What's driving Canada's AI data centre boom? Internal gov docs show that it's the opportunity to "provide markets to Canadian energy"
What energy is supplying these projects? Gas of course!
Read @geoffdembicki.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social 's piece below:
www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m...
Boosting energy production is one of the top ‘public policy benefits to Canada’ of data centres, internal Privy Council document explains.
Rather than regulating the toxic business practices of social media companies, the bill effectively makes those companies the collectors of personal information. A privacy nightmare in the making. #cdnpoli
WATCH: A web of companies helps to mask the identity of big political donors in Saskatchewan.
Over the last ten years, the seven companies connected to the Rawlinson family -- including Rawlco Radio -- have given more than $460,000 to the Saskatchewan Party.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAMX...
“Bourgeois society stands at the crossroads, either transition to socialism or regression into barbarism.”
BREAKING: As people in Canada struggle with gas prices & the cost of living, 60+ unions, civil society orgs, Indigenous & faith groups have signed an open letter to PM @mark-carney.bsky.social calling for an excess profits tax on oil & gas companies.
Read it here: 350.org/ept/
#cdnpoli #taxbigoil
Canada's fossil fuels aren't clean, although oil shills lie to us that it is. Peer reviewed research: 46 countries produce oil with a lower per barrel carbon footprint than Canada. Only 3 are worse.
We're 47th cleanest out of the top 50 producers. 2/
www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Inflating natural gas demand (and therefore gas company profits) is also the reason that Danielle Smith is pushing AI data centres in Alberta. See her quote in the legislature below AND a segment from Smith's "Mature Asset Strategy." #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli
Important reminder that polling results alone aren't going to change the world. [Capitalist] governments don't do something just because the majority of people want it, we have to force them to listen to our demands. It's on us to turn popular support into popular power. #CDNPoli #ABPoli #ABLeg
"Six in 10 Albertans don’t want taxpayer money to support a new oil pipeline, and two-thirds say their province’s economy is too dependent on oil and gas, according to new polling released this morning by the Pembina Institute." www.theenergymix.com/breaking-61-... @theenergymix.com #ABLeg #CDNPoli
New polling shows: A majority (61 per cent) of Albertans say they do not want taxpayer money to be used for a new pipeline, with even more (67 per cent) saying they think the province’s economy is too dependent on the oil and gas sector. www.pembina.org/media-releas... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli
The federal government is moving to restrict young Canadians' access to social media unless those companies can show they've made their platforms safe.
Over 60 unions civil society organizations, backed by 66 % of Canadians, signed a joint letter calling on the Canadian Federal Government to deliver an Excess Profits Tax on the Oil and Gas Industry.
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Six in 10 Albertans don’t want taxpayer money to support a new oil pipeline, and two-thirds say their province’s economy is too dependent on oil and gas, according to new polling released this morning...
www.theenergymix.com
CALGARY — A majority (61 per cent) of Albertans say they do not want taxpayer money to be used for a new pipeline, with even more (67 per cent) saying they think the province’s economy is too dependen...
"Six in 10 Albertans don’t want taxpayer money to support a new oil pipeline, and two-thirds say their province’s economy is too dependent on oil and gas, according to new polling released this morning by the Pembina Institute." www.theenergymix.com/breaking-61-... @theenergymix.com #ABLeg #CDNPoli
What's driving Canada's AI data centre boom? Internal gov docs show that it's the opportunity to "provide markets to Canadian energy"
What energy is supplying these projects? Gas of course!
Read @geoffdembicki.bsky.social and @jenstden.bsky.social 's piece below:
www.desmog.com/2026/06/11/m...
Six in 10 Albertans don’t want taxpayer money to support a new oil pipeline, and two-thirds say their province’s economy is too dependent on oil and gas, according to new polling released this morning...www.theenergymix.com
Boosting energy production is one of the top ‘public policy benefits to Canada’ of data centres, internal Privy Council document explains.www.desmog.com
