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Fucking cowardly fucks. All this will do is embolden Trump to make more demands and attacks on our sovereignty.

submitted 13 hours ago • 25 comments

Let's lift the Digital Services Tax to 25% on U.S.-based digital, data, & streaming companies, incl. Amazon, to match the 25% tariff Trump has on our steel, aluminum, and cars. Yep, that'll make Netflix more expensive. And it'll get the attention of his tech fanboys. #cdnecon #ElbowsUp /2

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Canada's two largest pension funds (CPP and CDPQ) have chosen radically different climate strategies. The CPP retreated from net-zero (blaming anti-greenwashing rules) while CDPQ blew a hole through that logic by doubling down on climate action. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/06/27/a...

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Mount Polley’s tailings dam was 12 metres above the max height defined in its environmental certificate when it collapsed in 2014. Current construction will raise it to 19 metres above EAC-specified height. A First Nation is fighting the expansion in court. @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/News/2025/06...

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Check out this new APTN special on plastics and the disproportionate impacts to Indigenous Peoples at all stages of the plastic lifecycle, featuring the work some of us are doing to address this growing crisis. Well done APTN! 👏 #plasticstreaty youtube.com/watch?v=QeNa...

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At the Global Energy Show in #Calgary, premier Danielle Smith told the audience they should follow #Alberta's lead and get off coal Three hours later in Fort Macleod, she was pitching the return of coal mining Latest @desmog.com #cdnpoli #abpoli www.desmog.com/2025/06/26/o...

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This was supposed to be a breakthrough year in the 44-year-long struggle against H.I.V. It's turned into something very different. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...

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Our new study shows that plastic packaging & other food contact articles are a source of micro- & nanoplastics in food. The data is accessible in a dashboard. ➡️ Read the publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41... ➡️ Access the dashboard: foodpackagingforum.org/mino www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5VI...

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My final investigation for The Narwhal:

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with the final round of UN plastic treaty negotiations in 4 weeks time, we've written a short piece that sets out the concept of a 'petrochemical historical bloc' to reveal the depth and extent of forces opposing strong global governance of plastic

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No charges for the driver, because it’s just understood that the streets are for two-ton people-squashing machines and anyone who gets in their way is taking their life in their hands.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

Iran Worried U.S. Might Be Building 8,500th Nuclear Weapon theonion.com/iran-wo...

submitted 6 days ago • 52 comments

🎉 A Historic Milestone for Science and Policy! 🧪📜 After years of tireless advocacy, collaboration, and global effort, we are thrilled to celebrate the establishment of the "Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution” (ISP-CWP). www.ipcp.ch/news/punta-d...

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"The strong winds that once blew toxic pollution from North America’s biggest coal plant over to the nearby Six Nations reserve now turn a forest of wind turbines owned by Indigenous People." Some positive news out of Six Nations: www.thestar.com/news/ontario...

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Also need to go after their so-called ‘proprietary’ data - farmers’ own methods and practices. For example, the crop spray data they collect could better characterize pesticide use - but farmers don’t even have access to their own equipment’s data. No more corporate hoarders of on-farm insights!

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amtrak’s marketing team gets it

submitted 9 days ago • 452 comments

Sedna's Creation Ningiukulu Teevee ~ Inuk 2019

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Ancient trees are shipped to the UK, then burned – using billions in ‘green’ subsidies. Stop this madness now | Dale Vince

submitted 9 days ago • 15 comments

“In his capstone paper for the class, Mr. Damsky argued that the framers had intended for the phrase “We the People,” in the Constitution’s preamble, to refer exclusively to white people.“

submitted 9 days ago • 121 comments

“Inactive and abandoned oil and gas wells in Canada are a much bigger climate problem than previously thought, emitting almost seven times more methane than the official estimates” #abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/science...

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Sign-on campaign: Preserving Scientific Integrity in the PFAS Definition. Scientists raise concerns about ongoing efforts to redefine PFAS and potentially exclude certain fluorinated chemical subgroups from the widely accepted 2021 OECD definition. www.ipcp.ch/news/sign-on...

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Some Liberals have reservations about Bill C-5, which would give cabinet special powers to fast-track development projects like mines, pipelines and ports, and to approve them by skirting environmental laws and regulations. Our story here:

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

The Ontario government has taken the brakes off of waste reduction in the province to paint growing piles of garbage as inevitable. 🗑️ The obvious solution to Ontario’s growing waste problem? Reduction and reuse strategies.💡Read our full blog: environmentaldefence.ca/2025/06/17/o...

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Renewables are safe and effective - don’t let the oil bots win

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Iran: Weeks away from having nuclear weapons since 1995

submitted 12 days ago • 620 comments

Today’s arrest of @bradlander.bsky.social is just one disturbing example of what ICE does every single day across the country. It’s not interested in law and order—this is about spreading fear. New York City will not stand for it.

submitted 12 days ago • 98 comments

Serious question - is the strategy from Mark Carney and Danielle Smith to try to approve and get shovels in the ground for new pipelines before this reality becomes absolutely apparent to everyone?

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

🏋️800 tonnes That's how much food waste Nairobi, Kenya was able to prevent thanks to a solar-powered cold storage facility funded by FCDO UK through the UCAP CAI programme. It also saved 1,130 tonnes CO2 emissions annually, and reduced food waste emissions by 30%!

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Now that we’ve seen the full Senate text, we can say for certain: either the House or the Senate version would be the largest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in a single law in history. Each have the largest Medicaid and largest SNAP cuts ever. And each give huge tax cuts to the rich.

submitted 13 days ago • 116 comments

Absolute banger OCI report out today - rich countries like Norway and Australia could comfortably phase out oil and gas - cutting both enabled overseas emissions and domestic emissions massively - without skipping a beat.

submitted 14 days ago • 7 comments

If Canada wants to lower trade barriers with global powers, we’ll need to strengthen our environmental and consumer protection rules first - and resist the corporate deregulators in our midst. My op-ed in the @hilltimes.com (paywall): www.hilltimes.com/story/2025/0...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Alberta is right to worry about we should do with tailings. However, you can't just burry the problem underground. My take here: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

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On Wednesday, Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation's leaders set fire to documents about a road to the Ring of Fire — delivered to their nation without invitation — in protest of Ontario's Bill 5: thenarwhal.ca/first-nation...

submitted 17 days ago • 4 comments

Researchers found that "AI therapist chatbots are contributing to harmful mental health stigmas — and reacting in outright dangerous ways to users exhibiting signs of severe crises, including suicidality and schizophrenia-related psychosis and delusion" futurism.com/stanford-the...

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We published a new list prioritizing food contact chemicals to look out for ⬇️

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They were trying to hide the favours they were doing for their friends at our expense: Ford government obfuscated Greenbelt records through code words: commissioner www.thestar.com/politics/for... via @torontostar #onpoli #HandsOfftheGreenbelt

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📣 PFAS researchers 📢 If you support the Scientists’ Statement on the Chemical Definition of PFASs, please can you sign here: www.ipcp.ch/news/sign-on...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

In a new paper, 22 scientists—including Professor Ian Cousins and Associate Professor Marlene Ågerstrand at Department of Environmental Science @stockholm-uni.bsky.social —defend the current definition of PFASs established by the OECD. #PFAS #Chemistry www.su.se/department-o...

submitted 19 days ago • 2 comments

it's really striking how many people completely blocked out "reduce" and "reuse" and focused entirely on "recycle" to make themselves feel better. my third temu order this month is fine bc when i'm done with all these microplastics in 2 months im going to put them in the recycle bin ♥️

submitted 18 days ago • 15 comments

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

submitted 18 days ago • 596 comments

super useful policy brief by @gaiazerowaste.bsky.social on the final round of negotiations over a UN global plastics treaty

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Oh come on, PM Carney. Let's get real here. If the oil and gas industry actually knows how to decarbonize their oil, what's the problem with putting that emissions limit into law? Unless of course you know carbon capture doesn't work... www.thestar.com/politics/fed...

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A UBC student has raised $3,000 to make a billboard that says “Abortion is safe, normal and common” to counter the anti-abortion billboard messaging that peppers the Okanagan region. But she’s stumped on where to post her message. @michellegamage.bsky.social reports. 🪧

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In a stunning abandonment of its claims to climate leadership, the B.C. government just approved permits in perpetuity for the Prince Rupert Gas Transmission Pipeline. Our response 👇 climateactionnetwork.ca/b-c-governme...

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2 billion tonnes of household waste are produced yearly. This number is projected to DOUBLE by 2050 🚨 That's a mountain of waste harming our planet! It's time to rethink waste. Learn more in UNU-EHS #InterconnectedRisks report: buff.ly/IpYbVBd #WorldEnvironmentDay #BeatPlasticPollution

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Breaking: The Ford government has passed Bill 5 — gutting species protections, enabling unchecked development, and ignoring Indigenous rights. Ecojustice fought this bill at every step, and we will not stop fighting for a just, sustainable, and democratic Ontario. FULL STORY: bit.ly/3SCeGX2

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

This is what happens when the govt refuses to make O&G companies cleanup their mess. There are 3700+ orphan wells like this one across Alberta that require cleanup & may be leaking harmful pollutants into nearby communities. Plus another 260,000 (non-orphan) "aging" or inactive wells. #ABLeg #ABPoli

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment