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Amanda Mitchell

@iheartcities.bsky.social
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Found at the intersection of climate policy, local government, and public engagement. IAP2 licensed trainer. Paddler who would like to pet all the dogs please. She/her. Vancouver, BC Posts are my own

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 11h
Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.
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🇨🇦Tadhg Dalaigh @tadhgdalaigh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Observing The City @observingthecity.ca · 14/10/2026
Construction trucks leaving Bloor and Islington area after being successfully deterred from starting work on removing bike lanes in Toronto by a large protest.
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
it’s just great marketing
3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2:
Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3:
Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”
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Amanda Mitchell @iheartcities.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Excellent thread
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Jonathan Mingle @jmingle.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Your periodic reminder that phasing out fossil fuels would largely pay for itself in avoided death and disease from air pollution alone:
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
"Ripping out these protected bike lanes against the will of Toronto city council is a colossal waste of $48 million. The province’s own experts know it will not ease traffic congestion, it will put people’s lives at risk…” One of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen any politician do to any city.
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Ontario will officially begin removing Toronto bike lanes on Tuesday | CBC News
Ontario will begin removing bike lanes from a stretch on Bloor Street W. in Etobicoke on Tuesday, the Ministry of Transportation says.
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Dr Grace S Peng @gspeng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
70% of commercial kitchens using gas exceeded federal limits on lung-irritating nitrogen dioxide, 68%, reached over 90 degrees. The research was published Tuesday in the journal Environmental Research Letters. NONE of the restaurants with all-electric kitchens had excessive pollutants or heat.
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Restaurant workers face hidden dangers from gas stoves, including pollution and extreme heat
Restaurants with gas stoves and ovens are exposing workers to harmful air pollution and unsafe levels of heat, according to a new study led by California researchers.
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G @gpatrick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sums up my feelings. 
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
For the $40 billion this will cost us we could pay those workers $285,714 each to retrain on the job electrifying Canada. Now THAT would be in the national interest.
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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Everyone in my town: build more housing Half the people when someone builds an apartment complex: ugh not another giant ugly apartment complex Half the people when someone builds a single family home development: ugh not another cookie-cutter neighborhood
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Patrick Meighan @patsweetpat.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
My former mayor once told me: “people hate all the problems in this town. The only thing they hate more are the solutions to those problems.”
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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
6/ National unity cannot be built on pipelines that divide Canadians or LNG projects that lock us into decades more fossil fuel dependence. Energy security means freedom from the next oil and gas price shock & preparing our communities for the fires, floods and deadly heat
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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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Seth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid. Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used, as clear sunny days and low demand drive record-breaking surge. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Solar and wind generation meet record 80% of power demand on Australia’s national grid
Rooftop solar alone generates more than half of all power used, as clear sunny days and low demand drive record-breaking surge
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Sarah Andersen @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
The image is of a four panel comic.
In the first panel we see Sarah, the protagonist, next to a stick figure labeled “AI”. The stick figure says, “my outputs look just like yours now.”
The second panel zooms in on Sarah’s face. Above her we see text reading “I think”.
The third panel zooms in closer on Sarah’s face. Text above her reads “you missed”.
The fourth panel shows Sarah drawing happily in a sunlit room. The text above her reads “the point”.
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Julia Levin @jflevin.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Summerside, PEI is closing in on 100% renewable power www.begiant.ca/stories/plac...
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This P.E.I. city is closing in on 100% renewable power
Wind and solar provide most of Summerside’s energy needs. Here’s how it plans to get the rest of the way there
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Duncan Edmonstone @edmonstone.net · 21/09/2026
This seems like the sort of thing @doctorow.pluralistic.net likes to talk about. The UK should follow France's lead and start the long (painful) process of regaining our digital sovereignty.
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Alessandro Rigolon @alerigolon.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Re: “people don’t bike in the winter”, let’s think about places where people bike more: the Netherlands, Denmark, Berlin, Paris. Not great weather Places in Southern Europe with great weather and no winter (Italy, Greece) don’t have large biking numbers It’s not the weather. It’s infrastructure
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
The world’s largest battery-electric aircraft flew for the first time on the 12th of August, a 27-minute test flight over upstate New York that cost about five dollars in electricity. Heart Aerospace’s 30-seat prototype is a big step toward a commercial version. buff.ly/i3f0PhR #ShareGoodNewsToo
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The largest all-electric plane ever flew for 27 minutes, on $5 of electricity
Heart's X1 demonstrator flew for 27 minutes from a regional airport in upstate New York, running on battery power the entire time. The aircraft reached 1,100 feet...
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Anthony Moser @anthonymoser.com · 20/09/2026
This is why I say fascism is make believe at gunpoint
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/09/2026
This is a canonical tweet for me.
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Denis Agar (he/him) @denisagar.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@environmentaldefence.ca just posted a role to run their clean transportation program. This is one of the most impactful roles that exists in Canada to push for better transit. I really want someone amazing to get it - if you have questions, pls ask me!
edc-careers.applytojobs.ca
Environmental Defence Canada Inc. Job Board - Clean Transportation Program Manager
Job vacancy for the role of Clean Transportation Program Manager
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Mary Gillis @marygillis.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The fact that he views public assets as belonging to the government is the problem. They don't belong to the government. They belong to the public. They belong to us. Not the Liberals, not Parliament, not him. Us. He's a caretaker, not an owner.
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DT Cochrane @dtcochrane.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Why does “fiscal discipline” always mean selling public assets to the ultra-wealthy instead of taxing them?
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Lanrick Bennett @lanrickbennett.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#IdeasAtWork @unitedwaygt.bsky.social & the Democratic Engagement Exchange at @torontomet.bsky.social have launched Voice the Vote, a non-partisan campaign connecting GTA residents to the issues shaping the Oct. 26 municipal elections. Wed, Sept. 23 12 - 1 pm (Zoom) web.cvent.com/event/9ad828...
DIVING DEEPER:
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS
United Way Greater Toronto
Your voice shapes your community. Use it.
A virtual conversation on civic engagement and the issues that matter most.
SEPT. 23, 2026. 12 - 1 PM (ZOOM)uwgreaterto Join us for Diving Deeper: Municipal Elections, a virtual lunch-hour panel on how communities can make their voices heard.
Did you know that fewer than 1 in 3 eligible voters cast a ballot in Ontario's last municipal election? Yet local decisions shape everything -housing, transit, parks, community safety.
That needs to change.
United Way Greater Toronto and the Democratic Engagement Exchange at TMU have launched Voice the Vote, a non-partisan campaign connecting GTA residents to the issues shaping the Oct. 26
municipal elections.
Wednesday, Sept. 23 | 12 - 1 p.m. | Virtual (Zoom)
& To RSVP, head over to the link in our bio.
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👻 David Weiskopf believes in spooks 👻 @dave.bzky.team · 14/09/2026
A statistic that haunts me because it is 100% true and shocking and useless in advocacy precisely because it is true and shocking: Policy that enables a 1-car lifestyle rather than 2 is equivalent to giving a family a $25,000 annual pay raise.
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Dr Lindsay Tedds @lindsaytedds.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The overall response rate for the 2026 Census of population reached 98.4% nationally. 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 www.canada.ca/en/statistic...
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Statistics Canada thanks Canadians for their exceptional participation in the 2026 Census - Canada.ca
Thanks to outstanding participation across the country, the final response rate for the Canadian census is among the highest ever recorded.
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Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦 @snarkysteff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Knitters, unite. #elbowsup #needlestoo
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It's the same story everywhere you look: industries getting immensely rich from murdering the living world invest part of the profits in buying the political establishment, in order to ensure they're not stopped or even restricted. So despite almost all of us wanting nature protected, it rarely is.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) @doctorvive.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
BART Simpson: “This is the HOTTEST summer of my life”

Homer Simpson: “This is the COLDEST summer of the rest of your life”
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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 01/09/2026
rest in peace to Wendell Berry
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Kevin Morris @kevintmorris.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Rest in peace to the inimitable Wendell Berry
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Andrew (🎃) @athomashemlock.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Every single article about solar power and battery tech is like "We put solar panels on the Hellmouth and the Hellmouth is now reciting poetry and smells like peppermint and teaching young orphaned birds how to fly. Also we can power a small city block."
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MoveOn @moveon.org · 29/08/2026
The goal shouldn't be convincing people that things are getting better. The goal should be making their lives actually better...
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Rob @robertferry.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
If we can keep breaking the kind of record in the image on the left, we can stop breaking the kind of record in the image on the right.
Ember chart of "Share of electricity generation from solar in EU by month" shows that the record continues to be broken each year.Sea surface temperature measurements from 1982 to present show that 2026 is breaking all previous records.
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Tom Quinn @tomquinn.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
"climate change is the fault of decisions taken by a relatively small number of human beings, mostly men, who knew exactly what they were doing, it was mass murder. You’re allowed to say it, at least for now. You don’t need to make up woke-words like eco-cide to describe the process."
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
7. The political question is pretty simple: Can governments make the transition to a low-carbon economy feel like something that improves people’s lives justly...rather than something being imposed on them? Because if they can’t, the politics gets much harder.
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Liz Renzetti @lizrenzetti.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Imagine how worried Meta was about the evidence that was about to come up in this trial. At least $16 billion of worried
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 25/08/2026
A reminder that Dolly Parton is the reason we have Buffy the Vampire Slayer! She hated the movie but believed the show could be amazing so she let them film on her sound studio. By season 2, it was a HIT! As a thank you, Buffy Summers and Dolly Parton share the same birthday. January 19th.
what are youe
Capricorn on the cusp of Aquarius. You?
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 25/08/2026
According to climate watchdog Environmental Defence, oil and gas lobbyists have met with Mark Carney’s government roughly five times a day. But those numbers only represent official lobbying, not the informal encounters where access to power can open up. ow.ly/6MZK50ZF0My
On the left: an aerial image of a residential street. One side of the street has houses with red roofs while the other side has houses with blue roofs. On the right: text that reads “Who really runs Canada? Inside Mark Carney’s influence network. Government priorities increasingly reflect the interests of a small, well-connected elite.”
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Lake Ontario's name comes from the Wyandot word Ontarí'io, which is typically translated as "beautiful lake". The Kanienʼkéha called it Katarokwi. Samuel de Champlain called it Lac de St. Louis. The name Lacus Ontario was first recorded in 1660 by Francis Creuxius.
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FT @fucktheory.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Imagine being talented and beautiful and rich and famous and still the most noteworthy thing about you is how good a person you are.
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John Holbein @johnholbein1.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We need a word that describes the simultaneous exhaustion and excitement that comes from teaching.
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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 25/08/2026
BREAKING: Doug Ford challenges Donald Trump to a corruption fight in the school parking lot
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BREAKING: Doug Ford challenges Donald Trump to a corruption fight in the school parking lot
QUEEN’S PARK - Ontario’s premier has officially challenged the President of the United States to a corruption fight in a parking lot behind a local Etobicoke high school.
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Canadian History Ehx @cdnhistoryehx.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Before Europeans arrived, these were some of the names for The Great Lakes: Superior: gichi-gami (great sea) Erie: erielhonan (long tail) Michigan: michigami (long body of water) Ontario: Ontarí'io\kanadario (great lake\beautiful water) Huron: karegnondi (fresh water sea)
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/08/2026
I've heard thousands of climate denial arguments over the last few decades. But do you know they all fall into one of 5 categories? 1. It's not real 2. It's not us 3. It's not bad 4. We can't fix it 5. You can't trust the info/experts Source: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A classification tree showing the breakdown of climate denial arguments.
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𝖢𝖠𝖳 𝖡𝖴𝖳𝖫𝖤𝖱 𝖲𝗋. @catbutlersr.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Science Sundays
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Lloyd Alter @lloydalter.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Another example of how Doug Ford feeds our money to his friends, this is scandalous (but then every day in Ontario is another scandal, and it just rolls off him)
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