Today's #SovereigntySaturdays episode looks at Budget 2025 as a case study in how wealthy interests are trying to weaken Canada. We look at the good and the bad, and focus on what you can do. Listen here: www.sierraclub.ca/the-real-dee... #CDNpoli #Budget2025 #TheResistance #ElbowsUp #NoKings

do you think he has a moment of realization while saying this that he is, in fact, the real swindler

I’ve long thought Trump is good at picking fights that benefit him politically but the fact he’s fighting right now to starve Americans is making me reassess

Tomorrow's Sovereignty Saturdays edition of The Environment in Canada Podcast is an analysis of Budget 2025, corporate lobbying, but with an emphasis on what you can do if you want to take action. Tune in on your #Podcast platform of choice! #Budget2025 #Budget #CDNpoli #TheResistance #ElbowsUp

(1/n) @mark-carney.bsky.social, you realize if you empower oil & gas corporations to lie they are going to use that power to undermine our democracy right? Trudeau also thought he could make a bargain with them... #Budget2025 #Budget #CDNpoli #Canpoli #ClimateCompetitivenessStrategy #Greenwashing

#Budget2025 has left many wondering about the future of the emissions cap. “People want clear regulations on big polluters,” says Conor Cutis (@conorcurtis.bsky.social). Public polling shows strong support for a cap if well implemented. See what others have to say on the oil & gas emissions cap 👇

(1/2) On weekend Greenwashing rules: What we are seeing in the US is in large part due to the spread of disinformation & climate denial. This climate denial has been purposefully spread by oil & gas corporations to undermine democracy.... #Budget2025 #Budget #CDNpoli #CDNmedia #Carney #EmissionsCap

If you're looking for some live coverage of #Budget2025 @theenergymix.com is having a live blog here: www.theenergymix.com/live-blog-cl... I have always found their live blogs great in terms of analysis and I'm tuning in. #Budget #CDNpoli #CDNMedia #Carney

(1/2) If you're going to listen to anything ahead of today's budget I'd recommend this: www.sierraclub.ca/emissions-ca... It's an interview with Canadian climate impacts survivors about the need for an #EmissionsCap on oil and gas corporations. #Budget #Budget2025 #CDNPOLI

I was selfish and took the milestone episode to explain why we must get off US tech, some options that are already available to us, but also why our governments need to step up. We can’t keep allowing the US government and Silicon Valley billionaires to have so much power over us!

Was on @rachelgilmore.bsky.social's podcast, along with @acmack.bsky.social, talking all things extremism. Listen here: www.youtube.com/live/p-vRVaU...

I overheard this recently from someone in the physical sciences: "We should just go back to everyone having empires. That way we wouldn't have a war every two years." The part of me that did a historical studies degree:

In my first for @theguardian.com, I reported on an unprecedented climate relocation project happening in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, France's last remaining foothold in North America.

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“'The middle class no longer exists; you’re either poor or rich,' said Pedrosa." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

There's a serious possibility Trump starts an international conflict (with some other country somewhere - it won't matter to him where) just as a way to distract from his administration's ongoing attempt to destroy American democracy internally. Do not let it work. #USpoli

Speaking of bringing people over to better media platforms, if you're at all interested in Canadian news you should subscribe to Harbinger! Also a list of other media orgs here: www.sierraclub.ca/fighting-bac... & Sierra Club Canada weekly newsletter for news: www.sierraclub.ca/subscribe-fo...

Looking at the way climate denialists use social media is insightful. Whether you choose to stay on platforms like Meta or X or leave, this episode looks at what we can learn from their tactics: www.sierraclub.ca/oligarch_soc... Also accessibility aspects of digital activism #NoKings #TheResistance

Getting big money out of politics is a good goal. But so long as some people can amass unimaginable wealth compared to others - so long as there are multi-billionaires - money will always find it's way into politics. That's the root of the dysfunction: the extreme imbalance of power between people.

"Ronald Reagan loved tariffs" Trump & apparently the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation claim, falsely. Which goes to show you it was never about ideology, neither free trade nor tariffs, for those who want the rich to get richer. It’s just about greed www.cbc.ca/news/politic... #USpoli #CDNpoli

(1/n) "Just months ago, the mill shut down during a raging provincewide wildfire season." When I started my MA thesis 10 years ago I knew the impacts of #ClimateChange in NL would be severe. Even I'm surprised at how severe and how rapid, including in my hometown of #CornerBrook. #NLpoli #CDNpoli

This upcoming Saturday's episode of The Environment in Canada Podcast, for our #SovereigntySaturdays subseries, will look at whether to stay on or leave oligarch-owned social media platforms. Tune in if this subject is of interest to you! #Podcast #Podcasts

Disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. The Trump administration never ceases to find new lows.

They're stealing our food to finance their fascism.

"During its offensive in the territory, where a UN commission of inquiry concluded that Israel has committed genocide, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud providers to store & analyse large volumes of data & intelligence information" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... #Google #Amazon

On a new episode of @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social's 🌳THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA🌳 the team explain why defeating the aggression of the U.S. oligarchy, oil and gas-interest requires learning how to communicate effectively and strategically to counter disinformation. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

I don't know if @theguardian.com put these three articles next to each other on purpose on their front page. By you can now see how completely ridiculous and out of depth one of Bill Gates' statements is in one short glance. #COP30 #ClimateChange #ClimateAction

Every climate activist alive today has felt the same at some point. Oddly though that gives me hope: At some point, following the realization we couldn't avoid ALL the worst climate change impacts, a weird resilience & sense of community started to emerge even more dedicated to preventing the rest.

It might just be me, but I feel like Canada isn't the problem when it comes to Canada-U.S. relations... #USpoli

(1/n) I see Bill Gates wrote something about #ClimateChange & #COP30. I got through about half of it before realizing I have better things to do than read something Gates wrote. But first of all the idea we lost the battle on mitigating climate change is ridiculous (polling shows it)... #CDNmedia

A #WealthLimit on extreme individual #wealth needs #Robinhood transparency: With #ExtremeWealth at the highest end of the spectrum clawed back & shared equally via direct #Redistribution (equal shares): energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-new-fund... #NoKings #CDNpoli #USpoli #Inequality #Oligarchy

A) Because why would he even put on the appearance of following the rules when he can just break them directly (much less cute). B) Trump is a symptom of the erosion of democracy, not a cause. This does not begin nor end with Trump as president. The people in his circle increasingly run the show.

"What remains unclear is what exactly about the negotiations with Canada has been so frustrating to Trump." It's quite simple looking at all the factors together. He's upset we're not willing to be his 51st State: neither in title nor in lack of autonomy. #CDNpoli #Canada #ONpoli #USpoli #Trump

We discuss how to be more effective in your personal role in defending democracy, briefly look at the strategic anatomy of the #Ontario ad campaign (this was recorded a few hours before Trump called off the trade talks), & detail why a 'the perfect plan' isn't everything. #CDNpoli #Canada #ONpoli

Good to see the ads will continue airing. Canceling the ads at this point (no matter what you think of the ads as an initial tactic) would signal weakness. Appeasing Trump in this moment would be a bad idea, it would only embolden him. #CDNpoli #ONpoli #USpoli #Reagan #Trump #WorldSeries

(1/n) If there's a benefit to him Trump would have found a reason to cancel trade talks one way or the other. I seriously doubt this ad had anything to do with it. Someone in #Trumps inner circle, or himself, stands to benefit financially from the resulting chaos #CDNpoli #ONpoli #TradeTalks #USpoli

(1/2) In the event of an attempt at a military takover by Trump ICE is clearly the backup to try to tip the scales if not all of the U.S. Military sides with the U.S. Administration. Which is terrifying but also telling of a weakness: Trump feels he needs a separate army....

(1/n) Another #CBC News coverage problem here: To many people this will read as if U.S. are investing in the expansion of Canadian #oil&gas. But this line is most telling: “We see these companies generating a lot of cash and returning almost all of it to the shareholders,” said Samra... #CDNMedia

No freedom-loving country or people can trust Trump. He will always side with oligarchs and autocrats like Putin, even if he pretends for a while not to. No agreements we make with him as Canada will be trustworthy either. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

How extreme inequality & environmental #deregulation lead to the rise of #authoritarianism & what we can do to stop it from happening here - a No Kings special: www.sierraclub.ca/no-kings-ine... #NoKings #CDNpoli #Canpoli #Canada #SovereigntySaturdays #USpoli #USpolitics #Inequality #Wealth #Kings

How extreme inequality leads to the rise of #authoritarianism & how we can stop it - a special #podcast episode for No Kings Day: www.sierraclub.ca/no-kings-ine... #NoKings #NoKingsDayOct18th #NoKingsDay #CDNpoli #Canpoli #Canada #SovereigntySaturdays #USpoli #USpolitics #Inequality #Wealth #Kings

Canada is between #Alaska and the rest of the United States. We're not happy about the idea of a Putin-Trump tunnel either. So they're considering, at most, Musk & Putins tunnel to Alaska ... and only Alaska. Solidarity with Ukraine. #CDNpoli

To appeal 'the middle ground' on issues, avoid watering what you want down - THAT WEAKENS YOUR LONGTERM LEVERAGE. Instead of watering down, make the middle more radical. DRAW THEM TO YOU using metaphor & analogies, that they get, that don't water down what you're saying but explain WHY to be radical

"Almost all had been blindfolded and had gunshot wounds between the eyes, says medic at Nasser hospital in Gaza... There were also scars and discoloured patches of skin showing they had been beaten before being killed." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

"We reiterate our demand that #Canada halt its arms exports to Israel and use every tool at its disposal to ensure that Israel ends the genocide..." Sierra Club Canada is part of CAN-Rac: www.sierraclub.ca/israel-illeg...

Was great to chat with the @independentnl.bsky.social about the need for a fast transition to renewables in NL and the need for worker retraining. Give The Independent a follow if you haven't already and want to know more about news in NL.

A #WealthLimit on extreme individual #wealth needs #Robinhood transparency: With #ExtremeWealth at the highest end of the spectrum clawed back & shared equally via direct #Redistribution (equal shares): energymixweekender.substack.com/p/a-new-fund... #NoKings #CDNpoli #USpoli #Inequality #Oligarchy

" #Ottawa can stop it" and should. It's really important to we do stop this more gradual, slow, collection of influence by U.S. Admin. in #Canada. Appeasement does not work. " #Trump admin. is investing in Canadian critical mineral companies..." www.cbc.ca/news/world/t... #CDNpoli #Carney #NoKings

On a new episode of @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social's 🌳THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA🌳 the show looks at the environmental and energy dimensions of Canadian sovereignty in a period of rising American aggression and what we can do to help. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h... 🔶

Anyone planning a solidarity event for #NoKings in #Montreal ?