Chris Rider (he/him)
@crider.bsky.social
Working to protect land & water for future generations.
@LUFC fan.
Opinions expressed are only my own.
@LUFC fan.
Opinions expressed are only my own.
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This one's called "All Glory to Our Aquatic Comrades" and it's dedicated to those orcas who go around sinking big dirty boats and teaching their calves to do the same.
Prints are here: selkiesstudio.com/shop/orcastrate
Prints are here: selkiesstudio.com/shop/orcastrate
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 AM
This one's called "All Glory to Our Aquatic Comrades" and it's dedicated to those orcas who go around sinking big dirty boats and teaching their calves to do the same.
Prints are here: selkiesstudio.com/shop/orcastrate
Prints are here: selkiesstudio.com/shop/orcastrate
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Another great summary & critique of last week's Fed-Alberta energy deal, courtesy of @thenarwhal.ca. I highly recommend the embedded video too:
A guide to Carney’s pipeline deal — and the climate policies it weakens: thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
A guide to Carney’s pipeline deal — and the climate policies it weakens: thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
A guide to Carney’s Alberta pipeline deal | The Narwhal
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s ‘grand bargain’ isn’t just about an Alberta pipeline —it also proposes rolling back a host of climate policies
thenarwhal.ca
December 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Another great summary & critique of last week's Fed-Alberta energy deal, courtesy of @thenarwhal.ca. I highly recommend the embedded video too:
A guide to Carney’s pipeline deal — and the climate policies it weakens: thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
A guide to Carney’s pipeline deal — and the climate policies it weakens: thenarwhal.ca/carney-alber...
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This point is disturbing: Guilbeault "was also deeply troubled by the ease with which the PMO was casting aside its moral obligation to May. What was the Liberals’ word worth?"
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
Good work by @althiaraj.bsky.social on the inside story of Guilbeault's resignation, from his being frozen out by PMO, given false assurances, and being made to wear the government walking back on pledges he made to Elizabeth May to secure her support. No kidding it was untenable for him to stay.
Althia Raj: Mark Carney lost the minister who was the green conscience of his government. Here’s how it happened
The inside story of Steven Guilbeault's resignation from cabinet over Ottawa's energy deal with Alberta.
www.thestar.com
November 29, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This point is disturbing: Guilbeault "was also deeply troubled by the ease with which the PMO was casting aside its moral obligation to May. What was the Liberals’ word worth?"
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
Mark Carney seems to have forgotten the first rule of central banking: Your word, your credibility, is all.
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Shocking what happens when you tell your base for years that the sole source of their grievances are people's last names & the capital of our country.
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 28, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Shocking what happens when you tell your base for years that the sole source of their grievances are people's last names & the capital of our country.
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No one should be under any illusions about who the base of the UCP are.
Separatists and far-right radicals have been given care and feeding by UCP Premiers since 2019. One got thrown overboard because it wasn’t enough. Catering hasn’t mollified them either.
Separatists and far-right radicals have been given care and feeding by UCP Premiers since 2019. One got thrown overboard because it wasn’t enough. Catering hasn’t mollified them either.
Danielle Smith gets booed at UCP convention after mentioning working with Canada
November 28, 2025 at 11:13 PM
No one should be under any illusions about who the base of the UCP are.
Separatists and far-right radicals have been given care and feeding by UCP Premiers since 2019. One got thrown overboard because it wasn’t enough. Catering hasn’t mollified them either.
Separatists and far-right radicals have been given care and feeding by UCP Premiers since 2019. One got thrown overboard because it wasn’t enough. Catering hasn’t mollified them either.
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I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
Since Stephen Miller is in the midst of another of his Aryans-only trantrums, we should note that his family are 20th century immigrants from the shtetl of Antopol (Антопаль) then in the Hrodna gubernia of Russia. Applying his immigration rules, they would all have perished in the Holocaust.
Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle.
If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.
www.politico.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I think that somewhere along the way something in Stephen Miller got fundamentally damaged. This is neither an excuse nor a mitigating factor; the dude is genuinely fucking evil and he and everything he stands for should be fought against and stopped. But he is something beyond mere sociopathy.
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A new bitumen pipeline is a pipe dream. Coastal First Nations have stated their unwavering opposition to the project, the Province of BC is staunchly opposed & the last time this project was proposed it failed in court. Our reaction to the Canada-Alberta Energy MOU: wcel.org/media-releas... #cdnpoli
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 PM
A new bitumen pipeline is a pipe dream. Coastal First Nations have stated their unwavering opposition to the project, the Province of BC is staunchly opposed & the last time this project was proposed it failed in court. Our reaction to the Canada-Alberta Energy MOU: wcel.org/media-releas... #cdnpoli
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Given that’s there’s a non-zero chance the pipeline never happens but Carney gets blamed for supporting it and failing to get it done, I’m going to call this one a questionable move!
November 27, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Given that’s there’s a non-zero chance the pipeline never happens but Carney gets blamed for supporting it and failing to get it done, I’m going to call this one a questionable move!
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Has anyone elaborated on this argument of how requiring that environmental claims be backed by actual facts creates investment uncertainty?
The obvious inference is "being prevented from making claims without a proof hampers investment/attracting money", is there something else?
The obvious inference is "being prevented from making claims without a proof hampers investment/attracting money", is there something else?
oh COME ON (throws computer)
Literally in the same MOU that officially throws out the oil industries previous greenwashing commitment?
Literally in the same MOU that officially throws out the oil industries previous greenwashing commitment?
November 27, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Has anyone elaborated on this argument of how requiring that environmental claims be backed by actual facts creates investment uncertainty?
The obvious inference is "being prevented from making claims without a proof hampers investment/attracting money", is there something else?
The obvious inference is "being prevented from making claims without a proof hampers investment/attracting money", is there something else?
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The First Nations aren't the only ones opposed to it.
Mark Carney reaches deal with Alberta for oil pipeline opposed by First Nations
Prime minister says deal ‘sets the state for an industrial transformation’, but project is likely to face wide opposition
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
The First Nations aren't the only ones opposed to it.
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Breaking: Canadian Prime Minister and Alberta Premier sign deal that will quash Indigenous rights, provoke a wave of backlash and opposition unlike anything every seen in Canada, and roll back big climate protections to benefit a handful of foreign owned oil and gas companies.
#oil #cdnpoli
#oil #cdnpoli
November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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“This move is another signal that the federal government is no longer committed to protecting nature, which is a core value not just in British Columbia but across the country.” - Sarah McNeil, CPAWS-BC Executive Director.
CPAWS-BC stands with Coastal First Nations, opposes Federal Government’s reported pipeline deal | CPAWS-BC
The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia stands with First Nations leaders, scientists, and the provincial government against a tanker ban exemption for a northwest coast pipeline.
cpawsbc.org
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
“This move is another signal that the federal government is no longer committed to protecting nature, which is a core value not just in British Columbia but across the country.” - Sarah McNeil, CPAWS-BC Executive Director.
I'm at the Métis National Council Nature Summit, where they are launching their incredible new nature strategy - it's been an amazing event and so inspiring AND... you guys: there is a candy bar during snack breaks.
November 26, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I'm at the Métis National Council Nature Summit, where they are launching their incredible new nature strategy - it's been an amazing event and so inspiring AND... you guys: there is a candy bar during snack breaks.
*cough*
DF: "I see why there is criticism after the last two games. We were pretty self-critical too, but over the last 11 games, we have not once dropped into the relegation zone." #lufc
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 PM
*cough*
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⚠️ BREAKING ⚠️
This afternoon, country music artist @corblund.bsky.social headed to #Edmonton to submit his application to Elections Alberta for a petition to prohibit coal mining in the #EasternSlopes of the Rocky Mountains.
#MountainsNotMines #WaterNotCoal #Calgary #YYC #Alberta #AbLeg #AbPoli
This afternoon, country music artist @corblund.bsky.social headed to #Edmonton to submit his application to Elections Alberta for a petition to prohibit coal mining in the #EasternSlopes of the Rocky Mountains.
#MountainsNotMines #WaterNotCoal #Calgary #YYC #Alberta #AbLeg #AbPoli
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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F'ing this! 👇
I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.
November 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
F'ing this! 👇
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Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
November 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Antisemitism is a lot like Qanon child abuse conspiracies in that there’s this real and bad phenomenon and, parallel to that, what can only be described as a large scale mass psychosis about a mostly fictional version of the same phenomenon
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Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
Commons committee report challenges ‘lazy narrative’ used by ministers that scapegoats wildlife and the environment
Nature is not a blocker to housing growth, an inquiry by MPs has found, in direct conflict with claims made by ministers.
Toby Perkins, the Labour chair of the environmental audit committee, said nature was being scapegoated, and that rather than being a block to growth, it was necessary for building resilient towns and neighbourhoods. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 16, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Nature not a blocker to housing growth, inquiry finds
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Claim: The Ring of Fire is supplying minerals for lifesaving tech.
Verdict: Misleading ⚠️
Development is years away (if it happens at all) with:
❌ No investment decisions
❌ No feasibility studies
❌ No proven economic case
❌ No consensus from Indigenous Nations
📸 T. Hesselink
Verdict: Misleading ⚠️
Development is years away (if it happens at all) with:
❌ No investment decisions
❌ No feasibility studies
❌ No proven economic case
❌ No consensus from Indigenous Nations
📸 T. Hesselink
November 13, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Claim: The Ring of Fire is supplying minerals for lifesaving tech.
Verdict: Misleading ⚠️
Development is years away (if it happens at all) with:
❌ No investment decisions
❌ No feasibility studies
❌ No proven economic case
❌ No consensus from Indigenous Nations
📸 T. Hesselink
Verdict: Misleading ⚠️
Development is years away (if it happens at all) with:
❌ No investment decisions
❌ No feasibility studies
❌ No proven economic case
❌ No consensus from Indigenous Nations
📸 T. Hesselink
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LOVE THIS 👇
1/ An inspiring visit to the New Flyer bus plant in Winnipeg!
(Special thanks to @unifor.org local 3003!)
👷🏼♀️ EV buses with Canadian steel and unionized labour
🇨🇦 Making parts + assembling = 100% tariff-proof
✅ Slashing emissions
🚍 $13.5 billion in orders, years-long waiting list.
(Special thanks to @unifor.org local 3003!)
👷🏼♀️ EV buses with Canadian steel and unionized labour
🇨🇦 Making parts + assembling = 100% tariff-proof
✅ Slashing emissions
🚍 $13.5 billion in orders, years-long waiting list.
November 12, 2025 at 11:42 PM
LOVE THIS 👇
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Those Ring of Fire ads during World Series broadcasts might have you thinking mines are up and running in the remote region in northern Ontario, but that's not the case and the Ford government should be upfront about it, writes @elaineanselmi.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
Don’t be fooled by the Ontario Ring of Fire ads aired during Blue Jays games | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s ads during Blue Jays World Series games suggest mines are up and running in the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, but that’s not true
thenarwhal.ca
October 31, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Those Ring of Fire ads during World Series broadcasts might have you thinking mines are up and running in the remote region in northern Ontario, but that's not the case and the Ford government should be upfront about it, writes @elaineanselmi.bsky.social thenarwhal.ca/opinion-blue...
I'm not losing my head here, but we've proven we don't have a way to beat the teams around us and I don't see a path to staying up anymore.
I just feel resignation, not anger.
#lufc
I just feel resignation, not anger.
#lufc
November 9, 2025 at 3:55 PM
I'm not losing my head here, but we've proven we don't have a way to beat the teams around us and I don't see a path to staying up anymore.
I just feel resignation, not anger.
#lufc
I just feel resignation, not anger.
#lufc
Holy shit.
Excessive force. PERIOD!
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
They called them “violent mobs,” but the violence came from the guys with badges and body armor.
📌 Keep sharing videos, everyone, because they’re evidence.
November 6, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Holy shit.