Bernard Flaman

Architect, Conservation professional. Author: Architecture of Saskatchewan (2013) Co-editor: Managing Energy Use In Modern Buildings (2021)

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

@Bertrand_SK It makes me think of these new pickup trucks that are designed to look aggressive. The black doesn't help.

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

@DougWahl1 Canadian Supreme Court justices age out at 75 years old. That's already pretty old! Having these 80 year olds tottering around is ridiculous!!

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

@forbetterfordog Love Pink and Winky!!

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

@drandrewb @torontolife Congratulations! And may I say that you seem awesome! As an architect I agree with with the connection between housing and health. The homeless encampments that now seem common in Canadian cities result from the triumvirate of mental health, substance abuse and lack of housing.

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Working from home.. 😅

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Provinces ‘hold the key’ to unlocking homebuilding, new report argues https://t.co/o1bN54j74S

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

@JoshLipnik As others have pointed out, it seems like a great project in concept. Unfortunately lifecycle of materials has not been taken into account likely due to funding (not sure what that model is here). Sadly we continue to tear down brick buildings.

[Governor General of Canada @GGCanada]

In honour of International Day against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia, let’s continue to build a nation where self-expression and identity are not just allowed, but celebrated. Together, we can create a better, more vibrant society for all.

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

@ianhanomansing Same house cleaning/ de-hoarding question!

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

@harder_water Love your posts!

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

MVRDV propose adapting a 20th Century church into a public swimming pool in Heerlen

Positive adaptive reuse with a strong social function

https://t.co/oji7HiuGFS

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

So beautiful! I recommend reposting!

[Tabatha Southey 🇨🇦 @TabathaSouthey]

Maestro David Briskin led the @nationalballet of Canada Orchestra and the audience in a rousing rendition of O Canada before the opening of Swan Lake. #ElbowsUp is not one of ballet’s traditional positions of the arms, but everyone in Canada is adapting.

[True North Eager Beaver Media (he/him/Mr Beaver) @TrueEager]

1. First impression of Pierre's press conference.

Either he spent the whole night awake or he hit the bottle super hard last night.

Listening to his diatribe in French and he has said nothing new other than accusing the Liberals of having done nothing to fight tariffs.

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

@j_thorsteinson Oh dear!!!

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

As cities around the world demolish their mid-20th Century housing blocks, some places are showing how there is another way!

Here’s a 1957 housing block in Switzerland where new solar balconies have been added to increase space for residents and reduce energy bills 🧵

[Jack Schlossberg @JBKSchlossberg]

Ambassador Caroline Kennedy’s statement to the US Senate on RFKJr’s nomination for HHS Secretary

This is a reading of a letter she just sent to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions

I’m so proud of my courageous mother, who’s lived a life of dignity, integrity and service.

she’s the kindest funnest smartest you’ll ever meet.

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

@LuluAndToes @alertasdoclima Thank you for this - I thought the same.

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

Please read this. It’s important.

No matter what happens with the Canadian Federal election this year, one thing will be true — a significant percent of Canadian voters and media will have been successfully manipulated to oppose a beneficial carbon pricing approach that was either revenue-neutral or financially beneficial to almost all Canadians, with smart pricing mechanisms well understood to be one of the most effective ways to support badly needed #ClimateCrisis mitigation, ALL because of a continually repeated political slogan as lazy as “axe the tax.”

It should take a lot more than that to get us to do something so dumb, so self-defeating, for our own future.

Why am I including the media in this? Because instead of media doing their job and constantly informing the public that the “carbon tax” is in fact a strategic rebate program that more than makes most Canadians financially whole every single time the “ax the tax” messaging is reported, they gave up on that quickly (if they did it at all). They instead fuelled a false narrative of “affordability vs climate action” that was never true (“Canadian voters are just more concerned about affordability than climate action,” I just heard that false choice again on the news). Most media eventually just started referring to the program with shorthand like “the unpopular” or “the controversial” or “the polarizing carbon tax.” Those shorthand statements are factually accurate, but they leave out that the program is unpopular because of the highly successful misinformation campaign that the media itself helped. In other words, they reported the controversy and ignored the more important story that the controversy was manufactured based on misinformation and the media itself played role in it.

At best, that’s lazy and unprofessional, and at worst that’s complicit.

We’re essentially all responsible though. We should all be a lot harder to manipulate than this. And sadly, the consequences of being such “easy marks” are going to be huge.

#ClimateCrisis #CarbonTax #AxeTheTax

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

@RalphGoodale And the sister to this fountain is in Ottawa!

[Bernard Flaman @BernardFlaman]

@RalphGoodale Welcome home! Miss you as my MP and Minster of Finance!