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Environment and climate journalist | Managing editor at @nationalobserver.com | Work in The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, The Guardian | www.jameswsthomson.com
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Elon loves reminding people why doing business with him is signing a deal with the devil. It will never just be a simple exchange of money for goods or services — there's always an implicit threat.

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Just learned the owner of a local coffee shop that makes amazing coffee drives a Cybertruck. I've never made a decision to give up something I like so quickly and easily.

submitted 11 hours ago • 8 comments

Propagandhi, the only band for this moment, is coming to Victoria! youtu.be/4HuWgP-hwCY?...

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

the CBC is going to CBC itself out of a country

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

I'm sure the intention was good here, but this is a major miss. Insane framing.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

This is the core asymmetry of left-vs-right media; it's not that the left is less skilled at communication, it's the the right has wholeheartedly accepted the idea that there is no such thing as objective reality — and that lying to win is ok. That's not a frame the left should replicate.

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

SCOOP: Sam Mraiche, owner of the firm that imported meds from Turkey, is a part owner in two private surgical facilities that last year were negotiating deals with inflated rates compared to competitor, according to documents www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... w/ @alannasmith.bsky.social

submitted 1 day ago • 35 comments

I personally don't see what could go wrong in letting the edgelord-best-known-for-doing-fraud into the nation's gold vault

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Huge congratulations to @ethancox.bsky.social for forcing an RCMP apology today over Jerome Turner's unlawful detention while doing his job covering Wet'suwet'en protests. Reporters have a right and a duty to cover police actions, and police intimidation and interference is unacceptable.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

More and more people are saying this

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

America can eat some ass

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

In 2014, finishing a stint as a baby intern, I blew the whistle about Canadian Geographic providing cover for the oil industry to sneak propaganda into classrooms. A report this week exposes that campaign and much more (and mentions my small role, too!) www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/19/n...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

REVEALED: we identified the operator of an overtly racist X account, "GlomarResponder," as ICE Assistant Chief Counsel James Rodden, based on an overwhelming number of biographical details matched through publicly available documents, other social media activity, and courtroom observation.

submitted 3 days ago • 997 comments

Canada has its problems, but this month it sure is a relief to have a government that spends its time on projects like this rather than renaming bodies of water or firing the people who watch the nukes or whatever

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

The New Yorker published an article a while back about why writers should avoid replacing a word to avoid repetition — like replacing "cars" with "the automotive conveyances" or whatever. Can anyone remember what it was? They even had a name for it.

submitted 4 days ago • 4 comments

Canadian and American conservatives are gathering in London with Jordan Peterson to discuss energy, the environment, and society writ large. Here's who's on the guestlist. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/02/17/n...

submitted 5 days ago • 18 comments

If you saw a person losing a game of chess to a dog, over and over, you would assume the person is losing intentionally, that they are losing on purpose. Probably to make money selling tickets to see the amazing chess playing dog. Anyway, the dems

submitted 6 days ago • 10 comments

Another one for the list of stuff to boycott and for our government to ban. #BuyCanadian 🍁 Would help our housing market tremendously. Two birds. @charlieangus104.bsky.social

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

Always knew I liked Sheryl Crow

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

not yet. I've sent them a letter asking for payment!

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

The treatment this woman is alleging she received from RCMP on a mental health wellness check — including being punched in the face, suffocated inside a spit hood, and dropped down stairs — are stunning www.bccourts.ca/jdb-txt/sc/2...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment