Gaia Gardener
@gaiagardener.bsky.social
gen X | veggie gardener | late-deafened | extreme introvert | puzzle nerd | cat person
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Friends, can I ask a favour.
Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
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Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
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November 10, 2025 at 5:28 AM
Friends, can I ask a favour.
Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
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Our latest Honest Government out is a serious warning to Canada from Australia, which acts as a cautionary tail about the harms of the gas (LNG) export industry... Hence the cameo (spoiler alert) from our own aussie climate criminals, Woodside Energy
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I am so willing to pay a bit more tax for youth bus passes and bike & roll infrastructure. However, I am concerned that the police budget seems to keep taking a bigger and bigger slice of the pie. More police and bylaw officers is not an effective or ethical response to homelessness. #yyj
November 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
I am so willing to pay a bit more tax for youth bus passes and bike & roll infrastructure. However, I am concerned that the police budget seems to keep taking a bigger and bigger slice of the pie. More police and bylaw officers is not an effective or ethical response to homelessness. #yyj
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This budget hurts people.
40,000 jobs cut.
Services cut.
Indigenous services gutted.
Nothing for the environment.
But American big-tech billionaires? They get tax breaks.
We can still fix this. Mark Carney can still amend this budget and choose fairness.
40,000 jobs cut.
Services cut.
Indigenous services gutted.
Nothing for the environment.
But American big-tech billionaires? They get tax breaks.
We can still fix this. Mark Carney can still amend this budget and choose fairness.
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 PM
This budget hurts people.
40,000 jobs cut.
Services cut.
Indigenous services gutted.
Nothing for the environment.
But American big-tech billionaires? They get tax breaks.
We can still fix this. Mark Carney can still amend this budget and choose fairness.
40,000 jobs cut.
Services cut.
Indigenous services gutted.
Nothing for the environment.
But American big-tech billionaires? They get tax breaks.
We can still fix this. Mark Carney can still amend this budget and choose fairness.
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"If there’s any lesson in this bleak update, it’s that delay is the most expensive climate policy of all. Each year of foot-dragging and each step backwards only multiplies the cost in climate impacts and the effort required later. The atmosphere isn’t waiting for us to get our politics in order."
September 22, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"If there’s any lesson in this bleak update, it’s that delay is the most expensive climate policy of all. Each year of foot-dragging and each step backwards only multiplies the cost in climate impacts and the effort required later. The atmosphere isn’t waiting for us to get our politics in order."
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This is such an exciting signal of what's to come with COP30 and beyond.
It's about time that countries came together and made a plan to phase out fossil fuels based on science and fact, without the influence of those that stand to benefit from continued expansion, who have been holding us back.
It's about time that countries came together and made a plan to phase out fossil fuels based on science and fact, without the influence of those that stand to benefit from continued expansion, who have been holding us back.
🚨 Breaking news from the #UNGA sidelines:
🇨🇴 Colombia will host the 1st International Conference on the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026
Read our press release to learn more: fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-conference
#FossilFuelTreaty #PhaseOutSummit #FossilFreeFuture #ClimateJustice #UNGA
🇨🇴 Colombia will host the 1st International Conference on the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026
Read our press release to learn more: fossilfueltreaty.org/phase-out-conference
#FossilFuelTreaty #PhaseOutSummit #FossilFreeFuture #ClimateJustice #UNGA
Government of Colombia Announces First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels — The Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative
During the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York City, Colombia proudly announces its plan to host the First International Conference for the Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels in April 2026. The ...
fossilfueltreaty.org
September 22, 2025 at 11:42 PM
This is such an exciting signal of what's to come with COP30 and beyond.
It's about time that countries came together and made a plan to phase out fossil fuels based on science and fact, without the influence of those that stand to benefit from continued expansion, who have been holding us back.
It's about time that countries came together and made a plan to phase out fossil fuels based on science and fact, without the influence of those that stand to benefit from continued expansion, who have been holding us back.
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Breaking!
City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.
We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.
City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.
We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.
August 27, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Breaking!
City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.
We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.
City of Burnaby just became first city in Canada to join arms embargo movement against Israel AND the first Apartheid-Free City, breaking ties with Israeli apartheid and settler colonialism.
We've been organizing for months towards this precedent in colonial Canada.
I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. I'll be taking action in Victoria, BC on Sept. 20, 2025. Will you join me? drawtheline.world?event_id=262...
Home | Draw The Line - For life, for people, for the planet.
Join us this September to draw the line against injustice, pollution, and violence; for a future of peace, clean energy, and fairness.
drawtheline.world
September 4, 2025 at 10:10 PM
I just joined the global call to #DrawTheLine — for peace, climate justice, and a world beyond fossil fuels. I'll be taking action in Victoria, BC on Sept. 20, 2025. Will you join me? drawtheline.world?event_id=262...
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I am furious about this.
There used to be Conservative MPs who advocated for trans rights. Gutless, spineless, cowards.
No backbone. No morals. If they'll stomp on trans rights the second it's no longer politically expedient to support them, know that they'll stomp on anyone's rights.
There used to be Conservative MPs who advocated for trans rights. Gutless, spineless, cowards.
No backbone. No morals. If they'll stomp on trans rights the second it's no longer politically expedient to support them, know that they'll stomp on anyone's rights.
August 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
I am furious about this.
There used to be Conservative MPs who advocated for trans rights. Gutless, spineless, cowards.
No backbone. No morals. If they'll stomp on trans rights the second it's no longer politically expedient to support them, know that they'll stomp on anyone's rights.
There used to be Conservative MPs who advocated for trans rights. Gutless, spineless, cowards.
No backbone. No morals. If they'll stomp on trans rights the second it's no longer politically expedient to support them, know that they'll stomp on anyone's rights.
hey #yyj is this letter for real? I kept thinking it was satire.. but I honestly can't tell. www.vicnews.com/opinion/lett...
LETTER: Oak Bay residents living in fear of densification
Send your letter to newsroom@oakbaynews.com
www.vicnews.com
August 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
hey #yyj is this letter for real? I kept thinking it was satire.. but I honestly can't tell. www.vicnews.com/opinion/lett...
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Prime Minister Carney ran on a platform to defend Canada's interests.
He has no mandate to spend billions on a satellite/drone/missile scheme that turns over our air space to Donald Trump.
Even being willing to entertain discussions sends a signal that our sovereignty is negotiable.
It's not.
He has no mandate to spend billions on a satellite/drone/missile scheme that turns over our air space to Donald Trump.
Even being willing to entertain discussions sends a signal that our sovereignty is negotiable.
It's not.
August 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Prime Minister Carney ran on a platform to defend Canada's interests.
He has no mandate to spend billions on a satellite/drone/missile scheme that turns over our air space to Donald Trump.
Even being willing to entertain discussions sends a signal that our sovereignty is negotiable.
It's not.
He has no mandate to spend billions on a satellite/drone/missile scheme that turns over our air space to Donald Trump.
Even being willing to entertain discussions sends a signal that our sovereignty is negotiable.
It's not.
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Recent announcements by France, EU, Arab League, Canada is not them 'changing' - it is another two-state attempt at Oslo pacification and normalization.
There can be NO "solution" that demands disarmament of the resistance, maintains apartheid & occupation, denies the right of return for refugees.
There can be NO "solution" that demands disarmament of the resistance, maintains apartheid & occupation, denies the right of return for refugees.
July 30, 2025 at 10:24 PM
Recent announcements by France, EU, Arab League, Canada is not them 'changing' - it is another two-state attempt at Oslo pacification and normalization.
There can be NO "solution" that demands disarmament of the resistance, maintains apartheid & occupation, denies the right of return for refugees.
There can be NO "solution" that demands disarmament of the resistance, maintains apartheid & occupation, denies the right of return for refugees.
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And *another* pedestrian has been killed. I’m running out of words to comprehend the situation on the Island right now.
It’s just completely unacceptable. We need to get together as local governments, the Province, emergency management, and police and implement a serious Vision Zero plan.
It’s just completely unacceptable. We need to get together as local governments, the Province, emergency management, and police and implement a serious Vision Zero plan.
July 31, 2025 at 1:53 AM
And *another* pedestrian has been killed. I’m running out of words to comprehend the situation on the Island right now.
It’s just completely unacceptable. We need to get together as local governments, the Province, emergency management, and police and implement a serious Vision Zero plan.
It’s just completely unacceptable. We need to get together as local governments, the Province, emergency management, and police and implement a serious Vision Zero plan.
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So so so good. Hilarious. 😂👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
Centrist Democrats are now scrambling to act as if they've always been against Israel's genocide in Gaza, despite several of them recently posing for a photo with Benjamin Netanyahu.
Zeteo's Frank Cappello returns as our (fake) centrist Democrat to imagine the deflections they would use.
Zeteo's Frank Cappello returns as our (fake) centrist Democrat to imagine the deflections they would use.
July 31, 2025 at 4:26 PM
So so so good. Hilarious. 😂👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽
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I call for the immediate release of U.S. human rights defender and labour leader Chris Smalls from Israeli custody. He has reportedly been assaulted in custody, after travelling on the Handala boat to Gaza, bringing food and medicine to starving people.
July 30, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I call for the immediate release of U.S. human rights defender and labour leader Chris Smalls from Israeli custody. He has reportedly been assaulted in custody, after travelling on the Handala boat to Gaza, bringing food and medicine to starving people.
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Columbia University folded.
60 Minutes was brought to heal.
The legal and political class took dives.
And yet South Park is on the rampart of democracy and forcing media to discuss the nature of the authoritarian regime in Washington.
Watch this interview.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1tc...
60 Minutes was brought to heal.
The legal and political class took dives.
And yet South Park is on the rampart of democracy and forcing media to discuss the nature of the authoritarian regime in Washington.
Watch this interview.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1tc...
Trump fumes over ‘South Park’ roasting him, depicting him in bed with Satan
YouTube video by MSNBC
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July 25, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Columbia University folded.
60 Minutes was brought to heal.
The legal and political class took dives.
And yet South Park is on the rampart of democracy and forcing media to discuss the nature of the authoritarian regime in Washington.
Watch this interview.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1tc...
60 Minutes was brought to heal.
The legal and political class took dives.
And yet South Park is on the rampart of democracy and forcing media to discuss the nature of the authoritarian regime in Washington.
Watch this interview.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1tc...
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No more excuses, @mark-carney.bsky.social … Macron has provided the cover to do the bare minimum (human) thing here.
There’s no downside to recognizing #palestine and condemning the ongoing #genocide. Children have a right to exist.
@wgreaves.bsky.social we need you to stand up for #yyj
There’s no downside to recognizing #palestine and condemning the ongoing #genocide. Children have a right to exist.
@wgreaves.bsky.social we need you to stand up for #yyj
Macron says France will recognize a Palestinian state at UN General Assembly this fall
www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
www.cbc.ca/news/world/f...
Macron says France will recognize a Palestinian state at UN General Assembly this fall | CBC News
France will recognize a Palestinian state at the United Nations general Assembly in September, French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday, adding that he hoped it would help bring peace to the ...
www.cbc.ca
July 24, 2025 at 8:53 PM
No more excuses, @mark-carney.bsky.social … Macron has provided the cover to do the bare minimum (human) thing here.
There’s no downside to recognizing #palestine and condemning the ongoing #genocide. Children have a right to exist.
@wgreaves.bsky.social we need you to stand up for #yyj
There’s no downside to recognizing #palestine and condemning the ongoing #genocide. Children have a right to exist.
@wgreaves.bsky.social we need you to stand up for #yyj
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73 people were murdered as they desperately waited for food.
It's just another day under the IDF genocide of a people.
The Pope is calling on international leaders to end this barbarism
And yet our leaders continue to go along with these crimes against humanity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
It's just another day under the IDF genocide of a people.
The Pope is calling on international leaders to end this barbarism
And yet our leaders continue to go along with these crimes against humanity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Pope condemns Gaza war’s ‘barbarity’ as 73 reported killed while waiting for food
Pontiff also speaks of anguish over Israeli strike on territory’s only Catholic church, which killed three people
www.theguardian.com
July 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
73 people were murdered as they desperately waited for food.
It's just another day under the IDF genocide of a people.
The Pope is calling on international leaders to end this barbarism
And yet our leaders continue to go along with these crimes against humanity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
It's just another day under the IDF genocide of a people.
The Pope is calling on international leaders to end this barbarism
And yet our leaders continue to go along with these crimes against humanity.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
“a deliberate, systematic starvation of an entire population”
A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.
#Gaza
A statement by Doctors Against Genocide.
#Gaza
July 19, 2025 at 9:24 PM
We are doing this. Our governments. Our taxes. Our arms sales.
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
This is our Holocaust. Our Cambodian killing fields. Our Balkans. Our Rwandan genocide.
We are doing this and history will never forgive us.
Gaza:
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During the election campaign, Mark Carney pledged to increase the CBC’s budget by $150 million dollars a year.
Now that he’s in government, he’s telling the public broadcaster to find up to $198 million in annual cuts. He can’t claim to defend the country when he’s gutting its media and culture.
Now that he’s in government, he’s telling the public broadcaster to find up to $198 million in annual cuts. He can’t claim to defend the country when he’s gutting its media and culture.
Suggest your own spending cuts, Carney government tells CBC, Via Rail and other Crown corporations
Nearly all government departments and federally-funded organizations are expected to propose "savings" of up to 15 per cent of their spending in the next three years.
www.thestar.com
July 17, 2025 at 12:43 AM
During the election campaign, Mark Carney pledged to increase the CBC’s budget by $150 million dollars a year.
Now that he’s in government, he’s telling the public broadcaster to find up to $198 million in annual cuts. He can’t claim to defend the country when he’s gutting its media and culture.
Now that he’s in government, he’s telling the public broadcaster to find up to $198 million in annual cuts. He can’t claim to defend the country when he’s gutting its media and culture.
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I stand with Francesca Albanese. They will sanction the human rights defenders. They will criminalize the students and the protestors. They will vilify the freedom fighters. Because we challenge their power and their crimes. While they continue to commit genocide.
July 9, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I stand with Francesca Albanese. They will sanction the human rights defenders. They will criminalize the students and the protestors. They will vilify the freedom fighters. Because we challenge their power and their crimes. While they continue to commit genocide.
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Carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels makes extreme rainfall events more common and more extreme. Is this the time for more pipelines to extract and burn more fossil fuels @mark-carney.bsky.social & @davidebybc.bsky.social? Or is it time to pivot to clean energy? #cdnpoli #bcpoli #elbowsup
BREAKING: A catastrophic flash flood has hit in New Mexico.
The Rio Ruidoso has reportedly risen 17 feet in just 20 minutes.
(🎥 Kaitlyn Carpenter)
The Rio Ruidoso has reportedly risen 17 feet in just 20 minutes.
(🎥 Kaitlyn Carpenter)
July 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Carbon pollution from burning fossil fuels makes extreme rainfall events more common and more extreme. Is this the time for more pipelines to extract and burn more fossil fuels @mark-carney.bsky.social & @davidebybc.bsky.social? Or is it time to pivot to clean energy? #cdnpoli #bcpoli #elbowsup
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Happy Canada Day! 8thfirerising.ca
8th Fire Rising – Elbows up against the oligarchy! 8th Fire Rising is a united coalition in Canada to protect Indigenous, labour, and environmental rights.
8thfirerising.ca
July 1, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Happy Canada Day! 8thfirerising.ca
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The White House on Carney:
"It’s very simple, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada caved to President Trump."
MAGA is not interested in negotiating trade they are into ritual humiliation.
We gave up our right to establish domestic tax policy on tech oligarchs.
Trump is now going after dairy.
"It’s very simple, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada caved to President Trump."
MAGA is not interested in negotiating trade they are into ritual humiliation.
We gave up our right to establish domestic tax policy on tech oligarchs.
Trump is now going after dairy.
June 30, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The White House on Carney:
"It’s very simple, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada caved to President Trump."
MAGA is not interested in negotiating trade they are into ritual humiliation.
We gave up our right to establish domestic tax policy on tech oligarchs.
Trump is now going after dairy.
"It’s very simple, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada caved to President Trump."
MAGA is not interested in negotiating trade they are into ritual humiliation.
We gave up our right to establish domestic tax policy on tech oligarchs.
Trump is now going after dairy.
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Rescinding the DST isn’t strategy-it’s surrender.
This costs Canadians billions. The wealthiest people on Earth won’t pay what they owe.
What do we get in return? Nothing. This is another tactic to destroy our economy & instead of fighting back, we’re rolling over.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
This costs Canadians billions. The wealthiest people on Earth won’t pay what they owe.
What do we get in return? Nothing. This is another tactic to destroy our economy & instead of fighting back, we’re rolling over.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
Canada cancelled its digital services tax. What was it and why did the U.S. hate it?
OTTAWA - Tech giants such as Amazon and Google will not have to shell out close to $2 billion as expected today, as Canada moved to cancel the controversial digital
www.thestar.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Rescinding the DST isn’t strategy-it’s surrender.
This costs Canadians billions. The wealthiest people on Earth won’t pay what they owe.
What do we get in return? Nothing. This is another tactic to destroy our economy & instead of fighting back, we’re rolling over.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
This costs Canadians billions. The wealthiest people on Earth won’t pay what they owe.
What do we get in return? Nothing. This is another tactic to destroy our economy & instead of fighting back, we’re rolling over.
www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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A cowardly move by Mark Carney that shows Donald Trump his government can be pushed around and pressured into concessions in ongoing trade talks.
Elbows down seems to be Carney’s new slogan.
Elbows down seems to be Carney’s new slogan.
Canada rescinds digital services tax in a bid to advance trade talks with U.S.
Canada has rescinded its digital services tax targeting U.S. technology firms in a bid to advance trade negotiations with the U.S., Canada’s finance ministry said in a statement on Sunday, days after ...
www.ctvnews.ca
June 30, 2025 at 3:29 AM
A cowardly move by Mark Carney that shows Donald Trump his government can be pushed around and pressured into concessions in ongoing trade talks.
Elbows down seems to be Carney’s new slogan.
Elbows down seems to be Carney’s new slogan.