B. McKean retweeted
Thanks to Andy Donato's cousin, I have Andy's final editorial cartoon that was rejected by The Toronto Sun, resulting in Andy resigning from the paper after 55 years.
torontomike.com/2026/09/andy…
Visualize Canada's temperatures in July 2026
instagram.com/reel/Db6uA7ngE…
B. McKean retweeted
I’ll do one better than that 1774 map with Lake Ontario and show you one from about 1680. 👇
B. McKean retweeted
7 000 ans de glace disparaissent. Et nous regardons encore ailleurs.
Il y a des nouvelles qui inquiètent. Et puis il y en a qui provoquent une immense tristesse.
À l’Aiguille du Midi, près de 15 000 mètres cubes de roche viennent de s’effondrer. Dans le massif du Mont-Blanc, plus de 200 écroulements importants ont déjà été recensés cet été. Et au Triangle du Tacul, des glaces vieilles de près de 7 000 ans ont entièrement disparu.
Sept mille ans !
Sept mille ans d’histoire climatique effacés sous nos yeux. Et il faudrait encore considérer cela comme une péripétie ? Attendre le prochain record, le prochain glacier qui recule, la prochaine montagne qui s’effondre pour accepter enfin de regarder ce qui est devant nous ?
On me traitera peut-être encore de Cassandre. Peu importe. Les scientifiques, eux, constatent. La chaleur gagne les altitudes, le permafrost se dégrade, les écroulements se multiplient et des faces nord autrefois couvertes de glace sont aujourd’hui presque nues.
La montagne nous parle. Le problème est que nous refusons encore trop souvent de l’entendre.
Je ne crois ni au catastrophisme ni à la résignation. Une partie du changement climatique est engagée. Nous devrons nous adapter, protéger les populations, transformer nos infrastructures et apprendre à vivre dans un monde qui n’est déjà plus celui d’hier.
Mais s’adapter aux conséquences ne nous dispense pas de combattre les causes. Ce serait une étrange conception de notre responsabilité que d’apprendre à vivre avec l’incendie tout en continuant à l’alimenter.
C’est aussi dans cet esprit que nous avons posé, dès l’origine, nos conditions concernant les Jeux olympiques et paralympiques d’hiver de 2030 dans les Alpes françaises.
Nous ne sommes pas opposés aux Jeux. Nous sommes opposés à des Jeux qui feraient comme si rien n’avait changé.
Nous avons demandé de la transparence sur leur coût, des garanties environnementales, l’utilisation prioritaire des équipements existants, la protection des territoires et un véritable contrôle démocratique. Cette position, je l’ai portée au Conseil régional Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Je continuerai à la porter chaque fois qu’il le faudra.
Des Jeux, oui. Mais pas à n’importe quel prix. Ni financier, ni écologique, ni territorial.
Et aujourd’hui, pendant que la montagne craque, le COJOP connaît tensions de gouvernance, départs et désaccords.
Comment ne pas être saisi par ce contraste ?
Nos querelles de personnes et nos batailles d’ego paraissent bien petites lorsqu’une glace qui avait traversé sept millénaires disparaît en quelques mois.
Alors peut-être faut-il aller plus loin encore et avoir le courage de réinventer les Jeux d’hiver eux-mêmes.
Pourquoi faudrait-il demain concentrer toutes les épreuves sur un même territoire si les conditions climatiques ne le permettent plus ? Un pays pourrait porter les Jeux tout en organisant certaines compétitions ailleurs, sur des sites déjà équipés et climatiquement adaptés.
Mieux vaut déplacer une épreuve que déplacer des montagnes pour l’accueillir.
Ce serait un changement considérable. Mais continuer comme avant serait bien plus déraisonnable encore : ce serait faire le pari que la nature finira par s’adapter à nos décisions.
Elle ne le fera pas.
Les Alpes françaises 2030 pourraient encore devenir les Jeux qui auront compris avant les autres. Des Jeux sobres, responsables, capables de préserver le rêve olympique précisément parce qu’ils auront accepté de changer.
2030, c’est demain. Et nous devons maintenant avoir le courage d’être à la hauteur de ce que la montagne nous montre.
Car derrière les cérémonies, les médailles et la gloire éphémère d’accueillir le monde, une question beaucoup plus simple demeure : qu’aurons-nous laissé lorsque la flamme se sera éteinte ?
Cet été, une glace vieille de 7 000 ans a disparu.
Nous pouvons continuer à regarder ailleurs.
Ou enfin entendre ce que la montagne nous dit…
B. McKean retweeted
How much is Canada responsible for the wildfire smoke reaching the U.S.?
Right now, nearly 900 wildfires are burning across Canada. Last week, Toronto's air quality was the worst of any major city in the world. But as the smoke spread south to the U.S., many politicians began blaming Canada for poor forest management.
It's true that local and regional forestry practices matter. Leafy deciduous trees hold moisture and can act as natural fire breaks; so clearing them for conifer monocultures can leave forests at higher risk to burn. But fire suppression, a big issue in the dry forests of the western U.S. where putting out frequent fires let fuel pile up, isn't a major factor here. Canada's remote boreal forests already burn naturally, in less frequent but higher-intensity fires.
The single biggest reason for the record-breaking *increases* in the area burned by wildfires that are causing all this smoke isn't land management. It's human-caused climate change.
As the world warms, winters are no longer cold enough to kill off tree-eating beetles. Their populations explode, leaving millions of acres of dead trees ready to burn. Warmer winters also mean less snowpack, so soil dries out earlier and the fire season runs longer. And climate change has more than doubled the frequency of hotter, drier fire weather across Canada and increased the frequency of the lightning strikes that spark most fires in northern Alberta and BC.
Every one of those four dials is being turned in the same direction by the same thing: the heat-trapping gas emissions from burning fossil fuels. And that's where the numbers start to tell a different picture.
The United States has emitted more carbon than any country in history: around 435 billion tonnes since the 1800s. That's close to a quarter of all the carbon humans have ever put into the air, 12 times Canada's total and still 50% more than China's 285 billion tonnes.
Look at it by company instead of by country, and 88 of the world's largest fossil fuel producers are responsible for the emissions that led to more than a third of the forest area burned across western North America since 1986. At the top of that list is Saudi Aramco, followed by US companies Chevron and ExxonMobil. The first Canadian company, Suncor, doesn't appear until number 76 ... but that could change, as Canada is building more pipelines!
Bottom line? If politicians want to clear the smoke from our skies, tell them the most effective place to start is by cutting the emissions that are driving these fires - no matter which side of the border we're on.
Sources, I'm a scientist so you know I have them: Doubled fire weather risk (World Weather Attribution, 2023). Fire suppression near communities (Parisien et al. 2020, Nature Communications). Climate-beetle-fire connections (e.g. Woo et al. 2024, Ecosphere). Climate-driven lightning increases in northwestern Canada (Burrows et al. 2024, Atmosphere-Ocean). Cumulative CO₂ by country (Our World in Data). 88 producers behind 1/3+ of western N. American area burned (Dahl et al. 2023, Environmental Research Letters). Company ranking (Carbon Majors). And for an exhaustive review of how we know human emissions are driving climate change, see the next post in this thread.
cbc.ca/news/science/wildfire…
B. McKean retweeted
Dear @ScottJenningsKY
Let's talk cows.
Canada’s dairy system is not simply a tariff wall designed to keep American milk out. It is a supply-management system designed to keep production roughly aligned with demand, stabilize farm income and preserve a viable network of family-owned farms. Imports are allowed in significant negotiated quantities at low or zero tariffs; the very high tariffs people hear about generally apply only after those agreed import quotas have been filled.
The United States protects its farmers too, often much more extensively, but it uses different mechanisms. American taxpayers support agriculture through crop insurance subsidies, income and price-support programs, disaster payments, commodity programs and direct government payments. Dairy farmers have access to federally supported margin-protection and insurance programs. The U.S. also restricts imports in sensitive sectors. Sugar is an especially obvious example: the United States uses tariff-rate quotas that limit how much foreign sugar can enter at low tariffs, precisely to protect domestic producers and prices. USDA explicitly describes this system.
So there is a real hypocrisy in attacking Canada as a protectionist outlier. Canada essentially says to its dairy farmers: we will control production and imports so you can earn a reasonably predictable income from the market. The United States more often says to its farmers: we will expose you more directly to the market, but protect your income through subsidies, federally supported insurance, price and commodity programs, and, where politically important, import restrictions. In 2026 alone, USDA forecasts federal Dairy Margin Coverage payments, while its broader farm programs continue to provide income, commodity and insurance support.
Both countries protect agriculture. They just write the cheque differently.
And that matters to the family farm. Canada’s system was designed in part to prevent the boom-and-bust cycle in which oversupply collapses milk prices, smaller farmers fail, and increasingly large operations buy them out. Supply management gives a farmer greater certainty that producing milk efficiently can provide a viable living without having to become an enormous industrial-scale operation merely to survive the next price collapse.
That does not make Canada’s system perfect. Quota is expensive and can make it difficult for new farmers to enter. But portraying Canadian dairy protection as some extraordinary trade offence while the United States protects its own farmers with quotas, tariffs, subsidies, insurance and government support is fundamentally misleading.
Canada protects a relatively small number of agricultural sectors openly through supply management. The United States protects agriculture through an enormous, less visible architecture of federal programs and selective trade barriers. Calling one “protectionism” while pretending the other is “free trade” is the hypocrisy.
Hope next time you will fact check yourself.
Sincerely
Glen
B. McKean retweeted
I live in Northwestern Ontario. Right now, the Boreal forest is burning.
I'm writing this beneath the dark orange plume from the Quetico wildfires.
These are some of the reports coming out as communities fight to survive:
"No fire crews left for new fires."
"We had no warning."
Families are self-evacuating by private boat across lakes because they didn't receive evacuation information. They're fleeing towering flames with nothing but the clothes on their backs.
This is unacceptable in a province as wealthy as Ontario.
I'm calling out Doug Ford. His government has underfunded Ontario's wildfire management capacity by tens of millions of dollars.
@fordnation you want our Ring of Fire, our water, our forests. You want to store nuclear waste in our bedrock and run an oil pipeline through our watersheds.
But you won't work with northern communities. You make decisions for us without us, and then fail to provide the basic public services we PAY FOR and rely on: wildfire protection, health care, education, safe highways and social services.
Northern Ontario deserves better than this feckless leadership.
#onpoli #onted #70KIsNotOK #cdnpolitics #DontLookAwayOntario #ABC
B. McKean retweeted
My new book, Noticing: Intimate Encounters with the Natural World, is out today! I hope you'll read and enjoy.
B. McKean retweeted
Typical June in Canada sees an estimated 150-250 cases of flu. This June in Canada is seeing an estimated 98,500-168,100 estimated Covid cases in one week. This is considered a "low" period for Covid. This much sickness year round is not acceptable or sustainable.
B. McKean retweeted
There are now more than half a million scientific publications related to COVID-19 and a rapidly growing body of evidence linking SARS-CoV-2 infection to immune dysregulation, microvascular injury, autonomic dysfunction, clotting abnormalities, viral persistence, and measurable cognitive changes.
And to the people constantly sick, exhausted, dizzy, forgetful, exercise intolerant, waking up to feeling like you got hit by a truck on the daily or suddenly developing strange inflammation, heart issues, GI problems, or “mystery” symptoms after repeated infections…
At some point you and society as a whole must confront the reality that repeated infection with a vascular and neurotropic virus was never as harmless as everyone wanted it to be.
I choose to live in reality.
That virus is still here. It is still spreading through the air. And it is still associated with long-term vascular, immune, and neurological consequences for many people.
Protecting yourself from that threat — through cleaner air, better ventilation, filtration, vaccination, and high-quality masks in high-risk settings — also reduces your risk from many of the other respiratory pathogens constantly circulating around us.
And if you are tired of watching people suffer while being told this is “normal,” then start demanding urgency.
Ask why Long Covid clinics are closing instead of expanding.
Ask why immunologists, virologists, neurologists, vascular scientists, and pathologists are not being funded at Manhattan Project scale to investigate viral persistence, immune dysfunction, clotting, mitochondrial damage, and cognitive impairment.
Ask why billions can appear overnight for almost anything else, but millions living with chronic illness are told to “pace themselves” and move on.
Support researchers (the ones who are still focused on Long Covid that don’t conflate the disease)
Support clean air initiatives (two strong efforts happening in Illinois right now! Help us!!).
Support disability advocacy.
Pressure institutions to improve indoor air quality.
Stop mocking people for protecting themselves.
And stop accepting “everyone is sick all the time now” as a normal feature of modern life.
B. McKean retweeted
Study of 97 million people found COVID infection led to a 49% increased risk of new-onset autoimmune-related diseases, esp vascular & connective tissue issues.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/4145…
#LongCovid
B. McKean retweeted
Please read and retweet the tweet below. It says it all.
Think of it this way: anything can be destructive at the wrong scale.
If you replace your residential street with a four-lane highway, you destroy your neighbourhood.
If you put a wrong-sized airport on a waterfront, you destroy it as a place for gathering, respite, and connection.
Ford’s expansion plan must be stopped. It’s another assault on the livability of our city, driven by someone settling old scores, who doesn’t care about the city as a thriving urban place.
We’re building a dense, urban, walkable city, and this airport expansion isn’t necessary. And it conflicts with that goal.
“This tiny speck of ecological paradise provides critical respite from our dense and urban concrete jungle and is vital for mental health, community, and happiness.”
Dear Prime Minister Mark Carney (@markjcarney),
I was on the Toronto Ferry last year staring at our majestic waterfront.
I saw paddlers, kayakers, dragon boaters, sailors, windsurfers, fishers, paddleboarders, water taxis, and cruisers all sharing the space in harmony.
When we docked at Hanlan’s Point on the Toronto Islands I was surrounded by hikers, joggers, cyclists, birders, picnickers, swimmers, photographers, beachgoers, frisbee golfers, naturalists, and thousands of tourists and locals enjoying this lush ecological paradise surrounded by our sparkling freshwater lake.
Please don’t destroy this by paving Lake Ontario.
Three weeks ago Ontario Premier Doug Ford (@fordnation) announced he will "seize" Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport (YTZ) in order to expand runways into Lake Ontario (1), bring in jets against the legal contracts governing the airport (2), and nix 14,000 mixed-use homes slated to go up on the shore (which taxpayers have already spent $1.4B developing). (3,4)
Although this decision is not his to make — Billy Bishop is governed by the City of Toronto and the federal government (5) — Premier Ford says he will overrule the City to "bring in jets one way or another." (6,7)
Premier Ford says he has the "full support" of your federal government to do this. (8)
Prime Minister Carney:
It is not too late.
Please say no to expanding Billy Bishop airport into the lake.
We don’t need this, we don’t want this, and we can’t afford this.
We don’t need this.
We can already go anywhere we want to go.
I live right in downtown Toronto.
I can be anywhere I want in the world, tomorrow.
I can walk to bus, subway, streetcar, and UP express stations from my house and I fly 40x per year.
In the past year I have been to over 35 airports on 3 continents and YYZ is one of the absolute best. In fact, in the past month it has won "Best Airport Staff in North America" (9), been ranked 4th in all of the Americas in efficiency (out of 50 airports) (10), and won Best Large Airport on the entire continent (an award it's won eight times in nine years.) (11)
Right this second, checking Uber, I can get from my house by car to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport (YYZ) in 21 mins and to Toronto’s Billy Bishop Island Airport (YTZ) in 14 mins.
Right this second, if someone at Union Station wanted to get to YYZ on public transit it would take 28 minutes (UP Express) and to YTZ would take 22 minutes (TTC streetcar).
We are talking about a 6 minute time savings here.
If we want to serve southwestern Ontario’s population with expanded jet service we simply need to use the 7000m of existing, high-capacity, under-utilized jet runways within 2 hours of Toronto at Hamilton (@flyYHM ), Waterloo (@flyYKF), and London (@flyYXU) versus entertaining a "special economic zone" to force a jet-strip into the most environmentally sensitive and densely populated waterfront in the country.
We don’t want this.
This tiny speck of ecological paradise provides critical respite from our dense and urban concrete jungle and is vital for mental health, community, and happiness.
Over 400 peer-reviewed studies show urban forests and parks mitigate depression and anxiety and enhance overall mental well-being. (12)
I know you agree because four days ago on March 31, 2026 you announced your "Force of Nature" strategy with the vision of "protecting, restoring, and valuing nature." This wonderful program declares a federal investment of $3.8 billion dollars into "protecting critical habitats and aligning industrial strategies with biodiversity conservation." (13, 14, 15)
Also, I looked into the runway expansion into the lake that Premier Ford has promised.
Right now the shortest jet runway in Canada is 1832m (YHM Hamilton, ON) and the shortest jet runway in the world is 1508m (LCY London City Airport, UK). There are also new Canadian Aviation Regulations (RESA) stating all runways need to add 150m on each end for safety. (16, 17, 18)
Today the Billy Bishop runway is 1216m. (19)
Even the most conservative assumption — building the shortest jet runway in the entire world! — still requires a minimum of 600m more runway to land jets.
Here is a current aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport. (Photo 1 / attached)
Here is an aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport with the smallest possible runway extension of 600m added. (Photo 2 / attached)
(Of course this photo doesn’t include additional parking, hangers, gates, aprons, tarmacs, fueling stations, de-icing stations, blast fences, control towers, baggage carousels, taxi pickups … )
We can’t afford this.
Premier Ford was first elected in 2018 as the right wing candidate (PC) with 40.5% of the vote (left wing side of NDP and Liberal was 53.2%) and campaigned as a fiscal conservative. (FN) He attacked the Liberals for their $6.7B deficit and vowed a "return to balanced budgets" that would "begin in 2019." (20, 21)
Since then Premier Ford has won two more elections — with a nearly identical right / left vote split and record lows in voter turnout — and has now presided over 8 budgets. (22, 23)
In order from 2019 to 2026 those eight budgets have been for *deficits* of $8.7B, $16.4B, $13.5B, $5.9B, $5.6, $1.1B, $12.3B, and, most recently, just announced last week on March 26, 2026, coming in at a 77% increase on his own 2025 forecasts, $13.8B. (24, 25)
Since Premier Ford was elected he has *increased* Ontario’s debt from $338B to $485B. Ontario now pays $17.2B a year … just in interest payments. (26, 27, 28)
Notably, Premier Ford’s most recent $13.8B deficit budget does not include any money for the projected $1-2B cost of expanding Billy Bishop airport.
(Prime Minister, you and Premier Ford are both 61 and have a seemingly warm relationship despite wildly different education and business paths. (29, 30, 31, 32) Might you have time for some evening finance tutorials?)
Prime Minister Carney:
We don’t need this, we don’t want this, we can’t afford this.
Please say no to this expansion plan.
Please allow the legal agreements governing the airport to remain in the hands of those who legally own it — the City of Toronto and the federal government — and not with Premier Ford’s provincial government who is attempting to autocratically rule something in which it has no stake.
At the Junos six days ago on March 29, 2026 you praised 82-year-old @jonimitchell and justifiably called her "one of the greatest artists of all time." (33)
Joni warned us about "paving paradise to put up a parking lot" and now that’s exactly what Premier Ford is proposing we do.
The Toronto Harbour, Toronto Harbourfront, and Toronto Islands are a crown jewel for the functioning of our great city, our great province, and our great country.
Would New York City pave over Central Park?
Would Paris put runways on the Seine?
We absolutely should not pave the paradise of Lake Ontario to put up runways and parking lots we don’t need, don’t want, and can’t afford.
It's not too late.
Please say no.
Thank you,
Neil Pasricha
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(1) theglobeandmail.com/gift/084…
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(2) portstoronto.com/wp-content/…
(3) environmentaldefence.ca/2026…
(4) thestar.com/news/gta/tens-of…
(5) billybishopairport.com/wp-co…
(6) theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
(7) cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/f…
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(8) theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
(9) torontopearson.com/en/corpor…
(10) britishaviationgroup.co.uk/k…
(11) nowtoronto.com/news/pearson-…
(12) nature.com/articles/s44284-0…
(13) pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releas…
(14) canada.ca/en/services/enviro…
(15) audubon.org/news/audubon-app…
(16) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_C…
(17) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London…
tsb.gc.ca/eng/surveillance-w…
(18) toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024…
(19) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_…
(20) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_O…
(21) occ.ca/rapidpolicy/ontario-p…
(22) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_O…
(23) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_O…
(24) globalnews.ca/news/11746458/…
(25) budget.ontario.ca/2026/brief…
(26) ofina.on.ca/borrowing_debt/d…
(27) budget.ontario.ca/2026/chapt…
(28) ontario.ca/page/public-accou…
(29) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_C…
(30) proquest.com/docview/3014644…
(31) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_F…
(32) theglobeandmail.com/news/tor…
(33) youtube.com/watch?v=6pbVWyjl…
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B. McKean retweeted
Ahora sí hablemos en serio de la foto. Este es un trino para interesados en fotografía, astrofotografía y el que quiera ¿Por qué esta foto es increíble? Algún conspiranóico, dándoselas de suspicaz, preguntó que por qué esta foto tomada por el comandante del Artemis II se veía más opaca que la foto tomada por la tripulación del Apolo 17 en 1972. Bueno. Acá viene lo emocionante. Esta fotografía hubiera sido imposible tomarla con una cámara análoga; y no cualquier cámara digital puede tomarla. El archivo original de esta foto está disponible para su descarga en la página de la NASA. En las propiedades del archivo se puede ver con qué cámara fue tomada y los ajustes de exposición que se usaron. Hasta el serial de la cámara. Esto, primero que todo, garantiza que la foto que estamos viendo no fue creada digitalmente, ni con IA, sino capturada por una cámara real por un humano. Sé que no es suficiente argumento para los conspiranóicos, pero ni modos. Esa que está ahí es la Tierra. Ahora sí lo interesante. ¿Por qué se ve como más opaca que la del 72? porque resulta que en la cara de la tierra que vemos en esa foto, está de noche; si hacen zoom pueden ver el brillo de la iluminación nocturna. Pero ¿cómo, si es de noche, puede verse como si fuera de día? Porque la foto se hizo con un altísimo ISO de 51200! El ISO es la sensibilidad del sensor a la luz. Con la mayoría de cámaras digitales, con ISOs de más de 6400, el ruido es tanto que la foto se ve prácticamente ilegible. Pero la cámara que tiene el comandante Reid Wiseman es una NIKON D5, que no es una cámara muy nueva; tiene 10 años de haber sido lanzada. Pero su sensor es reconocido por garantizar una calidad decente de imagen con ISOs altos. Y eso, para los que siempre preguntan cómo se hace una buena foto del cielo, es fundamental ¿Por qué? Pues para poder tomar fotos de los astros sin tener que bajar mucho la velocidad de exposición. Porque si bajas mucho la exposición apra que entre más luz, queda capturado el movimiento de los astros y de la rotación de la Tierra, cuando estás en la Tierra. Así que un iSO tan alto hizo posible que Wiserman pudiera disparar a una velocidad de 1/4 de segundo. Que es baja, pero no tanto. Es digamos, el límite para la astrofotografía. Por eso esta foto tiene ruido, porque de todas formas es un ISO altísimo.
Pero lo que más me emociona a mí, es que la tomó con un lente 14 -24mm F2.8. Es decir, en terminos coloquiales, que esta foto no tiene zoom. Para que lo dimensionen: cuando uno quiere tomar una foto de la Luna desde la Tierra que salga así de "cerca" tiene que usar un lente de unos 400mm de distancia focal. Wiserman usó un ¡gran angular de 22mm! Es decir que él estaba viendo la Tierra asi de grande frente a sus ojos. Porque la foto no fue recortada en edición y eso lo sabemos porque en las propiedades del archivo siempre aparece cuando una foto fue editada. El archivo está limpio, tiene la resolución original de la cámara. La tierra era inmensa frente a su mirada. Hermoso.
Pero para mí lo más mágico de esta foto, incluso más que las auroras boreales, es que se ve como la luz de sol, que está del otro lado de la tierra, ilumina nuestra atmosfera. Y eso es magia pura, porque esa atmosfera tiene una composición milimétricamente perfecta para permitir que la vida, tal y como la conocemos, sea posible. Esta foto, es un regalo precioso para la humanidad.
Les dejo al link para que descarguen la foto en alta resolución y el pantallazo de las propuedades del archivo.
B. McKean retweeted
Dear Prime Minister Mark Carney (@markjcarney),
I was on the Toronto Ferry last year staring at our majestic waterfront.
I saw paddlers, kayakers, dragon boaters, sailors, windsurfers, fishers, paddleboarders, water taxis, and cruisers all sharing the space in harmony.
When we docked at Hanlan’s Point on the Toronto Islands I was surrounded by hikers, joggers, cyclists, birders, picnickers, swimmers, photographers, beachgoers, frisbee golfers, naturalists, and thousands of tourists and locals enjoying this lush ecological paradise surrounded by our sparkling freshwater lake.
Please don’t destroy this by paving Lake Ontario.
Three weeks ago Ontario Premier Doug Ford (@fordnation) announced he will "seize" Toronto’s Billy Bishop Airport (YTZ) in order to expand runways into Lake Ontario (1), bring in jets against the legal contracts governing the airport (2), and nix 14,000 mixed-use homes slated to go up on the shore (which taxpayers have already spent $1.4B developing). (3,4)
Although this decision is not his to make — Billy Bishop is governed by the City of Toronto and the federal government (5) — Premier Ford says he will overrule the City to "bring in jets one way or another." (6,7)
Premier Ford says he has the "full support" of your federal government to do this. (8)
Prime Minister Carney:
It is not too late.
Please say no to expanding Billy Bishop airport into the lake.
We don’t need this, we don’t want this, and we can’t afford this.
We don’t need this.
We can already go anywhere we want to go.
I live right in downtown Toronto.
I can be anywhere I want in the world, tomorrow.
I can walk to bus, subway, streetcar, and UP express stations from my house and I fly 40x per year.
In the past year I have been to over 35 airports on 3 continents and YYZ is one of the absolute best. In fact, in the past month it has won "Best Airport Staff in North America" (9), been ranked 4th in all of the Americas in efficiency (out of 50 airports) (10), and won Best Large Airport on the entire continent (an award it's won eight times in nine years.) (11)
Right this second, checking Uber, I can get from my house by car to Toronto’s Pearson International Airport (YYZ) in 21 mins and to Toronto’s Billy Bishop Island Airport (YTZ) in 14 mins.
Right this second, if someone at Union Station wanted to get to YYZ on public transit it would take 28 minutes (UP Express) and to YTZ would take 22 minutes (TTC streetcar).
We are talking about a 6 minute time savings here.
If we want to serve southwestern Ontario’s population with expanded jet service we simply need to use the 7000m of existing, high-capacity, under-utilized jet runways within 2 hours of Toronto at Hamilton (@flyYHM ), Waterloo (@flyYKF), and London (@flyYXU) versus entertaining a "special economic zone" to force a jet-strip into the most environmentally sensitive and densely populated waterfront in the country.
We don’t want this.
This tiny speck of ecological paradise provides critical respite from our dense and urban concrete jungle and is vital for mental health, community, and happiness.
Over 400 peer-reviewed studies show urban forests and parks mitigate depression and anxiety and enhance overall mental well-being. (12)
I know you agree because four days ago on March 31, 2026 you announced your "Force of Nature" strategy with the vision of "protecting, restoring, and valuing nature." This wonderful program declares a federal investment of $3.8 billion dollars into "protecting critical habitats and aligning industrial strategies with biodiversity conservation." (13, 14, 15)
Also, I looked into the runway expansion into the lake that Premier Ford has promised.
Right now the shortest jet runway in Canada is 1832m (YHM Hamilton, ON) and the shortest jet runway in the world is 1508m (LCY London City Airport, UK). There are also new Canadian Aviation Regulations (RESA) stating all runways need to add 150m on each end for safety. (16, 17, 18)
Today the Billy Bishop runway is 1216m. (19)
Even the most conservative assumption — building the shortest jet runway in the entire world! — still requires a minimum of 600m more runway to land jets.
Here is a current aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport. (Photo 1 / attached)
Here is an aerial view of Billy Bishop Airport with the smallest possible runway extension of 600m added. (Photo 2 / attached)
(Of course this photo doesn’t include additional parking, hangers, gates, aprons, tarmacs, fueling stations, de-icing stations, blast fences, control towers, baggage carousels, taxi pickups … )
We can’t afford this.
Premier Ford was first elected in 2018 as the right wing candidate (PC) with 40.5% of the vote (left wing side of NDP and Liberal was 53.2%) and campaigned as a fiscal conservative. (FN) He attacked the Liberals for their $6.7B deficit and vowed a "return to balanced budgets" that would "begin in 2019." (20, 21)
Since then Premier Ford has won two more elections — with a nearly identical right / left vote split and record lows in voter turnout — and has now presided over 8 budgets. (22, 23)
In order from 2019 to 2026 those eight budgets have been for *deficits* of $8.7B, $16.4B, $13.5B, $5.9B, $5.6, $1.1B, $12.3B, and, most recently, just announced last week on March 26, 2026, coming in at a 77% increase on his own 2025 forecasts, $13.8B. (24, 25)
Since Premier Ford was elected he has *increased* Ontario’s debt from $338B to $485B. Ontario now pays $17.2B a year … just in interest payments. (26, 27, 28)
Notably, Premier Ford’s most recent $13.8B deficit budget does not include any money for the projected $1-2B cost of expanding Billy Bishop airport.
(Prime Minister, you and Premier Ford are both 61 and have a seemingly warm relationship despite wildly different education and business paths. (29, 30, 31, 32) Might you have time for some evening finance tutorials?)
Prime Minister Carney:
We don’t need this, we don’t want this, we can’t afford this.
Please say no to this expansion plan.
Please allow the legal agreements governing the airport to remain in the hands of those who legally own it — the City of Toronto and the federal government — and not with Premier Ford’s provincial government who is attempting to autocratically rule something in which it has no stake.
At the Junos six days ago on March 29, 2026 you praised 82-year-old @jonimitchell and justifiably called her "one of the greatest artists of all time." (33)
Joni warned us about "paving paradise to put up a parking lot" and now that’s exactly what Premier Ford is proposing we do.
The Toronto Harbour, Toronto Harbourfront, and Toronto Islands are a crown jewel for the functioning of our great city, our great province, and our great country.
Would New York City pave over Central Park?
Would Paris put runways on the Seine?
We absolutely should not pave the paradise of Lake Ontario to put up runways and parking lots we don’t need, don’t want, and can’t afford.
It's not too late.
Please say no.
Thank you,
Neil Pasricha
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(18) toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis/2024…
(19) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_…
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(21) occ.ca/rapidpolicy/ontario-p…
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(24) globalnews.ca/news/11746458/…
(25) budget.ontario.ca/2026/brief…
(26) ofina.on.ca/borrowing_debt/d…
(27) budget.ontario.ca/2026/chapt…
(28) ontario.ca/page/public-accou…
(29) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_C…
(30) proquest.com/docview/3014644…
(31) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_F…
(32) theglobeandmail.com/news/tor…
(33) youtube.com/watch?v=6pbVWyjl…
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