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aaronfreemanca.bsky.social
Enough deals with provinces, just enforce the law: Guilbeault www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/18/n...
Enough deals with provinces, just enforce the law: Guilbeault
To make progress on the targets, the federal government should keep federal regulations to clean up Canada’s electricity grid, make good on repeated (and so far unfulfilled) promises to strengthen…
www.nationalobserver.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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gmbutts.bsky.social
New from me, Rick Smith, and Peter Nicholson.

“Our policy advice is pretty simple: Clean up electricity and electrify everything possible. This is the nation-building project Canada needs…”

www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
New data shows the world is embracing renewable energy. Canada can’t follow Trump’s fossil fuel obsession
North America at risk of becoming an island of fossil fuels in an electrifying world. Canada should take note and choose a better path.
www.thestar.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:47 PM
anewgoal.bsky.social
Freedom of the press is on trial in Canada. I just signed to defend independent journalism and stand with @pressprogress.ca. Add your name and help push back against SLAPP-style lawsuits. pressprogress.ca/journalism-defence/petition
Defend Canadian Journalism – Petition
Defend journalism and Canadian democracy! Stand with PressProgress! PressProgress is at the centre of what could be one of the biggest, longest and most expensive media trials in recent Canadian histo...
pressprogress.ca
November 8, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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thedailyshow.com
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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petergleick.bsky.social
Maths...

If you make $100,000 a year (not bad), it will take you 10 MILLION years to earn a trillion dollars.

If you make a million dollars a year (wow!), it'll still take you a million years to earn a trillion dollars.

Tax the rich.
November 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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climatekeith.bsky.social
“This is a guns-not-butter budget with massive new spending on border guards, police & the military, but austerity for programs that care for people and nature,” said [me] “You can’t fight for our future when you are retreating on climate action...
www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...
Feds unveil new climate strategy with no details on Canada’s emission commitments
The federal government’s climate competitiveness strategy promises a stronger industrial carbon pricing system and the prospect of ending the emissions cap on oil and gas production to drive more inve...
www.ctvnews.ca
November 5, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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sethdklein.bsky.social
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget.

Excellent climate analysis of today's federal budget from @hadrianmk.bsky.social...
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
Oil and gas trumps climate action in brutal federal budget
The budget makes clear that fossil fuel production for export is a central pillar of this government’s economic strategy — and that it won’t let climate measures get in the way.
www.nationalobserver.com
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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calgaryclimatehub.ca
South Korea (hey how about it PM #MarkCarney?) #Solar #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition electrek.co/2025/11/02/n...
New national law will turn large parking lots into solar power farms
Starting this month, parking lots in South Korea with more than 80 spaces will be required to install solar canopies and carports.
electrek.co
November 3, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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climatemamaclaire.bsky.social
Let's get these #methane regulations passed, Canada.

Take action today!

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climatemamaclaire.bsky.social Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · Oct 21
💥 Act now! 💥
🔥 Methane is fueling wildfires and extreme #weather.
💨 It’s a super-pollutant heating our planet fast.
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#cdnpoli #climateaction #climateactionnow #forourkids #protectwhatwelove #health www.forourkids.ca/methane_poll...
Support Bold Action on Methane Pollution
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October 26, 2025 at 1:08 AM
anewgoal.bsky.social
Happy UN Day:) an important institution that could enact the will and the conscience of good people. Let’s honour it, let’s make expectations of it, and let’s build it up not tear it down
dropsitenews.com Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · Oct 22
Open Letter: “Jews Demand Action”

Addressed to:
His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations; Presidents, Prime Ministers, Heads of State, and Permanent Representatives to the United Nations.

It is with great relief that we welcome the ceasefire, the release of...
Open Letter: “Jews Demand Action” Addressed to: His Excellency Mr. António Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations; Presidents, Prime Ministers, Heads of State, and Permanent Representatives to the United Nations. It is with great relief that we welcome the ceasefire, the release of Israeli hostages and Palestinian captives, and the hope for an end to the daily killing, destruction, displacement, and starvation in Gaza. And yet there should be no doubt that this ceasefire is fragile: Israeli forces remain in Gaza, the agreement makes no reference to the West Bank, the underlying conditions of occupation, apartheid, and the denial of Palestinian rights remain unaddressed. It was international pressure that helped to secure this ceasefire, and it must be sustained to guarantee that it endures. The ceasefire must be the beginning, not the end. The risk of reverting to a political reality of indifference to occupation and permanent conflict is too great. This same pressure must be continued to deliver a new era of peace and justice for all—Palestinians and Israelis alike. The need for redress long predates October 7th, 2023. The crimes committed by Hamas and other armed factions on that day horrified us. The Israeli actions that followed were unconscionable. We bow our heads in immeasurable sorrow as the evidence accumulates that Israel’s actions will be judged to have met the legal definition of genocide. Attempts are already underway to deny accountability and reassert the same broken playbook of impunity. That cannot pass. We therefore issue this appeal as Jews from all walks of life and across the world. We affirm our belief in the universality of justice and the fair and equal application of international law. We have not forgotten that so many of the laws, charters, and conventions established to safeguard and protect all human life were created in response to the Holocaust. Those safeguards have been relentlessly violated by Israel. Accountability for the Israeli leadership’s grievous violations of international law is necessary. It is time to do everything possible to definitively end the Israeli government’s collective punishment of the Palestinians and to pursue peace for the sake of both peoples. As Jews and as human beings, we declare: Not in our name. Not in the name of our heritage, our faith, or our moral tradition. The monumental scale of the killing and destruction, the forced displacement, the deliberate withholding of life-sustaining necessities, and the ongoing criminal actions in the West Bank must end and never be repeated. We deplore the fact that Israeli leaders have repeatedly taken to the world stage to declare that these actions are committed in the name of the Jewish people, as a manifestation of Jewish destiny. The Israeli government may claim to speak on behalf of the Jewish collective, but it does not speak for us. This affront to our collective conscience cannot stand. It must be challenged. These are not Jewish values nor are they guided by the lessons we draw from our peoples’ history. Instead we see in many of those standing up for Palestinian rights a reflection of the people who stood with Jews in our times of need. Our solidarity with Palestinians is not a betrayal of Judaism, then, but a fulfillment of it. When our sages taught that to destroy one life is to destroy an entire world, they did not carve exceptions for Palestinians. We shall not rest until this ceasefire carries forward into an end of occupation and apartheid. We write in the hope that this initiative further emboldens a moment of renewed Jewish commitment to act with conscience and compassion. We vow to work urgently to achieve equality, justice, and freedom for Palestinians and Israelis.
October 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
anewgoal.bsky.social
thnk you for this @maxfawcett.bsky.social
let’s hope @naheednenshi.bsky.social
is listening
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/22/o...
What is the Alberta NDP waiting for?
The UCP government continues to flirt with separatists, pander to conspiracy theories and get embroiled in ethical scandals. So why is it still on course to win the next election?
www.nationalobserver.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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carlygoodman.bsky.social
The 20th century is all: you had one job
October 21, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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jlisayoung.bsky.social
Got so annoyed while waiting to vote that I wrote a substack post. open.substack.com/pub/lisayoun...
I'd like to speak to the manager!
Go ahead.
open.substack.com
October 20, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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woodward.ca
Our polling place was pretty quiet when we went. I'd say with the additional paperwork and the new (ancient) ballots it took at least twice as long to vote as last election.
woodward.ca Sèafra @woodward.ca · Oct 20
I’m seeing estimates of it taking an average of 20 minutes per person for voters to get and cast their ballots in this municipal election. That’s not including lineup times. That more time than it’s taken me to vote in the past 3 elections combined. Thanks for nothing Danielle Smith.
October 20, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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hamiltonheino.bsky.social
Last night, Fair Vote Canada hosted a conversation with three Canadians originally from countries with proportional representation.

Check out the full webinar on the Fair Vote Canada YouTube channel: youtu.be/-LmNIet76yE?...

#cdnpoli #electoralreform #proportionalrepresentation @fairvote.ca
October 20, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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drdavidkeegan.bsky.social
🚨 This is inexplicable news to share. If in Alberta and you want flu and covid shots for NEXT year (2026-2027), you have only until December 15 of THIS year to order them.

This is not incompetence. It’s a deliberate choice to prevent as many people ..

bookvaccine.alberta.ca/vaccine/s/pr...

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bookvaccine.alberta.ca
October 18, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇

Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.

Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Rolling Stone excerpt about Montana’s ballot initiative to combat Citizens United
October 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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simondonner.bsky.social
Three key points in my recent gov't testimony about Canada's climate efforts:
1) The 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, though bolder than past plans, was not sufficient
2) That plan is not being sufficiently implemented
3) Good climate policy is in the long-term economic interests of Canada
October 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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paulisci.bsky.social
From the editorial page of The Weekly Union, February 8, 1895:
NO MORE millilonaire presidents for America. A MILLIONAIRE president is a tool of Wall Street. WHAT can you expect of a millionaire president.
October 17, 2025 at 11:55 PM
anewgoal.bsky.social
October 17 sticks in my mind.

it’s because it was election day 2015. we booted Harper & thought we’d get Proportional Representation.

Thanks for nothing Justin Trudeau. sorry you didn’t have a backbone to stand up to the Liberal establishment. “My choice to make and I made it” yup ya did. #Fail
October 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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wpierce.bsky.social
"We’ve been serially infecting children with a virus that damages their brains. We know it does this. And we just…. keep doing it?"
juliadoubleday.bsky.social Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · Oct 5
Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...
When Will the Lion Concern Himself
Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days
www.thegauntlet.news
October 6, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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kevinjkircher.com
It's Nobel Prize week! A good time to remember that the economics prize was created by Swedish bankers in 1968 (67 years after the 5 original Nobel prizes) against the wishes of the Nobel family, partly to legitimize neoclassical economics in the public eye and partly to help banks avoid regulation.
Philip Mirowski - Why Is There a Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics?
YouTube video by New Economic Thinking
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October 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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jvipondmd.bsky.social
“It’s economically perverse that the provincial government will spend public money on a project the private sector has balked at, while simultaneously sabotaging private investment in renewable energy projects the market is demanding.”
www.theenergymix.com/albertas-new...
Alberta’s New Pipeline Pitch: Bad for Business, Disastrous for Climate, Analysts Say
Climate advocates and at least one policy analyst are taking Alberta Premier Danielle Smith back to business school after she promised to pitch a new westbound oil pipeline to the federal Major Projec...
www.theenergymix.com
October 4, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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maxfawcett.bsky.social
To the people who lent their credibility to this panel: are you having fun yet?

It might be time to resign while you can still salvage some of it.
thebreakdownab.bsky.social The Breakdown AB @thebreakdownab.bsky.social · Sep 30
At tonight’s “consultation”…

When a high school kid tried to raise concerns about the teachers strike, Bruce McAllister cut the kids mic and then suggested his parents should have beaten him more.

Listen to the clip yourself…

It’s…

Telling.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli
September 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM