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Yikes - what a ride! Tough results nationally for social democrats but there is hope now for the future. The one candidate truly unsuited for the job was NOT re-elected (but he could ask for a recount🥺) Time now to create a caring, resilient & just Canada for ALL people. It can be what we make it.

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If like me, you prefer to not listen to or watch announcers & pundits blathering as returns come in for the Canadian federal election, you can see the results in silence here. In tense times, silence is indeed golden.

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Well-spoken as always, Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com reviewed Pope Frances' legacy in making the climate fight a matter of faith on CBC's national radio program 'What On Earth'. www.cbc.ca/listen/live-...

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Last chance tomorrow to vote for national solutions. At least 250,000 Canadians are homeless and many hundreds of thousands can barely afford housing. Current party plans for urgent support to keep renters in their homes and to house people experiencing homelessness.

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"The only known past eruptions of modern-day Mount Spurr occurred in 1953 & 1992. Both of those events were associated with Crater Peak, a vent located about 2 miles (3 kilometers) south of Mount Spurr’s summit & visible in the detailed image at the top of this page." Eruption alerts began in March.

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Waiting for ballots to be cast. Thanks to chaos south of the border, this federal election has paid scant attention to the global emergency of an ailing biosphere. Energy choices loom large and will be known on April 28. Also not on the national political radar - a growing homelessness crisis.

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2025 will likely be hotter than 2024 but will still be the coolest year we will see from now on.

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Excellent Earth Day share! Thanks to @katharinehayhoe.com for the info for youth on connecting #food and planetary sustainability. Cooking, energy, #foodwaste ...all kinds of tips and hands on learning. Available in Alberta & BC. www.ecocooks.org/school-program

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The thoughtful and capable scientists who decide on moving the hands of the Doomsday Clock closer to midnight or not have something to tell us.

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I did warn all that I appreciate dark humour... Here's hoping Bluesky does not ever suffer the same fate.

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Fair to say, people in Ontario are focused on the April 28 federal election. So look at Ford's PC government of Ontario sneaking in Bill 5 - the “Protect Ontario by Unleashing our Economy Act.” Gone is Ontario Endangered Species Act. Instead a weaker Species Conservation Act with zones free of law.

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A crucial point in time to celebrate and honour the 43rd anniversary of Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, signed in 1982. With a federal election on April 28, voters can send a message to strongly uphold the Charter's intent.

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This Canadian Journal of Political Economy and Social Democracy by the Broadbent Institute provides sound analysis for building a just and equitable society. Great coverage of #sustainablefood security in the issue.

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Asking all Canadians to remember this for April 28 when they vote in the federal election. Choose a party that supports, not ignores Indigenous rights and needs.

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Bravo! Community driven social enterprise in New Brunswick to provide private transitional shelter units with supports needed to overcome problems that often lead to people becoming unhoused. Providing well-being and creating employment at the same time. www.12neighbours.com/neighbourly-...

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Erosion of credible science began by corporations over a 100 years re: dangers of asbestos. 'Merchants of Doubt' by Naomi Oreskes, published in 2010 & 'The Triumph of Doubt : Dark Money & the Science of Deception' by David Michaels in 2020 were thorough exposés. Why does truth fail to take hold?

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"On April 11, 2025, the world achieved something rare: a legally binding global #climate agreement. The United States didn’t vote—they walked out, warning others to follow or face consequences. But 63 nations stayed. And they passed the deal ..... That’s global governance, alive and kicking."

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The world population in 2024 was estimated to be around 8.2 billion people. Only 2.5 million of those billions or 0.3% of the world's population have net worth over 10 million $ each. The global distribution of this wealth is chilling.

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65 years ago, Bill C-3 passed to amend the Canada Elections, Act giving First Nations Peoples the unrestricted right to vote in federal elections—without having to give up their status under the Indian Act. "We are merely restoring to them a right that should never have been taken away.”

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In my small rural community we have suffered many tragic deaths from lack of support for unhoused people. Stigmatization & misconceptions, rampant since COVID & the opioid crisis, sent many vulnerable people on a deadly downward spiral. Thanks to @chrishouston.ca for telling one daughter's story.

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"In April 2025, while most of the world was clutching pearls over trade war tit-for-tat tariffs, China calmly walked over to the supply chain & yanked out a handful of critical bolts." My bad to laugh but the vision of most of the world clutching their pearls & wringing their hankies is a chuckle.

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Bad habit of 'Westerners' - underestimating China.

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Be grand to see good made from the mess left behind by Big Oil. Tu Deh-Kah 100% Indigenous-owned, is poised to generate 7 to 15 megawatts, enough clean power (99% less CO2 emitted) for the First Nation & Fort Nelson, the nearby municipality. Consents, consultations & reliabilty studies are ongoing.🤞

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Not good news for reducing climate change at all but makes you wonder why Alberta Premier Danielle Smith insists that the federal government is not supportive of her province's goals. Alberta hiefer dust being stirred up?

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From COVID days "As millions around the world shelter at home - smog melts away, #birds sing, & waters run clear. This moment can lead us to a healthier, cleaner, greener future, if only we grasp it". We are again at a global watershed time. What path will we choose? One to sustain all life or not?

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Tales of bringing back the 'Dire Wolf' from extinction abound at the moment. However that disciplined thing called #science begs to differ with the company making the following claim: "We are using the morphological species concept & saying, if they look like this animal, then they are the animal.🥺

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My rural Ontario town has a substantial population of unhoused people, who often have substance use & poor mental health problems. No shelter is consistently, available even in winter. People face huge stigma daily. The general public is often downright mean to them. Speak up for real solutions.

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Many politicians campaigning in the April 28 Canadian federal election are promising to INCREASE extraction of & investment in fossil fuels as part of creating an economy independent of the U.S. Arctic Winter ice coverage reached a new low. Can you spell 'short sighted' - given #climate chaos?

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2024 release - BEFORE tariffs... "Last year, more than 1 million people turned to a food bank for emergency food assistance in Ontario. Unfortunately, this is simply the latest in a string of striking, unprecedented milestones in record food bank use, & will not be the last unless we change course."

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Being a 'Boomer' - born post WWII in Canada to parents that kept this brutal upheaval in their hearts & top of mind, it seems right for me to recognize the ongoing ravages of conflict now. This article - published on April 4 2025, the date I celebrate a birthday - drives home my own privilege.

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The snap election called in Ontario and the re-election of Ford led 'Progressive' Conservatives is now showing the negative outcomes predicted that were not properly highlighted in the short forced campaign. Cuts to post secondary arts programs and Indigenous studies are coming fast & hard now.

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Citizens of the United States are coming to the painful understanding that sitting behind closed doors and fretting is not going to work. Wishing courage to perservere to all. Big turnouts in many locations of people realizing they have nothing to lose.

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"Most Canadian corporate boards are still made up of people equipped with skills and experience that reflect the economy of yesteryear. All of Canada’s major banks have board members who are senior executives at Canadian oil and gas majors or else do double duty on their boards." Ugh!

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Horribly similar to right now. Over the 1990s, Yugoslavia was cowed, harassed & controlled by a racist, punitive, anti-democratic tyrant, Slobodan Milošević. He politically throttled universities, independent media & public organizations. But...non-violent resistance did win out. Courage needed🙏.

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Blueprint for Revolution - learn from Popovic about Otpor’s methods used in '98 in Serbia • listen to what people care about to include their needs into revolutionary vision to ridicule & defeat a tyrant • use humor to make yourself heard, defuse violent situations & “laugh your way to victory”

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For all the April Fools grumps out there - this from the National Trust for Scotland - how can you not smile seeing these #birds ? "It’s that amazing time of year where we get to witness a rare phenomenon across the islands in our care – the puffin’s winter-to-summer protection transition!"

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Ouch! Gulp. NOT a joke. www.beautyofplanet.com/the-growing-...

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Feeling fortunate in ice storm burdened Ontario. Somehow, the worst did not come to my neck of the woods...yet. Still not over though. 100 thousand homes are now without power from falling ice laden branches. In the meantime, Evening Grosbeaks in Algonquin Park are hungry & they have company. #birds

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What does it all mean? Will voters having a higher level of education in Canada make better electoral choices? Are they apt to be less alienated from government? One certainty shown, the 40,000 people in the massive territory of Nunavut don't have decent access to education. Credit MapPorn on Reddit

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With a federal election campaign underway in Canada, keep this in mind. Minority governments have value. As a result of the recent minority, we have Denta-care. Farther back: Medi-care, student loans & the Canadian Pension Plan...and a then controversial new flag...which is beloved now.

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What do #birds know...is this a 'bird-brained' barometer? A massive 3 day ice storm is forecast for eastern Canada starting Friday. Nobody started up the eastern seaboard last night. Peak number in flight est. at 78.6 million birds at 2:10 a.m. but none moved north in the east ALL night. Spooky.

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Rick Smith is president of the Canadian Climate Institute . He thinks anger is unavoidable now & appropriate but to harness it for #climate action - not turn into general divisive grumpiness. "So these days I’m focusing my fury. Eco-anger beats eco-anxiety any day. We’re in this fight together."

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Anyone up for adventure and employmeny in the Yukon? Arctic Range Adventure is looking for a property caretaker (on-site living) approx. 40 min from Whitehorse. Beautiful isolated location with view onto Ibex Mountain. Housing provided. Starts May 1 www.arcticrange.com/en/base-mana...

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