Nina Staum
@ninastaum.bsky.social
TV Editor. Podcast Producer @ The Climate Lens >> https://www.podcastics.com/podcast/4706/link/
Alberta hiker and nature lover.
Alberta hiker and nature lover.
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'Talk is not action.
#Canada should not back away from holding firms to account for what they say about the #environment. If anything, we should be raising the bar-just as our trading partners in Europe & Asia are doing'
#Accountability comes from the top. Caving to global oligarchs, we’re weakened
#Canada should not back away from holding firms to account for what they say about the #environment. If anything, we should be raising the bar-just as our trading partners in Europe & Asia are doing'
#Accountability comes from the top. Caving to global oligarchs, we’re weakened
Ottawa is scrapping Canada’s greenwashing rules. This is a mistake /via @globeandmail www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com... #CDNpoli #grifters
Opinion: Ottawa is scrapping Canada’s greenwashing rules. This is a mistake
Canada should not back away from holding firms to account for what they say about the environment
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:40 PM
'Talk is not action.
#Canada should not back away from holding firms to account for what they say about the #environment. If anything, we should be raising the bar-just as our trading partners in Europe & Asia are doing'
#Accountability comes from the top. Caving to global oligarchs, we’re weakened
#Canada should not back away from holding firms to account for what they say about the #environment. If anything, we should be raising the bar-just as our trading partners in Europe & Asia are doing'
#Accountability comes from the top. Caving to global oligarchs, we’re weakened
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A dirty deal's being cooked up between the Alberta government & #BigOil so they can stick their MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR cleanup tab on YOU the taxpayer while a grotesquely complicit #AER watches & shrugs. Here's some of the people saying HELL NO #abpoli #PolluterPays www.podcastics.com/episode/3890...
Make Polluters Pay
The Alberta government's dirty deal with Big Oil
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October 22, 2025 at 2:45 PM
A dirty deal's being cooked up between the Alberta government & #BigOil so they can stick their MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR cleanup tab on YOU the taxpayer while a grotesquely complicit #AER watches & shrugs. Here's some of the people saying HELL NO #abpoli #PolluterPays www.podcastics.com/episode/3890...
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Graph is worth a thousand words.
"Anecdotes from teachers, students and parents in other school divisions also suggest class sizes exceed those recommendations, but precise figures are harder to come by.
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"Anecdotes from teachers, students and parents in other school divisions also suggest class sizes exceed those recommendations, but precise figures are harder to come by.
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October 9, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Graph is worth a thousand words.
"Anecdotes from teachers, students and parents in other school divisions also suggest class sizes exceed those recommendations, but precise figures are harder to come by.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
"Anecdotes from teachers, students and parents in other school divisions also suggest class sizes exceed those recommendations, but precise figures are harder to come by.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Honey, wake up, new potential Alberta referendum on ending private school funding just dropped.
October 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Honey, wake up, new potential Alberta referendum on ending private school funding just dropped.
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brb legally changing my name to Jason Undecided and preparing my 2029 mayoral campaign. will be a shoo-in
Calgary - Mayoral Polling:
Farkas: 16%
Gondek: 14%
Sharp: 11%
Davison: 8%
Thiessen: 4%
Clauson: 3%
Prior: 2%
Undecided: 35%
Leger / September 28, 2025 / n=490 / Online
Farkas: 16%
Gondek: 14%
Sharp: 11%
Davison: 8%
Thiessen: 4%
Clauson: 3%
Prior: 2%
Undecided: 35%
Leger / September 28, 2025 / n=490 / Online
October 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
brb legally changing my name to Jason Undecided and preparing my 2029 mayoral campaign. will be a shoo-in
If green energy were in fact a con job, what in fact would be the motive for that con? Please find me the shadowy Big Solar figures pulling the strings of governments around the world. I'm waiting.
September 23, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If green energy were in fact a con job, what in fact would be the motive for that con? Please find me the shadowy Big Solar figures pulling the strings of governments around the world. I'm waiting.
Despite rhetoric that associates non-car infrastructure development with liberal politics, “at the local level, there really isn’t that divide,” Mills said in an interview. Florida, he noted, is a red state with “extremely strong” plans to grow its network of mixed-use trails for bikes & pedestrians
Trump Cancels Trail, Bike-Lane Grants Deemed ‘Hostile’ to Cars
The Trump administration canceled grants for street safety measures, pedestrian trails and bike lanes in communities around the country this month, each time offering a simple rationale for yanking ba...
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September 23, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Despite rhetoric that associates non-car infrastructure development with liberal politics, “at the local level, there really isn’t that divide,” Mills said in an interview. Florida, he noted, is a red state with “extremely strong” plans to grow its network of mixed-use trails for bikes & pedestrians
It's so frustrating to see so many #yyc mayor and council candidates pledging to rescind the climate emergency and blanket rezoning. Didn't both of those policies qualify Calgary to receive a lot of funding? Why is nobody talking about the financial upside?
September 22, 2025 at 4:33 PM
It's so frustrating to see so many #yyc mayor and council candidates pledging to rescind the climate emergency and blanket rezoning. Didn't both of those policies qualify Calgary to receive a lot of funding? Why is nobody talking about the financial upside?
New podcast episode today! Thanks to @bikecalgary.bsky.social and @bigclimate.bsky.social for the great interview! #yyc #abpoli #climate
The data on #Bikelanes are clear & consistent: GREAT for cities in just about every metric you can think of. So why are politicians across Canada attacking them? We dig in with @bikecalgary.bsky.social's Doug Clark & Alyssa Quinney
PODCAST: www.podcastics.com/episode/3835...
#yyc #yyccc #yycbike
PODCAST: www.podcastics.com/episode/3835...
#yyc #yyccc #yycbike
Divide & Conquer: The B.S. Against Bike Lanes
Build barriers between cyclists and cars, not between people and their neighbors.
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September 17, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New podcast episode today! Thanks to @bikecalgary.bsky.social and @bigclimate.bsky.social for the great interview! #yyc #abpoli #climate
For anyone in #yyc looking to get informed, might I recommend @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social's page? www.sprawlcalgary.com/stories/calg... #abpoli
September 17, 2025 at 4:01 PM
For anyone in #yyc looking to get informed, might I recommend @sprawlcalgary.bsky.social's page? www.sprawlcalgary.com/stories/calg... #abpoli
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“Questioning the science" describes exactly what experts do every single day in the scientific literature.
It’s not done in a social media thread among random conspiracy promoters who've never seen a lab.
It’s not done in a social media thread among random conspiracy promoters who've never seen a lab.
September 12, 2025 at 9:57 PM
“Questioning the science" describes exactly what experts do every single day in the scientific literature.
It’s not done in a social media thread among random conspiracy promoters who've never seen a lab.
It’s not done in a social media thread among random conspiracy promoters who've never seen a lab.
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A new update from @environmentaldefence.ca reveals that Big Oil held 159 lobbying meetings with the new Carney gov't in its first three months. That's 355 so far this year, nearly three every workday, often with top decision-makers.
Canada deserves a gov't that serves Canadians, not oil lobbyists.
Canada deserves a gov't that serves Canadians, not oil lobbyists.
New gov’t, same old Big Oil lobby: April–June 2025 Lobbying Update - Environmental Defence
Canada has a new Prime Minister, but the same old fossil fuel industry players are still frequenting the halls of parliament. Lobbyists for Enbridge Inc.,
environmentaldefence.ca
September 2, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A new update from @environmentaldefence.ca reveals that Big Oil held 159 lobbying meetings with the new Carney gov't in its first three months. That's 355 so far this year, nearly three every workday, often with top decision-makers.
Canada deserves a gov't that serves Canadians, not oil lobbyists.
Canada deserves a gov't that serves Canadians, not oil lobbyists.
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Nothing says "Handmaid's Tale" like banning Handmaid's Tale
So regressive & dystopian it feels like, um, The Handmaid’s Tale…👇
“…public school board is yanking more than 200 books from its library…”
“…including literary classics such as author Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’”
MAGA Alberta: edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonto....
“…public school board is yanking more than 200 books from its library…”
“…including literary classics such as author Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’”
MAGA Alberta: edmontonjournal.com/news/edmonto....
Edmonton Public removing more than 200 library books to comply with provincial rules
Edmonton's public school board is yanking more than 200 books from library shelves this year to comply with Alberta government rules.
edmontonjournal.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Nothing says "Handmaid's Tale" like banning Handmaid's Tale
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In an unprecedented move, Rob Morgan, the CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator, has bowed to intense bullying from an Australian-based coal company and cancelled a planned public hearing on a large underground project near the town of Grande Cache.
Take action: shorturl.at/PhopK
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Take action: shorturl.at/PhopK
shorturl.at/GgmMp
Outrage as Plug Pulled on Coal Mine Public Hearing | The Tyee
The CEO of Alberta’s energy regulator pleased a foreign mining firm with an unprecedented order.
thetyee.ca
August 27, 2025 at 9:50 PM
In an unprecedented move, Rob Morgan, the CEO of the Alberta Energy Regulator, has bowed to intense bullying from an Australian-based coal company and cancelled a planned public hearing on a large underground project near the town of Grande Cache.
Take action: shorturl.at/PhopK
shorturl.at/GgmMp
Take action: shorturl.at/PhopK
shorturl.at/GgmMp
"Concerns raised by environmental groups weren’t relevant, added the company, because these groups didn’t live in the area and therefore were not “directly affected.”
. . . studies show that toxic pollutants from coal mining can travel 100 kilometres downwind and 500 kilometres downstream. " #abpoli
. . . studies show that toxic pollutants from coal mining can travel 100 kilometres downwind and 500 kilometres downstream. " #abpoli
Via Andrew Nikiforuk.
Outrage as Plug Pulled on Coal Mine Public Hearing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Outrage as Plug Pulled on Coal Mine Public Hearing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...
Outrage as Plug Pulled on Coal Mine Public Hearing | The Tyee
The CEO of Alberta’s energy regulator pleased a foreign mining firm with an unprecedented order.
thetyee.ca
August 27, 2025 at 10:52 PM
"Concerns raised by environmental groups weren’t relevant, added the company, because these groups didn’t live in the area and therefore were not “directly affected.”
. . . studies show that toxic pollutants from coal mining can travel 100 kilometres downwind and 500 kilometres downstream. " #abpoli
. . . studies show that toxic pollutants from coal mining can travel 100 kilometres downwind and 500 kilometres downstream. " #abpoli
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“Former Alberta deputy premier takes pro-Canada petition to the streets”
#Forever-Canadian
#cdnpoli
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#Forever-Canadian
#cdnpoli
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Former Alberta deputy premier takes pro-Canada petition to the streets | CBC News
Former Alberta politician Thomas Lukaszuk is a man on a not-so-lonely mission to keep Canada from splitting.
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August 25, 2025 at 5:04 AM
“Former Alberta deputy premier takes pro-Canada petition to the streets”
#Forever-Canadian
#cdnpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#Forever-Canadian
#cdnpoli
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Signed the Forver Canadian petition today at Fish Creek Park. If you want to sign too, here's where to find a signing location:
www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-pet...
#abpoli
www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-pet...
#abpoli
August 24, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Signed the Forver Canadian petition today at Fish Creek Park. If you want to sign too, here's where to find a signing location:
www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-pet...
#abpoli
www.forever-canadian.ca/sign-the-pet...
#abpoli
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YOUR #ClimateLens turned 3 years old this month with our 36th monthly episode and one of the best yet featuring super-smart #Urbanism expert @brenttoderian.bsky.social. Host @bigclimate.bsky.social & producer @ninastaum.bsky.social celebrated the occasion with the gang at #ThirdThursday! #yyc
August 22, 2025 at 10:15 PM
YOUR #ClimateLens turned 3 years old this month with our 36th monthly episode and one of the best yet featuring super-smart #Urbanism expert @brenttoderian.bsky.social. Host @bigclimate.bsky.social & producer @ninastaum.bsky.social celebrated the occasion with the gang at #ThirdThursday! #yyc
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Given where we’re at climate-wise we should regard this as criminal.
The fine folks @pembina.org have done the math on the toll of Alberta's UCP government's open war on clean power. Essentially an entire provincial grid's worth of emissions-free energy projects have been cancelled. Spectacular own goal, well done, Danielle Smith and team!
August 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Given where we’re at climate-wise we should regard this as criminal.
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YOUR Calgary Climate Hub in the news again! That's a headline we're proud of! #JustSayNo to the #CarbonCapture pipe dream! #ClimateChange #yyc #abpoli calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
Calgary climate protesters target carbon capture 'pipe dream'
Demonstrators Wednesday morning said they aren't against pipelines or carbon capture, they're against spending tax dollars on them.
calgaryherald.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
YOUR Calgary Climate Hub in the news again! That's a headline we're proud of! #JustSayNo to the #CarbonCapture pipe dream! #ClimateChange #yyc #abpoli calgaryherald.com/news/local-n...
NEW EPISODE: Cities are a vital part of the energy transition, and also the place where we as individuals have the most political impact. Keep that in your brain as we go into municipal elections in Alberta this October. Thanks @bigclimate.bsky.social & @brenttoderian.bsky.social! #yyc #yeg #abpoli
This month's guest is one of the world's TOP urbanists, Canadian @brenttoderian.bsky.social! We talk suburbs, #sprawl, #BikeLanes, why smart #CityBuilding is the common sense climate solution & the awesome responsibility of the city councils we elect. #yyc #yyccc www.podcastics.com/episode/3796...
Brent Toderian & the Common Sense of Climate Smart Cities
Why urban design is a force multiplier in the fight against climate change
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August 21, 2025 at 1:58 PM
NEW EPISODE: Cities are a vital part of the energy transition, and also the place where we as individuals have the most political impact. Keep that in your brain as we go into municipal elections in Alberta this October. Thanks @bigclimate.bsky.social & @brenttoderian.bsky.social! #yyc #yeg #abpoli
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Essential Podcast Alert!!
For all humanity (especially Albertans)
Another excellent podcast by the @calgaryclimatehub.ca.
Please listen and share.
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For all humanity (especially Albertans)
Another excellent podcast by the @calgaryclimatehub.ca.
Please listen and share.
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Geoff Dembicki's Petroleum Papers & Canada's Carbon Capture Con
Podcast Episode · The Climate Lens · 2025-07-23 · 30m
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July 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Essential Podcast Alert!!
For all humanity (especially Albertans)
Another excellent podcast by the @calgaryclimatehub.ca.
Please listen and share.
1/2
For all humanity (especially Albertans)
Another excellent podcast by the @calgaryclimatehub.ca.
Please listen and share.
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NEW EPISODE: In @geoffdembicki.bsky.social 's book, The Petroleum Papers, he tells it like it is: climate inaction wasn't necessary and it wasn't inevitable. Nothing like a well financed disinfo campaign to get people voting against their own interests. Listen on any podcast app & @cjsw.bsky.social
Investigative journalist @geoffdembicki.bsky.social of @desmog.com joins us to talk #PetroleumPapers, what #BigOil really thinks about #CarbonCapture and what it all means for Canada’s so-called #CleanEnergy future
#cdnpoli #abpoli #Climate #EnergyTransition #yyc www.podcastics.com/episode/3772...
#cdnpoli #abpoli #Climate #EnergyTransition #yyc www.podcastics.com/episode/3772...
Geoff Dembicki's Petroleum Papers & the Carbon Capture Con
The backers of carbon capture and storage have lied to us before. Will we believe them this time?
www.podcastics.com
July 23, 2025 at 3:34 PM
NEW EPISODE: In @geoffdembicki.bsky.social 's book, The Petroleum Papers, he tells it like it is: climate inaction wasn't necessary and it wasn't inevitable. Nothing like a well financed disinfo campaign to get people voting against their own interests. Listen on any podcast app & @cjsw.bsky.social
Any scam sounds like more fun if you rebrand it an "art hoax" or a "social experiment"
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How a Canadian's AI hoax duped the media and propelled a 'band' to streaming success | CBC News
A Canadian who duped journalists in an elaborate hoax involving Spotify, AI and a suspicious rock band says he apologizes to anyone hurt by his experiment but that it's been "too fascinating" to turn ...
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July 7, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Any scam sounds like more fun if you rebrand it an "art hoax" or a "social experiment"
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...
www.cbc.ca/news/enterta...