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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦

@patrickcanning.bsky.social
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Climate litigation. Lawyer, husband, girl dad. Every inch of the Earth is worth fighting for. No Xers. No AI. Work: patrickccanning.com Climate law blog: feeltheheat.blog LLM (Lewis & Clark). Not legal advice

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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 6h
God help us all.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 9h
I've thought that too
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 9h
As dumb as it sounds, they even make pretty much that argument in court - that Canada is only obligated to count emissions in Canada, and not what is burned elsewhere. I did a blog post on this a few years ago
feeltheheat.blog
The “Emissions Shell Game” – the Production Gap and why we need to Keep it in the Ground
A shell game is where people move shells (or cups, or whatever) around on a table, with an object under just one of them – you have to pick the shell that has the pea under it. The key is that “it …
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Drilled @drilledmedia.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Honduras' Garifuna people are facing forced displacement from their own land in violation of international court rulings. On this week's The Spill, @ninalakhani.bsky.social talks with Karen Spring from the Honduras Solidarity Network about where the reality TV show Survivor fits in. lnk.to/TheSpill
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Drilled: The Spill
Drilled is a true-crime climate change podcast exposing how corporate corruption and political operatives built decades of climate denial and delay. The Spill is our new weekly show to bring you news...
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 11h
Wow, cool! I remember as a kid the old men, in their 80s, rowing out in Sambro, Nova Scotia, to catch cod by hand, in all kinds of weather. The fish that sustained a culture.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 11h
Carney, the economic genius, is pumping our public money into a losing bet.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 13h
And remember the Great Hack took place before AI, they can do this on a massive scale now. The great hack happened, there were basically no consequences, and now it's happening at scale. Remind me, why do we need all these data centres?
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 23h
40 dead from climate induced flooding in Bangkok.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 23h
Children especially. It's heartbreaking.
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Joanne Hammond @joannehammond.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“This will be hard-fought in the court rooms, and if necessary, with boots on the ground”, says UBCIC Grand Chief Stewart Phillip. If this government tries to build a billion-barrel bitumen pipeline though our home, MY boots will be there too. No more pipelines. www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...
aptnnews.ca
First Nations along Pacific Link route denounce lack of consultation
A First Nation along the route of the proposed West Coast Oil Pipeline (now called Pacific Link) says it’s considering court action.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Canada gives them a 33% bonus.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Canada's plan is to go from 5th to 2nd largest producer of LNG, globally, crank up oil production with a new pipeline, and hit zero in 2070, whereupon everything will be fine.
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Adam McKay @ghostpanther.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It’s officially time to freak out.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
40 dead. But, yeah, let's do another pipeline.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
They are clearly both compromised. Luckily we do not have just two parties.
torontosun.com
LILLEY: Why is Mark Carney hiring Americans for the PMO?
An American political operative with Democratic campaign ties is reportedly being elevated inside the Prime Minister's Office. Read on.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Yes!! We had a squirtgun mafia - the "Luigi Family", in what was otherwise the sketchiest highschool in the area, you could pay us two dollars to make a 'hit' on someone - similar to what you describe. We were also the track team.
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UBCIC @ubcic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Nesika's thrilled to launch the Arnold Peters Legacy Scholarship in partnership with UBCIC. Apply at: www.nesikasociety.org The deadline is Oct. 31, 2026.
Poster with Arnold Peters in a circular frame on right. 

Nesika logo on top. 

Poster reads: Nesika Presents: The Arnold Peters Legacy Scholarship

The Arnold Peters Legacy Scholarship fund will award a scholarship of $2,500 to two students from a UBCIC member community enrolling in their first year of a recognized accounting or financial management program at a post-secondary institution in British Columbia. 

To apply, go to nesikasociety.org and fill out the online form by October 31, 2026
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's not that hard to be civilised, yet so rare. Good for them!
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
"For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." - JFK
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Carney says Trudeau-era climate plan was 'too expensive' and 'divisive' | CBC News
Prime Minister Mark Carney echoed critics of the previous Liberal government's climate plan in a video posted on Tuesday, saying the plan he inherited was too expensive and divisive.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yes, and I also teach my girls not to fight alone - one's in, they're all in. And to watch each other's backs.
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MondoAB @mondoab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This! 100%.
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jimmycraig42.bsky.social @jimmycraig42.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We cant afford to fight climate change But theres always money to make it worse
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Google the most respected economists in the world.
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lissa @unraveledlissa.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
For Carney's "we can't afford to tackle climate change" bs: Economist Joseph Stieglitz; "When the US was attacked during the second world war no one asked, “Can we afford to fight the war?” It was an existential matter. We could not afford not to fight it. The same goes for the climate crisis."
theguardian.com
The climate crisis is our third world war. It needs a bold response | Joseph Stiglitz
Critics of the Green New Deal ask if we can afford it. But we can’t afford not to: our civilisation is at stake
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
exactly. We remember Robert Dziekański
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If you're PO'd in BC about the new pipeline, remember: David Eby AGREED to it, in exchange for funding and approval for his pet LNG projects:
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Canada-British Columbia Cooperative Prosperity Agreement
PrefaceBritish Columbia and Canada are partners in a period of great consequence for our country. The world is changing rapidly. In response, we are focused on what we can control: building an afforda...
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
AI in Canada is an investment for investors, and the data collection industry. Brittany Kaiser said in The Great Hack that data is the most valuable business on Earth.
hilltimes.com
AI data centers: an investment in what, and for whom? - The Hill Times
Prime Minister Mark Carney is selling Canadians on AI sovereignty while selling investors on returns. Only one of those pitches comes with a public record.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A strengthening EU would be good for the world.
theguardian.com
Macron says ‘welcome back’ to Burnham suggestion UK could rejoin EU
French president, speaking alongside Spanish counterpart Pedro Sánchez, says EU bid would be good news for UK and Europeans
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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 02/10/2026
Their mission is the pursuit of human rights for their technology designed to deprive you of human rights.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
- 82,000 deaths from wildfire smoke in 2023 - 34,000 deaths in the heatwave in India in May - 30,000 deaths from heat in EU this summer - 619 deaths from heat dome in BC in 2021 - 9 year old Carter Veigh, died from wildfire smoke, 2023. - more to come. = you are a heartless monster. Seek help.
theguardian.com
Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world
Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah it's pure bs
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Palantir named as a co-conspirator in Renee Good case. Excellent.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
In an just system it is still important to assert your rights. They win just by bringing this case, and I hope they do win. Sending gratitude to this brave and grieving family.
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annie1234.bsky.social @annie1234.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To Renee good’s family: I am with you. All those fuckers belong in prison for what they have done to Renee and others and to our country.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The thought is what counts.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
What an idiotic day. Have a picture.
A sliver of orange sun setting behind dark mountains over the sea, with a blue sky
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is what I think
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Please people go tell PM Mark Carney what you think of him designating a new pipeline a project of national interest and paying for it (90%) with taxpayer dollars:
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
- 82,000 deaths from wildfire smoke in 2023 - 34,000 deaths in the heatwave in India in May - 30,000 deaths from heat in EU this summer - 619 deaths from heat dome in BC in 2021 - 9 year old Carter Veigh, died from wildfire smoke, 2023. - more to come. = you are a heartless monster. Seek help.
theguardian.com
Smoke from Canada’s wildfires killed nine-year-old Carter Vigh – and 82,000 others around the world
Toxic particles spewed by 2023’s wildfires were even responsible for 22,000 early deaths in Europe, researchers say
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's a way to funnel public money to private hands. It doesn't matter to them if it's marketable, they pay for it now, and will pay more later to prop it up as the market dies, and all that taxpayer money will go to mostly American corporations to enrich the investor class.
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CJ is..... ⚾⚕️😷 @cjhajer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It took a some mighty sneaky accounting to hide the fact that the pipeline "we already have at home" is losing money, and, in no way, even actually being fully utilized. Even straight-up ignoring the health/climate impacts, if TransMountain is a money pit, a 2nd is lunacy. bsky.app/profile/char...
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sorry, Frederick Buell wrote that, in his book From Apocalypse to Way of Life. Speth quoted him.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
It's even more successful today, everyone's getting in on it.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Something happened to strip the environmental [cause] of what seemed in the 1970s to be its self-evident inevitability . . . In reaction to the decade of crisis, a strong and enormously successful anti-environmental disinformation industry sprang up." - Gustave Speth
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yeah, I see it's more complicated and the AG fought to keep them, I'll have to learn more about it.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
First Nations along the 'Pacific Link' pipeline route are speaking out about the lack of consultation by the Carney government over the project now designated in the national interest. One is pondering legal action. www.aptnnews.ca?p=295352
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First Nations along Pacific Link route denounce lack of consultation
A First Nation along the route of the proposed West Coast Oil Pipeline (now called Pacific Link) says it’s considering court action.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
wow, that is it.
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Patrick Canning 🇨🇦 @patrickcanning.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Feeling overwhelmed? Between yesterday and today Carney is "flooding the zone," his favorite trick from donald trump.
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