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Physician-scientist in planetary health, active optimist and father of two.
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🇨🇦 CANADIANS PLEASE REPOST! This article is from 2017 but today it needs to be revisited. Why do we have US coa trains coming through the border of Southern BC heading to China via our port. FREE TARIFF THE CRAP OUT OF THESE TRAINS!! @tariffscostus.bsky.social thetyee.ca/Opinion/2017...

I just signed a petition demanding Canada's Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Maybe it's a small thing, but gotta stand up against facism! Join me in signing here: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...

Good news #ABsolar story. “As one of the first builders in Canada to include 10 solar panels as a standard feature in every home, we are committed to enhancing the quality of life for Albertans today and in the future,” Jayman Homes and Skyfire Power making Alberta a better place.

Do the climate policies of our gvts feel like real emergency responses to the crisis we face? Here’s what a genuine #ClimateEmergency plan looks like: see our @climateunit.bsky.social video here: www.climateemergencyunit.ca & our 6 Markers of Emergency: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/emergencymar...

And here I thought he was only going to be dictator for a day. Bad joke... www.nytimes.com/2025/02/15/u...

They are just swinging sledgehammers in the dark.

Strongly agree with this piece today by @hadrianmk.bsky.social. The current crisis is an opening to leap into the new, not beat a path back to the past. An east-west oil pipeline is a trap—Canada needs an east-west electricity grid www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

This just in!

We should seize this moment. US wants trade war. Our biggest hammer is energy. We know the planet needs less fossil E, and we could meet this trade war challenge by thinking to the future generations, cutting our fossil E production, and foil Donald Trump's war on Canada while saving the planet.

Now more than ever, fossil fuel driven climate change must be resisted. We have a big fight in Canada because we produce a lot of oil and gas, and this industry has captured much of our government. We will keep fighting for a better future! www.burnabynow.com/local-news/d...

Could AI please figure out how to make itself truly zero emissions?

Canada wants to deport this climate activist tomorrow. This is wrong Minister Mark Miller! www.facebook.com/share/1E53r7...

On the 52nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade, here's your reminder that there's nothing "pro-life" about abortion bans.

Just had a sample of the Eaton Fire ash that is in my driveway run on the department XRF. Is there titanium (new house paint)? Yup. Lead (old house paint)? You betcha. Heavy metals? Check. Treat that ash like it's toxic folks (because it is)

This new analysis of increasing wildfire death and destruction puts the tragedy in LA into perspective. It also calls out the elephant in the room: fossil fuel companies: profits before people and the planet. Their harmful products are killing us! www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

As political dynamics shift and the climate crisis intensifies, the pressure is on to secure strong and fair rules to curb oil & gas pollution. Join this important talk with health & climate experts to learn what’s at stake and how to make it happen. 🗓️: loom.ly/vfy2Zrw

Thanks Mia! If most know, they're not talking. Linkage is clear to scientists and people with alternative news sources, but in 20 min. of reporting from PBS NewsHour on day 2 of fires, no mention of fossil E. President elect and owner of Twitter say it was caused by incompetent CA officials. WRONG!

John Vaillant and many others (outside the MAGA camp)calling the fossil industry and their financiers guilty for their profit-making increase in carbon emissions and contributing to death and destruction in LA. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Friends, you should get to know the term "carbon capture and storage" very well. After all, your tax $ may be paying for it long into the future. How much longer will Canadians be asked to prop up massive oil and gas companies? @cape-acme.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2025/01/09/n...

This is the complete version of GP Leader May's press conf, starting with a nice tribute to Jimmy Carter. www.cpac.ca/headline-pol...

Canadian Green Party leader responds to Trump's imperialist ambitions for Canada (short version, for full press conf. see CPAC Jan. 3, 2025) - www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSuK... ELIZABETH MAY FOR PRIME MINISTER !! We need to organize for Greens in every riding before next election.

Let's get on with it on Turtle Island!

This is great! At the same time, it’s yet more evidence of the backwardness of BCI + BC Public Sector Pension Plans: from a quick search, it seems they have ZERO invested in the 7 solar firms👇(all publicly traded), while still parking ~$248M total in 5 of the fossil firms! @mikehudema.bsky.social

“We need governmental incentives that will massively incentivize renewable energy and phase out fossil fuel energy as soon as possible,” Mann said. “It won’t happen, however, if young people in particular don’t turn out to vote for climate-forward policymakers.”

"It’s time for our governments to bring our health societies and institutions together, and task them with creating a targeted climate action plan for the health-care sector in Canada." www.sasktoday.ca/opinion/opin...

The US should reinstall the solar panels President Carter put on the Whitehouse 45 years ago as a lasting memorial.

Dear Donald, Thanks for including us in your deranged Christmas message. Being Canadian means free health care and limiting access to assault weapons. In your 51st state our kids would get shot at in school and CEOs would be shot for denying health care. So no. Now piss off. Your northern neighbour

This is a decent article about Canada’s ongoing subsidies of our oil and gas industry and new TMX pipeline adding 590,000 bpd to global emissions. Unfortunately, they don't mention climate costs to future gens and the planet, an enormous and inconvenient truth. www.theenergymix.com/trans-mounta...

If the government shuts down Saturday, the richest man in the world will be largely to blame. You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way. If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.

NEW PAPER: - 51% of Big Oil’s profits go to the highest 1% of net worth individuals - 1% goes to the bottom 50% This is wage theft, unprecedented in scale, and I wonder at what point people will revoke these climate arsonists’ licence to operate scholarworks.umass.edu/server/api/c...

The 'new physics' by the Government of Canada: Green Leader May asked about the TransMountain pipeline expansion in Parliament yesterday, the GoC said, adding 560,000 new barrels of oil to the market is on the road to zero emissions. AMAZING! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fQp...