Botero's Muse 🍮

estoy muerta por dentro. sometimes emergency manager. sometimes public historian. she/her.

[Prof. Eliot Jacobson @EliotJacobson]

Through the first 10 days of the month of November, the planet has averaged 1.94°C above the 1850-1900 pre-industrial baseline.

Will I have to raise the y-axis above 2.0°C before the year is out? The Climate 8-Ball is shivering with antici ...

[Ben Noll @BenNollWeather]

Marine heat waves have reached rare "beyond extreme" intensity levels near Southern California, Ecuador, Peru and northern Chile as El Niño's warmth spreads.

That's the highest level on this scale and represents a huge departure from typical conditions.

[Tom Parkin @TomPark1n]

While Unifor was trying to negotiate a deal to save the plant, Carney was quietly undermining them by facilitating its sale

Did he think people wouldn’t find out?

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Stop idolizing politicians. They’re our employees, and when they don’t do their jobs, we need to fucking fire them.

[Toronto Star @TorontoStar]

Carney government wants more leeway for national interest projects that kill protected birds https://t.co/j9gxF4smTA

[Tonda MacCharles @TondaMacC]

Big banks, railways and energy firms are supplying staff to Carney's Major Projects Office according to list finally released by government. By @ryantumilty https://t.co/1pZnbp4Ol0 via @torontostar

[Stephen Best @BestStephenD]

Prime Minister @MarkJCarney has never, it seems, encountered an environmental protection measure that he didn't want to dilute, gut, quash, or eliminate.
https://t.co/szx4lxV7RR

[Orange Maple Politics @TheOrangeMaple]

@prymofthecrypt I hate to say it, but Tom Mulcair was saying a similar thing on CTV last night, and I was surprised to find myself agreeing with him. He was specifically mentioning Marc Miller and François Philippe Champagne’s debate with Av Lewis

https://t.co/gEOMbR6yf6

[Tom Parkin @TomPark1n]

Liberals reveal the Major Protects Office is staffed by people employed by companies benefiting from the approvals, subsidies and regulatory exemptions made by the Major Protects Office

They’re having a party, and you’re paying for it

https://t.co/CpvRFvXpas

[Global News Toronto @globalnewsto]

Ford government’s Bill 140 gutting Ontario’s environmental rights, experts warn

https://t.co/I9JrQ8qjd8

[Colin D'Mello | Global News @ColinDMello]

NEW: Markham Mayor Frank Scarpitti on Steven Del Duca's appointment by Premier Doug Ford:

“When the premier said the President of the United States could kiss a certain part of his anatomy, he forgot to say that he’d have to push Steven Del Duca out of the way”

#onpoli

[Waterloo Region Record @WR_Record]

Chemical spill confirmed at Cambridge data centre weeks before ‘bacteria bloom’ was traced back to property https://t.co/SJTvXL6Keq

[Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @LeahGazan]

Newsweek reports that Mark Carney ranks worse than billionaires and right wing authoritarians across the globe when it comes to fuelling the climate emergency—worse than Trump, Musk and Bezos.

Not only is the federal government now run by conservatives, they’re among the worst climate offenders in the world.

[Althia Raj @althiaraj]

New from me: Carney government considers lifting ban on offshore oil and gas exploration in the Western Arctic
https://t.co/bCSFlMmYRp #cdnpoli

[CTV News @CTVNews]

Federal government spent $19 billion on external consultants last year https://t.co/CPDUSgo7Ec

[Ryan Maue @RyanWeather]

Shouldn't be surprising, but El Niño is doing exactly what has been predicted / advertised for many months.

Heading into late-November -- the Canadian "cold pool" is on hiatus, instead 20°F above normal

--> blow torch 🔥

Maps (week ending Sunday Nov 22)

[Back On This App and It’s Still Hell @wickdchiq]

If we’re running Canada like a corporation it is evident from this budget that the shareholders are not the Canadian public but a group of individuals who will make private gains that are under-taxed, meaning the public gets no ownership and the public gets little return

[The Last Farm @TheLastFarm]

Capitalism is dragging us toward collective suicide for the most idiotic reasons imaginable

[alan drummond @alandrummond2]

Ontario hospitals being 'starved' to fund private health care: MD - Sault Star - https://t.co/k1kpNhUyWf #GoogleAlerts

[zupa grochowa @Grochowa2]

they’re gonna privatize the parks