Ro-Boo-rt Lepage, PhD., P.Eng.

Ah, ça ira!

Canceled carbon tax. Dismantled the climate action secretariat. Supported expansion of LNG. Proposed removing provincial gas taxes that fund services and transit. Proposed spending tax money to keep ICBC cheap for more driving. — No wonder people stayed home.

Dear NDP (paging @avilewis.ca) Duverger's Law says that sooner or later, Canada will devolve into a two party systems if we maintain FPTP. We're heading towards a Liberal <-> Conservative dichotomy. If the NDP don't take up PR, your party will go extinct.

Thanks to @davidmckie.bsky.social and @nationalobserver.com for publishing my op ed on the need for modern indoor air quality (IAQ) laws in Canada! IAQ is a critical issue for workers for so many reasons. Labour/union leaders - let's talk and collaborate! www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/19/o...

Our knowledge on the importance of indoor air quality has exploded in the past 5 years. You can keep yourself, kids, and coworkers safe from nearly all viruses just by cleaning the air. It also helps significantly with wildfire smoke too. We need regs for air just as we do for clean water.

"Clean air should not be a gamble for Canadian workers. The air Canadians breathe has changed. Workplace protections need to adapt to that reality."

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

Done!

URGENT: As you prepare to vote in your municipal elections, please don't skirt the SCHOOL BOARD TRUSTEE elections, even if you don't have children. Nowhere more than any other level, the schools board elections are targeted by far-right, anti-trans/anti-EDI lunatic candidates. Vote to keep them out!

It's short-term, quarter by quarter thinking. Barely suitable as a Governor of a Bank, tweaking interest dials and making press statements, but absolute misalignment with long-term prosperity necessary for a country.

Appeasement never works.

Carney’s lack of an industrial strategy beyond build infrastructure, cut regulation & let the market figure it out, is a problem because we’re in truly transformative times. Bailouts like this show the government is reacting, not planning. It’ll end up costing in the long run, with little in return.

Everyone is 12, yet again. Up next, sharks with frickin' lazer beams on their heads, because we saw that on TV once and it's SO BADASS!!!

"[Our research] found: - Every additional 100kg of vehicle weight was associated with a 6% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality; - Every additional 10cm of height was associated with an 11% increase in odds of pedestrian fatality. " theconversation.com/big-us-style...

I voted Liberal at the last Federal Election. It was a strategic choice to keep a Conservative MP out. But I also had high hopes that Mark Carney, as a well spoken "adult in the room" with expressed concerns on climate change and 'values' would be good for Canada. It seems I made a mistake...

Science YouTuber Dianna Cowern (Physics Girl) had over 2 million subscribers when she developed Long COVID after falling ill on her honeymoon in 2022. Brain fog, headaches and other symptoms turned her life upside down. Despite some improvement, she functions at just 30–40% of her previous capacity.

Bradford vs Chow is the "everyone gets a unicorn vs never-ending diarrhea" meme in human form.

What PM Carney isn’t telling you - private investors didn’t offer to build new pipeline because they know there is NO business case. The world as it is Cdns refuses to face: “They know that last year the European Union already got more electricity www.nationalobserver.com/2026/10/22/o...

Funny thought experiment: Tech monopolies have spent about $1 trillion on AI development so far. How good of a chatbot could we have built for $1 trillion by just employing smart people to answer any question people might reasonably ask and collecting all the answers in a big lookup table?

Why do angel and venture capitalists need more funding? Their returns is the success of the companies in which they invest.

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OUCH. Bloc Québécois MP @patbonin.bsky.social absolutely clears the environment minister in this clip on Bill C-39. My translation: “It’s sad to see the minister who is giving the impression of wanting to convince herself that the bill that’s directly under her purview isn’t a disaster.

We don't have any money to keep all our parks open because we gave it all to pad the profits of the filthy rich oil companies. ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...

This calls for the 5th circle invocation of the Tree Law Dieity. May all tremble at the blood to be spilled...

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Nice job burying a backtrack on plans for vehicle emissions standards in today's announcement. www.canada.ca/en/innovatio...

“Russia’s engagement with Alberta separatism is covert, doctrinal, operational, and sustained.” “Several lines of evidence link Russian-aligned information infrastructure to Alberta separatist narratives.” “U.S. engagement is overt, escalating, and in some environments, converging with Russia.”

A smaller gap but a worse future. Current policies, result in warming being kept below 2.8°C by 2100. The most optimistic case, where all NDCs and net-zero targets are achieved keeps warming to 2.1°C. This is a worsening from last year's report, mainly because of the policy roll-backs in the US.

The best time to fix a major mistake is as soon as it happens. The second best time is now.

In new study, we show that SARS-CoV-2 has evolved decreased inherent antigenicity in humans, as quantified by a ~3-fold decrease in the number of naïve human B cells that can bind the spike RBD. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Gift 🎁 link: "Doctors said that the possible harms of repeated infections are significant enough that people should take precautions, like getting vaccinated and masking when traveling or in crowded areas. At this stage of dealing with the virus, we’re not... 🧵 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/w...

A handy flow chart for Bill C-39:

NYT: 'How Bad Is Another Case of Covid?' “Every time there’s a wave, there’s another wave that’s going to follow with patients developing new onset long Covid,” said Akiko Iwasaki, an immunologist at Yale University www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/w...

"The memo explains how financial incentives have created pressure within the industry to downplay known risks, & to underinvest in researching those which are less well understood. Instead, the industry is relying on its ability to reduce exposure in time to avoid costs when risks manifest."

Go to your photos, search “boat”, and post one you like

El-Sayed disavow Muslim Brotherhood, but does not disavow Socks and Berkinstocks, leading to major questions about his loyalty to America. -CNN

Are we training AI yet again?

Everyone is 12 and they just discovered Knight Rider.

Is this the original inspiration for 40K's take on power fists?!

The one opportunity of the techbroligarchy is that they are all founded around a singular cult of personality. That person goes away, so does the cult.