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Charles Latimer

@ch4rlie.bsky.social
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Head of Strategic Integration @greenpeaceca.bsky.social (Greenpeace Canada) Born in California raised in Quebec, made home somewhere in between (qathet). Serious about climate change, human rights and maple syrup. I unfollow anyone sharing A.I. images

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OpenMedia @openmedia.org · 12h
🇨🇦's National AI Council Must Include Civil Society! Orgs and experts are calling on the Government of #Canada to ensure civil society, Indigenous Peoples, and equity-seeking communities affected by #AI have meaningful and permanent representation in 🇨🇦's National AI Council: ✍️ aibyall-liapartous.ca
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Canada’s National AI Council Must Include Civil Society
We call on the Government of Canada to ensure civil society, Indigenous Peoples and equity-seeking communities by AI have meaningful and permanent representation in Canada’s National AI Council.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 10h
Even if you don't live in this region, but you believe in truth and reconciliation: You can request a Free screening of the film Namesake until October 31st: namesake.film#screening-re...
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 11h
Reconciliation can look many different ways... In my region, the removal of the name Powell is once simple request... Or it should have been. Instead it's been a rallying cry for those who cannot accept change (and many who weaponize this change to support their deep rooted racism). #qathet
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Change Powell River’s Name, Say Namesake’s Relatives | The Tyee
‘We are supportive,’ says a letter sent to council and The Tyee acknowledging colonial harms.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil and gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change thenarwhal.ca/fossil-fuel-...
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‘Knowing our opponents’: how a pro-oil-and-gas group tracks journalists, First Nations and environmentalists
New research by Greenpeace Canada lays out a web of pro-oil and gas groups working together to influence public opinion on climate change
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 09/10/2026
I am angry tonight. Because tonight ICE shot a New Yorker. They shot a New Yorker while his five year old child was in the car. ICE makes this city less safe. We want them out. Now.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Our organization @greenpeaceca.bsky.social is on the search for a new Finance & Operations director. Could that be you? Do you know someone that would be perfect in this role?
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Director, Finance and Operations - Canada | CharityVillage
(Le français suit.) Director, Finance and Operations Greenpeace Canada Location: Canada, Remote Reason for search: Replacement Salary: $117,327 - $131,9
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
At this point, either the bubble pops and we have another economic crisis OR blinders stay on and we build a future for tech bros that everyone else will be worst off for.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Why are we wasting all of our wealth on giving billionaires more toys to oppress us with? They have done such a con job of pretending A.I. is "good actually", that those who make the bets (investments) don't even think critically about it (or care to).
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Here's the full report:
Cover of the new Greenpeace report: Manufacturing petro-populism, exposing the secretive network of front groups shilling for big oil in Canada
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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
3/8 The network—called Energy in Action (EIA)—includes charities, think tanks, corporates, advocacy groups, and non-profits posing as "independent" voices to manufacture public support for the fossil fuel industry.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Our governments don't just become captured by oil interest overnight. Check out this new investigation by @greenpeaceca.bsky.social
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
This movement will change how we see ourselves in relation to the land, and it can't come soon enough "Land Back is a global restorative justice movement that prioritizes land-based forms of repair – namely, Indigenous people’s return to the ancestral lands from which they were violently displaced"
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The Land Back movement is gaining momentum, and it’s more than just a climate policy.
The latest win in the Land Back movement offers a worthy reminder that conservation and justice go hand in hand.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A refreshing and personal story, from a colleague @greenpeaceca.bsky.social, about how different leadership can look in change making organizations. www.greenpeace.org/canada/en/st...
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How to Hold a Sponge: On quiet leadership and the conditions for change
I’ve come to learn that while Greenpeace is an organization that speaks boldly, it’s also an organization that listens boldly.
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Contre Attaque @contreattaque.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
VOITURES BÉLIERS CONTRE DES LYCÉENS : 7 CAS AU MINIMUM PARTOUT EN FRANCE – Terrorisme d’État généralisé – On croirait à des images d'une dictature des années 1970, ou une vague d'attentats : des voitures qui foncent à pleine vitesse dans des foules pour semer l'effroi et tuer. 1/2 🔽
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The French police are so militarized they blew up a 15-yr-old’s hand and took the eye of another one. Why are grenades being used to quell student protestors who are unarmed? Now the labour unions are stepping in to protect the students
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LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Even the mayor desperately pleads with police to not hurt the students. Others also plead. The violence French police have exhibited to the world and upon children is inexcusable.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
First past the post at it again... Votes needed for each party to win a seat in QC elections PQ: 20,338 PLQ: 25,926 PCQ: 46,588 QS 59,131 Meanwhile for the CAQ, 571,520 votes was not enough for even one seat. @fairvote.ca
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I really wish English media stopped covering the Parti Québécois as simply a sovereignist party. The rise of right-wing ideology within it IS the story. It did not win one seat in the biggest cities.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Thank you to activists everywhere. You risk your freedom to stand up for a safer and greener world. ❤️✊ "The Public Prosecutor’s Office originally sought five years in prison for each activist, one of the harshest sentences ever demanded in Europe for peaceful environmental protest."
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
MMM, MMM.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Carney's first-ever project designated as being in the “national interest" is...a crude oil pipeline. That means the oil pipeline can bulldoze past environmental laws, impact assessments, and Indigenous consultation. It can also kill all of Vancouver's orcas. Here's what you need to know:
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Banker logic: Free Market baby!* *Unless no one wants to invest, then we'll take taxpayer money to sink in old energy.
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Tech Won’t Save Us @techwontsave.us · 01/10/2026
Gas-fired power stations to run new US data centers will generate as much emissions of the entire United Kingdom. This week @ketanjoshi.co joins @parismarx.com to discuss how the data center buildout is driving a surge in fossil fuel investment. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/348_...
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
This needs to be exposed for what it is: A huge subsidy to the oil & gas sector, which is lighting the fuse on a huge carbon bomb that will lock us into fossil fuels and terrifying levels of warming. This project will make the world increasingly unsafe for our children. Full stop.
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Carney tells us that among the criteria for a project being designated in the national interest, the major projects office considers whether the project “contributes to Canadas clean growth and climate goals.” And a BITUMEN PIPELINE PASSED THIS TEST? Then the test is bullshit.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Canada doing more than its part in destroying the world. What bday gift to my 4 year old today Extraction of the most polluting oil in the world should have been capped and started to be reduced a decade ago. Instead we are plowing ahead, ensuring an unsafe future. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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West Coast oil pipeline becomes 1st project designated in national interest | CBC News
The federal and Alberta governments have announced that a proposed pipeline carrying one million barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the B.C. coast has become the first project designated in the nati...
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Équiterre @equiterre.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
C-39 🇨🇦 Stephen Harper n’aurait jamais pu proposer une déréglementation environnementale aussi vaste. « Les conservateurs ont raison! Les libéraux ont un passe-droit que les conservateurs n’auraient jamais eu. » 💬 Marc-André Viau, directeur des relations gouvernementales chez Équiterre
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Pourquoi le projet de loi C-39 soulève-t-il la controverse ?
Avant même son dépôt, le projet de loi C-39 suscitait déjà la polémique. Cette réforme, qui vise à accélérer le développement économique, est saluée par le milieu des affaires, mais vertement critiqué...
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Greenpeace Canada @greenpeaceca.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Carney says this (Bill C-39) is a decisive moment for Canada, & he’s right: his government is deciding to remove decades-long environmental and labour protections to build more pipelines, bypass essential environmental protections, & sideline FPIC from Indigenous Peoples. 🧵 1/7
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 25/09/2026
An individual in Canada used ChatGPT for eight months to plan one of the country’s worst mass shootings. Yet, if you listen to politicians and media, the real threat of AI is a fantastical scenario where it might wipe out humans in ten years. They need to stop getting fooled by tech deceivers.
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The media has the AI threat all wrong
Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.
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Clayoquot Action @clayoquot-action.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
‼️BREAKING NEWS...CERMAQ HATCHERY EVICTED FROM PORT ALBERNI‼️ Ḥupač̓asatḥ Ḥawił (Hereditary Chief) Tsu Tsii In (Alton Watts) is demanding the immediate closure and removal of an Atlantic salmon fish hatchery that supplies west coast open net fish farms in Nuu-Chah-Nulth territory. #fishfarmsout
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
An election has been called in BC... Might be a good time to pressure our elected officials. Tell B.C.’s Finance Minister: don’t give away our gas resource to global billionaires! www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/st... @dogwoodbc.bsky.social
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Stop B.C.’s shocking resource giveaway
Tell B.C.’s Finance Minister: don’t give away our gas resource to global billionaires!
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 24/09/2026
it’s absolutely fucked that people are elevating these effective altruist freaks and falling for their rhetoric on AI. media is letting these people set the narrative, while those of us following EA/longtermist circles for years know how insane they are. they consistently downplay climate risk.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
International cooperation can still happen. I started working on this decades ago, when we were raising the alarm that huge parts of the ocean were unprotected. Winning such globally significant campaigns is what @greenpeace.org does best.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Hell yeah! www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Rapper Macklemore announces 'Free Palestine' tour after Ed Sheeran fallout
Proceeds from the tour, which begins in Dublin next month, will go to organisations supporting Palestinians, he says.
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Greenpeace International 🌍 @greenpeace.org · 24/09/2026
UN Secretary-General António Guterreslaid down the facts: “Polluters must pay.” This was the day after we presented 2 million petition signatures at the UN ✊
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Came here to say this... It's so crazy to say it's not a genocide because it hasn't hit the numbers (yet). I'll trust the experts. It's a genocide.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 22/09/2026
What does the snap election in B.C. mean for the environment? @sobittersosweet.bsky.social has answers: thenarwhal.ca/bc-snap-elec... #bcpoli
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Eby just called a snap election in B.C. Here’s what that means | The Narwhal
The 2026 B.C. election will take place on Oct. 24, as David Eby sends British Columbians to the polls two years early. Here’s what that means for DRIPA and other environment issues
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David Sirota @davidsirota.com · 21/09/2026
Newsom is now the nation’s most prominent Trump Democrat — a governor aggressively using his power to empower & enrich Trump’s billionaires. If a Dem candidate successfully spotlights this in the 2028 presidential primary, they will have a shot to defeat him & win the nomination
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Clémence Guetté @clemenceguette.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Ce graphique montre l'évolution de la marge brute des raffineurs en France. Quand vous faites le plein, votre argent remplit les poches de leurs actionnaires. Il faut bloquer les prix et les marges.
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Arrête Mark Carney ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
They arrive in Ottawa tomorrow for their protest 👏🏻
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 15/09/2026
hearing mark carney talk about how privatizing airports will free up money to invest in regional airports, transport links, broadband infrastructure makes me think of how nationalizing the pipeline was supposed to deliver revenues to pay for climate measures
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Spectrum News NY1 @spectrumnewsny1.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.
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Rogerman @rogerman99.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
This is bullshit. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/10/n...
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Feds quietly exempt oilsands and gas power plants from environmental impact assessments
The change comes as part of a suite of amendments to Canada's impact assessment laws passed by the Carney government early Wednesday morning.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Not sure what kind of drama I was expecting.... (The literal scene in my head)
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What was the hot goss?
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Trevor A. Branch @trevorabranch.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This is seismic news for fisheries scientists. Northern cod is *the* iconic symbol of total fisheries collapse due to overfishing (and other factors) *and* the iconic symbol of a complete failure to recover for decades afterwards. This is like announcing the complete recovery of bison on land.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Clear take away from the title here: Vancouver needs better men. @thewaroncars.bsky.social
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 04/09/2026
Technology being everywhere doesn’t mean it belongs everywhere. The tech industry wants us to believe that AI in early education is not only inevitable, but necessary. We don't see it that way. This week, we announced a moratorium on generative AI for public school students in 2-K to 8th grade.
We’re eliminating AI use for students in 2-K through 8th grade for the upcoming school year.
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Charles Latimer @ch4rlie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Am I being irrational thinking that rogue A.I. agents are going to force society to turn off ALL "connected devices" in the near future? Do we even remember how to live an analog life? Do we still have the infrastructure to do so? Questions will be answered in an upcoming season of "Humans" 🤪
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Jean-Luc Mélenchon @jlmelenchon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Chaque nouveau modèle d’IA pose de nouveaux enjeux pour l'humanité que nous ne maîtrisons pas, et qui s'avancent hors de toute régulation. Le lancement d'Astra par OpenAI cette nuit nous le rappelle. Il faut reprendre le contrôle. Il devient urgent de convoquer une conférence mondiale pour désarmer et réguler l'IA. La France doit prendre l'initiative avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.
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