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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 13h

Dear LA friends: If you’re in town later today, come to a discussion at UCLA between me and Client Earth Americas CEO @Danielle Lackey about gender, leadership & climate action, moderated by UCLA’s Chief Sustainability Officer, Nurit Katz! I promise it will be honest, inspiring and funny! 💪

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Ms.Sally 🇨🇦 @ms-sally.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

"And there's a misunderstanding, which is often propagated intentionally by fossil fuel companies, that it's expensive, it's hard, it's unreliable...To be honest, the most unreliable thing is if you're trying to pass fossil fuels through the Strait of Hormuz."

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"What is irrational is continuing down the road of fossil fuels. That's irrational on the costs, the risks, the impacts. It's an old technology." My comments about the opportunity of solar for all, everywhere, by 2030! #SolarForAll. Thanks @billmckibben.bsky.social for leading the way!

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Can there be solar for all, everywhere by the end of the decade?

Prominent climate leaders have called on governments, businesses, institutions and the public to make a push for solar power before the decade is out, repowering the world with cheap, clean energy. Is...

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Could we please stop framing climate action as a left/right issue. It’s just a big issue that all politicians need to grapple with. Both a massive cost/risk & huge economic opportunity with clean energy transition (with big risk of stranded fossil fuel assets).

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

One major glitch in this piece: Carbon pricing is a conservative policy especially when revenue neutral as it uses the market to reward behaviour. It was George Schultz, a Republican, who championed it (supported by Brian Mulroney). I spent a lot of time discussing it with both.

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Great worldresources.bsky.social panel discussion focused on Climate Diplomacy in a Messy World. My main points: We need coalitions of the willing across the board, diplomacy requires leaders to *lead*; climate crisis is worse, solutions are better & hard things are so do the work! #ClimateWeekNYC

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Oh yes! @americaisallin.com! Great to catch up with awesome US climate leaders from Governors @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and @mattmeyerde.bsky.social, to @wadecrowfoot.bsky.social and my great friend & climate ally Gina McCarthy! #ClimateWeekNYC #LakeOntarioActually 💪

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My favourite event of #ClimateWeekNYC: Women Leading on Climate! So many awesome women globally who are fearlessly speaking up, stepping up and leading climate action! 💪🏼💪🏿💪🏽💪🏻💪🏾

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Great discussion with my friend and long-time climate ally John Kerry about climate, oceans and the need to push for more ambitious action now! #ClimateWeekNYC

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Another New York City Climate Week is underway… and this year we’re talking about oceans!

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Great to moderate 2026 UN @globalcompact.bsky.social Private Sector Forum on accelerating a clean, just and secure energy future for all. Thanks to the Secretary General, leading companies & governments for setting out policy, infra, market, financing needed to get action at scale! #ClimateWeekNYC

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Great piece by @petermacleod.bsky.social in today’s @thestar.com about how Alberta separatism is a sign of a bigger problem in Canadian politics. www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Help me find Alexandra who wrote me the loveliest note in 2017 when she was ten! That note really cheered me up on a particularly tough day. Clue: she was a member of the 12th Toronto Girl Guides and likes turtles!

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey Doug Ford, about the bike lanes…

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Totally agree with @theglobeandmail.com’s Marcus Gee: Where’s the common sense in Doug Ford’s decision to spend tens of millions of dollars ripping out Toronto’s bike lanes???? www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/toron...

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Where is the ‘common sense’ here?

Ripping out Toronto bike lanes is more than just a waste of money

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Citizens’ Climate Lobby Canada @citizenslobbyca.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Canada’s Changing Climate Report 2026 Over 100 experts and nearly 1,500 pages, "striking feature of the report is the high degree of certainty that ties so many diverse effects to fossil-fuel emissions as the primary driver of climate change." www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...

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Ottawa issues comprehensive climate report that reflects country’s physical transformation

From retreating glaciers to wildfires and marine heat waves, climate change will likely become even more pronounced, assessment finds

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

"The most surprising thing is the contrast between what the report says that we can expect for our future climate, and the level of action that the federal government and other governments in Canada are taking.” Ryan Ness, Canadian Climate Institute.

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Daniel Munro @dkmunro.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

- Canada has warmed ~2C since 1948; Northern Canada ~2.6C - Since 1970 Canada has warmed nearly 2x as fast as the global average - “Human influence…is the only explanation for the collective changes observed” “The minister was not available for an interview” www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/scien...

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Ottawa issues comprehensive climate report that reflects country’s physical transformation

From retreating glaciers to wildfires and marine heat waves, climate change will likely become even more pronounced, assessment finds

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hamiltonians, I’m coming home! Ahead of my event with @lisahepfner.bsky.social on Sept. 14, I spoke with CHCH Morning Live about my book #RunLikeAGirl and how growing up in Hamilton helped me to be a better politician! Tickets are available now: secure.liberal.ca/Event/Hamilt...

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🍁🇨🇦Team Canada Forever🇨🇦🍁 @teamcanadaforever.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Prime Minister Carney on how he's personally doing while facing all the hostility from the US "You focus on what you can control...We have the support of Canadians, we have the positive attitude of Canadians, it's a country that takes care of one another...I'm doing just fine" 🎥 Credit CPAC Live

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

We need to get smarter in Canada about linking affordability and climate action. Make EVs, heat pumps and solar more accessible and reduce Canadians reliance on expensive oil and gas to power their cars and heat & cool their homes. Save Cdns money, tackle climate, foster choice, promote innovation!

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Catherine McKenna wants Canada to get smarter about climate and affordability | Corporate Knights

INTERVIEW | It's time to look beyond the United States and catch up to the rest of the world, the former environment minister says

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

LAKE ONTARIO FOREVER! 🇨🇦 Lovely foggy swim at Cherry Beach this aft. Thanks to the awesome @toronto.ca lifeguards for your great work this summer! 🤛

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

“While the decision to tough it out is iconically Canadian, Mr. Carney’s gesture will resonate far beyond Canada’s border. A gray banker, and not just any banker, but one of the leading bankers in the world, has stood up and said that there’s more to life than a little bit of money.”

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Opinion | Mark Carney Did What Canadians Elected Him to Do

Mark Carney has chosen suffering, but he did what Canadians elected him to do.

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 18/08/2026

The governments of Newfoundland and Labrador and Quebec have agreed on terms for a sweeping $50-billion-plus hydro and wind power plan that would be North America’s largest clean energy deal — and reshape the future electricity grid in eastern Canada.

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North America's 'largest-ever clean energy deal' signed by Newfoundland and Quebec

The $50 billion-plus hydro and wind power plan in Churchill Falls, compared by Prime Minister Mark Carney to 1970s’ James Bay hydroelectric megaproject, aims to put to rest long-running dispute over e...

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Hillary Rodham Clinton @hillaryclinton.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

The president is making US policy friendlier to North Korea and Russia than Canada and Oman. Are you kidding me?

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Toon Dreessen @toondreessen.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I’m all for saving money. But this all comes from the wrong place: deferring infrastructure investments is a quick way to kick the can down the road. In 20 years these politicians won’t be here but you’re failing pipes. Roads and community centres will be. And that’s when the bills will be due 1/

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

And 💯 we have to hold fossil fuel companies accountable.

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Time for Canada/provinces to make this possible here too. We should be allowed to have nice things that lower bills and emissions!

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Followed with: And we have the solutions. Which are better, better and better!

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AxeDame @axedame.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Andrew Leach nailing PP's war on carbon pricing:

"That (idea) that the Conservatives are fighting for the working class on this: I mean, you're not," says Andrew Leach, a professor of law and economics, and the co-director of the Institute for Public Economics at the University of Alberta.

"You're fighting for the people who have a material benefit from the removal of carbon pricing, which are people above that 70 per cent or 80 per cent income line. For the middle, it's a rounding error. To the bottom, (removing the carbon tax) is a big loss.

"And they're getting away with saying we're doing this for the poor. And it's insanity."

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Danielle Smith is no stranger to using leverage to achieve her political goals — except when it comes to Donald Trump. It’s almost like those goals don’t include standing up for the rest of Canada. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/07/31/o...

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Danielle Smith wants Canada to surrender

Alberta's premier is no stranger to creating, and using, political leverage — even if it creates the risk of blowback. So why is she so unwilling to do the same thing when it comes to Donald Trump and...

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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Behold, a steaming pile of self-serving dung from a recent Globe and Mail op-ed by two business leaders. Reality: the province is suffocating clean energy, no business has “stepped up” to build or fill the pipeline, and oil companies are minting massive profits for themselves, not the federation.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The 6 largest oil companies will collectively rake in $45B in profits in the second quarter of 2026 — nearly double what they made in the first quarter. Meanwhile, Canada, France, and Spain are battling record-breaking wildfires spurred by the climate crisis. Big Oil profits while the world burns.

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Catherine McKenna @cathmckenna.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

“Today, trucks will roll, cars will cross, and governments will begin collecting tolls. But the bridge will remain a monument to a broken bond that may take decades to fix—and may never be fully repaired.” Well worth reading @davidmoscrop.com’s excellent piece.

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