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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The National Post recently crossed a dangerous line by publishing call for violence against Canada's federal NDP leader. "Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be dealt with, Postmedia is." NEW from @smohyeddin.bsky.social who breaks it all down: ricochet.media/media/nation...
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National Post crosses dangerous line by publishing call for violence against NDP leader
Avi Lewis is not the threat that needs to be ‘dealt with’ — Postmedia is
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 01/10/2026
Throwing billions in public money behind a pipeline at a time of climate breakdown – while sweeping aside environmental protections, meaningful Indigenous consultation and workers’ right to strike – is absolutely not in the national interest.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Nothing to celebrate here. It's a sad day. Combined, LNG Canada Phases 1 & 2 will have downstream carbon emissions roughly equivalent to TOTAL annual domestic emissions for all of BC. Phases 2 will only result in about 240 more permanent jobs. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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LNG Canada to move forward with Phase 2 expansion project in Kitimat, B.C. | CBC News
LNG Canada says its multibillion-dollar Phase 2 expansion in Kitimat, B.C., is going forward, in a move that could double exports of liquefied natural gas from the northern coastal facility to oversea...
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Heather M. Ross 🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇦 @mctoonish.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Students don't want it. Communities that are having data centres pushed on them don't want it. Canadian artists of all mediums don't want it. Those of us who care about the future of the planet don't want it. Billionaires want it. CEOs who think they can save on labour want it. Stop the hard push
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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
2) "Mark Carney Claims Fossil Fuels Are Good for the Economy: This is Shock Doctrine Level Gaslighting" by @drlorileeoates.bsky.social - niche-canada.org/2026/07/07/m... #cdnpoli #climatechange #envhist #cdnhist
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Mark Carney Claims Fossil Fuels Are Good for the Economy: This is Shock Doctrine Level Gaslighting
Prime Minister Mark Carney abandoned Canada's climate goals, funding an oil pipeline and centralizing federal power under crisis pretexts.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. In 2025, he made 1,794x more. And we're supposed to believe Starbucks can't afford to bargain a fair contract with its unionized workers? I will continue my boycott of Starbucks.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My latest column is out today in @nationalobserver.com.web.brid.gy, in which I explain how the “new climate denialism” is holding back progress in the fight of our lives, and how PM Mark Carney has become its lead practitioner. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/25/o...
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Is Mark Carney a climate denier?
This new form of denialism has our political leaders assuring us they understand and accept the warnings about climate change — but they are in denial about what this scientific reality means for poli...
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The West Coast Oil Pipeline is being pitched in the national interest. Where’s the evidence? www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/22/o...
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The West Coast Oil Pipeline is being pitched in the national interest. Where’s the evidence?
Before the federal government puts its full weight behind this supposedly critical piece of oil infrastructure, Canadians deserve answers to some basic questions.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not a good look: arresting seniors calling on Mark Carney to not walk back our climate obligations. In my last 2 years as MP I ran a gauntlet of threat, swarming and harassment everyday from conspiracy ragers. House security and Ottawa police just watched. Seems instructions have been issued.
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CFJC Today Kamloops @cfjctoday.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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100 Mile mayor part of group calling for publicly owned rail corridor between Prince George and Vancouver
VANCOUVER - The mayor of 100 Mile House joined provincial, municipal and First Nations officials at the UBCM conference in Vancouver Tuesday (Sept. 15...
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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Privatization wasn’t on the ballot when Canadians voted for Mark Carney. Really foul the way he’s using the blind trust so many continue to have in him to make massive, fundamental changes to Canada (hurting normal Canadians) so big companies can profit. Please pay attention.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A Stirring Call to Apathy. Great piece by @mitchellbeer.bsky.social rebuking recent UN climate reports. They tell it like it is on the science, but fail to communicate the agency we still have: energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-stirring...
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A Stirring Call to Apathy
The science of climate change is dire. Same as it’s ever been, just more so. When the going gets tough, understanding what to do next becomes even more important.
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Comfortably Enraged @comfortablyenraged.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
My phone has all these AI features I didn’t ask for, and none of them help it shuffle a playlist properly. #youjustplayedthis
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Robert (Bob) Kubinec @rmkubinec.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The historians of 2050 are gonna have a heck of a hard time writing up the dominant political issues of the 2020s in a believable way.
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Far too absent from public debate is a basic truth: until we actually mobilize to dramatically expedite the transition off fossil fuels, we will never get ahead of the curve. No amount of fire preparation will save us from an escalation in these horrors. sethdklein.substack.com/p/we-mobiliz...
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We mobilize to put fires out, but not yet to prevent them
While many leaders are comparing the wildfire crisis to the Second World War, most fail to adopt the real lessons of pre-emptive wartime action.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"The destructive and disastrous consequences of expanding fossil fuel production extend far beyond any single territory," the Union of British Columbia Indian Chiefs (UBCIC) said in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Mark Carney and Premier Danielle Smith.
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UBCIC calls on Carney, Smith to halt pipeline advancement
The UBCIC is calling on the prime minister and premier of Alberta to halt plans to construct the West Coast pipeline.
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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Enjoy this ethereally beautiful sequence of responses to key climate science denial tropes, as performed by @ johnjohn_phipps on Instagram.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
This has been the GOP's "starve-the-beast" scheme for nearly 50 years. Meanwhile, millions suffer and struggle to get ahead as the rich get richer. See the problem here?
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Comfortably Enraged @comfortablyenraged.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Women can’t run things because we are told (with little evidence) that we might start a war when we get our periods.. Yet this orange-dusted pad can run things and start wars well past his menopause age. Da fuq www.cbc.ca/news/world/l...
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U.S. war on Iran will end when Trump feels 'objectives' are met, White House says | CBC
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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
No you can’t have Iran yet, you haven’t even finished your Venezuela. How can you have any Iran if you don’t finish your Venezuela!
Skua fighting over a succulent meal
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
High Net Worth Individual is the most hilarious coinage of the new gilded age. Like, as a High Net Worth Individual, I have to say...it is pretty weird that we needed a politically correct, four-word term for "wealthy."
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
NEW: My latest column on the need for a new generation of public enterprises - a key missing piece in both our economic resistance to Trump and our climate mobilization 👇 www.nationalobserver.com/2026/02/27/o...
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The missing piece in Canada’s economic resistance to Trump and climate mobilization: new Crown corps
A key missing piece in our economic resilience plan, not to mention in our moribund efforts to decarbonize our society: modern public enterprises, a new generation of what in Canada we call “Crown” co...
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Super important reality-check here about what we - and our leaders - see on social media. 👇
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis says socialism, defined by bold public solutions, not managerial caution, can rebuild the party after historic losses. He’s betting it can unite a majority across divided regions and broaden the party’s coalition.
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Reclaiming Socialism in Canada’s NDP Leadership Race
NDP leadership candidate Avi Lewis says socialism, defined by bold public solutions, not managerial caution, can rebuild the party after historic losses. He’s betting it can unite a majority across divided regions and broaden the party’s coalition.
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Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
‘Everything is hanging by a thread’: Holding the line for Vancouver Island’s ancient trees A forest defender tries to save an ancient Tree The shame of Canada logging hundreds of years old Trees and arresting those trying to protect them Tell the world ricochet.media/climate/ever...
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‘Everything is hanging by a thread’: Holding the line for Vancouver Island’s ancient trees
As RCMP crackdowns intensify in the Walbran Valley, forest defenders say the fight is about stopping old-growth logging before it’s too late
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
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Comfortably Enraged @comfortablyenraged.bsky.social · 31/01/2026
Any Canadians from snowy Canada wanna switch places with us in rainy Canada? -Sincerely, Canadian feeling left out.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 29/01/2026
Heartbreaking and enraging. Either the federal government steps up with an actual systemic solution – including public or worker ownership – or we’ll be reading these headlines and watching communities gutted for years to come. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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GM Canada layoffs hit Oshawa plant, putting up to 1,200 autoworkers out of work Friday | CBC News
The day Oshawa, Ont., autoworkers have dreaded for months has arrived, as GM Canada is poised to cut a shift at the city’s plant, costing over a thousand workers their jobs.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
It's 85 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock. The folks at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists ended today's presentation with a call for a global people's revolution against the maniacs in charge. Well not exactly, but close! @mariaressa.bsky.social was 🔥 thebulletin.org/doomsday-clo...
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Doomsday Clock - Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
It is 85 seconds to midnight.
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UCS Climate & Accountability Campaigns @ucsclimate.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
📣 It’s time to #MakePollutersPay! For too long, fossil fuel companies have put profits over people, making billions while communities suffer from climate disasters. 🌎 Join the Week of Action to demand accountability & climate justice. Find an event near you! actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
White and yellow text on green background. The background image shows a person wading through flood water. The text read "One-third of present-day sea level rise can be traced to the 122 largest fossil fuel and cement producers. Climate change is no accident. Make polluters pay." Below is the Union of Concerned Scientists logo.
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 25/01/2026
Filming ICE is an act of journalism. Cell phone footage is vital source material for reporters who can’t be everywhere at once. Shooting, killing and other targeting of those documenting news is an attack on press freedom and all else that's good in the world.
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Videos show federal agents killing Minneapolis man
Some details of federal government’s account of the shooting aren’t supported by footage captured by bystanders.
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Jonathan Ladd @jonathanmladd.com · 22/01/2026
It’s hard to accurately describe what is happening in Minneapolis without sounding crazy. Unmarked rental vans all over the city, with people in military gear and no id jumping out of them to take captive anyone who looks nonwhite or who makes political speech they disagree with.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
If it's not regime change, and it's certainly not "law enforcement," let's just call it a nuclear-armed oil heist.
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Josh Grubbs @joshuagrubbsphd.com · 03/01/2026
It’s 1990, I’m 1 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2004, I’m 15 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state It’s 2026, I’m 37 years old, and the republican president of the US is attacking a petrol state
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
hey remember climate change? didn't it have something to do with... oil? I'm sure it can wait.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Canada’s push for so-called ‘national interest’ projects has sparked opposition from Indigenous leaders. This highlights how Bill C-5 unfolded, from protests to its passage into law, as First Nations warn legislation could threaten Indigenous rights.
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Inside the fight over Canada’s ‘National Interest’ projects | APTN News
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 18/12/2025
The Pathways megaproject is a linchpin of the “grand bargain” energy deal signed by Ottawa and Alberta. Many questions hang over the project though, including how much water Pathways — or any next generation carbon capture initiative — will actually consume.
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World's biggest carbon capture project could 'essentially drain Alberta', experts warn
Government-commissioned modelling of water use by the planned $16.5 billion Pathways CCS project, a linchpin of the energy deal signed by Ottawa and Alberta last month, concluded its use of the region...
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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
The magnitude of the housing shortage is huge, the problems chronic, but the housing crisis is solvable: latest research by @1alexhemingway.bsky.social. Reforms from a flurry of government announcements gesture at the right ideas but fall short in scale and implementation.
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This is why BC’s housing crisis hasn’t been solved yet
The magnitude of the housing shortage is huge, the problems chronic, but the housing crisis is solvable. Throughout the province and country, the housing crisis is marked by high rents and prices, a scarcity of homes, displacement, homelessness and the quiet exclusion of people from entire neighb
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
Oligarchy (noun): A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 11/12/2025
2/ Even worse - some of them are extremist libertarian ideologues who dream of dismantling government. Keep an eye on this, folks - we could be in for more Shock Doctrine than we ever imagined.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
These 2,900 individual billionaires could lose 75% of their wealth and still be richer than 4 billion people. Inequality is eating the whole world alive.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
It was time a decade ago. It's way past time now. Enviro studies graduates tell me that the only jobs on offer are in oil and gas. That is cruel. They desperately want to be part of building a thriving future, not burning it down. They have the skills, they deserve the opportunities.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
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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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 22/11/2025
Canadians don’t need more platitudes or private market incentives, they need real solutions. We can't rely on the market to fix what it broke. We need a massive, wartime-level investment in affordable public housing. Housing is a human right. Let's start acting like it.
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
YIKES: NSO floats Pegasus spyware used in hypothetical "time of domestic crisis" in 🇺🇸America. I believe they won't stop lobbying until they get Pegasus into USA. To hack Americans. 1/
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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
British Columbians face a trifecta of liability. They own the fossil carbon beneath their province. They license the extraction of it. And they also provide subsidies. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/10/22/a...
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The CO2 extractors: British Columbians are among world's most aggressive
They rocketed past the Americans decades ago. Now they are set to blow past even the Saudis with a massive new LNG industry – in charts.
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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
A 60 second summary of some of the biggest and best sights from #NoKings Day. Congratulations to every single organizer, volunteer and attendee👏 History.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Never forget this: The forces rigging our economy, undermining our democracy, polluting our planet, and stoking hatred are counting on you to give up. Cynicism is how they win. Stay clear-eyed and ready for the fight ahead.
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Ricochet Media @ricochetmedia.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Big news today, as Ecuador has revoked the licence for a Canadian company to develop a massive gold mine. Brandi Morin reported from Ecuador on this mining project in May, with locals telling her it was a ‘ticking time bomb.’ Brandi’s feature: ricochet.media/indigenous/b...
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Brandi Morin in Ecuador: Indigenous water defenders take on a Canadian mining giant
The proposed Loma Larga gold mine represents a ‘ticking time bomb’ for arsenic contamination in the region
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