@patderoch.bsky.social
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@mark-carney.bsky.social is edging closer to what would amounts to a 'Stupid Bargain' of historical proportions with #alberta and #oilsands companies. A mega 🧵 @theglobeandmail.com #cop30 #oil #expansion #Indigenousrights #cdnpoli #c5 #ICJ www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #StupidBargain 1/
Ottawa, Alberta close to deal that includes oil pipeline to B.C. coast, sources say
Privy Council Clerk Sabia playing key role in brokering accord that would involve tanker ban exemption
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
@mark-carney.bsky.social is edging closer to what would amounts to a 'Stupid Bargain' of historical proportions with #alberta and #oilsands companies. A mega 🧵 @theglobeandmail.com #cop30 #oil #expansion #Indigenousrights #cdnpoli #c5 #ICJ www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... #StupidBargain 1/
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📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at #COP30 as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.”
Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
Canada shamed as “Fossil of the Day” at COP30, for the first time in more than a decade - Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac)
Belém, Brazil, 18 November 2025:
Today at COP30, international civil society denounced Canada as Fossil of the Day—the first time since 2014 that Canada has been singled out for this dishonour.
Foss...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:12 PM
📢 For the first time in over a decade, Canada has been shamed at #COP30 as the “Fossil of the Day” — the most dishonourable award given during COPs to the countries “who are the best at being the worst and doing the most to do the least.”
Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
Read our press release:
shorturl.at/hSGvm
1/ The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board committed US$300 million to Elon Musk's xAI earlier this year, which is building Grokipedia with a promise that it would “purge out the propaganda” he claims infests Wikipedia. #cdnpoli @antihate.ca
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:52 PM
1/ The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board committed US$300 million to Elon Musk's xAI earlier this year, which is building Grokipedia with a promise that it would “purge out the propaganda” he claims infests Wikipedia. #cdnpoli @antihate.ca
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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You don’t call climate change an "existential threat" and the "single biggest investment risk that we face", and then spend the next year pouring $7BN from the Canada Pension Plan into investments which make this crisis worse. That’s reckless and absurd.” #cdnpoli www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/11...
Statement: Facing climate litigation, CPPIB made at least $7.1 billion in new fossil fuel investments in the last year — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet
Facing landmark climate litigation, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments, or CPPIB) has committed at least $7.1 billion to new oil, gas, coal and pipeline assets in the last year....
www.shiftaction.ca
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
You don’t call climate change an "existential threat" and the "single biggest investment risk that we face", and then spend the next year pouring $7BN from the Canada Pension Plan into investments which make this crisis worse. That’s reckless and absurd.” #cdnpoli www.shiftaction.ca/news/2025/11...
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The feds caving to industry will encourage polluting companies to #greenwash, harm companies that have invested in credible environmental efforts, and reduce investor certainty that companies are adequately managing climate-related financial risks. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
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 13, 2025 at 10:06 PM
The feds caving to industry will encourage polluting companies to #greenwash, harm companies that have invested in credible environmental efforts, and reduce investor certainty that companies are adequately managing climate-related financial risks. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/business/com...
As @mark-carney.bsky.social fast-tracks more fossil fuel projects, a reminder that Canada is a global laggard when it comes to reducing emissions.
Canada is a #PetroState that's stuck in the 20th century, and the federal government is making it worse. #cdnpoli 440megatonnes.ca/insight/are-...
Canada is a #PetroState that's stuck in the 20th century, and the federal government is making it worse. #cdnpoli 440megatonnes.ca/insight/are-...
November 13, 2025 at 9:11 PM
As @mark-carney.bsky.social fast-tracks more fossil fuel projects, a reminder that Canada is a global laggard when it comes to reducing emissions.
Canada is a #PetroState that's stuck in the 20th century, and the federal government is making it worse. #cdnpoli 440megatonnes.ca/insight/are-...
Canada is a #PetroState that's stuck in the 20th century, and the federal government is making it worse. #cdnpoli 440megatonnes.ca/insight/are-...
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Chris Turner: The global energy transition has become inevitable, but Canada is still straddling the gap between credible climate action and the fossil fuel status quo.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: A decade after the Paris Agreement, the clean economy is winning
As the world’s climate negotiators gather in Brazil, they must understand that the energy transition is now inevitable
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Chris Turner: The global energy transition has become inevitable, but Canada is still straddling the gap between credible climate action and the fossil fuel status quo.
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
"When a 12-yr-old child has to spend their summer preparing to go to court to enforce Ottawa’s environmental regulations, it highlights Ottawa’s abysmal track record in actually doing the work they are already taking credit for." #cdnpoli @mark-carney.bsky.social www.theenergymix.com/opinion-otta...
Opinion: Ottawa’s Double Standard Leaves Saskatchewan Free to Continue Burning Coal
Nobody likes having to do other people’s jobs for them—especially when it’s the federal government shirking its duty to enforce its own climate laws, leaving ordinary people to step up to the plate. Y...
www.theenergymix.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"When a 12-yr-old child has to spend their summer preparing to go to court to enforce Ottawa’s environmental regulations, it highlights Ottawa’s abysmal track record in actually doing the work they are already taking credit for." #cdnpoli @mark-carney.bsky.social www.theenergymix.com/opinion-otta...
"Subsidizing a dying oil & gas industry and scaling back climate spending moves us in exactly the wrong direction. It is a costly blunder, mainly to the benefit of foreign fossil investors, that makes our economy less competitive in the long-term." #cdnpoli 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 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
"Subsidizing a dying oil & gas industry and scaling back climate spending moves us in exactly the wrong direction. It is a costly blunder, mainly to the benefit of foreign fossil investors, that makes our economy less competitive in the long-term." #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/04/o...
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Rent is high. Groceries are impossible. But instead of taxing billionaires, the govt is pushing Bill C-12 to deport workers.
Syed Hussan explains how migrant blaming is a strategy to distract us.
Stop Bill C-12. Stop the scapegoating:
migrantrights.ca/StopC12
#StatusForAll
Syed Hussan explains how migrant blaming is a strategy to distract us.
Stop Bill C-12. Stop the scapegoating:
migrantrights.ca/StopC12
#StatusForAll
October 30, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Rent is high. Groceries are impossible. But instead of taxing billionaires, the govt is pushing Bill C-12 to deport workers.
Syed Hussan explains how migrant blaming is a strategy to distract us.
Stop Bill C-12. Stop the scapegoating:
migrantrights.ca/StopC12
#StatusForAll
Syed Hussan explains how migrant blaming is a strategy to distract us.
Stop Bill C-12. Stop the scapegoating:
migrantrights.ca/StopC12
#StatusForAll
“This is just another example of the Ford govt’s complete denial of climate breakdown and continuing to put fossil fuel companies ahead of changes that need to happen. It’s a recipe for greatly increasing costs and dragging our feet." #cdnpoli #onpoli #topoli www.theenergymix.com/toronto-call...
Toronto Calls for Portlands Gas Plant Phaseout, Province Plans Decades of Operation
Toronto city council’s plan to cut the community’s dependence on gas-fired electricity is hitting a roadblock from Ontario’s grid operator, which says the city will still need fossil generation beyond...
www.theenergymix.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
“This is just another example of the Ford govt’s complete denial of climate breakdown and continuing to put fossil fuel companies ahead of changes that need to happen. It’s a recipe for greatly increasing costs and dragging our feet." #cdnpoli #onpoli #topoli www.theenergymix.com/toronto-call...
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💥BREAKING💥 Four young Canadians just launched a lawsuit against the Canada Pension Plan investment manager, #CPP Investments, for alleged mismanagement of climate risks.
Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/4okNn1i
Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social
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October 27, 2025 at 2:19 PM
💥BREAKING💥 Four young Canadians just launched a lawsuit against the Canada Pension Plan investment manager, #CPP Investments, for alleged mismanagement of climate risks.
Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/4okNn1i
Read more about the case brought by @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social and @gpllp.bsky.social
👉 bit.ly/4okNn1i
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💥 BREAKING: 4 young Canadians just launched a legal challenge to protect the Canada Pension Plan.
They argue Canada’s $700bn pension fund is failing to manage #climaterisk while investing billions in #fossilfuels – putting our pension savings & the planet in danger. #cdnpoli
They argue Canada’s $700bn pension fund is failing to manage #climaterisk while investing billions in #fossilfuels – putting our pension savings & the planet in danger. #cdnpoli
Legal Challenge to Protect CPP from Climate Risk — Shift - Protect Your Pension and the Planet
www.shiftaction.ca
October 27, 2025 at 3:23 PM
💥 BREAKING: 4 young Canadians just launched a legal challenge to protect the Canada Pension Plan.
They argue Canada’s $700bn pension fund is failing to manage #climaterisk while investing billions in #fossilfuels – putting our pension savings & the planet in danger. #cdnpoli
They argue Canada’s $700bn pension fund is failing to manage #climaterisk while investing billions in #fossilfuels – putting our pension savings & the planet in danger. #cdnpoli
"People don't understand how someone who has championed climate issues for 15 years can suddenly become prime minister of a G7 country and stop talking about climate change," one Liberal MP said, on the condition they wouldn't be named. "What's going on?" #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
ANALYSIS | Will Mark Carney deliver on the climate values he preached as a central banker? | CBC News
Mark Carney spent a decade as one of the most credible voices on climate action and the economy. Now as prime minister, he is scrapping emissions reductions policies, backing LNG projects and talking ...
www.cbc.ca
October 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
"People don't understand how someone who has championed climate issues for 15 years can suddenly become prime minister of a G7 country and stop talking about climate change," one Liberal MP said, on the condition they wouldn't be named. "What's going on?" #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
“The idea that Trans Mountain, in any way, helps fight climate change is absolute disinformation. There's absolutely no way that's true at all, in any sense.” #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/22/n...
Major Projects Office can’t back up its boss’ claim Trans Mountain helps fight climate change
After Dawn Farrell told a House of Commons committee she believes the Trans Mountain pipeline helps fight climate change, Canada’s National Observer asked if the Major Projects Office she leads could ...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:31 PM
“The idea that Trans Mountain, in any way, helps fight climate change is absolute disinformation. There's absolutely no way that's true at all, in any sense.” #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/22/n...
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Since 2016, big banks have directly financed over $15 billion to oil and gas operations in the Amazon rainforest — fueling human rights violations, environmental destruction, and climate chaos. 🧵
October 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Since 2016, big banks have directly financed over $15 billion to oil and gas operations in the Amazon rainforest — fueling human rights violations, environmental destruction, and climate chaos. 🧵
“There has been an unending parade of fossil fuel lobbyists in Ottawa, all getting meetings with various people, including the PM. He is hearing disproportionately from the industries that represented the 20th century economy, not the 21st century.” #cdnpoli thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...
Carney welcomed industry lobby, ignored environmental groups: records | The Narwhal
Records show resource industry lobbyists had regular access to Prime Minister Mark Carney in his first 100 days, while environmental groups were shut out
thenarwhal.ca
October 16, 2025 at 2:06 PM
“There has been an unending parade of fossil fuel lobbyists in Ottawa, all getting meetings with various people, including the PM. He is hearing disproportionately from the industries that represented the 20th century economy, not the 21st century.” #cdnpoli thenarwhal.ca/carney-natur...
"Believing #TMX contributes to the fight against climate change is as bad as saying smoking cigarettes is good for your health.”
“I am shocked that (Dawn Farrell) has not been publicly reprimanded."
... Crickets from @juliedabrusin.bsky.social.
#cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...
“I am shocked that (Dawn Farrell) has not been publicly reprimanded."
... Crickets from @juliedabrusin.bsky.social.
#cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...
Head of Carney’s Major Projects Office thinks Trans Mountain is good for climate
Dawn Farrell, the former CEO of Trans Mountain who now leads the federal government's Major Projects Office told the House of Commons environment committee that the oil pipeline helps fight climate ch...
www.nationalobserver.com
October 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
"Believing #TMX contributes to the fight against climate change is as bad as saying smoking cigarettes is good for your health.”
“I am shocked that (Dawn Farrell) has not been publicly reprimanded."
... Crickets from @juliedabrusin.bsky.social.
#cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...
“I am shocked that (Dawn Farrell) has not been publicly reprimanded."
... Crickets from @juliedabrusin.bsky.social.
#cdnpoli
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/10/n...
"National policies for public infrastructure investments... ought to confer benefits to everyday residents, inc. affordability, reliability, energy security, return-on-investment and competitiveness.
Fossil-fuel investments fall flat on all these metrics." #cdnpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Fossil-fuel investments fall flat on all these metrics." #cdnpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Opinion: Energy market trends should alarm Canadians about investments in the oil-and-gas sector
Andy (Anil) Hira: An examination of energy market trends should alarm Canadians about investments in the oil-and-gas sector.
vancouversun.com
October 3, 2025 at 8:38 PM
"National policies for public infrastructure investments... ought to confer benefits to everyday residents, inc. affordability, reliability, energy security, return-on-investment and competitiveness.
Fossil-fuel investments fall flat on all these metrics." #cdnpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Fossil-fuel investments fall flat on all these metrics." #cdnpoli vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e...
Imagine actually thinking, in 2025, with the world on fire, that building a $50-billion pipeline designed to transport diluted bitumen for another six decades is a "global, moral imperative.”
#cdnpoli #ableg #PetroState globalnews.ca/news/1146005...
#cdnpoli #ableg #PetroState globalnews.ca/news/1146005...
Government of Alberta plans to propose a new oil pipeline to B.C. coast | Globalnews.ca
Alberta Premier Danielle Smith said Wednesday her government will work with advisory group of pipeline operators to develop a proposal for a new pipeline to the B.C. coast.
globalnews.ca
October 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Imagine actually thinking, in 2025, with the world on fire, that building a $50-billion pipeline designed to transport diluted bitumen for another six decades is a "global, moral imperative.”
#cdnpoli #ableg #PetroState globalnews.ca/news/1146005...
#cdnpoli #ableg #PetroState globalnews.ca/news/1146005...
“For us to make 30- or 40-year bets on an industry that by all predictions is going to decline just doesn’t make any economic sense.” But “we have a prime minister who is an economist, who is going against all of the economic indicators.” #cdnpoli #ableg www.theenergymix.com/any-new-oil-...
Any New Oil Pipeline Will Need Massive Taxpayer Subsidies, Analyst Warns
With a “flashing red warning light” heralding years of low oil prices, and a major Canadian fossil company joining its international peers in laying off hundreds of workers, a Simon Fraser University ...
www.theenergymix.com
October 2, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“For us to make 30- or 40-year bets on an industry that by all predictions is going to decline just doesn’t make any economic sense.” But “we have a prime minister who is an economist, who is going against all of the economic indicators.” #cdnpoli #ableg www.theenergymix.com/any-new-oil-...
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#MEDIA: Today marks 10 years since PM Carney’s Tragedy of the Horizons speech, yet our financial system remains underprepared for climate risks and continues to favour investments in fossil fuels over clean energy.
Action is urgently needed: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/29/p...
Action is urgently needed: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/29/p...
PM Carney's "Tragedy of the Horizon" at 10: groups call for stronger action - Environmental Defence
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, CHANGE COURSE, ECOJUSTICE, INVESTORS FOR PARIS COMPLIANCE, SHIFT: ACTION FOR PENSION WEALTH AND PLANET HEALTH Ottawa | Traditional,
environmentaldefence.ca
September 29, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#MEDIA: Today marks 10 years since PM Carney’s Tragedy of the Horizons speech, yet our financial system remains underprepared for climate risks and continues to favour investments in fossil fuels over clean energy.
Action is urgently needed: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/29/p...
Action is urgently needed: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/29/p...
"Is the science of atmospheric physics and chemistry upended by the overwhelming force of Liberal short-term thinking and opportunism?"
#cdnpoli #PetroState www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
#cdnpoli #PetroState www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
Elizabeth May: Where is the ‘brainy and thoughtful’ Mark Carney who warned the world of the dangers of climate change?
Our PM, when he was the governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech 10 years ago that changed the conversation on the threat to climate change on our
www.thestar.com
September 29, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Is the science of atmospheric physics and chemistry upended by the overwhelming force of Liberal short-term thinking and opportunism?"
#cdnpoli #PetroState www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
#cdnpoli #PetroState www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
“Why does anyone think they'll uphold any of their side of any bargain that is made? They did nothing other than fight every single policy, and there are none of these policies now in any serious way.”
#cdnpoli #PetroState #fossilfuels
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n...
#cdnpoli #PetroState #fossilfuels
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n...
Catherine McKenna isn’t buying Carney’s carbon capture grand bargain
In a wide-ranging interview ahead of the launch of her memoir, former climate minister Catherine McKenna warns consequences are coming for the fossil fuel industry, even as the federal government purs...
www.nationalobserver.com
September 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
“Why does anyone think they'll uphold any of their side of any bargain that is made? They did nothing other than fight every single policy, and there are none of these policies now in any serious way.”
#cdnpoli #PetroState #fossilfuels
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n...
#cdnpoli #PetroState #fossilfuels
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/24/n...
🔥 "I want to tax billionaires out of existence." 🔥
Congratulations to my friend and colleague @emilylowan.bsky.social on becoming the new leader of the BC Greens! ✊
#cdnpoli #bcpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Congratulations to my friend and colleague @emilylowan.bsky.social on becoming the new leader of the BC Greens! ✊
#cdnpoli #bcpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. Green Party votes in climate activist Emily Lowan as new leader | CBC News
Emily Lowan, a 25-year-old climate activist, promised Wednesday to build a "formidable political movement" to take on B.C.'s largest corporations, billionaires and big oil.
www.cbc.ca
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🔥 "I want to tax billionaires out of existence." 🔥
Congratulations to my friend and colleague @emilylowan.bsky.social on becoming the new leader of the BC Greens! ✊
#cdnpoli #bcpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Congratulations to my friend and colleague @emilylowan.bsky.social on becoming the new leader of the BC Greens! ✊
#cdnpoli #bcpoli
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...