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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 2d

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Kneecap @kneecapceol.bsky.social · 23d

A message to Vince Gasparro, who has banned us from Canada, and our many fans there. 👇

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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 7d

Tar Sands Duck, #tarsands #albertaoil #bitumen #porcelain #pipedream

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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 9d

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

Fellow creatures: the new GCSE in natural history

The new GCSE in natural history is a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world

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CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 8d

Vancouver Writers Festival returns for 38th year with special guest Margaret Atwood

The Vancouver Writers Festival is set to return for its 38th year, bringing a number of notable names to Granville Island later this month.

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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 9d

Wow those are beautiful photos

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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 10d

“Long-term monitoring, such as censuses, is our best weapon against the shifting baseline syndrome. Without collective memory, we risk normalizing an already impoverished world," concludes Galewski.

Jason Mark @jasondovemark.bsky.social · 10d

If conservationists work from a compromised baseline, our notions of abundance, scarcity, and ecological wellbeing will keep getting defined downward:
"The researchers show that using the 1970s as a baseline tends to normalize an already severely degraded state."
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Bird conservation threatened by shifting baseline syndrome

New research shows that populations of dozens of waterbird and seabird species have been declining for much longer than previously thought in Europe. The article "Shifting the baseline for waterbird a...

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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 10d

Inside this Pact, The Great Reset, monitizing nature on the market in the name of sustainability, biodiversity, and of course trades in industry for carbon offsets ( greed ) In the works awhile, just signed/ agreed by UN. Includ Canada🇨🇦 sociable.co/government-a...

UN Member States Agreed to Digital ID with 'Pact for the Future' Adoption

With the adoption of the "Pact for the Future" at the UN Summit of the Future in September 2024, member states committed, in a non-binding way, to rollout digital ID schemes as part of a wider plan fo...

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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 10d

Nowunder the newfound leadership of Fink and Hoffmann, whose personal business dealings stand everything to gain the WEF is plowing fullsteam ahead with the globalist agenda to monitor and monetize everything in nature,including the air we breathe,the water we drink,and the very earth we walk upon

Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 10d

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WEF Publishes Blueprint to Monetize Everything in Nature

With billionaires Larry Fink and Andre Hoffmann as co-chairs, the World Economic Forum (WEF) publishes a 50-page blueprint on how to monetize everything in nature.

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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 10d

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Federal government denies Marineland request to export belugas | CBC News

The federal department of fisheries and oceans has denied permit requests from Marineland Canada to export its 30 beluga whales. Chimelong Ocean Kingdom in China has been considering buying the whales...

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 11d

Jane Goodall has died at 91.

Her startling observations about chimpanzee behaviors revolutionized not only scientific understanding of the capabilities and inner lives of primates, but also long-held notions about what it means to be human. https://wapo.st/476clLO

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🇨🇦 👊🇨🇦 @sorry-iamcanadian.bsky.social · 11d

R.I.P. Dame Jane Morris Goodall

A visionary primatologist, ethologist, and unflinching champion of conservation.

#JaneGoodall

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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 11d

The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is hosting the largest solo exhibition to date by Cree artist Kent Monkman.

It brings together more than 40 paintings that challenge colonial perspectives.

Cree artist’s exhibition brings together 40 paintings challenging colonial perspectives | APTN News

YouTube video by APTN News

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Rachel Gilmore @rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 17d

Have you ever wondered how the far right manage to normalize their ideologies into the mainstream, as we’re now seeing in the United States?

Well, let me explain it to you — because they’re trying to do it here in Canada, too, using the term “remigration.”

This is important:

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Jisgang Collison 🦅 @jisgang.bsky.social · 18d

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Exclusive: LNG Expansion Brings New Health Risks to Kitimat | The Tyee

The project’s fast-tracked second phase would push a key pollutant far above current limits, documents reveal.

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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 14d

Beautiful views

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CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 14d

Campaign for Culture urges Carney government not to cut arts funding

A campaign calling on the federal government to protect the arts sector from budget cuts has amassed more than 48,000 signatures, according to the organization behind it.

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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 28d

Beautiful Amelia, nice forms

Amelia Johannsen @ameliajohannsen.bsky.social · 29d

Both sculpture and vessel—wheel-thrown, shaped by hand, and rooted in the wabi-sabi spirit of imperfect beauty.

#ceramic #sculpture

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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 28d

Prince Rupert, but not Haida Gwaii

CTV News Vancouver @ctvnewsvancouver.bsky.social · 29d

B.C.’s human rights office launches campaign to fight misinformation, disinformation

B.C.’s human rights commissioner says misinformation and disinformation pose “significant threats” to human rights as her office has launched a new tool to prevent the spread of such information.

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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · 29d

So sad!

Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · Sep 8

Where can i go into a post i made and correct it? (after posting)

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Wolfe in Epekwitk (PEI) @coast-wolf.bsky.social · Sep 8

Hey BC Residents. You have until October 3rd to send in your comments on this US groups application for disposition of crown land located on BCs gulf islands.

GreyBruceInfo- Part Owner of Canada 🇨🇦 @brucegreyinfo.bsky.social · Sep 7

This should concern us all. The BCNDP has said nothing about this. It is a disgrace if NOLS gets their application approved.

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Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · Sep 8

If patriot nazi loving training hellno

Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · Sep 8

Through google search they seem to be outward-bound style camping/training skills. Should Americans use our coastline when they have their own? Should it go through first nation consults and inclusions? And its leased for short period of time noot bought outright? Christian camps already operate…?

Dory Spencer @doryart.bsky.social · Sep 8

And so, American. Leasing campgrounds. The only reason id object is if it was a secret patriot nazi loving bootcamp… oh wait! Is it?

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