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Taylor Noakes@taylornoakes.bsky.social |
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Taylor Noakes
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Canadian oil companies & lobby groups have scrubbed their websites of any and all mentions of carbon capture after Canadian govt's new "greenwashing" regulations come into effect
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Taylor Noakes
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At a recent gas expo in #Vancouver, the president of a gas company suggested LNG could provide the stable supply of energy needed to get through increasingly extreme cold & hot spells
LNG is a more potent GHG than CO2
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Taylor Noakes
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Beloved & needed public assets defunded into disrepair such that they are shuttered so the land can be privatized aren't the bugs of our system, but its features
My latest for @TorontoStar
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Taylor Noakes
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Pathways Alliance, a Canadian coalition of tarsands producers, scrubbed their website & social media channels of all content, in anticipation of new federal gov't regulations concerning greenwashing claims
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Taylor Noakes
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Fossil fuel sector is thirsty for Trump & Polievre to lead USA & Canada
One exec wants a "complete reset" on enviro regs & energy policy in #Canada
But fossil ideologues can't argue with the downward spiral of oil economics
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Taylor Noakes
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Ad regulator unanimously concludes pro-LNG ads "misleading, inaccurate, distorts scientific data, amounts to greenwashing"
Yet pro-fossil ad blitz continues across #Canada as experts confirm LNG demand unlikely to grow
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Taylor Noakes
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Blue hydrogen is what's being pushed by Big Oil. It is 100% a fossil fuel (because CCS doesn't work) and it's a waste of money (high subsidy req) that could be decarbonizing energy grid. Again, try reading the article
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Simon Pegg
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Who called a JAWS rip off set in France 'Under Paris', and not 'Shark de Triomphe'?
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Taylor Noakes
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False. Read the article.
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Taylor Noakes
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“This govt is getting bullied by provincial politicians and real estate interests, and have no clear sense of what they’re doing. Our members don’t work to prop up commercial real estate in the city that fun forgot.”
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Taylor Noakes
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Though experts agree the global LNG market is lacklustre at best, and likely to decline, resource development advocates recently told a Vancouver gas conference #Canada should look to the Mackenzie River Delta for new LNG terminals
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Taylor Noakes
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Despite lagging consumer demand and skyhigh emissions, the gov'ts of #Alberta & #Canada were all too happy to announce yet another publicly subsidized project supporting the oil & gas sector
Hydrogen Highway to Nowhere
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Taylor Noakes
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"As long as we want students to think for themselves, we have to accept that this will result in students questioning the status quo & challenging the establishment"
Who's afraid of a campus protest?
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Taylor Noakes
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What may have been the first student protest in Canadian history was likely the first protest against antisemitism as well
Then, as now, students carried the torch of social justice
Those in power wanted it stopped at all cost
Latest @cultmtl #Montreal
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Taylor Noakes
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An open letter to McGill President Deep Saini
There is nothing illegal or illegitimate when it comes to protesting genocide
Rather than mischaracterizing your students, follow their courageous stand against barbarism
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Taylor Noakes
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The bulk of consumer interest for hydrogen vehicles in #Alberta is limited to govt orgs. Despite this, gov't continues to prop up the emissions-intensive hydrogen industry
The first fuelling station cost taxpayers $1 million
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Taylor Noakes
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What was likely the first student strike in Canadian history may have been the first protest against antisemitism
Then as now, students occupied elite spaces
Then as now, students fought for an unpopular social justice cause
Latest @cultmtl #Montreal
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Taylor Noakes
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What may have been the first student strike in Canadian history was likely also the first protest against antisemitism
Then as now, students occupied elite spaces and fought for an unpopular social justice cause
Latest @cultmtl #Montreal #cdnpoli
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DeSmog News
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Sell our CO2 to pump more oil? It’s likely, says Iowa-based carbon capture project.
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Taylor Noakes
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Exclusive:
A confidential report to Cdn Heritage warned a new monument's commemorative elements honoured fascists & war criminals
Dept told massive research effort needed to avoid serious embarassment
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Taylor Noakes
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"This isn’t making us look strong, we look foolish
Are #Canada’s strategic goals defined by Canadian values and desires or the military industrial complex’s desire to increase shareholder value?"
Weapons of Mass Distraction, latest @TorontoStar
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Taylor Noakes
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A sprawling midwest carbon capture project vowed it wouldn't be used for enhanced oil recovery
But new evidence indicates Summit Carbon's Midwest Carbon Express carbon capture project was always available for oil recovery purposes
My latest for @desmog.bsky.social
www.desmog.com/2024/04/08/s...
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Taylor Noakes
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Canada's about to abandon a successful carbon tax program because of incessant whining by far right politicians and lobbyists for Big Oil
But what's depressing is when people who know better decide to follow their lead
My latest @TorontoStar #cdnpoli
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Taylor Noakes
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SS veteran honoured by Cdn parliament last fall fled to Latin America, fearing extradition
Also recently won award named for vicious antisemite and wartime collaborator from Ukrainian far-right party leader
My latest @readthemaple.bsky.social #cdnpoli
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Taylor Noakes
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There's nothing wrong with trams - a tram network could help get downtown back on its feet
But a tram isn't a light rail system, and it's not ideal for regional transit
Once again, Quebec City shouldn't be deciding #Montreal transit
My latest @cultmtl
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Taylor Noakes
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#Montreal has a centuries-old solution to the housing crisis, and it magically fits 3-6 homes without becoming a "four-storey tower"
It could transform Ontario
Doug Ford - the triplex is yours to discover
My latest @tvotoday.bsky.social #cdnpoli #onpoli
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Taylor Noakes
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Big Oil, the Tories, and O&G lobbyists have been running a non stop campaign to oust Justin Trudeau for years
So why does Trudeau continue subsidizing Big Oil with tens of billions of your money?
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www.desmog.com/2024/03/27/r...
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TVO Today | The Agenda
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"Premier Ford, I can show you thousands of streets lined with tens of thousands of homes housing hundreds of thousands of people, and it’s no utopian ideal — it’s the daily life and minimum expectation of modern city living for the bulk of Montrealers." — @taylornoakes.bsky.social #onpoli
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Taylor Noakes
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There's a made-in-Canada solution to the housing crisis, and it can easily accommodate 3-6 housing units without exceeding three-storeys
Doug Ford, let me introduce you to the #Montreal triplex
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Taylor Noakes
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Developing a tram network woukd be great, but not as an alternative to regional transit needs
Quebec keeps proposing cheaper 'solutions' to problems it doesn't understand, and it's leaving Montreal stuck in first gear
Latest for @cultmtl #Montreal
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Taylor Noakes
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Opposition to the #carbontax is ideological, not based on science or economics
It is very disappointing how many New Democrats & Liberals have fallen for Poilievre's "Axe the Facts" tactics and climate change disinformation
Latest @TorontoStar #cdnpoli
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Taylor Noakes
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An SS volunteer lauded by Parliament as a hero last fall has been given an award named after a virulent antisemite and N*zi collaborator
Unsurprisingly, the award was given by a member of the Ukrainian far-right
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Taylor Noakes
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SS veteran hailed as hero was decorated last week by a leader of the Ukrainian far right with an award named after a N*zi collaborator
Yaroslav Hunka also fled to Latin America late last year, fearing extradition
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Taylor Noakes
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"Montreal provides a blueprint based on modest, well-built housing and a spirit of conviviality inherent to and emphasized by living in high-density, human-scale urban environments"
Doug Ford, I present you: the triplex!
#cdnpoli #onpoli
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Taylor Noakes
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"Appealing to the lowest common denominator with moronic chants like axe the tax is the Conservatives’ strongest argument on climate change
Their aversion to carbon taxes is ideological, not evidence-based"
My latest for the Toronto Star
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Taylor Noakes
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Bid-rigging, bribes, patronage appointments, influence-peddling, and stealing the taxpayer-paid furniture from 24 Sussex
Brian Mulroney was a crook
And right now #cdnmedia is doing public relations for the Mulroney family
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Taylor Noakes
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Alberta Utilities Commission report determines wind & solar energy systems pose no threat to agriculture or environment
But Danielle Smith's new regulations appear to have disregarded the AUC's report entirely
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Taylor Noakes
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A viral video led people to believe an SS cenotaph had been demolished
In fact, it's been handed over to the descendants of SS veterans
But there's another monument in the same cemetery that honours war criminals
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Taylor Noakes
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In my latest for @readthemaple.bsky.social I spoke with a source with inside knowledge of exactly what happened to the Oakville SS cenotaph
Questions remain about the fate of another monument to an even more notorious gang of war criminals
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Taylor Noakes
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Just for Laughs' abrupt cancellation has left many #Montreal-ers wondering how the world's most successful comedy festival could be left teetering on the brink of insolvency
The people who filled the seats for 40 years deserve answers
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Taylor Noakes
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Nearly six months after parliament honoured an SS veteran as a Canadian hero, questions still outnumber answers on the curious case of #Canada's war criminals
Trudeau still won't release names of hundreds of suspects
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Taylor Noakes
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An Imperial Oil tailings pond has allegedly been leaking for years, and the #Alberta Energy Regulator has failed to inform Indigenous communities whose land & water may have been poisoned
Now the AER are being sued
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Taylor Noakes
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There's no nice way to say it: Brian Mulroney was a crook
From bid-rigging to bribes, from influence-peddling to fraud, from privatization schemes to the failure of free trade
Canadians are poorer because of him
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Taylor Noakes
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How deep is #Canada's war criminal problem?
600 redacted pages, despite Trudeau's claim to come clean on this dark chapter in Canadian history
Critics say attempts at transparency have been nothing but a smokescreen
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Imperial Oil & the #Alberta Energy Regulator apparently knew the Kearl facility's tailings ponds would leak
They never told Indigneous communities
Now the water is allegedly contaminated
And the AER is being sued
My latest @desmog.bsky.social #cdnpoli #abpoli
www.desmog.com/2024/03/07/l...
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As #cdnmedia closed ranks & decided to avoid any scrutiny of Brian Mulroney, the Airbus Affair was almost entirely omitted
It's akin to writing an obituary of Richard Nixon and leaving out Watergate
Brian Mulroney: we apparently hardly knew ye
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"Mulroney was a crook whose economic policies failed the country’s working & middle classes, yet he has been uncritically lionized by #cdnmedia
The reality of his legacy shouldn’t be whitewashed"
My latest for @jacobinmag.bsky.social #cdnhist #cdnpoli
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A Northern #Alberta Indigenous community alleges both Imperial Oil & the Alberta Energy Regulator knew of toxic tailings pond leaks for years & never informed them, violating their constitutional rights
Now they're suing
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Taylor Noakes
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After Parliament honoured an SS veteran last fall, Canadians demanded answers
The Trudeau gov't over-promised & under-delivered
Canadians still don't know how many war criminals are living in their midst
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A Northern #Alberta Indigenous community alleges both Imperial Oil & the AER knew of leaks from the Kearl tarsands facility for years and failed to notify them
Now they're suing for hundreds of milions of dollars
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