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[TheTrillium.ca @Thetrilliumca]

Metrolinx denies disclosure of ‘air rights’ settlement it paid premier’s friend’s company https://t.co/SBSc3DWvHo

[𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝙲. 𝙼𝚊𝚗𝚗 @CharlesCMann]

3000+-yr-old bristlecone pines, Great Basin National Park, Nevada.

[Tiago Nugent, Composer @TiagoNugent]

ah yes, servicing. robotic servicing of missions. definitely nothing else.

[Kyle Chan @kyleichan]

This is mind-boggling. With involution in taxi / rideshare services and an increase in gas prices, it’s now cheaper to take an electric taxi than to drive your own gas-powered car in parts of China.

This has helped China cut gasoline by 10% even as road travel grows. @lewjackk

[CTV - Ian White @CTVIanWhite]

BREAKING: @WestJet flight attendants vote 99.4% to authorize a strike. The earliest they could walk off the job is August 2.

[David McLaughlin @DavidMcLA]

Manitoba gets an A, yet it past 2 years, it went from an A to a C+ under CFTA agreement exceptions (it has more now) and has made zero progress under removing any of its own "select barriers to internal trade". #mbpoli

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Thunder Bay-Superior North MP Patty Hajdu says Ontario has not made a request for federal assistance regarding Northern Ontario forest fires.

[Finbarr Bermingham @fbermingham]

NEW: EU accuses China of seeking to reshape global order in stark new strategy paper

China trying to ‘reshape the global order in line with their interests’, says EU in some of bloc’s strongest official criticism of Beijing

https://t.co/5r1HgfrUME

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

Does your building have upgraded air filters? At these levels we see immediate increases in hospital ER visits and heart attacks, and most of that air pollution you breathe happens indoors. Strongly recommend MERV13 or higher, even better if it's a "MERV-A" rated filter which hold up better against charged wildfire smoke.

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

Shabandowan Fire reports MNR has pulled firefighting crews off of the Ignace and Quetico fires because they’re moving too quickly.
Gakijiwanong Anishinaabe Nation (Lac La Croix) evacuated Monday while Ignace is on standby.

[Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof]

Fedorov was widely credited for Ukraine’s turnaround on the battlefield, and for cutting corruption in the military.
Firing him after just six months, and with no explanation, is a really bad look for Zelensky.

[nik0p0l @nik0p0l5]

Master in clenching defeat out of jaws of victory. Everyone around UA mil effort had praises to say about Fedorov, but sovok clique must have their contracts so off he goes and who cares how many unnecessary death will be as a result.

[Muhammad Lila @MuhammadLila]

Everyone is posting this insane footage, but nobody is sharing what happened next:

They all made it out safely.

All of them.

They crashed a hi-rail truck into the train to shut down the engines, then ran three miles on foot after the truck caught fire. They even rescued a foreman.

They should be celebrated as heroes.

[Josh Wingrove @josh_wingrove]

Carney said his bridge deal with Trump would count debt repayment in calculations (lowering the US cut) but a US official says it won't & Carney's PMO has declined to repeat the claim.

Parsing the latest with @btaplatt - a lot boils down to what (little?) net profit there'll be:

[Aaron Bateman @aaronbateman22]

The declassified 1962 memo for the UK prime minister informing him (in shakespearean prose) that the US accidentally fried Britain's Ariel satellite with its Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test.

[Ryan Mac 🙃 @RMac18]

"Hi, I'm a reporter and I'm covering your company's layoffs."

"Hi, uh, ok. What's your name?"

"Chip....Cutter."

https://t.co/kc0nz759BF

[Jon Thompson @JonSThompson]

BREAKING: Ojibway Nation of Saugeen has declared a State of Emergency, as a fire looms 13 kilometres north of their community.

There is no evacuation order set but members are standing by.

[Gordon Oz Osinski @drcrater]

I’m happy to announce Canada has a newly confirmed meteorite impact crater! https://t.co/ESyQdgyak0 #ImpactEarth @WesternU @impact_craters

[John Michael McGrath @jm_mcgrath]

The Special Circumstances proviso exists for a reason (the legislature's website lists, as a hypothetical example, an MPP caught in a Toronto snowstorm who can't otherwise safely get home) but now because government MPPs abused it members as a whole are going to lose it.

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

One of the most overlooked aspects of the federation is how labour mobility enables resource booms. Without FIFO and migration into AB in the good times, costs would have increased even more, rents dissipated through local scarcity, and development would have slowed.