New post: Nine observations from three and a half years of carbon dioxide monitoring. #COVIDIsNotOver #COVIDIsAirborne

https://grieve-smith.com/ftn/2026/03/nine-observations-from-carbon-dioxide-monitoring/

‘It’s stupid’: why western carmakers’ retreat from electric risks dooming them to irrelevance.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/mar/21/west-carmakers-retreat-electric-vehicle-risks-irrelevance-iran-war-evs-china

Iran 'unsuccessfully' targeted Diego Garcia base: UK official

www.newarab.com/news/iran-unsuccessfully-targeted-diego-garcia-base-uk-official

Iran targeted the UK-US base in the Indian Ocean about 4,000 kilometres from its territory, revealing long-range missile capabilities it previously denied.

First they ask for your date of birth,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your full name and location,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for a copy of your passport,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your facial scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your fingerprints,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for your palm scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for a scan of your iris,
but later they claim it's not enough.

Then they ask for ...

#MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights

Here’s just a small sample of the Liberal government's devastating cuts:

- Indigenous Services and Crown-Indigenous Relations
- CBC
- Local Food Infrastructure (community-led food security projects)
- Public health
- Canada’s International Climate Finance Commitment
- CRA, making it harder to go after tax cheats
- Access to Information

All to free up money for unprecedented public spending on weapons and the military.

In other words:

Austerity for programs and services Canadians rely on.
Bottomless money pit for war.
This is not what we voted for.
This is why Canada needs the NDP.

https://globalnews.ca/news/11737460/mark-carney-spending-plans-cuts/

#cdnpoli #NDP

"John Steinbach was shocked to receive a $281 electricity bill in January 2026—a huge spike from the roughly $100 he’d paid the previous month. “It’s just so far beyond any bill that I’ve ever had,” he says. Steinbach, who has lived in his Manassas, Va., home for nearly 40 years, worries his rates will keep climbing as the outsized electricity demand from AI data centers grows."

https://www.consumerreports.org/data-centers/ai-data-centers-impact-on-electric-bills-water-and-more-a1040338678/