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www.theglobeandmail.com AGO loses its cool over equity, reconciliation and Israel-Palestine

The departure of Indigenous AGO curator Wanda Nanibush reveals how difficult it is to bring outspoken changemakers into venerable museums

When Reconciliation faces institutional power 😑

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Unrigged.ca
  • Where is the neo-con content?

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    While Canadians Struggle, Energy Corporations Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank
  • Agreed, the level of concentration in grocery distribution is worse than the telecoms. At this point they need to be broken up and run as non-profits!

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    While Canadians Struggle, Energy Corporations Are Laughing All the Way to the Bank
  • Sure, but do all Corporate sectors get dozens of billions in direct and indirect subsidies year after year?

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  • pressprogress.ca Big Real Estate Executives Among Top Donors to Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives

    Conservative Party’s donor list includes names of real estate investors and developers that are buying up affordable housing across Canada

    Big Surprise, faux populist backed by real estate moguls

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    bc.ctvnews.ca A B.C. study gave 50 homeless people $7,500 each. Here's what they spent it on.

    A new B.C.-based study undercuts the persistent stereotype that homeless people can't be trusted with cash, according to the lead researcher who says it also highlights a different way to respond to the crisis.

    No reason not to do this across the board

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    Microplastic pollution: Plants could be the answer
  • Of course, we need government action! But do you know the micro plastic content coming from tap water? Do you have much of a choice as to what you are consuming? Wouldn’t you want to filter it out?

    As far as technology, this isn’t pie in the sky, it seems fairly simple and I wouldn’t be surprised if home-made solar punk versions start appearing in zines and online forums.

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    Microplastic pollution: Plants could be the answer
  • Of course we need stop producing plastics, or at least the types that break down so easily.

    But even then, the micro plastics will likely remain in the environment for some time, so efforts to filter them from water are important. Especially considering as some of the health effects are only starting to become apparent. See https://www.uri.edu/news/2023/08/microplastics-infiltrate-all-systems-of-body-cause-behavioral-changes/

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  • news.ubc.ca Microplastic pollution: Plants could be the answer

    UBC scientists create device that uses wood dust to trap up to 99.9 per cent of microplastics in water.

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    Bean iOS TestFlight Link
  • Ah got it on the 2nd try!

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    Bean iOS TestFlight Link
  • I couldn’t activate pro in the beta

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    Bean iOS TestFlight Link
  • This app rocks ❤️

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    CRTC reaches major milestone to make cellphone plans cheaper for Canadians
  • I tried to signup for Freedom but I could not retain my existing phone number since they didn’t offer services in my former area code. Hopefully this changes that, but yeah not holding my breath!

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  • globalnews.ca Jobs will be wiped out with Alberta’s pause on renewable energy: industry group | Globalnews.ca

    A group that assists fossil fuel employees transition to the renewables industry, says the United Conservative Party government's move will wipe out an entire season of work.

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    edmonton.taproot.news Calls for public engagement: Street decor, land use, and recipes

    Here are some opportunities to offer your input on various issues of civic interest, including land use and a cookbook in Leduc County, Street Labs in Edmonton, and a design contest to decorate traffic control boxes.

    A round up of opportunities to offer your input on various issues of civic interest

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    thetyee.ca A Better Use for Alberta’s Oil and Gas | The Tyee

    Look to the future. Commit the province’s petroleum to making materials for a post-combustion economy.

    >Look to the future. Commit the province’s petroleum to making materials for a post-combustion economy.

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    Government requests for Canadians’ Google data have jumped ten-fold in past five years
  • They did the original reporting AFAICT, I seem to recall the whole article being free, but I understand they’re now paywalling :-(

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  • https:// fpcc.ca /stories/updated-bc-sans-font-now-available/

    https://fpcc.ca/stories/updated-bc-sans-font-now-available/

    BC Sans 2.0 supports typing in the 34 First Nations languages of B.C.

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    www.pembina.org Alberta's Renewable Energy Advantage

    Alberta's immense potential for wind and solar will be a critical cornerstone of its energy economy. It's time for the province to recognize the economic and environmental benefits of renewable energy as a key part of its natural resource endowment and move beyond its curiously lukewarm approach to ...

    Renewables fuel economic growth, pay rural Alberta bills and underpin an affordable electricity system

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    theijf.org Government requests for Canadians’ Google data have jumped ten-fold in past five years

    Government submitted 2,327 requests for user data in 2021, up from 249 in 2016

    Time to jump ship from Google products?

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    ricochet.media Canadian Conservatives meet with far-right Israeli property developer who has advocated violence against Palestinians | Ricochet

    Pierre Poilievre poses with the head of a group that believes there’s ‘too many Arabs’ in Jerusalem

    Pierre Poilievre poses with the head of a group that believes there’s ‘too many Arabs’ in Jerusalem

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    edmontonjournal.com New bill would abolish 'squatter's rights' in Alberta

    A new bill aims to abolish adverse possession in Alberta in an attempt to defend landowners’ property rights.

    If you can’t manage your land should you really be allowed to keep it?

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    Some people say Canada is three oil companies wearing a trench coat—but it might be more accurate to say it’s eight oil lobbyists wearing official government badges at the UN climate summit.

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    www.nationalobserver.com Hurricane Danielle set to slam Alberta with Category 5 shitstorm

    Smith has already announced plans to challenge the Canadian Constitution, disregard the courts that interpret it and wage a broader war on the health-care system that would even make Jason Kenney blush.

    > … her surprisingly narrow victory as leader probably gives Rachel Notley’s NDP their best possible chance of winning. But if Smith does manage to win a general election in Alberta, her government will give Canadians a sneak preview over the next few years of what could be in store for the rest of the country if Poilievre prevails in his own contest. One thing is for certain: it won’t be boring.

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    web.archive.org Sales tax on seeds works against lower carbon footprint, expert and home growers say | CBC News

    Canada’s tax regime, which does not levy sales taxes on food no matter how far it has travelled before landing on Canadian store shelves, does impose sales taxes on seeds that people use to grow food in their own backyards. Some home growers say that compromises the federal government’s efforts to l...

    Buying seeds and seedlings to grow your own is taxable by most provinces and the federal, favouring large farmers and importers

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    thenarwhal.ca Scotiabank’s exit from lobby group is a blow to oil and gas industry | The Narwhal

    The departure comes as the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers seeks to counter a movement to divest from fossil fuels

    Symbolic, but maybe a signal of things to come

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    theconversation.com Bill 96 will harm Indigenous people in Québec. We need more equitable language laws

    For most Québec residents, there is broad consensus that French should be protected. But many of us believe that multilingualism need not threaten French.

    Ninety-eight per cent of Nunavik Inuit speak Inuktitut as their first language. This should be celebrated, not hindered. […] Bill 96 will create greater impediments to accessible health care for Inuit and First Nations people. The bill will worsen health and health care, instead of improving it.

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    www.rebuildcommunitymedia.ca Rebuild Community Media

    REBUILD COMMUNITYMEDIA RebuildCommunityMedia June 2023 update:The good news: Community broadcasters, with the support of allied MPs, won a clear mandate for telecoms giants and streaming moguls to fund community media in Bill C-11.The bad news: CRTC—the regulator charged with implementing

    Has been for years, but there’s a critical opportunity now that the CRTC is looking at News Media more seriously

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    canadiandimension.com Canada’s military buildup in the Arctic threatens climate and Indigenous peoples

    The militarists’ narrative goes something like this: despite not facing any imminent conventional military threats to its Arctic, Canada must significantly bolster the defence of its northernmost borders, otherwise the Russians could cross more than a thousand kilometres of usually icy ocean to take...

    Russian boogeyman to justify further militarization?

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