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🧪BSc Chem 🎵Lots of Renaissance & Baroque ➡️Millennial Gaullist-Social Democrat watching people destructively conform to pop culture immorality & idiocy.

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Joined January 2013
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Wind turbines usually last for around two decades. Wind turbine blades can't be recycled so they wind up in landfills or get incinerated. The latter disposal method obviously releases GHGs & probably creates a bunch of possibly toxic by-products.
Replying to @DownToEarth
2/5 It’s not just Denmark. Across Europe, nearly 52,000 tonnes of blades are set to be decommissioned every year by 2030, potentially generating waste along the way. Here’s the hitch: wind turbines are not fully recycled @VDekimpe
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Fantastic Article! For decades, Canada has pursued a self-mutilating industrial policy. We cannot afford to be agnostic to ownership. We must stop subsidising companies that have no commitment, interest, or stake in Canada.
Stelco and Stellantis show the limits of branch-plant economics. Public support should go to firms that commit to lasting jobs, ownership, and benefits in Canada. Glad to participate in this public conversation. See my new @globeandmail op-ed here: theglobeandmail.com/business…
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Net-Positives Of: 🇦🇺 Australia: +72% 🇮🇹 Italy: +69% 🇯🇵 Japan: +67% 🇬🇧 UK: +57% 🇩🇪 Germany: +54% 🇫🇷 France: +53% 🇲🇽 Mexico: +41% 🇺🇦 Ukraine: +31% 🇹🇷 Turkey: +6% 🇨🇳 China: -9% 🇮🇳 India: -15% 🇺🇸 US: -47% 🇮🇷 Iran: -50% 🇷🇺 Russia: -55% Pollara / Sept 18, 2026
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They're admitting to what the U.S. has been doing to Canada for decades Remember The Bay/HBC? North America's oldest corporation? In business since 1670, it survived turmoil + 2 World Wars. But Americans got their hands on it and they killed it They're doing the same to Stelco
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO: I bought Stelco because I could not afford anymore having Stelco flooding the market here in the United States to the detriment of my own company. David Cochrane: Am I understanding you correctly there? It was a defensive acquisition?
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No more foreign ownership. Canada’s cheap industrial energy prices meant our steel sector has a competitive edge so a US company bought Stelco and shut it down. We need economic patriotism not neoliberalism.
Cleveland-Cliffs CEO: I bought Stelco because I could not afford anymore having Stelco flooding the market here in the United States to the detriment of my own company. David Cochrane: Am I understanding you correctly there? It was a defensive acquisition?
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Same EU. Completely different levels of trust in national governments. Luxembourg: 75% Denmark: 59% Portugal: 54% Spain: 34% France: 21% Greece: 21% Europe is politically integrated. Its political cultures are still worlds apart.
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Canada has in fact interfered in another nation’s politics. In December 2025, this current Liberal government made the Australian science minister Tim Ayres ineligible to sit in parliament and depriving the Labor government, which doesn’t have a majority in the Senate, a senator.
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Past and present elide in Jan Sandström's memorable arrangement of 'Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen'. The Swedish composer revisits the old German hymn, slowing it down so the tune seems to stretch out into time and space, suspended in a cloud of harmony.
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Conservatives didn’t ‘win’ so much as the NDP lost.
Fwiw, I *also* hate the BoomerCon party.
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2.1% inflation. Another Danish economic success story on top of high wages, budget surpluses for around a decade and low debt-to-GDP ratio (~30%).
Annual inflation up to 3.8% in both the EU and the euro area. 📈⁠ ⁠ Lowest annual inflation rates in September 2026 were in:⁠ 🇸🇪 Sweden (1.0%)⁠ 🇭🇺 Hungary and 🇩🇰 Denmark (both 2.1%) ⁠ And highest in:⁠ 🇷🇴 Romania (6.5%)⁠ 🇱🇹 Lithuania (6.1%)⁠ ⁠ 👉 link.europa.eu/r4wMkM
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Latest Saskatchewan Abacus Data Poll modelled out 🟠SKNDP: 31 seats (+4) 🟢SP: 30 seats (-4) 🟠Saskatchewan NDP Majority Government (+/- change from 2024 election)
New Abacus Data Saskatchewan poll 🟢SP: 48% (-4.3%) 🟠SKNDP: 46% (+5.7%) ⚪OTH: 6% (-1.4%) (+/- change from the 2024 Saskatchewan election results)
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The separatists option got fewer votes than the number of signatures that would have been required to get the question on the ballot had Danielle Smith not changed the law to lower the threshold. In other words, Smith is to blame for putting us through this despicable exercise.
Smith insisting the law forced her to put this separation q on the ballot. No. The law required govt to consider the proposed question. And Smith lowered the signature threshold to 177k from 600k. The secessionist option garnered 496,890 votes w 94% of polls reporting.
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Smith insisting the law forced her to put this separation q on the ballot. No. The law required govt to consider the proposed question. And Smith lowered the signature threshold to 177k from 600k. The secessionist option garnered 496,890 votes w 94% of polls reporting.
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Alberta separatists have accepted the results of the referendum and are moving on... ...to researching which government buildings are easiest to storm.
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Jason retweeted
Fascinating to see how divorced from reality this app can be. If you relied only on this app for info you’d think AB was proseparatist. Reality: the opposite. As someone raised in AB I knew that so I found it funny accts on this app told me I know nothing about AB or I was wrong.
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Turns out Twitter bots can’t vote
JUST IN: 🇨🇦 Alberta rejects separatism, votes to remain part of Canada.
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alberta separatism isnt a real thing, what we see is that the most radicalized right wing douchebags in Alberta hate Canada. The overwhelming majority if Albertans love Canada and never agreed with any of this shit #AlbertaReferendum
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This is the message from the US president a day after our (ostensibly allied) military suffers four dead and scores seriously injured. And not one word of condolence on any official US admin social media account. Savages. This is literally unforgivable. We must never forget.
Trump on Canada: "I promised them if they become the 51st state, I said, 'I will let you keep ice hockey and I will let you keep your O Canada national anthem.'"
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This is absolutely remarkable. Fortress Alberta, on the brink of falling? The CPC is finished.
(Models Available For Subscribers) Alberta Federal Polling: CPC: 41% (-23) LPC: 40% (+12) NDP: 10% (+4) PPC: 4% (+3) GPC: 2% (+2) Others: 3% Mainstreet / October 16, 2026 / n=811 / MOE 3.4% / IVR (% Change w 2025 Federal Election) Visit @338Canada for polling details: 338canada.com
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