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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · 14h

Petition -
Ksi Lisim Pipeleine is not a "nation building project". It is US private equity buying up real estate, telecoms &
energy infrastructure. They can only be successful through 🇨🇦 subsidies, tax breaks & grants. There is no future (& no great jobs) with LNG.
www.dogwoodbc.ca/petitions/ca...

PM Carney: no taxpayer subsidies for American billionaires!

Donald Trump’s billionaire donors are pushing a new gas terminal on the coast of British Columbia. It would be 100% American owned – and built in Korea. BUT THEY WANT US TO PAY FOR IT.

www.dogwoodbc.ca

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · 10d

Here's hoping for the latter.

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · 10d

@canadiangreens.bsky.social W/ our Cons moving further right, Liberals not meeting expectations of those that voted for them, NDP having its worst election ever...now is the chance for the Greens to really step up. We are not that different from the UK. Learn from them.
youtu.be/mcu03c2dZQI?...

Will Reform win the next UK election?

YouTube video by Garys Economics

youtu.be

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · 14d

This is an Interactive Global Emissions Tracker following 660 million sources of greenhouse gases and air pollutants worldwide.
See the pollution plumes and how they travel into communities, including your own.

climatetrace.org

Climate TRACE

We make meaningful climate action faster and easier by mobilizing the global tech community to track greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with unprecedented detail.

climatetrace.org

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · 17d

I thought it was missing a little something!

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · 17d

Petition - The Ford government is moving forward w/ their proposal to gut Ontario's permit to take water system.This is a gross miscarriage of the government's duty to steward our collective waters sustainably & responsibly.

win.newmode.net/waterwatcher...

New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

win.newmode.net

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Cheryl in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦🍁🍁 @minibubbly.bsky.social · 18d

A multinational treaty to protect vast expanses of the world’s oceans is finally set to become law in January 2026, with environmentalists hailing its enactment Friday as crucial to safeguarding the marine ecosystems.

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www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-...

International treaty protecting world’s oceans to take effect

A multinational treaty to protect vast expanses of the world’s oceans is finally set to become law in January 2026, with environmentalists hailing its enactment Friday as crucial to safeguarding the m...

www.ctvnews.ca

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · 18d

"global private sector investments last year of more than $2tn in green energy & low-carbon industry, dwarfing the $1tn poured into fossil fuels"

Green is the way forward and ...
... "Gov who choose to ignore this, financial advisers and economists who chose to ignore this, do so at their peril.”

Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · 18d

www.theguardian.com/environment/... #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition

‘Something is working’: UN climate chief optimistic about green transition

Exclusive: Simon Stiell believes economic benefits will compel countries to speed up climate action

www.theguardian.com

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 22d

Disruptive innovation is a term popularised by the American academic Clayton Christensen.

This is a prime example: learning effects lead to reduced cost of solar leading to more adoption resulting in more learning effects because of modularisation.

Killer graph from @ember-energy.org

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 24d

The richest 400 Americans gained enough new wealth in the past year to have provided every adult citizen with about $400 a month in universal basic income. That would cut poverty in half.

We are making a choice as a society to give a small number of people essentially infinite access to resources.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · Sep 9

The 400 richest people in the U.S. are now worth a record $6.6 trillion after getting $1.2 trillion richer over the past year.

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · 28d

In Canada we do not have the same "free speech" as they do in America.
We have "freedom of expression" but it's rightly not absolute.
Some Canadians would do well to remember this.

Jeff's Fact Checker @thunderbayed.bsky.social · 28d

'PP's statement about Charlie Kirk betrayed Canadian standards'

Entire video:
vm.tiktok.com/ZMABNodCe/

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · 28d

Draw the line.
"We can still be the country that shows the world that disagreement does not have to mean destruction, that decency can be stronger than division, if we choose to."

Tod Maffin 🇨🇦 @todmaffin.com · 28d

Canada isn’t immune. We still have time to choose differently.
youtu.be/A7ouuA_pJTs

Division, Decency, and the Lines We Draw

YouTube video by Tod Maffin

youtu.be

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · Aug 28

"In unity with our kin across the Great Lakes, we the peoples of 🇨🇦 implore the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Energy (EGLE) & the Honourable Michigan Gov Gretchen Whitmer to deny permits to Enbridge & to not approve any building of the proposed Line 5 tunnel under the Great Lakes"

corymogk.bsky.social @corymogk.bsky.social · Aug 28

Deny Line 5 Permits to Enbridge to Protect the Great Lakes win.newmode.net/waterwatcher...

New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore

win.newmode.net

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · Aug 26

Same here.
It’s just a rinse and repeat. "Well, if we want a strong economy, we need to implement/expand on any 'shortsighted and long term damaging projects/industries'...".
Funny how we've had a bad economy for about 50 years...

madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · Aug 25

People want strong climate action. Unfortunately, because it has an immediate affect on their lives, people prioritise the general economy & the cost of living as their top concerns when asked. This gives politicians an excuse not to act or worse, actively fight against it.
@mark-carney.bsky.social

Calgary Climate Hub @calgaryclimatehub.ca · Aug 25

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

A silent majority of the world’s people wants stronger climate action. It’s time to wake up | Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope

About 89% of the public want their governments to do more to tackle the climate crisis – but don’t know they’re the majority

www.theguardian.com

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · Aug 23

It's very clear and simple, all over the world, time and time again, 'Basic Income pilot programs' prove that when people are given the ability to worry less about just surviving the day/week/month, they begin to thrive.

Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Aug 22

Just published this month's @itsafoundation.bsky.social newsletter! Check out what I consider to be the top 7 need-to-know headlines in the world of UBI this month. To get these in your inbox, please subscribe if you're not already, and please share with others to help better inform the discussion.

ITSA Foundation Newsletter: August 2025

Top recent happenings in the world of universal basic income (UBI) and the Income to Support All Foundation

itsanewsletter.beehiiv.com

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · Aug 12

Please sign...
🇨🇦...to award a multi-billion $ contract to a consortium of 🇺🇸 companies. 🇨🇦ian Nuclear Labs will be owned by 🇺🇸ian firms called “Nuclear Laboratories Partners of Canada.” 20 years + $24 billion taxpayer 💰 to dump &/or bury a million tonnes of radioactive waste Ottawa + Winnipeg Rivers...

Alice Lastname @ba55fr33k.bsky.social · Aug 11

dont sleep on this

Canada is poised to award the largest federal contract ever to a consortium of U.S. companies called "Nuclear Laboratories Partners of Canada" who plan to dump a million tonnes of radioactive waste in an earthen mound beside the Ottawa River

www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...

Petition e-6636 - Petitions

www.ourcommons.ca

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Dream for America @dreamforamerica.bsky.social · Aug 9

“The poor have no advocate because the poor can’t afford a lobbyist.

The Statue of Liberty says: ‘give me your tired, poor’ — not your wealthy, your gifted, & your endowed.”

Robin Williams was a GENERATIONAL talent

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · Aug 9

Christ. I sadly believe it but I hadn't heard that terrible new stat.
When governments, courts, etc. fail to take action against a very real threat to half a country's population, it can only get worse.

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · Aug 9

We are definitely behind a lot of countries in prioritising this worsening problem.
I believe pre-covid, a 🇨🇦 woman was killed every 2.5-3 days...?

Great that he also wants to cut Women and Gender Equality by 80% in the fall as well 👍🏻

theconversation.com/femicide-man...

Femicide: many countries around the world are making the killing of women a specific crime – here’s why it’s needed

Croatia has become the latest in a string of nations to make killing women because of their gender a specific offence.

theconversation.com

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · Aug 4

Great!! 🤞🏻

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Aug 3

The only way to make housing truly affordable is to make it so that it's no longer an asset class. That's easier said than done, but taxing wealth, specifically taxing land value would do it, and balancing that with UBI so that people who own only one home and live in it aren't ruined by the change.

The REAL reason behind the housing crisis

YouTube video by Garys Economics

youtu.be

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · Aug 4

You should think about having Gary Stevenson on your show.

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madmcg.bsky.social @madmcg.bsky.social · Aug 3

It’s simple "Don't be a dick"

"History is best told as a story of organised crime...It is one group creating a monopoly on resources through the use of violence over a certain territory & population.” However, “They are cursed and this is because of inequality.”

Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · Aug 3

"How a global collapse could be avoided: 'Don’t be a dick' is one of the solutions proposed, along with a move towards genuinely democratic societies and an end to inequality."

Inequality is a great beast of an enemy. To solve it, we need UBI and wealth taxes, and we need more direct democracy.

‘Self-termination is most likely’: the history and future of societal collapse

An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished

www.theguardian.com

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