[–] 7 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Comments like this is why I don't spend much time here anymore. Particularly how popular it is.

The article is fairly short and straightfoward.

It's just a few short paragraphs before it shows a graphic indicating only 9% of 2023 articles made a connection to the burning of fossil fuels

Then they mention the 2024 number and the 2025 numbers.

During my recent interview with The Breach podcast, host Desmond Cole shared the results of the outlet’s informal review of 59 CBC stories during recent wildfire coverage. Only seven mentioned climate change, global warming or fossil fuels and most of those mentions came from interviewees rather than CBC journalists.

Posting a couple links from CBC in no way disputes the findings from the article. I don't even think this person read the damn thing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Posting more for poking fun at NatPo and the individuals stoking this controversy than sharing actual news.

    Usually people would post a archive mirror or a screenshot. Otherwise it's like buying a Tesla to shit driver seat while driving it around to poke fun of Elon.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    The Camp of the Saints was written by the French author Jean Raspail in 1973. Celestini describes it as a dystopian novel about a caravan of immigrants coming to Europe by boat from an unspecified South Asian country.

    The migrants are depicted in an unambiguously racist way: as rapists, as people who sell their children for money and do other degrading acts and as a threat to European society.

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    The book has been referenced by Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump administration’s brutal attempt to increase deportations and imprisonment of immigrants in U.S. cities. Steve Bannon, a former strategist for U.S. President Donald Trump, has also talked about the book.

    The National Post’s review of the book acknowledges that the novel is “generally considered a racist book towards Indians.” But the bulk of the piece is devoted to arguing the book’s ideas and warnings about “third-world migration” have merit and should be more widely read.

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    Posting a series of charts help people navigate the current dialogue for the topic.


     

    Canadian and American gas prices and changes percentage. Also shows the nearly undetectable impact of removing things like Carbon taxes

    https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/gasoline-prices

     

    Even after becoming a net exporter of oil and the general perception of American oil culture. The fate of their nation isn't tied to oil, but it does substantially burden gas prices and other aspects of their economy.

    Economic profits generated from oil extraction, measured as the difference between production value and costs, expressed as a percentage of gross domestic product

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-rents-as-a-share-of-gdp?tab=line&country=CAN%7EUSA%7ESAU%7EARE%7ERUS&tableSearch=canada

     

    U.S. crude oil exports surge to record as tankers flock to Gulf Coast during Iran war

    https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/03/us-crude-oil-exports-surge-to-record-as-tankers-flock-to-gulf-coast.html

     

    Inflation adjusted oil prices. After the highs is usually a big drop.

    https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-prices-inflation-adjusted?time=earliest..2024

    [–] 2 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I'm not sure this will change anything for you and I'm only even commenting due your upvote count in my tagger.

    There is very prevailent thing from right wing these days where specific phrases or words make people very uncomfortable and for that they like to use them even more.

    You should know that even many on the left feel very negatively towards actual Communism and there's a lot of Socialism without actually getting into Communism.

    I would advise on reflecting on the manner of how you convey your point.

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The source is the top sponsor of one of the more notable Alberta Separatist movement group.

    https://albertaprosperityproject.com/affiliates-and-sponsors/

    If people want to upvote things based on titles, the article content is basically mocking how stupid you are.

    Socialists don’t understand basics. So if New York can elect Mamdami, one should never assume Canadians are too intelligent to come back to the decimated NDP left behind by Mr. Singh, and give it a voice Mr. Carney can’t ignore and perversely – from their point of view – do the Conservatives a bit of good, too.

    Here's another gem from the same author:

    https://globalnews.ca/news/10039822/calgary-prayer-breakfast-anti-lgbtq2-rhetoric-residential-school-denialism/

    Stephen Harper’s former speechwriter from 2009 to 2015, Hannaford started on his topic of “God has given us the answers to the problems that we have.”

    He claimed one “biblical truth” is a gender binary.

    Hannaford claimed teachers are “ordered” to teach sex-ed curriculum that “50 years ago, if they would have said it in the classroom, would put them in jail.” He did not provide any details.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    As someone who said the same when they removed the Carbon tax I do somewhat agree.

    But contextually the BC NDP is very unpopular in the latest polling and people are extremely price sensitive these days. I'm not really sure the removal will really help people out much but it will gain some votes and allow them to point the finger at people like Loblaws for the inflation.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    BC really should have done something like this as well. They were going to be in a deficit either way, might as well try to quell the people with something like this.

    Food and drinks considered "basic groceries" are already exempted from the tax in Manitoba, including fruits and vegetables, most meat and milk products, eggs, coffee and oil.

    Winnipegger Sanjay Sewpaul, who has four kids and pays about $1,500 on groceries each moth, said the move is good news and likely to help businesses, but he doesn't feel like it will "do too much" for consumers.

    He spent $305 on groceries in Winnipeg on Tuesday, including $6.58 in PST.

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Been meaning to post this somewhere. These are the cars currently made in Canada

    https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/ised/en/industry-sector-intelligence/manufacturing-industries/canadian-automotive-industry

    I believe given how aggressive the Chinese manufacturers has been with the impending launch that the current limits is probably going to opened substantially and Carney trying to slip enough through before Trump tries to completely pulls the plug on the current manufacturing that is shipped to America.

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    Generally avoid posting idiotic things this guy says, but as most people know as offensive as this guy is he's been sure not to offend anyone powerful and it seems like he's finally picked a side. Hopefully this will the straw that break the camel back for the Conservatives.

    The Conservative leader called for a ban on Chinese software, matching the US.

    “We will protect the North American supply chains by keeping the 75% rule in place, harmonise the North American cybersecurity rules by banning Chinese software, and align with our partners on the tariff against China to counter unfair trade and increase our negotiating leverage,” he stated.

     

    Do want to point out there was a post about how poor of a journalist this guy is and his crap show on Global News. Then subsequently it seems like there has been a giant uptick of Global News posts many which are either just very superficial article or just straight up wire feed repost.

    https://sh.itjust.works/post/55344080

     

    Just to provide context that the narrative Trump conveys is fake as usual and extremely hypocritical. America by sheer numbers trades more with China but even by percentage:

    Source: https://youtu.be/eQKmPACbKQA?t=911

    Source Source: https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/exports-by-country

     

    The article is relatively short and has tons of stuff, highly recommend people read through it.

    British Columbia legislator Dallas Brodie, whose OneBC party has removed her as leader, says the split happened after colleagues tried to stop her from firing a caucus staffer whose views on Jewish people were "disgusting" and antisemitic.

    Brodie said she wanted the man removed because she is not a "neo-Nazi," and it was "obscene" to think that the man's views could be in the party.

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    Thielmann says in a social media post on Monday that he and Ratchford advised Brodie against firing the staffer, who he calls "a 22-year-old brown kid who was being made out to be a 'white supremacist'" and they instead wanted to "mentor" him.

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    Brodie said she had clashed with the young staffer over a message he wanted to post under her name on social media platform X.

    "I think it said the NDP or somebody is anti-civilizational, and that they want the province to be run on drum circles and powwows," she said.

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