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druhfarrell.bsky.social
Just me trying to be a good ancestor. Former six-term councillor for the City of Calgary. I will never stop championing equity, climate action, and inspiring city-making. Treaty 7, She/her 🇨🇦
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Appalling.

submitted 5 hours ago • 1 comment

seems relevant somehow

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

When I see school streets in Paris—places where they made the contentious decision to fully exclude cars—it makes me wonder if we actually care about the welfare of children back home.

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Wildfires are a health crisis, but fossil fuel air pollution causes far greater, ongoing harm. Canada can’t claim climate leadership while expanding oil & gas. Carney’s plan sells out our health and our future. We need bold action for clean energy, clean air, & the courage to stand up to Big Oil.

submitted 8 hours ago • 0 comments

Get vaccines, people.

submitted 8 hours ago • 2 comments

30 years ago today: Alberta Premier Ralph Klein meets with Palestinian Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat in Gaza City. (📸News clip: Edmonton Journal, June 23, 1995)

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

Climate change, welcome to The War on Cars.

submitted 8 hours ago • 11 comments

Trees are essential infrastructure for human health.

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

One of the reasons we need to remove more concrete and plant more trees is because all this exposed concrete absorbs an incredible amount of heat, even compared to concrete that’s shaded. #onpoli #topoli

submitted 13 hours ago • 2 comments

Paris 2019 v. Today: I don’t think people realize how immense @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s legacy will be.

submitted 14 hours ago • 6 comments

Dear Media, Enough with the images of melting ice cream and frolicking in fountains. Heat illness is deadly. Start reporting it as such.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Calling all billionaires! We've found your new home! 🤸 Don't worry about us plebs. We'll stay behind and heal Earth from your profligacy. getpocket.com/explore/item...

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

I often see it said that CO₂ removal (CDR) is needed ALONGSIDE drastic emissions reductions to reach net zero. I think this is incorrect. I think CDR is needed AFTER drastic emissions reductions. The distinction is important as it specifies when we use renewable energy to deploy CDR at scale.

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

This is so true that I want to shout it from rooftops.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Got a ConEd alert telling me to use less energy during the heat wave and this is all I can think about.

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Wow. Horrible response. Embarrassing for our country.

submitted 1 day ago • 104 comments

“Tesla's so-called self-driving software won't stop for a school bus or a kid running from behind said bus, but despite that, the automaker is moving forward with plans to introduce robotaxis, saying it's totally safe.” This one turned onto train tracks… Read More: www.jalopnik.com/1887837/tesl...

submitted 1 day ago • 18 comments

Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸

submitted 1 day ago • 563 comments

We don't pick fights, we win them. On Monday, June 23, #VoteforBetter 🔗 albertandp.ca/vote

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Thank you M. Trudeau for standing up for Canadians against fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 15 comments

I wrote about what's sometimes called Toronto's ugliest intersection & things that might fix it. Bloor and Dundas, next to one of the biggest transit hubs in the GTA, much opportunity.

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Generally speaking most women are helped best by not being bombed

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Why would anyone expect the USA to value human life when they allow the continued slaughter of their own children?

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Donald Trump just unilaterally bombed Iran. A masked gang is terrorizing our streets. America has rapidly devolved into an authoritarian state. That's why, today, The Onion has purchased a full page ad in today's New York Times with a simple plea to Congress: Sit back and do absolutely nothing.

submitted 1 day ago • 181 comments

What are the signs of heat illness? Heat-related illness exists on a spectrum, so recognizing early symptoms is key to avoiding progression, by @drshazmamithani.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-... via @theglobeandmail.com

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Some U.S. media (such as the Washington Post here) trace U.S.-Iranian animosity back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, conveniently forgetting that the CIA helped overthrow a democratically elected Iranian government in 1953, forcing Iranians to endure decades of the Shah’s brutal rule.

submitted 1 day ago • 187 comments

Every candidate running in Calgary’s municipal election needs to watch this video and state in their platform what they intend to do to fix bike share in Calgary. This isn’t hard to fix, Tom has done all the homework for you! #yyccc #Calgary #yycBike #yycVote

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Remember when summer used to be carefree and fun, not filled with apocalyptic challenges from wildfires to suffocating heat? Tackling #ClimateChange requires mitigation and adaptation, not just eco-anxiety, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... @theglobeandmail.com

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

I thought it was bad when the reason was "oil", but it seems much worse when literally the only reasons seems to be hatred, cruelty and nihilism.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

almost every form of political, institutional, and moral rot currently plaguing our society comes directly from this period. Bush/Cheney/Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld condemned the entire world to living in an abscess of its making, Trump is the latest thing this abscess gurgled up. and we're doing it again.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

WHEN TIMES GET TOUGH AT HOME,THE FASCISTS TAKE US TO WAR.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

Anyone who claims to know what's coming next is lying. But @attackerman.bsky.social understands the history and context like few others. www.forever-wars.com/war-on-terro...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Trump's bombing of Iran serves no larger political or security purpose. He just didn't want to look like a loser as he was goaded by the war criminal Netanyahu. Canada must separate ourselves from the reckless violence of the gangster regime in Washington.

submitted 2 days ago • 89 comments

Gabor Maté: We must speak out about the horror in Gaza www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

submitted 2 days ago • 119 comments

Another video showing the size of today's #United4Gaza protest in #Berlin. Demonstrations of this site have been a regular sight in UK, Italy or the US. In Germany, they have been rare. Quite substantial mobilization today, especially given the heavy-handed policing over the past months

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

Defying the anti-immigrant trend in the U.S., Spain is reaping economic benefits by granting citizenship to tens of thousands of newly-arrived workers.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I’m 5’11” and I barely clear the hood of this absurd truck. How is this legal?!

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

amtrak’s marketing team gets it

submitted 2 days ago • 430 comments

Bob Kagan not sugarcoating his assessment here To highlight: 1- Woodrow Wilson sucks, always true 2- we are at a precipice re: consolidation of executive powers & erosion of rights of Americans 3- a war over Iran is about illiberal order (whereas defeating Russia is about liberal order, my note)

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

I said on the radio the other day that the two main impediments to wider EV take-up are (1) range and (2) upfront cost. This solves #1. Cost is just a matter of time. (And not much time given the pace of battery tech improvements) electrek.co/2025/06/20/b...

submitted 2 days ago • 18 comments

This National #IndigenousPeoplesDay, we’re celebrating Indigenous clean energy leaders who are reshaping entire energy systems in communities across Canada. The Haeckel Hill-Thay T’äw Wind Energy Project, on Kwanlin Dün First Nation territory (Whitehorse) is just one example of this critical work.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Highly recommended read from @charlieangus104.bsky.social Naming the Arsonists open.substack.com/pub/charliea...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

After years of advocacy, applications for the $200/month Canada Disability Benefit opened today. But the only provincial govt in Canada that will keep its citizens with disabilities from actually benefiting from it is the UCP. They are the only ones clawing it back. It’s cruel & shameful.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments