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Bruce Winter @btwinter.bsky.social · 16h

It’s hard to retreat, when there’s no progression. That’s the NA automotive industry. Tariffs protect a decaying industry, until 2030. By then, the Chinese will be entrenched as the global leader in EVs, all phases of it, minerals , mines, materials, battery, chemistry, software, computation!

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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you to Tom Howell and CBC Ideas for having me on to talk through the contradiction at the heart of new Canadian pipeline projects.

Believing we can escape the consequences of expanding fossil fuels doesn’t make a 2 degree future less deadly!

Listen here: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Can we have new pipelines and curb climate change, too?

Podcast Episode · Ideas · 10/07/2025 · 54m

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Ashley Salvador @ashleysalvador.bsky.social · 1d

Increasing housing supply is critical for moderating housing costs, but the market alone will never solve the affordable housing crisis, which is why we need continued investment in housing across the spectrum.

Learn more about my approach to housing and homelessness at ashleysalvador.com

Ashley Salvador for City Council Ward Métis | Edmonton Election

Ashley Salvador is running for re-election for City Councillor in Ward Metis. She has a track record of working hard to deliver value for Edmontonians and is committed to making our City the best plac...

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Ashley Salvador @ashleysalvador.bsky.social · 1d

In Edmonton, there are:

▪️5,000 people currently experiencing homelessness
▪️46,000 households in core housing need
▪️381 people who died on our streets in 2024 due to inadequate housing and homelessness

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Ashley Salvador @ashleysalvador.bsky.social · 1d

This campaign, I attended numerous forums where discussions centred on vitally important topics like community safety and wellbeing, and homelessness - a topic that is deeply important to me. The housing crisis in Edmonton is worsening and we need to see urgent action from all levels of government.

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Shannon Phillips 🇨🇦 @sphillipsab.bsky.social · 1d

Nice

Polling Canada @canadianpolling.bsky.social · 1d

Edmonton - Mayoral Polling:

Knack: 41%
Cartmell: 21%
Mohammad: 10%
Walters: 10%
Jaffer: 7%
Caterina: 6%

Janet Brown/Trend Research / Oct 8, 2025 / n=1000 / Online

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Ezra Klein @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s episode of The Ezra Klein Show.

The researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky argues that we should be very afraid of artificial intelligence’s existential risks.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

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How Afraid of the AI Apocalypse Should We Be? | The Ezra Klein Show

YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show

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Bruce Winter @btwinter.bsky.social · 21h

Everywhere except #Alberta, where the GoA is desperately trying to build a coal mine. Do an Australian Billionaire can export it to Asia.

Rewiring America @rewiringamerica.bsky.social · 1d

Huge news: This year, for the first time ever, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal around the world. The clean energy future is inevitable. apnews.com/article/clim...

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

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Rewiring America @rewiringamerica.bsky.social · 1d

Huge news: This year, for the first time ever, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal around the world. The clean energy future is inevitable. apnews.com/article/clim...

Solar and wind power has grown faster than electricity demand this year, report says

A new analysis of solar and wind power shows its generation worldwide has outpaced electricity demand this year.

apnews.com

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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 1d

FTR: Our oil is cracked because it's tar. Shorter molecules are needed for valuable products, incl gas/diesel (which get burned!) Some naphtha also would be produced but the % that makes plastics that then go into EVs would be tiny. No clue how that electrifies the grid. This person earns $700k/yr?!

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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 1d

This is appalling. A Canadian govt spokesperson is spreading misinformation that TMX is good for climate because "Most of the oil is cracked to make naphtha" which goes into electric cars and electrifying the grid in Asia. That's nuts! A correction is needed.
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...

Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate

Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...

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Mark Dorin @markdorin.bsky.social · 23h

Albertans, government officials and organizations from across the province attended to hear Bill Heidecker, president of Alberta Surface Rights Federation condemn the province’s strategy for dealing with unprofitable wells (some 88% of oil and gas wells in Alberta).

Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 LIVE now: "MAS is a strategy for industry, not for landowners and Albertans." - Bill Heidecker, president of the AB surface rights federation, speaking to the Warburg-Pembina surface rights group about the government of Alberta's "Mature Asset Strategy" (MAS). [1/n] #ABLeg #ABPoli

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Ashley Salvador @ashleysalvador.bsky.social · 22h

Local government should stay local. That’s what I stand for, and that’s why I’m running for re-election as an independent. Talk to your friends, family, and neighbours about the risk party politics poses to our local democracy, and do your research before voting October 20. www.ashleysalvador.com

Ashley Salvador for City Council Ward Métis | Edmonton Election

Ashley Salvador is running for re-election for City Councillor in Ward Metis. She has a track record of working hard to deliver value for Edmontonians and is committed to making our City the best…

www.ashleysalvador.com

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Energy vs Climate Podcast @energyvsclimate.bsky.social · 21h

TOMORROW'S live webinar and podcast recording - Drill & Dash: The oil and gas liability crisis with @molszyns.bsky.social, Oct 16 at 4pm ET.

Register today: www.energyvsclimate.com/invite-drill...

You're Invited - Drill & Dash: The Oil & Gas Liability Crisis with Martin Olszynski | Oct 16 at 4pm ET

Who'll be left paying the tab? Martin Olszynski, Associate Professor and Chair in Energy, Resources, & Sustainability at the University of Calgary, joins Energy vs Climate to unpack Alberta's mountin...

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Taproot Edmonton @taprootedmonton.ca · 23h

Edmonton's relationship with the province: Where the candidates stand edmonton.taproot.news/briefs/2025/... #yeg

Edmonton's relationship with the province: Where the candidates stand

A slim majority of candidates for council and mayor said they would Negotiate with the province to ensure the best practical outcome if Alberta's government were to intervene in municipal matters on Taproot's...

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frankwork.bsky.social @frankwork.bsky.social · 23h

"...the people who run the companies that touch most of our lives have come to see the world not as something to improve, but as something to overcome."
How Silicon Valley Lost Its Way via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Culture/2025...

How Silicon Valley Lost Its Way | The Tyee

Jacob Silverman’s new book exposes the rightward path for the tech leaders shaping how we live.

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Bruce Winter @btwinter.bsky.social · 21h

Hey, #Alberta here’s an option for those mature oil and gas assets that Albertans will pay to clean up.

Maybe the Alberta farmers, on whose land these hazards exist, could make some cash from the renewables, or reduce their electricity bills!

Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 22h

A new Ohio law will encourage renewable energy development on brownfields and former coal mines — and hopefully curb escalating fights over using farmland for solar arrays.

Ohio to fast-track energy at former coal mines and brownfields

It’s part of a new law meant to boost power production amid rising demand — and it could help renewables grow faster while putting industrial land to use.

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Debbie Benson YEG @dbenson77.bsky.social · 21h

This perfectly describes AB and Conservative voters!

Many voters no longer see politics as a civic duty grounded in informed judgment. Instead, it has become a form of identity that is inherited. They vote the way their parents did out of loyalty to a label.

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How Authoritarianism Wins When Memory Fails

When political loyalty overrides truth, authoritarianism thrives. How do we stop repeating history while too many forget what it tried to teach us?

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NPR @npr.org · 21h

Water temperatures several degrees above normal span thousands of miles in the Pacific Ocean. Underwater heat waves like this can disrupt disrupts the ocean’s food web and fisheries, and alter weather on land thousands of miles away.

Return of The Blob: Heat wave spans Pacific Ocean

A massive heat wave is hitting the Pacific Ocean from Kamchatka to California.

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Bruce Winter @btwinter.bsky.social · 21h

No! He’s defaulted to his allergy to young players. Henrique gets a push allegedly because he kills penalties Frederic gets demoted to third line centre, a position he hasn’t played, as an NHLer! Howard gets <10 minutes. Lavoie gets demoted. Howard bound for Bakersfield.

Bruce Winter @btwinter.bsky.social · 1d

Hey, Doug, Stelantis just pulled out of Brampton. Oshawa’s auto industry is 10% of what it was a decade ago. Ford moved its EV production to the US. Maybe you need to rethink Chinese manufacturing, perhaps bring it to Ontario. Produce vehicles your constituents want to and ca afford to drive.

Ford says there’s ‘no damn way’ tariffs on Chinese EVs should be scrapped | Globalnews.ca

Premier Doug Ford's comments came after the premiers of Manitoba and Saskatchewan urged Ottawa to scrap electric vehicle tariffs, largely in place to protect Ontario.

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Bruce Winter @btwinter.bsky.social · 1d

Tomahawks are designed to be launched from sea. Ukraine doesn’t have that capacity. A rudimentary land launcher is in prototype. tldrify.com/1gfn
The missile tech is proven. The land based mobile tech isn’t. Low probability Tomahawks see action in Ukraine before the middle of next year!

AUSA 2025: Oshkosh X-MAV Mobile Tomahawk Launcher Highlights Future Options for Ukraine

Oshkosh unveiled the X-MAV at AUSA 2025, a four-Tomahawk, autonomous-capable mobile launcher, as the U.S. weighs supplying Tomahawks to Ukraine.

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Bruce Winter @btwinter.bsky.social · 1d

What is Trent Frederic doing? Playing on the wrong line! The push is coming from the GM!

Zone exists are different. The long hope and pray rim around the boards is dispatched! Replaced by a centre zone breakout, requiring three men back to the goal line. It’s risky, in the event of a bobble.

Lowetide @lowetide.bsky.social · 2d

The Oilers have played two regular season games and some interesting things are happening. Words like "suppression" and phrases like "what is Trent Frederic doing?" come to mind. Here's a first blush look at the Oilers 2025-26.

www.nytimes.com/athletic/671...

What we learned from the Oilers’ first 2 games of 2025-26

Two games is a tiny sample size, but the Oilers have started to answer some questions from the beginning of camp.

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Chris Bataille @chrisbataille.bsky.social · 2d

Interesting take on the seeming lack of enthusiasm for solid state batteries in North American car makers. Lacking the drive & competition of Chinese EV firms, they seem content to let the Chinese go 1st while staying profitable behind the US tariff wall www.jalopnik.com/1994775/gm-f...

GM And Ford Don't Really Care That Solid-State Batteries Are Getting Big In China - Jalopnik

Some automakers are calling it the future of EV powertrains, so why aren't Ford and GM stepping up to develop solid-state batteries?

www.jalopnik.com

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Canary Media Inc. @canarymedia.com · 2d

Boston is racing to decarbonize its public housing. Its latest tool? Gradient’s window-straddling heat pumps that plug into standard outlets.

Boston is piloting window heat pumps in affordable housing

Housing authorities in Boston and two nearby cities are installing plug-in heat pumps from startup Gradient to try to swiftly and affordably cut emissions.

www.canarymedia.com

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