@dinaaloi.bsky.social
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I support a lot of PM Carney’s agenda, but I can’t decide what’s the greater surprise: the apparent downgrading of climate change as one of his top policy priorities, or the public quiescence of so many Liberal MPs & cabinet ministers who didn’t used to support drill-baby-drill.
November 19, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I support a lot of PM Carney’s agenda, but I can’t decide what’s the greater surprise: the apparent downgrading of climate change as one of his top policy priorities, or the public quiescence of so many Liberal MPs & cabinet ministers who didn’t used to support drill-baby-drill.
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Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
November 19, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.
The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
I wish Canada would do this, especially considering @mark-carney.bsky.social new list of big, bold, Canadian projects.
More than 500 stalls capable of delivering 1 megawatt of power are on the list of projects funded by the European Commission.
insideevs.com/news/779413/...
insideevs.com/news/779413/...
The EU Is Spending Big To Install Thousands More DC Fast Chargers
Over 500 stalls capable of delivering 1 megawatt of power are on the list of projects funded by the European Commission.
insideevs.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I wish Canada would do this, especially considering @mark-carney.bsky.social new list of big, bold, Canadian projects.
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We are back in the Central Mediterranean with our new search and rescue vessel Oyvon, after almost one year of being forced to terminate operations with our last rescue vessel, the Geo Barents. 🚢
Riccardo Gatti, Team Leader, and Julie Melichar, Project Coordinator update:
Riccardo Gatti, Team Leader, and Julie Melichar, Project Coordinator update:
November 18, 2025 at 9:43 PM
We are back in the Central Mediterranean with our new search and rescue vessel Oyvon, after almost one year of being forced to terminate operations with our last rescue vessel, the Geo Barents. 🚢
Riccardo Gatti, Team Leader, and Julie Melichar, Project Coordinator update:
Riccardo Gatti, Team Leader, and Julie Melichar, Project Coordinator update:
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...
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We’re thankful that award-winning author John Green continues to shine a light on #uberculosis the world’s most infectious disease.
In the #Philippines John witnessed how our approach to tackle this deadly infection considers “every part of the tuberculosis care pipeline” ⬇️
In the #Philippines John witnessed how our approach to tackle this deadly infection considers “every part of the tuberculosis care pipeline” ⬇️
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 PM
We’re thankful that award-winning author John Green continues to shine a light on #uberculosis the world’s most infectious disease.
In the #Philippines John witnessed how our approach to tackle this deadly infection considers “every part of the tuberculosis care pipeline” ⬇️
In the #Philippines John witnessed how our approach to tackle this deadly infection considers “every part of the tuberculosis care pipeline” ⬇️
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"Canada does not have the luxury of being able to avoid hard foreign policy decisions, as it had until recently. All too comfortable with the tremendous security and economic benefits we derived from close relations with the US, we became complacent"
My new op-ed in The Globe and Mail today: Canada badly needs to diversify its trade and security partnerships - and this should include deeper ties with the UAE and other Gulf states.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Canada will need to consider growing its relations with non-democratic Gulf States
We do not have the luxury of ignoring hard foreign policy decisions
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:23 PM
"Canada does not have the luxury of being able to avoid hard foreign policy decisions, as it had until recently. All too comfortable with the tremendous security and economic benefits we derived from close relations with the US, we became complacent"
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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
"Quiet! Quiet, Piggy."
November 18, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...
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Ironically, PM Carney skipped COP30 in Brazil, to announce that the federal government will fast-track the American-owned Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia. 👎😒
Media release> dsfdn.org/CarneySkipsC...
Media release> dsfdn.org/CarneySkipsC...
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Ironically, PM Carney skipped COP30 in Brazil, to announce that the federal government will fast-track the American-owned Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia. 👎😒
Media release> dsfdn.org/CarneySkipsC...
Media release> dsfdn.org/CarneySkipsC...
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On #WorldDiabetesDay, we’re highlighting the reality for people living with #diabetes in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, in #Bangladesh.
Our teams support patients by providing self-monitoring tools, insulin pens and clay pots for safe insulin storage without electricity.
Our teams support patients by providing self-monitoring tools, insulin pens and clay pots for safe insulin storage without electricity.
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
On #WorldDiabetesDay, we’re highlighting the reality for people living with #diabetes in Cox’s Bazar refugee camps, in #Bangladesh.
Our teams support patients by providing self-monitoring tools, insulin pens and clay pots for safe insulin storage without electricity.
Our teams support patients by providing self-monitoring tools, insulin pens and clay pots for safe insulin storage without electricity.
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Want to hear me and @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social talk about the national security implications of Carney’s first budget? Check out the Secure line budget episode!
open.spotify.com/episode/12C5...
open.spotify.com/episode/12C5...
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Want to hear me and @stephaniecarvin.bsky.social talk about the national security implications of Carney’s first budget? Check out the Secure line budget episode!
open.spotify.com/episode/12C5...
open.spotify.com/episode/12C5...
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📢MSF is back in the Central Mediterranean with its new search and rescue vessel Oyvon, after almost one year of being forced to terminate operations with its last rescue vessel, the Geo Barents. 🧵
searchandrescue.msf.org/news/msf-rel...
searchandrescue.msf.org/news/msf-rel...
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 AM
📢MSF is back in the Central Mediterranean with its new search and rescue vessel Oyvon, after almost one year of being forced to terminate operations with its last rescue vessel, the Geo Barents. 🧵
searchandrescue.msf.org/news/msf-rel...
searchandrescue.msf.org/news/msf-rel...
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I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.
November 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
I feel like the business community in Canada is just not getting the message - there is no miracle deal with Trump and any arrangement we make will be immediately upended when he somehow takes offence at some trivial thing.
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Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.”
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Canada: If you’re going to cut foreign aid, at least be honest about it
It is a moral failure dressed up as fiscal responsibility. If we take away the abstract language and political doublespeak, Canadians may find the human cost of these cuts too
www.thestar.com
November 12, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Aanjalie Roane, MSF Director of Communications, writes in the @thestar.com on how Canada’s #Budget2025 frames a $2.7 billion cut to international assistance as “savings.”
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
For people in crisis, those cuts mean fewer doctors, fewer medicines, less hope.
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Failure summarizes the Canadian climate change record since 1990 — failure to meet any #GHG emissions reduction ambition, writes @ianurquhart.bsky.social.
Canada is the only member of the G7 whose #GHG emissions have increased since 1990.
Canada is the only member of the G7 whose #GHG emissions have increased since 1990.
How Canada Thumbs Its Nose at the Global Climate Summit | The Tyee
We used to pledge lower emissions. Now we push for higher oil production.
thetyee.ca
November 12, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Failure summarizes the Canadian climate change record since 1990 — failure to meet any #GHG emissions reduction ambition, writes @ianurquhart.bsky.social.
Canada is the only member of the G7 whose #GHG emissions have increased since 1990.
Canada is the only member of the G7 whose #GHG emissions have increased since 1990.
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I honestly don’t know how Mark Carney wrote a book called *Values*, with chapters dedicated to climate action and now that he is Canada’s Prime Minister he is a no-show at COP30 and is expanding Canada’s fossil fuel development. This is very elbows down hypocrisy. I’m so disappointed.
November 12, 2025 at 1:44 PM
I honestly don’t know how Mark Carney wrote a book called *Values*, with chapters dedicated to climate action and now that he is Canada’s Prime Minister he is a no-show at COP30 and is expanding Canada’s fossil fuel development. This is very elbows down hypocrisy. I’m so disappointed.
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Earlier today I spoke with Matt Galloway on CBC radio's The Current about the Carney government's foreign policy, including the challenges of "resetting" relations with China and India. on.soundcloud.com/APAZWSI0gmyF...
Roland Paris, CBC The Current, 11 Nov. 2025
Roland Paris interview on CBC Radio's The Current on Canada's foreign policy so far under Prime Minister Mark Carney
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November 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Earlier today I spoke with Matt Galloway on CBC radio's The Current about the Carney government's foreign policy, including the challenges of "resetting" relations with China and India. on.soundcloud.com/APAZWSI0gmyF...
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Multi-signatory statement from Foreign Ministries on #Sudan. Explicit condemnation of the RSF (welcome). But with one reference to UN resolutions, it it would have been easy also to reference UNSC Resln 1593 - the arms embargo on #Darfur. The elephant is being ignored. www.canada.ca/en/global-af...
Joint Statement Condemning Atrocities and Violations of International Humanitarian law in Sudan - Canada.ca
The Signatories are gravely alarmed by the reports of systematic and ongoing violence against civilians during and after the fall of El Fasher to the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) as well as the escalati...
www.canada.ca
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Multi-signatory statement from Foreign Ministries on #Sudan. Explicit condemnation of the RSF (welcome). But with one reference to UN resolutions, it it would have been easy also to reference UNSC Resln 1593 - the arms embargo on #Darfur. The elephant is being ignored. www.canada.ca/en/global-af...
An excellent excuse to visit Salt Spring Island!
📚💙Should you happen to be passing through BC's Gulf Islands...hoping to see you! gulfislandevents.com/event/nick-j...
Nick & Jenny Coghlan – book launch
Book Launch with Nick & Jenny Coghlan – 'Under Wide and Starry Skies' - SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARITIME FOUNDATION AWARD FOR BEST BOOK
Cast off the lines and discover 50 of the most fabulous off-the-beat...
gulfislandevents.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:04 PM
An excellent excuse to visit Salt Spring Island!
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Must read @nickkristof.bsky.social
“Trump’s aid cuts are killing far, far more Nigerian Christians than jihadis are (USAID was saving 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria before the Trump aid cuts). If he wants to save lives, no need to start a war; just reverse aid cuts.”
“Trump’s aid cuts are killing far, far more Nigerian Christians than jihadis are (USAID was saving 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria before the Trump aid cuts). If he wants to save lives, no need to start a war; just reverse aid cuts.”
President Trump threatens a military attack on Nigeria because of jihadi attacks on Christians — which are indeed a real problem. But Trump’s aid cuts are killing far, far more Nigerian Christians than jihadis are. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/o...
Opinion | Trump Aid Cuts Kill More Christians Than Jihadists Do
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Must read @nickkristof.bsky.social
“Trump’s aid cuts are killing far, far more Nigerian Christians than jihadis are (USAID was saving 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria before the Trump aid cuts). If he wants to save lives, no need to start a war; just reverse aid cuts.”
“Trump’s aid cuts are killing far, far more Nigerian Christians than jihadis are (USAID was saving 270,000 lives a year in Nigeria before the Trump aid cuts). If he wants to save lives, no need to start a war; just reverse aid cuts.”
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This is tomorrow! Do join us.
I'm speaking as part of this online event on November 12 organised by the NYU Migration Network, focused on global questions around migration, detention & deportation. Anyone can join & here is the link to register: nyu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @nyukevo.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:13 PM
This is tomorrow! Do join us.
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"The lake's waters reached 41ºC, or 105.8ºF — hotter than most spa baths."
"You couldn't put your finger in the water."
Just terrible. There's no other way to describe this.
News: www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...
Peer reviewed: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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"You couldn't put your finger in the water."
Just terrible. There's no other way to describe this.
News: www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...
Peer reviewed: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Hundreds of dolphins found dead in Amazon lake were in water hotter than a jacuzzi, study finds
"You couldn't put your finger in the water," said the lead author of the study, which spotlights the impacts of planetary warming on aquatic ecosystems.
www.cbsnews.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
"The lake's waters reached 41ºC, or 105.8ºF — hotter than most spa baths."
"You couldn't put your finger in the water."
Just terrible. There's no other way to describe this.
News: www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...
Peer reviewed: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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"You couldn't put your finger in the water."
Just terrible. There's no other way to describe this.
News: www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin...
Peer reviewed: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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All Canadians should be concerned.
Well-researched deep dive into 🇨🇦 arms/weapons being used, in breach of UN sanctions, in #Darfur, #Sudan. Not just armoured vehicles but - and this is new - sniper rifles too. www.cbc.ca/news/world/s...
Sudanese fighters accused of massacres use Canadian-made rifles | CBC News
The Rapid Support Forces in Sudan, accused of civilian massacres, have posted numerous images posing with rifles bearing the logo of a small B.C. manufacturer called Sterling Cross Defense Systems. Ex...
www.cbc.ca
November 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
All Canadians should be concerned.
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Explainer on #Sudan, #Darfur, aimed principally at a 🇨🇦 audience. Streit, arms sales, the UAE...and why nobody will take action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAKI...
Canada Urged to Take Stronger Action on Sudan
YouTube video by Forum Daily News
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Explainer on #Sudan, #Darfur, aimed principally at a 🇨🇦 audience. Streit, arms sales, the UAE...and why nobody will take action. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAKI...