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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · 6h

Save the date! 📆 Oct. 8⏰ 9:30 AM EDT 📌 #IFPRIPolicySeminar | Double exposure: How El Niño and the Iran crisis could reshape food security 💻🎟️ bit.ly/ElNiñoIran @cgiar.org @wfp.org

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Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The federal government’s latest legislative changes are gutting environmental and labour protections to build major projects above all else - at the expense of Canadian communities and the ecosystems they hold dear. Are major projects built this way truly in Canada’s national interest?

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Climate Action Network Canada reacts to latest environmental deregulation - Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac)

Unceded Anishinaabe Algonquin Territories , 21 September 2026,: In response to legislation changes introduced today, Katie Gibbs, National Policy Manager at Climate Action Network Canada, issued the ...

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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

i thought about this old tweet tonight and how nothing has ever aged better

@Merman_Melville • Jan 24, 2019
Being a billionaire must be insane. You can buy new teeth, new skin. All your chairs cost 20,000 dollars and weigh 2,000 pounds. Your life is just a series of your own preferences. In terms of cognitive impairment it's probably like being kicked in the head by a horse every day

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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

white nationalists doing hate crime on the highway overpass in Dufferin neighbourhood of Kamloops now

A bunch of fucking losers dressed in black with white masks, standing on an overpass with a black banner that says “GOT BONES?”

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FATM0USE @fatm0use.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

don't forget her utterly loathsome article on the Grenfell Tower fire that was basically "sure some people died but think about how much money was saved by using flammable cladding and refusing to install sprinklers" slate.com/culture/2017...

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Would I Cross the Street to Spit on You if You Were on Fire? There’s Always a Trade-Off.

A few days ago, Megan McArdle wrote an op-ed in Bloomberg View warning readers to “Beware of Blaming Government for London Tower Fire.” True, the...

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Solarpunk Bookclub #bookstodon #solarpunk #bookclub recaps, reminders & links: www.subscribepage.com/solarpunk_bo...

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BC Policy Solutions @bcpolicy.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

In a province with a relentless housing crisis, an overstretched health care system and a recent uptick in xenophobia—the risks to migrant workers’ health and safety don’t end when the workday is over. Join us for the webinar: zoom.us/webinar/regi...

[Webinar poster] Migrant workers: housing as a social determinant of workers' health. October 14 at 12pm PT

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jessamyn @librarian.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

"Are You A Librarian: The Untold Story of Black Librarians follows the librarians who kept the doors open when the law said they shouldn't-from segregated reading rooms to freedom libraries to the branches serving our communities now" Rentable/streamable 📚 www.historysplayground.com/are-you-a-li...

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Watch Are You a Librarian | History's Playground

Rent the Are You a Librarian documentary for $3.99 and stream it for 72 hours on History's Playground.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Goddess what is this lusus naturae

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Julie S. Lalonde @julieslalonde.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

83% agree that everyone should have access to the same reproductive health care & rights. 71% said they are proud of Canada’s support for abortion rights & reproductive health care worldwide. Previous research shows when abortion rights are attacked elsewhere, it strengthens *our* pro-choice views.

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Canadians support access to abortion services at home and abroad, poll shows

Even as Ottawa focuses on trade and security, respondents overwhelmingly want the government to be a world leader in reproductive health and rights

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

'"This is pretty simple physics,” Davies said. “This would be the single largest, single-site energy source — heat source — on the planet and that includes volcanoes. And it’s in the middle of this ecosystem that’s already in a pretty advanced state of collapse.”'

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AI Data Centers Release Heat, Posing New Problem for Cities

As facilities to power AI grow larger and are built in clusters, they are spreading hot air beyond their property lines

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A story the illustrates the real and human aspects of the Ebola Outbreak. For more than 24 hours, a safe and dignified burial of an Ebola case was delayed in Mutumbi. The core of the response is community engagement. www.afro.who.int/countries/de...

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Reconciling Ebola response and community needs to prevent transmission

Mutumbi, Democratic Republic of the Congo—For more than 24 hours, a safe and dignified burial of an Ebola case was delayed in Mutumbi, 25 kilometres outside Bunia, in Ituri province, northeastern Demo...

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Fair Vote Canada 🗳️🍁 @fairvote.ca · 23/09/2026

Proportional representation incentivises cross-partisan consensus and cooperation. First-past-the-post incentivises politicians to call snap elections when polling shows an increased majority with 30–40% of the vote is within reach.

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Katia @katiatee.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

"According to court records, Metro Vancouver believes polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), benzene, aldehydes, alkanes and alkenes were likely discharged during the leak. PAHs and benzene are classified carcinogens in Canada." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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Metro Vancouver gets warrant to seize Parkland refinery documents following 2024 chemical leak | CBC News

Metro Vancouver has been granted a search warrant to seize dozens of documents inside Burnaby's Parkland Refinery that it believes will prove the facility polluted the region during a malfunction in J...

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bioGraphic @biographic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

"If eco-social anomie describes a societal forgetting, dam removal achieves the opposite—a collective remembering that cures our amnesia and unshifts our baselines." A beautiful @bengoldfarb.bsky.social story about the centuries-old dams choking New England's rivers, & the people setting them free

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Death by a Thousand Dams | bioGraphic

Tens of thousands of small barriers hamper fish recovery in the northeastern United States. But while the demolition of big dams out west gets the most attention, a similar revolution is revitalizing ...

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Prism @prismreports.org · 22/09/2026

"With billions of dollars sitting idle in the treasury of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice’s budget, what is the excuse as to why air-conditioning has not been permanently installed in the prisons?" prismreports.org/2024/09/11/c...

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Cooked in custody

In this collection of testimonials, Kwaneta Harris and others incarcerated in Texas state prisons describe their unsuccessful daily attempts to evade being cooked in custody

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Mel Woods @melwoods.me · 22/09/2026

As we sit on the precipice of another election in BC—particularly considering the climate with the Democrats in the U.S. right now—it's worth pushing progressive politicians to vocally affirm their support of LGBTQ2S+ folks (and particularly trans people), rather than accepting silence as support.

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Carney is truly the Reagan of Canada. A calming, paternalistic figure in a period of apocalyptic uncertainty who galvanizes the economy with short-sighted right wing fiscal policies. And like Reagan, every disaster that Canada encounters in the future will be traceable to his administration.

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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 22/09/2026

My latest: Picture a river in your mind. Is it sinous, single channel, uninterrupted? Only 11% of rivers in the world fit that standard. The river of the real world is dammed, braided, tidal, frozen -- and often left out of models, a pathbreaking NASA satellites shows.

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Satellite reveals a world of ‘weird rivers’ shaped by humans

SWOT is exposing humans’ effects on rivers—and challenging flood prediction models

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CCPA — Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives @policyalternatives.ca · 22/09/2026

“If you sell [airports] to the private sector, they will collect monopoly profits...[and] this is a dangerous path to go down that will almost certainly result in...: much higher prices for flyers or less revenue for the federal government.” @davidmaccdn.bsky.social www.thestar.com/opinion/edit...

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Star Editorial Board: Mark Carney still has to convince Canadians that privatizing airports won’t hurt them

The prime minister hasn’t adequately explained how his plan will improve on the current operation by local airport authorities. Nor has he outlined the necessary safeguards to protect passengers.

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Environmental Politics @environmentalpol.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

New Discussion! Legal and cultural impacts of ecocide law: a view from the legislative frontlines by Jojo Mehta & Anna Maddrick. doi.org/10.1080/0964...

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John Br👻OoOOOoOoo👻ks @johnbrooks.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Two brains in a trench coat

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David Moscrop @davidmoscrop.com · 21/09/2026

I 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.

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Ian Bushfield @bushfield.ca · 21/09/2026

Apparently all Stephen Harper needed to do to be popular was call himself a Liberal

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Katia @katiatee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

"For nearly five centuries, European planters made dizzying fortunes in sugar, made possible by enslaving workers in colonized lands. Sugar became so integral to European profiteering that it started being produced on a global scale. Canadian investors, too, have reaped massive sugar profits."

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NiCHE Canada @nichecanada.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Race and Nature Symposium: Mapping the Intersection in Challenging Times 1535 Outer Cir – Mississauga, ON Monday, October 26 • 8 AM – 5 PM Canada’s first symposium on race and nature, exploring who gets access to natural spaces and whose knowledge is valued. niche-canada.org/2026/09/21/r...

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Race and Nature Symposium: Mapping the Intersection in Challenging Times

26 October 2026 - Mississauga, Ontario- Canada's first symposium on race and nature, exploring who gets access to natural spaces and whose knowledge is valued.

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Katia @katiatee.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Fantastic example of community-led tactical urbanism! "The San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective is decentralized collaboration of local neighbors who build, install, and maintain much-needed benches, mainly at bus stops." sfbabc.org?utm_campaign...

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SFBA Bench Collective

The San Francisco Bay Area Bench Collective

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Grist @grist.org · 19/09/2026

Years after a water crisis rocked Jackson, Mississippi, the court finds that residents have no right “to truthful information from officials.” (via @capitalb.bsky.social) grist.org/equity/federal-court-rule…

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Katia @katiatee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

🤩Fantastic project out of City Studio on creative shade designs: citystudiovancouver.com/projects/exp...

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Experimental Urban Shade - CityStudio Vancouver

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Truth! "Amid scant progress from global powers to cut pollution from fossil fuels, vulnerable countries will now spend decades, or perhaps centuries, confronting the very climate scenario they’d once said would be untenable" www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/c...

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Global Warming Will Breach the 1.5 Degree Celsius Limit. Now What? (Gift Article)

As global temperature increase shoots past 1.5 degrees Celsius, the vulnerable countries that fought for that Paris Agreement target face a brutal new reality.

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Bex is WEAK on crime @bextraordinary.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

What Macklemore actually said:

“I've been trying to figure out a way to say this all day. One of the reasons why I wanted to come on this tour was because I wanted to stand up here on stages and stadiums across America and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart: Free Palestine.

"I said, Free Palestine.

“I want those words to be loud and clear, so the people from Gaza, all the way to the occupied West Bank, know that we have not forgotten them.

And this next song was inspired by the bravery of Columbia University students who led an encampment movement that mobilized the entire world; open up hearts, myself included, so thank you to those students that risked their diplomas, that risked their tuition, that risked their scholarships, that stood up and said, no. CUAD students, Students for Justice in Palestine, and Jewish Voices for Peace. Thank you, guys.

“To all of my Jewish brothers and sisters: criticism of Israel, criticism of apartheid, being against genocide in no way is a criticism of you. My message is for peace; love for all human beings to be treated with dignity, respect, and equality.

“So I say Free Palestine, I say Free Lebanon, I say Free Cuba, I say Free Congo, Free Sudan, I say Free all people in America living in fear of this terrorist organization, ICE. None of us will be free until we are all free."

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SFU Urban Studies @sfuurb.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Join #sfuurb & MURB student Sreya Ajay for a thesis defence this Thursday at SFU Harbour Centre. Thesis: Living w/ the Heat: Tenant Narratives of Extreme Heat Experiences, Coping Mechanisms & Perspectives in a Strathcona Social Housing Property RSVP: urbgrad@sfu.ca events.sfu.ca/event/50391-...

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MURB Thesis Defence: Sreya Ajay

Please join SFU’s Urban Studies Program for a MURB thesis defence on Thursday, September 17th, 2026 (10 AM) at SFU’s Harbour Centre campus (HCC...

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

How many times did I hear "Aw, man! I only got the short-form!" Many times.

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PM2.5 Kills ~9 Million People Each Year Worldwide @tkovach.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

"Buyout compensation received by households of color is at least 6 percent lower than that received by white households. White participants relocate to higher quality neighborhoods and are better off than white nonparticipants. Black participants... move to worse neighborhoods and are worse off."

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Racial Dynamics of Federal Property Buyouts in Flood-Prone Areas

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

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International Food Policy Research Institute @ifpri.org · 14/09/2026

📢 Save the date! 📌 Making Food System Costs Visible: A Policy Imperative for Multifunctional Landscapes 🤝 IFPRI and the CGIAR Science Program on Multifunctional Landscapes (MFL) 📆September 29, 2026, 9:30 – 10:30 am (US/Eastern) 🎫 on.cgiar.org/4ykBQny @cgiar.org

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Canadian Climate Institute @climateinstitute.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

The latest science shows Canada is on track to be 5°C hotter by 2100 if global emissions stay on the current path. Rapid emissions cuts could limit that to ~3.5°C—still unprecedented damage, but a future we can plan for. A 5°C warmer Canada is not.⬇️ ow.ly/zRia50ZNni0

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Opinion: We must now prepare for decades of more extreme and damaging weather

A new government report says that Canada can no longer avoid warming weather

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

"Traffic erodes community ties – neighbours talk less, trust each other less, look out for each other less" - Prof. @jpinasanchez.eurosky.social, @universityofleeds.bsky.social

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Briarpatch Magazine @briarpatchmag.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Mainstream media and politicians often claim that the housing crisis is due to a shortage of supply. Blaming immigrants or claiming it’s a shortage of supply, governments fail to address the real cause of unaffordability and homelessness: the financialization of housing.

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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

We warm the planet → nature changes → those changes release more greenhouse gases → the planet warms further. A new study estimates these feedbacks could amplify human-caused warming by 20–30% by 2100, adding roughly 0.2–0.4°C to global temperatures. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Climate ‘feedback loops’ could worsen global warming by 30%, study finds

Emissions of planet-heating methane and CO2 from natural sources are worsening the climate crisis, paper says

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Davide Mastracci @davide.readthemaple.com · 09/09/2026

NEW: Do you live in Canada? Are you impacted by pro-landlord policies? Want to know if your MP is a landlord or invested in real estate in some way? I’ve released the 2026 version of my landlord MP database. Find out if your MP is a landlord now! www.readthemaple.com/mp-landlords/

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Find Out If Your MP Is A Landlord Or Invested In Real Estate

The Maple examined and analyzed MPs’ disclosure forms and compiled the results.

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CAFE RCC Health & Extreme Weather @climatehealthcafe.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Announcing our expert panel for our Extreme Weather Half Day: Informing Heat Solutions! Join us 9/24, 12:00-1:30 pm ET, as our expert panelists discuss the successes and barriers in translating extreme heat research into actionable solutions. Register now: bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Katia @katiatee.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

👏👏👏🩵🩷🤍

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