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davidsuzukifdn.bsky.social
Ironically, PM Carney skipped COP30 in Brazil, to announce that the federal government will fast-track the American-owned Ksi Lisims liquefied natural gas project in British Columbia. 👎😒

Media release> dsfdn.org/CarneySkipsC...
November 13, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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rachelgilmore.bsky.social
CBC once again called the Ksi Lisims LNG project “Indigenous-led” on the National last night, despite the fact that it’s 100% American-owned by a Texas shell company, Western LNG.

Yikes!!!!!

Anyway, here’s a very funny video that breaks this down: youtu.be/Lt6Hmp9ndkI?...
Honest Government Ad | Watch out, Canada
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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November 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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sethdklein.bsky.social
We are not living in an era of optional climate policy. We are living in an era of planetary limits where the choices we make in city halls will determine the world our children inherit, @carolmliao.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social write. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/13/o...
Vancouver’s climate leadership is a promise we can’t break
Eliminating the city’s climate and sustainability department is a betrayal of our collective future, write Carol Liao and Naomi Klein
www.nationalobserver.com
November 13, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
15+ years old, but still VERY relevent — and if we had acted 15 years ago, the “better world” we’d be creating would be a LOT better & easier to reach. There are real consequences we’re just starting to see to not heeding this cartoon a lot sooner.

Even worse if we don’t heed it now. #ClimateCrisis
“What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?”
November 12, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
The Uninhabitable United States
What Climate Change Will Do to America by Mid-Century
Many places may become uninhabitable. Many people may be on their own.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:24 PM
winnipegdrummer.bsky.social
Repost with another iconic fictional band!
November 12, 2025 at 3:39 AM
winnipegdrummer.bsky.social
Hey @tomflood.bsky.social & @thewaroncars.bsky.social - Winnipeg could use your help! This is just the latest in severe events here. @akohan.bsky.social
akohan.bsky.social Andrew Kohan @akohan.bsky.social · 2d
This shouldn’t happen. We don’t have to accept it.
November 12, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
Incredibly short-sighted and irresponsible, and completely disconnected from the real values & priorities of Vancouverites. This move would be awful not only for Vancouver, but also for all the cities that Vancouver’s leadership has inspired over decades of North American sustainability leadership.
“The truth about a city’s aspirations isn’t found in its vision. It’s found in its budget.” — Brent Toderian
November 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
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lanrickbennett.bsky.social
Time for Toronto’s #TransformTO to double down on our commitment!

‘Toronto City Council has adopted an ambitious strategy to reduce community-wide greenhouse gas emissions in Toronto to net zero by 2040’

www.toronto.ca/services-pay...

Cc: @toenviro.bsky.social @atmosphericfund.bsky.social
November 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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toondreessen.bsky.social
We lack coherent policy guidance and shoot on our own goal repeatedly. It’s all connected: planning, architecture, budget, transit, housing/land use policy; we’re facing challenges and the same old same old isn’t good enough; @brenttoderian.bsky.social @toderianuw.bsky.social

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November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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toondreessen.bsky.social
I’ve written about this for years. We can and should join @c40cities.bsky.social as leaders; we can and should match our OP and policy to action but 2/ bit.ly/2DZ8vYq
Cities and climate change
Architect Toon Dreessen argues buildings are on the front line in Ottawa’s fight against climate change
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November 11, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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strongtowns.org
The Growth Ponzi Scheme:

A city builds new infrastructure. That development brings in some quick revenue.

But the long-term cost of maintaining all that infrastructure is far greater than the revenue it generates. So when the bills come due, the city doesn’t have any money.
November 10, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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c40cities.bsky.social
As #COP30 opens in Belém, the message from mayors and local leaders is clear: we are ready to help national governments go further and faster. Only together can we meet the challenge of the climate crisis.

@mayoroflondon.bsky.social @eduardopaesoficial.bsky.social @annehidalgo.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
This breaks some people’s brains.

In most cities, Costco stores fuel sprawl & car dependency.

In Vancouver, our full-sized downtown Costco has residential towers above & a skytrain station next door. LOTS of customers don’t drive to it.

We live a block from it. We call it “the convenience store.”
Photo of Costco in downtown Vancouver with residential towers above
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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changecourse-ca.bsky.social
🔥 BREAKING: STUDENTS FIGHT BACK. From coast to coast, students on 9 campuses are rising up to #StopTheZombiePipeline calling out Canada’s Big 5 banks and Carneys "Building Canada Strong" Budget on their billion-dollar fossil fuel deals.

Take Action now! actionnetwork.org/letters/writ...
Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” on the right cutout magazine lookalike reads in Black and white “Breaking News”. In the center open faded mouth in the background with Bold text in first Black reads STUDENT and in White text reads “ DAY OF ACTION” below in smaller font in white reads #BANKSOFFCAMPUS below the Change Course Logo in white. In the background traced in Black the Canadian Parliament building and over a text in Bold white reads “ Students on 9 campuses across “ Canada” Demand Banks divest from fossil fuels respond to Carneys’ “ Building Canada Strong “ budget We demands funds for a just transition! Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” Text below in white reads “ Students are calling on the Big 5 Canadian banks (RBC, BMO, TD, CIBC, and Scotiabank) to stop financing fossil fuel expansion and to respect the Free, Prior and Informed Consent of Indigenous people in all financing decisions. In particular, students are demanding that Canadian banks not finance new liquified natural gas (LNG) build-out in British Columbia, including the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission (PRGT), which the Gitxsan and Gitanyow nations oppose.” In highlighted black and white bold text reads “ BIG 5 BANKS' FOSSIL FUEL FUNDING SINCE 2021 (IN BILLIONS)” Below a graph illustration of the 5 Banks on the left biggest bubble RBC faded logo with $181.4 Billion below, TD faded logo in a emission bubble over a factory and below reads “$141.2 Billion” on the left same graphic with Scotia Bank logo with below reads “ $131.4 Billion”, on the left same graphic with BMO logo below reads “ $98.8 Billion” anf finally CIBC logo below reads “$109.6 Billion” Below the graphic on the left reads in white “ Source: 2025 Banking on Climate Chaos Report” and the Change Course logo on the bottom right in white. Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” Text below in white reads “ Young people are fed up and are protesting the new federal and provincial legislation, which may be used to roll back environmental reviews and has no guarantee of ‘free, prior, and informed’ Indigenous consent being on “projects of national interest.”Opening the doors for Canada’s big 5 banks to pour even more money into climate-wrecking LNG projects. Below in a bubble white box a text reads in black “Students are responding to the recently announced federal budget, which includes $81 BILLION in WEAPONS, BILLIONS MORE for FOSSIL FUEL subsidies, while imposing cuts to public services that will result in the loss of 40,000 jobs. Traced building at the back and change course white logo on the bottom right. Red textured background graphic. Bold textured black text with white outline reads “ STOP THE ZOMBIE PIPELINE” Below in bold Black reads “ Action Alert” and below in smaller and white reads “ WHAT CAN YOU DO SUPPORT STUDENT DOA? 3 bubble white boxes with text reads “ Take our digital action linked in bio” “Tag Journalist!” “Boost our content everywhere” With 3 icons first a hand touching and megaphone icon, a tag follow icon and like heart icon. In the background an open mouth and the parliament building traced in black and the vhange course logo in white below.
November 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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wanderfound.bsky.social
If you buy anything at all from Tesla, you are endorsing a corporation that chose to give a trillion dollars to this man:
November 6, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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thenarwhal.ca
Buried deep in the omnibus bill for its fall economic statement, the Doug Ford government has moved to repeal its own law requiring a climate plan and emissions reduction targets be established, via @fatimabsyed.bsky.social and @meyer.bsky.social

#ONpoli

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Doug Ford’s government is abandoning climate targets | The Narwhal
Ontario is moving to repeal aspects of a law that require the government to create a climate plan and greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets
thenarwhal.ca
November 6, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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brenttoderian.bsky.social
“In May 2025, Scotland’s largest city [Glasgow] reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland or Montreal do a double take: during the morning rush hour, there were more bicycles than cars traveling along Victoria Road, a major artery…” Via @momentummag.bsky.social
When Bikes Outnumber Cars: What Scotland’s Cycling Surge Can Teach North America
Scotland’s largest city reached a milestone that would make any transportation planner in Portland, or Montreal do a double take.
momentummag.com
November 3, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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whitehouse.senate.gov
Here are my three truths about climate:
1. We fail if we don’t end free-to-pollute fossil fuel model. Period. Game over.
2. A crash looms, prefigured by collapse in home insurance/mortgage markets.
3. There are true villains in the story, and we have to tell it that way.
www.gatesnotes.com
November 2, 2025 at 12:44 PM
winnipegdrummer.bsky.social
Go Habs Go!
November 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM
winnipegdrummer.bsky.social
This may hurt in the morning but I’m willing to chance it…
November 1, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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katharinehayhoe.com
If you take the time to read the whole Gates memo (which I did), the bulk of the content was mostly solid and encouraging. Really!

It was the FRAME that was off--very off, from the first line.

And when your framing is off, then how you make decisions and set priorities is off. THAT'S the problem.
My quote from an Axios interview, stating that: People often think of climate change as a separate bucket at the end of a long row of other buckets of problems we're trying to fix that are wrong in the world," Hayhoe told Axios. This includes poverty, disease and access to clean water. "Climate change is not a separate bucket," Hayhoe said. "The reason we care about climate change is that it's the hole in every bucket."
October 30, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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jannisaries.bsky.social
@mark-carney.bsky.social

The Canadian government needs to drop this app as well.

#cdnpoli
carlquintanilla.bsky.social Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 13d
“.. Staying on X when it has become so toxic and ungovernable suggests either weakness or complete naivety. We are living in a world of many malevolent geopolitical actors. Musk’s X is one such actor.”

@drjennings.bsky.social
@lorak.bsky.social
observer.co.uk/news/opinion...
October 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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wired.com
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds. www.wired.com/story/chatbo...
Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 9:08 AM