DeSmog obtained audio of Mark Carney's former chief of staff describing key goals for the PM and it's a lot less radical-sounding than Carney's recent speech at Davos Grow oil production, sell LNG, revive NAFTA 🙄 Read more from @marylouisestuart.bsky.social www.desmog.com/2026/01/27/m...

For decades, ExxonMobil argued consumers, not oil giants, should take responsibility for fossil fuel pollution. It’s now backing a new accounting scheme which moves climate pollution “liabilities” to buyers’ books. @sharonkelly.bsky.social has the story for @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/01/23/e...

Wonder why Danielle Smith isn't speaking out about Trump threatening Greenland? I'm sure it has nothing to do with her cultivating connections to the Trump official tasked with annexing the territory. Read more from @marylouisestuart.bsky.social in @desmog.com www.desmog.com/2026/01/14/d...

There's a bit of data in here that I think will fly under the radar for most people. According to the AER, the oilsands used 257 BILLION litres of freshwater in 2024 alone. That's a 12% jump in freshwater use intensity from 2023. And that's without CCUS in the picture. #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #CCUS

4/4: read the paper on arXiv: arxiv.org/abs/2512.03077 check out the workshop website: acaworkshop.github.io ...and consider visiting our poster today, at 11:15am pacific time, if you're in San Diego!

2/4: this paper reviews literature on Big Tech's influence on the AI research community, and the downstream societal effects of the relationship. We discuss some of the outcomes of this influence, what forces motivate it, and potential solutions...

Check out this paper my partner (co) authored on fundamental issues in AI research due to the field's entanglement with big tech.

"Reading this budget feels like scrolling on Instagram; one moment you see something horrifying, and the next you’re hit with the rich and glamorous flexing their fortunes." rabble.ca/environment/...

This pipeline will never be built. But trying to build it is still a tragic waste of time and money at a time when we have neither to spare.

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

It's actually insane that the feds are promising to put more than double the amount of money they're putting into childcare, into AI. Why not just set it on fire and dance around it hoping to sway the gods to our favour?

This is the most harmful budget from a climate perspective since the Harper era. It's a complete abdication of climate responsibilities, and while at least $3 billion in climate funding gets cut, taxpayer supports for oil and gas are set to grow. Great breakdown @hadrianmk.bsky.social

Today a story I've spent months reporting and writing runs on @desmog.com and @theguardian.com. It's based on hundreds of exclusive documents revealing how Exxon funded the rightwing Atlas Network to spread climate denial across Latin America and the Global South. www.desmog.com/2025/11/03/a...

“It was a lightning rod of hope. We brought in thousands of new members to this party, many of whom were completely disillusioned with politics.” Emily Lowan’s victory is a sign that the climate movement still has the energy to capture voters. Hugh Chan writes. #bcpoli

Really pleased to share a new article I wrote with my MA supervisor James Rowe & colleague Julia Weder. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/09/14/o...

Hi, @jervaler.bsky.social. We met at the #CancelthePermits rally, and from what you may recall from my panel and speech, I am both an extremely politically motivated person and values aligned with BC Greens. I wanted to respond to this statement, as somebody who has (finally) completed verification.

NEW: “It is a famine. Everyone owns this.” UN emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher confirms a famine in Gaza. The whole world should be made to watch these two and half minutes. (🎥 BBC News)

The Committee to Protect Journalists say Israel has killed at least 186 journalists in the Gaza conflict. Israel denies deliberately targeting journalists. Israel also denies deliberately targeting children but has managed to kill or wound 50,000 of them. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

FUCK you @nationalpost.bsky.social. This is unforgivable, traitorous shit from people claiming to be journalists. How dare you accept this framing from a state that is SLAUGHTERING our colleagues. How DARE you.

reminder: climate fatalism becomes starkly absurd when you put it in literal, immediate and physical terms. Oh no there's just no way we can ever stop handing billions in subsidies to this coal mining company. Damn, we're doomed. Guess we just keep on doin it

Bear in mind that if you held up a sign saying "I support genocide", you would not be arrested under the Terrorism Act.

I’m Emily Lowan & I'm running to be the next leader of the BC Green Party. I’ve spent the last decade organizing for climate justice & Indigenous rights. Our movement needs a political vehicle to change the conversation: to centre the people, not the corporate lobbyists. youtube.com/shorts/1B-Ny...

New outlets are literally giving more smoke to a candidate for A LOCAL ELECTION who wants to pilot 5 state owned grocery stores, fix vendor licenses and raise taxes on the rich by 2% then Trump literally doing fascism

We have enough productive capacity to ensure good lives for 8 billion. And yet, because capital controls production, deprivation remains endemic. This new study shows *95%* of surveyed households in low/middle-income countries are denied access to basics. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What the fuck is this? So we can spend money on defence and security but can’t “redistribute what we don’t have” So what do we have for defence and security spending? This is circular reasoning that makes no sense

A federal wealth tax could raise half a trillion dollars for Canada. Extreme wealth concentration is damaging our economy and society. Taxing the super-rich could fund transformative public investments to build a stronger, more resilient Canada. New report: bcpolicy.ca/wealth-tax

Last evening, #BCpoli passed 2nd reading of the controversial Infrastructure Projects Act in a narrow 46-44 vote, with two former Conservative MLAs (now independent) as no-shows. My Bill 15 explainer with @zoeyunker.bsky.social for @thetyee.ca. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05...

This is so dorky. You are under arrest for sitting and having an opinion? Get over yourself. Let people sit and have opinions. Go home to your Connecticut mansion and read to your kids and hope they have half this conviction about something by the time they’re 18. Pet your dog. Embarrassed for you.

The response to this piece on end times fascism co-authored with @naomiaklein.bsky.social has been pretty astounding. I'm reposting in case you missed it. The governing ideology of the far right has become a monstrous, supremacist survivalism. We must build a movement strong enough to stop them.

"A federal judge on Thursday permanently barred the Trump administration from invoking the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelans it has deemed to be criminals...saying that the White House’s use of the statute was illegal." ayyy www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

1/8: as a Canadian, I want to share thoughts on the recent election, a prediction for the future, and why now is not the time for 60% of Canadians to be breathing a sigh of relief.

Strategic voting for me but not for thee

New podcast ep! Ft. @geoffdembicki.bsky.social on mapping the connection between corporate lobbyists and Pierre Pollievre's inner circle as well as the growing global rightwing network centred around Jordan Peterson and his ilk. Great hosting by @erinblondeau.bsky.social + @emikonewman.bsky.social!

New piece: Elbows up? Here’s how some of the major projects we’re fast-tracking will help Trump’s inner circle. The solution is not to copy Trump’s “drill, baby, drill” approach and backstop these U.S. billionaires, but to build a clean, resilient future. @shirip.bsky.social tinyurl.com/5y3eb33m

Trying to win back some of their conspiratorial MAGA base

My first real podcast chat! It was great to speak with Erin Blondeau and Emiko Newman about climate denial, conspiracy theories and the role they play in climate politics.

This is good to see. The line to get in was so long that people are still in line and the event began over an hour ago. Denver is deep blue but to see this kind of engagement in a non presidential year means something. Other dems could tap into the anger or they could follow the Schumer method.

Unfortunate and confusing to see him moving toward promoting the classic climate denial framing of carbon vitalism

HAPPENING NOW: 1000+ U.S. Jews are outside ICE headquarters in NYC demanding the release of Mahmoud Khalil and protest the Trump-Musk deportation agenda.  We are Jews for freedom and democracy saying #FreeMahmoud

This is a corporate attempt to put an end to climate protest and *particularly* to Indigenous led climate protest. Massive 1A assault. Pretty shocking that our little outlet was one of maybe 3 or 4 that had a reporter there every day of the trial (one of the others was a fake newspaper 🙃)

"Let me say it slowly... you say he broke the law. The White House says he didn't. Check with the White House on talking points before you come on TV." I explained to GOP Congressman Dan Crenshaw why he's wrong about the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. Full debate: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbDh...

The Right’s newfound love of censorship proves what many suspected: its free speech absolutism was always conditional. Just ask Jacobin contributor Yves Engler, recently jailed in Canada for five days for online criticism of Israel’s supporters.

Of course the main story is Trump’s authoritarianism. But the secondary story is that some university presidents and donors called for this. They went on the news and in front of Congress to claim their students were violent antisemites, funded by Iran, who don’t deserve speech rights

Seems like has been very little coverage of protests happening in the U.S.--not necessarily an intentional media blackout (although possibly), but the result of a longstanding stance in legacy media that protests aren't worth covering, activists aren't credible sources (but somehow CEOs are), etc.

What’d she do? Return a Tesla?

It was a pleasure to collaborate on this article discussing research-as-solidarity, reflecting on experiences volunteering with Research for the Front Lines! www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/5/...

Alberta government ‘task force’ report on response to COVID-19 calls for vaccine use to be halted, pumps quack cures and conspiracy theories. albertapolitics.ca/2025/01/albe...

this is our actual climate future staring us in the face - no consensus reality or shared source of authority, rampant conspiracies everywhere, more pressure to address made up nonsense than the underlying problem conspiracy theories are fully mainstream now

If each dollar was a kilometre, a median-earning Canadian could get from Ottawa to Montreal, while a middle-paid exec could travel halfway around the Earth