A reminder that while so many people are struggling with their grocery bills, Loblaws's profits have risen by 40% this year We need a windfall tax on all those profiteering & a huge wealth tax on the billionaires behind the companies

I'm working on an article about the impact high food prices are having on people in Canada sending money to family/friends abroad. Feel free to DM if this is you or share with anyone who might be interested in talking about their experience.

Great piece by Christopher Cheung ✍️ (same handle on Bluesky)

Of course...

Even as someone who's usually asleep at dusk and from a small, diner-less town, this is a great read by Kate Helmore

The man launched his company in Mountain Gazette. He ended his ownership in the New York Times. What a run.

New: Agriculture is under growing pressure to cut its emissions. At COP27, the US & UAE-led AIM4C coalition will push for investment in high-tech farming But will “greening cattle” & “carbon farming” really address the climate crisis & world hunger? 1/2 desmog.com/aim4c/

Just some random policy ideas I think would be popular: 1) Interior passenger rail service. It doesn't go unoticed the province is happy to drop eleventy-billion on a toll free bridge and/or tunnel in Vancouver (plus sky-trains), but has little love for the interior.

Longest serving senior UK officials (in days) - King Charles III 36 Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng 38 (sacked) Prime Minister Liz Truss 38 Larry The Cat 4,290

Scary insight by Rochelle Baker into the police brutality at some of Canada's biggest fights over resource use.

You could have made $20 million per year since Jesus was born and still not make the profits Shell did last year

Mind-boggling! The feds hand Irving corporate empire a $100 M loan of taxpayer money so company will meet its own 2018 promise in court to build a treatment plant after illegally dumping polluted pulp mill wastewater into the St. John River. nationalobserver.com/2023/03/01/new…

Great story about the impacts of this unusually warm winter on people->bears! Trina Moyles