Jimmy Thomson
@jameswsthomson
Environment and climate journalist | Editor in Chief at @nationalobserver.com | Work in The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, The Guardian | www.jameswsthomson.com
A police-ordered sentence of “death by burning” followed by them full-on lying about it just isn’t really the justice system we’re supposed to have in Canada.
Hajdu was one of the many Liberal ministers who punted @rorywh.bsky.social's questions about her continued use of the app to Evan Solomon, the AI minister, instead of explaining her decision. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/06/30/a...
Patty Hajdu, the MP for Thunder Bay—Superior North, has posted a lengthy explanation of the situation in her region, on X, the child exploitation app. She has not posted the same to @pattyhajdu.bsky.social, her Bluesky account.
When something is foolish and doomed you definitely have to spend lots of time telling people it will never happen. That's how things work. (Gift link: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/af77720...)
I was blown away (hehe but actually) by this graphic showing the growing size and power of wind turbines installed in Alberta: www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/10/a...
Needless to say, every idea these kids have is better than anything Elon Musk will do as a trillionaire. www.cbc.ca/kidsnews/pos...
Hello from the meltwater ponds, which have roughly tripled in size since I was here last week
Hello from Resolute Bay, still, where the puppies are still free range and still so good
Hello again from Resolute Bay, where my plane got a flat tire and I'll be stuck until Monday
So my flight was cancelled out of Grise Fiord today due to weather. It's a beautiful day. I can see the tops of the mountains here on Ellesmere Island — and across Jones Sound on Devon Island. Then I spotted this poster in the terminal:
This one goes out to everyone in a heatwave right now (is that everyone?)
Hello from the new small craft harbour in Grise Fiord where see if you can spot the walrus skull
For a place that charges $350 a night and does not provide towels, coffee, soap or room cleaning, I'm somehow not surprised at any of this recognition
I spent the entire night out there until 6:30 this morning. Just a stunning place to spend an evening.
Hello from the floe edge, where, I don't know it's just insanely beautiful
Hello from the meltwater ponds just downhill from Resolute, where long-tailed ducks and red-throated loons are breeding and chasing each other around
Harper's signature Arctic military development, the base at Nanisivik, is kindly requesting that anyone who has any equipment left at the now-mothballed facility come get it before it gets thrown out
You can't just fly short range fighter jets of a certain age straight across the Atlantic, so they're refuelling here.
Spotted the RAF Red Arrows in Iqaluit. From what I'm able to piece together (no thanks to public affairs of all parties boo hissss) or the remarkably tight lipped Iqaluit airport (ssssss), they're transiting through Iqaluit en route to Washington DC for the 250th celebrations next month.
Hello from the Apex trail, where I turned my head just in time to see the Snowbirds disappearing over the ridge, on an unannounced visit to Iqaluit
Hello from Tundra Valley, where it's much too beautiful outside to be keeping up with my notes
Hello from the airport itself, where this lovely thing happened today, to be explained later
Hello from the sled dog kennels out by the airport, where the boys are as good as can possibly be