Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 05/10/2026“…Donald Trump isn’t the only Western leader who signs agreements in pencil.” 021
Reposted by Joan Baxter🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 05/10/2026today's essential read for all Canadians. “Human rights and respect for constitutionally protected Aboriginal rights and title, in addition to Indigenous Peoples’ right to self-determination, must not be spun as inconveniences to Canada’s economic aspirations,”indigenousinsider.substack.comWhose Nation Is Being Built?Carney’s first “national interest” project is an oil pipeline through Indigenous territories. Consent was not part of the announcement. 411656
Reposted by Joan BaxterLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 03/10/2026Jesse Brown apparently has time to criticize everyone except the unhinged lunatic in the National Post invoking the same rhetoric as violent religious extremists against Avi Lewis 1320143
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Subhead: Then appoints his wife as ocean czar, to oversee the end of the southern resident orcas. 040
Reposted by Joan BaxterRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Carney'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: 25360124
Reposted by Joan BaxterSeth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Well worth watching. rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/canadas-fi...rachelgilmore.substack.comCanada’s first ‘national interest’ project is an oil pipeline, which means bye bye orcas and hello climate dystopia. And for what?Listen now | This designation means the oil pipeline can bulldoze past environmental laws, impact assessments, and Indigenous consultation. 02511
Reposted by Joan BaxterLuke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 01/10/2026"The writer in this article appeared to suggest that under Jewish law, [Avi] Lewis would be considered either a 'mosar' or a 'rodef' - both terms to describe traitors. The killer of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin used the same language to justify Rabin's assassination..." 17722
Reposted by Joan BaxterMichael Nabert @sustainablesong.bsky.social · 01/10/2026The term "national interest" has no official definition in Canadian law. In practice, it means whatever the hell Mark Carney wants it to mean. It's the umbrella term under which the interests of capital are dishonestly branded in order to ram them down the throats of countless victims. 1/ 45925
Reposted by Joan BaxterRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I’m reaching out to environmental groups and advocates now to get the expert read on all this, but as I understand things now, I’m appalled. 813626
Reposted by Joan BaxterRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Disgusting, desperate behaviour from Bradford here. Please share and support the incredible folks at the National Observer! 720567
Reposted by Joan BaxterTim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026‘Restoration greenhouse’ offers seedlings – and hope – for restoring degraded lands and woodlands in Nova Scotia reported by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.socialhalifaxexaminer.ca‘Restoration greenhouse’ offers seedlings – and hope - for restoring degraded lands and woodlands in Nova Scotia - Halifax ExaminerWorking with forests and not against them means growing diverse local hardwood tree and shrub species in forests, making woodlots healthier, and reducing flood and wildfire risks. 0318
Reposted by Joan BaxterDr Elisabeth Kosters @elisabethkosters.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Absoluteky scandalous. Lets tax pollution-reducing vehicles more. Vindictive Stupid Short-sighted Bastards www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...cbc.caNew EV, plug-in hybrid levies take effect Oct. 1 in Nova Scotia | CBC NewsNova Scotia’s new tax on electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids comes into effect Oct. 1, but traditional hybrids — ones that aren't plugged in — are exempt. 7207
Reposted by Joan BaxterSusan Joudrey @sujo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026this is unjustifiable. and if you think it's justifiable, you've lost your humanity. 1193
Reposted by Joan BaxterGuy Rochon @sustainabilityguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2026There should be a channel that’s devoted 24/7 to the climate crisis. Humans have forsaken their communion with nature primarily due to the proliferation of fake news, and the focus of MSM that we’re all subjected to “Don’t look up” 011
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026The new program is excellent, but it is too short. Which is my point. The climate crisis merits at least one hour of dedicated and broad-reaching coverage every week on Canada’s public broadcaster. It went from an hour slot to a half hour slot last week. Maybe you’re happy with that. I’m not. 200
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Odd that “West of Centre” ran until 11:35, then. And the real point / issue here is that What On Earth deserves an hour as it had before, and the climate crisis also deserves daily reports, which is what business gets on CBC Radio One. 120
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 27/09/2026So this week, CBC’s “What On Earth” didn’t start until 11:35am, meaning it is not even a half hour now. Just 25 minutes. And again, ironically, it was about broadcasters being told not to talk too much about climate and the crisis we are facing. 162
Reposted by Joan BaxterCharlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 26/09/2026I have known Sean Casey for many years. He is an honourable MP. He deserves better than to lose his parliamentary position for opposing arm sales to Israel. Dear @mark-carney.bsky.social there is a genocide going on. You know that right? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...cbc.caLiberal MP says he was demoted for supporting NDP bill targeting arms export controls | CBC NewsCharlottetown MP Sean Casey says he was removed from his position as parliamentary secretary to the minister of veterans affairs because he voted against the government and supported an NDP private me... 29450146
Reposted by Joan BaxterSeth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 25/09/2026My 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...nationalobserver.comIs 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... 914662
Reposted by Joan BaxterConor Curtis @conorcurtis.bsky.social · 24/09/2026STOP. BELIEVING. CARNEY'S ETC. SPIN. Carney et. al. HINT at maybe doing positive things, often in foreign media. To distract us from what they are actually doing here: bsky.app/profile/cono... Privatization. Cuts to workers rights & environment. Tax cuts for Trump's ultra-rich friends. #CDNpolimiddleeasteye.netCanada, France, Italy and Greece allow Netanyahu’s overflight despite ICC warrantIsraeli PM’s route via four ICC member states prompts fresh scrutiny over their alleged breach of international law 14824
Reposted by Joan BaxterHalifax Examiner @halifaxexaminer.ca · 24/09/2026Nova Scotia swimming in red ink By @dartjenhen.bsky.socialhalifaxexaminer.caNova Scotia swimming in red ink - Halifax ExaminerFinance Minister John Lohr provided an update on the state of the province’s finances Thursday, and the news is not good. 2146
Reposted by Joan BaxterMondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Yeah "In doing so, the government is largely moving ahead with sweeping proposals it made in May, and making them permanent, despite spending the summer hearing from a public concerned about exactly this: that the Liberals’ plan could sideline scientific expertise..." thenarwhal.ca/canada-bill-...thenarwhal.caCanadians warned Carney not to sideline scientists. Bill C-39 does just that, critics sayWhen the Liberals proposed overhauling major project approvals, the public worried it would concentrate power and infringe on Indigenous Rights. Now, pipelines and nuclear development will be reviewed by an energy agency, instead of environmental 23720
Reposted by Joan BaxterPatrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Important webinar tomorrow morning with @johnvaillant.bsky.social and CAPE.act.cape.caWildfires, smoke and our health: Making sense of wildfires in 2026 056
Reposted by Joan BaxterJudy Trinh @judytrinh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill. 56506267
Reposted by Joan BaxterJim Milne🇨🇦 @milneice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Not a good look @darrenfisherns.bsky.social 072
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 22/09/2026While these seniors were being arrested for trying to show MPs photos of the ravages of the fossil-fuel-driven climate crisis, Carney’s “Liberal” minions were pushing a bill removing environmental and climate protections to enable pipelines and other massively destructive projects. It is to weep. 094
Reposted by Joan BaxterDavid Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 21/09/2026I think it's ill-advised and anti-democratic to introduce an omnibus bill, cite a crisis, and rush major changes to labour and environmental law. It's going to provoke aggressive resistance and risks, ironically, slowing down the projects the government is so keen on. It's going to be a huge mess. 36609224
Reposted by Joan BaxterBen MacLeod 馬志斌 @benmacleod.bsky.social · 22/09/2026"We’ve come 4,000 kilometres. Many of us have been sounding the alarm on climate change for 20 to 30 years, and we feel like we’re running out of time. So, we will be persistent, we will not be violent, but we aren’t going to turn around and go home easily." 0288
Reposted by Joan BaxterTim Bousquet @timbousquet.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Seniors will ‘risk arrest’ to deliver climate-impact photos to MPs and Mark Carney by Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.socialhalifaxexaminer.caSeniors will 'risk arrest' to deliver climate-impact photos to MPs and Mark Carney - Halifax Examiner"We will be persistent, we will not be violent, but we aren't going to turn around and go home easily." 03610
Reposted by Joan BaxterMark Heyck 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 @markheyck.bsky.social · 19/09/2026You misspelled corporate welfare. 1102
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Carn(ey)age. Rolling back a half century of progress in environmental and climate protection. For what? Oh right, profits for the already very fucking rich & some jobs in the extractive sector, while the rest of us are fucked by climate, ecological and democracy’s collapse. Danger: Banker At Work. 45330
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026West of Centre is fine, but cutting the one show devoted to climate down to a half hour is not fine. 000
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This week’s half hour “What On Earth” show is about why climate seems to have dropped off the list of Canadians’ priority concerns. Lots of possible explanations, except for the elephant in the room: media’s failure to cover the fossil fuel-burning-caused climate crisis adequately or often enough. 061
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Our public broadcaster CBC Radio continues to disappoint when it comes to covering the climate crisis. It has only 1 little weekly show, “What On Earth” devoted to climate issues (we get 3 or 4 business reports a day), and now that 1 show seems to have been reduced from one hour to a half hour. 163
Reposted by Joan BaxterDoug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Breaking: The United States has reached a security agreement with Denmark over Greenland that consists of exactly what the situation has been for the last eight decades and not a thing more 19585153
Reposted by Joan BaxterRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Cool, another big pro-corporate, anti-worker move from our Conservative prime minister! I am becoming The Joker Source: www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art... 2233498
Reposted by Joan BaxterAvi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 18/09/2026The profit-taking for Wall St and Bay St begins immediately! Billable hours already piling up as big banks will skim millions off the sale itself. The rich making bank off the public: welcome to privatization, folks. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...bloomberg.comMorgan Stanley, CIBC Win Mandate for Sale of Canada Airport ConcessionsThe Canadian government has hired Morgan Stanley and Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce to advise on selling the operating rights to the country’s four largest airports, according to people with knowl... 14289147
Reposted by Joan BaxterSeth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Fantastic piece: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...thestar.comWe crashed Mark Carney’s billionaire investment summit. Here’s whyYoung Canadians are facing both climate disaster and economic hardship. 14021
Reposted by Joan BaxterSeth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026The gas tax holiday can’t outpace global oil greed, writes @jimbostanford.bsky.social So much for Carney's gas tax cut. "Its full value has been absorbed, and then some, by continued escalation in petroleum prices..." www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/10/o...nationalobserver.comThe gas tax holiday can’t outpace global oil greedIronically, gasoline and diesel prices in Canada today are higher, even with the tax break, than on April 19, before it came into effect. It seems that the government can’t outrun the petroleum market... 12410
Reposted by Joan BaxterRachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026"Left-leaning political commentator." I'm a journalist, Mark. This is gross! 2730436
Reposted by Joan BaxterSeth Klein @sethdklein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Carney government accused of burying climate report warning of worsening impacts, reports @cloelogan.bsky.social www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/n...nationalobserver.comCarney government accused of burying climate report warning of worsening impactsThe report, which analyzes the impacts of climate change in Canada, was posted to a government website with no fanfare on Thursday evening ahead of the Labour Day long weekend. 31512
Reposted by Joan BaxterSuzanne Rent @suzannerent.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Lots of news in Morning File, including @joanbaxter.bsky.social writing about the feds burying a crucial climate report. I wrote about my thoughts on Marco MacLeod, Tim Houston, and what men still need to learn about misogyny. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file...halifaxexaminer.ca'This could have gone differently': The real tragedy in Marco MacLeod's story is that too many men still don't understand misogyny - Halifax ExaminerWhile the MacLeod story is now old in media terms, misogyny is tragically an issue that's always timely. 2118
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Fatal flood in Cape Breton and Nova Scotia emergency management minister Kim Masland is on CBC radio claiming the NS govt is doing all it can to prepare for floods, protect public safety. That’s BS. Houston’s govt refuses to opt in to Canada’s flood risk map. www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/p...halifaxexaminer.caHouston government opts out of Canada’s new 'Flood Risk Finder,' depriving Nova Scotians of critical information - Halifax ExaminerThe flood hazard portal allows Canadians to type in their address to find out the nature and level of flood risk to their home, or could do. But only if their province or territory opts in to the onli... 14538
Reposted by Joan BaxterBentley ****TALK CLIMATE**** @bigclimate.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It's a #LongWeekend. You're not *supposed* to be paying attention which is why #MarkCarney did the standard oily (pardon the pun) political move of releasing an absolutely DAMNING #ClimateChange report in a #FridayNewsDump. He doesn't want media talking about it or YOU to know about it 🧵#cdnpoli 13629
Reposted by Joan BaxterGreg Bester 🇨🇦 @gregbester.bsky.social · 05/09/2026It's as if the government is giving the finger to future Canadians. 293
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Just a hunch, but given the “value(s)” of Carney and his whipped-into-submission-and-silence-on-climate cabinet, the decision to bury this crucial Canada climate report didn’t come from a comms person. (It’s also buried at the very bottom of CBC’s News page, well below Miley Cyrus’ name change.) 072
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Carney’s govt is also chickenshit for allowing provinces to opt out. 1221
Joan Baxter @joanbaxter.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Lots of people posting about bad flooding in Nova Scotia today. Canadian govt produced a “flood risk finder” that would help us cope with all these fossil-fuel-caused-climate extremes. Nova Scotia opted out, afraid of what? Developers? www.halifaxexaminer.ca/government/p...halifaxexaminer.caHouston government opts out of Canada’s new 'Flood Risk Finder,' depriving Nova Scotians of critical information - Halifax ExaminerThe flood hazard portal allows Canadians to type in their address to find out the nature and level of flood risk to their home, or could do. But only if their province or territory opts in to the onli... 55635