Hamish Buchanan

Artist in Toronto. Former Art Department worker in film & TV.

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2026-08-24 13:16:13 UTC

Now that we're at trade war, individual acts and solidarity-building are important, and they include pushing our governments to do things we can't do individually, such as pushing for independence from the US-owned credit card and money-transfer systems, US -owned oil and gas companies, US-owned news and social media, etc.
So far, Carney and most of the premiers have been decidedly weak on the big picture parts.

2026-07-16 14:35:01 UTC

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It really wasn't that long ago that we were counting on (and even boasting about) Canada's boreal forests as vital carbon sink and source of healthy air.
(Natural Resources Canada still claims that: "Canada’s boreal forest (270 million hectares) stores carbon, purifies the air and water, and regulates the climate. Because a large portion of the world’s boreal zone lies in Canada (28% or 552 million hectares), this country’s boreal forest affects the health of the environment worldwide. Careful management of these forests therefore benefits both Canada and the world."
Woops.
https://natural-resources.canada.ca/forests-forestry/sustainable-forest-management/boreal-forest
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2026-05-30 14:21:08 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/116662837867368431
A spot-on assessment of Carneyism.
Revulsion at Liberal cynicism, which long predates J Trudeau, is arguably the root cause of much of the reactionary politics in Canada. If Libs actually did what they promise on the campaign trail instead of selling us out every time, everything would be much more peaceful.
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2026-05-13 20:10:05 UTC

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Spineless and values-free.
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2026-04-27 15:54:28 UTC

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Conservatives never understand anything until it affects themselves directly. They lack empathy — and often even deride it. That's who they are.
And, yes, most in media are conservative, whether they know it or not.
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2026-03-27 21:19:53 UTC

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As if Alberta isn't already having enough trouble with shortage of water. And storage of industrial effluent from the tar sands.
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2026-03-18 16:08:48 UTC

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The government "no longer has a preferred option" while it figures out a new excuse for not giving artists a veto on unwanted use of their work and not requiring artists to be paid for use of their work. Their subservience to the tech bro religion is sickening.
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2026-02-26 15:58:58 UTC

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Breaking the grip of anti-circumvention laws, even if we do it all together, is probably not possible until we have functioning alternatives to the US giants in place, particularly in financial services, but it's still a great goal.
The US may have expropriated Tiktok's US revenues, but can US tech corporations continue to grow and thrive without using most of the rest of the world as it's colonies?
This is a war and we should not be shy about wanting to win.
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2026-02-14 15:04:12 UTC

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"New, improved Weight-Loss Drug™ with *Aspire-tain* will help you lose weight without losing your love of the things you enjoy most."
"New terror alert! Homeland Security warns against terrorists injecting Weight-Loss Drug™ into the water supply."
Thought experiments galore!
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2026-02-10 13:55:13 UTC

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There would have to be a broad coalition of countries all doing it together. How to organize that without the US finding out?
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2026-01-26 03:32:34 UTC

Snowy Sunday in Toronto.
https://cdn.mstdn.ca/media_attachments/files/115/959/280/725/542/571/original/48710c47db47b7da.png

2025-12-17 01:27:31 UTC

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Not even watching it and this makes perfect sense.

2025-11-27 15:23:44 UTC

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In the optimistic spirit of the original post: I'd like to see legislation to make this impossible or at least disastrously expensive for the perpetrators. A ban on being an officer of an extractive industries corporation, a surcharge on the reserve funds the whole industry is supposed to contribute to to cover those costs, stuffing the executives down the abandoned wells?
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2025-11-24 02:06:08 UTC

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Even people who are normally sensible enough to distrust psychics will trust ChatGPT — because it’s more ‘neutral’ or ‘the future’ or something — but it’s the same predictability process.
A person perceives what they want to believe and disregards the rest. (To paraphrase Paul Simon.)

2025-11-18 22:02:26 UTC

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“National security” almost always means “the interests of oligarchs and a few major corporations.” It has nothing to with anything like a threat of attack or invasion.

2025-10-20 00:13:12 UTC

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if/when real change comes to the fossil fuel industry, we’ll all have to reduce, reuse and recycle like never before anyway, but in the meantime our individual efforts are totally inadequate, and, yes, the sloganeering is just gaslighting which allows governments to delay, delay, delay.

2025-09-29 12:32:37 UTC

Just 2 days after reporting that "Meat is a leading emissions source – but few outlets report on it, analysis finds," #TheGuardian has "How the world’s taste for soya is eating Brazil’s Amazon," which never mentions that most soya is grown as livestock feed not for direct consumption by humans.
It's NOT the world's taste for soya that is the problem, it's the world's appetite for beef and pork.
If only they had editors who read their own paper.

2025-09-04 03:39:11 UTC

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IIRC, your produced many apt and delicious neologisms, but it’s lovely that this one has become unavoidably entrenched.

2025-08-26 01:52:35 UTC

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Failing upwards finds its place in the Carneyville Carnival!

2025-07-28 23:05:13 UTC

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It’s amazing how much of our economy is dedicated to convincing us that we aren’t happy enough, while simultaneously distracting us from the real causes of unhappiness.

2025-07-28 15:11:37 UTC

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It's funny how we romanticize antique infrastructure, and villainize as ugly intrusions contemporary works like wind turbines and solar panel fields, yet simply naturalize things like gas stations, highways, oil rigs and all the rest of our fossil fuel infrastructure.
Well, not really funny.
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2025-07-20 14:54:05 UTC

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A classic example of the danger of relying on US military equipment: needing their permission and supply chain for parts.

2025-07-12 13:51:48 UTC

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Even if that was the real reason, is he surprised that people didn’t vote against their own self-interest?
Sure, many (maybe even most) Canadians do that most of the time, but expecting it still seems like a bit of a gamble.
Perhaps Canadians just don’t like politicians who expect their constituents to ‘put out’ electorally on demand while getting nothing but abuse and abandonment in return.

2025-06-11 21:01:37 UTC

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Far more resilient than monoculture crops. I’m not sure how many people it can sustain per acre; estimates of the pre-European population in South America vary, but most recent estimates put it much higher than previously thought.

2025-06-07 15:22:35 UTC

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It's the same for "run government like a business" politics: anything to prevent viable alternatives from emerging.
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2025-06-01 14:59:16 UTC

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It looks like building un-needed infrastructure is the only way they can imagine to (temporarily) employ all those O&G workers currently replaced by technology.
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2025-05-23 00:55:17 UTC

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Mike Johnson truly is one of the most deeply evil political leaders the US has produced. And that’s saying a lot.

2025-05-22 12:46:57 UTC

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Interesting that the recalculated pollution curve is extended to be a bigger factor extending far into the future. This may have a major impact on food production, which, in turn may make the resource limitations/overpopulation distinction moot.
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2025-05-17 18:33:37 UTC

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40% more likely reflects the percentage of multi-millionaire and billionaire tax evasion and on-payment. It’s always projection with these soul-less creeps.

2025-04-28 13:31:38 UTC

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The "(or maybe unable)" part has needled the back of my mind for a long time. But explanations of why that might be don't seem to be forthcoming — from Labour or any other of our neoliberal governments.
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2025-03-21 14:30:21 UTC

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Memo to Mark Carney and everyone else putting their faith in carbon capture and storage to ease their way:
"...just look at the SCALE dudes, and the TIME ticking by."
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2025-02-24 15:51:50 UTC

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It's a bleak irony that we will only get to economic stability IF we address inequality and take care of our vulnerable people, yet most of our political parties are focused on the well-being of corporations, big industries and the wealthy. The opportunity cost of this negligence never seems to occur to them.
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2025-01-10 22:39:24 UTC

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Sadly, probably not. Dems are at least as craven to corporate interests as the MAGA GOP.
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2024-11-30 13:49:48 UTC

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There's something very cruel in all those bank ads telling young people how much they had better start saving for their retirement when they're already struggling with ridiculously high rent, a gig economy and massive student debt. Or, for that matter, anyone still struggling with stagnant incomes and rising costs.
"It's all your fault if you end up poor" is capitalism's meanest lie,
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2024-11-24 15:30:56 UTC

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"Double tapping" is a war crime but seems to be standard operating practice for the IDF.
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2024-11-14 16:10:14 UTC

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This "triangulation" strategy has been the go-to for Canada's Liberals for decades. As elsewhere, it just isn't working anymore. Listening to the people they claim to represent still gets overridden by their rich friends.
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2024-11-14 15:07:08 UTC

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In Toronto there's a well-established pattern of police ticketing cyclists for minor infractions while letting drivers go with just a warning for much more serious ones (to say nothing of minor consequences for killing or maiming cyclists).
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2024-11-13 15:37:32 UTC

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There is such a lack of emotional intelligence in so much of politics, both during campaigns and day-to-day, but it is deeply needed to counter the anger the right is so adept at fomenting and exploiting.
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2024-10-25 16:20:15 UTC

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The Canadian parallel is CBC journos thinking that following the lead of the American-owned and otherwise deeply conservative commercial media could save them from the wrath of PP.
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2024-10-21 14:23:12 UTC

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Jail time for executives who assist crime is long overdue. And being disqualified from similar jobs for a decade or two.
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2024-10-11 14:53:32 UTC

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Reports on weather disasters always feature buildings, bridges and vehicles destroyed but seldom mention all the soil being washed away. It takes millennia to replace good soil.
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2024-09-27 14:56:02 UTC

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GDP measures the churn of money through the economy not the long-term value of what it buys. Money spent on things that destroy lives and property or quickly go to the garbage is counted as equal to that spent on things that nurture people or last for generations.
GDP growth depends on perpetuating poverty because the poor spend while the rich hoard.
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2024-09-02 14:48:41 UTC

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Our media were so in awe that Harper was a "trained economist" — as if that meant anything. What suckers and fools they are!
They will not be happy until we are entirely owned by a numbered company in a tax haven.
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2024-08-17 22:37:24 UTC

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Great article.
Yes, our news media are basically propaganda for corporate Canada — always have been — rather than the neutral information source they pretend to be.
It would be interesting to hear an expanded version of what that reporter thought that "national narrative" is.
Too often we think of ourselves as the good guys despite our multinational extraction companies being as bad as anyone else's.
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2024-08-04 16:00:14 UTC

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Not nearly enough is made of them not being a news organization. How are they even able to keep calling themselves "News"?
Every engagement with them should emphasize they they claim to be purely an entertainment organization. The wordy version of the WWE.
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