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BC Green Party @bcgreens.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
5 people die every day from the toxic drug crisis in British Columbia, it is the leading cause of death in the province. Yesterday, we announced our platform to combat BC’s ongoing toxic drug crisis. bcgreens.ca/announce-tox...
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Tracey Saxby @traceysaxby.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Fun facts: 🔥Since 2007, BC’s climate pollution has decreased by 2.3 million tonnes. 🔥Approved LNG export projects will increase BC’s climate pollution by 21.2 million tonnes by 2035. 🔥This is ten times more pollution than we’ve managed to cut in nearly 20 years.
Trends in BC's greenhouse gas pollution from 1990 to 2023, with two projected futures. Approved LNG projects will increase BC's emissions by 21.2 million tonnes. If we meet BC's climate targets emissions will decrease by 80%. From 2007 to 2023 BC has only reduced 2 million tonnes of climate pollution.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
They are playing in our faces
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Reasons to be Cheerful @reasonstobecheerful.world · 23/09/2026
See what stories caught our attention this week, including cash rewards for cracking a book and eye exams at the post office. reasonstobecheerful.world/what-were…
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 22/09/2026
ICYMI: our investigation shows Brad Bradford's mayoral campaign is the first known example in Canada to use the Victory App. The app generates talking points for supporters to use online, then rewards those users for posting them. Experts have begun calling it "cyborg propaganda."
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Toronto mayoral candidate Bradford using Israeli app that feeds supporters AI-generated comments
The Victory App, a campaign tool built by the Israeli company LogiVote, prompted users to participate in a mission to post AI-written comments supportive of Toronto mayoral candidate Brad Bradford.
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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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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 11/09/2026
SCOOP: A leaked document indicates Alberta is considering rewriting laws, creating new Crown corporations to take over the natural gas system and build new gas pipelines and taking on costly legal battles — in large part so AI data centres can have access to power, @drewanderson.bsky.social reports.
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Leaked doc suggests Alberta has sprawling plans to pave the way for AI data centres, more oil production
Rewriting laws, creating Crown corporations that could rival TC Energy, building new natural gas pipelines and increasing prices for consumers: what a leaked document says about Alberta’s AI data centre and oil push
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Luke LeBrun @lukelebrun.ca · 07/09/2026
This rock in Leipzig marks the spot where the General German Workers' Association — the world’s first labour party — was founded 163 years ago in 1863 It was the world’s first party organized to build political power for working-class people Happy Labour Day, Canada
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Rory White @rorywh.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
New investigation from me. The 23 websites are designed to influence the answers that AI chatbots give to voters in Alberta, targeting farmers, young people, veterans, mothers and oil industry workers. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/09/04/i...
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A US-linked network of fake websites is promoting Alberta separatism to AI chatbots
The websites present crude, AI-generated slop disguised as the voice of real Albertans. But they're made in Florida — and they're not even targeting Albertans directly.
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Ruby (ft. Jimin) @lapsedbard.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
CANADIANS, this petition to regulate data centers in Canada is open until September 24, please sign! www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-7550 - Petitions
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 03/09/2026
Our second starter pack: What do I need to know about data centres? Featuring a handy glossary and some stories to get you started.
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Starter Pack: Data Centres
Households could see higher energy bills as a result of new data centres. The facilities can supply their own energy (usually by burning gas) or draw from the public grid, which is most common. When a...
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
“Ontario taxpayers should be asking: Why should money intended for public classrooms be funneled through a U.S.-based, private-equity-owned corporation, rather than strengthening the public education system itself?” #OntEd
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Lizanne Foster @lizannefoster.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Portage students protested unfair work permit denials. Then immigration enforcement came to their protest and issued 10 removal orders! Migrants have the right to protest without fear. I sent a letter demanding action. Send yours: migrantrights.ca/RightToProte... #DefendRightToProtest
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Migrant Have The Right To Protest - Migrant Rights Network
250+ organizations across Canada are standing with Portage students and defending migrants’ right to speak out, organize and protest. Migrants are part of our movements. We will not allow immigration ...
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Jenny Lee Shee @jennyleeshee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
The Ontario govt took $60M out of public education and handed it to Staples. Tomorrow, 80K elementary teachers each get $750 of the misappropriated money to buy overpriced classroom supplies at an 🇺🇸 corporation. Please remember this the next time Captain Canada tells you to #BuyCanadian. #OntEd
A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples. Staples is always more expensive.A chart of school supplies showing the price difference between ordering through the school board or ordering from Staples.

The total for the school board is $290.38.
The total for Staples is $668.98.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Harsha Walia @harshawalia.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Canada has barred Jerusalem deputy mayor Arieh King! King is touring to raise funds for settlers. Canada (after legal filings by Legal Centre for Palestine and Hind Rajab Foundation concerning crimes against humanity) revoked his travel authorisation. www.middleeasteye.net/news/canada-...
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Canada bars Jerusalem deputy mayor Arieh King from entry over war crimes complaints
King was due to raise funds in Canada for settlers before authorities revoked his travel authorisation over allegations of crimes against humanity
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
If you still have a Twitter account, today is a great day to delete it. Nothing you could possibly get out of that site is worth having your name associated with child pornography. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says
xAI accused of training Grok on real and AI-generated child pornography.
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The LNG corporations we subsidize are running off with billions. The BC NDP promised to fix our gas royalty system by capturing 50% of the industry’s profits, but after being lobbied 192 times in a year, we’re only going to see ~11%. Join the BC Greens. We work for you, not corporations.
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Budget error could cost B.C. billions in gas royalties
B.C. hinges its economic future on a massive natural gas boom, but experts warn a critical budget oversight and concessions to industry risk wiping out billions in expected public revenues
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Rumneek Johal @rumneeek.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Exclusive, from me, following a CBSA raid at a peaceful protest in Calgary, where international students say they had the rules quietly changed on them in the middle of their education. The raid comes amid rising anti-immigrant and anti-international student sentiment in Canada
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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 26/08/2026
A venue has cancelled the Dominion Society's booking. "HARRC once again asked venue owners, businesses and community facilities to carefully review bookings and inquiries for this Saturday, and to be aware the group may make plans under a different names, including Ridgeway Media."
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Venue that rented space to anti-immigration group Dominion Society cancels Hamilton booking, police say | CBC News
Hamilton police say a venue that had rented space to an anti-immigration group for its national conference later this week has cancelled the booking. This follows weeks of community groups, politician...
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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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Brittlestar @brittlestar.com · 23/08/2026
A Message From The Government of Canada Regarding the US Trade War
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Michael Druker 🇨🇦 @mdruker.app · 22/08/2026
I know I’m preaching to the choir but now would be a great time for Canadian governments and agencies to stop using X as a primary social platform
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Our little liquor blockade actually worked?? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Trump expected to slash tariffs on Canadian goods, Carney asks premiers to put U.S. booze back on shelves | CBC News
Canadian and U.S. negotiators are working on the final text of an agreement that would avert new tariffs and smooth over longstanding bilateral trade irritants, officials from both countries said Wedn...
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LindaFly @lindafly.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Trump is obsessed with the booze boycott because he enraged by the defiance of the Canadian people. This is not a trade dispute. It is an attempt to break our will. Hold the line. There are no deals that can be made with predators. charlieangus.substack.com/p/there-is-n...
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No Deal To Be Had
The deadline for the latest round of trade negotiations is two days away.
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
A texas oil giant is preparing a ship for an illegal incursion into Greenland waters. The ship is out of Quebec City and is flying the Canadian flag. Call Desgagné Transport and let them know that Canadian companies must respect the sovereignty of allied nations. (418) 692-1000
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 11/08/2026
Despite hundreds of deaths in the 2021 heat dome, many B.C. municipalities allow landlords to ban air conditioners. As cities and towns move to prohibit such bans, local politicians say the province must ensure tenants' "right to cool" via @sobittersosweet.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/bc-renters-e...
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B.C. renters remain vulnerable to extreme heat | The Narwhal
With little action from the B.C. government, some municipalities are rolling out their own ‘right to cool’ policies to help protect renters from extreme heat
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Natasha Tusikov @ntusikov.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Facebook in Australia is paying ad revenue to neo-Nazis in its invitation-only scheme, another clear indication that Canada's Safe Social Media Act (C-34) won't work. These companies won't comply with a "duty to act responsibly." www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08...
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Facebook pays controversial creators to produce rage-bait content
An ABC NEWS Verify investigation reveals Facebook is directly funding some controversial Australian content creators including a white nationalist and an anti-vaxxer influencer.
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Iglika Ivanova @iglikaivanova.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Tara Mahoney nails it: "When the public broadcaster reports on wildfires, heat, & extreme weather without connecting the dots to fossil fuels, it leaves Canadians without the context they need to understand the crisis unfolding around them." ricochet.media/media/canada... @cbcradiocanada.bsky.social
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Canada is burning. Why won’t CBC tell us why?
When the public broadcaster reports on wildfires, heat, and extreme weather without connecting the dots to fossil fuels, it leaves Canadians without the context they need to understand the crisis unfo...
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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 06/08/2026
Last year, a white supremacist dating site was hacked and its users leaked. Josiah Patton of Nanaimo BC is one such user. He wrote that he was looking to "find a White woman the younger the better (15+)" The 36-year-old represents himself online as a tutor for teens.
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WhiteDate’s Most Prolific User is a Canadian Looking for a Child Bride
On a dead-end street in the small Vancouver Island city of Nanaimo, Josiah Patton has spent the last four years alternately shouting, begging, and despairing into the void of the white supremacist dat...
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Arno Kopecky @arnokopecky.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Nothing like a wildfire emergency to put a nation's climate policies into perspective. But as our leaders push to increase oil and gas production, a new inconvenient truth is emerging: this seems to be...what Canadians want? My latest for @thewalrus.ca thewalrus.ca/carney-endor...
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Carney Endorses Pipeline Expansion as Wildfires Rage Across Canada | The Walrus
He’s even considering overriding species protection laws to move quickly on big projects
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
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Kathryn Harrison @profkharrison.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
4 stories on wildfire evacuations in news section of Globe & Mail yesterday, then these 3 in business section on booming profits of oil/gas companies that cause the problem. Worse than failure to link those the news stories, Canada is increasing subsidies for oil/gas as the world burns. #cdnpoli
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“The climate emergency kills,” he said on Monday. “And that’s why it’s not enough to address the consequences, which we do; what we have to do is reduce its causes, anticipate its effects, and, consequently, better prepare our country to protect people’s lives.”
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‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers
PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved
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404 Media @404media.co · 31/07/2026
UPDATE: After the publication of this piece, Google sent 404 Media a statement saying it was “rolling back this feature in Google Earth while we work on implementing stronger guardrails.” www.404media.co/google-earth...
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Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images
"Tonight I typed just one sentence into Google Earth and put refugees near the Mexican border. Then I planted a nuclear plant in Iran. Then I put a fatal crash on a street in Amsterdam."
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 30/07/2026
A new investigation by @drugdatadecoded.ca and David Slater reveals how universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently remove their students’ anti-genocide encampments. Then, they denied the existence of records, delayed their release, and deleted chats. breachmedia.ca/canadian-uni...
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Canadian universities set up a secret network to crack down on student Palestine demonstrators ⋆ The Breach
Universities in Canada coordinated to spy on and violently clear student encampments. Then, they deleted the evidence
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Jimmy Thomson @jameswsthomson.com · 15/07/2026
Not sure Carney's got this whole petropolitics thing down just yet. You don't want to announce your wholehearted embrace of oil and gas immediately before the season now known as "fire season" or your words will be echoing through people's heads while they wheeze through their morning dog walks.
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Jeremy Appel 🍉 @readtheorchard.org · 10/07/2026
NEW from me: I took a deep dive for @ricochetmedia.bsky.social into the American hedge fund-owned Canadian newspaper chain that’s pushing anti-trans, pro-genocide and climate science denial narratives down our throats. ricochet.media/media/dumpst...
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‘Dumpster fire’: Postmedia’s decade of pushing Canada’s politics to the right
Canada’s largest newspaper chain has amplified conservative grievance politics — creating fertile ground for MAGA-style ideas, Alberta separatism, and an increasingly polarized political landscape
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Emily Lowan (she/her) @emilylowan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
We need to ban foreign ownership of BC farmland immediately. The super-billionaire heir to the Walmart fortune, Stan Kroenke, now controls over 13% of BC’s farmland - this is a threat to BC’s sovereignty, food security and farmers. Read the Tyee’s in-depth coverage on this issue.
A Tiny BC Farming Town's Fight Against Billionaire Speculators
A US company's pursuit of land near Dunster has reignited calls for stiffer foreign ownership rules.The purchase of dozens of farm properties by two U.S. billionaires has prompted a small B.C. community to call for restrictions on foreign ownership of agricultural land.
Since 2008, a company co-owned by American billionaires Bobby Patton Jr. and Mark Walter has bought 25 properties in Dunster, an unincorporated community of approximately 240 people located 40 minutes north of Valemount.Patton Jr. and Walter are co-owners of the Los Angeles Dodgers through their company
Guggenheim Baseball Management, and were estimated to have a combined net worth of more than $5 billion in 2020. By contrast, the average household income for those living in the Dunster area is about $60,000 per year.Unlike many other provinces, British Columbia has no restrictions on foreign ownership of agricultural land.
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 23/07/2026
In 2021, Premier Doug Ford was personally presented with 20 recommendations to improve emergency management in northern Ontario. The auditor general later offered another 30. Little progress was made before the deadliest wildfire season on record. thenarwhal.ca/ontario-igno...
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First Nations gave Doug Ford a wildfire plan. Ontario ignored it | The Narwhal
Indigenous leaders and the auditor general gave Ontario several emergency management recommendations over the years. Little progress was made
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Reasons to be Cheerful @reasonstobecheerful.world · 21/07/2026
Once among the most polluted cities in the world, Beijing has made a massive U-turn on air quality — thanks, in part, to EVs. reasonstobecheerful.world/electric-…
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Are Electric Cars Making Us Healthier?
Once among the most polluted cities in the world, Beijing has made a massive U-turn on air quality — thanks, in part, to EVs.
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Ben Holt 🇨🇦 @beanjammin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
We didn't stop producing asbestos because there wasn't a market for asbestos. We stopped producing asbestos because asbestos kills people and killing people is wrong. Fossil fuels kill people. Killing people is wrong.
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 20/07/2026
Alberta electricity companies are telling the public data centres will save Albertans money. But the companies are telling investors they'll triple electricity costs. An investigation by @rorywh.bsky.social
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Alberta electricity industry expects tripling of power prices from data centres
In Capital Power's latest earnings call, the company's CEO, Avik Dey, told analysts that he couldn't rule out prices of "$80 or $90" per megawatt hour of electricity by early 2028. By 2029, rival comp...
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The US is adopting a strategy of attacking water storage and desalination plants designed to render the region uninhabitable. If continued, this strategy will make the Gulf littoral uninhabitable in the coming decades. Yet there is no discussion of these tactics and their repercussion in the US.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 18/07/2026
Let's do some Canadian pipeline-wildfire math. The Canadian Energy Center says growing oil exports by 1.5M barrels/day **could** boost GDP by ~31B annually. Meanwhile, wildfire smoke health costs alone - just the health costs, nothing else - averaged 23B/year, past tense. And they're growing fast.
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Ontario hardest hit as wildfires cost Canada billions | NOW Toronto
A new report estimates wildfire smoke has cost Canada $231 billion since 2014. See how much each province has spent.
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Arno Kopecky @arnokopecky.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The backlash to Cowichan has included calls to amend the Constitution. It was Robert who first pointed out to me that Canada's tried this before: in 1927, we banned "Indians" from hiring a lawyer, partly in response to the Cowichan's land claim. That's how long they've been at this.
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Maclean’s Magazine @macleans.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Last year, a judge granted a First Nation title to land containing dozens of private homes in Richmond, BC. What happens next could define the future of reconciliation in Canada. macleans.ca/longforms/richmond-cowi…
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A Judge Recognized Aboriginal Title on Private Property. Panic Ensued. - Macleans.ca
How the Cowichan court battle is putting the real meaning of reconciliation to the test
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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · 13/07/2026
The mouth of the Fraser River has become ground zero for the fight over pipelines as a pair of national priorities — protecting the environment and growing the economy — are headed for spectacular collision.
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The mouth of a BC river could be ground zero for Carney's biggest environmental fight yet
Canada’s mightiest salmon river, the Fraser in BC, is already fighting for survival. Now, here come the oil tankers.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 12/07/2026
Scan your local news today. How many stories are about something climate change is making worse...without saying so? I counted 8 of those in my feed today, vs just 1 that named climate change directly. Why does this matter? Research shows that making this connection changes how people see it.
Nine screenshots of my google news page today, each describing issues that are directly impacted by climate change, from more dangerous wildfire to changing flood policies.
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