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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 10h

I'm in favour! We should have more choices of EVs

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Green Party of Canada | Parti Vert du Canada @canadiangreens.bsky.social · 1d

With wind and solar outpacing coal worldwide, leaving fossil fuels behind isn’t just possible, it’s necessary. The Greens are ready to lead the way. Will you lead with us? #FeelGoodFriday

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Central Bylines @centralbylines.co.uk · 1d

Great news.....

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @carbonbrief.org

Great Britain has run on 100% clean power for record 87 hours in 2025 so far

Clean-energy sources have powered Great Britain entirely for a record 87 hours this year — a milestone toward 2030 targets

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 22h

We could do better.

KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 22h

People who can't afford housing end up in hospitals and corrections - not great. globalnews.ca/news/1049827...

Study shows longer, more expensive hospital stays for Canada’s homeless | Globalnews.ca

The intention of this data collection is to develop more accurate sources of data related to homelessness to ensure the proper supports and services are available.

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 22h

Supportive housing (social housing) for one household costs about $613 a month (Tasca et al., 2024, 20). A shelter bed costs about $2,100 a month, a jail bed costs an average of $3,960 per month and a hospital bed costs about $13,500 per month (ibid.). johnhoward.on.ca/wp-content/u...

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 22h

Not addressing homelessness is really, really expensive. If you don't care for human rights reasons, can I convince you for pocketbook reasons? www.thestar.com/news/gta/we-...

Rosie DiManno: ‘We have to collectively give a damn’: Why Toronto can’t afford the status quo on homelessness

Dunn House, Canada’s first ever social medicine supportive housing complex, might only address a drop in the unhoused bucket, but a Toronto doctor sees a way forward.

www.thestar.com

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🦋 Carmen G., PhD (🪖"Prima" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 1d

#WorldHomelessDay

#ONEV1
#Pinks 🌸
#Voices4Victory

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CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 Today in Portland, large groups peacefully gathered to unite against hate and oppression. 1/2

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Barack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 1d

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

Live Updates: María Corina Machado of Venezuela Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize

www.nytimes.com

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 1d

Renewables become biggest source of electricity globally for 1st time, beating coal. Report shows solar, wind booming worldwide, but fossil fuel generation rose in U.S., EU
www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Renewables become biggest source of electricity globally for 1st time, beating coal | CBC News

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new an...

www.cbc.ca

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 1d

This video is everywhere because it's a hilarious visual refutation of Portland being on fire. You can't get a mass movement going without convincing the masses

so yes, this does do something actually

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This literally does nothing. You are not beating fascism by dressing up in inflatable suits and dancing

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Portland is leading the way. This is how you (non violently) beat Fascism. Humor and ridicule are key.

Stillframe from a video of Portland protesters dancing in inflatable suits

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 22h

As a public servant with NO power to make million dollar decisions, I am not allowed to accept tickets to any event. WHY are Conservative politicians exempt from such rules? www.thetrillium.ca/news/politic...

Labour minister was in Leafs glass seats with director of company he granted funding to

The ‘lower-scoring’ company got $7.5M of tax dollars through David Piccini’s office and is a client of the lobbyist whose Parisian wedding the minister recently attended

www.thetrillium.ca

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 22h

Everyone sneers at people overpaying for cars, but Americans live in such car-centric places that many have no choice. And yes, prices of cars have skyrocketed. Instead of blaming individuals, we should be looking at providing alternatives. Mandatory car ownership is a tax.

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Geoffrey P Johnston😎🇨🇦🇺🇦 @geoffypjohnston.bsky.social · 1d

www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
“COVID vaccines reduced people’s risk of emergency department visits by 29 percent, their risk of hospitalizations by 39 percent and their risk of death by 64 percent.”

Annual COVID Vaccines Save Lives, New Study Shows

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

www.scientificamerican.com

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Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 1d

Solar PV is the world’s cheapest technology to generate electricity,.
#PV “now the key driver of the world’s transition to clean, #renewable power”.
“UK, 50 degrees north of the equator, solar is the cheapest option for large-scale energy generation.”
www.pv-tech.org/solar-is-the...

Solar is the world’s cheapest source of electricity, research shows

Solar PV is the world’s cheapest technology to generate electricity, according to a study from the University of Surrey, in the UK.

www.pv-tech.org

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Colin W. 🇨🇦 🇦🇺🇩🇪🌻 @grapemanca.bsky.social · 1d

The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery: Vancouver's #transit system, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why Vancouver has one of the best transit systems in North America.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The Secret to Vancouver’s Public Transit Ridership Recovery

The Canadian city’s transit agency, TransLink, bounced back from Covid even as other North American systems have struggled. Its leader explains why riders returned.

www.bloomberg.com

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Marit Stiles @maritstilesndp.bsky.social · 1d

Two years ago, the RCMP launched a criminal investigation into Doug Ford’s Greenbelt Grab.

Two years later, it’s déjà vu — Labour Minister David Piccini admits he personally picked which of his friends got millions from the Skills Development Fund.

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Tea’s Emporium & Co. @teasemporiumandco.bsky.social · 1d

At the end of the day folks, if you were against speed cameras, it’s because you want to break that law you want to be that malicious fucking piece of shit that doesn’t give a crap about anybody else else’s life. And you are angry because these camera cameras catch

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 23h

Love this for Mac news.mcmaster.ca/mcmaster-tim...

McMaster ranks among the world’s best for research excellence and industry partnerships

McMaster has been ranked fourth in Canada and is among the top 100 public universities globally in the 2026 Times Higher Education World University Rankings (WUR). The prestigious international rankin...

news.mcmaster.ca

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💙💙🤔CJ🤨🤣🧐💙💙🇺🇸 @cnice59.bsky.social · Aug 1

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

www.thebeaverton.com/2025/10/pm-c...

PM Carney announces Charter of Rights to be renamed Charter of Optional Ideas

OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney held a press conference today to announce a renaming of the “Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms”, the document that enshrined our foundational set of rights in...

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Alaska Public Media @alaskapublic.org · 2d

A new study has concluded that solar power plants are now cost-competitive with diesel for many rural Alaska communities, even if solar is only usable during part of the year. (via Alaska Beacon)

Hybrid solar-diesel power is less expensive than diesel alone in parts of rural Alaska, study shows

Diesel prices in remote areas are so high that it’s cheaper to use solar for part of the year, the analysis found, even with the cost of two power plants.

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

I worry about the direction this country is going. Instead of following Trump's lead, we should be leading the way on how to mitigate climate change. It's not economy VS environment, it's how do we build a green economy? theconversation.com/mark-carneys...

Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat

Climate action no longer seems to be a priority for Prime Minister Mark Carney, despite his previous activism. This is bad news for Canadians and the climate.

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KGE hockey fan 🇨🇦🍁 @kbyrd.bsky.social · 1d

Eep

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