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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲

@melanievi.bsky.social
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Newly retired from City politics--> climate action/ housing affordability/ livable cities/ environment/ active transportation/ it's bleak these days, but I haven't given up on humanity

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Judy Trinh @judytrinh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Seniors who were protesting Mark Carney’s Bill c39 and fast tracking of environmental reviews arrested and charged with trespassing on Parliament Hill.
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Max Fawcett @maxfawcett.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
This is genuinely astonishing: a piece by the Globe and Mail’s editorial board lamenting the “new normal” of wildfires and summer smoke and no mention whatsoever of a) climate change, or b) the burning of fossil fuels that causes it. #cdnpoli www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
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Globe editorial: A summer season of fire, smoke, ashes and fear
The carefree feeling of summers past has been incinerated as wildfires rage across the country
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Active transportation just got a whole lot better in Courtenay. This bridge links East/West & North/South routes
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 22/06/2026
Here’s just one of the unprecedented measures the Liberals pushed through at the end of this session: Cabinet ministers will now be allowed to authorize the use of banned pesticides in the name of “national economic security.” Even if they’ve been deemed unsafe for human health. shorturl.at/OlnQl
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Carney government passes law allowing authorization of banned pesticides | CBC News
The federal government has brought in major changes to how pesticides are regulated in Canada, granting cabinet the power to authorize the use of pesticides — even ones that Health Canada has deemed u...
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Matt Brown @mattbrown.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Okay CTA. This is a good sign.
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Haven't seen much online chatter about DTF St Louis - anyone watching this show? I love it. The acting is excellent and the story is an unconventional mix of dark/light/moody/funny
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Water conservation measures on the Council agenda today www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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City of Courtenay considers switching all homes to water meters amid drought concerns | CBC News
The mid-Vancouver Island city of Courtenay, B.C., is considering a move to universal water metering as part of its efforts to conserve the resource. It's one of several municipalities across the provi...
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... Self-driving technology has advanced to the point of being safer than human drivers in cities across the US - it will arrive in Canada too. We need to tax the technology significantly to offset the loss of income tax from divers, and the added congestion on our streets.
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Where B.C. stands on self-driving cars and what recent incidents reveal about safety, rules | CBC News
A recent incident involving a Tesla driver, who police say appeared to be asleep at the wheel, has renewed questions about how self-driving technology is being used and regulated in B.C.
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.
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Tom Parkin @tomparkin.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
The “predictable, long-term” $30B Transit Fund was announced in 2024. But in Carney’s first budget it disappeared. Turns out it was merged into another fund, cut by $5B, renamed and promoted as a new “generational investment” open.substack.com/pub/tparkin/...
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As transit recovery stumbles, Carney budget cut support $5B, FCM learns
For second time the Carney Liberals caught playing shell games to cover cuts.
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
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Valentine’s Day quiz: discover your Canadian lovebird | The Narwhal
Take our Valentine’s Day quiz to find the nest-mate of your dreams — and get a card to share
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Great to see this coming back. If Canada gets access to Chinese EVs models that sell for $15-20K (Geely Galaxy or Wuling Mini EV) and a $5000 rebate, most compact cars sold in Canada will be battery powered. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7bdcedc...
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Carney reinstates EV buyer incentives, scraps sales mandate
Changes are main planks of Ottawa’s strategy to support the auto industry in time of upheaval
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
The first piece of Courtenay's active transportation bridge came into view today This connection is expected to open Summer 2026
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Trump's comments last week beyond insulting and disrespectful to the loved ones of Canadians (and other NATO members) that were killed or injured in Afghanistan FACT: the ONLY time NATO Article 5 has been invoked was to support the USA after 9-11 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/edit...
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Globe editorial: In service to Canada, and our allies
Despite Donald Trump’s insulting claim, tens of thousands of Canadians fought in Afghanistan. And 158 of them died in that conflict
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · 25/01/2026
"Recent events have brought Trump’s governing style into sharper focus," Jonathan Rauch argues. "'Fascist' best describes it, and reluctance to use the term has now become perverse." theatln.tc/wVq7MFaa
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Another data point for the “build it and they will come” chart
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 21/01/2026
"The most important speech at Davos yesterday was by Canada’s Prime Minister, Mark Carney. It was not just an excellent speech. It was a very American one."
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Trump Butchers the Golden Goose
He’s convinced he has to kill liberalism and democracy to realize their benefits.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
come on man www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Welfare Fraud Is a Problem—For Democrats
Safeguarding the social safety net is essential for keeping it.

By James Surowiecki
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The Canadian Border 🇨🇦 @canadianborder.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Canadians buy 1.9 million cars per year. The 50k Chinese cars represents barely 2.6% of the cars on our roads. Opens up trade with China for Alberta, Sask, and Nova Scotia, without sacrificing Ontario. I suppose I see this more as a warning shot at the US to take CUSMA seriously.
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
This is the first good news for EVs in Canada in awhile. Glad to see the Canadian market might have access to what is already available in most of the world - cheap EVs www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...
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Canada reaches tariff deal with China on electric vehicles, canola
In a break with the U.S., Ottawa will roll back tariffs on thousands of Chinese-made autos in exchange for major cuts to Beijing’s levies on agricultural products and seafood
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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I did not know that ⤵️
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
BC has not increased funding to small post secondary in decades -aside from wage contract increases They've identified funding inequity and done nothing to fix it Colleges can't change increase tuition fees BC NDP is walking away from access to post sec outside big cities www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C.'s North Island College poised to suspend 15 programs | CBC News
Students and instructors at North Island College (NIC) say they're disappointed following the institution's recommendation to suspend 15 programs from its three main campuses on mid and north Vancouve...
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
No need to worry about this stuff right? PM Carney certainly isn't and everyone keeps saying he's a smart guy
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
This technology will likely be deployed on Vancouver Island as well, as Manulife does own some of the private forest lands on the South Island. Interesting that the technology was developed to create accountability for reforestation programs www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/7bdcedc...
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Manulife taps Vancouver-based veritree’s technology for its reforestation program
Insurer wants data to highlight its sustainability work with forest and agriculture assets
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Michael de Adder @deadder.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
The Globe and Mail
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Wajahat Ali @wajali.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
So, where are the Epstein Files?
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
It only occurred to me today that the US taking over Venezuela is likely a distraction from the Epstein release Trump best (only) skill seems to be controlling what people are thinking and talking about
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
vancouversun.com/opinion/op-e... DRIPA is not bleeding heart/feel good legislation, it's needed for BC to succeed economical
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Opinion: The path forward in B.C. is together, or not at all
Repealing DRIPA wouldn't make title claims, like the one involving the Cowichan, go away but it would mean major projects would be at risk.
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Mark Gongloff @markgongloff.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Nobody wants to admit to caring about the climate anymore, and yet clean tech financing is booming, making a mint for investors. Trump is betting the future on a shrinking pot. The smart money is going green. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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The Smart Money Is Turning Out to Be Green Money
Climate and money are too often divorced in our imaginations, the assumption being that you can’t make money or properly run an economy and keep the climate from imploding at the same time. People who...
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Let's normalize getting the facts straight before forming opinions. People may not like the Cowichan ruling, but blaming DRIPA is simply misinformed vancouversun.com/opinion/lett...
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consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
“Cleaner oil” eh? 😵‍💫 We’re done. Our PM environmentalist is not that after all. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Canada's cheaper, cleaner and lower-risk oil can rival a resurgent Venezuela, Carney says | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney says he's not worried about the prospect of increased oil production from Venezuela challenging Canada's energy exports because Canadian oil is cheaper, cleaner and lower ri...
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Our government has the same desire to stand up for international laws as Trump's inner circle. Not a word about the aggressor
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cvspincycle.bsky.social @cvspincycle.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Big moves on housing in the waning months of the CVRD board's term.
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
it's disheartening to see someone as smart as Carney prioritize for short term wins over the long term stability of the ecosystems of our planet www.nationalobserver.com/2025/12/10/o...
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Mark Carney is making a cynic out of me
What to do in a political ecosystem where, for anyone concerned about climate change or whose politics run even slightly left of centre, there is precious little choice?
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
cheknews.ca/mountain-bik... Jamie interviewed about yesterday's rescue. Hopefully the injured mountain biker is able to make a full recovery.
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Mountain biker with serious injuries rescued in 5.5 hour task
Comox Valley SAR was called Saturday after a 26 year-old biker crashed on a Black Diamond trail, suffering suspected spinal and head injuries.
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
This is an incredibly written piece, reading this was best use of time I've had on the internet for some time. Cloud Dancer - "It is the color of a corporate apology" johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/cloud-danc...
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'Cloud Dancer': A Measured Response
Regarding Pantone's decision, and so on, and so forth
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
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Why was 'incredible' giant cedar cut down, despite B.C.'s big-tree protection law? | CBC News
Conservationists are questioning why an old-growth yellow cedar tree with a diameter that should have ensured its protection and a buffer area around it under provincial law was logged.
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Avi Lewis @avilewis.ca · 05/12/2025
Alternate headline: Today Canada bought $3.6 billion worth of bombs from the U.S. What the hell are we doing? www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Defence minister says 'we're good' to meet 2% NATO spending target by March | CBC News
Defence Minister David McGuinty assured MPs on Thursday that the federal government is on its way to meeting NATO's old, politically charged spending target of two per cent of GDP — just as the Wester...
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
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2 top climate advisers quit saying Carney government is ignoring its experts | CBC News
Two members of the federal government’s Net-Zero Advisory Body have resigned, saying its work is being ignored by Ottawa as it moves away from previous climate commitments and toward new oil and gas p...
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/art... Indigenous leaders seeing what Alberta and Liberal politicians do not. Protecting our Coast is worth taking a stand for.
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AFN chiefs pass resolution rejecting changes to oil tanker ban
Assembly also calls for withdrawal of Alberta-Ottawa energy deal that could see the prohibition modified
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
All these analysts explaining Carney’s pipeline deal like is 3D chess. Seems we’ll go to great lengths to make excuses for leaders we trust (or want to trust), despite being shown what they stand for- which in Carney’s case is an expanded military, trashing climate, and cutting taxes on yachts, etc.
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Blayne Haggart @bhaggart.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
It‘s not great that the best gloss on Carney’s pipeline deal is that he’s either pulling a fast one on the premier of Alberta or on the people of Canada. Democracies can’t function if citizens have to resort to guessing what their leaders are actually doing.
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MelanieMcCollum 🍁🚲 @melanievi.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Sad day for BC. Sad day for the planet. Sad day for all the Canadians that voted for Carney and thought he was a Liberal
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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
1. This federal-Alberta pipeline MOU is even worse than I expected. Even before we get to the pipeline: - exempts AB from net zero electricity reg (AB produces 44% of all electricity-related GHGs in Canada). - delays methane reg by 5 years (75% redn by 2035 rather than 2030. (cont'd)
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Keith Stewart @climatekeith.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
As we await the pipeline MOU, a reminder that Alberta has 12% of Canada’s population and • 38% of national GHG emissions • 75% of oil and gas-related GHGs • 51% of electricity-related GHGS Source: 2025 National Inventory Report 1990-2023: GHG Sources and Sinks in Canada (ECCC)
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cvspincycle.bsky.social @cvspincycle.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Clean power from the remains of dirty coal extraction. Another rags to riches story in the Village of Cumberland interestingengineering.com/energy/coal-...
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Canadian village taps abandoned coal mines for clean geothermal energy
Canada's village of Cumberland has began using abandoned coal mines to supply clean geothermal heating and cooling for homes and businesses.
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