Tony
@tonytremain.bsky.social
Teaching social justice & sustainability in a Toronto high school
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#CanadianNews 🇨🇦🍁 - Prime Minister Mark Carney holding hands with Governor General & main opposition leader during school shooting vigil in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
This is our unique Canadian culture that puts us Canadians apart from the rest of the world! 🇨🇦🍁 #Never51stState
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This is our unique Canadian culture that puts us Canadians apart from the rest of the world! 🇨🇦🍁 #Never51stState
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Prime Minister Carney and Canada's main opposition leader hold hands during school shooting vigil
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney and the country’s opposition leaders paid tribute to the victims of one of the worst mass shootings in the country’s history at a vigil in the devastated northern B...
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February 14, 2026 at 6:15 PM
#CanadianNews 🇨🇦🍁 - Prime Minister Mark Carney holding hands with Governor General & main opposition leader during school shooting vigil in Tumbler Ridge, B.C.
This is our unique Canadian culture that puts us Canadians apart from the rest of the world! 🇨🇦🍁 #Never51stState
apnews.com/article/cana...
This is our unique Canadian culture that puts us Canadians apart from the rest of the world! 🇨🇦🍁 #Never51stState
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£7 billion pounds in taxpayers subsidies to burn Canadian wood in a UK powerplant and call it green (don't even ask about the supposed CO2 reduction schemes). This is so much more than a scam. It's criminal, and we, the public have been truly conned.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Drax insiders privately raised concerns over its sustainability claims, court papers show
Company publicly denied allegations that primary forests were being cut down to fuel UK’s biggest power plant
www.theguardian.com
February 4, 2026 at 5:08 PM
£7 billion pounds in taxpayers subsidies to burn Canadian wood in a UK powerplant and call it green (don't even ask about the supposed CO2 reduction schemes). This is so much more than a scam. It's criminal, and we, the public have been truly conned.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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According to recent court filings, Mark Zuckerberg rejected the recommendations integrity staff and "declined to impose reasonable guardrails to prevent children from being subject to sexually exploitative conversations with its AI chatbots."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
January 28, 2026 at 5:33 PM
According to recent court filings, Mark Zuckerberg rejected the recommendations integrity staff and "declined to impose reasonable guardrails to prevent children from being subject to sexually exploitative conversations with its AI chatbots."
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
I heard @cat-abreu.bsky.social on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social this afternoon; she brings clarity and focus to every conversation!
January 21, 2026 at 9:55 PM
I heard @cat-abreu.bsky.social on @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social this afternoon; she brings clarity and focus to every conversation!
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Having grown up and gone through school with kids many of whose parents worked for GM and its suppliers in Oshawa, one has regretfully to accept that these writers are probably on the right track.
The car-making biz in Canada may be on its last legs, and need to retool.
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The car-making biz in Canada may be on its last legs, and need to retool.
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January 21, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Having grown up and gone through school with kids many of whose parents worked for GM and its suppliers in Oshawa, one has regretfully to accept that these writers are probably on the right track.
The car-making biz in Canada may be on its last legs, and need to retool.
🍁🍁🍁
The car-making biz in Canada may be on its last legs, and need to retool.
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Rembrandtplein, Amsterdam in the 1960s vs today. Once a sea of parked cars, now outdoor dining and people. The road has been replaced by a cycleway, and the whole area is only accessible to pedestrians, bikes, and trams. Quieter, cleaner - cities thrive when they're designed for people, not parking.
January 19, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Rembrandtplein, Amsterdam in the 1960s vs today. Once a sea of parked cars, now outdoor dining and people. The road has been replaced by a cycleway, and the whole area is only accessible to pedestrians, bikes, and trams. Quieter, cleaner - cities thrive when they're designed for people, not parking.
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'The US’s bet on AI is so gigantic every Maga voter’s pension is bound to it and it rivals consumer spending as the primary creator of American economic growth. It accounted for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year. Without it, US GDP grew only 0.1%.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
This is Europe's secret weapon against Trump: it could burst his AI bubble | Johnny Ryan
Growth in the US economy – and the president’s political survival – rest on AI. The EU must use its leverage and stand up to him, says the Irish Council for Civil Liberties’ Johnny Ryan
www.theguardian.com
December 17, 2025 at 7:03 PM
'The US’s bet on AI is so gigantic every Maga voter’s pension is bound to it and it rivals consumer spending as the primary creator of American economic growth. It accounted for 92% of GDP growth in the first half of this year. Without it, US GDP grew only 0.1%.'
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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"In fact, if every billionaire were left with only a billion dollars to their name, the rest of their seized wealth would be enough to cover the amount UN experts believe is needed to end world extreme poverty for the next 196 years."
What if…. we abolished billionaires?
Experts tell Al Jazeera what would happen if the world decided to downgrade its richest residents.
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December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"In fact, if every billionaire were left with only a billion dollars to their name, the rest of their seized wealth would be enough to cover the amount UN experts believe is needed to end world extreme poverty for the next 196 years."
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Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Rules National Guard Deployment to Los Angeles Must End www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Rules National Guard Deployment to Los Angeles Must End
www.nytimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Trump Administration Live Updates: Judge Rules National Guard Deployment to Los Angeles Must End www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
Here is an interesting graphic that demonstrates how tiny is the population of people who own so much wealth:
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. Here’s one way to illustrate that
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Here is an interesting graphic that demonstrates how tiny is the population of people who own so much wealth:
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
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Love the eating ice cream analogy 🍨
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Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther
The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope, says End Climate Silence founding director ...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Love the eating ice cream analogy 🍨
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This is a great article by @billmckibben.bsky.social
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
November 25, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This is a great article by @billmckibben.bsky.social
I was at the incomparable @billmckibben.bsky.social 's book talk at UofT last night. "Here comes the sun" is an important book in the move towards sustainable energy and electricity use. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/807438/here-comes-the-sun-by-bill-mckibben/9781324106234
November 25, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I was at the incomparable @billmckibben.bsky.social 's book talk at UofT last night. "Here comes the sun" is an important book in the move towards sustainable energy and electricity use. www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/807438/here-comes-the-sun-by-bill-mckibben/9781324106234
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
November 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
They’re doing to America what they did to Christianity | Bill McKibben
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Bhutan PM on leading the first carbon-negative nation: 'The wellbeing of our people is at the centre of our agenda'
->The Guardian | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
->The Guardian | More from Lil Dr Glen EcoChat at BigEarthData.ai
Bhutan PM on leading the first carbon-negative nation: 'The wellbeing of our people is at the centre of our agenda'
The wealthy western countries most responsible for the climate crisis would improve the health and happiness of their citizens by prioritising environmental conservation and sustainable economic growth, according to the prime minister of Bhutan, the world’s first carbon-negative nation. Bhutan,...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:58 PM
