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Anne Carbert

@accarbert.bsky.social
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Here for informed views on the polycrisis & voices for justice, action, hope, & care … plus sharing some art & natural beauty! Ontario transplant living in Cumberland NS, Mi’kma’ki She/Her

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 3h
“NDP MP Leah Gazan is calling on all governments to take greater action against Residential School denialism after a white nationalist demonstration that took place on Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation on Sunday, September 27.” rabble.ca/indigenous/c...
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Calls grow for action on Residential School denialism after white nationalist gathering at Tk’emlups te Secwepemc First Nation
The white nationalist event happened days the National Day of Truth and Reconciliation and was called an act of Residential School Denialism.
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 3h
Carney begins his announcement of a new oil pipeline by acknowledging the climate-linked wildfire that came close to levelling the town where he's announcing the new oil pipeline. A flat circle.
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Anishinabek Nation @anishinabeknation.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
(2/3) In recognition of #OrangeShirtDay and #NationalDayForTruthAndReconciliation, we encourage all occupants of this land to take the time to learn about the effects of colonization, understand the true history, and have meaningful dialogue about the journey to Reconciliation.
TW: Readers may be triggered by the recount of Indian Residential Schools. To access a 24h National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419.TW: Readers may be triggered by the recount of Indian Residential Schools. To access a 24h National Crisis Line: 1-866-925-4419.
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We must confront “the slow creep of residential school denialist rhetoric into mainstream discourse”
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Kim Fahner @kimfahner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
As part of a global effort to demand regulation for artificial intelligence developers, The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) has launched a Parliamentary Petition calling for radical transparency for AI training processes and the works they subsequently produce. www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Residential school denialism is out of control, and it’s time Canada called it what it is: hate.” indigenousinsider.substack.com/p/got-bones-...
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“Got Bones?” Masked White Supremacists Descend on Tk’emlúps, Three Days Before Truth and Reconciliation Day
They hid their faces but wanted to be seen. Residential school denialism is out of control, and it’s time Canada called it what it is: hate.
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Jane Shi | 皮爬高 echolalia echolalia is out now @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
white supremacist residential school denialists have been gathering in kamloops and it's just horrible. if you aren't familiar with residential schools in so-called canada, please read Tanya Talaga's The Knowing, among others. consider donating: www.irsss.ca give directly to Indigenous ppl
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IRSSS | Indian Residential School Survivors Society
The Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) is a non-profit organization and registered Canadian charity dedicated to helping Survivors and their families heal from the lasting impacts of ...
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Deb Jeffrey @debjeffrey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
As of March 31, 2026, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board held shares valued at over $24 billion in publicly-traded fossil fuel companies. That is wrong on so many levels. Our money is being invested in companies which are responsible for climate change & are putting our future in grave danger.
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Chris and his farmily of forever farm friends @caenhillcc.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
An evening toast run with our sheep Squirrel & Bumblebee #toast
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit
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SCP @10-5.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It’s actually discouraging how much of the discourse gets diverted to “AI good or AI bad” when the obvious and more pressing issue is “AI *companies* are definitely bad”
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PEN International @peninternational.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Take action with us and sign our petition demanding #ProofOfLife: www.pen-international.org/proof-of-lif...
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25 Years Disappeared: Proof of Life Now — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide
Join PEN International, PEN Eritrea in Exile and PEN Centres worldwide in demanding proof of life for Eritrea's disappeared journalists and writers.
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Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights @rwchr.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Imagine being taken from your family and disappearing for 25 years. No calls. No visits. No trial. No justice. This is not a nightmare. This is Dawit Isaak's reality. Don't let the world forget. Join the call for Dawit Isaak here: raoulwallenbergcentre.org/en/freedawit #FreeDawitIsaac
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Virtual session Tuesday afternoon Sept 23nd: join Zoom from anywhere! > Indigenous Perspectives on Al, Technology, and Climate Solutions Register: www.indigenousclimateaction.com/events/new-y...
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Listened to this during my veggie garden times this week. It was great! (I weed and harvest with podcast convos going to let the local bears know I’m there — and I learn stuff! Ologies is my favourite choice. 🙂)
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International Energy Agency @iea.org · 20/09/2026
The way the world generates its electricity continues to evolve. Renewables are on track to become the world's largest source of electricity generation in 2026, overtaking coal after reaching near parity in 2025. Learn more 👉 buff.ly/IvAG7cp
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Kai, a very old GenX 🇨🇦 @kaicable.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Patriotic Calls to Support ‘Canada’s’ Oil are BullShit. Four companies dominate oilsands production - Canadian Natural Resources, Cenovus, Imperial Oil and Suncor - are close to 3/4 foreign-owned, mostly by the US. These corps account for 80% of oilsands production. #cdnpoli shorturl.at/VQgVF
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Why Patriotic Calls to Support ‘Canada’s’ Oil Ring Hollow | The Tyee
As Trump’s US rakes in oilsands profits, we’re sold a clouded narrative of energy sovereignty.
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John Clarke @johncke.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
..the legislation comes after a big push from federally regulated industries to provide more stability and predictability in places like ports, railways and air travel.' The decoded version is, #Carney will launch a major attack on #workersrights.' www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...
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Feds could introduce new labour legislation as soon as next week: sources
A senior government source tells CTV News that plans are underway to introduce such legislation following a review of the Canadian Labour Code that began in April.
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
E-petition in support of seniors receiving disability benefits: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... At age 65, CPP Disability automatically converts to a standard CPP pension and the Canada Disability Benefit ends. Loss of these supports ($810.46/month) is a hardship for seniors with disabilities.
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Sign this Petition - Petitions
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
“It is time for Canada to recognize that our resources on our lands are not theirs to give or to barter away to attract investment, but belong to the Anishinabek Peoples, who are the stewards of this land since time immemorial” www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
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Grand chief tells Carney summit resources 'are not theirs to give'
The grand council chief of the Anishinabek Nation tells investment summit that Canada can't give away resources that 'aren't theirs to give.'
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Cindy Blackstock @cblackst.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Increasingly the ISC - the federal department that was repeatedly found to discriminate against First Nations children wants control over them and to turn their back on First Nations and evidence supported solutions- and that will cost children’s childhoods and more money. www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Chief says Canada blocking effort to take back control of child and family services | CBC News
A Cree chief in Ontario is accusing the Carney government of blocking his community's effort to take back jurisdiction over child welfare by imposing financial terms on any handover of jurisdiction — ...
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Cindy Blackstock @cblackst.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Stop fighting kids in court and use the money to follow legal orders for ISC to stop discriminating against children www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
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Carney government files 3rd court challenge in First Nations child welfare complaint | CBC News
The Carney government has filed its third court challenge in a year as a longstanding fight with First Nations organizations over the future of their communities' child and family services continues. ...
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
E-action! The Carney gov’t plans to list a new West Coast tar sands pipeline as a "project of national interest" that will bypass critical environmental protections and undermine Indigenous rights. Use this e-letter tool to flood the public consultation before 5pm today! share.nwmd.social/s/nJmKKtF2
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No Pipelines on a Burning Planet
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Linda McQuaig @lindamcquaig.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
This has nothing to do with standing up to Trump. Carney is exploiting our loathing of Trump to remake Canada in interests of corporate elite. #cdnpoli www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Linda McQuaig: Carney is using our loathing of Trump to remake Canada in alarming ways
As long as Donald Trump hovers menacingly over the country, Carney has enormous leeway to remake Canada in ways that would — under normal circumstances — alarm many Canadians.
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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
AI will kill us all (IF we let it). Not talking here about rogue AI agents, I'm talking about rogue tech oligarchs helping to torch the planet with major new investments in fossil fuel infrastructure.
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US Data Centers Set to Burn More Natural Gas Than Most Nations
Data centers in the United States will consume more natural gas than most countries within a decade, according to a new outlook from BloombergNEF.
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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 15/09/2026
Airport privatization is coming to Canada. Senior Economist @davidmaccdn.bsky.social shows why it's a bad deal for Canadians. @policyalternatives.ca #cdnecon #canlab www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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Air travel in Canada is about to get more expensive | CCPA
The impacts of airport privatization on travellers and workers
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Fridays For Future Ottawa @ottawaclimate.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Why we are marching: This is the climate impacts map which shows that so far in 2026, 930 communities have faced climate impacts with well over half of Canada's population impacted. elbowsupforclimate.ca/climate-impa...
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Climate Impacts Map 2026 - Elbows Up For Climate / Retroussons-nous les manches
The below list includes communities and regions affected by climate impacts in Summer 2025. It totals more than 200 locations.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
There are any number of reasons to question each of Carney’s policies. But it might help to go to the root of the problem: Mark Carney is pre-empting an actual discussion of what kind of Canada Canadians want to build. This is not how our liberal democracy is supposed to work.
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Armine Yalnizyan @armineyalnizyan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Stay focused: Nothing about the Investment Summit prohibits investors from "Buying Canadian" - Canadian long term care, childcare, doctors' offices, day surgeries, apartment buildings, as a tsunami of private equity forms. How about some rules to prevent that? www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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To save Canada, Mark Carney is courting foreign money. He’s risking an ‘investment invasion’
The care economy is looking tempting to foreign investors but that mustn’t be used as a reason to privatize sectors like health.
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
"These billionaires make decisions behind closed doors in our city to decide our futures. Our future is not for sale.” www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Over 1,000 protesters demonstrate against Carney's investment summit in Toronto | CBC News
More than 1,000 demonstrators have gathered in downtown Toronto on Monday to protest against an investment summit organized by Prime Minister Mark Carney.
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rax ‘levon honkers’ king @raxkingisdead.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
just leave me behind then! no problem! don’t let the door hit ya! www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...
If an Al future is what I'm getting left behind from, then Christ, just leave me behind.
A girl can only pivot so much, hoss, and I hung up my pivotin' boots some time ago. I don't make videos even though that was supposedly the future of writing ten years ago — I mean, I guess I do, but they're little banjo practice videos for my friends, not expressions of a desperate careerist impulse. I use social media with the attention-crazed dopesickness of an addict, not the care and forethought of a professional, as any cursory read of my posts will confirm. I'm a writer by trade — a creative, as you might say — and here you are, running a business you don't even understand into the ground, deskilling my trade and experting a thank you when you explain how you're doing it. If I don't devalue myself the way you continually devalue me, you warn, I'll be left behind. Okay, says !! Quit making it my problem and go! The dust you leave me in will settle, and in the meantime, I will keep doing my work in much the way I've done it since I first became literate.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 10/09/2026
I wish I shared the minister’s confidence that Canadians (let alone all humans) are well protected from the many different dangers of AI. www.thestar.com/politics/fed...
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AI minister says ‘warnings are not new’ as experts predict the technology could wipe out humanity
Canada's artificial intelligence minister says Ottawa is monitoring the risks posed by AI as researchers at tech giant Anthropic warn that the increasingly powerful technology could potentially eradic...
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
You’ve gotta use AI because it’s the future. But also it’ll take your job. But also it’ll create a paradise on earth and solve most of our problems. But also it’ll end humanity soon. But also you’ll get left behind if you don’t use it right now.
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Ayana Elizabeth Johnson @ayanaeliza.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Is it strategic to publish my 2,000+ word manifesto about a UN climate report on Sunday night of a holiday weekend? Nope! Here ya go. Does the UN call for a “renewable energy revolution” and “transformational change” of our society? Yep! Here for it. ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/i-read-the...
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I read the new UN climate report so you don't have to.
TL;DR they are calling for radical transformation of our society.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 07/09/2026
I think the answer is that a lot of people didn’t read it.
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Erika Shaker @ershaker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-... ‘Scientists who contributed to the paper shared their concern that a report of this magnitude was quietly released by the federal government.’
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‘Effectively irreversible’: Changes to Canada’s climate permanent, federal report says
The effects of climate change are impacting Canadians even more than scientists predicted less than a decade ago, according to a new report released this week.
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Yes! But also: We need alternatives for social *media* — it’s not just tech. I live in an area with no local news outlets. Local govts and orgs post news and events on Facebook. Local residents create FB groups to organize. I hate big tech but I don’t want to leave my only community news source.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Do not be saying feminism is over or got overturned or women are worse off when it comes to rights than they used to be if you're talking about the bad old days before second wave feminism. Thread below:
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Let’s not open a door for a private for-profit health insurance market in Canada for medically necessary health care. The Canada Health Act prohibits it and for good reason. Canadians value universal public health care! #CdnPoli
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It also opens the door for a private for-profit health insurance market in Canada for medically necessary health care — which has never existed in this country, until now, because the Canada Health Act prohibits it and for good reason. Canadians value universal public health care! #CdnPoli
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Liz @stayathomecommie.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
awareness of the world's problems shouldn't be your entire life. you need a break. but i also hate this tendency to say "well the news is stressful and i'm powerless so let's just tune out and let somebody else worry about it." collective will begets collective action. knowledge begets will.
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
PM Carney: The climate plan was too divisive. Strength in unity! Our energy plan can be both dirty and clean! So his climate plan is “Trust me”. Why are the young folks into plans but not unity? The PM’s gonna tell them in court the Climate Accountability Act doesn’t require being accountable.
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World BEYOND War @world-beyond-war.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Governments spend billions helping create the conditions that force people from their homes, then spend billions more treating those displaced people as security threats. #NoWar2026 is about connecting those dots: war, forced migration, and the border industry: buff.ly/WtYpS2d
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Did anyone ask PM Carney this week about his support for the US “Golden Dome”? Seems like a timely question. Why would Canada support this?
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 22/08/2026
it would be a good day for mark carney to finally cancel the f-35 fighter jet contract
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Proposed changes “give Carney and his cabinet the ability to establish ‘federal economic zones’ where they could then pre-approve industrial development. Cabinet would also gain the power to pre-approve pipelines … and exempt them from federal impact assessments.” www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Proposed changes to endangered species law would 'stab it to death,' says scientist | CBC News
The former chairs of a panel that advises the federal government on endangered wildlife have published an open letter highlighting concerns over proposed changes to the Species At Risk Act, which they...
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Raisa Patel @raisapatel.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
What’s more, if Alberta fails to address concerns that its law potentially violates the Canada Health Act, Ottawa may trigger a process to slap discretionary penalties on the province: something a federal government has never done before.
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Beautiful clouds yesterday near Amherst Nova Scotia ⛅️
Big puffy cloud with the sun behind it and dramatic light and darkBig puffy cloud with some blue sky behind and marsh grassland belowBig puffy clouds some dark and some white above a field with some wind turbines 
 A mix of wispy and fluffy clouds, white and grey, with some blue sky
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UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency @unhcr.org · 14/08/2026
More than 650,000 refugees and asylum seekers in South Sudan risk losing further access to lifesaving food, nutrition and other assistance due to critical funding shortfalls, leaving families who fled war and hunger with nowhere else to turn. www.unhcr.org/news/press-r...
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Anne Carbert @accarbert.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Also: Canada came 61st out of 76 countries on the 2026 Climate Change Performance Index and scored a rating of "highly insufficient" in Climate Action Tracker’s November 2025 report.
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