miki_lou

mondoweiss, 7 days ago to Palestine

Joe Biden's claim that Hamas’s October 7 attacks were “driven by ancient desire to wipe out the Jewish people" is ahistorical and dangerous. In fact, Jewish history shows that antisemitism is a Western problem.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/the-ancient-desire-to-kill-jews-is-not-hamass-its-the-wests/

#Palestine #Israel #Gaza
@palestine @israel

miki_lou, 3 months ago to random

"Poilievre's muted response to the Russian opposition figure's death shouldn't be a shock so much as an alarm." https://www.thestar.com/opinion/star-columnists/alexei-navalny-death-where-was-pierre-poilievres-outrage-at-putin/article_3592ba54-cd1b-11ee-a8bc-0b62c5695892.html

#Cdnpoli #Navalny #AltRight #Fascism

miki_lou, 1 year ago to random

#Alberta municipalities don't have resources to fight #wildfires because "as of December 2021, $253 million in unpaid taxes had accrued. The RMA is particularly galled that the provincial government allowed companies to avoid municipal taxes on new wells drilled until 2025." https://theconversation.com/alberta-election-is-the-provinces-energy-regulator-acting-in-the-public-interest-204007

#RegulatoryCapture #AER #abpoli #UCP #corruption

pussreboots, 3 days ago to bookstodon

Tell me you're a Canadian book without telling me you're a Canadian book. :)

@bookstodon

miki_lou, 6 months ago to Israel

"Amnesty International is issuing an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire by all parties in the occupied #Gaza Strip and #Israel to prevent further loss of civilian lives and to ensure access to life-saving aid for people in Gaza amidst an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe." https://www.amnesty.ca/human-rights-news/israel-opt-urgent-call-for-immediate-ceasefire-in-gaza/

#genocide #Palestine #humanrights

miki_lou, 7 months ago to environment

"Approximately one-third of the Indian Act pertains to land resources and the #environment. The imposition of western resource management practices in place of traditional land stewardship practices over the last century and a half has effectively continued what the #Canadian government set out to do back in the 1870s, which was to remove #IndigenousPeople from their lands and assimilate them in order to pursue resource development." https://www.nationalobserver.com/node/39045

#colonialism #LandBack #TRC #cdnpoli

miki_lou, 7 months ago to ontario

#A majority of senior members on #Ontario’s biggest tribunals appear to have connections to either the Conservative Party of Canada or the Ontario Progressive Conservative (PC) Party, despite the law mandating a “competitive, merit-based [selection] process.” https://theijf.org/doug-fords-independent-tribunals-exclusive-data-analysis-reveals-premier-appoints-conservative-insiders

#onpoli #CorporateCorruption #BreachofPublicTrust

miki_lou, 7 months ago to random

WOW! "The #DougFord government’s new amendments to the #Mining Act will have politicians assess project safety and closure plans, rather than technical experts." https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-mining-act-george-pirie/

#onpoli #CorporateCorruption #RegulatoryCapture

miki_lou, 2 months ago to Health

"The scientific evidence is stark that reducing #inequality is a fundamental precondition for addressing the #environmental, #health and social crises the world is facing. It’s essential that policymakers act quickly to reverse decades of rising inequality and curb the highest incomes."https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00723-3

#NoMoreBillionaires #WealthTax #cdnpoli #democracy #climateBreakdown

miki_lou, 10 months ago to random

“Oil and gas companies are not voluntarily going to pay their bills; they must be forced to do so by governments and that's at every level,”https://www.nationalobserver.com/2023/07/11/news/big-oil-can-afford-clean-its-messes-need-pressure-pay-bills-report-finds

#cdnpoli #BigOil #toxicLegacy #ClimateEmergency

miki_lou, 4 months ago to random

"Poilievre is hoping working people won’t notice that he’s not, in fact, offering them a return to economic security." https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/like-trump-and-bolsonaro-canada-s-pierre-poilievre-offers-anger-but-no-solutions
#cdnpoli #populism #rageFarming #NeverVoteConservative

miki_lou, 2 months ago to random

“Ontarians don't want an American-style partisan #judiciary.”https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/doug-ford-defends-appointing-gun-manufacturer-lobbyist-to-committee-that-picks-judges-1.6787757?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

#onpoli #corruption #CorporateJudiciary #Injustice

miki_lou, 3 months ago to Palestine

“We all share this history of displacement and disconnection to our homelands, and seeing it happen live in #Palestine right now…to see the physical displacement of this group of people and the death and destruction and seeing how it is being funded by the American government: this is another example of #settlercolonialism.” https://breachmedia.ca/free-palestine-movement-canada-gaza/

#FreePalestine #genocide #humanRightsViolations #JournalismMatters

miki_lou, 2 months ago to journalism

A good day for #pressfreedom, for courageous #journalists, and #democracy. https://ricochet.media/en/4041/obstruction-charges-against-journalist-brandi-morin-dropped

#Canada #Edmonton #Alberta

miki_lou, 6 months ago to books

#AmReading The Furrows An Elegy. It was shortlisted for the Pulitzer in 2023. A few pages in and I can see why, @bookstodon #books #LiteraryFiction

miki_lou, 7 months ago to random

"Checking the #airquality has become routine for many #NWT residents after months of #wildfire smoke swirling through communities." https://cabinradio.ca/155173/news/health/qa-how-small-sensors-transformed-nwt-air-quality-monitoring/

#PublicHealth #ClimateBreakdown #Wildfires

miki_lou, 7 months ago to random

Land and housing developers are running #DougFord's govt. https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/the-ford-government-appointed-this-developer-to-a-committee-to-protect-at-risk-species-a/article_244a3931-6569-5cfe-ad01-640e84a5305b.html

#onpoli #corporateCapture #CorporateCorruption

miki_lou, 8 months ago to random

"Poilievre wants to get rid of what he calls gatekeepers, by which he means public servants mandated to see that laws, good governance practices, and environmental rules are respected.Ford has the same goal as Poilievre for Ontario, and he has been quite open about it." https://rabble.ca/politics/canadian-politics/ford-backtracks-on-greenbelt-because-he-fears-further-revelations/

#onpoli #cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative

miki_lou, 8 months ago to worldwithoutus

People living in the #BorealForest now need to learn to live with #wildfire. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/hay-river-residents-set-to-return-after-monthlong-evacuation-1.6969209

#ClimateBreakdown #NWT #SubArctic #Arctic

miki_lou, 6 months ago to Palestine

Again about 70 #Yellowknifers out for #Palestine today for the 4th time in 2 weeks demanding #CeasefireNow! Open Borders Now! Food, Water, Fuel and Medicine Now! #FreePalestine #Stop #Genocide

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miki_lou, 2 months ago to Alberta

Regressive thinking shapes #Alberta's view of #renewableEnergy. In fact, the #UCP is on board with "Wind Concerns founder (who) has called CO2 the ‘gas of life’ and praised the province’s ban on new wind and solar projects." Good grief. https://www.desmog.com/2024/02/28/anti-renewable-group-says-it-met-privately-with-alberta-premier-danielle-smith/

#abpoli #BigOilPuppets

miki_lou, 4 months ago to random

"The right loves to preach about common sense, but while they promise freedom and tax cuts, you'll end up paying dearly for the faux-populist plan." https://www.davidmoscrop.com/p/beware-pierre-poilievres-common-sense

#Cdnpoli #NeverVoteConservative

miki_lou, 11 months ago to books

30 must-read #books for #NationalIndigenousHistoryMonth that'reach under the myth of #NorthAmerican #history', @bookstodon https://www.cbc.ca/books/books-to-read-national-indigenous-history-month-michelle-good-1.6860760

#Colonialism #Racism #Indigenous #Literature #Authors

miki_lou, 6 days ago to climate

"Not talking about the connection between #ClimateChange -caused natural disasters isn’t leading to long-term answers to these tragic challenges. It is hampering our efforts to find solutions. Staying silent won’t lead to the action needed to address these tragic events. It simply perpetuates the crisis." https://environmentaldefence.ca/2024/05/15/why-we-must-talk-about-climate-change-when-things-are-on-fire/

#wildfires #drought #ClimateBreakdown #ClimateAction #Canada

miki_lou, 9 days ago to random

"It's a tactic that we often see oil and gas companies use — trying to split up project assessments so it's piecemeal and it misses the cumulative risks," https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/pathways-alliance-environmental-impact-assessment-1.7205052?__vfz=medium%3Dsharebar

#BigOil #RegulatoryCapture #Abpoli #AER #Cdnpoli