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Stephen Thomas
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I believe a better world is possible. Climate justice, solidarity and energy policy.

Clean Energy Manager w/ @davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social
Board Member w/ @canrac.bsky.social

Views my own. Nova Scotian settler living in unceded Tiohtià:ke/Montreal. He/Him
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We're hiring!

I'm thrilled to share that our team is hiring a Clean Energy Campaigner in early 2026.

📝: 1-year, 4-day weeks
✊ Unionized role
💵: $70k - $78k CAD
📍: BC,QC,ON preferred. Flexible w/ hybrid work.
📆: Deadline Jan 8, 2026

All details:
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/DavidSuzukiF...
Clean Energy Campaigner / Spécialiste de campagne, énergie propre
Company Description: ABOUT USThe David Suzuki Foundation is a Canadian environmental non-profit organization, founded in 1990. We operate in English and French, with offices in Vancouver, Toronto and ...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com
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Anyway, Christmas Eve. Enjoy stretching out time a little.
December 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
December 23, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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“The fossil fuel age is flailing and failing,” United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said. “We are in the dawn of a new energy era. An era where cheap, clean, abundant energy powers a world rich in economic opportunity.”
UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for even lower costs
The United Nations reports a global shift toward renewable energy, calling it a "positive tipping point."
apnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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My response to anything over the next two weeks
December 18, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We're hiring!

I'm thrilled to share that our team is hiring a Clean Energy Campaigner in early 2026.

📝: 1-year, 4-day weeks
✊ Unionized role
💵: $70k - $78k CAD
📍: BC,QC,ON preferred. Flexible w/ hybrid work.
📆: Deadline Jan 8, 2026

All details:
jobs.smartrecruiters.com/DavidSuzukiF...
Clean Energy Campaigner / Spécialiste de campagne, énergie propre
Company Description: ABOUT USThe David Suzuki Foundation is a Canadian environmental non-profit organization, founded in 1990. We operate in English and French, with offices in Vancouver, Toronto and ...
jobs.smartrecruiters.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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#COP30 did not deliver all it could and should have. So while the COP on the one hand disappointed, it did deliver the Just Transition mechanism. It is not only important to look at what these wins were, but also how they were achieved.

climatenetwork.org/resource/can...

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CAN International COP30 Reflections - Climate Action Network
COP30 decided on the establishment of a Just Transition Mechanism (also known as BAM - Belém Action Mechanism), recognising that workers and frontline communities cannot be left behind, and affirming ...
climatenetwork.org
December 16, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I looove the idea of a high speed train finally being built in Canada.

But not start until 2029? And if everything goes perfectly, in-service in 2037?

And that’s just a short part of the route, with 80% of the Windsor-Québec route coming sometime later??

www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art...
First segment of high-speed rail plan will link Montreal and Ottawa
If approved, construction will begin in 2029 and the line will open around 2037
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 14, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Dune is a Christmas move because it has:

-Wise men (Mentats)
-White jesus walking in the desert (Paul)
-People leaving their jobs after realizing the true meaning of life (Fremen spreading intergalactic Jihad)
December 14, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Millions of jobs are at risk from AI--but not because we can be replaced by algorithms. Rather, the big risk is the financial and macroeconomic fallout when the AI stock bubble (bigger than any in history) inevitably bursts. My take in today's
@thestar.com: www.thestar.com/business/opi...
Your job is at risk from AI — but not for the reasons you think. Can you say dot-com bubble?
The current exuberance in AI and related stocks in the U.S., writes Jim Sanford, is reminiscent of the tech crash in 2001. Can you say dot-com bubble?
www.thestar.com
December 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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A major Canadian wind power developer is warning that projects crucial to the country’s clean energy transition could “fail or be cancelled” after Ottawa imposed a 25% tariff on imported steel used in key components including turbine towers. Read the full story only on @nationalobserver.com
New steel tariffs put Canadian wind farms in danger of failure
The industry is calling for an immediate review of the 25 per cent levy, which could add $6 billion to the cost of building new green generation for provincial grids.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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truly cannot wait until the media stops taking these dumbasses seriously simply because there’s so much money behind them
Microsoft Executive Vows to Halt AI Work If It Imperils Humanity
Microsoft Corp. consumer artificial intelligence chief Mustafa Suleyman is bent on creating a super intelligence that’s “aligned with human interests” and pledged to halt such work if it posed a threa...
www.bloomberg.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Check out our new 12-minute video on the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Action, and please give it a share 👇
🔥 The climate emergency is here and now. Are governments acting with real urgency? Our 12-minute video explains the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Action.

Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdK...
December 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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BREAKING: Another Conservative has left the party.

Michael Ma, MP for the Ontario riding of Markham–Unionville, said he had joined the Liberals in a late Thursday announcement. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/11/n...
Conservative MP Michael Ma crosses floor to Liberals
Ma is the second MP switch parties to join Mark Carney's government this fall.
www.nationalobserver.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment While Global Clean Energy Jobs Surge www.theenergymix.com/fossil-fuels...
Fossil Fuels Fall Below 1% of Canadian Employment While Global Clean Energy Jobs Surge
Fossil fuel employment has fallen to less than 1% of the Canadian work force, while growth in global energy jobs outpaced the wider economy for the third year in a row, according to two reports releas...
www.theenergymix.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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My latest opinion piece in @hilltimes.com today.

I dig into details and fallout from the Alberta-Canada MOU.

The Clean Electricity Regulations haven't even celebrated their 1st birthday, but are already at risk here.

#cdnpoli #abpoli #climate #energysky

www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/1...
The Alberta energy deal is worse than you think
Canada’s clean electricity regulations—finally published less than 12 months ago—are on the chopping block as part of this deal.
www.hilltimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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In Germany the only source of electricity that keeps growing and growing: renewable energy.

Solar and wind keep expanding and even though nuclear is no more coal generation has already shrunk significantly and keeps falling.
December 10, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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On Dec 3, the CEU bid farewell to friends and allies as our five-year project with the David Suzuki Institute came to a close.

We reflected on lessons learned, celebrated the coalitions carrying this work forward & released resources we hope will strengthen climate advocacy for years to come.
December 4, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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Did you know less than 1% of renewable electricity in Canada is estimated to be owned by community cooperatives? Community-owned electricity puts the ✨power✨ in the hands of Canadian's. Read the full report now: dsfdn.org/EmpoweringCo...
EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES: a landscape analysis of renewable electricity ownership, benefits and research gaps.
“Empowering communities” provides important information to foreshadow these outputs by exploring the potential and current state of community-owned renewable electricity as one means of empowering com...
dsfdn.org
December 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
I respected @katmabu.bsky.social so much already, but planning to be sworn into office on a copy of Parable of the Sower?

10/10, no notes. It’s perfect. Gotta make it happen.
I’m loving these answers!! Add yours!!!
omg. Kat Abughazaleh just posted that if she's elected, she'll swear in on a copy of Octavia Butler's Parable of the Sower.

If you were elected to public office (never mind whether you'd ever actually run), what book would you swear in on?
December 10, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Sipekne’katik First Nation has issued a press release saying Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston, Attorney and Justice Minister General Scott Armstrong, and L’nu Affairs Minister Leah Martin are “banned as undesirables” from Sipekne’katik lands. The fine for trespassing is $50,000.
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Employment in oil and gas is in terminal decline and won’t be saved no matter what Carney and Smith cook up, according to new research from the Centre for Future Work provided exclusively to @nationalobserver.com.

The only responsible choice for governments is to plan for the transition.
Exclusive: Fossil fuel workers won’t be saved by Carney’s oil and gas boosterism
A new pipeline won’t lead to new jobs in the oil and gas sector, and the only question for government officials is whether or not to plan for the inevitable energy transition, according to new researc...
www.nationalobserver.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🔥 The climate emergency is here and now. Are governments acting with real urgency? Our 12-minute video explains the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Action.

Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdK...
December 4, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Want to know what a genuine climate emergency plan would actually look like?

Check out our inspiring new 12-min video on the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Action. 👇
Full video is here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdK...
🔥 The climate emergency is here and now. Are governments acting with real urgency? Our 12-minute video explains the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Action.

Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdK...
December 6, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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So brutal. Danielle Smith & the oilsands’ goal is increasing production, pollution, and the cost Canadians pay for climate change - while delaying the energy transition. The opposite of winning the future.
December 6, 2025 at 1:57 PM