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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd)

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Anti-imperialist prairie fish science. Artist. Writer. Proud citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation. Fish are the future. The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures (2018-present). freshwaterfishfutures.ca fishphilosophy.org

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Council of Canadian Academies/Conseil des académies canadiennes @cca-reports.ca · 24/09/2026
When Indigenous Peoples’ knowledge and food systems are healthy and sovereign, they generate social, environmental, and economic benefits for all people in Canada. go.cca-reports.ca/4yCZdbV #IndigenousKnowledgeSystems #IKS #IndigenousFoodSystems
Report summary page 1. Report summary page 2.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Very proud of the work we collectively did on this expert panel report -- Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Food Sovereignty -- for the Council of Canadian Academies @cca-reports.ca Grateful to Dr. Treena Wasonti:io Delormier for leading us as Chair. 🐟 Read it to see our insights.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
grist.org/indigenous/5...
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5 takeaways from our investigation into the 'ghost' tribe that got millions in climate funding
In 2017, Juan Mancias, the chairman of the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, traveled to France to help pressure two of the country’s largest banks into divesting from oil and gas projects in South Te...
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Tristan Ahtone @tahtone.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Grist asked the major funders who supported the Carrizo/Comecrudo how they vetted Mancias and the tribe. Several said philanthropists had no business questioning Indigenous identity. Others said funding decisions turned on the tribe's actions, not its ancestral claims.
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Tristan Ahtone @tahtone.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Mancias' case reveals an unofficial "shadow" recognition system, one in which environmental nonprofits, journalists, and international human rights bodies support unrecognized, and unverified, individuals and groups in the fight against climate change.
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Tristan Ahtone @tahtone.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
🚨 Fresh investigation off @grist.org's Indigenous Affairs desk: The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story. grist.org/indigenous/t...
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The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story.
How the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
about to read this piece by Tristan Ahtone on revelations of a pretendian in the high level international climate/environmental advocacy world -- maybe you want to as well. grist.org/indigenous/t...
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The climate movement gave this Texas tribe millions and a global platform. No one checked its story.
How the Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe turned family lore into money, media, and a place at the United Nations.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Important info here for anyone else uncomfortable when this transcription agent is used in Zoom
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Nimblenewt @nimblenewt.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
And an even better photo of the sweet otter, plus a photo of the actual otter-CPR-guy Gordon Mellish, and not the RCMP officer in the above article: www.timescolonist.com/local-news/a...
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Alert Bay man gives mouth-to-mouth to resuscitate river otter pup
Well-versed in first aid, Gordon Mellish treated the unconscious river otter pup like a baby or small child.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Great news in the Regional District of Nanaimo: "youth aged 13 to 18 can soon ride buses for free in the RDN" *this came about through brilliant advocacy by local youth. GREAT WORK! cheknews.ca/youth-aged-1...
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Youth aged 13 to 18 can soon ride buses for free in the Regional District of Nanaimo
Youth between the ages of 13 to 18 in the Regional District of Nanaimo will soon be able to start riding buses for free.
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Meghan Bartels @meghanbartels.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Back on my (500-plus-million-years-before-bulls) shit: 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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Did poop fuel paleontology’s vaunted Cambrian explosion?
The Cambrian explosion is a critical moment for life on Earth—and it may have been all about poop
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
How is it not a bigger scandal that Evan Solomon is the Minister of AI (the Guadrain, 2015) www.theguardian.com/business/201...
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Canadian journalist sacked in scandal involving art sale to Mark Carney
Bank of England governor was interviewed on CBC, the national broadcaster, by Evan Solomon, who brokered deals and took secret commissions, says report
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
A lovely reflection on our UNDERCURRENTS online exhibit by lead curator Rapichan (Ta) Phurisamban: "Reflections on Undercurrents: A Portal into Ourselves, Our Places, and Our Cyclical Times" freshwaterfishfutures.ca/2026/08/05/r... Check out the show: freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrent...
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Reflections on Undercurrents: A Portal into Ourselves, Our Places, and Our Cyclical Times
The process of curating an online art exhibit is a curious one. Despite being accessible from anywhere and at anytime, it is never place-less. We are respectively situated on traditional and unceded I...
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Today’s the day! Our multimedia exhibit Undercurrents just launched - featuring Ahmed Alaqra, Brad Isaacs, Carlie Trosclair, Danielle Boudreau, James May, Manuel Axel, Matou, Pari Mokradi, & Steve Maldonado Silvestrini. freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrent... Funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca
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UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBIT 2026
Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Today’s the day! Our multimedia exhibit Undercurrents just launched - featuring Ahmed Alaqra, Brad Isaacs, Carlie Trosclair, Danielle Boudreau, James May, Manuel Axel, Matou, Pari Mokradi, & Steve Maldonado Silvestrini. freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrent... Funded by @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca
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UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBIT 2026
Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge.
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SFU Indigenous Studies @sfuindg.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
The Undercurrents exhibit is now open! Visit www.freshwaterfishfutures.ca/undercurrents-exhibit to view. @zoestodd.bsky.social @sfufass.bsky.social
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UNDERCURRENTS EXHIBIT 2026
Undercurrents is an online multimedia exhibit that explores artistic responses to water, fish, and aquatic ecologies, where materiality, memory, myth, and metaphor converge.
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Alanna Kelly @alannakellynews.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A devoted partner and caring father who spent nearly three decades volunteering his time to rescue strangers has died while mountain biking in Squamish. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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B.C. man who devoted nearly three decades to rescuing strangers dies in Squamish | CBC News
Michael Coyle had worked with Coquitlam SAR for years and helped many other teams in B.C.
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Simon J. Greenhill @simongreenhill.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Somewhere a university academic is being told to "do more with less" by someone whose job title didn't exist two reorgs ago.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Clouds have weight. The geological, temporal, imaginary, and epistemic substrates of AI are where power concentrates and where it can be contested. This issue emerges in part from, PLATFORM, a special theme year at the Institute of Advanced Study: www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/pla...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
I return to the concept of "algorithmic agnotology"--the strategic production of ignorance through technical inscrutability and selective transparency. Platforms don't just hide labor and data flows. AI platforms add geological and epistemic layers of concealment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CRJ...
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Algorithmic Agnotology: On AI, Ignorance, and Power – Alondra Nelson | IASEAI '26
YouTube video by International Association for Safe & Ethical AI
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
What's consequential about generative AI isn't the interface, it's what lies beneath: cobalt mines in the DRC, lithium fields in the Andes, gas turbines burning methane in Black communities in Mississippi, workers in the Global South rating outputs for dollars a day. limn.press/article/plat...
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Platform Obscurantism - Limn
ChatGPT is a platform. The chatbot is infrastructure. Thousands of applications now build on OpenAI’s application programming interface, creating a dependent ecosystem of developers, startups, and ent...
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Nathan K. Hensley @nathankhensley.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
"[T]here is no honour for the humanities in regaining their standing through the attention of AI companies, if they engage only on the technology industry’s terms."
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
First Nations observers raise flags about Prime Minister Mark Carney's newest senior advisor. Hear more on APTN News Brief:
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APTN News Brief: Critics question PM's pick for sr. advisor infamous for inflammatory comments after 2016 shooting
Our lead story: some First Nations observers raise flags about Prime Minister Mark Carney's newest senior advisor, citing inflammatory comments Scott Gilmore wrote following a tragic 2016 shooting ...
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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
1989: Margaret Thatcher, "Water privatisation I believe will go very successfully indeed. It will go very successfully indeed" 2026: BBC News, "Both terminals at the UK's second busiest airport, Gatwick, are without running water.. Toilets can't be flushed"
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 26/07/2026
Now is a good reminder that machine learning is a rebranding of statistical learning. Reinforcement learning is something I first came across in control theory. Many ML formulations are from information theory, a much more theoretically grounded discipline that's been around for decades.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
"There is no cloud. Only Earth."
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Isaac Samuel @rhaplord.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
The African origins of Abolition: African Anti-Slavery Laws in the Atlantic World. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/the-africa...
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The African origins of Abolition: African Anti-Slavery Laws in the Atlantic World.
Abolitionism succeeded thanks to the struggles of many movements, some of which were global, while others were local and emerged from pre-existing Anti-slavery laws in pre-colonial Africa that sought ...
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MEDIA INDIGENA @mediaindigena.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
“If we really want to end the violence and depravation that plagues Canada’s remote Aboriginal communities, we need to help them leave these communities, forever. [If not,] the least we can do to help is to send them a backhoe as they keep digging graves.” Scott Gilmore, now part of Team Carney
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Camels are dying from heat stroke. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Africa's camels are dying from extreme heat as temperatures soar
Herders and experts tell the BBC how Africa's camels are suffering because of extreme heat.
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Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Saying, then living, "we are not afraid" (despite fear!) is world-changing. Sometimes the scale of change is tiny. But sometimes, as with the students in India now and the freedom rider in the US who gave us that verse, it is not small at all
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gosnach @chestero.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
The 'Land Grab' That Gave One-Quarter of Vancouver Island to a Rail Baron via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07... Awesome article. Questions that need to be ask for similar reasons coast to coast to coast. Unlike AB & east, BC doesn't have the same history of treaties. Not that they were honored
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The ‘Land Grab’ That Gave One-Quarter of Vancouver Island to a Rail Baron | The Tyee
A new exhibit spotlights the ‘grant’ made without First Nations’ consent 140 years ago.
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Stephen Quinn @cbcstephenquinn.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Some might say it all started here...
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Learn Dirt @learndirt.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
If you're a gardener and this resonates with you, you belong in our free regenerative gardening community at LearnDirt.com 🌱
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Spork loves you @strivingally.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
This is the shit I’m talking about. They’re just blatantly lying about their resource use. And they are going to break whatever rules they can until somebody forces them to stop. These things need to be stopped at the planning stages.
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Charles Rusnell @charlesrusnell.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Important under-the-radar story Via Zoe Mason - Essentially, the UCP are eliminating citizen-involved boards that might criticize the govt's anti-environmental agenda. The UCP Is Killing a Key Part of Alberta's Environmental Protection via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
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The UCP Is Killing a Key Part of Alberta’s Environmental Protection | The Tyee
For two decades, government advisory groups have forged consensus. Now they’re being shut down.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Cory Doctorow recently wrote that being against AI is being against 'statistical inferences', which is 'weird'. But if you're from a nation/people about whom sloppy statistical inferences from questionable data have been made for centuries...it's not weird to question the newest statistical grift.
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Now Toronto @nowtoronto.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Reaction is pouring in after Ontario’s Minister of Emergency Preparedness and Response, Jill Dunlop, was pulled from a CBC interview by a staffer, leading to an on-air exchange between the staffer and the program’s host. #OnPoli nowtoronto.com/news/ontario...
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One DEI Consulting @onedeiconsulting.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
When AI replicates systematic racism, it is not a glitch; it's a feature.
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SFU Indigenous Studies @sfuindg.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Congratulations to SFU INDG's @zoestodd.bsky.social on being awarded a SSHRC Insight Development Grant to support research titled "The Implications of Canada's National Sovereign AI Compute Strategy for Freshwater Fish Futures and Indigenous Governance."
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Reminder that Carney has cut funding for Natural Resources Canada, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Indigenous and Northern Affairs, and Indigenous Services. And he has rolled back climate protections, abandoned emissions targets, and is building more pipelines.
Carney:

"The wildfire situation has escalated significantly over the last three weeks across the country, and particularly in Northwestern Ontario. 

Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their communities, not knowing if their homes will survive.  
 
On behalf of Canadians, I want to thank the brave firefighters, first responders, Indigenous and local leaders who are working tirelessly to keep people safe.
 
Our government is in close contact with provincial, municipal, and Indigenous partners and stands ready to provide any additional support as needed."
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SFU Indigenous Studies @sfuindg.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures, founded by Zoe Todd, is launching an online art exhibit, Undercurrents, curated by Rapichan (Ta) Phurisamban and Courtney Chetwynd, on July 29, 2026. Learn more: www.sfu.ca/indg/news-ev... @sfufass.bsky.social
The Institute for Freshwater Fish Futures Restor(y)ing fish futures, together.
UNDERCURRENTS
Multimedia Exhibit
Launching July 29, 2026
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Happy to share we secured a $100,000 SSHRC Insight Development grant to examine "The Implications of Canada's National Sovereign AI Compute Strategy for Freshwater Fish Futures & Indigenous Governance". Really looking forward to working with a brilliant team to address material impacts of AI compute
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Zemyla @zemyla.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
The good news is this is a sign AI is near the end of its life. The story at the end of every technogrift has been "we can't make money from rich white guys, let's market it to marginalized groups." Crypto did it, NFTs did it, the metaverse did it
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Nat 🪶🏴‍☠️ FUCK AI @nattydreadwolfe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
'What Are We Breathing?' Kitimat Residents Ask via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
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‘What Are We Breathing?’ Kitimat Residents Ask | The Tyee
A Tyee investigation has uncovered major gaps in the monitoring of dangerous, potentially carcinogenic pollutants.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
It's wild that we're encouraged to embrace 'Indigenous AI', but imagine if I phrased it as 'Indigenous nuclear war'. "Indigenising" is not the same as decolonising or abolishing systems of harm. Fanon (1961) warned us the native/colonized petit bourgeoisie would align with capital + empire.
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Rich Burroughs @somewhattolerable.com · 21/07/2026
This thread is great and I agree completely. I also don’t trust the premise. The companies release these numbers occasionally but are generally not transparent, and the whole sector is basically a Ponzi scheme. There’s no reason to give them the benefit of the doubt.
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ZoeSTodd (Dr Fish Philosopher Todd) @zoestodd.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
"AI electricity+water usage is no worse than golf courses or the beef industry" - cool, but we should reform or abolish other large-scale energy/water intensive industries, too. Also, last I checked, golf/beef weren't pushing for building out nuclear+gas-powered plants to meet exploding demand...
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Jeff Samsonow @jeffsamsonow.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Hey Edmonton pals, this smoke is awful for our health. You can pick up free N95 masks at libraries, rec centres, green shacks and pools. If you need a mask, find the closest spot at the City of Edmonton website: www.edmonton.ca/programs_ser...
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Extreme Weather Response for Summer | City of Edmonton
During periods of intense heat and smoke, caring for our city’s most vulnerable residents becomes especially critical. From May 15 to September 30, additional support is available to help keep people safe.
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rodmickleburgh.bsky.social @rodmickleburgh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
#bcpoli RT LNG Canada's Acid Gas-Burning Incinerator Keeps Failing via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2026/07...
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LNG Canada’s Acid Gas-Burning Incinerator Keeps Failing | The Tyee
A key tool for protecting Kitimat’s environment and humans has frequently malfunctioned, leaving it unusable for months on end.
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Emily Atkin @emorwee.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
This. This is the correct, science-backed, responsible framing. Wish more news outlets did it like the CBC.
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'Just stop burning fossil fuels.' Scientists stress that our smoky skies only have one true fix | CBC News
Smoky skies in Toronto have led to new scrutiny of government efforts to fight fires and manage forests. But scientists say the realistic way to tackle the smoke is fighting climate change itself.
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