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A diverse group of Calgarians coordinating & mobilizing local climate change action. #yyc #yyccc #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateSky

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Lawrence Vulis @lvulis.bsky.social · 10h
Extremely excited for this panel after our speaker prep call. We now have Avantus in addition to EDF and Wright on Communications and the panelists are gonna knock folks socks off about how to get clean energy projects built. Maybe even data center discussion 🤔
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm 🇨🇦🇬🇧☮️⚛️🇺🇦🌈🦋 @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 10h
What Canada’s Wildfire Media Coverage Is Missing: Climate Change - Re.Climate reclimate.ca/what-canadas...
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What Canada’s Wildfire Media Coverage Is Missing: Climate Change - Re.Climate
When wildfires strike, the news focuses on what’s happening now. But Canadians also need to understand why wildfires are getting worse and what can be done to solve it.
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm 🇨🇦🇬🇧☮️⚛️🇺🇦🌈🦋 @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 10h
Tilbury LNG got key green light right before B.C.’s snap election call | The Narwhal thenarwhal.ca/bc-fortisbc-...
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The election is on. So is B.C.’s push for more LNG
B.C. issued a key approval for a massive expansion of FortisBC’s Tilbury LNG facility one day before calling a snap election, putting the province’s push for LNG squarely in the political spotlight
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 9h
#yyc #Resilience #Adaptation #Mitigation #BuyLocal #Community #ClimateChange #ArushaCentre
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 9h
"What's an activist to do? JUST LAST WEEK The United Nations told us the former must-not-cross-line of 1.5 degrees of global heating is officIally toast. Canada's federal government *very* quietly released a damning report on Canada's changing climate in a long weekend Friday news dump..." #cdnpoli
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Energy Innovation @energyinnovation.org · 18h
🔌💡 "Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for #energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes." @apnews.com's Jennifer McDermott reports apnews.com/article/clim...
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Households will pay more for energy because of federal policy changes, think tank says
Households in the contiguous United States will pay thousands of dollars more for energy through 2040 because of federal policy changes since President Donald Trump returned to office, such as canceli...
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Charlie Richmond (Gyro Gearloose) 311.3ppm 🇨🇦🇬🇧☮️⚛️🇺🇦🌈🦋 @charlierichmond.bsky.social · 18h
BC’s Big, and Now Secret, Natural Gas Giveaway | The Tyee thetyee.ca/News/2026/09...
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BC’s Big, and Now Secret, Natural Gas Giveaway | The Tyee
Tax credits let companies pay little for resources. What do the parties say?
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18h
When climate scientists say things are going to be horrendous, people find out many years later that we’re right. With this El Niño, the “find out” part will come in months.
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Ritz 🍁 @ritzmotu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At what point does DS admit that nobody wanted this & cancel this joke of a "direct democracy" referendum? For crying out loud, it's egregious ginning up this divisive boondoggle simply to try to save her political skin. #ableg #abpoli
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Investigative Journalism Foundation @theijf.org · 01/10/2026
Vancouver’s airport said in 2016 that privatization would be an “irreversible mistake.” Now, that’s exactly what the federal government plans to do for YVR and Canada’s other three largest airports. zurl.co/bmDkw
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/09/2026
And more: it’s past time for our governments to fulfill the long-unfinished 79 calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/09/2026
So it’s more important than ever for every one of us to uphold the truth, stand with residential school survivors, and continue to share their stories.
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 01/10/2026
Overwhelmed by huge world events over which you have literally no control? We get it. That's why on this month's show we bring you our good pal #GeraldWheatley who has been one of Calgary's biggest champions on building LOCAL resilience, community & justice www.podcastics.com/episode/4338... #yyc
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Global Chaos, Local Solutions
featuring Gerald Wheatley
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For Our Kids - Alberta @forourkidsalberta.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Ten US states have made plug-in solar affordable. Zero Canadian provinces. Add your name for plug-in solar for Alberta. It takes 30 seconds! 🔌 🌞 pluginsolarpower.ca/alberta
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Alberta | Plug-In Solar for Canada
An estimated 4 to 5 million European homes use a plug-in solar kit to cut their power bill. Help unlock certified kits across Canada, province by province and federally.
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 01/10/2026
#yyc #Resilience #Adaptation #Mitigation #BuyLocal #Community #ClimateChange #ArushaCentre
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 01/10/2026
Overwhelmed by huge world events over which you have literally no control? We get it. That's why on this month's show we bring you our good pal #GeraldWheatley who has been one of Calgary's biggest champions on building LOCAL resilience, community & justice www.podcastics.com/episode/4338... #yyc
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Global Chaos, Local Solutions
featuring Gerald Wheatley
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 01/10/2026
www.podcastics.com/episode/4338...
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Global Chaos, Local Solutions
featuring Gerald Wheatley
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Patty Lane @pattylane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
A Calgary teen turned fruit peels into a plastic-free farming solution @climateinstitute.bsky.social @climatesolutions.org @climatesollab.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org @katharinehayhoe.com @calgaryclimatehub.ca www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/21/o...
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A Calgary teen turned fruit peels into a plastic-free farming solution
Gayatri Sakharkar has invented a substitute for agricultural plastic film that leaves no toxic trace because it is made from orange and pineapple peels. She is a 15-year-old, Grade 10 student from Cal...
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John Woodside @woodsideful.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If we had high environmental standards in this country we wouldn’t be in the business of building a new oil pipeline in 2026
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For Our Kids Canada @forourkidscanada.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Deadline extended! Share your e-bus video with us by October 16. www.forourkids.ca/electric_sch...
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 01/10/2026
Imagine a room full of brilliant jazz musicians, all playing solos, none of them listening to each other. That's climate communication right now--and we have the data to prove it. Join @fisherdanar.bsky.social, @bernwoodsplacky.bsky.social & I on our @tccollab.bsky.social webinar today, 3pm ET!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Who’s Really Talking About Climate Change?. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Climate concern is everywhere. Climate conversations are almost nowhere. That’s why the Talking Climate Collaborative is bringing together new research and practical action. Join us to explore findin...
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Ann Petersen-Kane @anniegirl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
She Died in a Residential School and Was Buried in Secret thewalrusca.substack.com/p/she-died-i...
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She Died in a Residential School and Was Buried in Secret
It took eighty-three years to bring Denise Boucher home
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🌊 The concerning thing isn’t just that global SST is at a record-breaking +0.75°C above the 1991–2020 baseline. It’s the trajectory 🤯
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/09/2026
As the late Honourable Murray Sinclair reminded us, “there can be no reconciliation without truth.” But today, the bravely, painfully told truth of residential schools has become a primary target for hate movements, as we saw on the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc reserve.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 30/09/2026
Today, on the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, people across Canada are gathering in remembrance and renewed determination to ensure ours is a country where every child matters.
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Tiny Beaches @tinybeaches.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
With the additional items now accepted in recycling, my black bin is going to be almost empty every 2 weeks it’s picked up. Could go to monthly garbage pick up.🤷‍♂️ #Calgary
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These items can soon be thrown in Calgarians' blue carts | CBC News
Beginning Thursday, Calgarians will be able to recycle more materials in their blue carts, including more types of household packaging and paper products.
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Calgary Transit @calgarytransit.com · 01/10/2026
#CTRiders, some areas of the #Redline are running behind the schedule. Thank you for your patience.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 01/10/2026
EXCLUSIVE: US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban, sources say reut.rs/3U3eCng
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EXCLUSIVE: US tells France and Germany to release diesel stocks or face US export ban, sources say
The Trump ​administration has told ‌Germany and France to ​draw down ​emergency diesel inventories ⁠to help ​to ease ​global fuel prices or face a ​potential US ​diesel export ban, ‌according ⁠to three people close to the discussions.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For example, he probably should also be less focused on destructive industries and militarization. www.thestar.com/news/canada/...
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Mark Carney must be more than anti-Trump for a real shot at the Nobel Peace Prize
The question around Carney’s Nobel nod is whether he has accomplished enough beyond the country’s borders—and ahead of the Jan. 31, 2026, nomination deadline—to merit the award.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
www.thestar.com/business/car...
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Carney expected to announce decision on pipeline’s national interest designation
Carney is scheduled to be in Fort McMurray, Alta., with Alberta Premier Danielle Smith to deliver the news.
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Urban Truth Collective @urbantruth.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
READ: Time to end the REAL war in our cities! “The road lobby’s war on walking, cycling, and transit have continued profitably for more than a century. The time has come for peace.” A NEW article on the #WarOnWalking by @grantennis.bsky.social @brenttoderian.bsky.social, and @tomflood.bsky.social
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A time for peace: End the war on walking, cycling, and trans
The war on the motorist and 15-minute conspiracy theories are fiction. The truth is that there is a war on walking, cycling, and transit that has made a one-hou
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Jeremy Klaszus @klaszus.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The Pokaiks walk for reconciliation in Calgary today.
A crowd of people, many wearing orange shirts, walking under the Louise Bridge (10 St) in Calgary.
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Michael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
We can see the Carney government's true level of commitment to Truth and Reconciliation on display in their current plans to destroy records of tens of thousands of residential school survivor testimonies. shrlnk.ca/s/dT0J2JC5
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Canada plans to destroy thousands of residential school testimonies | The Narwhal
The 38,000 testimonies are the largest body of evidence about children’s experiences in these institutions. The women say survivors should choose what happens to their histories — both painful and ill...
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EcoFriendly West @ecofriendlywest.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
If you see an animal mid-snack, snap a photo and share it on iNaturalist. The information will be added to the interactive food web on Who Eats Whom. Enter the name of a species to see who it eats, or who eats it
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Why scientists want your photos of wildlife eating lunch
With a new platform called Who Eats Whom, citizen scientists reveal the fascinating, sometimes shocking interactions between species.
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 29/09/2026
“If all these #TechBros are as smart as they keep telling us they are, why do they want to use #FossilFuels and OUR WATER for power and cooling all these new #DataCentres instead of #CleanEnergy, that could ABSOLUTELY do the whole job?”
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EcoFriendly West @ecofriendlywest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The state of Washington is urging the Mark Carney government not to fast-track the new West Coast oil pipeline, saying shared waters are “too valuable” to expedite a project that could lead to a catastrophic oil spill and harm ecosystems and the maritime economy
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Pump the Brakes on the West Coast Oil Pipeline, Washington Says | The Tyee
A letter obtained by The Tyee shows the state’s Ecology Department has serious concerns about spill risks and tanker traffic.
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Robson Fletcher @robsonfletcher.com · 29/09/2026
The Calgary Chamber of Commerce & execs of major Alberta companies put out this open letter today in support of remaining in Canada: "Alberta’s success has not been built in isolation. It depends on our connections to the rest of Canada and the world..."
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Open letter: Alberta’s future is stronger in Canada - The Calgary Chamber
Open letter to Albertans on the October 19, 2026, referendum question on Alberta separating from Canada
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cm 🍁 @cmcalgary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
City Services: National Day for Truth and Reconciliation 2026 newsroom.calgary.ca/city-services-n… #Calgary
City of Calgary Newsroom
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Native Calgarian Podcast 🪶🧡>🇨🇦 @nativecalgarian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I’m not saying Keanu Reeves is following me but…
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Make Polluters Pay International @makepolluterpayint.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
This is huge! The UN Secretary-General António Guterres has just used his final General Assembly speech to world leaders to pay tribute to our #MakePollutersPay movement. “You are on the right side of history – keep going.” This movement is powerful. We are changing politics. Get involved!
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CBinVan 🇨🇦 @cbinvan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I was in Paris last week for the first time in 20 years. It's completely transformed to bike culture. It was all scooters 20 years ago. And they're raving about it.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“Paris has embarked on a grand transformation, planting 155k trees, adding hundreds of kms of bike lanes, pedestrianising 300 school streets and banning cars from the banks of the Seine. Parking has been turned into green space…Fewer parents fear their child being run over when they walk to school.”
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How Paris swapped cars for bikes – and transformed its streets
Under Anne Hidalgo – mayor for 12 years until last week – the French capital added bike lanes, cut traffic and reclaimed public space, but not without resistance
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 29/09/2026
“If all these #TechBros are as smart as they keep telling us they are, why do they want to use #FossilFuels and OUR WATER for power and cooling all these new #DataCentres instead of #CleanEnergy, that could ABSOLUTELY do the whole job?”
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 26/09/2026
"We do not want this in our schools. We do not want this on our street. We don't want this near our communities. People are understanding that this isn't about finding a better place to do this, that this is just not the right agenda entirely." #DataCentres #AI
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Safe Kjipuktuk @safehrm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
unreal what we permit on our roads whilst screaming at politicians to ban e scooters. www.thestar.com/life/autos/r...
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Ram’s new 777-horsepower super truck can launch its three-tonne frame to 96 km/h in just 3.5 seconds
Priced at $147,990, the 2027 TRX SRT lands at Canadian dealerships this fall with a supercharged V8 and luxury cabin.
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Maciek Hamela @maciekhamela.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
With the Strait of Hormuz closed, Iraq has resorted to moving its oil across the desert to Syria in hundreds of tanker trucks, in true Mad Max style. From there, it will be shipped to worldwide markets.
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Pembina Institute @pembina.org · 27/09/2026
“We need to start on the path to a healthier future today.” A @utoronto.ca study found that widespread adoption of #EVs and a #decarbonized grid could yield up to US $188B in health benefits by 2050.💰 But we'll only see these benefits with the rapid implementation of #electrification policies.
Electric car plugged into a curbside charging station on a city street, with a yellow banner reading "The power to choose" and a caption promoting large-scale electric vehicle adoption for human health benefits, credited to the Pembina Institute.
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JayIsPainting 🍁 @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca · 27/09/2026
And ebikes could probably have even more impact.
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Calgary Transit @calgarytransit.com · 27/09/2026
BLUE LINE CTRAIN CLOSURE: Attn #CTRiders – the Blue Line will be closed between Marlborough and McKnight-Westwinds stations on Sept 26 & 27. Shuttle buses will replace train service between these stations. For more info, visit: calgarytransit.com/ctrain-service
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Lucie🐈‍⬛Catnip @luciecatnip.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Brown's polling shows that there is a lot of uncertainty out there about the 9 referendum questions that aren't about separation. Expect long lineups if voters are pondering these questions while filling out ballots on election day. Source: Albertans divided... www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #abpoli
Pie chart showing 54% of voters very familiar or somewhat familiar with the 9 questions Bar chart showing NDP voters more familiar that UCP on the 9 questions
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