Grandfather, happily retired, vegan,no car, stopped flying, likes to walk, bike, kayak ,concerned about the future
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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Rene Bissonnette retweeted
🚨 NEW: Oxford Street has seen a 28% spending increase since it was pedestrianised two weeks ago
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Billions for nuclear, but no comparable dedicated funding for wind and solar?
Canada's National Observer cites OCAA research projecting 2030 electricity costs:
⚛️ Nuclear: $226/MWh
☀️ Wind & solar: $43/MWh
Why pay more and wait longer?
shrlnk.ca/s/Kj55MTGW
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Massive cuts at Parks Canada.
Meanwhile, surviving staff will have to deal with big demand since Carney renewed the pass to make these Parks free!!
Such a classic CEO-style move to think workers will just ~figure it out~ as you actively make their job WAY harder to save a buck
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Is South Sudan really poor as reported? Absolutely NOT.
South Sudan is one of the blessed countries in East and Africa with fertile soils and climate.
But where did all go wrong for South Sudan?
Well, it all started with oil production followed by greed for power.
Everything else is history.
Rene Bissonnette retweeted
Policy analysts and environmental groups warned the [budget] plan leaves critical gaps in climate accountability and does not offset Ottawa’s recent spending on major oil-and-gas infrastructure projects.
nationalobserver.com/2026/11…
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Yesterday, in releasing its new annual budget, the federal government revealed its decision to spend millions of dollars in the coming years to regulate and oversee fossil fuel development in the North – an industry that is currently banned.
nationalobserver.com/2026/11…
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Good morning with good news: "Australia is headed for its biggest year of rooftop solar growth ever!"
Rooftop solar installs surged 41% for January–October 2026, compared to same period in 2025!
~37% of Australia's homes or 4.3 million have solar.
reneweconomy.com.au/australi…
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A network of protected bike lanes has helped to TRIPLE the number of bike trips in Paris. 11% of trips are by bike!
📹 @copenhagenizers
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Oil companies get the biggest share of 🇨🇦 Canada’s new tax break.
Carney’s budget on 5 November created a “Productivity Mega Deduction”, which lets companies write capital spending off against their taxes.
🔹 29% of the benefit goes to oil extraction and refining, more than any other sector
🔹 It’s the costliest measure in the budget, per BMO
🔹 For some producers it will reduce taxes for years, Bloomberg reports
Ottawa is paying for it with the oil windfall.
Signal49 puts the extra federal revenue at about C$158bn over the budget’s horizon, mostly from higher commodity prices.
So Canadian producers are getting:
🔸High oil prices
🔸Lower taxes on what they spend to grow
That still leaves the discount. Canadian heavy oil sells $25 under WTI.
The producers that keep more of every barrel now have a tax break on top.
That’s the setup I wrote about here: themerchantsnews.substack.co…
2 weeks ago I asked who collects 🇨🇦 Canada’s $28 oil discount.
The results answered.
The vote cut the stocks and the market handed me the entry I waited for.
Since 23 October:
Canadian heavy sold $30.20 under WTI on 28 October, the widest since 2018. $25.59 after the vote.
The barrel in Canadian dollars went from about C$102 to C$91.
The producers fell 2% to 22%.
The ones with no refinery fell most.
What the results proved?
🔹 Suncor: “We’re pretty indifferent to the WCS diff.” Refineries at 95%, profit C$4.63bn
🔹 Cenovus Energy: 1 million barrels a day for the 1st time, refining profit 5x.
🔹 Imperial Oil: record profit, all from the plant. Oil output down 10%.
The refiners have had their year.
1.5 million barrels a day of maintenance was deferred in 2026 and comes due in 2027.
The barrel has not fully.
The US reserve is at its lowest since 1982 and owes 165 million barrels back from 1 November.
Every forecaster has the Canadian discount back at $14 to $15 next year, because the part of it that is freight goes when the freight goes.
So The Market Just Gave Me The Canadian Oil Entry I Waited For.
My latest article cover :the name, why its stock fell when nothing in its business changed, measures its free cash flow against every level of the discount and what I do and what has to be true for me to be right.
Do not miss it.
Link 👇
themerchantsnews.substack.co…
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Texas delivered a historic blue wave. Its grid was already following the money: solar ~16% + wind ~24% now match gas at ~40%. Nuclear is flat. Coal is falling. The winners are clear at the ballot box & on the grid. Solar, wind, batteries. Cost always wins. #SWB #Bettrification
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“The widely publicised idea that we are still on track for 2.6-2.8C by the end of the century now seems wildly optimistic, if not downright impossible"
My thoughts in today's @guardian
Great piece by @damiengayle
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Wonderful transformation. Eventually, visitors will assume this waterfront was always pleasant to walk around.
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Coal and gas demand may dry up before 2040.
Coal and gas export demand could dry up before 2040. Australia needs a plan for what comes next #energysky -- via Renew Economy: reneweconomy.com.au/coal-and…
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This coukd work if Canada also increases infrastructure, per-capita health care and education, and urban land footprint by 1.2 per cent by year (goodbye Greenbelt).
2100 = three generations from now.
To get to 100 mil from 42 mil in 74 years entails population growth of a little less than 1.2 per cent per year. Actual population growth over the last 74 years: 1.44 per cent per year.
So the scary, scary proposition that this professional fear-monger would like you to lose your mind over is ... to slow down population growth by about a fifth.
No doubt if you had told people in 1952, when the population was less than 15 million, that Canada's population in 2026 would be nearly 42 million, they would have panicked, too. How will we ever feed all those people? How will we ever employ them? etc In fact, employment grew faster than population (4x vs 2.9x). Per capita GDP has more than quadrupled. etc etc.
Or rather no, probably they wouldn't have panicked. Because our politics had not yet been overrrun by such chronic bed-wetters.
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‘A new age of climate extremes’: Earth accumulating heat at accelerating rate.
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Even nuclear advocate David Keith says abandon new CANDU reactors, citing costs, safety and proliferation risks.
But replacing them with American reactors isn't the answer.
Ontario needs affordable wind, solar and storage, NOT more nuclear.
shrlnk.ca/s/XrVLbxYi
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60% of American car trips are under 6 miles.
Guess what?
People are riding their e-bikes an average of 6 miles.
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Obama dropped a bomb every 8 minutes for 8 years straight. In his final year alone, he bombed 7 countries and dropped 26,171 bombs.
He was the first and only Nobel Prize winner who bombed another Nobel Prize winner.
He bombed a Doctors Without Borders hospital, mass murdering at least 43 people, and burning patients alive in their hospital beds.
He destroyed Libya as a nation and people, bringing back slave markets to it and destroying the lives of millions.
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🚨🇵🇸 GRAPHIC VIDEO:
Heavy rains trigger DEADLY Gaza sandbank collapse.
At least 5 Palestinians, including 4 children, were killed. The sandbank collapsed onto tents sheltering displaced families in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza.
Palestinian Civil Defense said several injured people were rescued. Emergency crews continued searching for survivors.
Even the ground beneath Gazans is no longer safe.
Source: Palestinian Civil Defense, Al Jazeera / Writer: Marie
ICYMI @Carney, @YasirNaqviCDN @fordnation @Sflecce Why are we stuck on nukes? Decades to build leaving us with a toxic legacy that we need to manage for centuries plus being a constant security threat. We have better tools.
This is why #SWB dominate. GE has already sold gas turbine delivery slots for 2032. Solar, wind & batteries have had over a decade of factory investment, with solar & battery factory capacity already ahead of demand. Their speed advantage starts before construction even begins.
