Matt never misses 🎯

Mainland Mafia Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher Car crashes kill hundreds of kids per year in Canada alone (tc.canada.ca/en/road-transp…). Kids who are driven instead of walking/biking are less healthy (cbc.ca/news/health/ch…). Of course, cars' contributions to global warming and air/soil/water/noise pollution are a given.

Climate protest is being systematically criminalized in the US and even in Europe and the UK. The penalties imposed for convictions are entirely disproportionate to the disruption the protest causes.

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MAY IS BIKE MONTH!!!

You can bike around a little this month and then stop! Until next year.

You can’t even violently crush a student protest movement these days, because of woke

Happy Loblaws boycott month, for all of us who celebrate

WATCH: Diagolon members talk about how they can manipulate Pierre Poilievre.

Ward 2 Hamilton pretty sure they're not supposed to use the bicycle lanes to pick up garbage at the McMaster residence building. Anyone to report this to?

'ACFN Chief Allan Adam told [Imperial Oil] shareholders at that the eventual cleanup of the company’s long-life oil sands sites was already a pricey problem for shareholders, and it would only get worse... Imperial is not being honest with its investors'

theglobeandmail.com/business/artic……

United States of America: UN Human Rights Chief troubled by law enforcement actions against protesters at universities ohchr.org/en/press-relea…

During last night's Climate Advisory Committee director Imhoff mentioned the supply chain threats that climate change represents.
Which is part of the indirect impacts that most of these 1300+ 🇨🇦 CEOs, surveyed last year by KPMG, experienced.

youtube.com/live/DWUw-yWCO…

So I was supposed to deliver the keynote at a @columbia symposium on climate and language this Friday, but I have informed the organizers that, with true sorrow, I am pulling out because I will not be associated with this university at this political moment.

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The enforcer president of Columbia University— Minouche Shafik—is one of the wealthiest people in America. As president, she makes over $2000 an hour every weekday. In three days, she makes more than many blue collar workers at Columbia make in a year. -R

New: Ex-PC party vice-president appointed Ontario judge as opposition slams ‘gravy train appointment’ thestar.com/politics/provi… via @torontostar

Anyone who sees the #Charter of Rights & Freedoms as a hindrance to the way he thinks of governing should not be allowed anywhere near power.

#NeverVoteConservative #Poilievre #cdnpoli

THIS IS A HUGE RED FLAG 🚩 He wants to create laws for himself. Just wow.

Poilievre hints to police he would use notwithstanding clause to change justice laws
While some provincial governments have used Section 33, it has never been invoked federally

cbc.ca/news/politics/…

Raskin: In 2019, we called a hearing in Oversight on what the oil and gas companies knew about climate change and when they knew it. Industry scientists and experts testified that the industry knew that the burning of fossil fuels caused climate change as early as 1959…

Huge number of heat records in Southeast Asia lately.

VIETNAM 🇻🇳 tied its national April record with 44.0°C (Tương Dương)

LAOS 🇱🇦broke all-time national record with 43.6°C (Tha Ngon & Seno)

PHILIPPINES 🇵🇭 Manila metro all-time record exceeded with 38.8°C

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Looks like a pretty pleasant place to be a motorist.

My Toronto Star column this week: Toronto likes to share. The city’s only “free-floating” car-share service now has 32,000+ users.

It’s a good thing, but don’t credit city hall. Their regulations have needlessly limited growth and privileged car owners.

thestar.com/opinion/contri…