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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Because apparently it needs to be said: the unusually warm ocean water that is supercharging El Nino is an utterly forseeable consequence of burning fossil fuels share.google/n5OkT7banAWB...
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Supercharged El Niño heading for record strength; Canada’s winter may ‘take a holiday,’ climatologist says
For Canadians, one expert said the most noticeable effect will likely be a milder winter dominated by Pacific rather than Arctic air
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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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the Juice Media @thejuicemedia.com · 11/08/2026
The Government™ has made an ad about Ai Data Centres, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.
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Honest Government Ad | Ai Data Centres
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
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Melissa Lem @drmelissalem.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"If we want to save our summers...we need to take climate change seriously and phase out fossil fuels." BC is under a state of emergency with over 20,000 wildfire evacuees, and smoke causing serious health impacts. Governments must do better. Watch: www.cbc.ca/player/play/... @cape-acme.bsky.social
Melissa speaking about the health impacts of wildfire smoke and measures needed to reduce them with Deana Sumanac-Johnson live from Yellowknife, NWT on CBC News
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Adam Radwanski @aradwanski.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Not the kind of climate change column I’ve normally written, or want to write, but I felt I had to. www.thestar.com/business/opi...
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I've covered climate policy for years. The haze over Toronto finally shattered my optimism
The wildfire smoke has choked my faith in Canada's climate future, writes Adam Radwanski. We used to at least be trying. Now we're betting against energy transition.
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kenlovek2p.bsky.social @kenlovek2p.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Oil Sands Emissions Will Outpace Reductions from Pathways CCS, Climate Institute Warns www.theenergymix.com/oil-sands-em...
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Oil Sands Emissions Will Outpace Reductions from Pathways CCS, Climate Institute Warns
Canada’s oil sands are on track for a big increase in greenhouse gas emissions, even with the Pathways carbon storage project moving forward, an environmental economist says.
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kenlovek2p.bsky.social @kenlovek2p.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Vancouver Reverses Its Gas Heating Ban Again Despite Public Opposition www.theenergymix.com/vancouver-re...
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Vancouver Reverses Its Gas Heating Ban Again Despite Public Opposition
Vancouver City Council voted Thursday to lift its ban on new residential natural gas connections, after residents successfully rallied against a similar motion in 2024. Critics, including Stand.earth ...
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kenlovek2p.bsky.social @kenlovek2p.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
Ontario Liberals should ask hard questions about a riding nomination, not wave them away www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/19/o...
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Ontario Liberals should ask hard questions about a riding nomination, not wave them away
The Ontario Liberal Party should be expressing concern at alleged irregularities from a nomination contest in Scarborough Southwest, and assuring people that the party will get to the bottom of it. In...
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
There is no federal or state statute that requires a journalist to sit alongside Tricia McLaughlin on a CNN stage and treat her as if she's a honest broker of information.
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Climate Messengers Canada @climatemssngrs.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Ford’s latest bill collides with cities’ efforts to phase out gas in buildings www.nationalobserver.com/2026/04/16/n...
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Ford’s latest bill collides with cities’ efforts to phase out gas in buildings
New legislation — Bill 98, or the Building Homes and Improving Transportation Infrastructure Act — is snaking its way through the Legislature, and aims to kill green building standards for good, and i...
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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Oil Prices Plummet In Big Fuck-You To Americans Who Got Gas Yesterday — theonion.com/oil-prices-p...
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Oil Prices Plummet In Big Fuck-You To Americans Who Got Gas Yesterday
WASHINGTON—In what is being characterized as a massive middle finger to millions of furious motorists, oil prices plummeted Friday, delivering a big fuck-you to all the Americans who gassed up their v...
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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Nerd alert: Canada's GHG Inventory for 2024 just released. It shows that progress has stalled (emissions down 0.3% from 2023 levels). www.canada.ca/en/environme...
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kenlovek2p.bsky.social @kenlovek2p.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
An El Niño is brewing open.substack.com/pub/billmcki...
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An El Niño is brewing
And with it the next, pivotal, chapter of the climate fight.
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Pembina Institute @pembina.org · 28/01/2026
We’re using electricity to power more of everything – vehicles, home heating, industry. The good news? The cost of #solar and #wind energy in Canada has been cut in half in the last 10 years. Nuclear...not so much.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 27/01/2026
New study finds that emphasizing collective efficacy (people's ability to catalyze large-scale change) is very effective in catalyzing behavioural change. As you can see from my pinned post, I'm a big fan of simple messages that can mobilize public support for climate action!
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A megastudy of behavioral interventions to catalyze public, political, and financial climate advocacy
Abstract. Addressing climate change depends on large-scale system changes, which require public advocacy. Here, we identified and tested 17 expert-crowdsou
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Climate Messengers Canada @climatemssngrs.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
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Analysis: EVs just outsold petrol cars in EU for first time ever - Carbon Brief
Sales of battery electric vehicles (EVs) overtook petrol cars in the EU for the first time in December 2025.
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Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Record investment in clean energy last year. Electrified transport, renewable electricity generation and electricity grids accounted for 90% of investment, with transport up 20% despite all the talk in North America of things slowing down. From: about.bnef.com/insights/fin...
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Clean Energy Canada @cleanenergycanada.org · 27/01/2026
⚡️🌍📈 EVs overtake gas cars in Europe for the first time. Europeans bought nearly 309,000 EVs last month, compared with 254,449 gasoline vehicles. #energytransition
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EVs Just Outsold Gas Cars In Europe For The First Time
Europe hit a historic milestone as EV sales surpassed gas cars for the first time, despite geopolitical headwinds.
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Josh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 22/01/2026
It's never good when the forecast looks like it belongs at a Grateful Dead show
Map of the US where this weekend's storm will reach. Blue, reds, yellows form a tye-dye band across most of the country.
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Climate Messengers Canada @climatemssngrs.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Ideological tensions between progressives and moderates have proven key to the Liberals’ reputation as arguably the most successful brokerage party in the West. But under Carney, these tensions are becoming more pronounced, writes Andrew Perez. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/08/o...
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In 2026, Carney’s biggest political challenge could emerge from within his own ranks
While the prime minister's early policy and political wins have demonstrated discipline and focus, they have also exposed age-old fault lines between progressives and the fiscal and economic moderates...
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kenlovek2p.bsky.social @kenlovek2p.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
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The Globe’s Christmas painting: Home on the Range, by William Kurelek
This Prairie snow scene by a Ukrainian-Canadian artist feels like nostalgia
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kenlovek2p.bsky.social @kenlovek2p.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
This video explains why I'm a devout Constitutional Monarchist. When I was 10 years old, I was presented to his mother-in-law, who gave me a Boy Scouts' award. Between her and her husband, we could not have had greater leadership. God Save The King of Canada. www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-xc...
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Prince Philip Talks About His Role In The Royal Family On Today In 1969 | TODAY
YouTube video by TODAY
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Ecojustice @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Dwight is a rural landowner in Two Hills, #Alberta. 12 years ago, he was forced to host a gas well on his land, on the condition that the industry fully close and clean it up when the well stopped producing. That never happened. Watch the full video 👉 ecojustice.ca/LandownerStories #OrphanWells
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
I fear the federal gov't is deeply unserious about achieving its climate goals. This is only more evidence. www.stalbertgazette.com/politics/net...
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Net-zero advisory body members say Ottawa risks more resignations
OTTAWA — The four remaining members of Canada's independent net-zero advisory body are calling on Ottawa to change how the group functions, and two of them say it risks more resignations if things don...
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Crazy stat to contemplate: In 2024 China added almost exactly 1 GW of solar and wind capacity per day (358 GW across the year) – a pace equivalent to building a typical nuclear reactor every single day.
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kenlovek2p.bsky.social @kenlovek2p.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Zero Carbon newsletter | Canada's National Observer: Climate News
Climate correspondent Chris Hatch sorts through the kaleidoscope of news, ideas, politics and culture on climate change solutions.
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
This resignation is worth noting. @simondonner.bsky.social is a man of impeccable integrity. If he is saying the process, and the politics, is compromised and broken, that does not bode well for climate action in Carney's Canada. www.theenergymix.com/breaking-don...
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BREAKING: Donner Resigns as Co-Chair of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body
University of British Columbia climate scientist Simon Donner has resigned as co-chair of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body (NZAB).
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kenlovek2p.bsky.social @kenlovek2p.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
BREAKING: Donner Resigns as Co-Chair of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body www.theenergymix.com/breaking-don...
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BREAKING: Donner Resigns as Co-Chair of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body
University of British Columbia climate scientist Simon Donner has resigned as co-chair of Canada’s Net-Zero Advisory Body (NZAB).
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kenlovek2p.bsky.social @kenlovek2p.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
‘Say vs. Do Chasm’ Shows Fossil Industry Facing Rapid Decline, Crumbling Demand www.theenergymix.com/say-vs-do-ch...
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‘Say vs. Do Chasm’ Shows Fossil Industry Facing Rapid Decline, Crumbling Demand
With fossil fuel publicists touting decades of future demand, and those expectations baked into last week’s pipeline deal between Canada and Alberta, the global oil and gas industry already recognizes...
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
this says something. www.thestar.com/steven-guilb...
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Steven Guilbeault resigns from Mark Carney’s cabinet
Before entering elected politics, Guilbeault was a famed environmentalist.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
The notion that someone who is in their 20's can't have experienced climate change (supposedly due to an IPCC definition) is utter crap. It's embarrassing for a supposedly serious academic to be so disingenuous.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 13/11/2023
Petra Nova was an attempt to put carbon capture on a coal plant THEY HAD TO ADD A FOSSIL GAS POWER TURBINE TO RUN THE CARBON CAPTURE ieefa.org/resources/il...
A history of poor performance
The Petra Nova facility began operations in 2017. The CCS equipment was installed to capture CO2 from a slipstream of the W.A. Parish Unit 8’s flue gas. The captured CO2 traveled via 80-mile pipeline to an oilfield near Houston for use in enhanced oil recovery (EOR) operations to increase extraction. Petra Nova’s target CCS capture rate was 90 percent. NRG claims it met the target.

But Petra Nova’s owners have never provided the actual data behind that claim. Emissions data for Parish Unit 8 reported to the EPA suggests the actual CO2 capture rate was substantially lower than 90%, perhaps as low as 65% to 70%. And the average capture rate does not include emissions from the gas-fired combustion turbine used to power the facility. Adding those emissions lowers the overall on-site capture rate to perhaps as low as 55% to 58%.

Petra Nova also was expected to be in operation some 85% of the time but failed to meet its target because so many technical problem
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🇨🇦Joe Vipond🇨🇦 @jvipondmd.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
Today's essential read for all Canadians. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/b49fedf...
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There is a constituency in the Conservative Party for Poilievre’s antics, which is really the problem
Voters are entitled to wonder, if he is so unguarded publicly, whether he is any more measured in private – and whether this thinking is the kind they want in a prime minister
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UBC Oceans @ubcoceans.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
“All we know that is happening is that we've been removing existing climate policies,” @simondonner.bsky.social said. @ubcgeography.bsky.social @ires.ubc.ca @science.ubc.ca www.thestar.com/business/is-...
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David Olive: Is Mark Carney retreating from Canada’s climate change fight?
In an astonishing reversal, Canada is poised to make big, long-term investments in projects that contribute to climate change rather than fight it, David Olive writes.
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Simon Donner @simondonner.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Three key points in my recent gov't testimony about Canada's climate efforts: 1) The 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan, though bolder than past plans, was not sufficient 2) That plan is not being sufficiently implemented 3) Good climate policy is in the long-term economic interests of Canada
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Clean Energy Canada @cleanenergycanada.org · 06/09/2025
Not only should Canada look for ways to see more European models brought to Canada and bring back its rebate program, it should also lower Canada’s 100% tariff on Chinese EVs in a balanced way, says @joannakyriazis.bsky.social. #cdnpoli
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Canada must be 'crystal clear' that surtax on Chinese EVs will stay, head of auto association says
The president of an association says the government must be "crystal clear" that it intends to keep its surtax on Chinese electric vehicles.
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Clean Energy Canada @cleanenergycanada.org · 06/09/2025
"This policy is one of the key tools that we have to cut carbon pollution in Canada. Especially after the consumer carbon price was repealed, this policy is going to do a lot more heavy lifting," says @joannakyriazis.bsky.social. #cdnpoli
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Mark Carney introduces tariff-relief plan that includes pause on EV mandate
Carney will delay incoming sales mandates for zero-emission vehicles, and “amend” regulations for cleaner fuels to help automakers and other businesses hit by tariffs and support the biofuel sector.
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Jessica Green @greenprofgreen.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Hey #polisci: we need more work like Gilman’s new FP piece: plausible scenarios of how world order is reorganized by climate, or more accurately, the shift from fossil to green assets. 🧵 foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/01/e...
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The Coming Ecological Cold War
Decarbonization isn’t just about technology and markets—it’s a geopolitical revolution.
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Canadian Climate Institute @climateinstitute.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Canada’s utilities are looking for more clean power to meet rising demand—and getting more bids than they can buy. Higher competition means lower-cost power and more social benefits like Indigenous equity. Read more⬇️⚡️ 440megatonnes.ca/insight/util...
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Yonah Freemark @yonahfreemark.com · 28/08/2025
European new car-sales from Jan–July 2025 were 59% battery electric, plug in, & hybrid, up from 49% last year. Fully electric cars rose from 12.5% to 15.6% of sales. Big winner: VW & China’s BYD. Tesla suffered a 40% decline & now has less than 1% of Europe share. www.reuters.com/business/aut...
EV sales in Europe from January to July 2025, compared to same period in 2024. The share of fully internal combustion cars is declining quickly. At the same time, Tesla is losing market share.
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Climate Messengers Canada @climatemssngrs.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Robertson said the government is weighing the demand-dampening effect of its tariffs on Chinese vehicles against the need to shield auto workers from US President Donald Trump’s tariff war against Canada.  www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/27/n...
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Canada’s Chinese EV tariff not going away, Robertson says
Housing and Infrastructure Minister Gregor Robertson said the Liberal government is keeping its tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles, despite a strong desire for more affordable EVs.
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Canadian Climate Institute @climateinstitute.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Great to see Hydro-Québec partner with Mi’gmaq community of Gesgapegiag and Alliance de l’énergie de l’Est to develop up to 6 GW of wind power—that's an enormous amount of new renewables and potential investment of $18 billion. 🌬️ ⚡ www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...
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Quebec announces partnership for wind power development in Eastern Quebec
The Legault government announced a partnership with the Mi’gmaq community of Gesgapegiag, the Alliance de l’énergie de l’Est, and Hydro-Québec for wind power development in Eastern Quebec.
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Here is the official statement from the American Meteorological Society on the "foundational flaws" of the Department of Energy’s recent attempt to deny the reality of #climate change. www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
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The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report
Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025
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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Right then... A quick review of the DOE's new 'critical review' of climate science. Whether it's worth a formal community response - I'm still not sure, but here's my first thoughts /thread/
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Derek DeCloet @decloet.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Monthly fentanyl data from US border agency. Black line is Mexico. Yellow line is Canada.
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Theo Moudakis @theomoudakis.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star
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Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 01/08/2025
That war everybody wins bsky.app/profile/theo...
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Geoff Dembicki @geoffdembicki.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
This seems like an insane conflict of interest to me. Great reporting from @climatechangenews.com www.climatechangenews.com/2025/07/30/p...
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PR firm working for Shell wins COP30 media contract
As calls grow to keep fossil fuel influence out of UN climate talks, campaigners say Edelman’s partnership with the oil and gas major raises an alarming conflict of interest As calls grow to keep foss...
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NigelBankes @nigelb.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
"This steamrolling of Bill C-5 will come back to haunt us. The failure to give Parliament the time up front will cost the country down the line given the divisiveness this bill has already engendered .... And the undue haste will no doubt cost time later in protests and legal wrangling." #cdnpoli
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Alex Himelfarb and Craig Scott: A bad bill, and a goodbye
With support from the opposition Conservatives, the Liberal government is steamrolling Bill C-5, a bill of enormous consequence that will not get the serious scrutiny it deserves.
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Climate Action Network Canada @canrac.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
🚫 The Senate is fast-tracking Bill C-5—shortening their review & effectively shutting people out of decisions that affect them. Bill C-5 jeopardizes democratic process, environmental protections, and Indigenous rights. The Senate must send it back to the drawing board. shorturl.at/nXN1u
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Climate Action Network Canada calls on Senate to send Bill C-5 back to the drawing board - Climate Action Network Canada (CAN-Rac)
The Senate is abdicating their vital role as the chamber of sober second thought by shortening the review process. Hearings of Bill C-5 start this week.
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