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Climate Emergency Unit

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Mobilizing Canada for the climate emergency 🤝 Thank you for joining our 5-year mission (2021-2025) Learn more: www.davidsuzukiinstitute.ca/ceu

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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
🚨 Final episode of Break in Case of Emergency: What you need to know about immigration and unemployment Juan Vargas Alba and community organizer Karina Villada discuss the myths and scapegoating around immigration, migrant workers and unemployment. 🎧 Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2451788/epis...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🌎 Our 6 Markers of Climate Emergency podcast series is out now! Across six episodes, the series offers a practical, big-picture framework for responding to the climate crisis at the speed and scale it demands. 🎧 Listen to the full series now: www.davidsuzukiinstitute.ca/break-in-cas...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Our 6-Marker series closes with Ep. 6, which explores Indigenous rights and leadership in real climate emergency action. Erin Blondeau, Janelle Lapointe, Serena Mendizabal, and Seth Klein discuss sovereignty and community-driven solutions. 🎧 Listen to Episode 6: www.buzzsprout.com/2451788/epis...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Ep 5 of our 6-part podcast examines what it means to leave no one behind in the climate transition. Erin Blondeau, Jim Stanford, Anjali Appadurai, and Seth Klein discuss solidarity, justice, and how workers and communities can be supported. 🎧 Listen to Episode 5: www.buzzsprout.com/2451788/epis...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Episode 4 of our 6 Markers podcast highlights the importance of honest climate communication. Erin Blondeau, Donya Ziaee, Chris Hatch, and Seth Klein discuss truth-telling, the media landscape, and what leadership requires. 🎧Listen to Episode 4: www.buzzsprout.com/2451788/epis...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Episode 3 of our 6-part special podcast looks at why voluntary measures are not enough for real climate action. Erin Blondeau, Dr. Melissa Lem and Seth Klein discuss what mandatory action requires. 🎧 Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2451788/epis...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
In our new 6-Markers podcast series, episode 2 explores how new public institutions can drive real climate action. Erin Blondeau, Alex Himelfarb, Linda McQuaig, and Seth Klein discuss what Canada can create now. Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2451788/epis...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Episode 1 of our 6 markers podcast looks at why real climate action means investing at the scale of the crisis. Erin Blondeau, Seth Klein, and Caroline Brouillette break it down. 🎧 Listen here: www.buzzsprout.com/2451788/epis...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The Climate Emergency Unit is releasing one of our final resources: a podcast series on the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency, hosted by Erin Blondeau with Seth Klein & leading thinkers and organizers from across the country. 🎧 Listen to the full series: www.davidsuzukiinstitute.ca/break-in-cas...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
🔥 The climate emergency is here and now. Are governments acting with real urgency? Our 12-minute video explains the 6 Markers of Climate Emergency Action. Watch the full video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJdK...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
On Dec 3, the CEU bid farewell to friends and allies as our five-year project with the David Suzuki Institute came to a close. We reflected on lessons learned, celebrated the coalitions carrying this work forward & released resources we hope will strengthen climate advocacy for years to come.
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
🎙️ In our new podcast episode, Seth Klein explains why the budget’s bet on carbon pricing, tax credits, and “decarbonized oil” won’t meet the moment. For more on #Budget2025 & what it means for climate, housing, and tax policy, listen here: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🌎 COP30 is underway in Belém, Brazil! Over the next 3 weeks, we will be sharing updates on negotiations & reflections on what it all means for global climate justice. 👉 Sign the Fair Shares Platform & receive our #COP30 coverage: 350.org/fairshare cc: @350.org @350canada.bsky.social
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🎙️ New Podcast: Anjali, Seth, & Alex Hemingway break down #Budget2025 & the Climate Competitiveness Strategy. We also talk housing, public revenue & Zohran Mamdani! 🎧 Tune in: tinyurl.com/bdcn7ahy @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social @sethdklein.bsky.social @1alexhemingway.bsky.social @bcpolicy.bsky.social
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
📢 We won! A Youth Climate Corps is in Budget 2025. Years of youth organizing secured a $40M two-year commitment. A meaningful start, but only the beginning. 👉 Read our response & stay with us as we push for what comes next: www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The federal budget will be tabled on November 4th, and the pressure is building on Prime Minister Mark Carney to fund a Youth Climate Corps. If you haven’t already, now’s the time to act. Keep the pressure up. 👉 Send your letter today: goodgreenjobsforall.ca/tell-carney
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
À travers du Canada, plus de voix se joignent à la demande du Corps jeunesse pour le climat. 📢 Écoute à quelques-un.e.s de nos 200+ allié.e.s qui demandent que le gouvernement Carney fonde un Corps jeunesse pour le climat dans le Budget 2025. 🔗 Joins-toi à la demande: www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Across Canada, more and more voices are calling for a Youth Climate Corps. With the federal budget set for November 4, the call is growing louder. 📢 Join the 200+ organizations urging Mark Carney’s government to fund a Youth Climate Corps in Budget 2025. 🔗 Learn more: www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Momentum is growing for a Youth Climate Corps, a bold new public program to put young people to work protecting our communities & tackling the climate crisis. It's built for this moment. Tell Carney: it’s time to fund a Youth Climate Corps! 👉 www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca/tell-carney
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
📢 Mark Carney says Budget 2025 will be a “generational investment” in Canada’s economy. Let’s hold him to it: www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca/tell-carney A Youth Climate Corps is the kind of bold, nation-building program Canadians are demanding—jobs, resilience, and climate action rolled into one.
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Until the federal government acts at the scale of the problem, stories like these will only become more common and tragic. Tell Mark Carney: It’s time to invest in our youth through a Youth Climate Corps 👉 www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca/tell-carney
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
The voices of young people are clear: Youth unemployment isn’t just a statistic, it’s a crisis shaping their lives & futures. A Youth Climate Corps could put thousands to work while supporting climate & community. Tell Carney: Listen to youth & act for a YCC: www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca/tell-carney
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Governments & fossil fuel companies call LNG “low-carbon.” But LNG Canada will unleash 36M tonnes CO₂/yr, equal to 9.5 coal plants or 8M cars. Far from a "clean" energy source. 🎧 Listen to the full episode & more stories that dig deeper into the climate crisis: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
Vancouver #DrawTheLine
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
📍 Vancouver #DrawTheLine
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
📍 Toronto Check out the crowd in Toronto! #DrawTheLine
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
📍 Toronto
Marchers at Draw The Line rally in Toronto holding a banner that says "climate activists for a FREE PALESTINE". Other signs in the background say "land back" and "from Salish Sea to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime" and "Climate Justice Now".
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
📍 Toronto #DrawTheLine
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
🧵 THREAD: Draw The Line - National Day of Action happening RIGHT NOW across Canada ✊ Today, communities from coast to coast are standing united for people, for peace, and for the planet. Here's what's happening on the ground... #DrawTheLine @350canada.bsky.social 📍Toronto
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
We met with Liberal MPs this week to push for a Youth Climate Corps in the 2025 budget. A YCC could create tens of thousands of good jobs for young people tackling the climate crisis. Join us in telling Mark Carney: Canada needs a Youth Climate Corps! 👉 www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca/tell-carney
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
🎙️ In Break In Case of Emergency, @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social & @sethdklein.bsky.social sit down with @garthmullins.bsky.social of the award-winning Crackdown Podcast to explore the striking parallels between the climate crisis and the poison drug crisis. 🎧 www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
Both the poison drug crisis & the climate crisis were declared emergencies. Both have been met with half-measures that fail while the far-right mobilizes and governments offer funding cuts and increased police budgets. Listen now: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
"We're all on the same conveyor belt to the streets," says @garthmullins.bsky.social of the Crackdown podcast. Our NEW episode of Break In Case of Emergency examines the interconnections between the poison drug crisis and the climate crisis. www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🎙️ In our latest Break In Case of Emergency episode, Kiki Wood (Stand.earth) explains how fracking leaves frontline communities with birth defects & toxic exposures like benzene. 🎧 Listen to the full episode: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
🔥 630+ wildfires, 130+ uncontrolled. Communities face evacuations and toxic air while Ottawa and Big Oil dodge responsibility for the climate crisis they fuel. Don’t let Canada burn! Send a free postcard demanding action and a climate-safe future. 👉 www.signedseareddelivered.com
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
🚨 One month away from a historic mobilization for justice, peace & a livable future. We demand: people over profit, Indigenous sovereignty, status for all, an end to war & an end to fossil fuels. 🔗 Join us Sept 20: drawtheline.world #drawtheline #migrantrights #indigenousrights #climatejustice
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
🔥 Wildfires have displaced tens of thousands, destroyed communities, & burned 7.3M hectares this year in Canada. Our Signed, Seared, Delivered postcards show iconic Canadian landscapes at risk. 📬 Send yours to Ottawa to demand action for a climate-safe future: www.signedseareddelivered.com
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🌎⚖️ Canada is one of the richest countries & a major historic polluter. The Fair Shares Platform, backed by 35+ groups & thousands, calls on Canada to fund climate action, cancel unjust debts, tax polluters & reform trade rules. It's a plan for global climate justice. 🔗 350.org/canada/fairs...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🎙️ Heard our “Break in Case of Emergency” podcast? We unpack the climate crisis and share bold solutions rooted in justice and workers’ rights, with heart and insight. 🧵 below: 6 standout episodes + quick snapshots so you can dive right in. Listen here: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
🔥 This year’s wildfire season is already Canada’s 2nd-worst on record, with over 7.3M hectares burned. Our postcards put this crisis front and centre, demanding that Ottawa hold fossil fuel companies accountable and make climate action a top priority. Send yours at www.signedseareddelivered.com
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Young people in Canada face the toughest job market in decades. We’re collecting stories on the struggle to find decent work to help push for a Youth Climate Corps, creating green jobs with fair pay, benefits, and training. 📢 Learn more & share your story: www.goodgreenjobsforall.ca/unemployment
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
Canada is now an LNG exporter. Our host Emiko Newman talks to Kiki Wood and Clark Williams-Derry about the real costs of LNG: climate, health, affordability, & the myth that LNG is a clean transition fuel. 🎧 Listen here: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast @stand.earth @ieefainstitute.bsky.social
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Wartime solidarity demands fair taxation. If this is an economic war, why aren’t we taxing the rich? Seth Klein (@sethdklein.bsky.social) breaks it down. 🎥 Watch the full video: youtu.be/q-TvKpq04Nc 📖 Read the full column in @nationalobserver.com: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/24/o...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Canada has the money. But it's not being spent on the real emergency. Seth Klein on why it’s so easy to commit 5% of GDP to military spending, and so hard to spend 2% on climate. 🎥 Full video: youtu.be/hLg-O5wUYNo 📖 Full column: www.nationalobserver.com/2025/07/09/o...
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, or on our website: climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
The Break in Case of Emergency podcast logo features a collaged image of the earth, overlaid with the podcast name and a microphone.
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
A 2nd episode this week?! 🔥 BC’s PRGT pipeline was approved. What’s next? (w/ Kai Nagata) Host @emikonewman.bsky.social speaks with Kai Nagata of @dogwoodbc.bsky.social about the recent PRGT approval, Bills 14 and 15, and the resistance that has risen up in response.
Against a blue background, there's a black and white photo of Dogwood BC's Kai Nagata and an image of a pipeline. The text reads "New episode: BC's PRGT pipeline was approved. What's next? (w/ Kai Nagata)"Against a yellow background, an image of a smartphone has the podcast logo and the name of the episode, with a microphone image and a photo of AirPods.
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Anjali Appadurai and Doug Hamilton-Evans chat about the issues on the table at the recent Summit, as well as our newly-launched Fair Shares Platform (thank you coalition partners @350canada.bsky.social @canrac.bsky.social!) and why the climate movement needs to go global.
Against a pink background, there is an image of a smartphone showing a podcast episode called "the G7 and Canada's climate fair share (w/ Anjali Appadurai and Doug Hamilton-Evans)". Logo for the Break in Case of Emergency Podcast has yellow text overlaid a collaged image of the Earth in blue and pink, with a microphone in the background.
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
NEW! The G7 and Canada’s climate fair share With the uninspired wrap-up of the recent G7 Leaders Summit in Alberta, we wonder: what are these summits meant for & how can we use their spotlight on international cooperation to advocate for real systems change? www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
Podcast promotional image has the Break in Case of Emergency logo in the top left corner, and the text "new episode: the G7 and Canada's climate fair share" below. An image of the featured guest Anjali Appadurai sits against a yellow background.
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Plus Bushra shares her inspiring political campaign bringing bold climate solutions to suburban voters! Listen now: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast If you haven't yet, please leave a review to help boost our podcast and get it in front of new audiences 🤝
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Climate Emergency Unit @climateunit.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
New podcast episode! In our latest episode of Break In Case of Emergency, we're unpacking Canada's 2025 election results with @anjaliappadurai.bsky.social, @sethdklein.bsky.social and Bushra Asghar. Listen now: www.climateemergencyunit.ca/podcast
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