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Jimmy Thomson

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The government should dismantle Tesla in Canada

The government should dismantle Tesla in Canada

Canada won't be subsidizing Teslas for the foreseeable future. That should just be the first step.

29.03.2025 9

National Observer

Jimmy Thomson

The journalist-arresting RCMP can't be trusted to accredit media

There is possibly no single body worse suited to deciding who is and is not a journalist than the RCMP. I would trust nine strangers at a bar to know...

03.03.2025 10

National Observer

Jimmy Thomson

Local climate solutions will rise as national leaders retreat

Thankfully, local governments, First Nations, and civil society are picking up some of the slack where they can. Toronto is fighting tooth and nail...

21.01.2025 10

National Observer

Jimmy Thomson

This is why I investigate environmental injustice

I can still taste the fog that wafted over Pictou County, Nova Scotia. As a little kid, I didn’t know what it was but I did know what it was called:...

10.01.2025 10

National Observer

Jimmy Thomson

You can’t keep a good climate solution down

Though it may not feel like it, especially coming out of last week’s “deplorable” COP29 negotiations, climate solutions are, in fact, all around...

02.12.2024 3

National Observer

Jimmy Thomson

Climate disasters could have united us. Instead, we get paranoia, finger-pointing and lies

There was a moment, as I entered adulthood in the early 2000s, when the zeitgeist among people concerned over the climate crisis went something...

04.11.2024 3

National Observer

Jimmy Thomson

Feds release long-awaited plan to make a plan to make a plan

Sometimes it’s easy to see why people lose faith in the government’s ability to get things done. Nowhere is that more apparent than when it...

03.09.2024 2

National Observer

Jimmy Thomson