Frances
@frances2023.bsky.social
Feminist, urban living, anthro grad, politics, and climate change. Human origins nerd. #Ontario #Canada I usually follow back but no DMs, please.
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#Alberta has no back-up plan to replace royalty revenue.
Commodities strategists at Wall Street's top investment banks expect 2026 and 2027 to be tough years for the oil industry. While demand has remained healthier than expected, global supply has kept climbing. ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/oil-pri...
Oil prices expected to fall in 2026 as Wall Street sees 'punishing oversupply' risking return to COVID levels
Wall Street's biggest banks see oil prices falling into the $50s or lower per barrel in 2026 and beyond, teeing up a tough year for the oil and gas industry.
ca.finance.yahoo.com
November 30, 2025 at 10:33 PM
#Alberta has no back-up plan to replace royalty revenue.
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Not one Western government has condemned the murders and threats against the sovereign state of Venezuela. The "rules based order" was always a fraud. The whole world sees it.
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The Moment to Pick a Side Has Come
“You must refuse illegal orders.” That’s what was said in the video made by six Democratic members of Congress.
open.substack.com
November 30, 2025 at 9:25 PM
Not one Western government has condemned the murders and threats against the sovereign state of Venezuela. The "rules based order" was always a fraud. The whole world sees it.
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...
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Hemlock Woolly Adelgid can kill hemlock trees in as little as 4 years. Ontario Nature staff are tackling HWA at Harold Mitchell Nature Reserve to protect one of the last mature Eastern Hemlock forests in the Niagara Region. ontarionature.org/management-o... Thank you to @NiagaraCF for their support.
https://ontarionature.org/management-of-invasive-hemlock-woolly-adelgid-in-a-mature-eastern-hemlock…
November 30, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Hemlock Woolly Adelgid can kill hemlock trees in as little as 4 years. Ontario Nature staff are tackling HWA at Harold Mitchell Nature Reserve to protect one of the last mature Eastern Hemlock forests in the Niagara Region. ontarionature.org/management-o... Thank you to @NiagaraCF for their support.
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Canadian MSM/SM is filled with advocates for the F-35 fighter. But Canada must make itself as immune as possible from future American threats against our sovereignty. That includes choosing defence systems that cannot be overridden by the American military, like the F-35. What good is a military ...
November 30, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Canadian MSM/SM is filled with advocates for the F-35 fighter. But Canada must make itself as immune as possible from future American threats against our sovereignty. That includes choosing defence systems that cannot be overridden by the American military, like the F-35. What good is a military ...
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These people voted to restrict abortion in Alberta
UCP members pass resolutions on auto insurance, abortion, clean coal calgaryherald.com/news/politic...
November 30, 2025 at 6:47 PM
These people voted to restrict abortion in Alberta
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A constellation of bad faith actors who have no solutions just malevolent ambition
Uh oh, Ontario transportation minister Prabmeet Sarkaria liked this IntegrityTO video blaming bus lanes for car congestion…
November 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A constellation of bad faith actors who have no solutions just malevolent ambition
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Ontario Greens Leader Mike Schreiner released the following statement regarding pollution levels at the Port Lands gas plant being seven times too high for the construction of a planned housing development on Villiers Island. gpo.ca/2024/09/11/p... #onpoli via @OntarioGreens
Pollution so high you can’t open your windows: that’s Doug Ford’s Ontario
This is a government without a climate plan, and their years of inaction are negatively affecting the health and safety of Ontarians.
gpo.ca
November 30, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Ontario Greens Leader Mike Schreiner released the following statement regarding pollution levels at the Port Lands gas plant being seven times too high for the construction of a planned housing development on Villiers Island. gpo.ca/2024/09/11/p... #onpoli via @OntarioGreens
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You can only be pardoned for things you have done. Netanyahu just admitted he’s guilty of the corruption charges
November 30, 2025 at 6:30 PM
You can only be pardoned for things you have done. Netanyahu just admitted he’s guilty of the corruption charges
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Gretzky really is doing his best to make Canadians disown him
Trump went golfing with Wayne Gretzky today. That's FOX host Brett Baier on the right. Trump posted this on his Truth Social account.
November 30, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Gretzky really is doing his best to make Canadians disown him
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Misunderstandings about #mRNA #vaccines partly originate from the fact that they are seldom covered in public education in the same way that we learn basic science like astronomy, biology, or geography. A study reported in PNAS (see reply) looks at ways to better protect people from false claims.
November 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Andrew Coyne; ‘Just because you divide..1 line into 2 doesn’t change the # of patients or..the # of hrs in a dr’s day.All you’ve done is reshuffle the order in which the dr sees them,replacing medical necessity as the triage criterion with ability to pay’
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d487a4a...
www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d487a4a...
Yes, the health care system is a mess, but Danielle Smith’s gambit risks failure
The solution to Canada’s health care woes is to create a market
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Andrew Coyne; ‘Just because you divide..1 line into 2 doesn’t change the # of patients or..the # of hrs in a dr’s day.All you’ve done is reshuffle the order in which the dr sees them,replacing medical necessity as the triage criterion with ability to pay’
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www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/d487a4a...
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We support Councillor @diannesaxe.bsky.social 's motion to phase-out Toronto’s #1 smog and #1 climate polluter.
Toronto needs to take charge of its energy future – to protect our climate and lower our electricity bills.
#topoli #onpoli
www.cleanairalliance.org/councillor-s...
Toronto needs to take charge of its energy future – to protect our climate and lower our electricity bills.
#topoli #onpoli
www.cleanairalliance.org/councillor-s...
Toronto needs to take charge of its energy future – to protect our climate and lower our electricity bills!
Toronto needs to take charge of its energy future – to protect our climate and lower our electricity bills!
www.cleanairalliance.org
November 30, 2025 at 4:26 PM
We support Councillor @diannesaxe.bsky.social 's motion to phase-out Toronto’s #1 smog and #1 climate polluter.
Toronto needs to take charge of its energy future – to protect our climate and lower our electricity bills.
#topoli #onpoli
www.cleanairalliance.org/councillor-s...
Toronto needs to take charge of its energy future – to protect our climate and lower our electricity bills.
#topoli #onpoli
www.cleanairalliance.org/councillor-s...
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The non-science-words tl;dr: the COVID virus uses histamine receptors to infect your cells, and the spike protein of the virus temporarily freaks out an important part of your immune system and makes it too busy screaming about the virus to fight the virus as effectively.
September 21, 2025 at 9:10 PM
The non-science-words tl;dr: the COVID virus uses histamine receptors to infect your cells, and the spike protein of the virus temporarily freaks out an important part of your immune system and makes it too busy screaming about the virus to fight the virus as effectively.
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I forgot to go back and correct the numbering. The *three* practical applications of the linkage are antihistamines for COVID prevention, prophylactic antihistamines before vaccination to reduce vaccine side effects, and antihistamines while you have COVID to reduce long COVID risk
September 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
I forgot to go back and correct the numbering. The *three* practical applications of the linkage are antihistamines for COVID prevention, prophylactic antihistamines before vaccination to reduce vaccine side effects, and antihistamines while you have COVID to reduce long COVID risk
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And it would help prevent horrible suffering.
“My message to Prime Minister Carney, to Canada, & to all the other donors is, stay the course.
“Without global solidarity, the inequality between countries will continue to widen. We will live in a more dangerous world as these inequalities increase.”
“My message to Prime Minister Carney, to Canada, & to all the other donors is, stay the course.
“Without global solidarity, the inequality between countries will continue to widen. We will live in a more dangerous world as these inequalities increase.”
UNAIDS chief urges Carney not to cut foreign aid, global health funding
UNAIDS chief urges Carney not to cut foreign aid
The head of the United Nations’ HIV/AIDS program is urging Prime Minister Mark Carney to reverse his government’s planned cuts to foreign aid and global health funding.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
And it would help prevent horrible suffering.
“My message to Prime Minister Carney, to Canada, & to all the other donors is, stay the course.
“Without global solidarity, the inequality between countries will continue to widen. We will live in a more dangerous world as these inequalities increase.”
“My message to Prime Minister Carney, to Canada, & to all the other donors is, stay the course.
“Without global solidarity, the inequality between countries will continue to widen. We will live in a more dangerous world as these inequalities increase.”
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Hamilton, Toronto police search for missing woman in Dundas
Hamilton, Toronto police search for missing woman in Dundas
Police said residents should expect an increased presence around Old Guelph Road Sunday as they search for a missing 26-year-old.
www.thespec.com
November 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Something tells me the wealthy will have access to updated flood maps, but the rest of us won't.
The New York Times: Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings www.nytimes.com/2025/11/30/c...
Zillow Removes Climate Risk Scores From Home Listings
www.nytimes.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Something tells me the wealthy will have access to updated flood maps, but the rest of us won't.
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Should be very interesting
Good politics? Bad policy? We're bringing together two of the smartest climate and energy voices in Canada to sort through the Carney-Smith MOU on Monday: @chrishatch.bsky.social and @maxfawcett.bsky.social, moderated by @supriya.bsky.social. Join the debate at noon PT / 3 ET here:
How will the pipeline pact play out? Join us Monday on Zoom for 'The Pipeline Debate'
In our ever-more siloed informational environment, having places and spaces where spirited disagreement can happen under one digital roof is an important bulwark against the polarization that too ofte...
www.nationalobserver.com
November 30, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Should be very interesting
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Dabrusin is misleading the Canadian public. On the CBC radio show, What on Earth, a few weeks ago, when asked how the govt would meet the 2035 GHG emission reduction target (we are far off), she referred to the Clean Electricity Regulation. 1/
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Environment minister insists Ottawa not rolling back climate policy in wake of Alberta MOU
Environment and Climate and Change Minister Julie Dabrusin insists the federal government is not rolling back its climate policy.
www.ctvnews.ca
November 30, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Dabrusin is misleading the Canadian public. On the CBC radio show, What on Earth, a few weeks ago, when asked how the govt would meet the 2035 GHG emission reduction target (we are far off), she referred to the Clean Electricity Regulation. 1/
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
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November 29, 2025
November 29, 2025
In the wake of yesterday’s report from Alex Horton and Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered Special Operations to kill the survivors of a September 2 stri...
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November 30, 2025 at 5:47 AM
November 29, 2025
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Heard this one? The City of Barcelona traded 3 lanes of vehicle traffic for an exceptional 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid. Businesses sued, & eventually won in court. Then they admitted that they actually like the change.
Streets for people are good for business.
Streets for people are good for business.
The Legal Attack on Superblock Barcelona - City Lab Barcelona
In this blog post, I attempt to unpack what this court ruling is about, the legal arguments, and who is behind it. Did the city really do something wrong? What will happen to the Consell de Cent proj...
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November 30, 2025 at 7:37 AM
Heard this one? The City of Barcelona traded 3 lanes of vehicle traffic for an exceptional 4.7km green pedestrian corridor in the heart of the Eixample grid. Businesses sued, & eventually won in court. Then they admitted that they actually like the change.
Streets for people are good for business.
Streets for people are good for business.
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The 4 companies that represent 80% of Canadian oil sands production are 73% foreign 60% American-owned, sending a large share of their profits to their shareholders in the US as they lobby to weaken Canadian climate policy: "like a Trojan horse for Donald Trump’s pro-fossil, anti-climate politics."
November 30, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The 4 companies that represent 80% of Canadian oil sands production are 73% foreign 60% American-owned, sending a large share of their profits to their shareholders in the US as they lobby to weaken Canadian climate policy: "like a Trojan horse for Donald Trump’s pro-fossil, anti-climate politics."
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Police investigation suspects there may be Brantford victims after arresting a Cambridge man for multiple sexual offences against children.
www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-n...
www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-n...
Exploitation victims may be in Brantford: Police
Waterloo Regional Police say there may be Brantford victims of a man facing multiple charges for various forms of child abuse.
www.brantfordexpositor.ca
November 30, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Police investigation suspects there may be Brantford victims after arresting a Cambridge man for multiple sexual offences against children.
www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-n...
www.brantfordexpositor.ca/news/local-n...
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So awful Alberta Premier Danielle Smith cynically courts separatists and other alt-right extremist voters for her political benefit to leverage the rest of Canada with the threat of separation, and now those separatists don’t want ANY deal with Canada.
Who could have seen THAT coming? #Everyone
Who could have seen THAT coming? #Everyone
November 30, 2025 at 4:10 AM
So awful Alberta Premier Danielle Smith cynically courts separatists and other alt-right extremist voters for her political benefit to leverage the rest of Canada with the threat of separation, and now those separatists don’t want ANY deal with Canada.
Who could have seen THAT coming? #Everyone
Who could have seen THAT coming? #Everyone