Peter Mortimer
@peterhfx.bsky.social
Retired after 30+ years working in the NGO/Charity sector. Now I garden, play in the kitchen, and make a lot of sawdust in my workshop. A cynical optimist.
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Trudeau spent eight years trying to get provinces on board. He set up the Canadian Drug Agency to negotiate a formulary. Provinces except PEI *refused* to get on board.
The NDP's ass-backward approach only created a bigger mess.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/exper...
The NDP's ass-backward approach only created a bigger mess.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/exper...
November 22, 2025 at 4:19 AM
Trudeau spent eight years trying to get provinces on board. He set up the Canadian Drug Agency to negotiate a formulary. Provinces except PEI *refused* to get on board.
The NDP's ass-backward approach only created a bigger mess.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/exper...
The NDP's ass-backward approach only created a bigger mess.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/health/exper...
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Blunndell:
"MAGA Operative turned US Ambassador to Canada can go F*** himself.
If Donald Trump went shopping for the purest possible embodiment of the “ugly American” cliché to send to Ottawa, he hit the jackpot with Pete Hoekstra."
TRUTH !
deanblundell.substack.com/p/pete-hoeks...
"MAGA Operative turned US Ambassador to Canada can go F*** himself.
If Donald Trump went shopping for the purest possible embodiment of the “ugly American” cliché to send to Ottawa, he hit the jackpot with Pete Hoekstra."
TRUTH !
deanblundell.substack.com/p/pete-hoeks...
Pete Hoekstra: MAGA Operative/Ambassador Thinks Canada Should Sit Down, Shut Up, and Buy the F-35, Stop Telling The Truth About Trump. Or Else.
How Trump’s Project 2025 pit bull in Ottawa is threatening our ads, our airports, and even NORAD because Canadians dared to think for ourselves.
deanblundell.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Blunndell:
"MAGA Operative turned US Ambassador to Canada can go F*** himself.
If Donald Trump went shopping for the purest possible embodiment of the “ugly American” cliché to send to Ottawa, he hit the jackpot with Pete Hoekstra."
TRUTH !
deanblundell.substack.com/p/pete-hoeks...
"MAGA Operative turned US Ambassador to Canada can go F*** himself.
If Donald Trump went shopping for the purest possible embodiment of the “ugly American” cliché to send to Ottawa, he hit the jackpot with Pete Hoekstra."
TRUTH !
deanblundell.substack.com/p/pete-hoeks...
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Freedom? Small government? No, conservatives love governments interfering in the most personal aspects of your life, so long as you belong to a group they don't like, whether it's trans people or women or people with disabilities.
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Freedom? Small government? No, conservatives love governments interfering in the most personal aspects of your life, so long as you belong to a group they don't like, whether it's trans people or women or people with disabilities.
As NS experiences more droughts with climate change, we need to pay attention to our wetlands and leave them alone.
Wetlands are rare and exceptional, even small ones.
Intrinsically valuable, they also:
🌱 Offer habitat for plants, insects, amphibians and birds
🌊 Absorb stormwater, buffering against floods
🌍 Filter and reduce pollutants, improving water quality
Learn more with the Convention on Wetlands 👇
Intrinsically valuable, they also:
🌱 Offer habitat for plants, insects, amphibians and birds
🌊 Absorb stormwater, buffering against floods
🌍 Filter and reduce pollutants, improving water quality
Learn more with the Convention on Wetlands 👇
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
As NS experiences more droughts with climate change, we need to pay attention to our wetlands and leave them alone.
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For the late/west coast crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column on how premiers have taken the lesson that there are no political consequences for invoking the Notwithstanding Clause, which put all of our Charter rights at risk #canqueer #cdnpoli
Provinces’ cavalier use of Notwithstanding Clause a dangerous sign | Xtra Magazine
There should be a political cost for using the clause; unfortunately, there isn’t
xtramagazine.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
For the late/west coast crowd, my @xtramagazine.com column on how premiers have taken the lesson that there are no political consequences for invoking the Notwithstanding Clause, which put all of our Charter rights at risk #canqueer #cdnpoli
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I think we have to apologize to the QAnon people who sussed out that there was an elite conspiracy of pedophiles at the highest levels.... they just got one detail wrong--the party. Ooopsie.
November 12, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I think we have to apologize to the QAnon people who sussed out that there was an elite conspiracy of pedophiles at the highest levels.... they just got one detail wrong--the party. Ooopsie.
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Premier Houston is pissing off a lot of #NovaScotian’s lately, this seems disingenuous
NDP Lisa Lachance said the announcement by the Progressive Conservatives “means very little” when they’re also open to development within the very parks they say they’re protecting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
NDP Lisa Lachance said the announcement by the Progressive Conservatives “means very little” when they’re also open to development within the very parks they say they’re protecting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
N.S. gov't protects 1,300 hectares of land amid criticism over its openness to development | CBC News
The Nova Scotia government announced about 1,300 hectares of new land for 16 parks and other protected areas on Wednesday at a time when it’s being criticized for contemplating development opportuniti...
www.cbc.ca
November 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Premier Houston is pissing off a lot of #NovaScotian’s lately, this seems disingenuous
NDP Lisa Lachance said the announcement by the Progressive Conservatives “means very little” when they’re also open to development within the very parks they say they’re protecting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
NDP Lisa Lachance said the announcement by the Progressive Conservatives “means very little” when they’re also open to development within the very parks they say they’re protecting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Protecting the coast is hard. Rebranding it as a giant bunker is easy.
November 6, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Protecting the coast is hard. Rebranding it as a giant bunker is easy.
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Rather than actually reading the fucking #SCC decision and crafting targeted legislation LIKE THE COURT SAYS, Conservative Senator Housakos introduces a bill to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause, because of course.
Absolutely everyone has just turned their brains off.
Absolutely everyone has just turned their brains off.
November 5, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Rather than actually reading the fucking #SCC decision and crafting targeted legislation LIKE THE COURT SAYS, Conservative Senator Housakos introduces a bill to invoke the Notwithstanding Clause, because of course.
Absolutely everyone has just turned their brains off.
Absolutely everyone has just turned their brains off.
Wordle - I should probably but a lottery ticket today.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Wordle - I should probably but a lottery ticket today.
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Poilievre’s maple MAGA methodology
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Opinion: Poilievre’s maple MAGA methodology
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November 4, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Poilievre’s maple MAGA methodology
www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...
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This list is scary, and probably the envy of every Conservative Premier.
Keeping up with the UCP government's democratic transgressions can be difficult.
But not impossible.
Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇
But not impossible.
Here’s a running list since Danielle Smith became premier. 🧵👇
November 4, 2025 at 10:47 AM
This list is scary, and probably the envy of every Conservative Premier.
It's disturbing that our provincial Justice Minister doesn't understand the SCC decision ...
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November 2, 2025 at 11:22 AM
It's disturbing that our provincial Justice Minister doesn't understand the SCC decision ...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Alberta's future ...
We need to resolve this discrepancy and get to the real numbers.
"The state has catalogued about 20,000 orphan wells, but federal researchers believe the true number may be over 300,000, based on historic industry data and airborne imaging techniques that identify old wells underground."
"The state has catalogued about 20,000 orphan wells, but federal researchers believe the true number may be over 300,000, based on historic industry data and airborne imaging techniques that identify old wells underground."
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
www.propublica.org
November 1, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Alberta's future ...
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No. Because he's a right-wing populist clown, like too many politicians in this country.
Did he read the actual decision? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
Poilievre says he’d invoke notwithstanding clause to overturn ruling on child porn sentences | CBC News
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says if elected he’d use the notwithstanding clause to overturn Friday’s ruling from the Supreme Court striking down mandatory minimums for accessing or possessing...
www.cbc.ca
October 31, 2025 at 10:35 PM
No. Because he's a right-wing populist clown, like too many politicians in this country.
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Poilievre's pitch is more austerity and deregulation that helped create the mess that young people are inheriting. Doubling down on trying to create trickle-down economics to own the libs is a choice.
Poilievre vows to tackle unemployment, cost of housing in address to young Canadians
OTTAWA - Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre addressed young Canadians at an event in Toronto tonight, arguing that the Liberals are sacrificing their future.
www.thecanadianpressnews.ca
October 31, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Poilievre's pitch is more austerity and deregulation that helped create the mess that young people are inheriting. Doubling down on trying to create trickle-down economics to own the libs is a choice.
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People think “we” are not making progress on climate change because its politics are polarized.
No, no, no.
The electorate is polarized, sure, but among the ruling class there is basically TOTAL UNITY around the idea that we can keep using fossil fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.
No, no, no.
The electorate is polarized, sure, but among the ruling class there is basically TOTAL UNITY around the idea that we can keep using fossil fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.
October 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
People think “we” are not making progress on climate change because its politics are polarized.
No, no, no.
The electorate is polarized, sure, but among the ruling class there is basically TOTAL UNITY around the idea that we can keep using fossil fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.
No, no, no.
The electorate is polarized, sure, but among the ruling class there is basically TOTAL UNITY around the idea that we can keep using fossil fuels and still deal w climate change anyway.
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Just for the record, there is nothing environmentally friendly about putting 20,000 commuters on the edge of a city. That's not densification, that's the opposite of densification.
October 29, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Just for the record, there is nothing environmentally friendly about putting 20,000 commuters on the edge of a city. That's not densification, that's the opposite of densification.
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Houston’s Conservative majority just showed its hand today, refusing to approve a motion from Liberal Iain Rankin to protect protected land in Nova Scotia. One wonders if Houston’s govt wouldn’t sell off their own kids and parents if they thought that would bring “jobs” and have “economic” value.
Nova Scotia breaches conditions of $28.5 million nature agreement with Ottawa
reported by @joanbaxter.bsky.social
reported by @joanbaxter.bsky.social
Nova Scotia breaches conditions of $28.5 million nature agreement with Ottawa - Halifax Examiner
If the Nova Scotia government allows Cabot Golf to use West Mabou Beach Provincial Park for a private golf development, it could mean the beginning of the end for genuinely protected areas and public ...
www.halifaxexaminer.ca
October 28, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Houston’s Conservative majority just showed its hand today, refusing to approve a motion from Liberal Iain Rankin to protect protected land in Nova Scotia. One wonders if Houston’s govt wouldn’t sell off their own kids and parents if they thought that would bring “jobs” and have “economic” value.
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Tonight's moves by the UCP are part of a trend: shifting Alberta away from liberal democracy toward illiberalism.
"Populists like Smith often invoke freedom, but their concept of it is tied to loyalty to the dominant group rather than universal liberties.+
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"Populists like Smith often invoke freedom, but their concept of it is tied to loyalty to the dominant group rather than universal liberties.+
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Populism, freedom, and democracy in Alberta (and beyond)
Lessons from my grade fiver's homework assignment
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October 28, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Tonight's moves by the UCP are part of a trend: shifting Alberta away from liberal democracy toward illiberalism.
"Populists like Smith often invoke freedom, but their concept of it is tied to loyalty to the dominant group rather than universal liberties.+
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
"Populists like Smith often invoke freedom, but their concept of it is tied to loyalty to the dominant group rather than universal liberties.+
open.substack.com/pub/drjaredw...
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Populists like Danielle Smith also skip legislative and judicial scrutiny.
Invoking time allocation. And the notwithstanding clause.
Because they can't hack the hard work of liberal democracy.
It's not conservative at all. It's negligently lazy.
Invoking time allocation. And the notwithstanding clause.
Because they can't hack the hard work of liberal democracy.
It's not conservative at all. It's negligently lazy.
Every day, I become more convinced that populists are more lazy than crazy.
Pluralism requires a lot of work. Building consensus, working with divergent interests, working with checks and balances.
Populists skip all that, ginning up fear, fake majorities, and a shallow sense of the public good.
Pluralism requires a lot of work. Building consensus, working with divergent interests, working with checks and balances.
Populists skip all that, ginning up fear, fake majorities, and a shallow sense of the public good.
October 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Populists like Danielle Smith also skip legislative and judicial scrutiny.
Invoking time allocation. And the notwithstanding clause.
Because they can't hack the hard work of liberal democracy.
It's not conservative at all. It's negligently lazy.
Invoking time allocation. And the notwithstanding clause.
Because they can't hack the hard work of liberal democracy.
It's not conservative at all. It's negligently lazy.
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If you're writing an email to your councillor about the micro-mobilty motion, be sure to tell your councillors that you will never sign up for it, so ask them to figure out how to compel and prevent bike riders from unlicensed riding, considering we can't even prevent unlicenced driving.
October 27, 2025 at 11:04 AM
If you're writing an email to your councillor about the micro-mobilty motion, be sure to tell your councillors that you will never sign up for it, so ask them to figure out how to compel and prevent bike riders from unlicensed riding, considering we can't even prevent unlicenced driving.