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Caroline

@northernck.bsky.social

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🇨🇦 curious. savvy. spiritied. witty. PoliSci, Business grad. Former business executive with a conscience. Mentored youth at risk, young staff, entrepreneurs. Deeply concerned about our humanity in the face of growing extremism. Photography enthusiast. 🇨🇦

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · Dec 21

What Mr Poilievre won’t tell you:

2/3 of the federal budget is spent on pensions, health care, provincial transfers, welfare, defence and debt servicing.

If you are promising to lower taxes, where will you cut spending?

Which one of the above areas will Pierre Poilievre AXE Services?

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 10h

The labour to positive economic growth dynamic has been completely upended

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 10h

Why would you pitch Raleigh w/ 2 outs.
Walk him.

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 10h

* long way off from becoming

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SoundsKugle 🐝🌅 @soundskugle.bsky.social · 11h

🇨🇦's Postmedia is owned by a New Jersey 🇺🇸n Hedge Fund.

A Trump donor owns 70% of our Print #cdnmedia 🇨🇦

This should be stated each and every time there's any mention of Postmedia 🇨🇦

#cdnpoli 📢

A picture showing every single Canadian newspaper owned by a New Jersey 🇺🇸 n Hedge Fund which is a known donor to Trump

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Mark Kersten @markkersten.bsky.social · 2d

"Inertia and lack of urgency from successive governments on the history of residential schools and denialism also leave room for the distortion of history."

What’s Canada Doing about Residential School Denialism? thetyee.ca/News/2025/10...

What’s Canada Doing about Residential School Denialism? | The Tyee

The problem is growing, experts say, and the government needs to act fast to address it.

thetyee.ca

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 11h

Unfortunately for us, the avg Cdn media member has virtually little awareness of anything climate, carbon-related.
With “pipeline” dominating all discussions.
We are such a long way to go to becoming a mature, sophisticated nation.

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 13h

at 308,900 people, and has since dropped to 205,400 as of this past June despite oil production soaring from 3.5 million barrels to 5.75 million barrels per day. That’s a 33 per cent drop in employment on the back of a 63 per cent increase in production”

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 13h

climate policy is little more than distant rumour and pipelines practically build themselves, the same trend of declining employment and rising production has played out. Data from the Texas Workforce Commission shows that employment in the state’s oil and gas industry peaked in December 2014 at

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 13h

Things Or @ABDanielleSmith & oil/gas industry doesn’t want Albertans & those Cdns who work in oil/gas to look too closely into - they have been on a heater to use tech/robotics/AI to replace humans, in projects across North America:
“In Texas, a state where

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/28/o...

The ‘de-manning’ of Canada’s oilsands sector

Canada's oil and gas industry has been getting less labour-intensive for more than a decade now. When will our elected officials finally acknowledge that — and its obvious implications for the future?

www.nationalobserver.com

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 13h

Health Organization's guideline, that could cut life expectancy by about four years.
The report produced by the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago says Canada's 2023 national average air pollution was the worst it's been since the group's records began in 1998”

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 13h

hard-hit wildfire regions rivalled some of the world's most polluted places.

The researchers estimate if 2023 levels of pollution in areas of Northwest Territories and northeastern parts of British Columbia were sustained over a lifetime, compared to staying within the World

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 13h

2023 levels of our air pollution would make wildfires the 5th largest driver of declining life expectancies:
“Canada's average pollution levels were near the middle of the pack among the countries and territories included in the report, but some of its

www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/28/n...

Wildfires in 2023 drove Canada's air pollution. How could it affect life expectancy?

With air pollution levels rising to the worst levels seen by one organization since records began in 1998, researchers say that lifetime exposure to the 2023 levels in parts of the country could short...

www.nationalobserver.com

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 13h

then trade those to other companies trying to offset higher emissions.”

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 13h

less tax.

“The fact that there wasn’t really any discussion of whether or not the companies may also be able to generate emission performance credits from those projects is another thing I’m concerned about,” MacDougall said. Companies can collect credits for emissions below certain thresholds and

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 13h

avoid the carbon price for investing in “technical studies, financial studies, studies that support an eligible capital-based project, etc.”

That would mean companies could avoid the industrial carbon tax, all but nixing the incentive inherent in the carbon tax plan: pollute less carbon, pay

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 13h

If PM Carney & Min Hodgson think Cdns will support Alta facilities double dipping their way to paying no industrial carbon taxes while being able to add credits, AND adding a pipeline, they have another thing coming:
“The consultation document also says companies can
thenarwhal.ca/alberta-carb...

Alberta moves to weaken its carbon tax system: document | The Narwhal

Thousands of oil and gas facilities could soon be able to opt out of Alberta’s industrial carbon tax system

thenarwhal.ca

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 14h

62 per cent of Canadians think climate change is a pressing issue that should be a high priority in schools.”

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 14h

such as ecology.

"(Climate change education) extends to every single subject in our curriculum," Jeffery said, adding that she feels there are "lost opportunities" to foster more climate change discussions in other subjects.

A survey by Learning for a Sustainable Future earlier this year found

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 14h

“As part of Ontario's science curriculum, Jeffery says teachers are supposed to spend about a quarter of the semester on climate change and environmental education, but there's usually room for more climate discussions outside of curriculum units where the environment is the immediate focus,

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 14h

Climate science/change can’t be taught in silos of subject matters taught throughout elementary/high schools - there is an interconnectedness across ALL facets of our life.
We need progressive/centrist premiers dedicated to improving THIS critical curriculum
www.nationalobserver.com/2025/08/28/n...

Teachers say more climate change lessons needed in classrooms

As climate change and its impacts become increasingly present in the lives of Canadians, educators say they have a 'moral imperative' to raise the subject in schools.

www.nationalobserver.com

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 14h

comment. The B.C. Wildfire Service said in a statement that it is aware of Skyward’s efforts, but has no formal partnership agreement with the company and has not provided any funding. It did not say whether it’s aware of any possible testing in B.C.”

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 14h

until the fall. He did not answer questions about the company’s technology, which government agencies it has partnered with or provide information about possible environmental impacts from the use of its technology.

The Alberta Wildfire Service did not respond to The Narwhal’s repeated requests for

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 14h

“Canadian Wildfire Services” to test its technology. But wildfire response is organized by provinces, not the federal government, and the company won’t say which provinces it has worked with. In an email, CEO Sam Goldman declined an interview and said he and his staff were not available to comment

Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 14h

Considering @ABDanielleSmith ‘s prov is the only one in Canada which has used geoengineering, it’s not difficult to guess which prov they’re working with.
Note: PFAs are a component of what’s used to geoengineer clouds:
“The company website claims it has partnered with
thenarwhal.ca/cloud-seedin...

Cloud seeding: can it stop lightning and wildfires? | The Narwhal

B.C. company Skyward Wildfire says it can prevent wildfires with cloud seeding. It’s not a new idea, but many questions remain unanswered

thenarwhal.ca

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Caroline @northernck.bsky.social · 14h

planning to return $40 billion to $45 billion to shareholders over the next five years, driven by gas network expansions across the continent.”