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Ontario Clean Air Alliance @oncleanair.bsky.social · 2d

💰 Enbridge pulled in $1.3 B from #Ontario ratepayers in the first half of 2025 — a 27.5% jump.

Profits climb while families pay more for fossil fuels.

Time to shift investments to affordable, #renewable energy. 🌬️☀️

Read Here: shorturl.at/8y4ye

#onpoli #climatenews #onclimate

Enbridge investors to get billions as gas giant expands into small-town Ontario

Enbridge executives know Ontario ratepayers are a cash cow for its gas business, and in recent calls with investors they said they plan to milk it for all its worth.

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gretchenf.bsky.social @gretchenf.bsky.social · 4d

It’s happening ! Too bad the media in Canada is too obsessed with pipeline drama to focus on the real story most of the time.

Sierra Club Canada @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social · 4d

#Solar and #wind generation combined grew by more than 400 terawatt hours, which was more than overall global demand increased in the same period, it found: www.cbc.ca/news/science... #CDNpoli #ABpoli

Renewables become biggest source of electricity globally for 1st time, beating coal | CBC News

Worldwide solar and wind power generation has outpaced electricity demand this year, and for the first time on record, renewable energies combined generated more power than coal, according to a new an...

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gretchenf.bsky.social @gretchenf.bsky.social · 4d

Ok it has to be said : the train to ottawa airport is one of the worst pieces of inscrutable transit infrastructure I have experienced. People arriving in your city will never be able to negotiate this. So they won’t. So sad . Hope this can be fixed.

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John Vaillant @johnvaillant.bsky.social · 6d

This is 21st Century Fire.
(Nova Scotia is one of the foggiest, soggiest provinces in Canada) #wildfire
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Sje...

For the First Time Ever, Nova Scotia Wildfire Season Extended Until November

YouTube video by The Weather Network

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Sierra Club Canada @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social · 12d

“A decade since the #TruthAndReconciliation Commission released 94 Calls to Action, yet many of those calls are still waiting to be answered.

17 not yet started
29 still at the proposal stage
33 in progress
Only 15 completed

More: www.sierraclub.ca/orange-shirt...

#NDTR #NDTR2025 #OrangeShirtDay

Orange Shirt Day 2025 Activity - Sierra Club Canada

Since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission released its 94 Calls to Action many of those calls are still waiting to be answered.

www.sierraclub.ca

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gretchenf.bsky.social @gretchenf.bsky.social · Sep 10

Healthy Bays says don’t experiment with open pen salmon farming in our bays in Nova Scotia - affecting lobster fishery the most valuable and sustainable fishery we have ..

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Sep 3

I wrote this five years ago. Today we heard the screams. lithub.com/in-patriarch...

In Patriarchy No One Can Hear You Scream: Rebecca Solnit on Jeffrey Epstein and the Silencing Machine

One of my favorite books when I was young was T. H. White’s The Once and Future King, and one of its central themes is the attempt of King Arthur to replace an ethos of “might is right” with someth…

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Harbinger Media Network @harbingermedia.bsky.social · Sep 2

On @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social's 🌳THE ENVIRONMENT IN CANADA🌳 ep69 the team explain why there's still no business case for Canada shipping LNG to Europe and Germany and why the rise of AI doesn't change that fact.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... 🔶

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Canada's National Observer @nationalobserver.com · Aug 29

Oilsands jobs are dropping even as production skyrockets. As oil companies stress automation, is the oilpatch still a driver of jobs?

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?

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gretchenf.bsky.social @gretchenf.bsky.social · Aug 16

Remember when it rained in Atlantic Canada?

gretchenf.bsky.social @gretchenf.bsky.social · Aug 15

Is that my Uber?

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Sierra Club Canada @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social · Aug 14

(1/n) Do you know someone impacted by the wildfires in NL and in need of help?

Those in need of aid can contact [email protected] by email (we can connect them from there directly to the local organizers in NL).

#NewfoundlandAndLabrador #NLWildfires #NLWildfire

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Sierra Club Canada @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social · Aug 13

Kassie Drodge, of Sierra Club Canada in #StJohn's is organizing a #MutualAid network to assist people with the #wildfires.

Google form with more details about how people - not engaged in other efforts - can assist with informal services via the mutual aid network: docs.google.com/forms/d/1fdp...

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Ontario Clean Air Alliance @oncleanair.bsky.social · Aug 8

Over 75% of Canadians worry about climate impacts on safety, food, and costs, yet Ontario is on track to miss its climate targets.
Renewable energy is sidelined & fossil fuel projects are getting the green light.

Ontario is moving backwards!

#climate #onpoli

www.newmarkettoday.ca/columns/powe...

POWER OF YES: Say 'no' to short-sighted development, dismantling protections, false solutions

Over 75% of Canadians are concerned about climate impacts on safety, food prices, taxes, and insurance, columnist says

www.newmarkettoday.ca

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · Aug 7

Wildfire smoke was so bad in Fort Mac over the weekend that visibility was only a few hundred feet. PM2.5 was at 1700µg/m³ ☠️☠️☠️

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gretchenf.bsky.social @gretchenf.bsky.social · Aug 6

Sounds familiar @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social , eh?

Sierra Club @sierraclub.org · Aug 6

The science is clear that fossil fuel fueled climate change is making heat waves, fires, floods, hurricanes, & extreme weather worse. Yet major news outlets, especially TV news, often fail to name the connection. Demand they do better! sc.org/EndClimateSilence

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Sierra Club @sierraclub.org · Aug 6

The science is clear that fossil fuel fueled climate change is making heat waves, fires, floods, hurricanes, & extreme weather worse. Yet major news outlets, especially TV news, often fail to name the connection. Demand they do better! sc.org/EndClimateSilence

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Sierra Club Canada @sierraclubcanada.bsky.social · Jul 28

Every year on July 28th, World Nature Conservation Day highlights the urgent need to preserve our forests, wildlife, soil, water, and air, writes Melody Li: www.sierraclub.ca/world-nature... #WorldNatureConservationDay #WorldNatureConservationDay2025

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · Jul 27

It's official. 2025 is now the third worst wildfire year on record in Canada. A study from 2018 examining fire-regime changes in Canada over the prior 57 years showed the fire season had been starting approximately one week earlier and ending one week later. Probably longer now.

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gretchenf.bsky.social @gretchenf.bsky.social · Jul 19

I love this insight .

Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · Jul 19

#BookSky

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Ontario Clean Air Alliance @oncleanair.bsky.social · Jul 16

WATCH: #Toronto is blanketed in smog as wildfire smoke from across #AOntario chokes the city: shorturl.at/SLT27

🚨 Toronto's #airquality remains amongst the worst in the world.🚨

PLEASE avoid going outside unless you absolutely have to (& keep your windows closed) - your lungs will thank you! 😶‍🌫️

Toronto skyline shrouded in smoke as air quality warning issued

Chopper footage captured a hazy Toronto skyline amid Health Canada's air quality warning as wildfire smoke from Northern Ontario moves South.

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Ryan Katz-Rosene, PhD @ryankatzrosene.bsky.social · Jul 8

Fourth-generation rancher: “This spring has been the worst drought that we've lived through in our 33 years… Nothing even started, nothing grew"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewan/rural-saskatchewan-faces-drought-declare-state-of-emergency-1.7577980

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gretchenf.bsky.social @gretchenf.bsky.social · Jun 27

Great job and you are a beautiful face for the Senate ! No make up required.

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LA Legault ⚜️ @lalegault.bsky.social · Jun 26

🚨 Please watch:

Listen to how Senator Mcphedran explains how both Conservatives and Liberal MPs have handed over almost entire control to PM Carney in Bill C5, how Canada’s democracy is being destroyed, & how the #cdnmedia failed us all. This is the beginning of the end of 🇨🇦. #Canadasky #cdnpoli

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Anna Mehler Paperny @mehlerpaperny.bsky.social · Jun 26

As Canada's Senate debates whether to give Cabinet the power to decide how and whether certain laws apply to selected projects, thinking about this from @ecojusticecanada.bsky.social's Joshua Ginsberg.

“I think people don't fully appreciate how much of a seismic shift this is in the way Canada is governed. You know, people have certain assumptions that laws passed by Parliament will remain enforced and will be obeyed unless changed by Parliament. This changes a really fundamental assumption, and it's all being done under the guise of an emergency, an economic emergency. And I think people should stop and ask themselves, are we really in a situation where we need to be undermining fundamental norms of the way our democracy works?” – Joshua Ginsberg, Ecojustice

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