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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 16h

Draw The Line drawtheline.world/canada?sourc...

Canada | Draw the Line - For people, for peace, for the planet

We refuse to stand by while the government and Canada’s richest corporations hoard wealth, gut our public services, fuel climate collapse, attack migrants, exploit Indigenous lands, and prop up a geno...

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 16h

After secretly working to destroy it, Ford government silent on long overdue review of Ontario’s Greenbelt | The Pointer thepointer.com/article/2025...

After secretly working to destroy it, Ford government silent on long overdue review of Ontario’s Greenbelt

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 16h

Ontario Government Strips 106 Species at Risk of all Provincial Recognition environmentaldefence.ca/2025/09/29/o...

Ontario Government Strips 106 Species at Risk of all Provincial Recognition - Environmental Defence

Ontario Government Saddles Federal Government With Exclusive Responsibility for 106 Species at Risk by Stripping them of all Provincial Recognition, including the cougar, the redside dace, and more.

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 21h

In Alberta, we talk a LOT about how the Alberta Energy Regulator has been captured by industry. But I think it's about time we start looking at DFO the same way. Just another institution that puts corporate profits over ecosystem health and the public interest. SHAME! #CDNPoli #ABLeg #ABPoli

CPAWS Southern Alberta @cpawssab.bsky.social · 1d

After removing the bridge that damaged Critical Habitat for bull trout in the Upper Highwood, DFO has approved the construction of another bridge... in the same location.

If only this was satire.

The full story: cpaws-southernalberta.org/dfo-issuing-...

DFO Issuing Permit for Highwood Bridge   - CPAWS Southern Alberta

DFO has issued a permit under the Species at Risk Act allowing the destruction of critical habitat to facilitate 14 river and stream crossings, including the reconstruction of the previously illegally...

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 20h

🚨 TIL: David Yager, the man who drafted Alberta's Mature Asset Strategy for aging oil & gas infrastructure, publicly stated in 2021 that: "Albertans must permit the government to move past the “polluter pay” mantra and deal with the issues as they exist today." energynow.ca/2021/07/the-... #ABLeg

The Pursuit of Well Decommissioning’s Holy Grail – A Reclamation Certificate: David Yager - Canadian Energy News, Top Headlines, Commentaries, Features & Events - EnergyNow

by David Yager The two most important words about inactive oil and gas wells and the industry’s legal obligation to clean up after itself are Reclamation Certificate (RC). The Merriam-Webster on-line ...

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Environmental Defence Canada @environmentaldefence.ca · 2d

#Media: "Recommendations that would enable [Alberta] to release partially-treated tailings into the Athabasca River using unproven technology are unacceptable and would put downstream communities and the local environment at great risk." Our full release 👇

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Indigenous, environment, health groups reject tailings treat-and-release guidance - Environmental Defence

ATHABASCA CHIPEWYAN FIRST NATION, MIKISEW CREE FIRST NATION, ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE, INDIGENOUS CLIMATE ACTION, KEEPERS OF THE WATER, CANADIAN PARKS AND

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · May 7

A new story from @thetyee.ca shows that David Yager, the man responsible for Alberta’s new "mature" oil well cleanup scam, has deep connections to Premier Danielle Smith and a legacy of conflicts of interest - red flags everywhere. thetyee.ca/News/2025/05... #ABLeg #ABPoli #CDNPoli #YYC #YEG

An Alberta Energy Regulator’s Close Ties to Danielle Smith | The Tyee

David Yager calls himself the premier’s ‘special adviser.’ He also serves as board director for the supposedly arm’s-length AER.

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Phillip Meintzer @phillipmeintzer.bsky.social · 1d

Now THIS is a petition that actually matters!!! - "I think it's wrong to have the highest rate of funding for private schools in a province where we have the lowest rate of funding for public schools," the Calgary teacher said in an interview on Tuesday. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... #ABLeg #ABPoli

Alberta teacher prompts petition on province's private school funding | CBC News

If high school chemistry teacher Alicia Taylor gets her wish, Albertans will vote in a referendum on whether to end public funding for independent schools.

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TinkieGurl 🇨🇦 #ForeverCanadian @tinkiegurl.bsky.social · 23h

"This is Canada it can't happen here". They said the same thing in the US look where that got them.
"If we are not very careful, we are going to see, bit by bit, the rights that we enjoy as Canadians will come to cease to exist and we will have no one but ourselves to blame."

Justice minister rules out withdrawing legal submission on notwithstanding clause | CBC News

Justice Minister Sean Fraser rejected calls from five premiers for Ottawa to withdraw its legal argument calling for limits on the use of the Constitution's notwithstanding clause.

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hope50.bsky.social @hope50.bsky.social · 23h

Look at the right wing Conservative run provinces. They are always taking away your rights. Corruption investigations in AB, corruption investigation in ON....

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 1d

"Scientists warn that if current trends in sea level rise continue, more than 45% of the Delta could be submerged within decades, displacing millions and jeopardising Vietnam’s food security"

#Vietnam 🇻🇳
#ClimateEmergency

The Mekong Delta’s climate defences are failing

Infrastructure projects to keep out seawater have been plagued by failures. Experts say Vietnam must shift from hard fixes to nature-based solutions

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 1d

Chips are not just another product to trade. They are the physical substrate on which a society's infosphere unfolds. This extreme dependence is not yet internalized as the new reality. The Nvidia/China story merely a precursor of geopolitics in the fully digital era.

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 1d

China last month banned companies from purchasing Nvidia’s H20 chips, signaling a breakdown of a corporate strategy designed to navigate complex geostrategic tensions, Leevi Saari writes. www.techpolicy.press/the-rise-and...

The Rise and Fall of Nvidia’s Geopolitical Strategy | TechPolicy.Press

Nvidia's geopolitical balancing act between the US and China flopped after an arduous lobbying campaign, Leevi Saari writes.

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 1d

Now I am green. Now I am not. Now I am green. Now I am not.

At some point we'll need to face the reality that without deeply and irrevocably embedding sustainability into people's incentive structures we'll never get past this tragicomedy.

Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social · 1d

Nestle's commitment to climate study just hot air
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact

The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 1d

I propose the term "green chameleons" for companies adopting and abandoning sustainability commitments depending on the hour of the day.

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 1d

Dial-home-wearables will be the next turn of the screw as surveillance capitalism drills itself into the flesh of society.

And the world will once again stand dazed and confused by all this "innovation" and "disruption" 😨

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Ray-Ban Maker Essilor Touts Meta Glasses as Next Smartphone Blockbuster

The world’s biggest eyewear maker is positioning itself as a leader in the emerging category of smart glasses, a device that could become as prevalent as an iPhone.

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 1d

"it feels like we lost twenty years just trying to get tech policy and tech firms to kill fewer people, to be just a bit less egregious, and that is time we’ll never get back"

Alas, exactly true. In inteconnected and highly technological societies failure to properly regulate has dire implications

Maria Farrell @mariafarrell.bsky.social · 1d

On the vanquishing, for now, of chat control:

"if we didn’t have to expend most our energies saying ‘No’ to this stupid, ghastly shit, and saying ‘No’ to the stupid, ghastly shit of the tech oligarchs, what might we have built instead? How productively and joyfully could we be spending our lives?

Delighted to be proved wrong — Crooked Timber

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Open Risk @openrisk.eu · 1d

Good news but also deeply worrisome that European countries can't unite behind a set of principles and guardrails that will guarantee a human-centric, democratic digital era, the way constitutions shaped the transition away from feudalism and autocracies in the past (looking esp. at you dear France)

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 1d

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

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Frances @frances2023.bsky.social · 4d

Definition of conservative used to be "cares about money". Now they only care about *certain* people's money

Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 4d

Clean energy transition sparks nuclear reaction Though the responsible solution is renewables, nuclear power is getting a lot of attention as a climate solution. Why is that?

davidsuzuki.org/story/clean-...

Clean energy transition sparks nuclear reaction

Though the responsible solution is renewables, nuclear power is getting a lot of attention as a climate solution. Why is that?

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michael ◉●○•° @ontopunk.bsky.social · 2d

She just wants nuclear so that it can power more extraction and more oil refinement. She’s trying to supercharge the Alberta petrostate.

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 3d

🏦 With a track record of conserving over 7,000 acres and raising over $3 million for conservation, we have a proven history of making a real impact.

Over half of the land we've protected is wetlands—critical ecosystems that provide clean water and wildlife habitat!

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Unique Places to Save @uniqueplacestosave.org · 3d

😲 Our natural spaces are disappearing.
💪 But we believe in solutions.

Welcome to Unique Places to Save, a leading non-profit dedicated to restoring and conserving our nation's most vital land and water resources.

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 17h

Director of Finance ats.rippling.com/en-CA/foodsh...

Director of Finance | FoodShare Toronto

The Role We are currently seeking the ideal candidate to fill the position of: Director of Finance. FoodShare is a food justice organizatio...

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 1d

Ontario Investing $435,829 to Restore Areas of the St. Lawrence River news.ontario.ca/en/release/1...

Ontario Newsroom

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Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 1d

Massachusetts cranberry farmers choosing to restore their bogs into wetlands amid economic headwinds www.cbsnews.com/news/massach... via @cbseveningnews

Massachusetts cranberry farmers choosing to restore their bogs into wetlands amid economic headwinds

A state program pays cranberry farmers to turn unproductive bogs back into wetlands.

www.cbsnews.com

Mike @brechinbrae220031.bsky.social · 1d

Nearly Half of USDA Employees to be Furloughed as Gov’t Shuts Down farmpolicynews.illinois.edu/2025/10/near...

Nearly Half of USDA Employees to be Furloughed as Gov't Shuts Down - Farm Policy News

During a shutdown, about 42,000 USDA staff will be furloughed, according to the agency's 2025 shutdown contingency plan, roughly half the agency's employees. Activities deemed mission-critical, like f...

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