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Interests include shin-hanga ( 新版画 ) + sosaku-hanga ( 創作版画 ), popular art prints during the Taisho + Showa eras of 20th century Japan. Sustainability 🌱 + Canadian 🍁 topics too.

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Alberta regulator rejects Canada’s largest data centre | The Narwhal Lack of public consultation means project that would have consumed as much power as Edmonton won’t go ahead — for now

The Alberta Utilities Commission has rejected a proposal for a massive rural data centre that would have consumed as much power as the city of Edmonton. It cited missing information and a lack of public consultation. thenarwhal.ca/olds-data-ce...

06.03.2026 20:25 👍 98 🔁 43 💬 3 📌 6
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Liberals to cut CBC by $192-million in 2026-27 This year’s estimates include $1.38-billion in funding for the CBC, representing a marked decrease from the $1.58-billion allotted to the public broadcaster during the 2025-26 fiscal year.

The decision to cut CBC funding goes against Carney’s campaign promise - and only weakens our media ecosystem. #cdnpoli

06.03.2026 21:53 👍 7 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0

Wow that was stupid. Alberta UCP needs Federal oversight because they will destroy the environment for short term gain.

06.03.2026 20:51 👍 10 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Carney cuts $192m from CBC at time when Canadian news, culture probably not important

Carney cuts $192m from CBC at time when Canadian news, culture probably not important

News In Photo:

06.03.2026 21:15 👍 213 🔁 59 💬 11 📌 4

How can so many people in positions of influence in our society somehow think it is ok for a US president to think he can simply pick and choose world leaders, launch wars, claim territory, seize assets, wherever he wants whenever he wants? This is madman movie villain behavior. Absolutely nuts.

06.03.2026 18:15 👍 426 🔁 128 💬 28 📌 9
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Un accord entre Ottawa et l’Alberta sur les grands projets Il permettra à la province de réaliser ses propres évaluations d’impact relatives aux grands projets et d'accélerer leur mise en oeuvre selon le gouvernement.

ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/223... En faisant cela, Carney abdique totalement le moindre contrôle sur les impacts environnementaux des futurs projets de Danielle Smith. C’est un chèque en blanc très très dangereux. #polcan #NPD @npd.ca

06.03.2026 21:25 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

"let's give Danielle Smith, one of the worst people in the country, more power" - a supposed genius

06.03.2026 21:20 👍 9 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

You know what happens to trolls, right bro? Trolls get blocked. Bye bye.

06.03.2026 21:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Bro, what? That was a *direct quote* from Carney himself, refusing to rule out deploying Canada's military to the conflict. I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt here, but you're just denying Carney's own description of his position, and it's pathetic.

06.03.2026 21:15 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

a.) Carney's not hiding it. “One can never categorically rule out participation. We will stand by our allies,” Carney said when asked whether his country would provide military assistance.

b.) the original post was about Carney's support for the illegal attack on Iran. Your arguments are unrelated.

06.03.2026 21:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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New coalition targets $100M for Canadian carbon removal projects by 2030 An emerging industry to remove carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere got a boost on Thursday with the launch of an initiative to raise another $100 million for those projects.

RBC & Shopify collaborating on carbon capture should alarm all Canadians. This has nothing to do with climate change, these companies are just hungry for taxpayer money. CCS = "Can't capture shit" ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/coaliti... #ABPoli #ABLeg #CDNPoli #CarbonCapture #CCS #CCUS #ClimateChange

06.03.2026 18:02 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 1
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Carney Refuses to Rule Out Participation in Iran War “One can never categorically rule out participation," said Carney, during a press conference in Australia.

You're mistaken. Mark Carney has explicitly refused to rule out participating in the Iran War.

06.03.2026 20:51 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Alberta, Ottawa strike deal giving province greater say in major projects reviews — Edmonton Journal Text of the deal will be posted online Friday and made available for public comment before it is finalized

I mean who would be more qualified and trustworthy to put in charge of environment assessments than Danielle Smith?

"Under the deal, Canada will recognize and defer to Alberta as best positioned to lead environmental assessments for projects primarily under provincial jurisdiction."

06.03.2026 19:27 👍 13 🔁 5 💬 3 📌 0

Every single day I wake up hoping Americans have had enough and have filled the streets to stop Trump’s terror and every single day I remind myself they are not people who will ever do that.

06.03.2026 20:28 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0

"Canada cannot endorse the unilateral and illegal use of military force, the killing of civilians or the kidnap and assassination of foreign heads of government while also insisting that our sovereignty, our [rights] and our independence must be protected"

#Canada #CDNPoli #Iran

06.03.2026 20:42 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Liberal MPs to hold call Friday as caucus raises concerns about Carney's shifting Iran position | CBC News Foreign Affairs Minister Anita Anand is set to brief Liberal MPs on Friday morning about the government's position on the war that has now engulfed Iran and surrounding countries in the Middle East, a...

Liberal MPs raise "concerns about Carney's shifting Iran position"

"This is a complete abrogation of international law that we are now condoning (…). Would [former prime minister Jean] Chrétien have supported this? Absolutely not."

#Canada #CDNPoli #Iran

06.03.2026 20:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

The UN "also expressed deep ​shock over a strike that hit the Shajareh Tayyebeh girls school in Minab ​in southern Iran on Saturday (…). Most of the victims appear to have been schoolgirls aged seven to 12"

#Iran #Lebanon #USPoli #WarCrimes #UnitedStates

06.03.2026 20:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Iran war breaks UN Charter, strike on school shocking, UN probe says An independent United Nations probe investigating rights violations in Iran condemned ​on Wednesday attacks by Israel and the United States on Iran as well ‌as Tehran's retaliatory strikes across the ...

ICYMI: "Iran war breaks UN Charter, strike on school shocking, UN probe says"

The UN Charter "bans the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence ​of any state."

#Iran #Lebanon #USPoli #WarCrimes #UnitedStates

06.03.2026 20:37 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Iran school and nearby military base struck multiple times, satellite image reveals Iranian authorities say the attack, which took place on Saturday, killed 168 people.

"Iran school and nearby military base struck multiple times, satellite image reveals"

"[It] seems it was intentional to hit the area"

"Iranian officials said most of the 168 people killed were children"

#Iran #Lebanon #USPoli #WarCrimes #UnitedStates

06.03.2026 20:34 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Iranian schools, hospital and landmarks among civilian sites hit during US-Israeli strikes A local in Tehran tell BBC Verify that the city has been turned into a "ghost town" as residents flee.

”Iranian schools, hospital and landmarks among civilian sites hit during US-Israeli strikes”

Schools, hospitals and cultural properties are all protected under international law.

#Iran #Lebanon #USPoli #WarCrimes #UnitedStates

06.03.2026 20:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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At least 13 hospitals and health facilities hit during attacks on Iran, WHO says Global health body investigating reports that four medics are among the 1,230 people killed in Iran since start of war

The WHO said it had “verified 13 attacks on health care in Iran and one in Lebanon”.

“Under international humanitarian law, healthcare must be protected and not attacked.”

#Iran #Lebanon #USPoli #WarCrimes

06.03.2026 20:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Advocacy groups call on feds to review Alberta's Bill 11 health-care reforms | CBC News Doctors across Canada are "deeply concerned" about the Alberta government's plan to expand private health care, said Dr. Margot Burnell, president of the Canadian Medical Association — and they want O...

"By allowing patients to be charged for medically necessary physician or hospital care, Bill 11 is in clear violation of the Canada Health Act (…). Silence in the face of this legislation is complicity."

#Canada #CDNPoli #HealthCareCrisis #HealthCare #ABPoli #CanadaHealthAct

06.03.2026 20:15 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

And worse: hundreds of civilians have already been killed in the all-out bombardment of dense urban areas like Tehran.

Musing about sending Canadians to fight and die in this carnage is unreal. You’re talking about Canadians being asked to participate in likely war crimes.

No one voted for this!

05.03.2026 03:38 👍 116 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 1

1/ PM Carney: you can and must categorically rule out participation in this illegal war.

Your unqualified support of Trump and Netanyahu’s war was bad enough. It’s unconscionable that you’re now considering putting Canadian forces in harm’s way.

05.03.2026 03:38 👍 231 🔁 80 💬 9 📌 6
Kyoto's Kiyomizu-Dera on a snowy winter's day. Two female figures, dressed for the cold and holding umbrellas over their heads, pause on the stage behind the main hall of the temple. Apart from these two, the area is deserted, and has collected a layer of fresh, undisturbed snow. Below the stage, the branches of leafless trees are rimed with frost; beyond, the main temple hall and buildings appear dark and deserted. In the distance, the shadow of a mountain crosses the horizon, and snow continues to fall across the scene.

Kyoto's Kiyomizu-Dera on a snowy winter's day. Two female figures, dressed for the cold and holding umbrellas over their heads, pause on the stage behind the main hall of the temple. Apart from these two, the area is deserted, and has collected a layer of fresh, undisturbed snow. Below the stage, the branches of leafless trees are rimed with frost; beyond, the main temple hall and buildings appear dark and deserted. In the distance, the shadow of a mountain crosses the horizon, and snow continues to fall across the scene.

Title: Kiyomizu Temple in the Snow (1932)

Artist: Hasui Kawase

www.kiyomizudera.or.jp/en/ #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #HasuiKawase #Winter #Snow #KiyomizuDera #Kyoto #Japan

05.03.2026 21:26 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Survey: Voters believed 80% of false election claims as true | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis About 80 percent of false or misleading information that voters encountered during the recent Lower House election campaign was mistakenly believed to be true, according to an online survey.

During #Japan 's recent election campaign, 80% of false or misleading information voters encountered was mistakenly believed to be true.

Sources of misinformation:

• TV: 32.7%
• news sites & apps: 22.7%
• social media posts (excluding parties & candidates): 20%

#Misinformation #Disinformation

05.03.2026 21:05 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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05.03.2026 01:50 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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ISC data shows Jordan's Principle will face a $90M funding gap Last week’s $1.55B Jordan’s Principle funding announcement falls tens of millions short of previous demand, ISC data show.

Internal records show Ottawa’s funding plan for Jordan’s Principle falls short of the program’s recent needs by tens of millions of dollars.
Denials doubled under Jordan’s Principle in 2024-25, while approved services also declined by millions www.aptnnews.ca?p=284501

04.03.2026 21:00 👍 15 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 0

Carney has supported making our lives unaffordable, again.

05.03.2026 01:45 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
A lone pilot steers a small wooden boat loaded with cargo along a river, on a snowy winter's evening. A house stands on the riverbank beyond, warm yellow light glowing in the window, reflecting and scattering on the surface of the river. A tall wiry pine tree plastered with snow stands close to the house. Snow continues to fall from an overcast evening sky.

A lone pilot steers a small wooden boat loaded with cargo along a river, on a snowy winter's evening. A house stands on the riverbank beyond, warm yellow light glowing in the window, reflecting and scattering on the surface of the river. A tall wiry pine tree plastered with snow stands close to the house. Snow continues to fall from an overcast evening sky.

Title: Snow at Funabori (1932)

Artist: Hasui Kawase

blog.bambatravel.com/edogawa-japa... #ShinHanga #Art #Showa #HasuiKawase #Snow #Winter #Edogawa #Funabori #Tokyo #Japan

04.03.2026 23:59 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0