PM Carney seems ready to suspend environmental regulation in Canada under the illusion that he can buy political peace with Danielle Smith (ie the oil industry).

The benefits will be real: for a handful of companies with already-bloated profits.

The costs will be real too: a rising tide of economic and ecological disaster that sinks all boats.

https://www.thestar.com/politics/political-opinion/mark-carney-runs-roughshod-over-the-environment-its-worse-than-what-harper-did/article_1fa59928-a8d5-481a-896b-405c86a466d1.html

#cdnpoli #NDP #climate

Lisa Lougheed was not a rock star—but something far more impactful.

She provided the theme song for The Raccoons, a hallmark Canadian animated series, which defined millions of childhoods. It was a show about the adventures of Bert Raccoon and his friends in the Evergreen Forest, frequently dealing with environmental themes. What set the series apart from other animated shows of the era was its pop-rock soundtrack. The show’s music was truly iconic, with a soundtrack that could stand apart as a mainstream album.

“Run With Us” is one of the most nostalgically powerful songs in Canadian cultural memory. It’s often cited as the most Canadian thing ever. A defining Gen X song.

https://youtu.be/TyHXPNNjd-I

RE: https://atomicpoet.org/objects/080f7f88-5528-4e14-80d8-84169c961388

Cartoonist Rob Rogers was fired from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in 2018 for the cartoon below. While he seems to have done all right for himself, it's just one episode of many showing the rank cowardice of the media that contributed to this disaster.

#Trump #Epstein #Media

A cosmic hawk and its starry eyasses 🐦

What looks like a hawk spanning its wings above massive newly born stars is the RCW 36 nebula.

Now, a team of astronomers has used, yes, the HAWK-I instrument on our VLT to study the very dim stars called brown dwarfs hidden in the nebula and how they form: https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw2609a/

📷 ESO/A. R. G. do Brito do Vale et al.

#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science

RE: https://newsie.social/@servelan/116348445665717040

While it's good that people stepped up to help her, I'm sure she'd prefer to have her job uninterrupted by political scumbags.

This bit stood out: "The board also voted at the meeting to cut ties with the American Library Association"

Tennessee kids are in bad shape thanks to these pathetic Republican asses.