PIC's latest jeremiad about the Century Initiative can be seen at the link. populationinstitutecanada.ca/the-century-in…

“The world is facing a new form of climate denial – not the dismissal of climate science, but a concerted attack on the idea that the economy can be reorganised to fight the crisis.” World faces new danger of ‘economic denial’ in climate fight, Cop30 head. theguardian.com/environment/20…

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“Just a few years of killer heat”—as if we’re waiting for a return to normal. There is no normal. This is climate breakdown, not a phase. Get ready for several years of killer heat, top weather forecasters warn apnews.com/article/climat…

This will only go up according to this outlook. Future Lives: Social mobility in question horizons.service.canada.ca/en/2025/01/10/… As downward social mobility might become the norm in the coming years, this brief explores what such a reality might look like and what it would mean for our society.

Ego versus Eco . . .

GTA year to date new home sales are officially their worst ever

Bill 5 has been blocked from going into its third and final reading. Your efforts are making a difference, every single petition, rally, message to the Ontario government and your MPP – they are being felt. We can still #StopBill5: ow.ly/zUEf50W0LVT #ONpoli

“Immigration Matters” is a marketing campaign by the federal government to sell Canadians on a policy that been detrimental to working Canadians. Listening to their video, you’d never know that there was a housing crisis because of their policy of mass immigration and having

Civilization doesn’t run on energy—it runs on ecosystems. Without pollinators, soil, clean water, and breathable air, kilowatts mean nothing. The delusion that energy can replace ecology is exactly why collapse is accelerating.

The closure of provincial parks to non-Indigenous British Columbians is now making international headlines. Eby’s government nods its head while British Columbians, Canadians and people around the world see this for the absurdly divisive policy it is. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

Agree. They won't fix the problems of the bill. You know when a gov gets it this wrong, it's time to stop, scrap the bill & start over. Hopefully repair relations w/ Indigenous peoples & repair the damage to environmental laws, strenthen oversight not give companies free rein.

"Keep #Immigration Coming To compete on the world stage, #Canada needs more Canadians—and more small cities to house them #MaximumCanada...We help power the global economy through our vast energy reserves" Why so uniformed article by Steve Lafleur? data.footprintnetwork.org/#/

The organizational wizard behind the curtain #Trudeau’s #immigrationpolicies appear to have followed the script of #theCenturyInitiative. The organization’s goal of bringing #Canada’s population to 100 million by 2100 would see Canada’s big cities turned into “mega-regions.”

SAY no to #buildbabybuild #overshoot Many say #Ontario will be impacted the most because its over-reliance on #morehomes for economy and promotion of #populationgrowth ponzi on steroids. It is time for correction for over-grown construction industry and over-intensified cities.

#BrokenCity #LandSpeculation, #Inequality, and #UrbanCrisis By Patrick Condon Why is #housing so #expensive? Patrick Condon contends that it is because, worldwide, the link between local wages and shelter pricing is broken. Patrick Condon ubcpress.ca/broken-city

Groundwater loss is global crisis. Aquifers take centuries to recharge, but we’ve drained them in a single human lifetime. A world without water isn’t unstable—it’s uninhabitable. Groundwater is rapidly declining in the Colorado River Basin — LA Times apple.news/AOrmscuYLQoqvY…

SAY no to #buildbabybuild #overshoot Nimbyism on the rise in blow to Rayner’s building blitz #Nimbyism is on the #rise across #Britain, new figures suggest, in a blow to Angela Rayner’s hopes of kickstarting “the biggest building boom in a generation”. yahoo.com/news/nimbyism-…

No illusion distorts human perception more than money. It’s not just a myth—it’s a story so powerful it overrides planetary limits. We can’t see ecological collapse because we’ve defined success by what’s destroying us. apple.news/ApHH-MrVgTamyp…

GM abandons $300 million EV Project and invests $888 million in internal combustion engine (ICE) V-8 engines at Buffalo NY Tonawanda plant. “Battery range anxiety and charging infrastructure concerns” seems to have resulted in recalculations at GM’s HQ. People don’t seem to be