Britt Roscoe
@nsblr.bsky.social
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Britt Roscoe
Resilience
7 days ago
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Humanity Is Not the Problem!
True climate action doesn’t require vast data centers, billions of liters of water, or mineral-intensive hardware. It requires shorter distances, stronger communities, healthy soils, local food webs, and diverse, place-based economies that reduce demand at the source.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2026-02-13/humanity-is-not-the-problem/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky
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Canadian-based The Metals Company (@themetalsco.bsky.social) is pushing to mine the deep sea. Canada must double-down to
#StopDeepSeaMining
and oppose the Mining Code that would open oceans to irreversible damage. Add your name:
act.gp/3HCJHYw
@greenpeaceca.bsky.social
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Petition: Tell Canada to oppose the Mining Code and protect the deep sea from mining.
Sign the Greenpeace petition to tell Canada to oppose the Mining Code and protect the deep sea from mining.
https://act.gp/3HCJHYw
10 days ago
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Join me in signing this petition to
@hootsuite.com
's CEO calling on them to: Cancel their contract with ICE. Sign here:
you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ho...
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Hootsuite: Cancel your contract with ICE
Join me in signing this petition to Hootsuite's CEO calling on them to: Cancel their contract with ICE. Sign here: https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/hootsuite-cancel-your-contract-with-ice
https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/hootsuite-cancel-your-contract-with-ice
12 days ago
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350.org/climate-with...
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Pledge: A Climate Movement Without Borders
In these hard times, I've taken a pledge for a Climate Movement Without Borders. Will you join me?
https://350.org/climate-without-borders?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=climatewithoutborders&source=bs-202501-global
16 days ago
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign:
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Stand up to Trump: End the Safe Third Country Agreement
US border security is operating outside the rule of law. Every day, migrants are being snatched from their homes and streets without due process, and with little regard for their immigration status.&n...
https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/stand-up-to-trump-and-ice-by-demanding-canada-end-the-safe-third-country-agreeement?source=bluesky&utm_source=bluesky&share=306cf8e5-ed1c-4e92-bf8f-d11c430e9da3
24 days ago
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Britt Roscoe
🇨🇦 AuntieFa 🇨🇦
about 1 month ago
Everyone who is sick and tired of American owned media gaslighting Canadians please sign this petition:
www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
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Petition e-6879 - Petitions
https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-6879
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I just took action with
@theactionnetwork.bsky.social
: 2026 Nova Scotia Power Survey. Take action here:
actionnetwork.org/forms/2026-n...
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2026 Nova Scotia Power Survey
We’re working to collect real experiences of how Nova Scotia Power’s corporate monopoly is affecting households across the province. These responses will show the real consequences of rising bills, da...
https://actionnetwork.org/forms/2026-nova-scotia-power-survey?source=bluesky&
29 days ago
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I just wrote a
@theactionnetwork.bsky.social
letter: Send a letter to Senators: Stop C-12. Write one here:
actionnetwork.org/letters/send...
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Tell Senators: Vote NO on C-12
Speak up against this attack on migrants
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/send-a-letter-to-senators-stop-c-12?source=bluesky&
29 days ago
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Leadnow supporter Tim's petition calling on the federal government to finally ban Twitter/X in Canada - read more about it here:
you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...
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Ban X/Twitter in Canada
I just signed a petition demanding the federal government Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: Join me in signing here:
https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ban-x-twitter-in-canada
about 1 month ago
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I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here:
you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ba...
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Ban X/Twitter in Canada
I just signed a petition demanding the Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry Ban X/Twitter in Canada. Join me in signing here: https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ban-x-twitter-in-canada/?source=f...
https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ban-x-twitter-in-canada/?source=bsk
about 1 month ago
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No more blood for oil! I've just taken this action, calling for 2026 to be the year we come together and move away from fossil fuels – not launch wars to drill for more.
act.350.org/sign/no-bloo...
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No Blood for Oil: Demand a Fossil-Free Future!
2026 should be the year we transition away from oil, coal and gas – not launch conflicts to drill for them. Clinging to fossil fuels locks us into a cycle of violence, volatility, and authoritarianism...
https://act.350.org/sign/no-blood-oil-fossil-free-future?source=tyemailbsshare
about 1 month ago
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Britt Roscoe
Stand.earth
2 months ago
Canada's oil and gas sector is making hundreds of BILLIONS for U.S. oligarchs. 💰 💰 💰 Real "Canada strong" should be about supporting Canadian businesses and projects building out renewable energy.
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Mark Carney Claims Fossil Fuel Expansion Is ‘Canada Strong,’ but U.S. Investors Get the Profits
New data show American capital now controls most of Canada’s oil and gas sector while jobs vanish, royalties lag, and billions flow south.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/12/16/mark-carney-claims-fossil-fuel-expansion-is-canada-strong-but-u-s-investors-get-the-profits/
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Carney is trying to create Trump-style borders and surveillance with his new bills. Demand he respect our rights & treat people with care and dignity. Withdraw Bill C-2 & Bill C-12.
act.gp/40oxP2E
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Tell Carney: We don’t want Trump-style borders & surveillance state!
Sign this petition to defend our human rights and privacy
https://act.gp/40oxP2E
2 months ago
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Shady crypto 💸 transfers are a threat to our democracy: keep them out of 🇨🇦 politics! Speak up - write your MP today!
openmedia.org/CryptoBanCA-...
@openmedia.org
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Keep crypto corruption out of Canada
Shady crypto 💸 transfers are a threat to our democracy: keep them out of 🇨🇦 politics! Speak up - write your MP today! https://openmedia.org/CryptoBanCA
https://openmedia.org/CryptoBanCA-bsky
2 months ago
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Britt Roscoe
Halifax Examiner
2 months ago
Undermining climate progress and democracy the Carney way By
@joanbaxter.bsky.social
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Undermining climate progress and democracy the Carney way - Halifax Examiner
Standing up to Trump doesn’t mean trying to appease him by backing down and rescinding important policies, or following his lead with awful policies that increase disparities and put humanity at risk.
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/undermining-climate-progress-and-democracy-the-carney-way/
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Britt Roscoe
Greenpeace Canada
3 months ago
The super-rich MUST pay their fair share – here, there and everywhere.
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Greenpeace Canada
3 months ago
For 40+ years, Canada’s economic growth has been largely captured by the top 1% thanks to decades of policy privileging private competitive markets for all goods and services a society needs. It's not the immigrants – it's the billionaires.
www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources...
@c4tf.bsky.social
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Canada's affordability divide: How the 1%'s rise left millions behind
Affordability and neoliberalism
https://www.taxfairness.ca/en/resources/reports/canadas-affordability-divide-how-1s-rise-left-millions-behind
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Greenpeace Canada
3 months ago
Putting marine ecosystems that people rely on for their livelihoods at risk isn't worth it. They need to find another way. We need SOLUTIONS, not a lifting of a decades old tanker ban that was put in place based on common sense.
act.gp/3MJ5wYL
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Fast-track climate solutions, not fossil fuels
Add your name to tell Carney that Canada’s “nation-building” projects should create green energy and affordable homes.
https://act.gp/3MJ5wYL
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The lessons Canada can learn from Spain on economic growth
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The lessons Canada can learn from Spain on economic growth
Spain's centre-left government has proven that social spending and pro-immigration policies can contribute to faster economic growth.
https://open.substack.com/pub/ethanphillips/p/the-lessons-canada-can-learn-from?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
3 months ago
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The Conservative "Multiverse" Attack on Canada
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The Conservative "Multiverse" Attack on Canada
At a time when global instability is rising, you would think that it would be patently obvious that Canada’s longstanding tradition of international engagement matters more than ever.
https://open.substack.com/pub/charlieangus/p/the-conservative-multiverse-attack?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
3 months ago
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Make Amazon Pay For Its Abhorrent Labour Practices
www.readthemaple.com/make-amazon-...
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Make Amazon Pay For Its Abhorrent Labour Practices
This weekend’s actions drew attention to Amazon’s negative impact on workers the world over.
https://www.readthemaple.com/make-amazon-pay-for-its-abhorrent-labour-practices
3 months ago
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Make Amazon Pay For Its Abhorrent Labour Practices
www.readthemaple.com/make-amazon-...
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Make Amazon Pay For Its Abhorrent Labour Practices
This weekend’s actions drew attention to Amazon’s negative impact on workers the world over.
https://www.readthemaple.com/make-amazon-pay-for-its-abhorrent-labour-practices
3 months ago
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The Pipeline MOU is a Tragic Failure of Vision
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The Pipeline MOU is a Tragic Failure of Vision
At best, Mark Carney capitulated to Danielle Smith's backward view of the future. At worst, the Prime Minister shares that view
https://open.substack.com/pub/markhamhislop/p/the-pipeline-mou-is-a-tragic-failure?r=2x39j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false
3 months ago
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Greenpeace Canada
3 months ago
This is why disinformation has been called the biggest threat to democracy & climate action. It fuels a culture war that results in governments that further support the wealthy & extractive corporations, widen inequality and make climate action nearly impossible.
globalwitness.org/en/campaigns...
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A year in climate disinformation: Predictions for 2025
We share our predictions for climate disinformation in 2025, with a new US president, extreme weather and COP30 all heaping pressure on social media platforms
https://globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/digital-threats/falsehoods-and-forecasts-our-2025-predictions-for-climate-disinformation/
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Lucie 💎
3 months ago
People are still confused about this 🤦🏻♀️
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3 months ago
⚠️ Canada will pick its next Competition Commissioner soon! Sign by Nov 30 ✍️ to demand a leader who will
#StopMonopolies
and fix Canada’s competition crisis ⚖️.
openmedia.org/Competition4...
@openmedia.org
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Canada needs a monopoly buster!
⚠️ Canada will pick its next Competition Commissioner soon! Sign by Nov 28 ✍️ to demand a leader who will #StopMonopolies and fix Canada’s competition crisis ⚖️. https://openmedia.org/Competition4Cana...
https://openmedia.org/Competition4Canada-bsky
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Join me in asking the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to protect our pensions and the climate and stop investing in oil, gas, coal and pipelines. A legal case is already underway. It’s time to stop investing in fossil fuels and recommit to net-zero.
win.newmode.net/shiftaction/...
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New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
https://win.newmode.net/shiftaction/cppib-challenge
3 months ago
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Parliamentarians: Deliver Homes for All - Leadnow
https://leadnow.ca/campaigns/parliamentarians-deliver-homes-for-all/
3 months ago
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It’s time for a People’s Power Grid. Publicly-owned clean energy infrastructure that will bring clean, affordable, reliable energy to everyone. Sign the petition now:
act.350.org/sign/ppg
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Build a People’s Power Grid
We're calling on the Carney government to deliver a People’s Power Grid, an East-West Grid that provides affordable, reliable, renewable electricity to people from coast to coast to coast.
https://act.350.org/sign/ppg
3 months ago
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Britt Roscoe
4 months ago
Could ‘Plan México’ be the guide for ‘Plan Canada’?
#canpoli
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Could ‘Plan México’ be the guide for ‘Plan Canada’
As Mark Carney prepares to present the national budget, he could learn a thing or two from Mexico and their Plan México
https://rabble.ca/columnists/could-plan-mexico-be-the-guide-for-plan-canada/
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Tim Bousquet
4 months ago
Nova Scotia: The world’s next energy superpower? Not so fast by Larry Hughes
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Nova Scotia: The world’s next energy superpower? Not so fast - Halifax Examiner
Our new energy minister should use Wind West (coupled with batteries to handle wind’s variability) to meet some of Nova Scotia’s future electricity requirements.
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/nova-scotia-the-worlds-next-energy-superpower-not-so-fast/
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It’s time for a People’s Power Grid. Publicly-owned clean energy infrastructure that will bring clean, affordable, reliable energy to everyone. Sign the petition now:
act.350.org/sign/ppg
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Build a People’s Power Grid
We're calling on the Carney government to deliver a People’s Power Grid, an East-West Grid that provides affordable, reliable, renewable electricity to people from coast to coast to coast.
https://act.350.org/sign/ppg
4 months ago
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Britt Roscoe
Halifax Examiner
4 months ago
Welcome to Big Tech, corporate-owned chatbots, and the totalitarian fantasy of AI gurus commentary from
@tjheffernan.bsky.social
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Welcome to Big Tech, corporate-owned chatbots, and the totalitarian fantasy of AI gurus - Halifax Examiner
Sam Altman notes that GenAI blurs the border between the authentic and the artificial, and this is the point: democracy cannot function without truth, reality, expertise, and facts, and the AI industr...
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/welcome-to-big-tech-corporate-owned-chatbots-and-the-totalitarian-fantasy-of-ai-gurus/
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Britt Roscoe
Halifax Examiner
4 months ago
Tim Houston and his yes-men are yesterday’s men, gearing up for an assault on the environment, and those who would protect it commentary by
@joanbaxter.bsky.social
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Tim Houston and his yes-men are yesterday’s men, gearing up for an assault on the environment, and those who would protect it - Halifax Examiner
Not even a year into his second mandate as premier, Houston is proving himself to be yesterday’s man, surrounded by yes-men with yesterday’s plans, which weaken democracy and spell climate and environ...
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/dismantling-democracy/tim-houston-and-his-yes-men-are-yesterdays-men-gearing-up-for-an-assault-on-the-environment-and-those-who-would-protect-it/
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Looking at you @MarkJCarney to deliver Homes For All in Budget 2025 👀
bsky.app/profile/lead...
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5 months ago
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Britt Roscoe
The Breach
5 months ago
Who stands to benefit from the gutting of Canada Post? The billionaire class. If Mark Carney were really serious about nation-building, Dru OJa Jay writes how the post office could become an engine for green energy, public banking, and better services.
breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...
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Canada Post faces two futures—a revitalized public service or a billionaire cash machine ⋆ The Breach
The Liberal government is dismantling Canada Post for the billionaire class, while ignoring bold proposals from postal workers to reinvent the public service
https://breachmedia.ca/canada-post-faces-two-futures-a-revitalized-public-service-or-a-billionaire-cash-machine/
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Tim Bousquet
5 months ago
I’m a citizen scientist working to protect Nova Scotia’s forests. Tim Houston is threatening to put me in jail. Commentary by Nina Newington
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I'm a citizen scientist working to protect Nova Scotia's forests. Tim Houston is threatening to put me in jail. - Halifax Examiner
Jammed into a bill titled the Protecting Nova Scotians Act are amendments to the Crown Lands Act that will do just the opposite. The current law states that “No person, without lawful authority, shall...
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/im-a-citizen-scientist-working-to-protect-nova-scotias-forests-tim-houston-is-threatening-to-put-me-in-jail/
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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁
5 months ago
Climate change is making heat waves worse. A new study shows how specific companies are fuelling the problem
#ClimateCrisis
#HeatWaves
Attributing heat waves directly to carbon majors could influence climate litigation
www.cbc.ca/news/science...
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Climate change is making heat waves worse. A new study shows how specific companies are fuelling the problem | CBC News
A new study has linked the deadliest type of disaster — heat waves — directly to major fossil fuel companies and their products.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/climate-change-heat-waves-carbon-majors-1.7629859
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Peak Oil for Gen Z: Seven Questions and Answers for a New Generation
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Peak Oil for Gen Z: Seven Questions and Answers for a New Generation
Peak oil calls on us to imagine a lower-energy future and to start adapting now. It’s a game-changer, and a life-changer.
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2025-09-23/peak-oil-for-gen-z-seven-questions-and-answers-for-a-new-generation/
5 months ago
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Halifax Examiner
5 months ago
Retired wildlife biologist on impact of clear-cutting in Cape Breton Highlands By Bob Bancroft
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Retired wildlife biologist on impact of clear-cutting in Cape Breton Highlands - Halifax Examiner
We are paying $5 million a year to PHP for forestry operations that severely degrade the sites, creating wildlife wastelands instead of ecologically-diverse, naturally fire-resistant habitats on publi...
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/commentary/retired-wildlife-biologist-on-impact-of-clear-cutting-in-cape-breton-highlands/
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Britt Roscoe
The Breach
5 months ago
As criticism of Canada’s oligopolies mount, the establishment media is taking another tack—advising elites invest big in them. Harrison Samphir an
@nikbarryshaw.bsky.social
analyze how the media is celebrating the benefits of a cost-of-living crisis for everyone else.
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Canada’s media is advising elites to invest in oligoplies—and laugh all the way to the bank ⋆ The Breach
The establishment media praises corporate giants as safe bets for investors—while their outsized power helps cause a cost-of-living crisis for Canadians
https://breachmedia.ca/canadas-media-is-advising-elites-to-invest-in-oligoplies-and-laugh-all-the-way-to-the-bank/
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Britt Roscoe
Corporate Knights
5 months ago
Look at the climate change policies of all the other countries with which Canada needs to diversify its trade and they point to embracing greater climate action, not tripping after Trump's retrograde agenda. Read the latest OpEd by
@rjcsmith.bsky.social
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A fork in the road for the Canadian climate change discussion | Corporate Knights
OPINION | Canada should take its cues for climate policy from its global trading partners, not Donald Trump
https://www.corporateknights.com/category-climate/a-fork-in-the-road-for-the-canadian-climate-change-discussion/
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Seth Klein
5 months ago
Thank you
@lindamcquaig.bsky.social
for the great plug for a Youth Climate Corps:
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
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Linda McQuaig: This is the national project Mark Carney should have chosen
Long considered a luxury for chardonnay-sipping environmentalists, solar energy now has the potential to become the energy choice of beer-drinking workers concerned about the cost of living.
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/this-is-the-national-project-mark-carney-should-have-chosen/article_3ffd548b-de82-42fc-b98c-2278de8f33a2.html
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What a Difference a Decade Makes on Voluntary Climate Disclosures: Economist
www.theenergymix.com/what-a-diffe...
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What a Difference a Decade Makes on Voluntary Climate Disclosures: Economist
In a speech 10 years ago, now-Prime Minister Mark Carney called for international efforts to set voluntary standards to guide business and industry to net-zero. But the United Nations initiatives he c...
https://www.theenergymix.com/what-a-difference-a-decade-makes-on-voluntary-climate-disclosures-economist/
5 months ago
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Wind, Solar, Storage Could Supply 70% of Canada’s New Electricity Capacity, CanREA Outlook Finds
www.theenergymix.com/wind-solar-s...
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Wind, Solar, Storage Could Supply 70% of Canada’s New Electricity Capacity, CanREA Outlook Finds
A new report projects that if Canada is to meet future electricity demand affordably and reliably, 70% of new capacity through 2050 will come from wind, solar, and battery storage. The analysis highli...
https://www.theenergymix.com/wind-solar-storage-could-supply-70-of-canadas-new-electricity-capacity-canrea-outlook-finds/
5 months ago
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Britt Roscoe
Canadian Dimension
5 months ago
Mark Carney invokes wartime housing as inspiration for his $13B plan. But unlike the 1940s, when Ottawa directly built and managed affordable homes, his approach relies on P3s and market sales—policies that risk deepening, not solving, the housing crisis.
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Mark Carney is no wartime homebuilder
Over the past three decades our governments have once again walked away from direct housing provision and, for the third time in a century, allowed the private sector to make a mess of our housing sys...
https://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/mark-carney-is-no-wartime-homebuilder
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The Tyee
5 months ago
“Together, we can demand that Prime Minister Carney and the Canadian government pick a side: injustice, violence and climate destruction — or a just and safe future for all of us.”
#canpoli
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Draw the Line: Tell the Carney Government to Pick a Side | The Tyee
For people, for peace, for the planet. An invitation to join the Sept. 20 mass day of action.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/09/13/Draw-Line-Tell-Carney-Government-Pick-Side/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=editorial
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Canada wants to be an ‘energy superpower,’ but at what cost? New Bill C-5 is sidestepping environmental laws to fast-track dirty energy projects. Tell
#cdnpoli
that our strength lies in
#climate
leadership, not in accelerating pollution.Take action ⤵️
act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/173069/...
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Canada: Let's Build a Climate-Forward Nation!
Canada wants to become an ‘energy superpower,’ but at what cost? Tell the Carney government that our strength as a country lies in climate leadership, not in accelerating pollution.
https://act.environmentaldefence.ca/page/173069/action/1?locale=en-US&en_chan=bs_ty&en_ref=261419971
5 months ago
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Tim Bousquet
6 months ago
Prime Minister Mark Carney is gutting any chance of Canada meeting its greenhouse gas emission goals Morning File by me
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Prime Minister Mark Carney is gutting any chance of Canada meeting its greenhouse gas emission goals - Halifax Examiner
Why get worked up solely by the Houston government while the Carney government is undermining climate change policies as well?
https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/prime-minister-mark-carney-is-gutting-any-chance-of-canada-meeting-its-greenhouse-gas-emission-goals/
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I like to think I'm an ethical pessimist.
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6 months ago
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