada #CDNPoli #CostOfLivingCrisis
#ABPoli

2026-04-29 20:23:26 UTC

BC ‘Going Backwards’ on Ecosystem Protections: “Where [else] in the world are they logging 500- or 800-year-old trees? This is the last major jurisdiction in the western world logging the forest giants.”
https://thetyee.ca/News/2026/04/27/BC-Going-Backwards-Ecosystem-Protections/
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #BCPoli

2026-04-29 20:19:57 UTC

A Gitxsan hereditary chief & environmental groups are challenging a BC decision that kept a long-delayed 750-km pipeline project alive.
“The province’s decision will compromise our rights, title and the use of our lands — and we’re prepared to take this issue to the Supreme Court of Canada”.
https://vancouversun.com/business/bc-court-asked-throw-out-approval-12-billion-natural-gas-pipeline
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #NoLNG #BCPoli

2026-04-29 20:05:01 UTC

David Suzuki Foundation: "Fossil fuel subsidies undermine foundation of Canadian prosperity, a healthy environment"
"New fossil fuel subsidies contradict Canada’s international climate commitments and undermine needed environmental investments announced in Canada’s spring economic statement"
https://davidsuzuki.org/press/fossil-fuel-subsidies-undermine-foundation-of-canadian-prosperity-a-healthy-environment-david-suzuki-foundation/
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #EconomicUpdate
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2026-04-29 01:45:08 UTC

Previously announced funding for EV incentives & nature conservation 'do not outweigh the climate cuts from last fall’s budget', 'the worst climate budget since the Harper era'.
'Total federal climate spending is on track to decline precipitously in the next several years as Trudeau-era programs expire.'
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/fiscal-update-2026/
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #EconomicUpdate

2026-04-29 01:42:29 UTC

"Once again, Ottawa is asking millions of people struggling with high rising costs to wait for market mechanisms to deliver affordability."
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/fiscal-update-2026/
#Canada #CDNPoli #CostOfLivingCrisis #EconoimcUpdate

2026-04-28 19:56:35 UTC

Title: Nishi Izu, Kisho no Fuji (1937)
Artist: Hasui Kawase
https://www.pref.shizuoka.jp/machizukuri/kowan/1003580/1029666.html #Art #ShinHanga #Showa #Spring #HasuiKawase #CherryBlossoms #Sakura #SurugaBay #Fuji #MountFuji #MtFuji #Shizuoka #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/484/090/494/259/339/original/ded00540f1cf28cb.jpg

2026-04-28 19:53:19 UTC

'Wildfires in Otsuchi dredge up unwelcome memories of 2011'
On the ground, support units from various parts of Japan were working frantically to put out the sparks of glowing embers. But the slightest breeze would start them smoldering again, and burned acreage just kept growing.
Back in 2011, Otsuchi was hit by the tsunami of the Great East Japan Earthquake as well as the fire that ensued.
This past week must have felt to the residents as if they were reliving that harrowing memory. A 7.7-magnitude quake struck off the Sanriku coast on April 20.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16530214
#Japan #Wildfires #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #NoLNG

2026-04-28 19:47:14 UTC

Firefighting efforts continued at two locations in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, on Tuesday, with forest fires in the town burning for a seventh day. The fires have now burned 1,633 hectares, and they are expected to be designated a severe disaster.
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20260428-324859/
#Japan #Wildfires #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #NoLNG
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2026-04-28 19:33:51 UTC

'Game Arcade on Quiet Road in Gunma Prefecture Is Straight Out of Showa Era'
'I nervously stepped into the building and found myself in a Showa-era (1926-89) amusement arcade.'
'What caught my eye were the white arcade machines. In the back, various vending machines lined the walls, offering hot soba noodles, ramen, toast and other foods. Each customer was lost in their own happy memories, saying such things as, “This brings back memories” and “I used to eat this often.”'
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/features/japan-focus/20260427-324667/
#Japan #Gunma #Showa #Arcade #VideoGames

2026-04-27 20:51:31 UTC

Title: Benkei Bridge (1933)
Artist: Koitsu Tsuchiya
https://www.oldtokyo.com/benkeibashi-akasaka-mitsuke-tokyo-c-1910/ #Art #ShinHanga #KoitsuTsuchiya #Showa #Spring #CherryBlossoms #Sakura #BenkeiBashi #AkasakaMitsuke #Tokyo #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/478/644/956/634/447/original/fab7345c3e05e9ec.webp

2026-04-27 20:49:21 UTC

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That's brilliant, TYVM for mentioning it!

2026-04-27 20:48:10 UTC

A stubborn wildfire in Otsuchi, Iwate Prefecture, had scorched more than 1,618 hectares by April 27, as unpredictable winds repeatedly pushed the flames perilously close to homes and schools.
The fire has entered its sixth day, and officials see no immediate end in sight.
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/16528898
#Japan #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Wildfires #ExtremeWeather #NoPipelines #NoLNG

2026-04-24 22:51:02 UTC

Title: Spring Evening at Inokashira Park (1931)
Artist: Hasui Kawase
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/apr/19/the-guardian-view-on-japans-cherry-blossom-when-spring-slips-out-of-time #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #HasuiKawase #Spring #Moon #FullMoon #CherryBlossoms #Sakura #InokashiraPark #Tokyo #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/462/127/254/996/996/original/1d4b2a3d555516dd.jpg

2026-04-24 22:44:53 UTC

Now that it is no longer unheard of for temperatures to rise to 40C or above, Japan's meteorological agency last week announced a new extreme weather event: kokusho, or “cruelly hot”.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/24/tokyo-workers-asked-to-swap-suits-for-shorts-to-combat-energy-costs-and-heat
#Japan #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ExtremeWeather #Heatwave #Kokusho

2026-04-24 22:38:41 UTC

"Canadians have been clear they don't want their tax dollars going to one of the wealthiest sectors on the planet", but "Mark Carney's government continues to undermine his own rules by funding projects that put our economy and current and future safety at risk."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/alberta-bitumen-pipeline-federal-dollars-9.7175446
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoPipelines #BCPoli #ABPoli

2026-04-24 20:34:48 UTC

"Canadian insurers fortify homes, urge Carney to put climate first as wildfire season kicks off"
Canada is expected to face one of its hottest years on record this summer, increasing risk of wildfires. Worried about wildfires sending claims soaring this year, Canada's property and casualty insurers are urging the government to take climate issues more seriously despite economic turmoil.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/canadian-insurers-fortify-homes-urge-carney-put-climate-first-wildfire-season-2026-04-14/
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #Wildfires #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #NoLNG

2026-04-24 20:30:22 UTC

"More than half of B.C. residents not prepared for wildfires"; "61 per cent of B.C. residents have not created an emergency plan for their household":
https://vancouversun.com/news/more-than-half-of-b-c-residents-not-prepared-for-wildfires-survey
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #Wildfires #ExtremeWeather #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #NoLNG

2026-04-24 20:28:09 UTC

Efforts to contain two wildfires in northeastern Japan are continuing on the ground and from the air. More than 1,000 hectares have burned so far, forcing thousands to evacuate, and the blazes are spreading.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260424_01/
#Japan #Wildfires #ExtremeWeather #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #NoPipelines
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/461/563/846/205/103/original/dea427a5fa921a3b.png

2026-04-24 20:22:37 UTC

'Bag of bones': Grey whales dying off #VancouverIsland amid lack of food
Deaths in BC are similar to those on the coasts of Washington state (where 15 whales have been found dead in the last couple weeks), Oregon and California.
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/bag-of-bones-grey-whales-dying-off-vancouver-island-amid-lack-of-food-12184698
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines

2026-04-24 20:14:37 UTC

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"The International Court of Justice has confirmed states are legally bound to prevent activities that worsen climate change. B.C. and Canada are violating that legal obligation and failing to protect the public interest."
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #NoLNG #ExtremeWeather #Pollution

2026-04-24 20:13:19 UTC

David Suzuki: "Higher home heating prices. Pollution. Accelerating climate change. Water shortages. Indigenous rights violations. Who wants that? Apparently the obscenely profitable fossil fuel companies, and unimaginative, short-sighted governments banking on outdated ideas to shore up the economy."
https://davidsuzuki.org/story/expanding-lng-will-increase-prices-and-pollution/
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #NoLNG #ExtremeWeather #Pollution

2026-04-24 20:13:02 UTC

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Interesting, thanks for sharing that!

2026-04-24 00:47:59 UTC

Smoke from wildfires is a form of air pollution, carrying toxic gases like sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and carbon monoxide, as well as fine particulate matter. Other sources of air pollution, from car and truck exhaust to power plants and oil and gas facilities, are also hazardous to our health.
Air pollution can cause heart disease, strokes, chronic lung diseases and cancer. In Canada, federal research has found it contributes to about 17,400 premature deaths each year. In B.C., a nine-year-old died in 2023 after an asthma attack was made worse by wildfire smoke.
And that’s just one health impact of pollution and extreme weather.
https://thenarwhal.ca/climate-change-costs-health-care/
#Canada #CDNPoli #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather #NoPipelines

2026-04-24 00:38:43 UTC

Two forest fires in Japan's northeastern prefecture of Iwate are still raging, with flames confirmed to be spreading toward the center of a town. More than 2,500 residents, or about a quarter of the municipality's population, are now under an evacuation order.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260424_01/
#Japan #Iwate #Wildfires #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #ExtremeWeather

2026-04-23 22:16:36 UTC

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TYVM for the kind words! :D

2026-04-23 19:53:27 UTC

Title: Misty Evening at Shinobazu Pond (1932)
Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro
https://www.uenostation.com/ueno-toshogu-a-golden-shrine-peony-garden-in-ueno-park/ #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #KasamatsuShiro #Spring #ShinobazuPond #UenoPark #UenoToshogu #KanejiTemple #Ueno #Tokyo #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/455/767/086/345/684/original/5a4ceba33a56c95e.jpg

2026-04-23 19:51:42 UTC

"Salaries are not rising, people are suffering from high prices, welfare is being cut and living conditions are deteriorating. None of this is because we are not trying hard enough. We are being forced to pay the price for bad governance."
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20260422/p2a/00m/0na/007000c
#Japan #NoWar #CostOfLivingCrisis

2026-04-23 19:42:39 UTC

A delegation of First Nations leaders from British Columbia have come to Calgary to relay a message to pipeline executives face-to-face — steer clear of investing in a new bitumen pipeline to the northwest coast or risk a prolonged legal fight.
https://www.timescolonist.com/the-mix/coastal-bc-first-nation-leaders-go-to-calgary-to-dissuade-pipeline-investors-12180320
#Canada #CDNPoli #BCPoli #ABPoli #FirstNations #BritishColumbia #Calgary #Alberta #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines

2026-04-22 20:04:52 UTC

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Young Japanese people are the driving force behind a growing movement to protect Japan’s pacifist constitution from Prime Minister Takaichi's plans to alter it. Their movement gained further urgency on Tuesday, when Japan’s government scrapped a ban on exports of lethal weapons – a move seen as a direct challenge to the country’s postwar pacifism.
#NoWar #IranWar #Japan #USPoli #UnitedStates

2026-04-22 20:04:15 UTC

‘Stop sucking up to America’: Japan’s youth rises up to protect pacifist constitution
On Sunday, an estimated 36,000 people squeezed on to narrow paths in front of Japan’s parliament to call for an immediate end to the Iran war and to keep the country’s pacifist constitution intact.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/japan-youth-pacifist-constitution-trump-iran
#NoWar #IranWar #Japan #USPoli #UnitedStates

2026-04-22 19:56:03 UTC

Title: Daigo Denpoin, Kyoto (1950)
Artist: Hasui Kawase
https://www.discoverkyoto.com/places-go/daigo-ji/ #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #HasuiKawase #Spring #CherryBlossoms #Sakura #Hanami #DaigoJi #Kyoto #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/450/114/869/736/336/original/38f2169cc99ef21e.jpg

2026-04-20 20:45:25 UTC

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Very close! :) Shin-hanga came along just after ukiyo-e fell out of fashion. Shin-Hanga prints shared a lot of the same production methods and subject matter, but incorporated more influences from abroad.
https://www.masterpiece-of-japanese-culture.com/paintings/ukiyoe-wood-block-printing/shinhanga/deference-of-ukiyo-e-and-shinhanga

2026-04-20 20:41:01 UTC

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Absolutely agree, 100%. He skipped past the item so quickly, and his record on this topic is so shady, that we can't take anything he says about it in his PR events at face value.

2026-04-20 20:08:33 UTC

An under-reported aspect of Mark Carney's speech yesterday: talk of doubling Canada's clean energy capacity.
If he follows through, this might be Carney's first step in the right direction on the climate crisis, and would be long overdue -- as long this isn't just more greenwashing baloney about "decarbonized oil" from the tarsands, of course.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/20/mark-carney-canada-us-economy-trade
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #ClimateChange

2026-04-20 20:03:12 UTC

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Companies in Canada's largely foreign-owned oil industry are bringing in an extra $170 million in profits every day thanks to the war in #Iran, which has pushed global oil prices up by more than 50%.
"But what do they do with those profits? They give them back to fat cat CEOs and then they go give them back to their shareholders, largely Americans who support Donald Trump".
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #ClimateChange

2026-04-20 19:59:52 UTC

Former environment minister Catherine McKenna says the leaders of Canada's oil industry are figures close to US President Donald Trump who are "taking us for fools" and putting both our economy and environment at risk:
https://www.timescolonist.com/national-news/former-minister-catherine-mckenna-blasts-the-heads-of-canadian-oil-companies-12162937
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #ClimateChange

2026-04-20 19:53:41 UTC

Title: Spring Evening at Kintai Bridge (1947)
Artist: Hasui Kawase
https://www.japan.travel/en/spot/2191/ #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #Spring #HasuiKawase #CherryBlossoms #Hanami #Sakura #KintaiBridge #NishikiRiver #Iwakuni #Yamaguchi #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/438/778/407/621/256/original/24719aa40a3d0bc8.jpg

2026-04-17 20:21:31 UTC

Title: Ueno Park, Tokyo (1952)
Artist: Hasui Kawase
https://www.uenostation.com/ueno-toshogu-a-golden-shrine-peony-garden-in-ueno-park/ #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #HasuiKawase #Spring #Moon #CherryBlossoms #Hanami #Sakura #KanejiTemple #UenoToshogu #UenoPark #Ueno #Tokyo #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/421/901/458/781/083/original/2fe1c0ffb0efe96a.jpg

2026-04-17 00:32:07 UTC

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Really glad to see the broad spectrum of pushback on this Carney/Smith pipeline/CCUS idiocy.

2026-04-16 20:30:00 UTC

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground - 'a dark hymn for our times'
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/apr/16/massive-attack-boots-on-the-ground-ft-tom-waits-review-first-single-in-a-decade-is-a-dark-hymn-for-our-times
#MassiveAttack #TomWaits #BootsOnTheGround #IceOut #NoWar

2026-04-16 20:29:40 UTC

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-57FrioeuE
#MassiveAttack #TomWaits #BootsOnTheGround #IceOut #NoWar

2026-04-16 19:54:14 UTC

ICYMI: when it comes to pushing pipelines for Donald Trump, Mark Carney definitely has history.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-trump-keystone-revival-1.7653949
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #ElbowsUp #ElbowsDown

2026-04-16 19:53:22 UTC

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Perfect! Sounds exactly right to me.

2026-04-16 19:46:53 UTC

US President / convicted felon Donald Trump issued several US-Canada pipeline ‌permits on Wednesday, including one for the construction of a brand new pipeline.
What was that Mark Carney used to say about keeping his #ElbowsUp, again? It's been so long, it's difficult to remember… 🤔
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/trump-pipeline-permits-9.7165785
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #ElbowsDown #ClimateChange

2026-04-16 19:32:49 UTC

Reminder: there's no such thing as a good oil pipeline.
Cold Lake First Nations Chief Kelsey Jacko: "Spills happen every year (…) How do you build up trust when spills keep happening?”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/imperial-oil-pipeline-spill-bitumen-emulsion-9.7165429
#Canada #CDNPoli #FirstNations #NoPipelines #ClimateCrisis #ABPoli

2026-04-15 20:32:04 UTC

ICYMI: A really teriffic interview with David Suzuki. Well worth your time!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiAPWmdv7PE
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange #DavidSuzuki

2026-04-15 20:30:14 UTC

From the ‪David Suzuki Foundation‬: As oil prices surge amid the war on Iran, the case for clean electricity has never been stronger. Over 15 organizations are in Ottawa calling on the federal government to fund a clean and connected electricity grid.
https://davidsuzuki.org/press/oil-price-volatility-highlights-urgency-for-federal-investment-in-clean-power-grid/?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=page-link&utm_campaign=climate-coalitionMediaRelease-13apr2026
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #CostOfLivingCrisis #NoPipelines #NoWar
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/410/612/909/259/699/original/fb5f308d1068bb20.png

2026-04-15 20:09:19 UTC

Title: In a Temple Yard (1935)
Artist: Hiroshi Yoshida
https://www.keihan.co.jp/sakura/index_en.html #Art #ShinHanga #Showa #HiroshiYoshida #Spring #CherryBlossoms #Sakura #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/410/531/048/823/785/original/1a9defec1c8a23ca.jpg

2026-04-15 19:51:31 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/116410418330777948
The finance ministers of Germany, Spain, Italy, Portugal & Austria are pushing for windfall taxes on the war profits of oil & gas companies. Why not Canada?
#CDNPoli #Canada #ClimateCrisis #CostOfLivingCrisis #Inflation #Warflation #Iran #IranWar #NoWar
#note1m6s…m7kt

2026-04-15 19:40:17 UTC

The world’s top 100 oil & gas companies banked more than $30 million an hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war on Iran.
With oil at $100/barrel, they stand to make an additional $234 billion in excess profits by the end of the year:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/big-oil-huge-war-windfall-consumers
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #CostOfLivingCrisis #Iran #IranWar #Warflation

2026-04-14 23:22:37 UTC

Title: Spring Rain, Ueno Park (1930)
Artist: Hasui Kawase
https://www.japan.travel/en/spot/1675/ #Art #ShinHanga #HasuiKawase #Showa #Spring #CherryBlossoms #Sakura #Ueno #Tokyo #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/405/628/869/110/779/original/cf3c853522701eeb.webp

2026-04-14 23:14:15 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/116404729316913353
Reminder: a solid majority of Canadians have supported windfall profit taxes on oil and gas companies’ historically high profits for years now.
https://davidsuzuki.org/press/majority-of-canadians-support-a-windfall-profit-tax-on-oil-and-gas-companies-historically-high-profits/
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoWar #IranWar #CostOfLivingCrisis
#note1upc…7x2a

2026-04-14 20:21:24 UTC

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Unfortunately, Mark Carney's record on standing up to the convicted felon in the White House has been dismal. Hopefully with enough public pushback we can get him out of his pro-Trump headspace and back to reality.

2026-04-14 20:16:20 UTC

"Operators are reliant on diesel, often to power heavy long-haul road trains, and many say costs have more than doubled since war broke out in Iran, sending oil prices to record highs across the globe."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde5d8y8lx9o
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoWar #IranWar #Australia #CostOfLivingCrisis

2026-04-14 20:14:44 UTC

RE: https://mstdn.ca/@atomicker/116320470163093844
"Operators are reliant on diesel, often to power heavy long-haul road trains, and many say costs have more than doubled since war broke out in Iran, sending oil prices to record highs across the globe."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde5d8y8lx9o
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoWar #IranWar #Australia #CostOfLivingCrisis
#note1v5e…znk6

2026-04-14 19:57:18 UTC

Tell Mark Carney to stand against Trump’s war on Iran, and to keep Canada out of oil wars and all resource exploitation that drives conflict, oppression and ecosystem collapse. No more wars. Not for oil, not for power, not for profit.
https://act.greenpeace.ca/en-ca/no-more-oil-wars
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoWar #IranWar

2026-04-14 19:33:30 UTC

In the first month of the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Canadian oil industry made after-tax profits in excess of $6 billion -- $4 billion more than it pocketed the month before. It is well past time Canada applied a windfall tax on these excess profits:
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/news-research/the-oil-industry-is-making-billions-from-the-iran-war-it-should-be-taxed/
#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoWar #IranWar

2026-04-13 20:04:46 UTC

Title: Nara Park (c.1930s)
Artist: Kasamatsu Shiro
https://www.visitnara.jp/venues/S01487/ #ShinHanga #SosakuHanga #Showa #KasamatsuShiro #Summer #Deer #KofukuJi #Nara #NaraPark #Japan
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/116/399/188/109/004/772/original/b2ca4baf29104ee5.webp

2026-04-13 20:03:38 UTC

After one year of Mark Carney, the richest Canadians are richer, and everyone else is poorer.
"Canadians are not just feeling financial pressure, they are navigating an environment that continues to shift, increasing uncertainty and making it more difficult to plan, budget, and stay ahead financially"
43% of Canadians are within $200 or less of not being able to pay their bills, up from 41% last quarter. 29% say they already aren’t making enough to cover bills and debt payments, up from 25%.
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/2026/04/13/statistics-canada-reports-wealth-and-income-gaps-grew-in-2025/
#Canada #CDNPoli #CostOfLivingCrisis

2026-04-12 22:32:12 UTC

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Awesome as always, TYVM for that.

2026-04-12 20:41:00 UTC

"Israeli strike kills infant girl in south Lebanon during father's funeral"
• Family thought they could hold funeral during US-Iran truce
• Israeli strike killed four more relatives, including infant girl
• More than 160 children in Lebanon killed in Israeli strikes
"This isn't humanity. This is a war crime (…) Where are the human rights? If a child - a child! - is wounded in Israel, the whole world jumps up. Are we not people? Are we not humans? We're like them!"
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-strike-kills-infant-girl-south-lebanon-during-fathers-funeral-2026-04-12/
#Israel #Lebanon

2026-04-12 20:36:53 UTC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hUkyKBsGtQ
#MassiveAttack

2026-04-12 20:33:06 UTC

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A perfect track for today, thanks. :)