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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Elon Musk just landed his private jet in Vancouver, hopped in a helicopter to Bella Bella… Alleged visit to the Murdoch billionaire apocalypse bunker in Bella Coola - Fox News Founder and Tesla board member. Yet another reason to tax billionaires out of existence, luxury bunkers and all. #bcpoli

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Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

BC government admits LNG goals ruin clean BC goals so they're asking us how else they can have their pie and eat it too: thetyee.ca/News/2025/07...

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BC Seeks Comments on Its Faltering CleanBC Climate Plan | The Tyee

The government has admitted problems. Now you can offer ideas for change.

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Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Important podcast on the PRGT pipeline that is a must listen for anyone who cares about Indigenous rights, the climate emergency, or the fate of B.C.: open.spotify.com/episode/3EIk...

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BC’s PRGT pipeline was approved. What’s next? (w/ Kai Nagata)

Break In Case of Emergency · Episode

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Seems like Trump’s most powerful advisor being a white nationalist should inspire greater alarm than the possible mayor of new york being pro palestinian rights

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Amanda Follett Hosgood @amandafollett.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Update: Super cool and normal response from an official political party in BC.

The image shows a kissing emoji and says "mwa to the Tyee bed wetters for this hilarious hit piece on our staff. Run for the hills, Marxist hacks."

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 25/06/2025

INVESTIGATION: Aamjiwnaang First Nation has spent decades battling industrial emissions from Sarnia’s Chemical Valley. Documents show the Ontario government also knew stricter pollution rules were needed long before it acted. via @emmamci.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/sarnia-ontar...

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Shape-shifting pollution rules in Ontario’s Chemical Valley | The Narwhal

Aamjiwnaang First Nation declared another evacuation order last week because of benzene, but the problem of Sarnia’s toxic air pollution has been years in the making

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Mickey Kuhns @mickeykuhns.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Zohran Mamdani is poised to become the Democratic nominee for New York mayor. The 33-year-old democratic socialist declared victory in the party's primary on Tuesday, defeating his main rival and political veteran Andrew Cuomo who previously served as state governor.

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Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Eastern Canada is beginning to understand what we've been going through for years now.

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Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Wow, what the hell. Way to gaslight me Google AI. Also, does anyone know how to get rid of this stupid automatic AI search feature in my Chrome browser? - Sincerely, woman with "strong opinions"

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Although Indigenous human rights and dignity have always been under attack, we remain resistant and strong. Beauty, strength, resilience, we continue to make ancestors proud. Today especially, and every day, is a good day to be Indigenous! Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! 🧡

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

On National Indigenous Peoples Day, we celebrate First Nations, Inuit, and Métis cultures, traditions, and history! June 21st marks our Summer Solstice, welcoming renewal and celebration, a day filled with much cultural significance for many Indigenous peoples.

Graphic for National Indigenous Peoples Day, dated June 21st, 2025. The background is bright orange with feather illustrations. A blue sign in the center reads: “Celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day – Upholding First Nation, Inuit, and Métis peoples and their traditions, culture and contributions!” Below are images of a feather, an inukshuk, and a Métis flag. Text at the bottom reads: “MP Leah Gazan | Winnipeg Centre.”

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Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Demand Carney stops Bill C-5 and invests in a climate-safe future NOW Wildfires, floods, rising costs—Canada needs real climate leadership now. Tell PM Carney: No more handouts to Big Oil. Invest in people & the planet. act.stand.earth/page/83920/p...

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Demand Carney stops Bill C-5 and invests in a climate-safe future NOW

Wildfires, floods, rising costs—Canada needs real climate leadership now. Tell PM Carney: No more handouts to Big Oil. Invest in people & the planet.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

A troubling development: Multiple councillors have told Canada’s National Observer that they did not receive warnings from the Federation of Canadian Municipalities about KICLEI's misinformation campaign, even though it knew politicians were being exposed. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/18/i...

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A US climate conspiracy has spread to Canada — and local politicians haven’t been warned

Councillors have been left scrambling to warn their colleagues before more municipalities abandon their net-zero commitments, after conspiracy theories resurrected from the US Tea Party swamped their ...

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Bill C-5 fails to uphold the constitutional obligation to seek and obtain the free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous rights holders, violating UNDRIP. (1/3)

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Bill C-5 violates the constitutional obligation to consult and accommodate Indigenous peoples, diminishes environmental oversight, and puts workers and communities at risk.

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Paul Doroshenko / Prairie Paul🇺🇦🇨🇦 @pauldoroshenko.com · 16/06/2025

For the first time in history, a convicted criminal U.S. President has been allowed in Canada.

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Any person who silences an Indigenous woman standing up for her lands, territory, and resources for power, privilege, and prestige is no human rights defender. History remembers those who were fake allies to human rights. Monday night debate thoughts!

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

I finally heard back from government departments about some worrying provisions in the massive new border bill, Bill C-2. There’s just one hitch: their response got key information wrong, which suggests the government might not be aware of what’s in their own bill. I’ve got the receipts:

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Stand.earth @stand.earth · 11/06/2025

Earlier today we were at B.C. Minister of Energy and Climate Solutions Adrian Dix’ office with our friends at @wildernews.bsky.social ‬to deliver a petition with 10,000+ names calling on him to reject FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG expansion. Read more: bit.ly/43ZW88k #BCPoli #TilburyLNG 📷 Dani Costelo

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God @thegodshow.com · 11/06/2025

Thou Shalt Not Fire Reporters for Standing Against Fascism.

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 11/06/2025

What’s going on around Grand Forks, B.C.? In 2018, devastating floods displaced more than 100 families — and the threat of more floods remains. Trouble in the Headwaters is a short doc exploring the upstream impacts of industrial clearcut logging in the Kettle River watershed. Stay tuned 📽️

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

I like this Gavin more than podcast Gavin.

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Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Carney's sweeping omnibus bill could open the door to ICE-style deportations happening on Canadian soil. Canadians were clearly duped by this man. This Bill has legislation that is literally worse than what Trump has on his books. This is entirely unCanadian. www.canadaland.com/podcast/134-...

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#134 Is Carney’s Bill C-2 ‘Much Worse Than Trump’?

The Liberals’ first piece of legislation, Bill C-2 is a sweeping 139-page omnibus bill.

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Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

British Columbians do NOT want to pay for our own demise. Plain and simple. @davidebybc.bsky.social Stop giving taxpayer funded handouts to foreign-owned fossil fuel corportations! Stop making us pay for the destruction of our climate! Public $$$ for polluters is like paying for our own suicide.

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Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Imp New Poll: The vast majority of Canadians and British Columbians don't want taxpayer dollars paying for foreign-owned LNG infrastructure. 54 percent of British Columbians support pausing further LNG development until an independent health impact assessment is conducted. cape.ca/press_releas...

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Fewer Than 2 in 10 Canadians Want Their Tax Dollars Going To Largely Foreign-Owned Companies To Build More LNG Projects - CAPE

With Canada’s first LNG export terminal opening in a matter of weeks, fewer than two in 10 Canadians, or 18 per cent, want their tax dollars going to largely foreign-owned oil and gas companies to bui...

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Leah ProudLakota (she/her) @leahgazan.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Today along with NDP colleagues I joined members to the Global March to Gaza, a campaign of human rights advocates traveling to the Rafah border to demand humanitarian access to Gaza.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Protesters being arrested in Dallas now

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Frances Moore Lappé @francesmoorelappe.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Got democracy--or want it? Unionize. Hope is increasingly hard to find today. But we must keep fighting to give more people a voice. As Jaz Brisack astutely argues, "growing democracy in the workplace is our best line of defense for democracy outside of it." www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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Want to Save Democracy? Organize a Union in Your Workplace.

Authoritarian regimes make crushing unions a top priority for a reason: Strong, independent unions are the best safeguard against tyranny.

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Eric Doherty @ericdoherty.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

It is a good sign when politicians who were laggards last month - part of the problem - suddenly start trying to position themselves as leaders. When the people lead, formerly spineless politicians often follow (and occasionally grow real backbones in the process). #NoKings #California

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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Moderate, inside-voice, policy-wonk liberalism has allowed our society to descend into nativist, eugenicist, segregationist hellscape straight out of 1920. It has refused to consider how these ideas spread and refused to fight back as they have.

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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 10/06/2025

As B.C. prepares to fast-track mining projects, a watchdog warns that foregoing regulations and environmental assessments could harm land, water, public health and relations between First Nations and the provincial government. thenarwhal.ca/mining-dirty...

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‘Dirty dozen mines’ spotlight B.C.'s fast-track gamble on gold and silver projects | The Narwhal

Mining regulations and environmental assessments in B.C. are supposed to protect the environment and public health and safety, but that’s not always what happens

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Land of the free.

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Climate Justice Victoria @climatejusticeyyj.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

You already know this, but it needs to be repeated. Say it. Repeat it. "Accelerating climate change, largely from the burning of fossil fuels, makes wildfires bigger, hotter, and more frequent" (2023) climateinstitute.ca/news/fact-sh... #cdnpoli #bcpoli #mbpoli @johnvaillant.bsky.social

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FACT SHEET: Climate change and wildfires in Canada

With Canada warming twice as fast as the global average, the country is now experiencing this consequence of global heating firsthand.

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Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

You know, as an elder millennial Canadian, I'm not okay with hot 30 degree days. I miss the deep cold. I miss thinking 22 was a hot summer day. I t's not even summer yet and we hit 29 degrees yesterday! I miss all of my memories in the snow and on the ice. I miss snow in July.

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Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Well, yesterday Lytton hit another high temperature record, so it doesn't seem to be playing out very well.

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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Decarbonized oil doublespeak may not be new but it was jarring coming from the mouth of Prime Minister Mark Carney, who has an undeniable grasp of the impacts of hydrocarbons. @chrishatch.bsky.social writes for @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/09/o...

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There is no such thing as "decarbonized oil"

The decarbonized doublespeak may not be new but it was jarring coming from the mouth of our new PM, who has an undeniable grasp of the impacts of hydrocarbons but nevertheless talked about “decarboniz...

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

This stuff doesn’t look very protect-and-serve-y

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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Carney's Building Canada Act could become a bigger giveaway to oil & gas lobby than Harper’s 2012 omnibus bill that launched Idle No More movement & kicked pipeline battles into high gear. We can do better: fast track climate solutions, not fossil fuels www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/st...

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Breaking down the Building Canada Act: Fast track climate solutions, not fossil fuels - Greenpeace Canada

The federal government's proposed fast track legislation could become a bigger giveaway to the oil & gas lobby than Harper’s 2012 omnibus bill, if we let it.

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Ashley Zarbatany @ashleyzarbatany.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

What a climate criminal. Shameless. How these politicians can sleep at night, I do not know. We're in a climate emergency, the country is burning up, and these fools are out there peddling FRACKED FOSSIL GAS that's only going to kill us all.

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