Your Saturday To-Do List:
✅ Wake up early
✅ Grab your binoculars
✅ Go Birding! 🐦

Join the global birdwatching event: October Big Day
📅 October 11, 2025
🔗 ebird.org/octoberbigday

Let’s see how many birds we can spot together! 🌍👀 #OctoberBigDay #Birding #eBird

Moving to renewable energy doesn't *only* bring down carbon emissions and direct air pollution, it also leads to a LOT less mining/drilling for resources and a LOT less shipping

This is extremely alarming. Prime Minister @mark-carney.bsky.social won the federal election promising to make us *less* depending on the US. Now we are hearing reports that he is offering up a CLOSER energy and military partnership in exchange for a trade deal... 🧵

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“I’m afraid of what happens if I stop feeling too much. I don't want to become someone who moves and breathes like all of this is normal. I am afraid of what that would make me. I am afraid of what that tendency has already made me, in some ways, and what it has made the world.”

Canada is taking First Nations kids back to court on October 6th, 2025.

Read more about the Powless family and supporters holding Canada accountable for its legal obligations concerning Jordan's Principle, bit.ly/PowlessInformationSheet

Part 2 of 2

It seems like the federal government has never cared about Jordan’s Principle or about the well-being of Indigenous kids. I’d sure rather see my tax dollars spent on mould remediation for these kids than for lawyers.

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Energizing time in Fredericton #NewBrunswick at the @canadiansorg.bsky.social info table at the Walastokuk Social Forum! About 40 groups there with visions & actions for a more peaceful, sustainable, equitable & people-centred society. We have the solutions! Organized people vs organized money! ✊💕

Nova Scotia - a province known for endless rainy days & many bountiful rivers & lakes - is into its 4th month of extreme drought. This is the French River, that provides Tatamagouche with water (or not). Climate crisis kicking in. But: let’s frack and clearcut anyway, says NS Premier Tim Houston.

October 4 - Sisters in Spirit Day
We remember and honour Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people who are missing or murdered.
Safety for Indigenous women reflects safety for us all.

#SistersInSpirit #MMIWG2S #MMIP #NoMoreStolenSisters #BCNWA

🍁 On Nov 4, Carney unveils Budget 2025, promising a "generational investment" in Canada.

One program could deliver jobs + climate action: a Youth Climate Corps.

This program would provide paid work for young people restoring ecosystems, protecting communities, and building clean infrastructure.

It's time to start translating the ICJ's Advisory Opinion on climate change into meaningful action!

Brilliant colleagues and I wrote for @climatechangenews.com about what the AO means for the work of the Fund for Responding to Loss and Damage:
www.climatechangenews.com/2025/10/03/t...

It is truly demoralizing just how many people of privilege--white, straight, cis, etc--have chosen to be oblivious to what is happening. Ignoring reality in the name of "preserving my peace" is morally bankrupt when so, so many people can never have that peace.
We who have privilege: USE IT.

🗣️ Nobel Laureate and journalist @mariaressa.bsky.social
urged states to establish clear international rules to prevent “universally unacceptable risks for #AI. At the very least, define what AI should never be allowed to do.”

When considering public spending, debt and taxes, it’s much better to focus not on some arbitrary, unscientific debt threshold, but on what you’re getting for your investment, recognizing that government investment creates new markets and opportunities.

How is there still no office for Indigenous rights complaints? Six years after #MMIWG Calls to Action, #Canada still has no ombudsman.

“To be honest with you, I’m kind of frustrated that we haven’t heard much response.”

New from @jonthompson.bsky.social:

ricochet.media/indigenous/m...

#onpoli

Israeli authorities have once again intercepted aid boats destined for Gaza. This comes as Israeli forces escalate their assault on Gaza City and continue starving the population.

Flotillas are filling the void amid governments’ inaction. Learn more:

"It's disturbing because where [Canada Border Services Agency] should be much more careful now because the consequences of a false negative are so severe, they're being less careful”

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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-...

Late bloomer 🌸

“Rather than collaborating with the public, the Houston government seems, with this bill, to be arming itself for confrontation.”

Phyllis Webstad has become a household name when it comes to answering the TRC's 94 Calls to Action, sharing her orange shirt story through several children’s books.

Now, she's co-written a book confronting residential school denialists.

Why books serve a vital role in Truth and Reconciliation

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CETP (Clean Energy Transition Partnership) was launched at COP26 (2021), where country and public finance institution signatories committed to transition our international public support towards the clean energy transition and out of unabated fossil fuels, within a year of signing the statement.

Sad and sorry to read this. And angry. It’s a horrible situation. I wish the best for your sister.