Mike Starr - Sunshine Coast, BC Canada
@mstarr56.bsky.social
Writer and Editor, interested in environment and faith, developing world environmental justice issues, Nicaragua.
Greenpeace fixed their ads!
Hey Pathways, we fixed your ads for you 🥰
Because, no, this isn't a stronger economy. It's stolen Indigenous land. Fuel for wildfires. A paycheque for the rich. And not the future Canada is asking for.
Join us in calling them & the gov out >> act.gp/3YyNnj3
Because, no, this isn't a stronger economy. It's stolen Indigenous land. Fuel for wildfires. A paycheque for the rich. And not the future Canada is asking for.
Join us in calling them & the gov out >> act.gp/3YyNnj3
December 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Greenpeace fixed their ads!
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⚠️ Canada will pick its next Competition Commissioner soon! Sign by Nov 28 ✍️ to demand a leader who will #StopMonopolies and fix Canada’s competition crisis ⚖️. openmedia.org/Competition4... @openmedia.org
Canada needs a monopoly buster!
⚠️ Canada will pick its next Competition Commissioner soon! Sign by Nov 28 ✍️ to demand a leader who will #StopMonopolies and fix Canada’s competition crisis ⚖️. https://openmedia.org/Competition4Cana...
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November 25, 2025 at 10:52 PM
⚠️ Canada will pick its next Competition Commissioner soon! Sign by Nov 28 ✍️ to demand a leader who will #StopMonopolies and fix Canada’s competition crisis ⚖️. openmedia.org/Competition4... @openmedia.org
Join me in asking the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to protect our pensions and the climate and stop investing in oil, gas, coal and pipelines. A legal case is already underway. It’s time to stop investing in fossil fuels and recommit to net-zero. win.newmode.net/shiftaction/...
New/Mode | Make your voice impossible to ignore
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November 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Join me in asking the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to protect our pensions and the climate and stop investing in oil, gas, coal and pipelines. A legal case is already underway. It’s time to stop investing in fossil fuels and recommit to net-zero. win.newmode.net/shiftaction/...
🇨🇦’s Cybersecurity bill is back! Bill C-8 is Bill C-26’s twin. 👯♀️ Huge encryption risks, same secret orders. 🚨 Don’t let #BillC8 fast track through Parliament. Speak up and tell your MP to #FixBillC8 now! 📣 openmedia.org/FixBillC8-bsky
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Fix Bill C-8: Stop the Fast-Track of a Flawed Cybersecurity Bill
Huge encryption risks, same secret orders. 🚨 Don’t let it fast track through Parliament. Speak up and tell your MP to #FixBillC8 now! 📣 https://openmedia.org/FixBillC8
openmedia.org
October 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
🇨🇦’s Cybersecurity bill is back! Bill C-8 is Bill C-26’s twin. 👯♀️ Huge encryption risks, same secret orders. 🚨 Don’t let #BillC8 fast track through Parliament. Speak up and tell your MP to #FixBillC8 now! 📣 openmedia.org/FixBillC8-bsky
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Back ‘Nation-Building, Not Nation-Burning’ Projects, 250 City Leaders Urge Carney www.theenergymix.com/back-nation-...
Back ‘Nation-Building, Not Nation-Burning’ Projects, 250 City Leaders Urge Carney
A coalition of more than 250 mayors and city councillors from across Canada is calling on the federal government to keep #ElbowsUp with nation-building projects that respond to the climate emergency, ...
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September 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Back ‘Nation-Building, Not Nation-Burning’ Projects, 250 City Leaders Urge Carney www.theenergymix.com/back-nation-...
An excellent explainer on distributed (decentralized) energy systems.
Wondering why our energy is being generated closer to the consumer? youtu.be/j96M_9UR14o?...
Value Chain Map - Rediscovering the Business of Energy
YouTube video by Decentralised Energy Canada
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September 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
An excellent explainer on distributed (decentralized) energy systems.
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This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/do...
Don’t let the Canada Pension Plan abandon its net-zero commitment
The Canada Pension Plan safeguards the futures of 22 million hardworking Canadians – from teachers and nurses to tradespeople and tech workers – and retirees who’ve paid in over a lifetime. With over ...
you.leadnow.ca
May 26, 2025 at 9:56 PM
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/do...
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Good job everybody.
New political slogans for our era.
"Hepatitis for all." "A case of measles in every pot." "Back to the 18th century." "Backwards never forwards."
New political slogans for our era.
"Hepatitis for all." "A case of measles in every pot." "Back to the 18th century." "Backwards never forwards."
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted.
In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at this CDC lab were told their duties were "unnecessary," and now viral outbreak investigations have been halted
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April 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Good job everybody.
New political slogans for our era.
"Hepatitis for all." "A case of measles in every pot." "Back to the 18th century." "Backwards never forwards."
New political slogans for our era.
"Hepatitis for all." "A case of measles in every pot." "Back to the 18th century." "Backwards never forwards."
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Autism is not a disease and these kids are not damaged, despite what HHS Secretary Kennedy says.
April 16, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Autism is not a disease and these kids are not damaged, despite what HHS Secretary Kennedy says.
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170+ local leaders urge federal action: clean grid, high-speed rail, affordable homes, and a resilience strategy to cut emissions and boost self-reliance.
Build Clean Power Grid, High-Speed Rail Network to Boost Self-Reliance, Local Leaders Tell Federal Parties
Nearly 170 municipal leaders from across Canada are calling on federal parties to address the dual threats of climate change and a Trump-era trade war with bold, nation-building investments, warning t...
www.theenergymix.com
April 15, 2025 at 3:36 PM
170+ local leaders urge federal action: clean grid, high-speed rail, affordable homes, and a resilience strategy to cut emissions and boost self-reliance.
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#ClimateAction that protects, conserves and restores #nature
PL RP🩷💚💙
original graph by IPCC
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#ClimateAction that protects, conserves and restores #nature
PL RP🩷💚💙
original graph by IPCC
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April 15, 2025 at 7:23 AM
🎥
#ClimateAction that protects, conserves and restores #nature
PL RP🩷💚💙
original graph by IPCC
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#ClimateAction that protects, conserves and restores #nature
PL RP🩷💚💙
original graph by IPCC
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⚡️ AI data centres are driving energy demand sky-high—but smart policy could turn them into climate assets, says the International Energy Agency (@iea.org). Without it, they risk grid chaos and emissions spikes.
AI Surge Could Mean Grid Strain or Gain, Depending on Policy: IEA
As data centres reshape global energy systems, their growth could either help or hinder climate goals, depending on how they are managed, says the world’s leading energy modelling agency.
www.theenergymix.com
April 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
⚡️ AI data centres are driving energy demand sky-high—but smart policy could turn them into climate assets, says the International Energy Agency (@iea.org). Without it, they risk grid chaos and emissions spikes.
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States are Essential in Reducing Pollution and Expanding the Clean Energy Economy
Find out more: www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...
#ClimateAction
States are Essential in Reducing Pollution and Expanding the Clean Energy Economy
Find out more: www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...
#ClimateAction
States are Essential in Reducing Pollution and Expanding the Clean Energy Economy
TNC strongly supports states’ essential role in providing clean air and water and expanding the clean energy economy.
www.nature.org
April 11, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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States are Essential in Reducing Pollution and Expanding the Clean Energy Economy
Find out more: www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...
#ClimateAction
States are Essential in Reducing Pollution and Expanding the Clean Energy Economy
Find out more: www.nature.org/en-us/newsro...
#ClimateAction
What Canada needs now is a national electricity grid. Liberal Leader Mark Carney made what might be the most significant environmental and energy policy proposal of the federal election campaign so far. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/10/o...
Canada needs Carney's proposed national electricity grid
Forget interprovincial trade barriers and new pipeline infrastructure: what Canada needs now is a national electricity grid. On April 9, Liberal Leader Mark Carney made what might be the most signific...
www.nationalobserver.com
April 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
What Canada needs now is a national electricity grid. Liberal Leader Mark Carney made what might be the most significant environmental and energy policy proposal of the federal election campaign so far. www.nationalobserver.com/2025/04/10/o...
If anyone has a right to say "I told you so," it's Harris.
Harris tried to warn us about Trump’s tariffs. America didn't listen.
“There were many things that we knew would happen, many things,” Harris said Thursday. “I’m not here to say, ‘I told you so.” www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
“There were many things that we knew would happen, many things,” Harris said Thursday. “I’m not here to say, ‘I told you so.” www.msnbc.com/top-stories/...
Jen Psaki: Harris tried to warn us about Trump's tariffs. Wall Street didn't listen.
“There were many things that we knew would happen, many things,” Harris said Thursday. “I’m not here to say, ‘I told you so.”
www.msnbc.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:20 PM
If anyone has a right to say "I told you so," it's Harris.
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Kamala Harris' stunning dignity echoes across history
Harris presided over Monday's certification ceremony just two days after Black voting rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Harris presided over Monday's certification ceremony just two days after Black voting rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | The stunning dignity of Kamala Harris
Harris presided over Monday's certification ceremony just two days after Black voting rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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January 7, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Kamala Harris' stunning dignity echoes across history
Harris presided over Monday's certification ceremony just two days after Black voting rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Harris presided over Monday's certification ceremony just two days after Black voting rights icon Fannie Lou Hamer posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
My latest article on Nicaragua.
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Is it Summer or Winter?
The Seasons in Nicaragua
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December 16, 2024 at 4:44 PM
My latest article on Nicaragua.
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