Profile avatar
peterfjackson.bsky.social
Semi-retired Newfoundland journalist focused on climate change, health and Indigenous affairs.
635 posts 375 followers 176 following
Regular Contributor
Active Commenter

4 Sale. One Telser. Barely used. All computer. Some exploding. Ineradicable sharting old man fragrance. $300M / OBO.

That any of us have to care about the messy breakup of these two massive narcissists — and that they both individually wield such massive power — is an indictment of our political system and further proves the poisonous influence of Big Money on our democracy.

A massive outbreak has made Ontario the #measles epicentre of the western hemisphere. Three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, and this week saw the first fatality: a premature baby, by Olivia Bowden www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j... via @theguardian.com

Whether it's a random liberal nobody praising Luigi on Facebook or a Republican cabinet nominee calling for genocide against all non-whites, there's plenty of incendiary rhetoric on both sides.

Marc Garneau, Canada's first astronaut, and later a MP and cabinet minister, dead of cancer at age 76, by @ianabailey.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... via @theglobeandmail.com

@kblidook.bsky.social No walk-on drama for Romano tonight. 😄

Marc Garneau, Canadian astronaut, dead at 76.

Calgary, folks. It’s getting ugly out west.

Preach! 🌎

"Support for the law firms that didn’t make deals has been growing... "At least 11 big companies are moving work away from firms that settled with the administration or are giving more business to firms that have been targeted but refused to strike deals..." www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

Americans need to nip this police state bullshit in the bud or it’ll get much, much worse.

Doctors at the CDC say children should receive Covid vaccines. A disgraced ex-environmental lawyer who spent 20 years abusing heroin says they shouldn't. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Kinew says the fires have forced 17,000 people across several communities to flee in what he calls the largest such exodus in living memory in Manitoba.

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew has announced a provincewide state of emergency due to wildfires. APTN’s Sav Jonsa has details on the wildfire that led up to the state of emergency being called.

BREAKING: Monarchist thinks king is important.

Hon, that’s not what habeas corpus is. 😲

Best promo ever.

"The report in question was neither peer-reviewed nor published in a medical journal..." www.nbcnews.com/health/women...

If you’re in St. John’s, this is about to begin and is going on all day. Drop down to the Cathedral!

Opinon | We must welcome white South Africans with open arms. One of them could become the next Nazi-sympathizing libertarian billionaire who gets rich from government subsidies and then tries to kick people off of Medicaid.

calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...

This is bleak reading