Tehran intensifies attacks on Gulf energy facilities after Israel hits Iranian gas field
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/tehran-intensifies-attacks-gulf-energy-9.7134336?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Canada's population shrank last year — a first for the country, StatsCan says
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/canada-population-decline-first-time-9.7133643?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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The ideas of the LEAP Manifesto are more relevant and factually supported than ever. The hard end of fossil fuels is coming faster than was forecast in 2016, and governments will be unable to stop or delay it. Unsubsidized renewable sources will undercut subsidised fossil fuels and that will be that.

The sooner political leaders admit it and lead, the better prepared Alberta can be.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/avi-lewis-leap-manifesto-shannon-phillips-9.7131960

#cdnpoli

I want to amplify this opinion piece.

The IDU is especially pernicious, but I think the general principle should apply to all Canadian parties. I'm pretty sick and tired of hearing about American consultants being employed by the big parties so they can fuck up our politics like they've been getting paid to do in the United States for the past 30 years.

Political parties need to be given space to act without too much interference, but they should also be forced to do their work *in* the country and should always be challenged when they are spending time and energy aligning with foreign fellow travellers.

https://cultmtl.com/2026/03/the-conservative-party-membership-in-the-idu-is-a-threat-to-canadian-democracy/

#CDNpoli #Canada

Canadians are paying billions of dollars in extra costs because of fossil fuels

False Profits is an initiative by the Centre for Future Work that documents how fossil fuel prices and profits are making life more expensive.

#cdnpoli

https://www.falseprofits.ca/

“The fact that [Paktyawal] survived the Taliban but couldn’t survive ICE paints a dark picture of the morbid effectiveness of institutional violence,”
"Paktyawal’s wife told #AfghanEvac that federal agents refused her attempts to pass along a rescue inhaler that Paktyawal relied on to breathe during emergencies. "

#USpol #Fascism #ICE #War #AlliesRefugees

https://truthout.org/articles/afghanistan-war-veteran-dies-in-ice-custody-infuriating-us-veterans/

SpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work to respond to their non-response. By Friday.

Fuck you, SpaceX.