Caroline

@northernck.bsky.social

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curious. savvy. spiritied. witty.
PoliSci, Business grad.
Former business executive with a conscience.
Mentored youth at risk, young staff in business world, entrepreneurs.
Deeply concerned about our democracy in the face of growing extremism.

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@fordnation‬⁩ destabilizing childcare: ‘actively working against public expansion. TDSB has dozens of shovel-ready projects Ford is blocking & municipalities can only ⬆️ their public centres as a last resort if no private sector provider is available www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Doug Ford’s dangerous child-care planwww.thestar.com If Ontario had an active plan to expand, coupled with adequate capital and operating funding, the non-profit and public sectors would be able to offer spaces to all the parents

Note: Auto theft is down by 17%, year-to-date vs 2023. Theft 1) ⬇️ by 36 % in Quebec 2) ⬇️ 14% in Ontario 3) ⬇️ 5% in Alberta Coordinated campaign by LPC Govt, federal and provincial police forces, & provincial govts is working.

@LCBO wasting public money on radio ads implicating the union in current strike. How much longer are we going to allow Pr @fordnation to abuse our money on frivolous tactics to reach their target mkt of 18-65 yr old, high-school educated males. We need to organize now!

You would think by now PM @JustinTrudeau Deputy PM @cafreeland Pr @fordnation & Mr @MarkCarney_ would have come to terms w/ need for housing prices ⬇️ by 20-30% in Ont. Or, you’re looking at a hollowed out GTHA, loss of young talent & brains, loss of staff in healthcare/education

The longer Pr Ford is in charge, the longer our province’s walk to ignorance. But the pace will only serve to rise with each additional year of governance. As it is, our public institutions are being starved, while our $s are being used in service of males, aged 18-65, needs

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Just learned that Fox News is trying to go after me for using the word "war" in a column, which they allege is inappropriate rhetoric. This is sort of like being lectured on anti-semitism by Hitler.

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The latest cover of the New Yorker:

You can’t convince me that a fealty to commerce hasn’t destroyed Ontario. It’s touched every facet of our lives - housing, food, community building/prgms, youth, seniors/aging, childcare, healthcare, education, arts/culture, recreation/sports, friendships, families, work

Chris Hatch: ‘5B people, >60% of the world’s population, suffered through extreme heat in the last 2 wks of June. That incl almost 600M people in China & > 600M in India. No one knows how many people are dying from extreme heat. Much of the world hasn’t digitized death records’

Chris Hatch: Ignore at our peril ‘Las Vegas hit 120 F (49 C) last wk , breaking its all-time temp record by 1.7 C. The City of Lost Wages is broiling for record 5th consecutive day > 115 F. What happens in Vegas isn’t staying there. In Palm Springs, thermometer reached 124 F’

Chris Hatch Fossil fuels exacting a grim future for Mother Earth & a humanity not up to the battle: ‘month of June looks to have been a grim milestone. The 13th record-setting month in a row for global air temps. 15-month streak of record heat in the oceans. One whole yr ⬆️ 1.5’

Perhaps it's high time we accept many people, from all points along the political spectrum, are more apt to believe something is staged, to protect "their side" with every fibre of their minds. Than believe the plain truth. nations aren't broken. People are.

Letter to the Toronto Star accurately portrays Pierre Poilievre

“There came to be a belief that they would be required to defend themselves against police and government violence and that Canadian politicians were walking Canadians into either a civil war or a form of totalitarian state,” said the lawyer. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...

Defence calls Coutts murder-conspiracy trial ‘un-Canadian,’ accuses RCMP of lyingwww.theglobeandmail.com Defence lawyers suggests to Coutts murder-conspiracy that RCMP officers lied on the stand

The same leader who wasn’t comfortable w/ Pr @ABDanielleSmith demand to stop renewable projects: “Law pushed back against what he dubbed “ministerial desires” to halt all new renewable energy projects. The documents revealed Law was opposed to a thenarwhal.ca/aeso-ceo-mic...

Senior official who pushed back on Alberta renewables pause out at AESO | The Narwhalthenarwhal.ca In an announcement Friday, the Alberta Electric System Operator said CEO Michael Law would 'leave the organization' after 15 years and a new leader would oversee the grid operator's progress 'in paral...

Over the course of the last few years, as Cdn media resources & staff plummeted, we’ve arrived at a juncture where, as Mr Chomsky previously warned, many media sources manufacture consent - rather than informing the public & providing a forum for discourse

Pr ⁦‪@fordnation‬⁩ shows his hand wrt priorities. Beer first, HWYs, speed limits, gifting his special interest grps billions of public $s always: “Does anyone have the link to the map of Ontario family doctors that are accepting new patients?“ www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/opi...

Opinion: Doug Ford’s hierarchy of needs starts with beer firstwww.theglobeandmail.com It would be great if Mr. Ford’s provincial government could both arrange for beer and wine to be sold in corner stores and ensure adequate primary health care

Canada's longest river is at historically low levels, stranding communities that rely on it for essential goods and alarming First Nations along its banks who have never known the mighty Mackenzie to be so shallow. www.nationalobserver.com/2024/07/08/n...

'Nobody has these stories': Canada's longest river at record lowwww.nationalobserver.com Canada's longest river is at historically low levels, stranding communities that rely on it for essential goods and alarming First Nations along its banks who have never known the mighty Mackenzie to

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If you think Calgary is just a city of suburbs, sure it has lots of those, but it also has really good urban transformation areas, many of which I was proud to work on. Bridgeland/“The Bridges”, the University District, East Village and more. Dense, mixed, walkable and transit-oriented.

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This country has lost its collective mind.

Ammunition Vending Machines Appear in Grocery Stores www.newsweek.com/ammunition-v...

Ammunition vending machines appear in grocery storeswww.newsweek.com Machines stocked with ammunition have been installed in several grocery stores across the United States.

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BREAKING: Upside side down French flag spotted outside the Alitos' summer residence

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

What Mr @PierrePoilievre Pr @ABDanielleSmith @fordnation @PremierScottMoe refuse to acknowledge. Preeminent economic publication, The Economist, is on board w/ cheapest form of energy - solar. eg in Netherlands, solar reps 11 X the amount of energy source, as it does in Canada

Chris Hatch: Sound familiar? “Yes, climate change is real, but calling it an existential threat is just alarmist — and anyway phasing out coal, oil and gas would cost us too much. Human flourishing relies on the economic growth enabled by fossil fuels, so we need to keep using

Chris Hatch. The modern conservatism involves a refusal to take accountability or sacrifice: “the “current consensus” contains a fundamental contradiction — the belief we can halt global heating without halting what’s causing it.”

Garden’s bounty

Whilst CAPP & Patjways Alliance mislead Cdns on their intentions of green-lighting CCUS projects, dither/complain, female CEO of Hyperion Energy designed sys for Lafarge which not only captures carbon, but injects it back into concrete www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

This Ontario cement plant doesn’t just capture carbon, it sells itwww.thestar.com Proponents say the pilot project could change the economics of carbon capture, which has often delivered less than promised.

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Pierre Poilievre’s ethos amounts to #AxeTheFacts #AxePublicServices #AxeSafetyRegulations #AxeSafeFoods #AxeSafeDrinkingWater #AxeThePlanet

No plan. No money. No design. A contemptible, incompetent Ford Govt: “Ministry of Transportation has “no commitment to a timeline” for finishing the project or even finalizing its design. That means the province is poised to start building without full thenarwhal.ca/ontario-high...

Ontario has ‘no commitment to a timeline’ for Highway 413 | The Narwhalthenarwhal.ca Ontario says it will start building Highway 413 next year, but a document shows the province doesn’t know when it’ll finish designing or building it

Pierre Poilievre’s ethos amounts to #AxeTheFacts #AxePublicServices #AxeSafetyRegulations #AxeSafeFoods #AxeSafeDrinkingWater #AxeThePlanet