Brad Weldon

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Gardener, movie lover, privacy lawyer, likes food, wine, and baseball. 🇨🇦 Canadian. YIMBY. A settler on W̱sáneć territory. 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈

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Because he bought them a pipeline and they still gave him the finger.

Why are Trudeau and Singh avoiding Stampede this year?www.ctvnews.ca This year, only Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre will be saddling up for the event, while both Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and NDP leader Jagmeet Singh will stay away.

“It is very simple: If you’re going to be making environmental claims, you need to be able to demonstrate that they’re true. This applies to anybody making environmental claims, and the only group that’s really freaking out about this is the oil industry.”

Facing New ‘Greenwashing’ Law, an Oil Industry Website Goes Darkwww.nytimes.com Oil sands companies pushing a carbon capture project shut down their website after a law banning misleading environmental claims was passed.

Why can’t websites seem to remember my cookie preferences?Isn’t that the whole point of cookies?! Am I being conspiracy theorist to think they don’t like my choice not to use my my info for marketing and so ask me every time as punishment?

I don’t understand paying a premium for ground Wagyu beef. Isn’t the benefit of Wagyu that the fat is marbled throughout, not that the fat is somehow special in itself. With ground beef you can add fat at will while grinding, so a Wagyu burger is just an expensive burger.

Where do I make the feature request to have all content with the word “Trump” not show up in my Apple News+ feed?

Mary Lawlor, the UN special rapporteur on human-rights defenders, said her office has registered 15 cases between 2019 and 2022 of retaliation against human-rights advocates that she alleges can be linked to the activities of Canadian mining abroad. “Canada is one of the worst offenders”.

Canada failing to protect human rights activists from mining companies operating overseas: UN watchdogwww.theglobeandmail.com Mary Lawlor, the UN special rapporteur on human-rights defenders, said failure to protect human-rights advocates from retaliation is tarnishing the country’s global reputation

“humans have a ‘size instinct’ that causes us to misjudge numbers that are presented out of context. This is problematic in the polarized environment where the hardening of tribal lines makes us susceptible to motivated reasoning, [the] impulse to use information to support pre-drawn conclusions…”

Carmichael: Dislike the discourse? Stop creating ‘fake facts’ - The Logicthelogic.co We’re all susceptible to motivated reasoning, especially in a charged environment.

Even if he’s pro-Trump, as seems likely by the other company he keeps, how is Viktor Orban is not just profoundly embarrassed by his simple lack of originality?

Viktor Orban criticised for ‘Make Europe Great Again’ sloganwww.telegraph.co.uk Pro-EU politicians speak out against Donald Trump-inspired motto as Hungary unveils priorities for six-month presidency

What!!? Chinese space startup Space Pioneer accidentally launched its Tianlong-3 rocket during a static fire test. It flew several hundred meters into the sky before crashing explosively into a mountain 1.5 kilometers away from the test site, which is 1km from a small village.

Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocketarstechnica.com Space Pioneer had been prepping the vehicle for its debut launch later this summer.

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The school censored a student, and now everything they tried to stop her from saying about them has become national news. How, in the year of our Lord 2024, do people still not know about the Streisand Effect?

Abbotsford student's speech about accessibility challenges at her school censored by administratorsbc.ctvnews.ca As part of her Grade 12 art activism class, Lexis De Meyer was tasked with investigating accessibility challenges faced by people with disabilities in her community of Abbotsford.

Maybe WestJet should have spent more time negotiating and less time being “outraged”. They act as though the expiry of the collective agreement and the date of the long weekend caught them by surprise.

WestJet mechanics strike one day after federal labour minister imposes binding arbitration | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca WestJet mechanics have gone on strike one day after Labour Minister Seamus O'Regan directed the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) to impose final binding arbitration to resolve the outstanding issues of the collective agreement between the airline and the Aircraft Mechanics Fraternal Association (AMFA).

Homeless people in Denver were given thousands of dollars for free. By the study’s 10-month point, 45% of participants were living in a place they were renting compared with only 8% when the trial began. It’s not rocket science. We can fix economic inequality by giving money to the marginalized.

Opinion: Homeless people in Denver were given thousands of dollars for free. Guess what happened nextwww.theglobeandmail.com The Denver Basic Income Project has seen impressive results and has already been extended

😂 This is funny. The oil sector says requiring truth in their advertising is creating “uncertainty“. “The Pathways Alliance group of oilsands companies has removed all content from its website and social media feeds, citing uncertainty over a new anti-greenwashing rule poised to become federal law”

Pathways oilsands group removes website content over anti-greenwashing ruleswww.timescolonist.com CALGARY — The Pathways Alliance group of oilsands companies has removed all content from its website and social media feeds, citing uncertainty over a new anti-greenwashing rule poised to become feder...

True to the Newfoundland brand, the Emergency Ops Centre serving Churchill Falls evacuees closes after one night, as Newfoundlanders welcome evacuees into their homes. Good job Newfoundland 😇

'Tremendous' effort keeps wildfire south of Churchill River, says N.L. Hydro | CBC Newswww.cbc.ca Newfoundland and Labrador Hydro says the raging fire that forced the evacuation of Churchill Falls has not jumped the Churchill River. Meanwhile, four new fires are burning, including one on Newfoundland's west coast, raising the province's total to 11.

WestJet makes international news. I guess they can’t let Air Canada have all the bad press.

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one of my favorite misogyny tells is responding to a man in the exact same tone & manner as him and getting buzz words in return like: attacked, angry, shaming, hysterical come closer, bro. I’m trying to catch those tears for my collection

Next on the UCP list is to restrict voting rights to those who have cars with gas burning engines. Pinko EV owners can’t be trusted to vote.

Alberta Joins the Battle to Deny the Right to Vote | The Tyeethetyee.ca Right-wing governments across North America have targeted democracy.

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Listening to Wade Davis on CBC: “We spend twice as much globally on petroleum industry subsidies than we do on education.” !!

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kind of embarrassing not to understand that there is a difference between “things the public is interested in” and “thing that is in the public interest”

Said reporters seem pretty annoyed to be prevented from doing it

“Just to be clear, Civil War is fictional” - Brent Bambury on CBC.

Danielle Smith “punches back” at Trudeau by punching down at Alberta’s towns and cities. I’m sure Trudeau is very disappointed that he now has an excuse to give more money to cities in provinces that actually vote for him. Well played Trudeau, well played.

Bell: Danielle Smith punches back against Justin Trudeau — againcalgaryherald.com Alberta Premier Danielle Smith rolls out new law to fight Prime Minister Trudeau doling out cash to cities without her government's approval

The feds pledge $6 billion to the provinces for housing and Ontario and Quebec say ‘take a hike’. BC says we’ll take it all thanks!

B.C. welcomes promises of infrastructure dollars, but will ‘push’ for morewww.nanaimobulletin.com Ottawa’s announcement of $6 billion comes with strings attached

“These subsidies cost Canadian taxpayers at least $6.03 billion, or roughly $214 per taxpayer every year. And unlike the federal carbon tax, Canadians don’t get a rebate on this tax.”

Fossil fuel subsidies cost Canadians a lot more money than the carbon taxtheconversation.com Never mind the carbon tax. Tax breaks and public spending for fossil fuel companies cost taxpayers billions every year and hurt the environment.

I know the Post is biased, but still, how can legislation be “quietly tabled”? Inflammatory nonsense.

FIRST READING: Liberal plan to quietly delay election would secure millions for their doomed MPsnationalpost.com If held on its originally scheduled date, as many as two dozen Liberal MPs face defeat without qualifying for a gold-plated pension

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"No one I spoke to for this piece could name a recent sizable pedestrianization or traffic-reduction scheme that had been reversed once it had been given time to have an effect." www.wired.com/story/car-fr...

I see “Elon” in a headline and just turn the page. He isn’t worth our time, not even for an eye-roll.

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“One quarter of residents in the French capital now live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive effort to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.” #housing #urbanism www.nytimes.com/2024/03/17/r...

How Does Paris Stay Paris? By Pouring Billions Into Public Housingwww.nytimes.com One quarter of residents in the French capital now live in government-owned housing, part of an aggressive effort to keep lower-income Parisians — and their businesses — in the city.

In an interesting coincidence, “Baloney Factory” is also the name for the Conservative Party’s policy team.

’Baloney factory’: David Eby mocks Poilievre’s letter asking B.C. to join carbon tax fightvancouversun.com Poilievre's letter sent Friday asks Eby to join seven other premiers in opposing the April 1 tax increase