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Jim Patterson 🇨🇦
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Old folkie from Ontario.
Mostly politics (lefty), heterodox economics, genealogy
Those won't be EVs trucking along at 120kpm either - expect lots of gas-powered F150s and Dodge Rams.
Of course, Alberta sees that as just more gasoline sales, so a win-win. Never mind that the planet is burning.
#abpoli #climateemergency
November 19, 2025 at 2:34 PM
It's pretty hard to square this with Mark Carney's assurances to Elizabeth May that Canada will fulfill its Paris Accord commitments.
montreal.citynews.ca/2025/11/17/m...
#cdnpoli #climateemergency
May says she'll vote yes on Liberal budget after Carney makes climate commitment
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May offered the Liberals a critical yes vote on Prime Minister Mark Carney’s first budget Monday afternoon — just a few hours before members of Parliament decide whether t...
montreal.citynews.ca
November 19, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Just like #JustinTrudeau, though, he no doubt realizes that his party could say goodbye to those false majorities that they and the Conservatives have swapped back and forth as long as Canada has existed.
I agree, we need #ProportionalRepresentation. I just can't see it happening.
#cdnpoli
November 17, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Agree - The USA has vilified H-1B visa holders unless they serve some low-income need of the oligarchs.. and even then. These are intelligent people who will decide for themselves where they want to be. 'Lure away' is an inaccurate term. They're being given an option.
November 16, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It's still there, they've just moved it into the park between Lakeshore Drive (which was the main highway into town) and Memorial Drive.

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November 16, 2025 at 3:19 AM
I guess to the CTV journos in Toronto, Loring might be "North", but it's not in Northern Ontario. It's still well south of the French River and Lake Nippising, which is the official boundary.
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November 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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I doubt that my suburban Council colleagues did as I did, which was to survey my residents and ask if their position on Lansdowne. Because my colleagues who supported it would then have to acknowledge how they went against the vast majority of their residents’ wishes.
November 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Absolutely agree so I wrote this. bsky.app/profile/cana...
November 14, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Battery Storage facilities are necessary for solar and wind energy which by their nature are intermittent. Hydro and fossil fuel plants can adjust as load changes. One of Ford's first acts as Premier, though, was cancelling a wind farm.
opencouncil.ca/wind-farms-c...
#onpoli #greenenergy
Ford government cancels PEC wind farm, pays $231M in penalties, then orders more wind farms - Open Council
One of Doug Ford's first acts as premier of Ontario just days after taking office on June 29, 2018, was cancelling 759 renewable energy projects for a total of 462.5 MW, including the half-finished Wh...
opencouncil.ca
November 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Look north. We haven’t had pennies for a long time. Prices are rounded up or down to the nearest 5 cents. It’s not hard and at the end of the day it should all be a wash. Or pay with a card (debit or credit) and you pay the exact price.
November 12, 2025 at 2:33 PM