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Concerned about the damaging impacts of rising GHG emissions on our economy & life savings? This paper explains why pensions & other asset owners have a fiduciary duty toward workers, retirees & other beneficiaries to mitigate these impacts by driving down emissions.

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Ocean acidification emerges from the rolling horror that is the climate disaster, to confront readers with more detail of system-wide collapse. It's been measured throughout the oceans. Our beautiful blue planet 😢 #climaterisk

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A lesson (and not a good one) on how to socialize costs for the Canadian oil industry while simultaneously privatizing (very high!) profits. What is wrong with us? Trans Mountain’s financial nightmare offers lessons in the reality of pipelines www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/10/a...

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What Moran reported was demonstrable fact. Indisputable fact. Yet they suspend him. This is the advantage that Trump and his ilk have. They are so beyond the moral pale, so beyond normality, that it is considered impolite, impolitic, or intemperate to describe them as they are.

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Here is a paywall free version of John Vaillant’s opinion piece in The Star I hope @mark-carney.bsky.social is reading this also!!! LETS GOOOOOOO archive.ph/2025.06.05-1...

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If the future is electric, China is building a big advantage quickly.

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Nothing "wrong" here (although the prescriptions are pretty messy) but it doesn't mention the obvious solution we've always known about - a carbon tax where the bottom half (roughly) of the distribution is compensated or over-compensated a la 2010. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"OCEAN", with David Attenborough. His point is that if we fail to protect 30% of the seas from overfishing we'll lose both fisheries and fishers, and erase about half of all protein consumed by humans. There's much more in this extraordinary film. PLEASE GO TO THE CINEMA, WATCH IT, AND SPEAK OUT.

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"OCEAN", with David Attenborough. Natural beauty set against heart-shattering footage of destruction caused by bottom trawlers. Showing NOW across North Am, prior to the UN Ocean Conf in Nice in June, where the world MUST agree to set aside 30% of the ocean to save all fisheries. PLEASE GO SEE IT!

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Gaza.

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Carbon pricing done in a smart way is very badly needed. A conservative gov’t did it in British Columbia in 2008, and established a ‘template for the world’. I detail the why and how, history and politics in my book, “The Carbon Tax Question”, to be released to USA bookstores on April 15, 2025.

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Canada’s Consumer Fuel Charge, or revenue-neutral carbon tax was based on British Columbia’s very successful revenue-neutral tax that ran from 2008 to 2013, as fully described in my recent book: “The Carbon Tax Question”. I hope it’s on PM Carney’s desk! It’s not too late to reverse a bad decision!

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Machiavelli, Poilievre, and the Liberal Leadership Race: For Canadians: A Victoria Times-Colonist commentary on axing Canada's carbon tax, and an exhortation to our next Prime Minister to stay the course: keep our revenue-neutral, world-beating carbon tax! pressreader.com/article/2817...

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You may run into people who say that renewable energy is expensive. Here is an explanation of why that's not the case and how it actually saves the economy money. www.theclimatebrink....

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Andrew Dessler has a great piece out today. Canadians should consider it carefully. Alberta & Saskatchewan residents should pay LESS for electricity if they incorporate more renewables, like Texas. Our revenue neutral carbon tax accelerates that transition. www.theclimatebrink.com/p/an-explana...

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Insightful piece by Chris Hatch that links ignorance of climate science (Trump, Poilievre et al.), extraordinary climatic extremes (Amazon drought, LA wildfires, 2024 as the hottest year) political reality (who WON'T axe the tax?), and profit (drill, baby, drill): mailchi.mp/nationalobse...

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An open letter to Canada's Conservative Leader of the Opposition, Pierre Poilievre, who vows he'll axe Canada's well designed, revenue-neutral (almost) carbon tax, should he become Prime Minister. Mr. Poilievre is no student of climate science. That shows. policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ja...

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Boils down to; Liberal Party @liberal.ca.web.brid.gy carbon pricing climate policy (a policy endorsed by Nobel Economic Prize winners by the way) is where big polluters pay Canadian taxpayers back via rebates. Pierre Poilievre's 'axe the tax' makes Canadian taxpayers pay the big polluters, instead.

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The thing is, carbon pricing is SUPPOSED to make you want to burn less carbon. The whole point is to discourage its use. So, while it's always great when PP is outed as the creepy liar he is, we really should be complaining when burning the planet goes up in price.

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In today’s National Observer, a report on a new analysis of the impact of Canadian carbon pricing on inflation. Please google the report—it’s important!: Carbon pricing has only a 'tiny' impact on inflation: economists By Natasha Bulowski News Politics Ottawa Insider December 12th 2024

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An excellent report on the financial penalty that most Americans are now paying as a result of the national and international failure to put an effective revenue neutral tax on carbon emissions (and we Canadians are getting hit financially too!): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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When one of the richest societies in the world refuses to tax carbon emissions, it contributes to astonishly high home insurance costs. It’s long past time to wake up! Here’s a stunning example: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024....

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It took over a decade of hard work by many people to build Liberal credibility on climate and the environment in Canada. It’ll take a fraction of that time to light it on 🔥. www.thestar.com/politics/pro...

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www.nationalobserver.com/2024/10/30/n... Another smart piece of reporting that showcases why the health of Alberta’s long term economic future is threatened by the short-term transactional actions of Premier Smith, a leader whose vision is blinkered by oil-patch patches over both eyes.

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History teaches us that dictators like Hitler and Stalin attacked the press to crush democracy. Poilievre’s attack on the CBC, echoing Trump’s rhetoric, follows this dangerous playbook—and it should raise serious alarm bells. #cdnpoli reportnorth.blogspot.com/2024/12/poil...

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Cons are screaming that PMJT has put a cap on O&G. Don't listen to this lie. There is NO cap on oil production. There is a cap on emissions. They want oil companies to invest in technology that reduces their emissions WITHOUT cutting production. We literally have record high oil production! #CDNpoli

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau 🇨🇦 visited the President -Elect Donald Trump in the US. It's sad and disgusting that so many Canadians on SM hoped that the meeting went bad. That Trump "owned" Trudeau. Shameful how many Canadians are not patriotic and do not support our country. #cdnpoli #peipoli

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I want to share to folks, speech by Australia's first woman PM Julia Gillard, decade ago. This speech outlays RW TOXIC Male Misogyny in Politics, poor treatment of our PM of the time, by Male counterparts. Plse take the time to watch this Land Mark SPEECH. It resonates.. youtu.be/fCNuPcf8L00?...

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Another insightful gem from the National Observer's lead journalist: www.nationalobserver.com/2024/11/27/o...

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#cdnpoli Trudeau is defending his embattled #carbonpricing and #rebates program on the world stage, and he argues that carbon pricing has been subject to "propaganda, misinformation, disinformation and flat-out lies" and is threatening environmental progress. ca.news.yahoo.com/trudeau-tout...

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