Blayne Haggart
@bhaggart.bsky.social
Professor, Political Science, Brock University
Knowledge governance, IPE, Sydney Swans tragic
Co-author, with Natasha Tusikov, The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Bloomsbury, 2023). Open Access.
Knowledge governance, IPE, Sydney Swans tragic
Co-author, with Natasha Tusikov, The New Knowledge: Information, Data and the Remaking of Global Power (Bloomsbury, 2023). Open Access.
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1/ “one or more private sector constructed and financed pipelines.” This is such a risky investment for private $$ I don’t see it happening. But still, we obviously shouldn’t even be talking about building pipelines. It's the energy equivalent investing in VHS tapes in 2025.
November 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM
1/ “one or more private sector constructed and financed pipelines.” This is such a risky investment for private $$ I don’t see it happening. But still, we obviously shouldn’t even be talking about building pipelines. It's the energy equivalent investing in VHS tapes in 2025.
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9/ This is reckless climate and economic policy. And magical thinking. Net zero doesn’t happen without reducing fossil fuel supply. At least the US has the cojones to say it doesn’t give a shit about climate. @mark-carney.bsky.social is still pretending that Canada does. FIN
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
9/ This is reckless climate and economic policy. And magical thinking. Net zero doesn’t happen without reducing fossil fuel supply. At least the US has the cojones to say it doesn’t give a shit about climate. @mark-carney.bsky.social is still pretending that Canada does. FIN
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8/ Tho the MOU states its commitment to net zero by 2050, butalmost nothing in it will further that goal. There is nothing about phasing out fossil fuels, or even reducing their extraction / use at all (nuclear notwithstanding).
November 27, 2025 at 7:44 PM
8/ Tho the MOU states its commitment to net zero by 2050, butalmost nothing in it will further that goal. There is nothing about phasing out fossil fuels, or even reducing their extraction / use at all (nuclear notwithstanding).
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2/ The biggest CCUS project in the world to make Alberta’s exceedingly dirty and expensive oil, less dirty and more expensive. Tax credits to incentivize private $$ investments in CCUS, and... wait for it... *including for enhanced oil recovery*. WTAF?
November 27, 2025 at 7:41 PM
2/ The biggest CCUS project in the world to make Alberta’s exceedingly dirty and expensive oil, less dirty and more expensive. Tax credits to incentivize private $$ investments in CCUS, and... wait for it... *including for enhanced oil recovery*. WTAF?
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An interesting take that's counter to much of the climate and environment movement's reaction to the Carney news, but this is the most load-bearing sentence in the piece and we already know that markets - and specifically carbon markets - are way worse than direction intervention at cutting GHGs
November 28, 2025 at 10:38 AM
An interesting take that's counter to much of the climate and environment movement's reaction to the Carney news, but this is the most load-bearing sentence in the piece and we already know that markets - and specifically carbon markets - are way worse than direction intervention at cutting GHGs
It’s a shame the job he signed up for is “politician.”
1. Many Canadians, including me, are questioning Carney’s commitment to #ClimateAction.
2. Max knows what he’s talking about.
3. Yes Carney should be communicating better. He may also be much more focussed on results than looking good. That’s how non-politician experts think.
4. Let’s keep watching.
2. Max knows what he’s talking about.
3. Yes Carney should be communicating better. He may also be much more focussed on results than looking good. That’s how non-politician experts think.
4. Let’s keep watching.
Mark Carney managed to trade a pipeline that will never get built for meaningful progress on industrial carbon pricing and electricity interties — both of which will get more wind and solar built.
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
Remember when people thought he wasn't good at politics? www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/27/o...
November 28, 2025 at 4:23 AM
It’s a shame the job he signed up for is “politician.”
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People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
November 28, 2025 at 2:03 AM
People who care about climate change are “dreaming nostalgically about the past.” - Minister Hodgson
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
Gotcha. That explains a lot.
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I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.
November 27, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I think it’s bad, actually, to play political chess with Indigenous rights.
It‘s not great that the best gloss on Carney’s pipeline deal is that he’s either pulling a fast one on the premier of Alberta or on the people of Canada.
Democracies can’t function if citizens have to resort to guessing what their leaders are actually doing.
Democracies can’t function if citizens have to resort to guessing what their leaders are actually doing.
November 28, 2025 at 2:42 AM
It‘s not great that the best gloss on Carney’s pipeline deal is that he’s either pulling a fast one on the premier of Alberta or on the people of Canada.
Democracies can’t function if citizens have to resort to guessing what their leaders are actually doing.
Democracies can’t function if citizens have to resort to guessing what their leaders are actually doing.
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A government that plans to balance carbon budgets in 25 years using hypothetical technology like carbon capture, while removing regulatory hurdles for new Alberta energy projects. Canada's partying like it's 2009.
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
A government that plans to balance carbon budgets in 25 years using hypothetical technology like carbon capture, while removing regulatory hurdles for new Alberta energy projects. Canada's partying like it's 2009.
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I have questions, like, wut, and, the fuck
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I have questions, like, wut, and, the fuck
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just sayin bsky.app/profile/jeff...
To be super duper clear, Carney is preparing a counter-insurgency campaign backed by the American Empire. The US aren't playing around, they really do need these resources if they want to keep playing the imperial game. This was just a warm up: ricochet.media/justice/poli...
Playbook for RCMP’s Wet’suwet’en raids provided by former U.S. commander in Iraq and Afghanistan
Presentation highlights darker truths behind violence and intimidation against Indigenous land defenders resisting resource extraction
ricochet.media
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
just sayin bsky.app/profile/jeff...
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Any BC Cabinet or caucus members want to take a public stand on principle over the single most important issue of our time or nah?
November 27, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Any BC Cabinet or caucus members want to take a public stand on principle over the single most important issue of our time or nah?
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Centrist Liberal MPs should defect, merge with the
NDP, and call themselves the New Liberal Party
NDP, and call themselves the New Liberal Party
November 27, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Centrist Liberal MPs should defect, merge with the
NDP, and call themselves the New Liberal Party
NDP, and call themselves the New Liberal Party
I can only imagine what a viable NDP led by a Jack Layton or even a Thomas Mulcair would make of this moment.
#Breaking: Former environment minister Steven Guilbeault resigns from cabinet following Carney government's energy deal with Alberta
Steven Guilbeault resigns from Mark Carney’s cabinet
Before entering elected politics, Guilbeault was a famed environmentalist.
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
I can only imagine what a viable NDP led by a Jack Layton or even a Thomas Mulcair would make of this moment.
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It’s amazing, really. The Prime Minister is looking for big bold ideas to nation build and he came up with paying for an outdated technology to supply an energy source (bitumen) the world does not want.
November 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It’s amazing, really. The Prime Minister is looking for big bold ideas to nation build and he came up with paying for an outdated technology to supply an energy source (bitumen) the world does not want.
It's kinda fascinating. The Liberals need Carney way, way more than he needs them. He's not invested in the future of the party and can always retire to his millions. Which makes it possible for him to do as he likes, long-term political consequences be damned.
Genuinely feels like there's been a coup within the Liberal party thanks to Carney and his bros.
Not to say Trudeau's Liberals were much better (they bought a pipeline!) but Carney is a full-blown red tory and I'm shocked more Liberals aren't outraged their party has been usurped like this.
Not to say Trudeau's Liberals were much better (they bought a pipeline!) but Carney is a full-blown red tory and I'm shocked more Liberals aren't outraged their party has been usurped like this.
Super cool that we've got a deal for a path towards a pipeline that's tied to a carbon capture project, as if that makes it okay
when carbon capture one of the most expensive and least effective options for addressing climate change, and oil companies often use it to EXTRACT MORE OIL!!!!
fuck man
when carbon capture one of the most expensive and least effective options for addressing climate change, and oil companies often use it to EXTRACT MORE OIL!!!!
fuck man
November 27, 2025 at 9:36 PM
It's kinda fascinating. The Liberals need Carney way, way more than he needs them. He's not invested in the future of the party and can always retire to his millions. Which makes it possible for him to do as he likes, long-term political consequences be damned.
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Anyway there's an NDP leadership debate tonight and hooboy if there were ever a time for the NDP to offer up some alternatives, this is it
November 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Anyway there's an NDP leadership debate tonight and hooboy if there were ever a time for the NDP to offer up some alternatives, this is it
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Very concerning. What's the plan to ensure these cosmetics aren't sold in Canada? With Carney's cuts to all govt departments, tracking unsafe US cosmetics won't be a high priority, especially as the US is also gutting its federal food inspection system & Canada is a big importer of US food.
F.D.A. Withdraws Rule to Require Testing Cosmetics Made With Talc for Asbestos www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/h... @nytimes.com
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November 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Very concerning. What's the plan to ensure these cosmetics aren't sold in Canada? With Carney's cuts to all govt departments, tracking unsafe US cosmetics won't be a high priority, especially as the US is also gutting its federal food inspection system & Canada is a big importer of US food.
Mark Carney is looking for short-term solutions to long-term problems (US instability, climate change, the digital revolution). That's why he's raiding the policy cabinet for every half-baked idea he can find. The biggest of these are tripling down on resource extraction, followed by AI FOMO.
10 years ago Mark Carney warned about the "existential threat" posed by climate catastrophe and the need to move from fossil fuel burning.
Now he is using Stephen Harper's lines about becoming an "energy super power."
This is a powerful analysis on the MOU.
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-pipeli...
Now he is using Stephen Harper's lines about becoming an "energy super power."
This is a powerful analysis on the MOU.
markhamhislop.substack.com/p/the-pipeli...
The Pipeline MOU is a Tragic Failure of Vision
At best, Mark Carney capitulated to Danielle Smith's backward view of the future. At worst, the Prime Minister shares that view
markhamhislop.substack.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Mark Carney is looking for short-term solutions to long-term problems (US instability, climate change, the digital revolution). That's why he's raiding the policy cabinet for every half-baked idea he can find. The biggest of these are tripling down on resource extraction, followed by AI FOMO.
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We've fallen into an anti-immigration, anti-climate, short-sighted economic doofus era, brought to you by the guy who we thought was a smart policy wonk.
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
Mark Carney drops Trudeau-era climate measures in energy deal with Alberta
rime Minister Mark Carney's Liberal government is scrapping plans for a major national climate policy and immediately suspending another in Alberta alone, as part of a wide-ranging accord that softens
www.thestar.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
We've fallen into an anti-immigration, anti-climate, short-sighted economic doofus era, brought to you by the guy who we thought was a smart policy wonk.
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I did my best to not yell about how ridiculous everything is right now and how hard it is to take anything seriously when we're all supposed to bet our future on magic beans
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
The AI hype-machine: Canada’s ill-advised ‘national sprint’ on artificial intelligence
Cynthia Khoo, Jeff Doctor and Hadrian Mertons-Kirkwood discuss the dangers of Canada’s accelerated approach to artificial intelligence.
rabble.ca
November 27, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I did my best to not yell about how ridiculous everything is right now and how hard it is to take anything seriously when we're all supposed to bet our future on magic beans
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
rabble.ca/podcast/the-...
Good paper on how value-free machine learning “science” is inescapably shot through with unacknowledged theory. Bottom line:
1. There’s no such thing as raw data.
2. As Keynes said about economics, people who claim they’re just following the facts are always following unacknowledged ideologies.
1. There’s no such thing as raw data.
2. As Keynes said about economics, people who claim they’re just following the facts are always following unacknowledged ideologies.
The purpose of applying machine learning to the scientific process is to pretend you don’t have to think any more. This is incorrect.
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23840/7/Andr...
The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal (2024)
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23840/7/Andr...
The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal (2024)
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
November 27, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Good paper on how value-free machine learning “science” is inescapably shot through with unacknowledged theory. Bottom line:
1. There’s no such thing as raw data.
2. As Keynes said about economics, people who claim they’re just following the facts are always following unacknowledged ideologies.
1. There’s no such thing as raw data.
2. As Keynes said about economics, people who claim they’re just following the facts are always following unacknowledged ideologies.
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The purpose of applying machine learning to the scientific process is to pretend you don’t have to think any more. This is incorrect.
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23840/7/Andr...
The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal (2024)
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23840/7/Andr...
The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal (2024)
philsci-archive.pitt.edu
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 AM
The purpose of applying machine learning to the scientific process is to pretend you don’t have to think any more. This is incorrect.
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23840/7/Andr...
The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal (2024)
philsci-archive.pitt.edu/23840/7/Andr...
The Immortal Science of ML: Machine Learning & the Theory-Free Ideal (2024)